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<blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 5088739" data-attributes="member: 3285">Unit 23: ConclusionArchive ticked off the items they had discovered: &quot;…an African juju bag, a Hindu incense burner, a South American feather cloak, an ancient reading glass, a book on physics and sorcery by Sir Isaac Newton, a crystal ball, and a book on torture by Count Ferencz Nadasdy.&quot;&quot;Sounds like nighttime reading to me,&quot; said Jim-Bean.&nbsp; &quot;Were you firing…grenades into that warehouse?&quot; Guppy asked.Jim-Bean smiled.&nbsp; &quot;Why should the ninjas and bikers have all the fun?&quot;Hammer, standing a bit apart from the other agents, was getting reamed out by Sprague over his cistron. After a few more grunts and nods, he hung up and marched back to his companions.&quot;Sprague's pissed, isn't he,&quot; said Caprice.&quot;You could say that. We lost all our police backup. No cops, no SWAT, and…&quot; he looked specifically at Jim-Bean, &quot;no Jericho Jets.&quot;Jim-Bean snapped his fingers.&nbsp; Hammer took a deep breath.&nbsp; &quot;So it's up to us.&quot;&quot;Us?&quot; asked Guppy.&nbsp; &quot;Just us?&quot;&quot;Just us,&quot; said Hammer.&nbsp; &quot;Sprague and Warner were forced to work together on our warehouse raid, and Warner has control of the manpower.&nbsp; He refuses to give us any other agents.&nbsp; So now Sprague has to prove he was right about this damn book.&quot;&quot;What's so important about this book anyway?&quot; asked Guppy.&quot;It's a Portuguese translation from the original Chinese, the last of the seven scrolls of Hsan. Written during the Tang or Song Dynasties, these scrolls contained much wisdom handed down in an oral tradition dating from the Hsia Dynasty.&nbsp; The knowledge in the scrolls took the form of riddles, prophecies, parables, and rituals passed down from the Heavens, through the Emperor, to his scribes and the learned men of China.&nbsp; The original scrolls have been lost for centuries. Confucius was the last man said to have read all seven scrolls.&quot;&quot;And the scrolls matter because…&quot; asked Caprice. &quot;Together, the Seven Scrolls detail the key to the cycles of reincarnation and to the Heavens.&nbsp; Each scroll imparts certain levels of knowledge and they built upon one another, so that one cannot master the secrets of the seventh scroll without having read the first six.&nbsp; According to shipping records, Tiger Transit's already collected the other six scrolls. The seventh has been lost to history…until now.&quot;&quot;Let me guess,&quot; said Jim-Bean.&nbsp; &quot;They get all seven scrolls and then bad stuff happens.&quot;&quot;Right,&quot; said Archive. &quot;No one's sure what the last scroll was, but it's supposed to trigger a cycle of rebirth amongst the gods…&quot;&quot;Probably a bad translation,&quot; muttered Hammer darkly.&nbsp; &quot;One syllable off from the original Chinese and the whole world goes poof.&quot;Guppy rubbed the back of his aching neck.&nbsp; &quot;This is going to be a very dangerous mission, isn't it?&quot;&quot;Oh come on, it's not so bad!&quot; Jim-Bean threw one arm around Guppy's neck.&nbsp; &quot;We can take on a couple of ninjas, right big guy?&quot;&quot;That's not the problem,&quot; said Hammer. &quot;Their headquarters, the Jade Temple, has a massive storage of Fumo Loco underneath it.&nbsp; And Fumo Loco is extremely combustible so…&quot;&quot;No guns,&quot; said Caprice.Before Jim-Bean could say anything else, Hammer barked at him, &quot;and NO grenades!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="talien, post: 5088739, member: 3285"] [b]Unit 23: Conclusion[/b] Archive ticked off the items they had discovered: "…an African juju bag, a Hindu incense burner, a South American feather cloak, an ancient reading glass, a book on physics and sorcery by Sir Isaac Newton, a crystal ball, and a book on torture by Count Ferencz Nadasdy." "Sounds like nighttime reading to me," said Jim-Bean. "Were you firing…grenades into that warehouse?" Guppy asked. Jim-Bean smiled. "Why should the ninjas and bikers have all the fun?" Hammer, standing a bit apart from the other agents, was getting reamed out by Sprague over his cistron. After a few more grunts and nods, he hung up and marched back to his companions. "Sprague's pissed, isn't he," said Caprice. "You could say that. We lost all our police backup. No cops, no SWAT, and…" he looked specifically at Jim-Bean, "no Jericho Jets." Jim-Bean snapped his fingers. Hammer took a deep breath. "So it's up to us." "Us?" asked Guppy. "Just us?" "Just us," said Hammer. "Sprague and Warner were forced to work together on our warehouse raid, and Warner has control of the manpower. He refuses to give us any other agents. So now Sprague has to prove he was right about this damn book." "What's so important about this book anyway?" asked Guppy. "It's a Portuguese translation from the original Chinese, the last of the seven scrolls of Hsan. Written during the Tang or Song Dynasties, these scrolls contained much wisdom handed down in an oral tradition dating from the Hsia Dynasty. The knowledge in the scrolls took the form of riddles, prophecies, parables, and rituals passed down from the Heavens, through the Emperor, to his scribes and the learned men of China. The original scrolls have been lost for centuries. Confucius was the last man said to have read all seven scrolls." "And the scrolls matter because…" asked Caprice. "Together, the Seven Scrolls detail the key to the cycles of reincarnation and to the Heavens. Each scroll imparts certain levels of knowledge and they built upon one another, so that one cannot master the secrets of the seventh scroll without having read the first six. According to shipping records, Tiger Transit's already collected the other six scrolls. The seventh has been lost to history…until now." "Let me guess," said Jim-Bean. "They get all seven scrolls and then bad stuff happens." "Right," said Archive. "No one's sure what the last scroll was, but it's supposed to trigger a cycle of rebirth amongst the gods…" "Probably a bad translation," muttered Hammer darkly. "One syllable off from the original Chinese and the whole world goes poof." Guppy rubbed the back of his aching neck. "This is going to be a very dangerous mission, isn't it?" "Oh come on, it's not so bad!" Jim-Bean threw one arm around Guppy's neck. "We can take on a couple of ninjas, right big guy?" "That's not the problem," said Hammer. "Their headquarters, the Jade Temple, has a massive storage of Fumo Loco underneath it. And Fumo Loco is extremely combustible so…" "No guns," said Caprice. Before Jim-Bean could say anything else, Hammer barked at him, "and NO grenades!" [/QUOTE]

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