Dark*Matter: Discovery, The Chicago Ripper

[iwatt]

"The boy seems to like blowing stuff up, doesn't he. Nice call on the suitcase, Doc, by the way. I think I forgot thanking you at the time." Putting on the ring, Larry streas at it carefully. It seemed nondescript enough. "So who's up for a night out. After saving the city, I reckon we've earned the chance to paint the town."

 

[industrygothica]

"The boy seems to like blowing stuff up, doesn't he. Nice call on the suitcase, Doc, by the way. I think I forgot thanking you at the time." Putting on the ring, Larry streas at it carefully. It seemed nondescript enough. "So who's up for a night out. After saving the city, I reckon we've earned the chance to paint the town."

Nick gives Larry a quick but appreciative nod as he puts on his own ring. "You guys go. You deserve it. I've got some other things to take care of when we're finished here; something I've been needing to do for a while now."

 

[Shayuri]

Meri puts on her ring, looking a bit pensive; but her face lights on hearing that the sword is hers to use now. "I'm no Galahad," she says humbly, "But I'll try to live up to this."

"That reminds me...I don't know if these mean anything..." She produces the fragment of metal that's still glowing white from Xeria's sword, and the hilt of the same. "These are from...her sword. This piece here looks just like the mark on my arm. And it's the same piece that broke her sword and hurt her...giving me the opening I needed to kill her." Meri looks around at the others. "It's like...the heart of her blade never turned bad, and when my sword touched it..."

She shrugs. "Anyway...I couldn't just leave it, so here you go."

To Larry she smiles and says, "I dunno if I'm up to it tonight. My arm's still pretty sore from that cut I took, and I'm tired out. What about tomorrow night?"

 

[iwatt]

To Larry she smiles and says, "I dunno if I'm up to it tonight. My arm's still pretty sore from that cut I took, and I'm tired out. What about tomorrow night?"

"For you milady, anything."

 

[Friadoc]

"Well, sir," says Cade as he looks at the rest of the team. Before he slides his own ring on the middle finger of his right and looks at Standfield."We take care of our own, but we appreciate the token of respect from Nakami-sensei. Please, if you would, pass along our thanks."

"By the way, Boss," adds Cade as he looks to Nick with a nod. "When the time comes, to bring Kenzington in, I'm pretty sure the team would like to back Nick up on it."

When Meredith talks with the Boss about her fight, Cade nods with respect, but keeps quiet as he's already let Meredith know that she did fine. Infighting is pretty tough work, a lot nastier and more personal than a fire fight and she'll work her way through it. If she needs it, Cade and the team will be there.

Afterwards, when Larry makes his offer for painting the town, Cade says, "I might be up for a bit of something, just let me check on 'Z' and get cleaned up, okay?"

 

[Falkus]

"You go enjoy yourselves," Stanfield said. "The Institute will pick up the tab. I'm gonna get started on the paperwork, and the lab boys to take a look at this piece of metal, see what they can figure out. Lord, I'd almost rather have had to fight the demon than deal with the paperwork for this operation."



Z was in the infirmary undergoing a physical and psychological checkup by the Institute staff. As Cade walked in, she looked up at him with a desperate look in her views. "Cade! Get me out of here! They won't let me have my laptop. I'll telling you, I'm fine!" she shouted at a doctor.

 

[Friadoc]

With a chuckle Cade walks over to 'Z' and the squints, saying, "So, how's she doin', Doc?"

After a slight pause, Cade adds, "'Cause, if it's okay, I'd like to get her out of here."

Obviously Cade states it more than asks, but he'll see how the docs reply.

 

[Falkus]

"Physically, she's fine. A perfectly healthy adult fairy. No sign of physical abuse or trauma," the doctor said, checking his clipboard. "However mentally, while there don't appear to be any problems, I would like to spend a few days putting her throw a battery of psychoanalysis tests just to make sure that she's recovered from the trauma of her kidnapping."

 

[Friadoc]

"So...24/7 monitoring," asks Cade. "Or just have her come by for appointments?"

 

[Falkus]

"Wellllll," the doctor said. "I suppose regular appointments would-"

"Works for me," Z said, bolting out of the bed.

OOC: The next adventure will take place in a month, game time. If there's anything you wants your characters to buy in that time, go ahead. Also, if you want to dazzle me with more brilliantly written short stories, feel free to do that too.