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Re: AEGIS Squad, Region 2 (IC) - A Bank Heist?

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Zyzzak
HP:2 LP:0 CND: Toughness -2, exhausted
Scanners: Senses; Detect Structural integrity, Ranged, Analytical, Microscopic Vision
Pattern Array: Comprehend Machines.
Defensive: Repulsion Field; Permeate 1, Immunity to entrapment.
Wrist Emitters: Tractor Beam, Move Object 8


Zyzzak looked on to the robot remains forlornly but abandons the ruined husk.

"Examining structural integrity. Understood." he says, reconfiguring his sensory suite. He'll join the cryokinetic outside.
"Something pithy this way comes."
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"Cool" Luke
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CND: Ice Cold


The bank was already burned, soaked with melting ice, and now blown up partially. Aegis wasn't going to be happy. Maybe Bulwark could work it out though Luke figured. When the call came over the headset to ask for help ID'ing the non hostage, Luke took that as his cue to leave. Others could deal with this mess better.

"So there a shape sifter or illusionist of some kind eh?", remarks Luke stepping out still in his ice armour. He didn't feel threatened anymore, but it just looked cool. "Could we get a photo or two from the camera feeds if they were recorded of the hostages at the bank? Must have something with all the hostages in it.", inquires Luke of the cops assembled.

Turning to the group of hostages, he did his best to calm them a bit while this all got sorted. "I'd love to say y'all can go home right now. its been a trying day with robots, cyborgs, maybe a bank robbery. Who knows what they were up to. Gotta check your faces against some photos though. Plus, I am sure the cops want to get your statements and there's probably some Aegis rule about interviews of victims I forgot. So, if you can all sit tight that would be awesome. Can we get them some coffee, water, or something? What do y'all want? I am sure they could have someone run to starbucks for you or something.", said Luke to the hostages and cops when trying to get the hostages refreshments.

The whole time he also kept an eye on the crowd for any indication of bad actors in the group.
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Cool Luke

"We don't have any good pictures of the hostages all together. They were always looking at the ground or away from the robot in the conference room," Sergeant Handmore replies.

The responses from the hostages spread the spectrum. Some are helpful, some are too frightened to speak, and some are actually belligerent, demanding to be allowed to leave with threats of lawsuits. Nobody comes off as disingenuous, and nobody provides helpful information in identifying the fake.
Nobody looks shifty or out of place. The people making threats seem like self-important blowhards, and not criminals.
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Re: AEGIS Squad, Region 2 (IC) - A Bank Heist?

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Zyzzak

The exterior wall of the conference room is blown out and about 3 feet of the men's room is also visible from the parking lot as well.

Fire crews are coming over to investigate the area but it appears broken pipes from the bathroom have sprayed enough water to prevent any of the small fires from turning into anything serious.
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Bulwarks

The fire is easily contained now and the small fires from the explosion are being doused by broken pipes from the bathroom.
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Evelyn "Bulwark" Gracen
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Before Zyzzak heads out, or over coms after they have separated, Evelyn chimes in, in response to the xeno's remark about looking into the bank's structural integrity after the explosion.

"I'm less concerned about the structure and more interested in the remains of the cyborgs and robot. There may be some clues to be found amidst them. If you don't find anything, give Madame Macabre a hand. Perhaps you suit's sensors can pick up a meta-gene or appearance altering technology at play."

With the fires in the lobby subdued Evelyn set the squad of fire extinguishers aside and joined up with Silver Phoenix, escorting the two vault crackers out along with the martial artist.

"Was this part of the job you signed up for? Getting ditched and left to take the fall."
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Bulwark

"We don't know nothing. We didn't know about cyborgs or robots until the job started. They hired us to help crack open the vault and get something from a safety deposit box. Paid upfront and said we could also have any cash we found. Once we got in, they didn't seem interested in any safety deposit boxes."
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"Cool" Luke
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"Thanks Sergeant. I'll take whatever you can get me even if multiple shots. These people, despite their threats of lawsuits will just need to wait.", he says when informed of the situation.

Turning back to the hostages, Luke tries to get most of them to calm down. "Guess we gotta talk to each one of you. I don't like it, you probably don't like, but gotta be done. Someone had a weapon and used it plus threw a smoke bomb. So lets make this all as painless as possible to get your statements so we can get you back to your families or whatever else you need to do. Once I get all of your orders I'll get one of these officers to make a run. Until than hold tight and we'll call you in for a chat somewhere.", says Luke. At the end he looks at a cop who might know where they can do interviews.
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Cool Luke

"We can take them downtown. That's about it."
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"Well, that's about as much confirmation as one can hope for. Either her goal was something in the room she locked herself in, or this was some kind of distraction to pull police and AEGIS attention here while the rest of their forces worked elsewhere," Harry says.

"They hired a safe crackers when their robots could have easily broken in, they left the cameras running when their planning thus far indicates they should have had that covered, they gave up after the hostages were rescued but before we'd managed to do so much as damage to their forces," Harry shakes his head, "I wouldn't be surprised if we learned that they called in the robbery themselves."
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Madame Macabre

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Taking her sunglasses off for a breif moment to clean them, Elizabeth squints as she polishes the inside lenses on her robe.

"I'll assist you with the questioning." She says when Cool Luke finishes addressing the former hostages. "I just want to make sure that none of them tell you anything that I know to be false. It's so strange...I can't seem to recall what the phony hostage looked like. I know things happened fast, but I feel like I should remember something."
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To be clear, you remember what the fake hostage looked like. None of the hostages look like him. You just didn't get a good enough look at the other hostages enough to know which person isn't one from the bank.
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Re: AEGIS Squad, Region 2 (IC) - A Bank Heist?

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Zyzzak
HP:2 LP:0 CND: Toughness -2, exhausted
Scanners: Senses; Detect Cyborg Components, Ranged, Microscopic Vision 1, Rapid 2
Pattern Array: Comprehend Machines.
Defensive: Repulsion Field; Permeate 1, Immunity to entrapment.
Wrist Emitters: Tractor Beam, Move Object 8


After an inspection to ensure the room wouldn't collapse on him, Zyzzak went in to examine the debris. He set his scanners to sweep for any of the sillicate/technological pieces of the cyborgs. They highlighted and presented 3-D scans to the technician in rapid order, just enough that his quick mind and photographic memory could fit them together like a jigsaw puzzle looking for any serial numbers or marker's symbols... something that might give them an idea of where to look in the next step of their investigation.
investigation: 1d20+16 35
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Re: AEGIS Squad, Region 2 (IC) - A Bank Heist?

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Zyzzak

The cyborgs' systems weren't as durable as the juggernaut's, but the explosions were intended to do more external damage than internal.

There is some debris, but it will take some time to piece together anything that might indicate manufacturer.

One curious thing, the organic material appears to have been dead for quite some time. It is apparent that these were "cyber-zombies" and not cyborgs.
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Evelyn "Bulwark" Gracen
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After Harry gave his assessment of the true reason behind the heist, Evelyn shifted her eyes briefly to Silver Phoenix.

"That is probable."

There was a brief thoughtful pause as she considered the martial artist. Then she turned his gaze on the two vault crackers again. There weren't any pleasantries as she posed another round of questions for the two men to anwser.

"Who contacted you for the job? The woman? Some middle man ? How were you paid? Cash? Money transfer?"
OOC wrote:Here is an Insight check for Evelyn to try to determine if the men are being truthful during her questioning: Insight: 1D20+8 = [17]+8 = 25
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[12] - Move Objects 10 [Flaws: Limited to "Metal" (-1/r), Close Range (-1/r) ; Extras: Precise (+1 pp), Subtle (+1 pp), Shapeable Area (+1/r)]
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