Freedom City PBP

[hafrogman]

Nanite grins as the Entrapper's voice comes out of his shoulder. He nods to the others.

"This is the Entrapper, I presume? This is Nanite, I'm here with most of our colleagues from our last encounter. . . well, except for Century Girl, we couldn't track her down. We were hoping we might speak with you in person for a moment. Are you busy?"

 

[hero4hire]

Nanite sweeps a little bow and takes the card from Bastion.

"Gimme a second."

He pauses for a second as if ruminating on some deep thought. On his shoulder, the nanites swarm for a moment, producing a small little speaker that begins producing a dial tone followed by a series of beeps in various tones.

"Suuure...I pay $599 for mine and sign a 2 year contract and this guy makes one in 3 seconds."

 

[Graf]

Freedom Zoo, Feb 14th, Afternoon

"This is the Entrapper, I presume? This is Nanite, I'm here with most of our colleagues from our last encounter. . . well, except for Century Girl, we couldn't track her down. We were hoping we might speak with you in person for a moment. Are you busy?"

'It is. Good to hear from you. I am slightly busy at... you're with everyone else? Now? Has something happened?"

 

[Insight]

Freedom Zoo, Feb 14th, Afternoon

[Century Girl looked confused at Entrapper's statement, "Why would you think that they wouldn't have looked? I was looking for clues that they maybe missed, not her, since they would have found her if she was still here. I think that means it was a kidnapping, one of her dad's enemies....or maybe just some random..." the blonde heroine says, trailing off not really wanting to say what could be happening with the little girl.

[Taking ten on a search check of the Exhibit]

The Serpent Exhibit, as stated, is designed externally to look like a mini Mayan pyramid. Internally, the Mayan-esque motif continues. Just off the main entrance is the gift shop (where the only camera resides), and then you continue on into the main entry chamber.

The main entry chamber is a u-shaped display of various snakes of the class Hemophidia, including the families Aniliidae, Anomochilidae, Boidae, Blyeridae, Cylindrophiidae, Loxocemidae, Pythonidae, Tropidophiidae, Uropeltidae, and Xenopeltidae. Among these are coral snakes, Amazon boas, Mexican burrowing snakes, and ball pythons. Off the main chamber are exits to the two sub-chambers, one for Xenophidia and one for Scolecophidia.

Searching the main entry chamber, Century Girl finds evidence that several groups of schoolchildren have likely been through since the last time the exhibit was cleaned: bits of trash, drink containers, candy and food wrappers, empty film cannisters, and discarded maps. In examining the exhibits themselves, Century Girl finds that the exhibit set aside for the Bolyeria Multocarinata is empty. All other exhibits are full and vibrant.

As Century Girl and the Entrapper are slowly circling the main entry chamber, a docent named Brent, a short young man with curly black hair, enters, sighs at the trash all over the chamber, grabs a broom and dustpan, and starts to clean up.

It is at this point that the Entrapper's phone rings...

A pouch on his shoulder starts to vibrate. "Someone's calling me," he pulls out a small phone from his pocket.

"Hello?"

"This is the Entrapper, I presume? This is Nanite, I'm here with most of our colleagues from our last encounter. . . well, except for Century Girl, we couldn't track her down. We were hoping we might speak with you in person for a moment. Are you busy?"

"It is. Good to hear from you. I am slightly busy at... you're with everyone else? Now? Has something happened?"

 

[hafrogman]

'It is. Good to hear from you. I am slightly busy at... you're with everyone else? Now? Has something happened?"

"Well, we're not quite sure what's up here yet. But we were hoping to consult you about it. It's probably not the best thing to talk about over the phone lines though. We can zip over to wherever you're at and have a chat."

Nanite temporarily disables the outgoing signal from his voice and smiles at Mnemonic while he waits for the Entrapper's response.

"If it makes you feel any better, I still have to pay for service. Well, not me. . ."

He taps meaningfully at the corporate logo on the shoulder of his uniform. Then he turns his attention back to his phone call.

 

[Graf]

Freedom Zoo, Feb 14th, Afternoon

Entrapper covers the mouth of the phone for a moment and glances at Century Girl, presuming that she is picking up the whole conversation with her enhanced senses. Assuming he gets some sort of affirmative sign he nods in return and moves the phone back to his lips.

OK. I'm at the Zoo . At the new 'snake exhibit' they have here. Century Girl is actually here as well. We'll be here for a bit. If you could join us here that would be fine.

 

[hero4hire]

"If it makes you feel any better, I still have to pay for service. Well, not me. . ."

He taps meaningfully at the corporate logo on the shoulder of his uniform. Then he turns his attention back to his phone call.

"I will try to remember that." Mnemonic said with a smirk.

 

[Tonguez]

"At the zoo" Bastion raises a bemused eyebrow mildly entertained by the exchange between Nanite and Mnemonic.
"corporate backing must be a wonderful thing" he muses "I know that what support the university gets hardly filters down to us

anyway" he shakes himself out of his musings "a trip to the zoo sounds interesting, and you're right we should probably talk in more private surroundings..."

 

[hafrogman]

Nanite grins slightly.

"Right, see you soon."

Then he ends the connection and looks at Glory, Mnemonic and Bastion.

"Well, that was convenient. Two birds with one stone and such forth. We can nip off to the zoo, find Entrapper and Century Girl and still have until this evening to phone our mysterious foot fetishist. Grab the landlubber, and away we go."

The speaker drips away from his shoulder as the nanites swarm once more, flowing over his back and forming into the telltale rocket exhausts.

 

[Shalimar]

Century Girlstudies the empty display case for the Bolyeria Multocarinata wondering what exactly was suppoused to be in it and if it had anythingto do with the missing little girl. When the cellphone rings the supergirl looks to her ally and then shugs, wondering if he had friends or a familiy. While waiting for him to handle his call she made her way over to the Docent, Brent.

"Hi, I'm Century Girl, I was hoping that you could maybe help me with something Brent. Its about this exhibit. I was wondering if you could tell me whats suppoused to be in that display over there, its the only empty one, and the scientific name just sort of goes right over my head." she says pointing out the empty display. "Is it suppoused to be empty?"