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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Golden Bee" data-source="post: 9722757" data-attributes="member: 7041055"><h3>Are you talkie to me?</h3>A trio of perilous adventures^, from frozen to sizzling!We find our heroes (Thaza, Lala, and country cuzin Clara Tate) under the Northern Lights, climbing the side of a Greenland glacier. Despite the high winds, the three are more than a match for the environment, and reach the pinnacle, where they find their prize… the entrance to Eric the Red's tomb! None of the three of them has much education (or any high school education, come to think of it), but Thaza knows traps. This is a fake entrance. Eric wasn’t a Christian, but the tombstone is covered in Latin, which is what Christians speak!The three descend the other side of the cliff, down to a hidden sea cave. Inside, they find a statue of Odin, and argue about whether his eyepatch is supposed to be on the left or right side. Despite their lack of book learning, they pass this trap as well, making their way to a giant chamber. Ahead of them, lodged between two icy juts, is a Viking ship from the year 1000![ATTACH]413589[/ATTACH]This was much more comfortable for the stuntwoman and the burglar. They created a crude Fly by Foy system with pitons to suspend Lala from a rope as she examined the vessel. This got tricky, because the treasure wasn’t in the top of the ship, or the middle, but a rotten hidden cache. The ship groaned and rolled, but the acrobatic Italian nimbly moved like Peter Pan. There was plenty of danger though. The women’s main form of communication was yelling, which threatened to landslide the draugr into the abyss!From there, it was a chancy job to take as much gold and plunder as possible. No gang of crooks could’ve absconded with more Viking wealth. They stole until the ship couldn’t bear it anymore, its wooden beams plummeting into the icy water below…Just like the Coca-Cola being poured in ZSS headquarters. Despite some accounting irregularities from Thaza (like her keeping Eric the Red’s spear as a personal weapon), this was a winner.***A few days later, Clara got a distressing call. Her family’s pal in upstate New York, Police Captain Braithwaite, had died suspiciously. She gathered the closest people around (Thaza, Lala), and brought someone else. (Cich girl Ava Astor, needed a ride upstate to her boarding school anyway. She had to meet her minimum day attendance requirement so she didn’t get kicked out.)The town of Lyle didn’t like outsiders at all. No one would explain why farmers had burnt their fields, and one local broke out their ride’s back window while they were investigating a crime scene. A terrible way for some hicks to treat a Dusenberg!But the gang were clever investigators. A local professor, working for Worthy Chemicals, was obsessed with bees and working on an insecticide.[ATTACH=full]413590[/ATTACH]The magnate behind the plant, Mr. Worthy himself, was eager to hit up Ava for money.Meanwhile, the cat burglar snuck away from the group, investigating the plant. There was fresh paint over a bullet hole… One that matched Captain Braithwaite’s gun. The cop had snuck in here, died, and as a final act, shot himself to trigger an investigation.The group went to a local boarding house, getting more facts. The local fires were to deal with a particularly aggressive hybrid bee. They had their suspicions, but the case was wide open.A stranger invited them to a local farm at 1 AM for a tell all… But the group smelled a trap. They arrived at midnight, found out that their contact was clearly a scarecrow, and hid.By 1:30, the villainous professor was yelling via car radio that his associate should pay Mr. Fallon a visit. The players hit the road… until remembering that both the police chief and the local pilot had the same last name!They checked on the police captain, but his block was quiet and empty. By the time they arrived at the hanger, there were signs of bloody violence. Inside were two thugs, but no sign of Fallon. Actually, there was one… the drip drip of blood into an open oil bucket.Clara slinked outside, firing her shotgun as a distraction. Thaza climbed into the eaves of the hanger, finding the dying Fallon. He implicated not only the professor, but Worthy himself!The players snuck over the electric fence of the factory. They acrobatically made their way to the roof, only to see the professor sneak in… and be shot dead by the industrialist! He claimed it was self-defense, and the players might’ve bought it… Until they noticed that two of the security guards were the thugs who killed Fallon! Worthy tried to get into his panic room, but Claire pulled out her gun again and shot the glass pipe containing the bees. The villain got a taste of his own medicine, if bees are medicine. Or in more accurate terms he was killed by his own bees.The group fled, and held the security guard at gunpoint. The men raised their arms, just like…Lala putting her luggage into an overhead compartment! She had been summoned to LA, and after their time in the sticks, Clara and Thaza were happy to come along. Call them the “A”-Team!***Atlas Pictures is like a city unto itself. So it made sense that the trio was quickly divided. Sticky-fingered Thaza had her own security guard, Lala had a VIP golf cart, and Clara was left to her own devices. The Appalachian girl was a hero though, because within five minutes of being on the lot, she stopped a bank robbery!Luckily, no charges were filed. A complaining and handcuffed Clara met the other two in the head honcho’s office. (Exiting? Newly hired starlet and Lala’s frenemy, Elena Altieri!)Ronald Bloomvalt did a double take at the group. He had invited actress Lala to bring some friends… Not hayseeds and gangsters. He told Thaza to go steal some shoes and leave him alone, then told the other two his big plan: a movie that would tell the real story of the Italian and Irish mobs! After the events of LALA LANDslide, patriotic Bloomvalt wanted to strike back against the crooks who were ruining his city. Miss Santinella would be the stunt captain.She said yes, tentatively, and he invited the ladies to a party at his new mansion in the Hills. He also undid Clara’s handcuffs and offered her some whiskey from his dazzling crystal decanter.  (She was tactful enough not to mention that his office was the size of her house.)Thaza raided the prop department for expensive footwear, then met the group for dinner at the hottest new restaurant, Don’s Beachcomber. Lala’s daughter Devika was absolutely enamored by the new style, called Tiki. She was less enamored by the fog cutter, which sounded like the drink that would remove drunkenness, instead of enhancing it. Clara, urged on by her ravenous Id, ordered plate after plate of anything. (Starvation was bad all across America, but it was especially striking in Appalachia.) Before leaving, Thaza hit the phone booth to check in with her contacts: her buddy Naomi wanted the movie that Atlas was making nixed. To make it easier, Naomi could score her an invite to a mansion party… the one Thaza was already intending to crash.The three ladies put on their best and headed to the manse. What a contrast to that rural bee town! Every car was newer than tomorrow, every suit and dress was runway-ready. British heartbreaker Leslie Howard flirted hard with the starstruck Clara. He was in one of the two movies that she had ever seen!Lala kept an eye on Thaza, while Thaza tried to evade her. They were equally matched, happy to play cat and mouse by the pool, the tennis court… until trouble walked in.Trouble was known to Metropolitan Police Departments as Joey “Five Angels” Pentangelo. The newest marvel of the Mickey Cohen mob, he shoved his way past security at a strut. He wasn’t one of those cape-and-costume Baltimore gangsters. He was more about baseball bats and gasoline. And he was eager to find and kill Naomi O’Rourke, or Ronald Bloomvalt, or anyone who looked at him crooked.Lala stepped in his path. Beyond feats of driving, flying, and acrobatic brio, she has another skill set, just as keen: protecting her meal tickets. After a few minutes of flirting, Joey was unsure exactly why he was there, so he sent out his flunkies to find the Irish woman.Thaza found her first. She warned the fiery-headed moll about the situation, and took her emerald green jacket. The cat burglar had an idea. The idea, of course, was to sneak Naomi out… and disguise redheaded Clara as her.This plan didn’t particularly work. The thugs believed that the mountain girl was the 40-year-old mob queen. Gallant Leslie tried to defend her, the thugs grabbed him…and Clara pulled out her pistol! (Security had been explicitly told not to let her bring her rifle. But what country girl doesn’t have a few changes of firearm?)Joey floated over, and Lala dismissed the whole thing as a misunderstanding. Party saved, kind of.The next day, they met Bloomvalt for lunch. Unfortunately, the women worked at cross purposes. Thaza wanted the film nixed. Lala thought it should focus on police bravery. Clara lobbied for Lala’s old idea, a comedy called The Mobster Lobster. They made convincing arguments, but it was ultimately Bloomvalt’s assistant Emily who won the day. She got the women to argue about themselves just before the picture tycoon had a 1PM call. Instead of kiboshing the project, the players earned themselves a security gig on Atlas’s newest picture, Blood on the Streets!^(Part 1 BASED ON… FALL OF ATLANTIS by Riccardo “Rico” Sirignano, and Simone Formicola.Part 2 Based on The Hive Master by Howard Johnson.)</blockquote>

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