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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2858749" data-attributes="member: 63"><p><em>November 1, 2005</em></p><p><em>11:00 am</em></p><p></p><p>The group heads to the hospital where the leader of the Canadians is being treated for multiple gunshot wounds, and what appears to be a few longsword slashes. As they’re walking into the hospital, Nathan gets a text message from an undisclosed source, listing an email address and a password, with the note “You’re being watched.” Nathan quickly logs into the account on his laptop, sees one email message with a huge attachment, and decides to wait until he can make sure he’s not going to get a virus.</p><p></p><p>On the floor with the Canadian, a handful of tough-looking men in casual clothes are waiting – employees of Mr. Lee, they guess – but the men seem to be expecting them, and give them space. Aside from Balthazaar and a Bureau tech, Robert, Scarpedin, John, and Nathan are alone with the Canadian.</p><p></p><p>Nathan tries to use his psychic powers to sway the man’s will and make him more pliable. It looks like it works, but it could just be the painkillers. They start asking questions.</p><p></p><p>His name is Matthew Jasons. The Bureau tech verifies that he is associated with a group of Knights of the Round, and that he is wanted for murder by the Canadian branch of the Bureau. Jasons claims that he doesn’t care about the politics, just as long as he and his crew are well paid and well-equipped. He says that his employer had offered, in addition to a sizeable sum of cash, magically-enhanced weapons – infinite ammo clips and such. After this mission, he’d planned to go big time.</p><p></p><p>He says, groggily, that he and his group of British and Canadian mercenaries were contacted by an Anthony DeVries, the dark-skinned British telepath, who had a job for them in the states. First they were supposed to assassinate a traveling couple in Alaska, but the man managed to get away somehow, so a few days later they were redirected down to the States, to head to New Orleans.</p><p></p><p>Anthony’s mind control got them across the border in a truck full of weapons, while a few of their group flew ahead, then had a mind-controlled patsy (an airline pilot) veer his plane off course and nearly smash it into the Sears Tower, ensuring that flights would be grounded for a few days, since they needed time to get to New Orleans. They also contacted some Knights of the Round associates of theirs in New Orleans, to set things up before they arrived. Anthony apparently was in contact with someone who provided him intel, because they knew where Terry was the whole way.</p><p></p><p>Jasons goes through a list of his crew and contacts, all dead or arrested. The Noah Wylie-looking driver who John killed after the car chase, the George Clooney gunman who Robert killed in the hotel, the sniper who Robert killed with the mini-gun, Jasons’ wife the swordswoman who Scarpedin killed with the mini-gun, Anthony deVries who Mr. Lee killed with the pistol in the alleyway; the two French men that Nathan turned in for a bounty were their Knights of the Round contacts here in the city. After the French knights were caught, Jasons says he contacted a group of Rastafarian neo-Voodooists, but he never heard from them because he was shot first. Robert and Scarpedin verify that they took care of those guys.</p><p></p><p>He doesn’t know why deVries wanted Terry dead, nor for whom deVries was working. The Bureau tech says he’ll look into it, but so far the man looks like he has no record at all. He says he’ll contact the British branch of the Bureau in London for assistance.</p><p></p><p>To Robert’s disappointment, it does appear that Adrien Lee actually didn’t have anything to do with the assassination.</p><p></p><p>Balthazaar then fills in a few holes. Under interrogation, Morgan McCool, the Christian Bale look-alike who initially antagonized the group at the Texas Renaissance Festival, said that his employer, “Mr. O,” had been trying to find a way to planeshift, and had somehow learned that Terry possessed that power, and sent people after them. It’s unlikely that the two groups work for the same person, because they were at odds with each other.</p><p></p><p>Also, at Scarpedin’s prompting, he explains that he had been keeping the vampire in the trunk of of his boat for interrogation, because he found a trail that led from some of the local vampire groups to the neo-Voodoo Rastafarians, involving some sort of ritual they were planning. Robert guesses that it probably had something to do with why they were after Terry’s heart.</p><p></p><p>Balthazaar says he didn’t really need the vampire anymore, but wonders what Scarpedin was doing that led him to open the trunk in the first place. Scarpedin just laughs.</p><p></p><p>The group leaves the hospital, and John suggests to Mr. Lee’s thugs that it might be smart to kill Matthew Jasons, to make sure he can’t incriminate Mr. Lee. They then get back into Nathan’s car and Balthazaar’s van, and head back to the main Bureau office, planning to debrief before they leave for Savannah.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 2858749, member: 63"] [i]November 1, 2005 11:00 am[/i] The group heads to the hospital where the leader of the Canadians is being treated for multiple gunshot wounds, and what appears to be a few longsword slashes. As they’re walking into the hospital, Nathan gets a text message from an undisclosed source, listing an email address and a password, with the note “You’re being watched.” Nathan quickly logs into the account on his laptop, sees one email message with a huge attachment, and decides to wait until he can make sure he’s not going to get a virus. On the floor with the Canadian, a handful of tough-looking men in casual clothes are waiting – employees of Mr. Lee, they guess – but the men seem to be expecting them, and give them space. Aside from Balthazaar and a Bureau tech, Robert, Scarpedin, John, and Nathan are alone with the Canadian. Nathan tries to use his psychic powers to sway the man’s will and make him more pliable. It looks like it works, but it could just be the painkillers. They start asking questions. His name is Matthew Jasons. The Bureau tech verifies that he is associated with a group of Knights of the Round, and that he is wanted for murder by the Canadian branch of the Bureau. Jasons claims that he doesn’t care about the politics, just as long as he and his crew are well paid and well-equipped. He says that his employer had offered, in addition to a sizeable sum of cash, magically-enhanced weapons – infinite ammo clips and such. After this mission, he’d planned to go big time. He says, groggily, that he and his group of British and Canadian mercenaries were contacted by an Anthony DeVries, the dark-skinned British telepath, who had a job for them in the states. First they were supposed to assassinate a traveling couple in Alaska, but the man managed to get away somehow, so a few days later they were redirected down to the States, to head to New Orleans. Anthony’s mind control got them across the border in a truck full of weapons, while a few of their group flew ahead, then had a mind-controlled patsy (an airline pilot) veer his plane off course and nearly smash it into the Sears Tower, ensuring that flights would be grounded for a few days, since they needed time to get to New Orleans. They also contacted some Knights of the Round associates of theirs in New Orleans, to set things up before they arrived. Anthony apparently was in contact with someone who provided him intel, because they knew where Terry was the whole way. Jasons goes through a list of his crew and contacts, all dead or arrested. The Noah Wylie-looking driver who John killed after the car chase, the George Clooney gunman who Robert killed in the hotel, the sniper who Robert killed with the mini-gun, Jasons’ wife the swordswoman who Scarpedin killed with the mini-gun, Anthony deVries who Mr. Lee killed with the pistol in the alleyway; the two French men that Nathan turned in for a bounty were their Knights of the Round contacts here in the city. After the French knights were caught, Jasons says he contacted a group of Rastafarian neo-Voodooists, but he never heard from them because he was shot first. Robert and Scarpedin verify that they took care of those guys. He doesn’t know why deVries wanted Terry dead, nor for whom deVries was working. The Bureau tech says he’ll look into it, but so far the man looks like he has no record at all. He says he’ll contact the British branch of the Bureau in London for assistance. To Robert’s disappointment, it does appear that Adrien Lee actually didn’t have anything to do with the assassination. Balthazaar then fills in a few holes. Under interrogation, Morgan McCool, the Christian Bale look-alike who initially antagonized the group at the Texas Renaissance Festival, said that his employer, “Mr. O,” had been trying to find a way to planeshift, and had somehow learned that Terry possessed that power, and sent people after them. It’s unlikely that the two groups work for the same person, because they were at odds with each other. Also, at Scarpedin’s prompting, he explains that he had been keeping the vampire in the trunk of of his boat for interrogation, because he found a trail that led from some of the local vampire groups to the neo-Voodoo Rastafarians, involving some sort of ritual they were planning. Robert guesses that it probably had something to do with why they were after Terry’s heart. Balthazaar says he didn’t really need the vampire anymore, but wonders what Scarpedin was doing that led him to open the trunk in the first place. Scarpedin just laughs. The group leaves the hospital, and John suggests to Mr. Lee’s thugs that it might be smart to kill Matthew Jasons, to make sure he can’t incriminate Mr. Lee. They then get back into Nathan’s car and Balthazaar’s van, and head back to the main Bureau office, planning to debrief before they leave for Savannah. [/QUOTE]
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