(TKTM) More Complicated Than It Seemed Online

[Zodiac]

"Is this an officer asking, or a woman who wants to keep herself safe?" Mandy asked as she watched the woman, before shaking her head. "You need to be careful what you put online. It's not untraceable and with access enough to plenty of information and the name 'David Barton' attached to the IP address of certain posts..." she trailed off, her hand waving in something of a so-on-and-so-forth gesture.

"Hackers are as close to anonymous as it gets online. Everything else is accessible to people who know how to look. As to mister Lightning," she sighed as she rubbed at her temple lightly, "ideally we'll be able to unarm him and simply dispose of whatever he used to do what he did. Admittedly, I'm not entirely convinced it was intentional, but that's not a risk that we can unknowingly take. Clearly there was some amped up voltage to whatever static phenomenon that might have happened there. The hope is that he's not a danger, and that perhaps he can be pursuaded to turn himself in and explain himself.

"If he is posing a danger, then he won't get the opportunity to be pursuaded to turn himself in, he'll simply be turned in. Anonymous tips come from somewhere, after all. As I said before, we don't mean anyone any harm. We just want to get to the bottom of this and make sure people are safe."

Feeling the buzz of her phone in her pocket, she lifted it a moment before glancing to the woman. "Would you mind terribly if I respond to this text? I don't think any of us really want anyone getting concerned and barging in. We really don't need gunfire, and it'd be a shame if this cutie got himself shot." The officer ought to know a thing or two about working in units, and where high danger was involved? Absolutely you made sure someone had your back. She was just glad that person wasn't Autolycus.

[Jhet]

"Where's... the... blood...?" She pulled up out of her run, which told her she was not necessarily in as good a shape as she probably should be when it comes to general fitness. She catches her breath and continues.

"So is she alone inside? Does she know what she needs to know?" She shakes her head in disappointment. "You finish the job first, then you roll over and bitch about thing over a bottle of something brown and smokey. You don't go getting your panties all twisted up and leaving someone alone."

Mother hen plus professional... fixer lady: Nous doesn't seem interested in the details, only the one detail that matters. They have one person in an apartment alone, with dangerous people. They still don't know who Mr. Electricity is, but she has a bad feeling that it's the kid inside the apartment. She's going to deal with Autolycus and his lack of common sense and protocol later.

"One of us needs to get into that apartment with her, now."

[Star]

Attacked could mean a lot of things. The first thing that sprung to his mind, in reference to Mandy? Well. Whatevs, right? Maybe Lycus didn't roll like that. Although, he was kind of surprised Mandy was taking a 'break' mid-investigation. Some people gotta do, tho.

And so it was with genuine confusion he regarded Nous appearance and words.

blood?

Eh. Surely Lycus wouldn't have dropped her in an unsafe situation.

"Catch us up, yo."

[Snarlequin]

They found Auto standing in the hallway, with a reverse peephole in hand. "What are you two talking about? Why are you here?" What was going on? When did they come up? What were they talking about? Why was he outside the apartment? Where was Mandy? The confusion on his face would almost be comical, it was so obvious.

  Zip and zilch

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-07-05 04:34:22		Autolycus rolls 1 to Intelligence + Occult - 3 (10 Again, Chance)		6		failure

[Jhet]

"It doesn't matter. Did you see a kid in there?"

She keeps her voice down, and doesn't bother waiting for the answer. If he can't even be bothered enough to have a clue as to what he was doing here, there wasn't time to bring him back up to speed. She knocks.

"Look, I know you're probably pretty freaked out right now, but my friend is alone in there with you and that just ain't... isn't cool." She spent too much time talking to Shaniqua she's forgotten proper English. Any talking to Shaniqua is too long to remember your grammar.

"I just want to be there with her so that we can all feel safe."

She needs to get inside before a) someone gets hurt, b) Mandy keeps wasting time not finding the real witness, or c) the real witness turns out to also be awake or at least sleepwalking and that poor kid is probably freaking out so hard with all the magic in the area that it breaks her heart just a little bit thinking about it.

[Star]

"Wai..."

OK, she was knocking. And talking. The bum rush thing? It lacked a certain finesse. He'd been bum rushed once or twice, and it usually sent him right out the window.

"Seriously? That thing where I just asked you to catch us up? It would totes help."

He gave Lycus the Super Curious Look, before glancing around to see if this door matched up with the window Nous had called out.

[Zodiac]

Her fingers moved to her temples as she sighed heavily at the door. "As I'm sure Miss Penderson can tell you, when you're chasing something dangerous, you try and have backup just in case something goes awry," Mandy explained quietly. Apparently texting was going to be too late, woohoo. Regardless, rather than having them open the door, Mandy simply raised her phone and pressed a button to call Nous, explaining still, calmly. "This way no one has to open the door, and they can hear me just fine without shouting. I imagine you don't want them inside, and I'm perfectly understanding of that."

All of the interruptions were making it so that this took forever. Seriously, had Auto decided to call in backup? She wasn't a child needing to be babysat.

[Snarlequin]

What the hell was going on? "There was two cops and a kid in there, one of them was hiding in the closet with a shotgun and the other one tried to mace me. We talked them down. Then," He snaps his fingers. "I'm out here with you two. When did you come up here?" He rubs his temple with a free hand, unknowingly mimicking Mandy inside, what the fuck happened?