Round 84: The Kidnapping of Tiffany Jamesson

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PLAYERS: Isamu Fuwa, Quicksword Irene, Hajime Aikawa VS. Bucky Barnes, Daylight vis Lornlit, Inara Serra
LOCATION: Tycoons' Depot
GOAL: Assume and maintain custody of Tiffany Jamesson
WARNINGS: Kidnapping, attempted murder, sex work mentions
OTHER: OOC post for plotting and questions!

After traveling most of the day, the sun is starting to set when the two teams reach Tycoons' Depot. Who arrives first depends on how quickly the teams get up and organized that morning, and how hard they want to push their horses.

The active portion of the round doesn’t start until the next morning, anyway. After scouting around and making plans, everyone can enjoy a room at the Bullion Inn under the watchful eye of the Madame (for a crisp points price, of course), camp rough just outside town, or bully or bribe one of the locals into letting them borrow their home for the night. Looking around proves there are, in fact, a number of possibly empty houses around the town’s outskirts, if the players would like to brave one of those.

In the morning, it’s time to go. Tiffany Jamesson, a sixteen year old girl with a brilliant smile and auburn hair done up in ringlets, has horseback riding at nine in full-on cowgirl attire, lunch at noon and piano lessons at one in a yellow dress of frothy lace, a nap from three to four when the day is at its hottest, and then dinner with her father at six in a pretty pink affair before retiring for the night afterwards. When will the kidnappers strike? When will the protectors show their hand? The teams have three days in which to accomplish their goal. The clock is ticking.

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She shrugs one shoulder. "I run this place. If what people say is true, I'm so popular that no-one wants to see me dead or gone. Which is a disappointment, actually, since it means I get in trouble for trying to join in rounds now. Instead, I pick my own battles."

And since she's watching Hajime like a hawk to see what his reaction is, she waits a few beats before she continues, "None of those are used, I just destroy anyone who tries to harm the humans here. They're under my care now, like Blade and Garren were yours."

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Hajime's reaciton is surprisingly mellow, actually. He visibly relaxes. "That's...good. I wasn't sure if I'd find another Undead terrorizing the populace or not. That's half the reason I rushed over here." The other reason is that he really isn't in a great mood and had been almost hoping for a nostalgic sort of fight. He'll have to settle for whatever the hell will come when the mission starts. Or maybe picking another fight with Fuwa. "If you're not attacking the humans, then...I don't have any quarrel with you." See? He can behave, when he wants to.

"Anyway to see people in charge?" Ryo asks from his perch hanging upside down from one of Hajime's elbows. "Hajime gonna want to try fighting one of them next."

"I never said that."

Ryo's antenna wiggle, and he gives a little mantis giggle. "But you thought it!"

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That makes Jo grin too. She's starting to enjoy Joker's little pet.

"Get send to their punishment jail and try to break out, perhaps. But I don't know a single person who's managed that." Her grin fades, and she looks dissatisfied. "Whoever this is, is better equipped than that bastard Tennoji. Undead can die here."

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"Hajime goes in, I bring him a file in a cake?" That's a plan, right? Ryo thinks that's a plan.

The idea of Undead dying gets a frown from Hajime. "That's about what the asshole at the first jail said, but I just assumed he didn't know what I was." His Infiltrations had died before. "And I take it death isn't quite so final here as it would be under ordinary circumstances, given the way some of the others talk."

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"He wouldn't have. No one left knows what I am." She leans forward to rest her elbows on her knees. "It's not final, but it's not fun. Nobody is immortal here, but sometimes our powers don't work." There's a growl underlying her words. "I could have won a fight if I was transformed, but something prevented me from changing."

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Hajime nods. "I can transform fine, but my weapon wasn't there when I tried to produce it." Which was really inconvenient.

"There was a situation with guy letting him out of cell!" Ryo says. "Punching and shooting! Shooting and punching! Surprised when no bow!" He pauses. "Not how you make friends!"

"I wasn't trying to make friends, Ryo."

"Should have! Could use more friends! Can never have too many friends!"