Chapter Three: Sniper and Counter Sniper

[Dome]

When Dante gets inside he pulls Patriot to the side.

"You ask him the questions you want answers to, I'll look into his mind and see if I can find the answers. Ask exactly what you want to know. I can only pull whats in the front of his mind," he says in a faint whisper so only Patriot can hear.

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[albatross]

[Tiger]

Tiger takes the tracer rounds out of her revolvers and replaces them with her own custom armor piercing high explosive rounds. She looks at Shroud, "Dante is no longer hurt. He regenerates. His armor probably prevented his arm from being broken outright, although I bet his wrist and shoulder took some strain." She looks at him with a steady gaze.

"I doubt you could have predicted that the sniper would be an advanced martial artist, and his armor appears to be both magically augmented and conventionally impressive - the new flex-steel type." She pauses a moment to gauge Kris's reaction.

"I do appreciate that you didn't kill the target."

[tag: Kris]

Note: Jeckle asked about the sniper's armor. Dante would know that the cloak and the flex-steel armor have been modifyed with a magical device which can be charged or used with magic energy or pyschic power. The invisiblity ceases when the wearer attacks or after a certain number of minutes. It can be used by non-psychics or non-magic users (the "battery" holds six charges), but only those powers can charge the battery.

[dakota]

" That's what you ordered me to do." Khris replied, not bothering to hide his relief that Dante recovered quickly as he crossed his arms. " Still doesn't make up for the fact that I screwed up. He shouldn't have gotten hurt in the first place. My job is one shot, one kill. If I'd done that... " He trailed off, shaking his head. After a long pause he said," I don't want to get anymore rookies killed because I've lost my edge, Tiger."

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[albatross]

[Tiger]

She thinks this over for a second, "You accomplished the objective, along with Dante and Patriot. These guys aren't going to be easy targets- they are a lot like you. To walk away from a fight with them is an accomplishment in itself. The only reason he gave up is because the odds were six to one with most of us already at point blank range."

She waits for a moment. "Do you want to tell me about it?" She looks at Kris seriously.

[tag: Kris]

[albatross]

[Patriot]

He nods to Dante. He finds an office chair and deposits the sniper into it. He takes the hood off and offers the sniper a drink of water. The sniper just laughs.

"You've got nothin'," he says defiantly.

"You are the one who has nothing left," Patriot says, "unless you start cooperating." He takes off the snipers armor, careful to keep Tiger's gun belts in place to restrict his movement. He puts the pieces on teh ground and pulls up another chair.

"Now where were we," Patriot smiles. "Oh, yeah, you were about to start talking..."

[tag: Dante - what psionic powers will he use for the interrogation? Wind Chill]

[shiivster]

* Jeckle stays were she is. aware that there are tensions in the air inside the group, she knows she can't do much to help. what she does do is move to the bike and picks up the helmet and rubs at the impact mark before setting it on the seat of the bike.

*that done .. she moves back to the car and with a few snaps and clicks, unlocks the exo-leg unit and steps out and onto the ground and then slowly collapses the unit down. the various rods seem to sink as the telescoping rods slide small and then it just looks like a tangle of metal ice climbing gear once its slung over the back.

*Jeckle then climbs onto the trunk of the car and waits .. once again nibbling on the sweetened cereal. feet dangling, she looks more like a punk kid playing dress-up in an older siblings coat. she drinks more water from the bottle she has and then slides the cereal away and pulls out a notepad and goes back to drawing once again.

[tag]

[she's making the tear down for a parabolic listening device. and once done that, she plans on trying to make it small enough to be mounted on a sniper scope for Shroud to try. and one for a pair of glasses as a decoration the size of a sequin ]

[Mierin]

Miranda stands quietly as Patriot starts interrogating the sniper, ready to help if there was anything she could do.
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[dakota]

Khris walked over to the edge of the building, his arms folded as he looked away. " Nothing to talk about, Tiger, I'm sure you read the reports, probably even the psyke evaluations Alexander promised wouldn't go in my file. What happened when Crosshairs got killed because of my shoddy planning messed me up. Enough that I almost walked away from OS." He took a deep breath. " I thought getting back with the old crew could straighten me out. But this isn't our crew anymore, not with all these new faces. " He turned around, " I'm more of a liability now than I ever was, Tigger, especially when I get in your's and Patriot's way. " He smirked slightly. " Don't worry though, I get the picture and I'll stay out of it.

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[shiivster]

*Jeckle continues to remain 'ignorant' to whats happening about her as she now looks in the various pockets for one item after another and finally looks about at the various bits and pieces in the lap. she nods to herself and then picks up the first piece and then measures off some wires from what might be a sight to the ear and then half again just to be sure she's got enough wire for the listening device.

*looping the wire about the neck, she puts it away and then starts on the small dish device itself. using a piece of an earring from before and a small tinfoil muffin cup and a few other devices she starts to tinker and then finally picks up the receiver and works that in with the wire mesh on the dish part itself and gives it a try.

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[[just realized i'm jumping the gun and just deleted about 3/4 of the full post for this amount ]]

[Dome]

Dante looks at Patriot and nods, then focuses on the sniper.(Telepathy ISP 4 duration 14 minutes)

{OOC: The best Dante can do is use a telepathic mind probe. While he won't be able to get explicit details, he would be able to pick up bits and pieces of anything in the forefront of the snipers mind, so if he thinks of something Dante may be able to pick up a shadow of it, I hope :-) }

[tag]

[albatross]

[Interrogation]

Patriot begins questioning the captured sniper with military precision and efficiency. The sniper resists Dante's mind probe, but Patriot still questions him for a good fifteen minutes, often getting little more than grunts or scoffs in reply.

Patriot keeps grilling him, holding back on some of the better questions until he gets the thumbs up from Dante. The second try, the telepathic connection is established and Patriot starts to ask questions quickly and more directly.

"Who is the Minotaur?" Patriot growls suddenly. The sniper draws a blank, thinking literally of blackness. His mind starts to wander, he thinks of his contact, a guy with a grey shadow cloak, and he then he thinks of the mayor, but he could be trying to throw the team off at this point - not his initial thought.

"How do you get into the Labyrinth?" The captive remembers a blindfold, walking for a few minutes, the loud noise a huge door opening.

"Where is Alpha Prime?" Patrito asks. The sniper laughs, "I'm told she is on an aircraft carrier, but I think it was a joke?" He clearly remembers a grey cloaked shadow telling him this - the man laughed quietly as he said it.

"How is the Labyrinth supplied?" Patriot continues firing questions at him. The captive immediately thinks of various mutants. Only one of them is recognizeable to Dante, because he is a scaly member of the Mutant Underground that they met earlier that night.

"Why are the Mutant Underground arming up?" The sniper remembers a battle, shooting mutants...

Patriot pauses, he steps away from the sniper into another section of the building motioning for Wind Chill and Dante to follow. "Well," he asks, "Any other ideas on how to get more intel out of him?"

[tag: Dante, Wind Chill]

[It took 8 ISP to complete the interrogation, there is a couple minutes left on this telepathy duration]

[albatross]

[Tiger]

"I trust you like I trust my left arm," She says quietly, looking at her fingers. "I have every confidence we will be able to complete the mission, and I want you involved." She pauses, and looks up.

"I'm hungry, I think one of us should stay here and the other should go secure some breakfast with Jeckle." She nods, "You want the grocery run or the guard duty?"

[tag: Shroud]

[shiivster]

*as she moves it about, she starts picking up on faint noises here and there. she tries to gauge the distance of some of them and frowns as its only about 15 feet. she frowns and then turns it off and examines the back of her little receiver and then examines the small bug and sighs 'great .. get an idea and you take the putzy bit to make it work. no wonder it didn't work' *she shakes the head and then carefully removes the damaged one and replaces it with a newer 'bug'.

*her mind remains focused on what she's doing, and has no clue what's happening with the others.

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[dakota]

" You're not forcing me into getting to know them. " Khris shook his head slightly. " Jeckle's a good kid, if a little wrapped up in her toys. I willing to bet they all are, even the one Alexander sent us to replace Mr. wizard, but I have do this at my own pace. I'll keep watch." He smirked," You girls have a good time shopping."

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[albatross]

[Tiger]

She hops off the roof, landing as light as a feather and strides towards Jeckle. "I've got a mission and I need your assistance." Tiger says to Jeckle. "We could use some food."

Dawn hasn't broken yet, so it is still very late or very early depending on preference. Wind Chill still has one set of keys, but Tiger pulls the other from her pocket and opens the Cadillac driver door.

"Ready?" Tiger asks in a friendly voice.

[Tag: Jeckle]