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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1369782" data-attributes="member: 13737">Kevin soon recovers from his pain and catches his breath.  Raisa and Carl haven't returned yet, but Empath has, accompanied by a police detective, several armored officers, and what appears to be the bank manager.  As Michelle, Johan, Vincent, Tara and Neutron come down with Mister Tan, who introduces himself smoothly, Empath gets John to pick up Mr. Raynes and ushers everyone into the restaurant.  She sits Tan, Raynes and the bank manager as far from the door as possible, and away from each other, each under police guard. Her communicator beeps. "Are you certain?" she says into the headset.  Trailblazer appears moments later with a woosh.   "I don't think they are making it up, Angela.  Sanchez is bringing the jet to get us.  Bus'll be here for the kids in a minute." "There is a riot in progress at a maximum security prison near Edmonton.  We have to go there.  Detective, I promised you our help and you will still have it.  Our students are more than capable of handling this situation with your assistance," she says as she heads for the door.  "Do what the detective needs," she says to all of you as she leaves. After a minute of somewhat stunned silence, the bus driver appears.  "Hey gang.  Who's coming back to the school with me?"  A quick minute later, he's leading the other students, and helping Jackal, to the bus, leaving the rest of you with the detective and suspects. Detective Mendez clears his throat to get your attention.  He stands about 6'1" and weights around 280 pounds.  He's dressed in a nice suit, is clean shaven and has well kept hair.  "I'm Raul Mendez," he says.  "Empath says you are the best of the young EPIC members, and I have learned to trust her judgement. "Here's what we think has happened.  Mrs. Raynes was kidnapped, possibly by the Red Rose Syndicate, an oriental mafia organization here in New York.  Instead of paying a ransome or getting the police involved, he hired some mercenary and all this mess went down.  The bank manager let him use the bank as a staging area. "We'll start with all of you before we jump into questioning those guys," he says, jerking a thumb over his shoulder at the three suspects.  "Anyone have anything specific they can add to help clear up this mess?" Johan, you distinctly remember the Mia Toan throwing a card on the floor for Kevin during the restaurant battle.  Everyone else... you're on your own for memory <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> EPIC present:  Loki, Speed Demon, Metal Mistress, Multibrain, Straightjacket, Neutron, Dara, Tara, Cosmo, Neutron, X12. NPC's present:  Detective Mendez, Martin Raynes, Mister Tan, bank manager (John McKay) Raisa and CarlOnce you have your bags, Carl drags you into the expensive shop and buys you some rather, nay exceedingly, fine and pricy clothes.  He gets you to put on an outfit, a woman's powersuit, before you leave.  When you exit the change room, he's on a cell phone talking. "Change of plans.  Mr. Mancini says Tommy G might be planning to leave town.  He wants me to get to the bottom of this today.  You can stay if you want, but I gotta go downtown now." When you exit the store, he doesn't head to the restaurant, but instead the other way, towards an exit.  "Better this way, anyhow.  Keep Michelle out of it," he says, checking his electronic pad. "Looks like we start with Matterson's Meats down on Renault.  You coming?" EPIC elsewhere:  Raisa and Carl</blockquote>

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