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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Golden Bee" data-source="post: 9539579" data-attributes="member: 7041055">THE HILLS HAVE BETTE DAVIS EYES!“I can’t slash her, she’s about to win an Academy Award!”Sometimes you find your ride or die. Someone who will help you intimidate juvenile delinquents, stab celebrities, and help crooked cops commit suicide in the woods off Mulholland Drive. Not just a buddy. Not a partner you trust with your life. Someone who will help you commit felonies.That's Semya Ivanova and Josiah P Diamond, PI. They were in LA, along with their own paparazzo, shutterbug/sniper Javid Kulfi, and Hollywoodland butler Aldous Bingen.(This was our longest session ever, at a whopping 5 1/2 hours, so this will be the highlights version.)Javid was extremely helpful as a shootist, expert in mystic lore, and notice-r. Aldous drove like a maniac and snuck like a shadow. But it was the 1° Kelvin Russian, and her detective enabler, who took Tinseltown to task.The odd thing about the Russian: she's both inspirational and coldhearted, an expert in provocation, and has a deep, deep roster of contacts. During the case of the missing gem (the Eye of Brahma), she called in favors with maître d's, pinko screenwriters, and even Hollywood psychic and short-time player character, Madame Valeiria! Whether it was fighting assassins in club bathrooms, or making cultists puke when she was tied to the sacrificial table, she played both sides of 'loved' and 'hated', whichever made sense in the moment.(JP, for his part, had his hands full punching out potential romantic rivals! He also jumped onto running boards and stopped two different runaway cars. Busy session.)One of the more intriguing developments was revolution-vet Semya playing the ditz. Several times, she used subtle barbs to bring a millionaire to apoplectic anger, and in a Betty Boop singsong saidJP, who had seen her threaten criminals into their graves, spent a lot of time coughing politely. Mostly, he was surprised that as a Great War survivor and a hard-nosed shamus, he was the one playing Good Cop.In the end, the cops raided the house in the hills, the cursed gem was sold back to its rightful protectors, and the dirty cop got put into the same shallow grave he had used for stoolies. Klieg lights can cast some big shadows. Ride or die.</blockquote>

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