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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Golden Bee" data-source="post: 9575408" data-attributes="member: 7041055">The Greatest Two Minutes in Kidnapping!“The rest of the day blurs into madness. The rest of that night too. And all the next day and night. I pointed to the huge grassy meadow enclosed by the track. "That whole thing," I said, "will be jammed with people; fifty thousand or so, and most of them staggering drunk. It's a fantastic scene.”  -Hunter S Thompson, ‘The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved’Full roster this week with the brawler-lawyer,  electrician-nun, heiress-reporter… as well as the millionaire orphan, stunt driver actress, and decathlete butler.  They were a League of Nations among themselves; the group is respectively Mexican, French, Australian, Indian, Italian and Argentine.Rafe Lancaster, Devi’s industrialist mentor, invited the group to watch his new racehorse win the Kentucky Derby. Of course, he was late to lunch. Then, he took Devi aside and told her that he was selling his company, marrying his chorus girl girlfriend, and giving her to a bunch of thugs to kidnap.Devi’s judicious about how she uses her mentalism, but with Rafe falling back into old habits, he deserved a psychic trip.  His mind had no answer for the powers of the ex-goddess. The thugs were a bigger problem… until the millionaire orphan opened her purse.She easily outbid their mystery employer, paying them to drag Rafe into a private room for interrogation.Turns out, he had been poisoned. And given mental instruction over the phone… but by who?The attempted kidnapping was an opportunity. The thugs lent their grimy van to the group, along with a delivery address. The rest of the ZSS disguised themselves as crooks, except the nun, who felt it was un-pious. (She was remanded to the van.)The villain? Cheerful Charlie Cunningham, who had last tried to stab Devi back in 'Monster in the mine!' He gloated at what he thought was his helpless victim…until she shook off her blindfold. Charlie’s vision blurred between Kentucky reality and his prior defeat. With the help of the group, he was disarmed and lost concentration, stumbling in a daze…impaling himself on a particularly sharp warehouse nail. An ignominious end for an escaped murderer. Despite that, the case did have lighthearted moments! As the group unraveled the mystery, gunshots rang out in a distant room. Sister Helene, master of psychology, noticed the bartender reacting oddly. The would-be snitch tried to dial the telephone… which she "accidentally” unplugged. And then “repaired” into uselessness, giving the sap more and more rope until he confessed everything. No violence, no mental powers, not even a raised voice, but the guy was defeated.Also interesting was tracking down the conspiracy… while none of the members knew boss Charlie was dead.  Everyone feared a murderer who was already dead in a warehouse. Easy enough for the ZSS to promise protection!The spider at the center of the web was an unexpected foe… the daughter of Doc Midas! She had a vendetta against Devika, who apologized* and tried to convince the woman that grief was not a reason to mess with her. Whether or not Aloria Midas follows good advice is yet to be seen.So, with everyone drunk on mint juleps, it was time for an awkward conversation. Between this, Genghis Khan's tomb, the wedding and the mines, Mr. Lancaster had attempted to kill Devika too much for cohabitation. In the spirit of bad short-term decision-making, she agreed to move in with his girlfriend, the Broadway chorus girl Lillian Lamb, in Central Park West. Man, mind control gets in the way of so many good friendships…*Devi argued that Midas wasn't her foe, because that player was GMing all the sessions that featured him.</blockquote>

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