Zephyr Investigation - Pt. 1 - RPLOG
From Flexible Survival
Participants
Date
26/2/2017
Log
A large meeting room has been set aside on the third floor of the Zephyr building for the express purpose of housing the meeting of volunteers that is taking place. A boardroom table dominates the center of the area, but those responsible for the arrangement of the room have fortunately had enough foresight to leave open space for those whose body structure might not be bipedal in nature. At the head of the table sits a feline woman, prim and proper in a business suit. She appears quite normal for her species - if impatient - but for the stark blue coloration of her fur. As participants begin to filter in, she utters a soft, nigh-inaudible sigh, waiting for people to get situated before continuing.
Zophah walks up to the meet point, checking her gear: lab coat filled with gagets? Check. bag filled with tools? check. Game face on? check. "Zophah of the promethians reporting for duty. Let's show those people who the real masterminds are!"
A hunt for the mental mice? That's an opportunity one couldn't pass up! Or at least that's what Angus thought as he leans back in one of the meeting chairs, propping his feet up on the table as he waits for others to filter in. He wanted a smoke, but since this was still in the building? He was pretty sure the guards would slap his wrists at the moment if he tried to do something like that, so instead he's chewing on a candybar while waiting for the meeting to start.
Firecracker flits into the room to land on the table with her tiny little weight. "Oh hey! I didn't know we got candy too!" she says, eyeing the treat in the coyote's hands. Looking around at the others already there or filtering in, the pint-sized pegasus introduces herself happily. "Oh yeah! I'm Firecracker! What're your names?"
Having recieved his briefing and given instruction on where to head, Otto had readiedmhimself for a bit of action on the side, sharpened his blades and cleaned out his guns, checked for damage and ultimately ensured that eeeeevery little detail was taken care of. Feeling ready as ever, the canine had made his way into the meeting room and sat himself down at the table. Leaning back in his chair, he kept one paw on the sheathed blade at his side, thumb idly flicking it partially in and out of its holster. He'd not expected to be working with so many people, and the more that came into view, the more nervous he felt. Once Firecracker arrives, a smile tugs at his lips. It was nice seeing a familiar face. "Hey there." he greets with a nod and a wave, then leans forward against the table, as if waiting for something to happen.
It was quite fortunate that there had been space left for her kind at the table as Astara padded in, the large half foxtaur walking over to the open area and settling herself down. Despite being in such a proper environment, she still didn't have anything in the way of clothing on, being nude even on her upper, mostly human half. "Astara, checking in." She lights up upon seeing Otto again, and gives the 'yote a big wave. "Good to see you again, Otto! How've you been faring?"
Ebreus walks into the boardroom and takes a seat in one of the spaces large enough for a 12'3 taur. He takes a look arounf the table at those he will be working with and the feline at the table head and says "I'm Ebreus, a Promethean negotiator and agent. I look forward to working with you all." he takes a breath and another look around then adds "Otto, Fire, Astara, glad to see you all again."
Arris follows in shortly after Zophah, giving the Zephyr Exec sitting at the head of the boardroom a polite nod as sie quietly takes hir seat next to Zophah. Sie runs a quick check on hir gear - Triage kit, bolt action rifle, heal pistol, all check. A quick glance around the room, and sie spots a few familliar faces, a good chunk of whom sie remembers from the previous Zephyr assault.
Fenris has no idea what is going on. He was just snooping where he had no right to be, wearing a uniform he had no right to wear, using a keycard that definitely was not his, when he had caught sight of the gathering at hand. It had been as good an excuse as any to ditch the uniform and keycard and join the group. Even better, there were some familiar faces! "Hullo, Angus," the tubby tanuki says happily, plopping down in a seat next to the coyote, "I am definitely supposed to be here."
The feline woman clears her throat rather loudly. "AHEM." she proclaims, looking around at the gathering and addressing you as a group. "Thank you for showing up on such short notice." she states, in a subtly snide tone that suggests that the opposite is true. "Ahem. As you almost certainly know, almost exactly two months ago, Zephyr was assaulted by a coordinated effort between some local mental mice and a horde of ferals. With the help of our agents - some of you here, even - we were able to repel the horde, but it's clear that they weren't acting alone. The two months since have been spent on two tasks. One, hunt down the local mental mice and ensure that they can't do something like this again. Two, figure out who coordinated this whole mess." Rising from her chair, the woman begins to pace, tail lashing in agitation. "...we had no way to know that these goals were in opposition to one another. Long story short, we're going to need information that the mice have in order to catch our real perps, but we've managed to chase them into hiding. That's where you come in." Looking out at the gathering to address you once more, she pauses to catch a breath.
Zophah quietly yips, "Hi Firecracker. And you should remember me by now." She points to her name on the front of her lab coat. She then turns to give Arris a kiss on the cheek. "And hi honey. Sorry I couldn't come in with you, I've been waiting for this." She then finally sits down, squirming a bit at the tightness within her reacting to the Testosterone in the room."
Angus crunches some more of the candybar in his hand as he sits there, his chair lowering a few seconds later as he crumples up the wrapper. "Oh, hey Fenris." He greets the Tanuki, giving him an odd look about his assurance he's supposed to be here before the briefing starts. "Pfft, are you sending us in with a platter of cheese here, or do we have to go cold turkey talking to them?" He asks, folding his arms over the table as he leans forward a bit.
"Zophy, Starry, Ebby, Gussy, Otto, Fenny, Honey, Firecracker!" Firecracker says, pointing at each of the members around the table as she names them. "Perfect! and good job to the people that did the stuff last time! So this time we gotta play 'Hide and Seek' and come in somewhere with cheese and turkey! Got it!"
