Los Angeles: The Door Is Locked

[Dhavaer]

Brad punches the bear a few more times as Tony moves through the traffic back into range of the lone bear. The bear looks around again and peers at the bags.

[Toxic Avenger]

Tony tosses one of the bags over in the bear's direction, aiming for midway between himself and the bear. Still holding up the other bag, he hurries back in Brad's direction, turning around to see if the bear follows.

[Dhavaer]

The bear jerks back a little when the bag hits, before starting to peer curiously at where it landed. There is a thump from the other side of the truck, possibly the sound of an eight foot bear hitting the sidewalk.

[Toxic Avenger]

Tony continues heading in Brad's direction, while watching the bear to see if he follows. If he seems interested enough in the first bag of chicken, Tony drops the next one on the ground close to the back end of the truck, before continuing on to help Brad...not that he needs it or anything.

[Dhavaer]

The bear watches Tony back away before moving to investigate the bag of chicken. It searches around on the ground for it and plucks it off the ground, holding it between thumb and forefinger and sniffing deeply.
Brad is standing over the unconscious bear while the other two stand at bay between him and the truck.
The sirens are growing still louder. The police should be here soon.

[Toxic Avenger]

Seeing that Brad has it under control, Tony decides not to get in his way, so he points inconspicuously at the brave half-ogre while he quietly says, "Irthos ukris..." Then he heads back to where he dropped the second bag of chicken, and watches the other bear. Then he whispers, "That was an awesome display, Brad. Since you have it under control over there, I'll keep an eye on this last bear over here, to make sure he doesn't wander off. Whisper if you need me, okay?"

[Tony casts Message.]

[Dhavaer]

Brad nods, keeping an eye on the bears. The bear with the chicken has pulled it from the bag and is now chowing down, while keeping a watchful eye on Tony.

[Toxic Avenger]

Tony picks up the second bag of chicken, and when the bear seems to be finished with the first bag, Tony holds it up before setting it back down and backing away from it.

[Dhavaer]

The bear licks its fingers while staring at the chicken, occasionally letting its eyes flick to Tony. It suddenly looks up and over its head as the sirens close in. They all suddenly cut off, but the bear keeps staring.

[Toxic Avenger]

Tony starts to move toward the cab of the truck, and then he tosses the second bag of chicken in the bear's direction, while aiming to bring it a bit further away from the truck.

[Dhavaer]

The bear looks to see where Tony throws the chicken and slopes towards it, evidently unwilling to turn its back on him.
"****! Do I look like a ****in' bear, jackass?"
Tony hears Brad yell.

[Toxic Avenger]

Tony heads back over to Brad's side of the truck. Once he sees whoever Brad is yelling at, he calls out, "Bears don't wear clothes, ya know! The other bear is over on this side." He points in the direction of the eating bear.

[Dhavaer]

When Tony gets to the other side of the truck, the bears are snoring on the footpath and Brad is having a heated discussion with a group of heavily padded animal control officers holding air rifles. When they hear Tony, all but one of them hurry around the truck and tranq the last bear. The last one apparently drew the proverbial short straw, and doesn't seem to be holding up well. Tony recognises the symptoms of slight Shadow exposure, apparently she was expecting bears, saw something huge and hairy, and Shadow filled in the blanks. It's hard to see how she made the mistake, though, Brad looks much more gorillaish.

[Toxic Avenger]

Hmm... I imagine that we're both looking freakish to her right now. I hope she doesn't try to tranq us both.

"Hey, Brad; you're doing all right, I take it? It looks like the bear didn't even lay a claw on you." Tony glances toward the cab of the truck for a moment, before bringing his attention back to Brad and the disturbed animal control officer.

[Dhavaer]

"Nah, it wasn't as tough as you'd think. Only thing that got laid on me was a dart." He glowers at the officer.
"I'm so, so sorry, sir. I really don't know how it happened..."
Brad sighs. "Yeah, okay, forget it. Just don't do it again, eh?"

[Toxic Avenger]

With a wry smile, Tony says, "That just may be the best advice you'll ever hear. Anyway..." Not seeing any EMT personnel on site yet, he starts heading toward the cab of the truck. "...the driver's still in here, but I think he's dead."

[Dhavaer]

"Didn't buckle up?" Brad asks, as the animal control officers fetch stretchers to cart away the bears.

[Toxic Avenger]

"I can't remember if he did or not. I would've taken a closer look earlier, but that other bear followed me over here." Once Tony gets to the cab of the truck, he checks to see if the driver still has a pulse, while also checking to see if he is wearing a seatbelt.

[Dhavaer]

The driver is indeed wearing a seatbelt, but taking a pulse doesn't seem necessary, considering the angle his head is at. That kind of spinal geometry is only survivable for owls.

[Toxic Avenger]

Tony glances at the wall, to see if it gave at all with the impact, and then he takes a closer look at the clipboard. "Well, he was buckled up, for what good it did him. I'm having a helluva time believing the impact could break his neck like that..."

[Dhavaer]

The truck seems to have absorbed most of the impact and crumpled, but some bricks have broken or been dislodged from the wall. The clipboard has a scrap of paper with an address and below that an unsigned recipt of delivery.

[Toxic Avenger]

"...but, seeing that the wall didn't give even an inch, that could be possible, I suppose." Tony's nosiness kicks into overdrive, as he writes down the address, and checks to see if the address is also listed on the unsigned receipt of delivery. Before he gives the rest of the cab a full search, he uses his still active spell of prestidigitation to clean his hands, his fingertips in particular. "Hey, Brad. Can you let me know if you see anyone coming this way? I don't think the cops would appreciate me snooping around."

[Dhavaer]

"Uh... looks like they're a bit busy with the animal guys for now, though. I'd keep it quick, though."
Tony doesn't find anything other than a crumpled reciept before Braad taps him on the shoulder and pulls him out of the truck. Two police officers are approaching them, one holding a small notepad and pen.
"Morning." The penless one says. "Would you mind answering a few questions?"

[Toxic Avenger]

Tony replies, "Morning... Sure, I don't mind answering a few."

[Dhavaer]

"Did you see what happened here?"

[Toxic Avenger]

"Most of what happened, yes. We didn't see the crash, but we heard it. When we turned to look, we saw the bears come out the back of the truck."

[Dhavaer]

The cop with the notepad begins to write. When she nods to her partner, he continues.
"What happened immediately after the bears came out of the truck?"

[Toxic Avenger]

"The bears just looked around for a few moments, and then two took off in that direction. Of course, people were running everywhere."

[Dhavaer]

"And what were you doing at this point?"

[Toxic Avenger]

"We had just come out of the café, and I ran around the bears toward the cab of the truck, to check on the driver."