Description: The Investigation Duo strikes again. Having come with some clues as to what is going on, the pair decide to move on the next step of investigation which unfortunately means a car wash and Ken Masters. Their new found target, a man whose reputation has carried his name through the entire world may find a very odd pair coming his way. Be Strong Masters (Note, Ken does not actually appear in this scene, the advertisers were only using his name to try and drum up higher ratings.)
The call was probably not easy to understand. Lots of static, giving up on the whole voice mail thing, Naerose decided to leave a text message instead. It read simply, "Wow, like I'm totally going 2 b in southtown harbor, lets meet up, Fish is on me."
Fish is on her? But at the designated time "Like around lunch". Naerose is no where to be seen. In fact it would be hard to misplace a red witch. What is there to be seen is a boat, slowly making it's way into harbour. A fishing vessel. She must be on that right? Nope, no view of any Red Witches Anywhere. If Cammy showed up could she be breathing a sigh of relief? Maybe? Who knows.
After a while the boat docks.. A biiig crane grabs a net full of fish. Time to do the cliche dumb of fish all over the docks to sell. DUMP. Flop Flop.
"What the heck is that?!" Someone asks, pointing to the woman in a witches hat who sticks her head out from the center of the pile of fish, fixes her shades and totally asks, "Huh?"
Cammy's entrance is considerably more boring - she's just leaning against a railing on the quay, looking down into the waters looking rather bored. She has her red cloak on, which means she's about as subtle as Naerose is when you know what 'Little Red Riding Hood' suit implies in the fighting world.
Boring, but not bored. The Doll has been waiting for a while now, but is happy to people watch (which is polite parlance for 'spy upon') the various people gathered around, living out their lives as fishermen, or fishmongers, or fish eaters, or whatever. It's all so interesting.
The witches hat emerging from the big pile of dumped fish somehow does not surprise Cammy. Really, with Naerose, not much does, these days. She trots on over to say hi. "Hello Naerose. Nice fishing trip?" the doll asks, innocent.
"Huh?" Naerose asks and stands up, dusting off a few fish and then starting to struggle to get out of the pile, stopping mid way, reaching into the mass of fish and pulling out her broomstick, "Oh, well actually I'm not sure how I got here, lets see, I was in sunshine city, got a new theory, tried to swim back, but ah, then this nice boat picked me up. Actually I first was like swimming with the fishes, I've heard that's a good way to get places.. " She takes off her hat and dumps some seawater out of it, a few fish fall out, which she promptly picks up and puts back in.
"But I think I may be onto something with this crazy investigation."
Cammy sniffs at Naerose. "You smell. Very bad. You should have a shower. Not right now, though, we can talk first.". She tacks the last sentence on lest Naerose grab a hosepipe, jump in the sea, strip in public or do any number of crazy things.
As she has the soul of an investigator rather than a blab, she's happy to let Naerose show hers first, as it were. "Oh really? That is good news. I'm not sure I have much more to add myself than I already knew, but please, go ahead.". The doll clasps her hands together, and assumes a polite, attentive stance.
"Well I think I did all I can with that temple. So lets see, umm, I still think they're using specific locations to gather power or something like that, but here's the interesting thing. I mean, how many places can a perfectly normal witch stand around and do nothing and like somehow end up getting into a big knock down drag out brawl? Do you see people jumping me here? But somehow a couple of people came to that temple looking for an iron chef and started a fight! Then a third person too. But they seemed normal enough to me, I think someone is arranging for power to be used in certain places, that stone hedgy place and that umm.. temple, because I'm there and yea, perfectly normal people for some reason think to look there for something completely random and are dead set on a fight. I think it's some sort of power syphon. So right, that's what I figured out so far, but there is another side. People are supposedly weirding out in these locations, Aranhahaha told me that. I didn't weird out, but some people did, so I dunno, maybe there is something about that, mind control or something.. Weird. What I'd really like to do is maybe find some of the people who weirded out. "
The Red witch looks around, spots a car wash, starts walking toward it, "Oh man, I got a great idea, do you have like two bucks in change?"
"Power siphon. Hmm, that is very possible, indeed perhaps stereotypical of those who desire power.". Of course Cammy knows all about this sort of thing - she shares base space with the Psycho Drive and works for the organisation whose raison d'etre often involves sucking out psyker brains.
"I know a few people who are 'weirded out' as you say. Assuming you mean people consumed by rage, anyway. Ken Masters is the most obvious and easily found individual who I know to be afflicted, perhaps you could meet him, though as he is an extremely competent and dangerous individual, an angry Ken Masters might be someone more to avoid.".
A slight pause, and then she adds, "I do not believe people are 'weirding out' at locations, it seems to me that the affliction or curse is carried by an individual or individuals, like a sort of... chi poison that is administered. Clearly there is some sort of organisation at work here, anyway.". She fumbles around in a pocket, draws out a wad of bills - looks like a fair bit of wedge in fact! - and digs out a five, handing it wordlessly to Naerose.
"Wait here!" Naerose says, grins and runs over to the car wash, getting in line behind a car. She stands on the conveyer belt.. When it's her turn, deposits the money. Probably takes about two minutes for a dripping, shivering Naerose to emerge from the other side.
"Wwwwwaaa. That was much more cold and less pleasant that I thought it would be.. Di.. did you know they don't heat the water in car washes? Well, they don't.. "
But at least she doesn't smell like fish.
"So you and I need to jump Ken Masters, subdue him somehow and try to figure out either from him or from him how he got afflicted. Sounds like a plan, but can we do it alone? Or will we need more help? I have the perfect bait though, cause check this out." She fumbles in her hat and pulls out a soggy letter,
"See? It has the Masters letterhead on it, it's a .. " She reads for a moment "Cease and desist notice... whatever that means."
Cammy watches, shaking her head slightly. Well, she knew it was going to happen, but of all the ways Naerose could wash, that was probably one of the least offensive ways. The doll holds out her hand for her three dollars change, nothing slips by her! "3 dollars back then.". Marz will not appreciate the Shadaloo field agent budget being wasted.
"Subdue Ken Masters. Well, that will not be easy. But I suppose eminently possible, with the two of us.". Cammy did experience Naerose in perfect fighting form, after all. She eyes the lawyer letter, and shakes her head at Naerose - "I do not think that will invoke his presence at all, Naerose. Only his lawyers. But Ken Masters is famous. Easy to find.". She shrugs. "Or we could find Antoine, who I also know is afflicted, but is of less public renown, and I do not know exactly where he is. Rust and Quon most likely know. I could ask Quon. Antoine tends to wander around though, and not being famous, a hard man to find.".
"I think we should go for Ken Masters, he's higher profile so anyone who is up to no good is probably going to try harder with him. So.. Or we could go for more than one, maybe hunt them, start with Ken Masters, move on to An.. whatever his name is. So what do you say? Lets hit a Ken Masters autograph signing convention?" The Red soggy witch smiles, and cants her head, apparently waiting for a response. Reluctantly.. she hands the change over.
Cammy smiles pleasantly at Naerose when she gets her change back from the grasping witch. "Okay. It sounds like a good idea, I suppose.", the doll thinks. "Maybe I will ask someone else to help. Maybe Quon could help! He would probably like that. If not, I suppose we can try it with just ourselves, I'm sure we will be fine. Ken Masters did not seem to do that well when he met me, maybe his poisoned chi has weakened him.".
The change disappears into Cammy's red cloak pocket.
"Oh you could, or I could ask my new sista Varvara, except she's in Metro, I wonder if Ken Masters is in Metro." She pulls a cell phone out of her hat, taking it out of a ziplock bag, calling a number. waiting.. waiting.. "No dice, voice mail. Huh, well, Quon fella might be able to do it I guess, but then again, how many people does it take to subdue Ken Masters? " Naerose asks questioningly. She then adds, as an after thought, "Come to think of it, I'm not sure I 'll be able to tell whats going on with him if we just try to check his chi, I mean, we might have to.. find some way to get someone who can do all mindy stuff.." She makes a mmm sound.
"Like what sort of mindy stuff?" Cammy asks, curious, and oh so innocent. "You mean like Zach? I don't really know anybody who might be able to help us there. Except maybe Lord Vega. Hmmm.". The doll ponders for a bit. Lord Vega does not involve himself with the plebs, but Ken Masters is something of a special case. "I doubt he will help." she decides, though also deciding to maybe ask him anyway, if he has time to spare from Ruling The World.
"And you have magic, it is a chi thing, not a mind thing." Cammy assures Naerose. "I think you will probably be adequate to the task.".
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Naerose says after listening to Cammy for a moment and then finally says, "I think what we need is like a crazy lie detector or those things they hook up to your head.. Em.. P? Something like that." The red witch shrugs a little and says, "Zach, don't think I've actually met him.." She shrugs and says, "Is he a doctor?"
"No, he is a psi sage, but his psi seems to be mostly concerned with blowing things up, rather than reading minds.". Cammy gives Naerose a sidelong look. "Don't you have any truth potions or anything like that?" she asks, curious. Then the doll assumes a calculating look, pondering. Mmmm, there's always Dr Senoh's stash of sodium pentothal... "I wouldn't worry. I am sure it is chi related. I am sure you are equal to the task.". Such confidence!
"What I really want to know is who afflact.. A.. You know what made it happen, I don't know, find out how it happened and then find the person who did it. Has .. Mmmm," The witch rubs her jaw and then says, "Well, we need to first find the people, hopeflly fast and then Ken Masters, I guess we'll see what we can do from there after we subdue him." She puts her phone away, "When do you want to deal with it?" She crosses her legs at her knee and leans against her broomstick, "Sooner the better right?"
Cammy nods at that. "Some sort of scheme is unfolding here. The longer we wait, the more likely the scheme is to reach completion. So... we should not linger, the time for investigation may pass us by if we do.". And another quick nod. "And yes, the objective is to find out who did it, and then perhaps confront them. Whoever could curse Ken Masters, though, must be a dangerous individual or group indeed - but we can deal with that problem, when we know who it is.".
Log created on 10:58:17 03/21/2011 by Naerose, and last modified on 16:43:49 03/21/2011.