Kristen swears and her eyes look longingly at the IPAD, but she continues to drive. The speed climbs to 75.
"It could mean that. The custody for the child is very intense. Helene, can you do me a favor? Call 555- 1038 (our partner on site) and ask him for what's going on? I can't message him and drive. Seconds are precious here. Perhaps she's about to be kidnapped. Or killed."
Kristen's expression is tense and she drives aggressively, but not dangerous.
"We're still three minutes out, if he asks."
Helene gives Kristen a funny look, then pulls out her phone, unlocking it and dialing the number. She holds it up to her ear and waits through the ringing. If someone answers, she says "Hello, this is Helene. I'm working with Kristen, she's here next to me, and we're wondering what's going on."
There the sound of rustling as the phone is jostled.
"Kristen - damn it. Tell Kristen two of them came in a van-" *Rustling noises* "-has a gun. Can't you remotely lock the doors? She didn't answer my phone call." The man swears and the jostling intensifies.
Kristen passes a minivan and takes an exit, the van climbing out into the isolated area of Lakeside.
"Two minutes." Kristen assures. "He has to keep her safe for two minutes."
Kristen looks forward, driving up a slightly sloping road.
"You weren't hired for anything like this, so when we get there, you place the cameras like normal. If you see any signs of foul play, hide in the van."
Helene listens to the call and nods at Kristen. She speaks to the man on the other end. "She says you just need to hold out for two minutes or so." She turns to Kristen, covering the speaker. "He was wondering if you could remotely lock the doors or something. Do you guys have that set up in your vans?"
She nods as Kristen tells her what to do. "Sounds...less dangerous than whatever else you're doing. Hey, does this happen often in the pharmaceutical industry? If so, you people are a lot more badass than I'd expected." She tries to keep her voice cheery, but there's an obvious undertone of fear and suspicion of what's going on.
"Get in the back. Here, take that." Kristen points at the IPAD held to the dash with the sand gps dashboard holder. "Its our comms device. Swipe and code 5771 to unlock the IPAD. To unlock the computer, enter '3639' and it will load. The house will already be up. Lock her doors and arm her security system. Tell him what you think he should do. You're getting the real time info, no time to relay it to me. Protect Cassandra and the child."
Kristen's voice is tense and the muscles in her arms are as well as she drives. Helene must feel odd... so much responsibility and privilege, information and chaos rolled into one tense van. What are they driving into? Kristen ignores or doesn't hear Helene's question on the industry.
"Hello? Did you lock it?" The man on the phone is tense and anxious.
Helene grabs the Ipad and fights her way between the front seats, into the back. She sits down in one of the fixed chairs and puts her phone and the Ipad on the table. She sets the phone to speakerphone so that she can keep her hands free, and hurriedly unlocks the Ipad and computer. She waggles her fingers, a nervous smile spreading onto her face at the chance to actually play with the hardware in a stressful situation. She cracks her knuckles.
"Yes yes, working on it. Don't soil your britches." She says into the phone, then goes to work trying to get the entire house locked down as tight as possible.
Date
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Result
2014-07-14 13:20:17
Helene Jameson rolls 8 to lock down the house (Intelligence + Computer) (10 Again)
The computer is linked into a security system - very pricy, very high tech. Helene can see a diagram of the house on the computer screen. The first floor includes a living room, a kitchen, a small dinette room a single bath and a sweeping staircase. The stair case lands in front of the Master Bathroom. On either side of the landing is the Master bedroom on the left and the second bedroom on the right. Blinking green arrows indicate two doors on the main floor - a back door in the kitchen and a front door in the living room. Yellow sqaures tell Helene that there are two large windows in the living room, one upstairs over the stairway landing.
"What are my orders?" The man on the phone demands. "Shit. I see them running up the drive. I'm by the back door. Unlock it. I'll go in and you lock it again. Am I allowed to terminate these guys? We got any intell on them?"
The IPAD buzzes. The screen relays that there is a new message.
Helene works to get the back door unlocked and let him in, then lock it again once he's in.
Date
Action
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Result
2014-07-14 13:47:53
Helene Jameson rolls 8 to lock the back door again (Int + Computer) (10 Again)
6, 10, 1, 6, 7, 7, 8, 7, 4
2 successes
2014-07-14 13:47:35
Helene Jameson rolls 8 to Unlock the back door (Int + Computer) (10 Again)
9, 1, 9, 3, 9, 10, 5, 6, 2
4 successes
She moves to the Ipad, talking as she's going. "Ah, uh...get her upstairs and see if you can block the staircase. Stay away from windows? I think. Terminate means kill, right? I'm pretty sure you should avoid that. Just as a general thing." She laughs nervously, a little unsettled by his willingness to just shoot people. "Just, keep her safe, and try not to kill anyone unless they try to kill you first."
Arriving finally at the Ipad, she pokes the screen and gets the message to display, scanning it quickly.
There's a muffled talking sound and Helene can identify a woman's voice, high in pitch and scared. There's more shuffling noises and a red light appears almost immediately on Helene's display. Someone is at the back door in the kitchen. The shrill sound of an alarm comes across the phone line.
"They're here." The man's voice is more resigned. Steel runs through it.
"I've got her in the main bed room. There's a window; but she's nine months pregnant. We're a bit trapped. I did send over the intel that I recovered."
Yet as he speaks to Helene, the IPAD gives up its treasure. It's an encrypted email from 'Striker' that requires Helene to enter Kristen's code again. You wonder if she'll think to delete or change this access afterwards...
The IPAD is looked at...
'Found this in the van. No time for it." Was typed in the message. Clicking the attachment reveals stolen and illicit information. Impossible information. It was an audio recording. Clicking play reveals the below information...
Email Attachment- Auditory recording
Following the preparatory measures alluded to in previous reports, the program began four months ago with the successful capture of a single example of Cryptid-93. The challenges presented when containing C-93 were overcome with the use of a sedative cocktail and a freshwater tank. Tissue samples were taken and the first in-vitro fertilization experiments began immediately, along with blood sample reaction tests.
As theorized, C-93 is extremely adept at detecting particular genetic markers in its prey. The sample creature was exposed to the L. bloodline and in a series of tests was flawless in its capacity to single out the bloodline. This ability suggests enormous potential for confirming and tracking members of the L. bloodline, with far greater accuracy than existing methods such as cranial measurement, graphology or behavioral profiling, and with far less expending of time and resources compared to DNA testing.
Results from IVF were similarly promising. C-93 proved to have extremely mutable DNA that combined with ova from several species. While the majority of the resulting zygotes could not be brought to term, success was achieved with the domestic dog (C-93/C), horse (C-93/E) and homo sapiens (C-93/H). The host animals for the embryos were invariably killed by the
birth process, which provided an additional challenge in the case of C-93/H as it required numerous human hosts. These were selected by me by their medical files and acquired through my cover employment as a doctor.
The testing facility was deliberately located close to C-93’s natural habitat, so in the case of escape any sightings would lose their significance given the local folklore concerning the creature. Unfortunately this precaution proved necessary when the original sample of C-93 broke free of its restraints and escaped through the facility’s waste systems. It is believed that it developed a resistance
to the sedatives used to control it. In addition, during the confusion following its escape one of the hosts for C-93/H, named Cassandra Briers, also escaped the facility while being transferred between cells.
R. has been dispatched to track her down. Activity at the facility is currently suspended prior to C-93,
Cassandra Briers and the unborn C-93/H being re-acquired.In spite of the problems that have recently beset the program, the initial..'
Helene stops doing anything else as she finishes the recording and goes very quiet. She looks at Kristen, about to say something, then decides against it, her paranoia counseling her to stay quiet. There was something going on, and she was the only one in the dark. And it sounded like her kind of something, too. The kind of something the cell might want to deal with...but then again if she dealt with it alone and brought some creature's head back to the group, they might be more inclined to trust her judgement on things in the future.
Deciding to act alone on this one, she forwards the email to herself and then closes the email panel, returning to her phone and trying hard to sound nonchalant. "Did you get anything in front of the stairs?" As she talks, she shifts back to the computer, trying to see just how much security, and what kind, she has at her fingertips. "Oh, and get something in front of the door too. Something big."
Date
Action
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Result
2014-07-14 14:25:52
Helene Jameson rolls 4 to sound nonchalant (Manipulation + Subterfuge) (10 Again)
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