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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 6901421" data-attributes="member: 11437">NOTE: The first post will be the "recovered" content from before the Big Crash.<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?489503-Hunter-the-Vigil-I-Left-My-Soul-in-San-Francisco-RG-Restart" target="_blank">RG Thread</a><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488789-Hunter-the-Vigil-I-Left-My-Soul-in-San-Francisco-OOC-Restart" target="_blank">OOC Thread</a>[sblock=Other Prelude Threads]<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?489974-Hunter-the-Vigil-I-Left-My-Soul-in-San-Francisco-Renata-Hodges-Prelude-Restart" target="_blank">Renata Hodges</a><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?489975-Hunter-the-Vigil-I-Left-My-Soul-in-San-Francisco-Ryan-Smith-Prelude-Restart" target="_blank">Ryan Smith</a>[/sblock]POST 1 - INSIGHT***PRELUDE - LUKE CHENThis is the prelude thread for the Luke Chen character in the Hunter: the Vigil game, "I Left My Soul in San Francisco".***Apr 2015 - San Francisco, California[ATTACH]77002[/ATTACH]This was going to be the last job Luke would do for the Triad. He took a risk - earning enough money from this delivery to pay off the rest of his debt to the Triad as well as the debts of his errant cousins, Alex and Sam. Taking on a job like this, one that paid the kind of money Luke wanted to make, wasn't going to be easy. Nothing worthwhile ever was.Luke arrived at a nondescript office building on Lake Street. The building overlooked the Presidio. It was rather late at night, but there were still people driving and riding their bikes. Luke received a package, a small, brown-paper wrapped box of some kind. The man who gave Luke the package didn't seem like the sort who would answer questions, so Luke didn't ask any.The instructions Luke was given were to take the package to the Stow Lake Boathouse, which was located smack dab in the middle of Golden Gate Park. It was 7 blocks from the Presidio to Golden Gate Park and then another 5 to 10 minutes once inside the park to get to the Boathouse. This gig didn't seem particularly dangerous, so why the big money? Surely, there must be more to this delivery.The last instruction was to give the package to a Chinese woman dressed in black with a tiger-striped scarf. She would give her name as Lola. If anyone else was present, Luke was not to deliver the package and instead take it to Room 686 of the Hilton San Francisco, in the Financial District. There, a big Chinese man named Lu Wong, whom Luke had met before, would receive the package and arrange for Luke to be paid.Luke arrived at the Stow Lake Boathouse right on time. There was no one around. Luke figured that maybe he was early. Or maybe Lola wasn't going to show. It started to make Luke nervous. The yellow light, coming from some 20 ft away from the Boathouse, did not illuminate the area very well. Of course, the Boathouse wasn't used at night. The place was deserted. That's probably why the Triad wanted to use this place for the delivery. There was a curious gurgling noise. It stabbed at Luke like a knife, cutting through the dense night air. Then came the sound of dragging. These noises were coming from the other side of the Boathouse. Luke could not resist the temptation to see what was going on. He quickly and quietly rounded the Boathouse to see a woman, dressed in black, being dragged into the foliage. Luke could not make out what was dragging her or whether she was alive. She and her assailant vanished into the bushes and the noise stopped dead."Hold it right there," a deep voice said from behind Luke. "You're not Lola."There were three guns pointed at Luke. In the cold silence, he had half a second to decide what to do next.***POST 2 - JAGO~ Hands up. Slow, but fast enough to show he wasn't a threat. In one hand, he still held the small, brown box that was apparently important enough to kill for. It was a practiced maneuver, one he had replicated a thousand times before. He hated it, hated that sudden submissiveness he threw himself into, but he hated the idea of being shot even more. Better to cower now and live tomorrow, as he had been ever since he had gotten that first call from Alex." I have a package for her," Luke Chen informed his captors, banking on that if they knew Lola's name, they at least had an interest in his delivery. May have not been the right person to deliver to, but he'd rather walk away and figure that part out later.He kept the fear out of his voice with the ease that could only come from being in this situation before. It wasn't easy, though: he was shaking on the inside, but he refused to let the gunmen see him sweat. But then, should he be sweating? What about that woman that had been dragged off? Was that Lola? Did these men do that to her? How did they know her name, know she would be here? Too many questions. Too much to process. For now, he just needed to survive." Just a deliveryman is all." Luke breathed out slowly, measuredly." Was waiting for Lola myself. Just need to get this box to her, that's all. Just a box, gents." ~</blockquote>

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