OnlytheStrong
Explorer
"Yeah, going back isn't too bad of an idea to get your stuff.......... except if your sire's there. News travels fast in the underworld, some of them may know what we are up to."
[VtR][Mature] Born into Darkness: Arc 1
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Graf
Explorer
The car ride is uneventful.
It's still early in the night, and the traffic is a mixture of businessmen making the late commute home, truckers cutting through the city now that the traffic's thinned out and people out for a night on the town.
Celeste's haven is located in a relatively small ultra-modern building, Ivory Courts, in the epicenter of town. Ivory Courts is located on a short, apparently unamed, street off Wright, the central bolevard that cuts through the financial district and dead ends at City Hall.
Ivory Courts the building where Celeste's Haven is located
The building is seperated from the road by a well lit front garden. Archer's key code enables access to the building proper but the group initially finds itself stymied by the elevator; Archer doesn't have a key pass to the 12th floor (Celeste's Haven).
[sblock=Diego -- Larceny]Security is tight in this building. It has some strange features for it's zip code.
It's set back a ways from the other buildings around it (which is a big waste of space), there are no apparrent protruberances or balconies. Sides are sheer directly up to the roof.
A piece of real estate like this should have a doorman, or three. Nobody this rich has to settle for electric door locks, no matter how fancy.
There are a lot of video cameras. Some obvious, some not.
The front door has a fancy magnetic lock, and a redundent cross-bar lock, and the hinges have nice action (counterweights?) but even so it's extremely thick.[/sblock]
There are two elevators, one apparently stops at odd floors, the other at even.
As Diego contemplates whether he can rig the right elevator to open* the left elevator opens to reveal a black man in his thirties in an elegant tailored suit. His jet black skin seems to be horribly disfigured, it's completely covered with an uneven growth of twisted barbs.
Diego, Gentlemen, Lady. The man has warm, resonant voice very much at odds with his unpleasant appearance.
I had thought you might have come by to visit me, but looking at which elevator you're interested in perhaps you're considering visiting someone else?
[sblock=*]This would be quite tricky. Hacking a system like this without preperation would require some sort of computer, even a fast one might take hours to brute force the system. Getting physical entry to the panel won't help much since the computers controlling the elevator are almost certainly located elsewhere.
With preperation (access to a sample data card, or specs for the system) things might be different.
And, of course, there are the video cameras. Since Sucker came down to see you it's probable that you're being monitored.[/sblock]
It's still early in the night, and the traffic is a mixture of businessmen making the late commute home, truckers cutting through the city now that the traffic's thinned out and people out for a night on the town.
Celeste's haven is located in a relatively small ultra-modern building, Ivory Courts, in the epicenter of town. Ivory Courts is located on a short, apparently unamed, street off Wright, the central bolevard that cuts through the financial district and dead ends at City Hall.
Ivory Courts the building where Celeste's Haven is located
The building is seperated from the road by a well lit front garden. Archer's key code enables access to the building proper but the group initially finds itself stymied by the elevator; Archer doesn't have a key pass to the 12th floor (Celeste's Haven).
[sblock=Diego -- Larceny]Security is tight in this building. It has some strange features for it's zip code.
It's set back a ways from the other buildings around it (which is a big waste of space), there are no apparrent protruberances or balconies. Sides are sheer directly up to the roof.
A piece of real estate like this should have a doorman, or three. Nobody this rich has to settle for electric door locks, no matter how fancy.
There are a lot of video cameras. Some obvious, some not.
The front door has a fancy magnetic lock, and a redundent cross-bar lock, and the hinges have nice action (counterweights?) but even so it's extremely thick.[/sblock]
There are two elevators, one apparently stops at odd floors, the other at even.
As Diego contemplates whether he can rig the right elevator to open* the left elevator opens to reveal a black man in his thirties in an elegant tailored suit. His jet black skin seems to be horribly disfigured, it's completely covered with an uneven growth of twisted barbs.
Diego, Gentlemen, Lady. The man has warm, resonant voice very much at odds with his unpleasant appearance.
I had thought you might have come by to visit me, but looking at which elevator you're interested in perhaps you're considering visiting someone else?
[sblock=*]This would be quite tricky. Hacking a system like this without preperation would require some sort of computer, even a fast one might take hours to brute force the system. Getting physical entry to the panel won't help much since the computers controlling the elevator are almost certainly located elsewhere.
With preperation (access to a sample data card, or specs for the system) things might be different.
And, of course, there are the video cameras. Since Sucker came down to see you it's probable that you're being monitored.[/sblock]
Festy_Dog
First Post
OnlytheStrong said:
"Don't worry, she's definitely not there. If she was, LB would have killed her by now," Archer coughed into a tissue he found in the car somewhere, "She's gone to ground somewhere or just plain fled. Either way, the apartment might provide the first step to finding her but it's not the only option we have. I mostly want to swing by the apartment so we can all clean up if we're going to be doing a lot of talking to the living. And Diego, I'd hazard if we hit hurdles we way need your expertise getting in."
WarShrike said:
"Biggs, I'm a little shaky on the details but I think I can direct you there."
* * * * *
Graf said:
"Diego, perhaps you could introduce us to your friend?" Archer was worried about running into a resident of the building, but considering the barrier they had hit was optimistic about where this encounter could lead.
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OnlytheStrong
Explorer
"His name's Sucker." Diego takes a couple of steps forward and extends his hand toward Sucker. "I assume those cameras are on us since you met us down here. Who else in in here? Celeste?"
Graf
Explorer
Black man appears bemused as he takes Diego's hand. The rest of you are welcome to call me Freeman, Al Freeman.
Indeed her abode was located here, as are several other of our mutual friends. His powerful voice allows the Nosferatu to place a great deal of stress on the last two words.
Freeman waves a card and the elevator doors slide open. Naturally when she was in residence it wasn't possible to get up to her floor, but with the recent events I beleive the security system has been reset and... Volia!
The elevator doors slide silently open.
He waves the unadorned silver card over a another panel and presses an unremarkable looking panel. The panel lights up, like the prop from some sort of sci-fi movie.
I am actually entertaining right now, but it was a pleasure to meet you all. Freeman nods genially before going back up in the other elevator.
Celeste's Haven
The elevator door squeeks slightly as it opens, the inner doors appear to have been caved in and then hammered back out. Other signs of the fighting that occured when Blackcoat and Nice invaded are pervasive. LIttle attempt has been made to clean.
The "apartment" is more like a fancy house. The elevator opens directly into a foyer, to the right is a kitchen and servants area. Directly in front a pair of double doors, hanging ajar, lead to what was once an oppulent living area.
The sofa still lies flipped over to provide a temporary defensive bulwark.
Beyond are several rooms, including the room where Archer and Celeste slept (up a twisting flight of stairs to a mezzanine level). Another office space and a second bedroom.
The whole place has been thoroughly trashed by an extremely obvious search.
Indeed her abode was located here, as are several other of our mutual friends. His powerful voice allows the Nosferatu to place a great deal of stress on the last two words.
Freeman waves a card and the elevator doors slide open. Naturally when she was in residence it wasn't possible to get up to her floor, but with the recent events I beleive the security system has been reset and... Volia!
The elevator doors slide silently open.
He waves the unadorned silver card over a another panel and presses an unremarkable looking panel. The panel lights up, like the prop from some sort of sci-fi movie.
I am actually entertaining right now, but it was a pleasure to meet you all. Freeman nods genially before going back up in the other elevator.
Celeste's Haven
The elevator door squeeks slightly as it opens, the inner doors appear to have been caved in and then hammered back out. Other signs of the fighting that occured when Blackcoat and Nice invaded are pervasive. LIttle attempt has been made to clean.
The "apartment" is more like a fancy house. The elevator opens directly into a foyer, to the right is a kitchen and servants area. Directly in front a pair of double doors, hanging ajar, lead to what was once an oppulent living area.
The sofa still lies flipped over to provide a temporary defensive bulwark.
Beyond are several rooms, including the room where Archer and Celeste slept (up a twisting flight of stairs to a mezzanine level). Another office space and a second bedroom.
The whole place has been thoroughly trashed by an extremely obvious search.
OnlytheStrong
Explorer
"Let's hurry and leave this place. I'd rather not be here."
Festy_Dog
First Post
OnlytheStrong said:
"Very well, if any of you want to clean up be quick about it. We want to look pretty for the folks with pulses, not like we've been kept in cages for the past few days. Celeste's room is there and Frank's room is there, if they were in a hurry they might have left some clothing behind, Archer indicated entrances to relevant rooms, "Don't know if it'll fit but you'll have to weigh that against being encrusted with blood. I'm sure I could spare a few articles of clothing myself since I packed for a long trip, if stuff my size would better."
WarShrike said:
Archer emerged from Celeste's room with his suitcase to respond.
"Assuming Blackcoat and Nice didn't help themselves to them, and failing that, assuming Frank and Celeste didn't swing by and grab them, you might find a shotgun and a holdout somewhere in the apartment. I'd recommend checking Frank's room but he probably took all of the stuff he had left over with him," and with that Archer hurried into a bathroom.
After rinsing off and changing into a fresh outfit Archer goes about checking offices and bedrooms for documents, checking any answering machines in the apartment, browsing through computers' contents, etc. The place had already been searched, violently, but Archer was desperate for an indication of where Celeste could have gone.
Graf
Explorer
Archer finds that his suitcase has obviously been dumped out; every document, business card, media (floppy disk, tape, etc) inside removed.
Truly personal effects (clothing, etc) have been moved around but have been left behind, more or less intact. Holes seem to have been punched in various places in the room, and a medium sized wall safe has been removed as well, leaving a gaping cavity in the concrete.
It looks like Celeste's entire office has been stripped. A computer and a typewriter were both removed along with the entire contents of her shelves.
Biggs finds Frank's cramped room a bit overwhelming. Searchers apparently also found it a bit overwhelming, it's been messed with a bit but is otherwise intact.
It looks like it's some kind of psycadelic party room. An ornate water pipe dominates one corner of the room, (there seems to be some sort fancy air filtration system),
a crystal disco ball hangs in the center of the room, well thumbed pulp and science fiction novels are scattered about and a massive wall was once dominated to an impressive (now missing) collection of records.
Biggs, recalling something about searches, and intent on finding weaponry; quickly breaks the area into zones in his head and executes an intensive search.
[sblock=Bigg's Search]
Biggs
[/sblock]
The rest of the characters, idling around the living room, uncover the holdout pistol where it was knocked from Archer's hand. Flipping over one of the sofa's reveals the Mossberg Shotgun, which has also fallen where it lay.
It seems the searchers weren't interested in touching the weaponry.
Truly personal effects (clothing, etc) have been moved around but have been left behind, more or less intact. Holes seem to have been punched in various places in the room, and a medium sized wall safe has been removed as well, leaving a gaping cavity in the concrete.
It looks like Celeste's entire office has been stripped. A computer and a typewriter were both removed along with the entire contents of her shelves.
Biggs finds Frank's cramped room a bit overwhelming. Searchers apparently also found it a bit overwhelming, it's been messed with a bit but is otherwise intact.
It looks like it's some kind of psycadelic party room. An ornate water pipe dominates one corner of the room, (there seems to be some sort fancy air filtration system),
a crystal disco ball hangs in the center of the room, well thumbed pulp and science fiction novels are scattered about and a massive wall was once dominated to an impressive (now missing) collection of records.
Biggs, recalling something about searches, and intent on finding weaponry; quickly breaks the area into zones in his head and executes an intensive search.
[sblock=Bigg's Search]
Biggs
- discovers a massive block of hashish hidden in the base of the waterpipe.
- notes that many of the paperback novels seem to have been written by an E. V. Vanderchild.
- Behind an extremely disorienting psycadelic wall covering is plain white wall, but there seems to be some sort of residue rubbed into it. Closing the door and turning on a black light pointed at the wall reveals a confusing day-glo picture, like a map or some sort of abstract drawing. Most of the writing is incomprehensible (either terrible handwriting, or a language that Biggs can't read), but two dates stand out September 22nd (near the top of the drawning) and March 20th (where all the lines and characters have converged into a single point).
September 22nd, Biggs can not fail to remember, was the night he faced the urban primitive and was embraced.
[/sblock]
The rest of the characters, idling around the living room, uncover the holdout pistol where it was knocked from Archer's hand. Flipping over one of the sofa's reveals the Mossberg Shotgun, which has also fallen where it lay.
It seems the searchers weren't interested in touching the weaponry.
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