(PRP - Cold Case) Newsflash

[Samaritan]

  Sight

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-12-13 00:06:36		Bishop rolls 9 to cast Grim Sight 24h (Death 4 + Wits 3 + Occ 1 + Tool1) (10 Again)		8, 8, 4, 1, 3, 9, 1, 8, 10, 8		6 successes

Bishop was worried. The phone call could have been considered a fallout from his past actions and that was something, which he did not like. Even more so, it also meant, something had survived the harrowing of the scelesti lodge from Portland and that was even more troubling. He dearly wished, that he could get in touch with Piper, but that lifeline was well and truly dead.
Bishop had been an asset. A tool. Piper had made that abundantly clear, when he had been recruited. So now Bishop sat at his desk for the whole morning and had a lot of time to worry, what exactly this man named Fears had found. The fact, that he had only referred to the newspaper articles and their subsequent cover stories probably meant, that he had only scratched the surface. Or he was some kind of operative and this was a set-up.

Too many variables. Too many questions.

When it was time, Bishop informed the desk at the front door, that he was awaiting someone and reserved a small conference room, where he waited.

Vassagon
Truce

[Truce]

  Sight

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-12-13 19:43:50		Truce rolls 7 to cast Grim Sight rote before entering SacBee [WIT+Occ+Death] (10 Again)		8, 10, 3, 9, 8, 5, 10, 3, 7		5 successes
2014-12-13 19:43:28		Truce rolls 7 to cast Third Eye rote before entering SacBee [WIT+Emp+Mind] (10 Again)		5, 2, 6, 2, 3, 3, 9		1 success

Truce parks in the Sacramento Bee visitor's parking lot, having made his way through the lunch traffic of the downtown area. The red brick building is rather inviting and lively as its employees move in a steady stream of bodies through the main entrance. Truce slips in through the glass doors and heads to the front desk as he had been asked to. After speaking with the woman seated there he is issued a visitor pass and was escorted by an intern towards the small conference room where he expects to meet Andrew Preacher.

The ghosts's anchors are back at his Sanctum. He hopes they'll play nice together. He's brought his notes he's taken from the internet articles and missing persons reports. He really hasn't brought much with him aside from questions. It's not a lot to offer the journalist, but he hopes he'll get more than he gives.

Walking into the conference room, realizing he's starting to feel hungry at not having lunch.

"Hello? Mr. Preacher?" he says, his voice travelling into the room.

[Samaritan]

"Yes? Please come in." Bishop said, waving the man in, while letting his eyes size up the man, that entered.

  Perception success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-12-14 10:24:32		Bishop rolls 6 to supernal perception (Wits 3 + Com 3) (10 Again)		4, 4, 7, 3, 3, 9		1 success

What he saw, churned his guts. The unmistakable traces and patterns of spells surrounded the man.
<An awakened soul with information about the cases in Portland. That is very dangerous.> he thought, while his mind raced. If this man was a mage, there was no discerning, how powerful he was or what his intentions really were. Which in essence meant, that Bishop could be trapped. Sure, transitioning into twilight was always a possibility, but the other man would undoubtedly have made his homework. So Bishop would try to rely on his usual charming self to get himself through.
<I am very likely doomed.>
"Mr. Fears, I presume? Please, have a seat. Do you wish for a coffee, or are you already awake?"

[Truce]

  Read Emotions

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-12-14 13:38:02		Truce rolls 6 to notice Bishop's distress [WIT+Emp] (10 Again)		6, 4, 6, 5, 10, 10, 1, 7		2 successes

While Truce wasn't suspecting the journalist of Supernal connections, he does tend to notice emotional responses. And the question Andrew poses throws Truce off somewhat. Awake? I should think so if it's this late in the day. Could he mean... The suspicion set his mind on a trail of thought. But it is too much too assume on so little to go on.

"Thanks, but I am already very much awake," he answers twofold, observing Andrew carefully. "I'm glad you could make time to see me." It seems appropriate to shake hands in greeting, despite suspicions, so Truce approaches and extends a hand politely.

[Samaritan]

Bishop shook the mans hand, while he agve him a quizzical look.
<Ok, so he admits to being awakened, but does not shoot me right away. Maybe he is new in town?> he thought, while he tried to extrapolate, where exactly this meeting would lead.
"Very good. I take it you are new to the city of Sacramento and their awakened citizens, since I have not seen you before. Do you have any kind of employment with the five departments or are you merely resident?" he probed on. Bishop needed to make sure, what he was dealing with and opted to take it with a rather more direct approach. If he was really a mage of the pentacle, than maybe he could be useful.

[Truce]

Truce's suspicions are confirmed abruptly as Andrew forgoes further pretense.

"I...umm," While Truce has had a moment to suspect Andrew, he is still processing the meaning of this realization. "So, the financial group investigation...that's how you knew? And the..." Truce stops himself. He knew nothing about this man or his true involvement in the board member suicides eight years ago. Now that he knows the journalist to be Awakened, he would have to approach this in a different matter.

"I am new, yes. And I have not secured that sort of employment just yet. I am unaffiliated, you could say. Though I have attended a meeting where I spoke with representatives," answers Truce carefully. I've revealed my True Name to this man, thinks Truce with a stab of panic. I must at least hope that he is trustworthy.

"And what is your relation to the five departments of this city?" asks Truce cautiously.

[Samaritan]

Bishop gave the man a cold smile.
"I knew, because you wear your...ways...without hiding them. Just like me, by the way." he replied, while his features mollified a little.
"My allegiance lies with the department of internal security, one might say. So forgive me, if I am a little cross. Having someone call me about my past...this particular past in detail especially...and the person being awakened as well, that made for a very dangerous combination of circumstances. But first things first. You wished to know something, because you found a trace linking to my dealings in Portland some time ago. What and how exactly did that happen?"
The icy tone had melted somewhat. Bishop was all business now, curious and careful in equal measure it seemed.

[Truce]

Until now, Truce has remained standing, though he's not in any hurry to sit down given the tension in the room. Internal security? Guardians maybe, or did he mean the Arrow? It wouldn't do to ask here in a building full of Sleepers.

Truce reminds himself why he's here. He wishes to confirm the eradication of the cult that was behind the deaths of Thomas and Charlene. If there were already an Awakened on the case then surely he would have all the answers Truce is searching for.

"I see, or at least I think so. Very well then. To put it bluntly, a free agent of that group from eight years ago continued the practices they were known for. They laid low until I encountered two of their...acquisitions. The man is no longer active, you could say, falling beneath the weight of their own burdens. I wanted to make sure that whatever group was behind this, the man's associates, were no longer...active. Does that make sense? Someone close to me died and I want to make sure their killer received justice."

Andrew couldn't have gleamed even a small amount of detail from his masked words, though he made his final statement quite clear at least. Until they could find a place to speak plainly, Truce would have to continue the charade.

[Samaritan]

Bishop raised an eyebrow and thought for a moment.
"Active. Here in Sacramento?" There was a little disbelief in his voice. "What makes you think, that he is...was...an asset of that particular group?"
He left the question hanging in the air, so that he could gather his own thoughts. It troubled him, because he had been going to great lengths to take that group apart. And he had been thorough. At least, he thought he had been.
This man here, however, claimed that something had survived along with some of the taint. So either he was lying...Bishop still did not drop the possibility of this whole encounter being a set-up, no matter how unlikely it seemed...or there was a remnant of the old structres employed by those men eight years ago still in place.

One would see.

[Truce]

Truce takes a breath and lets it out as a sigh, lowering his eyes to the conference table. "Perhaps this isn't the best place to talk about these matters," he says, feeling some frustration with the limits to what they could communicate. "For now, perhaps I'll allow you to look over my notes. Much of the research I've done is included there, though you should be already familiar with some of it. There are two individuals, Thomas and Charlene, that you should review carefully. But they are not my only link to that investigation." He thinks of Chelsea, keeping her existence guarded somewhat.

"When you're done, perhaps we can take a walk and you can tell me who these people are and why they would do such a thing? I want to know everything." His own voice becomes steeled in this, a flicker of his resolve showing through. The matter is personal and after all these years he might finally have found something to show for his efforts.

Truce hands Bishop his notes on his investigation