Dark*Matter: Discovery, The Chicago Ripper

[iwatt]

Getting his bearing from the radio chatter, Larry makes his way through the Chicago streets toward the rest of his companions. In a mutter he adds for Diego's sake. "You know what would be nice. A plan in which we didn't walk into a room and get shot at. As plans go, I think Custer did better than we have so far."

 

[Shayuri]

Meredith calls Larry up, sounding upset.

"Larry! Diego! Are you in a spot you can cross the river? In a hurry! They just jumped over a drawbridge and we couldn't follow them! I'm still tracking, but any second now they could throw the tracker out, or make a fake stop. Is there any chance you could reach them?"

She consults the tracking devices and says, "I can give you a heading on where they are."

 

[Friadoc]

"Sonuva...." Cade bites off the rest of his curse as he forces the SUV to a halt, knowing that the SUV wouldn't survive the jump.

While Meredith is talking with Larry, Cade starts to look for an plan another route to intercept the cultists' van.

Once Cade has a rough idea on the intercept plot, he'll take off again, hoping that some of the cops have the same idea.

 

[iwatt]

They want me to run a high speed pursuit? I usually have a wheel man for these things. With a shrug, the young grifter moves to follow the directions that Meredith relayed through Diego. "Tell them I'll try to eyeball the bad guys and follow, but that we need a proper chase vehicle/driver. Pronto."

 

[Falkus]

Unfortunately, Larry and Diego are just too far away to make an effective pursuit. They do their best, but the cultists had plenty of time to prepare. When the trail finally runs cold, the entire team is standing in front of a merrily burning van underneath an overpass, with the cultists nowhere in sight.

 

[Friadoc]

OOC

When did we last hear from the cultists on the radio? Is the transmission still working?

 

[Falkus]

The last the team heard from the cultists was that they were abandoning their vehicle, switching transportation, and heading to the rendezvous point. There were no details, however.

 

[Friadoc]

"Frak it all to Hades!" Cade shouts as he slams his steering wheel. However, with a deep breath, Cade checks his anger as he looks at the others. "Okay, this ain't over, we gotta throw our heads together and find 'Z'."

"We gotta pool what we know, what we think we know, and get these bastards," says Cade with a methodical coldness. "Find them, rescue 'Z', and burn their world down around their ears."

"So, your friend Cliff?" Cade says as he looks to Nick. "If you were him, now turned into a murdering cultist, where would you be?"

OOC

Basically, Cade's trying to come up with a 'Plan'. *chuckles*

 

[industrygothica]

"So, your friend Cliff?" Cade says as he looks to Nick. "If you were him, now turned into a murdering cultist, where would you be?"

"Someplace where'd you'd never find me," Nick says, emotionless.

 

[Friadoc]

"Someplace where'd you'd never find me," Nick says, emotionless.

"If 'Z' dies," Cade says simply enough as checks to see if the Institute was able to triangulate the cultist signal. "Then there's no such place on earth, Nick. No where, no how."

"If you think there's a chance to redeem your friend, to recover him, then you gotta know one thing," Cade as while connecto to OSIRS via his PDA. "It expires if 'Z' does, the moment it happens, if it happens...do you understand?"

Although Cade is not trying to intimidate Nick, his tone being calm, given the circumstances, his implication is obvious - 'Z' dies, Cliff dies, period.