Mental Bloc - IC

[A Crazy Fool]

After he is a good distance away from the resteraunt and heading in the direction of the Hamilton hotel, Reed speks.
"I've never met the guru in person before. I was supposed to meet with one of his guys, at Desiderio's today. His name was Howard. He never showed. Then I checked his appartment and found him dead. He had a cell-phone with somone called Oblomov's number." says Reed. "You should probably use Howard's phone to call this Oblomov guy. If he's not with us, he won't have any of our phone numbers." He hands Ash Howard's phone.

 

[Shayuri]

Ash snorts. "Not having phone numbers doesn't seem to slow these guys down much."

She takes the cellphone, opens it, and finds Oblomov's number. She then calls it on her own phone, declining to use the one Reed took from the apartment.

"You haven't met the guru, but you know him, right? Is there some kind of reward for helping you two out? I don't usually do pro bono, you know. It's not like I can get a regular job."

 

[Phoenix8008]

"Oh crap! I just remembered. Before the firefight in there started, that dude Perdue poisoned me or something with the smoke from his cigarette! He said I had like 15 minutes before I went into convulsions!!" Lex nearly shouts in a panic before realizing that the girl is about to talk with somebody on the phone. More quietly to the guy driving, "Just wanted somebody to know in case I start biting my tongue off back here in a bit."

 

[Shayuri]

Ash gives Lex a dubious look.

"That's retarded," she says. "If the cig was poisoned, it would have poisoned him too."

 

[Phoenix8008]

Lex responds to Ash, "Lady, it may sound retarded but I felt this buzzing in the throat right after that and it wasn't normal. Heck, maybe he was lying. But I just wanted somebody to know in case I start doing the epileptic jig back here. By the way, I'm Lex. You said your name was Ash, right? How about you?" Lex asks the driver, "What's your name? Or should we call you 'X'?" After they answer, Lex sits back in his seat and starts murmering to himself in nervousness, though he can be heard just fine by the other two. "Frickin' secret agent crud. Don't know whether I'm in a James Bond movie or some live action Psi-Ops game re-enactment. If I was in England I'd start wondering if you guys were frickin' E-Branch come to save me from the vampires! How much weirder can it get?!"

 

[Committed Hero]

Destination - Hamilton Hotel.

Someone answers Ash after three rings: Слушаю.

After about five minutes in the car, Lex indeed starts to shudder. It looks like he's in the throes of a high fever, except he's not sweating or delirious.

 

[Phoenix8008]

"Umm...G g g guys?" Lex stutters with the force of his shaking...

 

[Shayuri]

"Uh yeah, hello? Do you speak english? This guru guy never mentioned speaking Communist."

Ash looks over at Lex, alarmed by the shaking. "Jesus, he wasn't kidding."

 

[Committed Hero]

"I am not Communist, young lady. Who is this?"

 

[Shayuri]

"I'm Ash. Someone everyone's calling 'The Guru,' is hacking my phone and telling me to call you. There's two guys I just helped out of Desidero's...Lex and whoever just gave me your number from another phone. He's driving. Anyway, I think we all want to know what's going on, who you are, and why the Guru wants us to talk to you. Oh, and who's the Guru?"