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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1189806" data-attributes="member: 9255">STRIKEFORCE: MORITURISEGMENT 010“Sin City”Everyone needs a breath mint.Jim Addards and Jean move through the crowd trying to take in the city.  They arrived here late in the afternoon after dealing with the Creatures.  Vander, Christina and The Captain did well stopping them and Storm Wielder ended it quickly.  Megamania’s pride was hurt.  He had seen many things in his lifetime, but magical shapeshifting monsters was never one.However, this is not what has dampened his usual sarcastic mood.  For the past fifteen minutes, they have held up by the thick crowd.  The crowd was here to see and bid on slaves.  The slaves were of men, women and even children.  CHILDREN!   The ****ing bastards!  Jim is close to blowing their cover by breaking it up but Jean calms him.  The anger is visible in her eyes also but she is here to end it by stopping the Maestro and retrieving the artifact they are here to get.  The rags they wear smell of BO and Dung.  Jim has seen smaller cats when looking at the bugs on the rags.  They retrieved these from a cart owned by people entering the city.  Sin City is made up of a large shantytown surrounded by armed guards.  The landowners have decent homes.  From there, there is the palace.  Maestro’s home.  The Brute Master himself.  It is gold lined and massive.  Jean looks at the statue created to look like him.  She memorizes the entire image looking for weaknesses and other advantages.  He appears to be an Ogre or mutated human of 10ft in size and possibly girth!  Solid muscle.  He wears light armor.  Being careful to not be seen, she reads the caption below.  MaestroRuler of the WorldAnd the Ultimate BeingArrogance.  The most common weakness of evil.They move further away from the crowd towards the area their contact is supposed to be.  They were told little of whom the contact is.  The Contact is a freedom fighter from outside of Sin City.  The contact had direct ties to the heroes of the world.  The contact was overlooked by Maestro and his forces as too weak to amount to any threat.  Over Confidence.  Another tool to unlock his power Jean thinks to herself.They reach the building they searched for.  The Quiet Star.   It is a bar with rooms to rent.  They go inside.  Jim notices the most common element of the seedy bar.  Everyone takes note of new comers within making eye contact.  He can feel their eyes on him the whole time.  Storm Wielder nods to an empty table near the back and they go to sit down.  They now sit and without making direct eye contact, watch and evaluate everyone in the bar.   The one bar keep is a mutant of some sort.  His skin is albino and has black pupiless eyes.  Jim thinks radiation or natural mutant, Jean thinks Orcish blood or influence of wild Magic.  Either way, he may have a different appearance but he seems harmless.Jim notes a blonde in her forties or possible earlier fifties.  She looks graceful and fit despite the crowlines on her eyes and creases on her mouth.  A few men stand up and leave blocking his view for a moment.  She is gone.  Her drink only remains.  Realizing he is girl watching, Jim begins to scan the room again.  From behind him he hears “I seem to have misplaced my drink.  Can you buy me another?”  A black gloved hand rests on Jim’s shoulder.  Both turn and see the blonde.  She is dressed in torn and disgusting looking leather jacket.  She sits down.“I am Yelena Belova.  Some know me as a member of the Russian Resistance; others know me as the Black Spider.  May I sit?</blockquote>

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