[Nexus] GLoG 64: Campsites, not Chessboards!

[TruorTupnm]

Kojare (one of the dudes who brought the victims in), after apparently tiring himself out with helping the creepily as well as magically wounded, steps up but keeps out of the way. Not sure if he's interrupting anything important, he butts in with a wave to Krystal and a soft, "What are we doing?"

[Murkus]

Sarah, if anyone bothers to talk to her, is wandering around camp.

And being watched at a distance by some odd, skinny fellow. He's following her a bit, observing, holding an umbrella over his head.

[KerfuffleMach2]

A motorcycle pulls up next to Sarah.

Hello, Sarah. How are you today?

[Murkus]

"I'm fine." The little girl replies, looking at the talking motorcycle with a fascinated expression. "The camp is nice."

It's as if she didn't notice the recent disturbance in the slightest.

[lord pringle]

Step two: crush the pearl and put the dust in the wine. Claire says.

[KerfuffleMach2]

[Outside]

Yes, it is.

Hey, he doesn't notice it either!

Sarah, I wanted to ask who it was you were talking to before? The one who left when I arrived.

[Infirmary]

Krystal nods a little. She pops a crystal out of her wrist and pulls it out. Then she uses that to crush the pearl. She sets the crystal aside and pours the pearl dust into the wine.

[lord pringle]

Step three: add the feather and drink. Claire grins.

[Murkus]

[Outside]

"She said her name was Psi. I think she was a robot. Like you." Sarah says, pondering a bit and watching the bike with her dancing eyes.

Fred the vampire continues watching her from a distance, observing the conversation.

[KerfuffleMach2]

[Outside]

When you say 'like you', do you mean she was a Transformer? Or just a robot?

[Infirmary]

Krystal gives a curious glance to Claire, then shrugs a little and follows directions.

[lord pringle]

It tastes horrible. Claire pulls out a Tarot deck. now focus on this and tell me what it does.

[KerfuffleMach2]

Krystal makes the usual noises associated with tasting things that don't taste good.

Um... She focuses on the deck.

((...not sure what she should be doing right now...))

[lord pringle]

It appears to be a scrying tool.

[KerfuffleMach2]

Um...it scrys? She looks at Claire expectantly.

[lord pringle]

Yup. G-g-g-going to try it now. Claire flips over a card spins it and frowns.

[KerfuffleMach2]

Krystal looks at the card for a moment, then at Claire.

What's wrong?

[lord pringle]

Victor isn't on that plane either. Claire packs up the deck and walks outside.

[KerfuffleMach2]

Krystal gets curious and follows.

Victor? Who's Victor?

[Murkus]

[Outside]

When you say 'like you', do you mean she was a Transformer? Or just a robot?

Sarah shrugs uselessly. "I dunno. She just talked like she was one. But you don't." The little girl frowns. "Kinda odd, actually."

[lord pringle]

My friend who I used to work with. He rescued m-m-me. Claire frowns.

[KerfuffleMach2]

[Outside]

The easiest way to explain the difference would be that a robot will only do what it is programmed to do. For a robot to speak like a normal person, it must be programmed to do so.

However, I am a living being. Therefore, my speech patterns are influenced in the same way as yours. By those around us when we are young.

[Outside...again]

And now he's gone missing? How long?

[Murkus]

Outside

For a girl of four or five, Sarah agains seems to understand quite easily. "She seemed... programmed. Very ordered and precise." She frowns a bit, thinking. "So you're alive? I didn't know."

[KerfuffleMach2]

Yes, just like the rest of my kind. We are not organic, like you, but we are still alive.

[Murkus]

"I didn't know that type of thing existed." Sarah says, stepping closer to the bike. "So you work here too, is that right?"

[KerfuffleMach2]

Runner would nod here, but, well...he's a motorcycle.

Yes, I do. I like what this organization tries to accomplish.

[Murkus]

"Been here long?" Sarah asks conversationally, that curious glint in her eyes still hanging around. "I don't work here, if you were gonna ask. My dad is in trouble right now, so he left me here to be safe."

[KerfuffleMach2]

A little while. Not as long as Quinn, though.

What kind of trouble, if I may ask?

[Murkus]

Sarah smiles a bit at the mention of Quinn. But she shrugs. "I don't really know. Seemed pretty bad, though."

[KerfuffleMach2]

Well, if there is any way in which I can help, please let me know.

[Reinholdt]

[Reinholdt]

"Oh, just general information about the nexus, locations, people, connections, organizations, powers, structures, machines, relationships and nothing more I think." Helios says and then pauses once again. "Most about the old days really, you are a quite old-timer here after all and I know quite a lot about the present nexus."

The mouth turns into a smile again. "Is that specific enough? It could take a while to be even more specific and you do have a guardian haunting you as far as I am aware."

"I was actually more interested in how you'd take it. It doesn't do me all that much good if you actually remove those memories rather than copy them. You understand. Hold on one second."

Quinn, meanwhile, would help, but it seems her phone is ringing.
And so she answers it!
"Good League of Good."
Reinholdt might find her voice sounding...different. In a 'divinely powerful' kind of way.

"Errr... is this Quinn?" Once he gets an affirmation, he'll explain the whole detail about the idol, the guardian, and Helios' offer, dropping hints that he may not be trustworthy. And basically asking what she thinks he should do. As well as letting her know his location and what's going on.

If her player hasn't been keeping up with that plot-line for whatever reason, let Reinholdt know and it'll be explained in more detail.

[Gullara]

Serena, hearing there was something going on at the infirmary, heads there. Once there she peaks her head in the door. And the first thing she sees it Nite.

She stiffens. He's here. She creeps away slowly, back to here cabin.

Once there the vampire gathers her few belongings and flees GLoG.