(Night Lightning) Illuminating the possibilities

[Matamune]

Apologies

Sorry for the delay, guys! I was convinced I had posted this on Thursday for some reason:(

Vassagon , Dark Passenger , SoraLow

The message that the Kindred get next night is simple:

I've set it up. Head to Sac Uni, the guard will let you in and a student will lead you to the lab.

When they arrive at the entrance to the campus, the impromptu team are met by a sleepy muscular black guard and an enthusiastic-looking short redhead girl with no signs of drowsiness at all. Her choice of clothes is probably more fitting for a birthday party than an all-nighter: dark-red knee-long skirt, cherry-read shoes, white blouse and a headband matching the shoes in colour.

She is talking about something with the guard, laughing and throwing back her shoulder-length reddish-auburn hair. Behind them is a row of metal-detectors, led lights shining green firmly.

This is the next night. -1 Vitae for waking up, 1 Willpower is restored. Please state your mode of transportation and equipment in the first post.

[Chris Wooding]

-1 V for blush - up to date info in second minisheet

Chris knows the route to the Sac Uni all too well. When he arrives in his car he parks it as nearby to the entrance as possible. He has spent quite some time here, doing research. This is where his "friends" are, or anything close to it for as far as his mortal connections go. However, he never goes to the labs. A humanities student has nothing to do at the science department, usually.

They have metal detectors here? That sucks.

Of course it's not really shitty, but generally a good thing - unless you want to bring a katana inside. There's no way he can justify that right now. Just when he wants to be prepared for everything...

Now he just grabs his brown leather barrel bag and all that's in it. It matches with his new leather jacket. Worn with a simple t-shirt and smart trousers, Chris is good looking as ever. Outside of his car, he waits for the others to arrive.

[Konrad Roth]

-1 Vitae for Blush of Life

  Touch of Shadow, 1sux

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-09-27 12:46:26		Konrad Roth rolls 6 to conceal his prybar with Touch of Shadow [WIT+Larc+Obf] (1s Subtract)		4, 2, 4, 6, 10, 4		1 success

With his prybar neatly tucked away in his inside leather jacket pocket, Konrad heads to the bus stop for a quick route to the University. He doesn't want to trouble his Ghoul with the details of his outing, but he tells him to be available to receive calls just in case. He sits on the uncomfortable metal seats during the commute, contemplating the rest of his evening. He is getting hungry, but there would be no time to feed before their meeting. He would just have to suppress the Beast's cravings until their business is done. With any luck, Richard would be right in the need to bury the truth with Tom and Professor Himdrick, err, Flickwit? Damn, he couldn't remember the professor's name anymore. It is something like that. Hopefully it wouldn't be an important detail.

Once he reaches the the stop outside of Sac University, Konrad walks the rest of the way to the front entrance. He sees Wooding there before him out by the parking lot. Approaching him, Chris can see Konrad wears a simple gray dress shirt and black tie beneath the thick leather over some black belted slacks. "Wooding," says Konrad in greeting. "Don't tell me we're going to have to go through there?" he cocks his head in the direction of the metal detectors. The weight of his prybar seems an encumbrance now. He might fool the Kine but not a machine.

[SoraLow]

-1 Vit Blush of life. Current 2/4. Will update minisheet when I get a chance

Not very long after Konrad arrives so does the dark skinned Daeva, pulling up in a yellow and white taxi. At some point Richard would need to make for a better mode of transportation however he had maintained a rather fluid requiem throughout his unlife over the last decade or so and had grown accustomed to existing without the strings that bound him to any one place for any amount of time. That didn't matter at this point though, if he was going to be staying the city there was no way around setting roots and becoming more established, it was simply the way in which each kindred requiems intertwined with each other. If he didn't stop living like a drifter, he would never be accepted as anything more. On this night Richard was dressed with concern to what might be required of him. He didn't bother pulling anything special, just a simple black hoodie and a set of jeans. Nothing that could be easily recognized or remember, and nothing that he would miss in case he manage to get nosy professor stains on his clothes. He approached Konrad and Chris rather quickly, not wanting to linger around for very long. "Wuddup fellas. We ready to do this?" he said while turning his attention to the metal detectors which were posted around the entrance. Fortunately for him, he hadn't brought any thing to be confiscated in the first place, figuring he wouldn't need much to take down an egg head and a slime ball. Stepping closer to the group so that his voice would go unheard to anyone that might be foolish enough to listen in, Richard whispered, "I've been thinking...if we go in here and find out they are on some shady shit...it might be better if we just turn em in. Hell we might even get some kinda reward for letting his grace handle it at his own discretion"

[Chris Wooding]

As soon as Chris sees the other two approach he steps away from his car to greet them.

'Mr Roth. Yes, it seems like it...' From the look on Chris' face Konrad can probably tell that the Mekhet has some problems with that as well. 'But we can always try to get things inside. Belt, metal shoes, shoulder surgery, think of something.' He shrugs, they would have to improvise. It's just a lab, and there's just one guard who probably does nothing all day. He must be pretty bored and tired. Hopefully.

He nods to greet Richard, 'Hello.' A short and simple greeting, because the Hierophant hasn't made his mind up about this 'fella' yet.

He still agrees with the man, partially. 'Indeed. We can report this if we find anything remarkable. Though it's better to try to solve matters as soon as possible.' Then he turns towards the entrance while asking the others: 'Are we ready?'

[Konrad Roth]

Konrad nods to Richard, the presence of his Beast still causing a surge of anger and resentment to flare up. The flash of an image appears in his mind, beating the steel prybar into the weaker predator's skull before it is gone just as quickly. He breaths outward slowly to calm himself. It doesn't help much. "We'll figure that out later, man. For now this is just intel gathering."

Looking back to Chris, Konrad says, "I'm not sure they'll believe me if I use an excuse like that, but it's not like I'm carrying anything illegal. It'll work out. Let's get this over with." So long as Richard feels ready to go, Konrad will walk up with the group towards the girl and guard.

[Matamune]

Moving to the entrance

When they walk into the room with the metal detectors and everything they are met by two pairs of eyes. The guard looks, mildly put, disinterested. The girl, however, is positively giddy which is further supported by a cheerful giggle she lets escape as she looks Chris and Richard up and down. Apparently, she likes what she sees:

"Tom forgot to say how cute you were!" - she beams, finally settling her attentions on Chris, - "Hi, I'm Laura. And this is Blake!" - the exagerated gesture Laura makes toward the big slightly overweight guard would have been more fitting for presenting an illusionist. The guard scratches the back of his head, in embarassment but still manages to compose himself and drawl:

"Please pass through the frame", - he stands on the other side, prepared to pat and search, - "If you have anything not valuable that you won't need inside, you can leave it here with me and pick it up on the way back".

[Chris Wooding]

Chris just gives the girl his charming boyish grin, 'Hey Laura. I see there are more things he didn't mention!' Oh so cheesy. But he's had fan girls before. The Hierophant just hopes this one will never bring a Nintendo Wii to his Haven to play games.

He acknowledges Blake with a nod, 'Blake. Good evening to you both.'

Chris steps forward while he puts his belt, keys and phone in his bag. Better work with them right away. As he hands his bag over to the guard he says: 'There's some crazy stuff in here from my latest project...' then he steps through the metal detectors - there should be nothing on him.

From the other side. 'So I can leave it here, if I can just take some things out?' Like, his phone.

[Konrad Roth]

Konrad, feeling lucky, walks through the frame without sign of concern, letting Blake and Laura focus on Chris. The Savage is sure to provoke a response from the machine. He'd undergo the pat-down and hope his keepsake would go unnoticed.

[SoraLow]

For now Richard yielded his concerns in favor of a lighter approach, at least for now. As Konrad had put it, so far the only thing they were here to do was gather more information about what ‘sounded’ like a real threat. Nothing more nothing less. Yet still, Richard was a Kindred that found solace in understanding. He didn’t like improvising, even if he had to make a plan then reformulate it a dozen times, Richard was the type of guy that preferred a plan that encompassed begging, middle and end. Ironically the world of the undead offered little by way of convention in most cases making it very difficult to make such predictions ahead of time without ending up adjusting ones plans on the fly anyway. Despite wanted to breach the subject of ‘what to do if’ with the other two gentlemen again, Richard decided against it and choose to focus on himself, (the way that any wise Kindred should).

Richard follows Chris and Konrad into the security room and immediately meets Laura with an imposing gaze that started from her legs up making no attempts to disguising its focus. Chiming in behind Chris added, “I take it you were expecting us then? Aye my bad for the wait shorty, had I known we was gonna be greeted by one fine as you I woulda been here mad sooner.” Truth be told Richard had seen and banged better but that didn’t really matter. From experience Richard believed that every female response to flattery rather she cares to admit it or not. Besides, it didn’t hurt to proactively promote a harmless outer demeanor to her. As far as the male security guard Blake, Richard hardly gave him a passing glance.

Richard digs into his pockets and pulls out nothing more than a cheap track phone and tosses it casually into one of the security boxes before stepping confidently through the metal detector without a hitch. Richard hadn’t known for sure that he was going to have to go through a metal detector, but he did figure that if he was going to a college campus that there was a chance that he would have to go through security and besides that, Richard made a habit of traveling very light anyway. On the average night the only things he carried on him was a disposable phone, a wallet, and one of several chains which he had crafted over the years.