December 21st, 1973

Intro, Part Two
When we last left our ragtag gang of weirdos, they were on the hunt for a missing Stranger named Clive. Upon finding Clive, he proceeded to attack Pogo(albeit, poorly). The gang had just pulled them apart and calmed Clive down when suddenly they were set upon by a group of armed men in masks. Machinegun fire echoes and flashes out into the woods around our heroes. WHAT WILL THEY DOOOOOO?

Skin: WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?!?!

Nightmare is in the fetal position on the ground.

Skin has hit the ground, hands over his head, trying to not get shot.

Ikiryo is running hard at the source of the gunfire like a crazy mofo.

Pogo throws her now empty bottle toward the sound of gunfire.

Pogo: NOBODY SHOOTS IN MY FACE

Helena: Is Pogo still flying?

MJ (Pogo): yes, sort of

MJ (Pogo): I don't remember, I assume so.

Skin looks up and sees Nightmare. He grits his teeth before leaping high into the air, landing next to her to grab her and leap towards cover.

Maximo ducks down and crawls toward Boost, trying to shield his boss's body.

Nightmare doesn't fight this. She doesn't really do much of anything.

Skin aims for bushes/trees NOT filled with bad guys.

Pulse aims a gold watch toward one of the sources of gunfire, as he ducks for cover behind a bush or against a tree or something.

doomfunk (Pulse): if the 17 hits (which I doubt) I think the DC for his blast is 23

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin and Nightmare make it to cover behind a line of trees. The bottle and Pulse's blast cause the masked men to start scurrying back into darkness but don't seem to hit anything. (Roll initiative boys and girls)

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin sets her down gently. "Be careful, alright? And uh, do your thing! That might help. Maybe?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare just shakes her head rapidly and shivers.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Okay! Okay! Just keep your head down. I got this, Don't worry about it.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">MJ (Pogo): SO READY TO KICK ASS

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): changing my portrait bcuz its dark out

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): trolol

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Helena: DARK TIME

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin turns towards their enemy when Nightmare is safe. He leaps into the air, landing next to the nearest target. "Oi! Stop that." He tries to slap the gun out of the man's hands.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">There are roughly a dozen armed men up on the hill, regrouping for another attack. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The man's gun is knocked out of his hand. He looks taken aback by Skin's abilities.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse touches the ground with his left hand, then pops out from behind his cover just long enough to aim that watch at one of the masked gunmen.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse's aim is true and hits one of the gunmen square in the chest, knocking him back into his fellow goons.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): goddamn what is that watch made of

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Helena: GOLD

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): It's a focus, my guess is he's using the quartz as a resonant emitter.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): \o/

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): Imagine if he had................. a boombox

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): soundwave pls

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): haha

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Leetsepeak (Skin): A BOOMBOX IS NOT A TOYYYY

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): ty leet

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): in the words of bill the butcher

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): this is a kill

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo charges in with a massive kick to the balls on one of them

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Leetsepeak (Skin): how many are left?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): bout 30

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Leetsepeak (Skin): or rather, how many are there?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): 60

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): we can only see 30

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): it's like XCOM, we have to move up to see the other 30

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): we reveal their position and then they scramble for cover

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): yes

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo's kick lands right in the face of another goon. There's a wet crunching noise as her boot impacts. Pogo flies the hell away after. SNEAK ATTACK.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): after a short cutscene where they do their best to look fierce

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): haha

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): FAPPO

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">There are ten masked men still on their feet.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): slim men

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo aimed for the balls, but will have to just deal

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): THIN kyle

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): thin w/e

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): mr anal

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): we have to officially be worried when we start facing SILENCE elites and berserkers

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo keeps on running, legs-a-pumpin', as he nears he makes an angry leap towards an armed cultist, angry snarl, and angrier fist first.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): they're just like the regular guys but a lot bigger and actually competent

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): not to mention SILENCE commanders

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): pulse gets mind controlled, everyone dies

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): SILENCE commander > Mind Control [Pulse]

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Leetsepeak (Skin): what about heavy SILENCE

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): hahaha

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Leetsepeak (Skin): they flie everywhere

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): Pulse > Vibe Grenade [Everybody]

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse does everything he does with an eerie calm, by extreme contrast.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo's fist slams into his target and sends him flying back. The other men suddenly look alarmed. "It's him! The enhancile! Take him!"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Monster lets out a bellowing screech, heard by everyone (except Pulse). It charges forward towards the nearest cultist and swipes at him with its claws. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse might see the monster open its mouth and flagellate the air with its tongue, though.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Monster's claw rips through the man. The other masked men immediately panic. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The gunmen open fire on The Monster as they try to retreat. This wasn't in the training brochure. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Their bullets perforate the Monster but seem to have no effect.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Monster just screams at them some more.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): Smoke > Weed Grenade [Smoke]

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): Smoke Panics!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">A car arrives down the hill. Sonny and an older gentleman step out. Sonny heads for the trunk of the car. Boost takes off towards the car.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): Smoke > Eat [Kitchen] [Panicked]

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke reaches into his tweed jacket, drawing a cigar from a pocket along with a match stick. He begins to move forward, keeping low, taking out the actual box of matchsticks while he's at it to light the cigar.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Helena: casual as fuck

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): wow firefights and bull shit monster powers nbd to smoke

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse also has zero reaction to the monster, i mean, if you're gonna be like that yo

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): hes seen some shit

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): not quite monster shit

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): but he can adapt to that shit

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Helena: Just don't stand near it.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): ^

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Helena: Seriously don't

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): i just dropped a point on the fearless advantage, so

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): "oh, Shiva just stepped down from on high. okay."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin cringes at the monster, yelping. "Christ!" He looks at the man he'd disarmed. "Just give up now, I'll make sure nothin' like that happens!" He socks the guy, his hands stretching out to try and wrap around him and drag him to the ground.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The man doesn't go down easy but he goes down. He fidgets fruitlessly, trying to escape. "Lemme go you freak!"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse glances at the monster, and takes half a second to assess his situation. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse seems to have singled out a target, shifting by his cover-tree to a more advantageous position to point The Watch Of Fate at the dude.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): arg

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: That one! Probably their leader.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The man Pulse singled out goes down next after being hit. His men look like they're going to try to pull him back up and drag him out of there.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo is at that van, man. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo will attempt to steal the van. Because fuck you, that's why.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo arrives at the armed men's escape vehicles, the back doors of the vans are open and it is full of weapons and electronics. The keys are still in the ignition.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo looks the Monster in it's eye...face...mouth? brotheeeerrrrr. Before he turns, and makes a run for one of the men trying to pick up their boss, leaping forward, feet first as he tries to kick 'em down.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo's kick lands dead center of the man's back, sending him bowling into the ground. The other man is easy prey for a quick TAKEDOWN. (hint hint tom)

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo snaps a fist out at the other man, still looking a bit hurt (angry) at being called an enhancile.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">MJ (Pogo): dayum

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): good lord

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): FIGHTMAN

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (The Monster): SHINRYUKEN!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo socks the other man in the face, he loses his grip on his boss and loses balance. He starts rolling down the hill.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin basically isn't paying any mind to the guy he's got entangled. He's watching Ikiryo kick ass in wonder.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke looks to one of the men dragging the apparent leader away, squinting and breathing outwards. Whatever he was doing required quite a bit of focus, choosing to lean on a tree while doing his thing.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse's pupils dilate momentarily as Ikiryo beast mode takedowns that dude.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">One of the men cries out. "NO NO! What is that?!?" He's pointing at some pretty harmless looking bushes. He falls to his knees.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Monster bounds towards the leader with an inhuman growl. It ignores Ikiryo and prepares to rip the leader a new one.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Monster rakes at the man's back, tearing through his clothing. Crimson blossoms against the white of his tunic. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Whoa! Whoa! Stop! STOP!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Monster turns to Skin and screeches.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The rest of the men (seven are still on their feet) make it back to their van. Six roll off in two of the van's the other is banging on the driver side door of the van Pogo is attempting to abscond with.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin looks at his captive. "You see what that thing did? I swear man, if you move even an INCH, I'm feeding you to it." He growls. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin fails miserably at being scary. He sounds as terrified of the monster as his captive might be.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Monster vanishes.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist looks unconvinced that Skin will do that or could even stop that monster from doing anything.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare screams.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Yeah, well. Shut up.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): oh oscar

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin 's elongated hand slaps the guy on the back of his head.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): oh god why

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): I just... manually typed up descriptions for all of my advantages

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): and it occurred to me

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: PATTY!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): there might be a note resource for them

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): yep

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo takes the keys to her new house and wanders down the hill to find the others.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It's chaos everywhere. There are two seriously critically wounded men and a number of incapacited jerks. Everyone but Pulse hears the sound of vans skidding off. A single gunshot echoes out from up on the hill. And then Pogo is back.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse is deaf, yep. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo walks past the wounded guys and shoots each of them. (Takedown)

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Helena: (Combat is pretty much over, no one is fighting back)

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Helena: But Pogo don't care

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin yells while Pogo is shooting them "HEY! HEY! STOP! WHAT THE FU-!"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo does not seem to think that questioning people is important, or human life. She holsters her new gun.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare is still cowering in the bushes.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse heads over to the leader, now that The Monster is gone. He dead, ain't he?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo: DANNUBEYELINGINMYFACE!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: You -KILLED- them!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: What is WRONG with you?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The only man not shot or clawed or beaten to a pulp is in Skin's grip. "No! No! Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I'm new! Please!"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin has one hand wrapped around the guy like a boa constrictor.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo aims to pop Skin in the lip.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse investigates the leader's body, for any communications technology, or anything else otherwise salvageable. Cultish reading material, weird ziploc baggies of toenail clippings, anything noteworthy. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse is pretty good at this, guys.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo seems to be sobering up a bit, and hating everyone for that fact.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke brings his hand up to his beard, rubbing it for a moment with a grunt. He looks to Pulse. He has the right idea, and seemed to know what he was doing. He turned back around, towards Sonny and Byron.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin 's face bounces Pogo's fist off it like rubber. He looks at her like she's insane. "You're CRAZY!"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): kyle mixing tenses like a boss

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin doesn't look hurt in the least by it either. This might make her even MORE MAD.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): and by boss i mean 'crazy person'

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): Smoke has become Unstuck in Time

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: BOSS! THIS CHICK IS CRAZY!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare pokes her head up from the bushes when she no longer hears gunfire.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo clenches and unclenches a fist, before rolling his neck, he looks down at the clawed leader, jaw set in thought.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo kicks Skin in the shin, "Shut your bouncey face." She doesn't really put any effort into the hit though, so not rolling.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse basically loots the guy, reading a piece of paper in one hand while pulling his mask off with the other. Is he memorizing the dude's face? Weird.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost and Sonny bound up the hill with Maximo. The look pretty horrified at what they see. "This is a mess."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Clive, peeks out from behind the van they arrived in. He looks shaken up. "WHAT THE FUCK, BYRON? Who the fuck are these guys? The Hit Squad? Did you send a hit squad after me?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin 's shin bounces it off too. "What is going ON? Are you some kind of- Oh my god. You killed them. YOU killed them. God." He's just shaking his head, horrified. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin STILL has his blubbering captive wrapped up in his left arm.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare finally slinks off from behind the bushes to find the rest of them.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo looks at everyone in turn, gauging their reactions to what she did, like she can't see how her actions are unexpected, "They SHOTtat allaus, ifya don't recall?!"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare arrives, she has no idea why everyone's yelling.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Yeah but they were on the ground, man! Those guys couldn't fight back! Are you in a gang? PATTY! Get away, she's nuts, man!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo is incomprehensible for a moment, but it's loud and her face is completely flushed red.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare blinks, "What?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse turns, and calls a very plain statement down to everybody: "We're lucky none of us were shot."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Sonny runs up the hill towards Pulse. He checks the boy over for any damage. "You alright, kid?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: Fine. Found a note.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo runs off, back from the way she arrived. She flies a lot faster than that but apparently didn't think about using her power.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare looks pretty disturbed by everything.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo seems a little bit unphased by the gangland executions, perking up after hearing Pulse though. "A note?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost: We should get out of here. Before the police arrive. Someone had to have heard that. Everyone get back to the cars.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Boss! Man, you gotta stop her! She's CRAZY! She SHOT them-

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: -What about this guy?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin gestures with his free hand to the captive.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost goes running after Pogo. "Take him with us."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke: He can come with us.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Who are YOU?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse nods, passing it off to Sonny now that he's read it. "Somebody should talk to the girl. She has troubles."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare doesn't argue and runs after Boost.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: No kidding, she's got a screw loose, man.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo peels out of the place if she can.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Did you see that? She just... Killed them. Like it was no big deal.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost tries to step out where Pogo can see him to get her to stop. Whether or not she does is up to her.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse squints at Skin for a moment. "I think she's been through a lot, just like you have. Different stresses."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: She -killed- them, man!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Sonny: Just get in the van. Keep him from hurting anyone. Everyone, let's go. We gotta get out of here.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo stops in time?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Yeah, yeah. Okay.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare looks tired and shakes her head. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Maximo takes the driver's seat of the van again.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: They shot at us with guns. They came armed to kill.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin drags his captive in his boa constrictor arm. "Yeah, but... What kinda normal person does that? She's crazy, man."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: To be prepared to do a thing is to invite that same thing to yourself. Some outcomes are inevitable.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke: We are not normal.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost holds his hands out to show he comes in peace. He walks along to the messed up driver's side of the van and gesture for Pogo to roll down the window.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo walks just behind Skin, keeping a close eye on the captive.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse pockets his watch, and the leader guy's mask and the other shit he lifted from the dude.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist: Lemme go! I'd rather be arrested!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin hops in the back of the van. "I don't know about you, but that's not me. I'm not perfect, but that's not right." He's just shaking his head. Moral superiority? MAYBE.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo rolls down the window, looking wary.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo: No.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo glares. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare shuffles into the back of the van silently.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Don't worry. I'm not gonna let that crazy at you. Just... Do what we tell you, okay? Please?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo: Wadjuneed.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist: Go to hell, you waste.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse grabs the cultist's left ear and vibrates at him.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost: You did what you had to back there. Don't let that shake you up. We're heading back to the club. Are you coming with us?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke moves towards the captive cultist.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo: ...Yea, guess

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke: Just come with us. The more you work with us, the more you'll be able to hear after.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost heads for the passenger side of the van and opens the door. "I'll ride with you then, yeah?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo: Better keep thaboy out my face or I'll killem. Honest t'god.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse looks Skin in the face, his expression curiously gentle for what he's saying: "I need you to understand me. Moral concerns aside, executing those men was imminently practical. The only suitably moral alternative was to take absolutely all of them as prisoners and isolate them underground."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo unlocks the doors.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: This means feeding them, tending to them, and - long-term, whether through neglect or spite, they would expire.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (Nightmare): that was very Kellhus of Pulse

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Could've left them for the Cops or something! Brought them to the Church? Man, it's not okay!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist looks placated for now. He refuses to say any more for the time being.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare: Oscar. Shh.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Sonny heads back to the other car and leads the way out of the hills. CONVOOOOY.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke: We can talk about the moral implications of her actions later. For now, we have to go back to the club.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare speaks in barely a whisper.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: The police would judge them crazy and likely release them, or become involved in a prolonged shootout. Unreasonable when we could simply deal with it.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: It's not right, man.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo drives towards the club, but if she sees an unobserved parked car on the side of the road anywhere she'll stop.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Maximo falls in behind Sonny's car. Everyone heads back for the club.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo swaps her license plate out from the one she takes from the other car.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: No, it's not. I am telling you we have other concerns - don't let it eat you up.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo might have practice

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: She's crazy. We gotta do something, man. I...

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost lets her do this and probably aids her. He also suggests stopping by a gas station and ringing off the van a little.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare: She is not crazy.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse slides into Sonny's van, going over the items in his pockets. "Would you search your captive, please?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke: Crazy is a strong word. I would not call her that. The situation you were just in was not something anyone can react 'normally' to. They attacked, she hit back.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo stops at a closed gas station and uses the squeegee

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare: If she's crazy then so am I.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: She-! Fine, whatever. What?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo seems to have trouble using the thing, so she switches to some newspapers from the trashcan after her first attempt. She seems shaken by the act of cleaning splatter off the van.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare gives Skin a brief look before turning her head to rest on the van window, silently watching the road.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo stops trying to clean the van after a few minutes and two different approaches, then drives herself and Boost back to the club. She doesn't say anything.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost helps out by taking a hose to the door. He doesn't disturb the quiet, just has a smoke and offers one to Pogo.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Everyone arrives back at the club half an hour later. The back room has cleared out, the only ones still around are Joanie, the little girl and Pulse's dog, Milou. You drag your captive along with you. He still has all of his gear intact.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin just seems upset by the whole situation. He releases their captive from his arm given the situation, and fingers the crucifix on his neck.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse rubs Milou's head, asking Joanie, "Was he a good boy?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo arrives at the club with a cigarette and Boost. She rummages around for trash bags.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Sonny and Max keep an eye on the man, pulling his mask off in the process. Clive sits down by the bar and rests his head on the counter. Joanie nods and smiles. "He didn't give us an ounce of trouble. That's a good dog you have there."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost closes the doors to the VIP room behind him and takes a drag off his cigarette. "That all got out of hand. I'm sorry about taking you all into that. If I had any idea they were waiting out there for us..."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare stops to rub Milou's head before approaching Maximo, "Can I get something strong from the bar?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse kneels by Milou, rubbing his chin and neck, then rises again. "They have the advantage of information."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Maximo looks pretty somber and also slightly afraid of Nightmare. "Yes. You look like you could use a strong drink."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo probably finds trashbags or something. She leaves the club again and gets into her van, carefully disarming and stowing all the guns into the bags, so that they can be transported more easily and less obviously.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist looks around nervously. He's in a chair in the corner of the room. "This is unlawful detainment, you know."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: You shot at us with guns.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist coughs.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare grabs whatever hard liquor she finds first. Vodka. She pours a bit into a glass and stands behind the bar while she sips and listens.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo stands a short ways in front of the captive, arms folded, just...watching him very carefully. "You would know." he says, a little bitterly.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: We have the advantage of declaring this citizens arrest. You have the disadvantage of being in a silly outfit with powder residue on your hand and arm.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Maximo picks up the little girl and makes his way towards the exit. "I must put my daughter to bed. I ah, yes. Good night." He looks unhappy.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo spends the next while out in her new van, ignoring the others while she makes it more liveable.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke: He is right. This can go two ways: you tell us what we want to know with minimal pain and you're free on the condition you do not continue this life of yours. The alternative to not working with us is...

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke looks to Ikiryo.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke: Your face being introduced to his knuckles, most likely.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo smiles thinly.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin moves over to where Patty's at and watches in uneasy silence.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare stares off into space.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist spits at Smoke. "I'm not saying a fucking thing. "

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse passes the note he lifted off to Byron, and whomever else is interested, since he's memorized the contents.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Helena: fucking wizkids

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin will definitely look the list over when he can.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke pays nearly no mind to the spit, beyond wiping it off of his glasses. He sighs, almost regretfully.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo is hella interested

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): man those rolls are not the best right there

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo scrubs things angrily, in the spirit of all traveler women who came before her .

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse lays out any and all equipment the leaderly fellow had on him, inventorying. Filling out his data set before compiling.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare sets her drink down and walks outside to where Pogo is, "Want some help?" Her tone is fatigued but it's genuine.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke takes a step back, looking to Ikiryo with a nod.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): GOOD COP BAD COP LETS DO THIS

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (Nightmare): haha

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo crouches before the captive, pursing his lips. "Why are Silence here?" he looks rather tense.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin looks at the note and blurts out. "Oh, man. These are hideouts, right?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: Or targets. Hideouts are more likely.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost takes a look at all the stuff Pulse is laying out. A pistol, a club, some kind of tiny radio device, a few clips of extra ammo.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: I think I know some of 'em. Like, stuff around them. Man. Richie Lanes is right down the street from this one.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin points to one of the addresses.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist: You know why, you little freak.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Hey man. Mind if we take your mask off?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Leetsepeak (Skin): oops

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nvalt (Nightmare): HEY PATTY ASKED IF POGO NEEDED HELP CLEANING

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin stares at the Cultist for a moment before becoming slightly amorphous, reforming as a copy of him, outfit and everything.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin speaks, his voice a perfect copy too. "Little freak! Man, that's not cool. I saved your life, work with me here!"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke looks to Skin with an approving nod. It did occur to him that he had just changed into someone else but managed to keep that shock to himself.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist looks like he might need some convincing.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Hey man. I'm just saying, it's like... What if I go to one of these places, and I look like you, and I cause trouble?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Won't they come after you?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo looks at Patty and shrugs. "Ifyawana."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: But to kill you, y'know? Not to rescue you.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: That'd suck.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: I just wanna help you, man. Tell us stuff and the boss? He can fly you out of here, no problem.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare smiles weakly and joins in the scrubbing. She isn't quite as angry about it though.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist: Fine. Fine. What do you want to know?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist eyes the doors quickly.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Who the heck are you guys? And what's the deal?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke gives Skin an approving nod. GOOD JOB BUDDY.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo vents while she cleans, most of it is pretty incomprehensible, it's in Shelta instead of english.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Patty can tell she's still angry at being yelled at by Skin.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist sounds like he's reading from a cue card. "We are the Silence. We will be the masters of humanity."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Uh. Okay.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo: They are a cult.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Sounds like it. Creepy.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare: My cousin can be a little.. outspoken when he's scared. I don't think anyone was really.. prepared for that. Mentally or otherwise. I don't think anyone can fault anybody for what they did back there.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Is that why you're wearing this crazy outfit? I feel stupid wearing it, man.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo: Coosin? Ah.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost and Sonny look happy to let the others lead the interrogation.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Sonny is going over the note Pulse found. Their captive refuses to dignify that last question.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo shrugs at Patty, then throws a rag into the bucket.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke moves to Skin, speaking quietly to him.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo picks up two of the garbage bags and hands one to Patty, "Gons."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Uh. Anyway. What was the plan back there? C'mon. The boss can help you, man.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">There are a -lot- of guns in the back of that van. At least they left the safeties on.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo gets out of the van with her own bag of guns, leaving several other bags of guns inside on the floorboards.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist: We were tailing that one.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo has been bagging those up, unloading them, putting the safeties on and removing any chambered rounds. Prior to her bucket cleaning.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist nods towards Clive.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Why?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo has gun skills.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist: We didn't really want him. He's pretty useless as far as you all go. But we figured someone might come looking for him.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare blinks. "Gons. Gons? Oh! The guns." She flashes another small smile, more out of embarassement than anything. She reluctantly takes one of the bags and handles it like it's shit wrapped in vomit. "What.. do you want me to do with it?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo goes into the club, holding the door open for Patty with her hip.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: Pity their leader died. He might actually have known something.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Clive gets up. "Hey fuck you!"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare goes inside.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Why do you want us, anyway? Relax! <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo: C'mon.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin listens to Smoke and nods after a second. "That's a good idea."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse glances at everyone for a moment, toying with the eensy radio.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo doesn't really react to Patty not understanding her, she probably gets that a lot around here. Stupid Gorgers

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Clive doesn't do anything else. The cultist goes on. "Our cell has a standing order to capture any of you with useful abilities."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke stands back, watching the questioning.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: Useful. Interesting.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Why?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist: I don't know what we do with them. Probably cut you freaks open.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo says as she's coming into the room with Patty and two bags of guns, "Ifthay wanna grab us, why shoot?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke: Silence, masters of humanity. If they could learn what makes us different, what makes us tick then becoming the masters would be rather easy.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare glares at the cultist.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: You're right, grandpa. How'd they get you to join, anyway?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo sets the one bag of guns on the bar, walking over to the cultist. She stands near Pulse and just stares at the cultist.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse sniffs at the cultist's mask. He's distracted, and deaf, so he's missing most of this. "Somebody ask who makes their devices, please."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist shrugs at Smoke. "I think I said enough, let me go."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse probably just interrupts someone, like a jerk. Fuckin deaf people, man.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo: Why dant yjustleme kill 'em?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare sets her bag next to Pogo's and stands somewhere out of the way.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke: You've said quite a bit, yes. Any objections to me smoking?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke: reaches into his tweed jacket for another cigar, anyway.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): reaches into his tweed jacket for another cigar, anyway.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist: I don't care what you do. Just let me go.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): voting we change Smoke's name to Weedlord420

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo stands there staring at the cultist, one hand on a sidearm she's adopted. The other is held over her stomach.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): or tomantons last steam handle, Blunts Upon A Time

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist looks at Pogo. "I don't know anything else. LET ME GO."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke: lights the cigar, moving towards the cultist. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Whoa! <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: No! <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: No killing, man!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo pulls her gun and points it at the guy's hand.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin also looks and sounds just like the cultist still.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo is seeing DOUBLES. "Stop!"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo: Missin' <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo: Lemme try 'gain.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke looks to Pogo, brow furrowed. "Please do not, miss."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo points the gun at the guy's leg.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse glances up at the flash of gun discharge, and studies the fellow's response to this.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo pauses.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): now was he saying please don't, miss, or please don't miss

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): i mean... the comma's there, but

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): As in

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">KyleFen (Smoke): miss, please do not

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin walks over to Pogo and tries to take the gun away from her. Or at least, to wrestle it away from shooting the poor guy.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist flails in his chair. "GET THIS BITCH AWAY FROM ME. SOMEONE GET HER AWAY. I'LL TELL YOU ANYTHING."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): could just be yodafying it

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): miss, you must not

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#005000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">doomfunk (Pulse): his balls, you must shoot

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo stares at Skin, "Keep your hands offame or I swear"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare watches all of this with a furrowed brow, though a part of her can't help but appreciate the fact that the cultist is now willing to say anything.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: I don't think he'll know much. He's thoroughly indoctrinated, meaning he's simple enough to be disposable to whoever his overseers are.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo stares down at the Cultist. "Anything? Do you know Dr. Kurashima? Where he is?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: You can't just kill people like that, man! You'll get the cops on us and they're gonna kill us!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist: The...the Jap? I mean...the Japanese guy?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo clearly doesn't care that nobody else knows what he's going on about probably.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo: Yes.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo: THEY are gonna kill us

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo points at the cultist with her gun.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist: He...he...came in on a boat a week ago. We passed him off to another cell. DON'T KILL ME.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Yeah, but it's different, man. They're a freakin' cult!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo: What cell? Where?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist: I don't know! I don't know, I swear! Please I can help you get in touch with someone who can. Just don't shoot me!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse gets up from where he's sitting, walks over to the cultist, and taps him on the temple.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo puts her gun away.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SILENCE Cultist cries out and then his head lolls to the side. He looks like he's out cold.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo stares at Skin until he backs away.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Sonny calls out suddenly. "Shit!" He's still looking at the list.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse turns to everybody, glancing rapidly between their faces. "He was panicking. Memory becomes unreliable with certain levels of stress, anything he said beyond this point would be unreliable."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost: That one's Max's place. They know where Max lives.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare walks over to the rest of them, "You know a lot about this.." She seems impressed.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo blinks, sighing quietly.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: Targets, then.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin puts his hands up and backs away from Pogo. His shifted eyes are wide and nervous.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: Interesting. Locations without physical descriptions.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse pulls on the other dude's mask, fidgeting with the lenses, like he's testing theory.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo gets bored and goes to hang out with the dog. Dogs don't judge people.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse: Their masks pick out who is like us and who isn't.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare tenses her brow. She seems mildly disturbed by that.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse indicates Joanie. "You don't have any unusual abilities?"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo watches Pulse carefully, tilting his head at the information.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: Whoa. Fancy.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost put his coat back on. "Sonny and I are going to go get Max. "

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse nods at Byron. "I'll come too." He offers somebody the little radio. "I expect this is a communicatio device. Someone else would get more out of it than I would." <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse pulls the mask off, also, and uh... fairly hustles over to the bar to run his head under the sink.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Joanie just shakes her head. "I just work here."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ikiryo: I will come too. In case there is trouble with...them.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pulse coughs and sputters as he deliberately inhales water. Why would anyone do that?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000066;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Boost: That's fine. The rest of you stay here if you want and watch that one.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nightmare nods. "I wonder if he plays cards." She gestures to the cultist.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pogo is hugging Milou, her arms around his fat neck. He's licking at her face and she's making no effort to stop him. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#770000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Milou thinks Pogo's face tastes great.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Skin: I'll go.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Smoke: I will stay.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Byron heads out the door, followed by Sonny. He's in a hurry to get out of there.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Byron calls back, "Don't let anything happen to him. We might need him"

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#261a12;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">TO BE CONTINUED.