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    [Extraction Plan: CD]

    Reinholdt of all people understands how deceptive size can be.

    Ugh. He doesn't know for sure who SIN is or isn't. They probably should have done that pre-stakeout option anyways just to get a bead on who is who. Maybe get a third person for that. If these are SIN people, they don't seem particularly well train... oh yeah. Former slaves. Guess, they wouldn't be? Not trained well enough to notice when a cat is meowing at someone behind them, that's for sure!

    Well... it probably doesn't matter who's who. Is Rein going to risk his disguise to get involved?

    Of course he is. He can't really help himself and stand by when someone is in need of aid.

    Fortunately, there's always the cat play. Which involves running up to Rose's feet, biting her ankles and scratching her shins with overly sharp claws. Which is what Rein does. No mercy! Oh... damn. She's wearing boots. That's cheating! Rein will just have to clamber his way up until claws meet leg flesh. Many hisses and meowrls are given!
    [Extraction Plan: CD]

    Rose lets out a yelp as the previously more-or-less docile cat attacks her suddenly, burying his claws in her leg.

    That's all the distraction the ratgirl needs to turn around and hit Rose with a surprisingly quick uppercut to the chin. Which ends with Rose collapsing to the ground, momentarily unconscious.

    The ratgirl gives Rein a little smile and an affectionate pat on the head. "Good kitty. Soon as Rufus is awake, we're getting you all the fish you can eat. He can't argue with us now!"
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    and they're aaall dead.


    *gushes unintelligibly over our cat, Sunshine*

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    [Waterlogged]

    Penna works VERY HARD on localizing her healing magic rather than just spraying gross goop everywhere.

    The blood pouring out of Mina's leg turns a caustic shade of green and begins hissing and sizzling where it drips onto the floor. BUT! The wound begins rapidly healing closed, too!

    Which is good!

    No more bleeding everywhere!

    Which is, of course, very important.

    She gives Mina a thumbs up.

    "Oh, uh," the dragon replies as he's picked up, waggling his little legs fruitlessly as soon as he isn't standing on anything. "Not... no? They stuck me in a sack. But I bit one of them!"

    He doesn't want his rescuers to think that he just got shoved into a bag without getting his own licks in.

    "Could you show me the way out? I think I might be able to figure out which was is home from there," he asks.

    "I can finish things up here if you want to play escort,"
    Penna suggests.
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    Waterlogged

    "You were very brave." Mina assures the dragonling.
    She reaches into her waterproof bag that she has under her robe and gets out a notebook which she hastily scribbles some contact information.
    "Come find me later, Penna. I'll get this little guy home."
    Mina can then get back to the entrance with the dragonling. Only cuddling him a little bit. She was hoping to find more hostages but she'll settle for saving somebody today.
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    Tempest Row- Leaving a Brick Wall

    A phone rings from Liam's pocket, and he stops and leans against a wall to answer it. He pulls it away from his ear as TANBot's voice comes through it and presses a button. If TANBot hasn't hung up by then, a computer virus is being sent through the telephone connection to his phone or head, if his phone is integrated into his body. The virus isn't a very severe one; if it's downloaded, it will open as many programs as it can to slow TANBot down, place a text order with a floristry shop for a massive delivery of flowers to TANBot's coordinates, wipe his call history and delete his address book and display a little golden countdown starting at ten and counting down.

    While all this occurs, or doesn't, Liam catches his breathe, grabs his labcoat and starts running again- but this time he's running back the way he came, so he's behind the robot ninja and hopefully running in a direction TANBot isn't looking in until he recovers.

    If TANBot hangs up before Liam can send the virus over there, he'll shrug and gasp a bit more.
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    [Extraction Plan: CD]

    Reinholdt meows, the cat obviously pleased with himself as only a cat can be. The promise of fish helps, and certainly elicits more meows from the scrawny, scruffy, dirty cat. Rose might want to go to the vet for some shots, who knows what diseases Rein is carrying.

    The cat can't ignore Rufus either, going to crawl between his legs, purring, brushing up against the barely cognizant dogman. A probable trip murder attempt.

    But a cute one.
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    Reinholdt had already told the truth once in that post, and therefore was over his annual quota.

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    [Tempest Row- Leaving a Brick Wall]

    How in the heck do you send a virus through a telephone connection? Anyways, the virus is uploaded and quickly gets to work opening as many processes as it can, causing a string of weird noises to come out of him. Unfortunately for it, about halfway through trying to mess with TANBot, it opens the Protegent Antivirus program (the memiest antivirus) which quickly cleans it out of his system before it can do any of the other things.

    The end result of this is that TANBot is stopped for a bit as his fans speed up again and he deals with closing all the processes that were opened. When he's done, he's looking over his shoulder at Liam and he sounds very angry.

    "You... YOU ****! What the heck is your problem? Do you know how wrong that is? Well, if that's what I get for trying to call the police... maybe I'll just have to knock you out and let them come!" With this, he leaps with terrifying speed in Liam's direction, aiming to tackle him to the ground and start pummeling him in the back of the head.
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    Tempest Row- Leaving a Brick Wall

    Misunderstanding how telephones work, superpowers nudging things in the right direction, and superscience.

    Before TANBot gets the chance to start attempting to murder Liam, there's a flash of light as he's surrounded by flowers. A vast array of roses, sunflowers, pansies, lilies, orchids, passionflowers, alliums, daisies, hibiscus, and other flowers are teleported onto his coordinates. TANBot might need to fight his way through, before he can catch the escaping mad scientist. Liam's going to continue to run and dodge, since he has no idea why this robot decided to crash his boat and now wants to beat him up.
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    [Tempest Row - Leaving a Brick Wall]

    "I'll-Oof!" TASBot's words are muffled under the pile of assorted flowers he finds himself buried in. Summoning the last of his badassery, he rapidly chops up all the flowers in the pile with his katana as he gets up, sending petals and thorns flying everywhere and leaving him smelling quite nice. As he does this, he comes to the realisation that he's broken the golden rule all memers must follow: Don't get mad, don't stay mad.

    "WAIT! Come back. I want to apologise. It was wrong for me to slice up your boat... even if you did commit a little vehicular manslaughter. So... if you stop running, I have some kromer and a few screenshotted NFTs - maybe those can pay for the property damage."

    This is actually a total ploy. The moment Liam turns around, TANBot will scan his face and do an instant Internet search/dox to garner as many of his personal details as he can. Full legal name, address, IP address, that kind of thing. After all, he may not be mad, but he still wants Liam jailed, so his plan is to find the police's real number and give them his address. Also, telling someone you know that stuff about them is way funnier than just beating them up to scare them (unless they're a nerd).

    If his fauxpology fails to make Liam turn, he'll try saying "You know who else I used my sword on? Your mom last night!" to grab his attention. If even that doesn't work, he'll just kind of stand there awkwardly and covered in flower petals, as if he tried to ask a girl out on a prom date and got rejected.
    Last edited by Gold Leaf; 2022-08-04 at 04:02 PM.
    We are FREE of
    BEER! As in, we don't have any beer.

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    Tempest Row- Leaving a Brick Wall

    Liam is a bit crazy, and easily distracted, and isn't always capable of formulating a proper plan. He's not interested in kromer or NFTs, screenshots or otherwise. So he's not going to stop, as even the taunt about his mother fails to stop Liam. He'll also ignore the taunt directed at his mother; perhaps she's dead, in which case Liam should really be thankful that she's no longer wandering around as a zombie. Or perhaps Liam wishes he could use a sword on her. Or perhaps he simply didn't hear because something distracted him.

    He does turn to look over his shoulder, so TANBot can scan his face and do a search. Unfortunately, this is Skyside- the records aren't great. Some hacking will be involved- and TANBot can find several 'private police forces' to contact, but they'll all ask for money before they actually do anything. A scan will reveal his name is Liam Gardner, he has several warrants for his arrest in Inside and Riverside, he has no registered address or IP address (TANBot can dig deeper to try and find one of those, if he wants; however, a deep enough dig uncovers several decoy addresses, and in TANBot tries to contact them he'll find more computer viruses waiting for someone to try and contact them). Several sightings of Liam lead to Warehouse 90, located in Skyside, but most of his electronics seem to be either burners and not linked to his name or loaded with viruses and left as decoys.
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    [Tempest Row- Leaving a Brick Wall]

    Hiding his address on the Internet is a surprisingly responsible thing to do for an insane person. But TANBot may not need one to get the last laugh. He leaps again, this time (assuming he isn't impeded) flying over Liam's head and landing a couple metres in front of him. He'll then turn to face Liam and have the words [FRICK] YOU LIAM GARDNER scroll across his helmet-screen in big, flashing letters, while he extends two flipped birds in Liam's direction.

    "Yeah, I wanted to apologise like a celebrity who's getting bad publicity wants to apologise. That is, I didn't. So, screw you, and I have your place of work, so you can say goodbye Warehouse 90 and hello big house 1."
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    Tempest Row- Leaving a Brick Wall

    Liam yelps as TANBot flies over his head, and stops. "Hah! You try going after my lair, you'll have to deal with my landlord! I pay rent, y'know! Go ahead, try it! I look forward to scrapping your dented chassis for whatever substandard spare parts I might need to rebuild my boat!" Liam won't keep taunting, however, since he's got no more weapons and is feeling quite vulnerable.

    Investigations- if TANBot bothers to try- will discover that the owner of Warehouse 90, as well as the owner of Warehouses 89, 91, 88 and 92 is a chap who goes by Professor Payne, who is not hiding like Liam is. In fact, Professor Payne has adverts online, offering super powers to whoever can afford them- which is probably a short list, looking at his prices.
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    [Tempest Row - Leaving a Brick Wall]

    "Your lair? Seriously? Well, I'm sure me and your landlord can have a nice little chat about how he's housing a dangerous lunatic that needs to get in the forever box."

    TANBot does investigate, and learns about Professor Payne. "Nice to see someone who isn't such a cybersecurity freak..."

    [COLOR="#A9A9A9"]"Oh, that reminds me: I gotta get a picture of you before I go. Y'know, so I can post it online with a humourous caption about how butt-ugly you look? I'm thinking something like 'Bro dresses like he pisses straight Mountain Dew'. Anyways, say 'Walter White'!"/COLOR]

    A camera shutter noise comes from TANBot as he takes a picture of Liam (assuming he didn't, like, cover his face or something.) Having secured this, he'll run/jump away in search of Professor Payne.
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    Tempest Row- Leaving a Brick Wall

    Liam sticks several fingers up in some very rude gestures at the camera, and stamps his foot which puts up a temporary hologram around himself. It's static even when he isn't, and not the best quality, but it'll make him look like an image generated by an AI. The fingers are wrong, the face is pure uncanny valley, and whilst Liam is technically recognisable underneath it, good luck convincing anyone it's a real photo.
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    [Tempest Row- Leaving a Brick Wall]

    TANBot takes the picture anyways, leaves in seaech of Payne, and checks the picture while he's on his way.

    "What's with this picture? It looks like it was painted by that artist who thought they were a big shot but only had the lifespan of a high-effort meme. What was it he called himself? Dally or something... eh, doesn't really matter now. Just like him."
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