(IC III) San Francisco by Night: A Requiem in Fog

[Thundercracker]

Rachel's command again strikes the security officer, his back stiffening again as if he were a soldier coming to attention. "Oh, sure," he mumbles. He pulls a CD from a stack of blanks and pushes it into the drive and says thoughtlessly, "This may take about five to ten minutes."

To Rachel's question he adds, "Yeah, we made them a copy before they left last night."

“Ask him if anyone else has seen the footage,” Anna said.

“We’ll have to track that police copy down too,” Anna whispered.

[Haval]

'I can wait.' Rachel replies absently to the guard. 'Has anyone else who works here seen the footage? Tell me their names.' After a moments thought, 'Tell me the name of the police who took the copy. Do you have their number?'

[Bennosuke]

Rachel's words carry and authority that the security guard can't resist. To her first question he flatly replies, "Andy, the other guard on with me last night. He's seen it."

To her second question he replies, "I... don't remember their names. 911?" though this time it is said without irony.

[Haval]

'Then where is Andy now? Tell me his address.' The point about the police was irritating. 'The police didn't leave a card? How inconvenient.' To Anna, 'We could always ask around and see if anyone has any friends in the police. I'd rather not start visiting precincts at random.'

[Bennosuke]

'Then where is Andy now?"

"He should be by the front door," the security officer says reflexively.

'Tell me his address.'

"Give me one minute," the guard says hastily, turning to his computer to pull up a file. After scrolling for a minute, he lists off Security Officer Andy's address, somewhere in Oakland.

'The police didn't leave a card?

Even if this was not directed at the security officer, he hastily replies, "No, they did not!"

From the back of the group, Frances the concierge asks uncomfortably, "Uhm, can I go now?"

The question is directed to Victor, who with a proud grin turns his eye to Anna and Karl for direction.

[Haval]

Rachel will make a note on Andy's address on her phone just in case they actually needed to track him down later. Once she has a copy of the footage she'll tell the guard to 'Delete the original footage.'

[Daishain]

Karl nods to Victor, "Once the footage is deleted, that should be all we need from this one. I have a few contacts in the police, if we deem it necessary we should be able to get the copy deleted as well."

[Bennosuke]

Given the affirmative, Victor turns back to the concierge. The air seems to shift as he speaks to the man, his voice growing somehow more resonant, more powerful. "Go now. You never met us, and you do not remember taking us here. You left your desk to go to the bathroom. You took a very satisfying ****, and are now going back to your desk to continue your work for the night." Victor says, grinning as the man nods absent mindedly.

Frances mumbles something like, "Right", before turning and wandering off. Victor turns back to the other Kindred wearing a triumphant grin.

The security officer ignores all of this, too busy following Rachel's command to delete the files. A few clicks later he turns back to Rachel and says obediently, "Okay," wearing the expression of a dog who has just sat on command, awaiting its next instruction.

[Thundercracker]

Anna watched carefully as the two Kindred dominated the hapless security guard and finished what they needed to do.

[Haval]

'I think we're done here.' Rachel will stand up and pat the security guard on the head. 'Go back to doing whatever it was you were doing before we came in. Act as if we weren't here.''

[Bennosuke]

"Oh, okay," the guard blubbers in response to Rachel's command. He turns his back to the group, and hits play on the porno he was previously watching.

But before the group goes, Victor eyes the others, raising both hands in the gesture of a question, as if to say, "You want me to do anything more?"

[Haval]

Rachel, who is already half out the door, will shrug. 'Well I don't intend to come back here, but Victor can help with this one if we don't want him talking.' Victor was free to act as he pleased.

[Thundercracker]

Anna Wu

Once out of the security booth, Anna turned to the others.
"We need to find Andy first and make sure he's convinced it was nothing out of the ordinary," she said, "after that, Karl and I have some contacts with the police, as does Tony, we'll see if we can take care of the copy they made."

[Bennosuke]

Rachel, who is already half out the door, will shrug. 'Well I don't intend to come back here, but Victor can help with this one if we don't want him talking.' Victor was free to act as he pleased

If he's given the affirmative from Anna or Karl, Victor will get meddling with the memories of the security officer.

Once out of the security booth, Anna turned to the others.
"We need to find Andy first and make sure he's convinced it was nothing out of the ordinary," she said, "after that, Karl and I have some contacts with the police, as does Tony, we'll see if we can take care of the copy they made."

Gabe replies, "They said he should be in the lobby of the hotel... though I didn't see him when we came in." Assuming the group head back to the lobby, there is no immediate sign of the second security guard.

Frances looks up from his spot at the desk, where he is helping check in a young lady. He eyes the Kindred with unease.

[Haval]

Gabe replies, "They said he should be in the lobby of the hotel... though I didn't see him when we came in." Assuming the group head back to the lobby, there is no immediate sign of the second security guard.

Frances looks up from his spot at the desk, where he is helping check in a young lady. He eyes the Kindred with unease.

Rachel will queue behind the guest and wait to speak with Frances. If he was uncomfortable at the sight of the group of Kindred she will do her best not to look too amused.

Once she gets a chance to speak Rachel will lean on the counter, 'Hi, I'm looking for Andy. Shyanne told me he was working tonight.' As she wasn't actively trying to dominate the man she'll smile and act as if this was their first meeting. She was always curious to see how someone was able to deal with the after-effects of being dominated.

Spoiler: ooc

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Manipulation 3 + Subterfuge 3 + Striking Looks (Subterfuge) 1
(7d10)[6][9][1][4][6][2][3](31)
Any 10s
(7d10)[5][10][8][9][9][9][8](58)

[Bennosuke]

Frances eyes Rachel cautiously as he finishes checking in the girl. The glassy-eyed vacant expression is mostly gone from his face. At first he maybe looks a little irritated as Rachel steps up to the desk, and rather than making eye contact as he greets her, he turns his eyes down to the computer monitor where he busily types something up. But something about Rachel's words, maybe the tone of her voice causes him to look up at her, and his expression softens... just a little. Still trying to sound too busy, Frances says in his deeply Filipino accent, "He's supposed to be on the lobby floor, but he never does his job!" He focuses on his typing again for a moment before turning his attention back to Rachel and frowning. "I'm not certain," he says, though now there is maybe something like sympathy in his voice, "but he usually goes into the alley behind the hotel, where the cleaning staff take their breaks."

(OOC: Wow, not a lot of luck with those rolls of late)

[Haval]

'As long as he's only smoking' Rachel replies. 'Is there a staff door I can use to get out there? I have a present for him.'

ooc - And yet so many successes in the second part of the roll

[Bennosuke]

Frances eyes Rachel curiously for her question and shakes his head. He replies, "Probably faster just to go out this door and around the side of the building."

[Haval]

'Fair enough.' Rachel doesn't care enough to inquire further. 'If I miss Andy don't let him leave work until I catch up to him. He needs to hear this.' She'll leave Frances alone.

To the other Kindred, 'Andy is on a break. Hopefully we can deal with him now so we don't have to see him at home.' Rachel will go looking for Andy.

[Bennosuke]

"Sure," Frances says with a shrug, though based on his tone, it's not much of a commitment.

Assuming the other follow Rachel outside, the Kindred are greeted by a light rain that must have begun while they were inside. The cold fog giving way to the colder patter of icy drops. If Andy and the cleaning staff were outside, hopefully they were under some cover.

Following around the side of the building, the group walk into a rather wide alley lined by a few large dumpsters, and some now soaked broken down cardboard boxes. This area is empty, and the group continue follow around the corner, to the back of the hotel, which takes a good couple of minutes of walking to reach. Down the cement walkway are a few folding tables, soaked and abandoned. Behind them though is four-step staircase under an awning, where a couple of employees are aggressively making out. The man is clearly wearing the security officer uniform.

From the corner of the building, the Kindred are about thirty yards away, and the couple don't seem to have noticed the onlookers yet.

[Haval]

Rachel doesn't particularly like to be rained on and is obliged to hurry round to the alleyway. The sight of the pair making out will slow her down a little. Getting into cover frankly comes first so Rachel will move to take cover under the shelter of the stairs without caring if they took it as an interruption.

[Bennosuke]

Rachel throws stealth out the window; because of this, as she approaches the stairwell, the couple stop their hormone fueled groping. The woman, a dark haired and dark skinned girl, at best in late high school, starts fixing her uniform, jumping back behind the security officer. Andy glares at Rachel, and then at the others behind her and says, "Can I help you?" clearly expressing his displeasure with being interrupted.

[Haval]

Rachel pretends to be apologetic. 'I'm just passing through and I was looking for somewhere to shelter.' Rachel will turn to the girl. 'Sorry to interrupt. There's some kind of problem they need your help with inside.' Once she has her attention she will look directly into the girl's eyes. 'You should go back to work.'

Spoiler: ooc

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Dominate to get rid of the girl

Intelligence 3 + Expression 3 + Dominate 2
(8d10)[6][9][2][8][2][10][4][5](46)
Any 10s
(8d10)[8][5][6][5][5][2][8][3](42)

[Bennosuke]

The force of Rachel's will almost knocks the girl over, and she actually grabs hold of the man's jacket sleeve to steady herself. "Oh!" she says with sudden surprise, "you're right." Despite the man's protests, she takes one last moment to fix her grey, unflattering maid's uniform before scanning an ID card on a lanyard around her neck, and walking back into the hotel.

As the door closes, Andy growls, "What the hell? What do you think you are doing?" There's an entitled indignity in the security officer's anger, and Rachel and the others can't help but notice the enticing vessel that has started to throb in his tensed neck.

[Haval]

Rachel doesn't care about how indignant the man was and will move closer. 'Oh I'm just passing through. Andy is it? I was told you were here for that shooting the other night?' She is very aware of the vein on the man's neck.

[Bennosuke]

"How did you..." the man starts, though he stops himself to look down on the badge on his jacket, assuming that is where Rachel got his name. He takes a step away from Rachel, backing himself against the railing of the stairs. "Who the hell are you," he hisses, "what do you want?" He glances back at the door through which the young maid had just escaped, though now Rachel was between him and that door.

[Thundercracker]

Rachel will queue behind the guest and wait to speak with Frances. If he was uncomfortable at the sight of the group of Kindred she will do her best not to look too amused.

Once she gets a chance to speak Rachel will lean on the counter, 'Hi, I'm looking for Andy. Shyanne told me he was working tonight.' As she wasn't actively trying to dominate the man she'll smile and act as if this was their first meeting. She was always curious to see how someone was able to deal with the after-effects of being dominated.

Spoiler: ooc

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Manipulation 3 + Subterfuge 3 + Striking Looks (Subterfuge) 1
[roll0]
Any 10s
[roll1]

Anna turned to Karl and the others.

"While she's taking care of that, is there anything else we need to do here?" she asked, "do we want to pay a visit to the Church, just to be thorough?"

[Haval]

Rachel will smile innocently at the man in the hope of relaxing him. 'Actually I heard there might be work available here.' Rachel doesn't look that much older then the girl that Andy had been involved with. 'But I'm not sure I want to work in a place where people are getting shot you know. The guy on the desk said you might have been there on the day or maybe that you saw something?'

Spoiler: ooc

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Manipulation 3 + Subterfuge 3 + Striking Looks (Subterfuge) 1
(7d10)[1][3][4][8][2][3][4](25)
Any 10s
(7d10)[1][3][10][3][3][4][5](29)

[Bennosuke]

The man tilt's his head to the side, studying Rachel for a moment, concentration in his eyes. A small smirk crosses his face and he says, "Who told you I'd be back here? And if you know there was a shooting, then why do you need to talk to me?"

[Haval]

'Frances said you were out here smoking. Didn't realise I was interrupting your fun.' Rachel replies as an apology. 'I heard about the shooting online, but now I hear there's a security tape somewhere that you might have seen. Did anyone get hurt?'