Dark*Matter: Discovery, The Chicago Ripper

[Falkus]

"Weaknesses?" Harlan replies. "We don't have that much information on them, but I happen to know a few things. Don't use fire. They don't burn easily. They don't really have any weaknesses. You have those blessed bullets and holy water, yes? Those should do the trick."

 

[industrygothica]

"You said Ryker can't pin point a location," Nick says, breaking his silence. "Start in Boston," his tone is matter-of-fact. Staring through Stanfield he adds, "You know the address," and walks out of the room to sack Dikaro's apartment.

 

[Friadoc]

One the way to the Dikaro's apartment, Cade pulls over and makes an odd request of everyone.

"Okay, everyone take out your blessed ammo," says Cade as he does the same, beginning to unload the clip as he talks. "I want you to unload all of your clips and alternate the rounds, with the first round a normal round and the next blessed."

"We ain't got much, so I figured our best bet is stretching it out as much as possible," says Cade. With he slight chuckle, he adds, "Plus, who knows, maybe something will rub off on the other rounds."

Once that's done, Cade will continue driving to Dikaro's. "Check comms, make sure everything is working."

"When we hit the apartment, I'll go in first and then Nick, Meredith, Larry, and Diego, in that order, okay?"

"If we split up, however we split up, Meredith and the Doc will always have either myself, Diego, or Larry with them, period." Cade continues to layout the plan. "If it comes down to a choice between a black hat and one of us, it's us, we're not losing anyone...period."

"If there's an innocent involved," adds Cade, pausing as if this doesn't need to be said. "Well, there's worse ways to go."

 

[iwatt]

"I'm not sure you're in the right frame of mind for leading a charge, Cade. We need answers, not bodies, yours included. I'm no hero, but I think it'll be better for all if I take the lead. Maybe I can talk them down. There's gonna be a pragmatist on the other side at some point." As he switches the ammo as per Cade's request, he continues with another thought. "Maybe you should cover their possible escape routes."

 

[Friadoc]

Cade pauses a moment, as Larry makes his request, before answering, in a matter of fact tone"People, I'm not planning for a bloodbath here, the big head's in charge, not the little one."

"With Diego and I in positon, front and back, it protects you three for the knock and greet," adds Cade. "If it goes bad, I take the breech, leaving our specialist to come next with a pair guns as back-up."

"We're playing catch-up here," says Cade. "They've out witted us twice, suckered us into splitting up, leading to a diversion, and almost killing two of us." He finishes, "Splitting up is a bad idea."

 

[kinem]

Diego says "I understand we have limited ammo, but I'm not going to alternate my rounds like that. I don't want to have to waste every other shot, and frankly, in the heat of battle I'm not sure I'd remember if I'm on odd or even shots."

 

[iwatt]

"We're playing catch-up here," says Cade. "They've out witted us twice, suckered us into splitting up, leading to a diversion, and almost killing two of us." He finishes, "Splitting up is a bad idea."

"Well, you're the brains here, I'm just another pretty face. But don't go crying when they run out the back.."

 

[industrygothica]

"If we split up, however we split up, Meredith and the Doc will always have either myself, Diego, or Larry with them, period." Cade continues to layout the plan. "If it comes down to a choice between a black hat and one of us, it's us, we're not losing anyone...period."

That's funny, Nick thinks to himself. I don't remember being helpless. He lets Cade finish without interruption and speaks when he's done.

"I'm with Diego about the bullets. I think I'll stick with the normal ones for now; if they don't work, then I'll switch to the others. I'm not keen on the idea of only every other bullet being effective."

Nick then begins to prepare his gear the way he sees fit. The more perceptive of those around him may notice that he has gone deep into thought again, not hearing much of what else is said.

Who is this guy treating me like I'm an invalid? If he'd have done half of the research I have on this sh*t he'd be quivering in his boots right now. I'm not sure he really has any idea of what we're up against. Time will tell... time will tell.

 

[Shayuri]

Meredith sits, listening, but not saying anything. Her sword lies across her lap, and she runs her fingers over the scabbard of it unconsciously, making a little 'rrrrrrrup' noise over and over again. There's a peculiar sense of disconnection in her head, like a car out of gear. She could feel her mind revving, but it didn't seem to have much impact on her body. And to top it all off, no matter how she tried to focus, to concentrate, there was a phrase circling in the center of her that kept coming back up. Like an obsession, it repeated itself over and over, drowning out everything else.

"An unborn walks the world," she murmurs. "It has to die."

 

[Friadoc]

"Okay," says Cade with the relization that nothing he says right now will be taken in his intended context. "I'll watch the possible escape routes while you check the apartment."

"In close quarters combat seconds are death," says Cade en route to the apartment. "If you have a back-up sidearm, I'd recommend keeping it handy since reloads on semi-automatics take 2.5 seconds."

Reaching into his coat pocket, Cade produces his PDA and hands it over to Nick.

"When the motion sensor is on, the central dot is the holder," instructs Cade. "If you calibrate it before going in you can mark friendlies."

It is obvious that Cade is resigned to the descision, he's not sulking or pouting, just briefing the information that he can impart to help out. He'll anyswer any questions as he drives.

OOC

*grins* Just so we're clear, it's all good, Cade just ICly being overly protective and OOCly I think the RP is playing out nicely.