Zephyr Investigation Pt 2 - RPLOG
From Flexible Survival
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Date
23/4/2017
Log
As a recap: Angus, Firecracker, and Otto are in a room with Ricardo, a mall rat who seems to be kicking back and taking it easy, cool as mall rats are wont to be. Arris, Zophah, and Ebreus are in a side room watching the proceedings via closed-circuit camera, likely unbeknownst to the rest of the team. Ricardo - who was being sought by Zephyr - has just made mention of the team looking for 'his girl', likely one of the mental mice, potentially one of the ones involved in the coordinated attack on Zephyr some time back. The team goal is to get Ricardo's help in finding the nesting ground of the mental mice, so that Zephyr can determine who coordinated the assault; it definitely wasn't the mice themselves. Standing orders are to gather intel about the location of the gathering point, preferably without jeopardizing relations with the mall rats, and report back for further instructions once said intel is confirmed. Astara and Fenris have already returned to Zephyr to report on progress so far, so the group of eight is down to six.
"You heard right." Otto replies as he nears the rat, his paws tucked into the pockets of his tunic. The rat was clearly looking to get right to the point, and this was good news for Otto. He was never one to mess around, and getting the intel as fast as possible would just be so great! "Or so I presume. We're after the lot that coordinated that attack on big Z a while back. Any information you can provide, we'll take right off your hands and be on our merry way." the canine flashes a charismatic smile, hoping for all the best. He felt a bit out of place among the rats, though he wasn't about to let that show.
Ebreus takes a few steps so that he has a better view of the screne. He seats himself. He looks over to Arris as she offers to pick up something from the snack bar, "I could use a soda. Root beer if it is available." he says. He removes the chicken and chese from his head and removes a piece from each to eat while he waits for the soda.
Zophah stands focused on the task at hand, knowing she isn't that good at negotiations. She watches and listens for any bit of infomation that would help, hoping the task would succeed quickly.
Arris hastily picks up a bottle of generic-brand root beer, a bottle of iced tea, and a bag of popcorn before following Rod into the room. From there, sie finds a chair in the CCTV room, curling hir fish tail onto hir lap and resting hir hands on hir fins politely. Seeing Rod following the last Agent into the room, sie leans into more of a slouch, crossing one leg over the other, passing Ebreus the root beer as sie watches the scene in the interrogation room.
Angus crosses his arms a bit, looking to Otto as he starts asking questions before he could, he quietly closes his mouth, and steps back a bit. Curious to see how Otto deals with the situation as his ears flick back and forth.
"You didn't say anything about taking off his hands before, Toey, but okay, I gotcha!" Firecracker stagewhispers to the coyote as she hovers beside his head, clearly loud enough for everyone in the vicinity to hear, before giving him a wink. She turns to the laid-back rat at the table and slowly flies over to him, speaking as she moves. "Alrighty, you heard my partner here," she says in a faux deep tone as she gets closer. "And I'd listen to him, see? Cause we're just tryin' to make everyone happy, right?" She gets right up in front of him before grabbing the collar of his shirt and shaking vigorously back and forth, "WHERE IS SHE?!"
Ricardo - Ricky, if you ask Rod - crosses his arms over his chest and smirks up at Otto. "C'mon, ese. You've gotta know it ain't that easy." He shakes his head and tells the trio. "Nah, man. See, Tina's a good girl. She's got a good heart, right? She's just mixed up in some shady shit. So if I'm gonna give you what you want, you gotta give me what I want first." When Firecracker grabs his shirt, and shakes him, his tail lashes behind him in agitation, and he tells her, "Hey, chica, hooves off the goods. One lady at a time." Peering at the others, he tells the group, "You gotta go get her for me, man. Get her away from that shit. When it all comes down, I want her safe in my arms, you got me?" Rod looks at the trio watching the show and notes, "Ricky's a good kid, remember. And he ain't wrong. I met Tina once. She's got, uh, a good heart. You gonna lend a brother a hand?"
Otto grabs Firecracker shortly after she starts shaking the rat, and tries to keep her off of 'the goods'. "Sorry bout that, Cracker here's a little volatile." the coyote snerks, then clasps his paws once the deal was offered. "We're not unreasonable, sir. I am a family man myself, so understand that I quite well understand your concerns. You can't get something for nothing, this is quite true, so unless the others have anything against your stated terms, you can consider the job as good as done." the coyote states confidently and looks back towards the others in the room.
Ebreus accepts the bottle of root beer with a, "Thank you." he tears off another peice of chicken and eats it before sipping the soda. "Want some chicken, or chese?" he asks as he watches the interrogation. He facepalms when Firecracker speaks and touches Ricardo. He raises his head from his palm as Rod defends Ricardo and Tina. "Rod, have you ever heard the phrase: 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions'? Ricky and Tina might be good people but the group Tina is with has done some terrible things. Ideally they'll be back here totally fine once we catch the mice." he replies.
Zophah listens and watches, doing the exact same thing. This sounds simple enough. Pull someone out to keep them safe. There is nothing she wants add, so she just waits and keeps focus.
Arris opens the seal on the iced tea. "So we just gotta make sure Rick's girlfriend gets out of this alright, huh? Hope he tells us what she looks like soon enough." Sie gives Zophah a nudge. "Still got those paralytic poisons on you? We're gonna need them." Arris takes a swig of iced tea, glancing down at it and swirling the bottle, before quietly remarking to hirself: "Hm. Could use more lemon."
Angus raises a brow as firecracker tries to pull off the tough act, amused at something so small trying to act tough as he turns his attention back to Ricardo. "You'll need to give us a description. Something to go off of you know." He answers matter of fact as he waves a hand around as he speaks.
