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Harry "The Shield" Mackenzie
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Harry nods, and moves out with Silver Phoenix to search the building for anyone they had missed.
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It takes quite a while to go through the entire complex. You collect a few dozen normal workers who are scared like the others, refusing to talk.

Blood Skull and Iron Skull all recover and test the bonds a little but don't try too hard to escape. Neither of them says a word regardless of how much cajoling or insulting you do.

Czarina also recovers and doesn't even make an attempt at her bonds. She also says nothing, just simply smiles like she has won.

The local police are on scene quickly enough, and they cordon off the area. It takes a couple of hours before AEGIS can send anyone to collect Czarina and her cronies. The affix power neutralizers to Czarina who still remains confidently silent and load the three of them up in a transport to Buckner Ridge Superhuman Penitentiary. The last remaining US superhuman prison is northeast of Atlanta, located in the Appalachian Mountains between Greensborough and Knoxville.
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In deference to Luke, Zyzzak refrains from Phasing through the walls to get where he needs to go. He collects what tech and documents that he can, scanning and uploading for the other Aegis analysts. He'll have much to look at in the coming days.
"Something pithy this way comes."
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Madame Macabre

HP: 1
Cnd: Normal

With the fighting over and the 'clean up' underway, Elizabeth acknowledges Bulwark's request to scrutinize the cyborgs. Upon looking at the half-corpse/half-machine hybrid, Elizabeth does not pass judgement on their makers. Her own "Art" makes use of the dead's remains in many cases, so it would be hypocritical to virtual signal about the indignities of these creations and their creators.

As she approaches one of the recently "slain" constructs, she slowly kneels beside it. Only those near her can hear her mumbling some strange language that seems a mixture of Latin and gibberish. Her thin, pale hands are stretched out over the fallen creature and her head is bowed.

Who are you? Speak to me. I can do you no harm.
OOC: Elizabeth will use her "Divination" ability to see if she can glean any information for the dead who are incorporated into the cyborgs.
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Madame Macabre

Like the previous ones, he's just a mercenary killed on some mission months ago.
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Evelyn "Bulwark" Gracen
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Cnd: Healthy


When it didn't look like Madame Macabre what actively working on her magic Evelyn interjected a question while she watched the prisoners. Her expression hardened as they teste their bindings.

"I don't know how this necromancy works. Are you able to determine what the corpses did for the Horde? Where they have been and who they interacted with?"

Later, once the police had secure the site and the prisoners were being taken to their transport for relation to a propr prison for superhuman criminals, Evelyn spoke over the team's comms.

"Let's wrap it up here team. We'll escort the prisoner transport. Zyzzak, when we arrive at Buckner Ridge, have a talk with their security about what the Horde tried to do to our base and see if you can help them come up with countermeasures. We don't want them taking over the prison and turning the prisoners into assets."

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Metal Control wrote: [20] - Protection 10 [Flaws: Sustained Duration (+0/r), Quirk "Requires Adequate Quantity of Metal to Act As Armor" (-1 pp) ; Extras: Impervious 11]
[11] - Str Based Damage 11 [Flaws: Quirk "Requires Metal" (-1 pp) ; Extras: Variable Descriptor "Metal Weaponry" 1 (+1 pp)]
[07] - Flight 8 [Flaws: Platform (-1/r), Quirk "Requires Metal" (-1 pp)]
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The dead men weren't working for the Horde at the time of their deaths. Or if they were, they didn't know it.

One of the AEGIS officers on the transport goes up to Evelyn after she issues her order.

"The new warden of Lockdown was recently appointed by the President. He does not like us. We won't even be allowed in the facility. We have to hand off the prisoners to the prison guards just outside the facility."
Lockdown is the "street name" for Buckner. Like how Alcatraz is called "The Rock."
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Madame Macabre

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"I don't know how this necromancy works. Are you able to determine what the corpses did for the Horde? Where they have been and who they interacted with?"
Still kneeling, Elizabeth glances up at Bulwark. "They perished before their bodies were utilized as resources for these cyborgs. As such their spiritual essence has no experience of the world after that. What little bit of connection they have now is very weak. They have been dead for sometime and have no great passions connecting them to the world anymore."

Glancing back a the construct on the ground, Elizabeth utters some more arcane-sounding words before rising to her feet.
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Evelyn "Bulwark" Gracen
HP: 1
Cnd: Healthy


The Captain offered a nod in acknowledgement of Madame Macabre's clarification on how contacting spirits worked. Afterwards she turned her metal coated eyes to the AEGIS officer that warned her about the new warden of Lockdown. She was quiet for a few seconds, though she kept her disposition neutral.

"Is there going to be a problem with my team escorting the prisoner transport?"
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Metal Control wrote: [20] - Protection 10 [Flaws: Sustained Duration (+0/r), Quirk "Requires Adequate Quantity of Metal to Act As Armor" (-1 pp) ; Extras: Impervious 11]
[11] - Str Based Damage 11 [Flaws: Quirk "Requires Metal" (-1 pp) ; Extras: Variable Descriptor "Metal Weaponry" 1 (+1 pp)]
[07] - Flight 8 [Flaws: Platform (-1/r), Quirk "Requires Metal" (-1 pp)]
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"TO the prison? Not at all. We welcome the company. But if you want to go in, that will be a challenge."
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"Cool" Luke
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"I've talked my way into tougher places. The trick with those spots getting out without a brawl starting up. If you want to get in their boss I might be able to talk the guards into it, but if they do their job well enough might not be worth the effort.", pipes up Luke. Something was up with the captives or they might just be crazy. Either way short of killing them not much the group could do at the moment once they were locked up. It bothered Luke a little they knew so much about them, but it didn't seem like any of the captives were talking.
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Cool Luke

Luke is also very familiar with situations where he can talk a person into letting him in but is still unable to gain entry. A person may want to let him in, but threats of harm or being fired keeps the person from letting you in.

He recalls a very dedicated bouncer who would have taken a bullet for Luke but wouldn't let him in because his boss gave specific orders to deny Luke entry.
There is no Persuasion or Intimidation check that will gain you entry. You can try other avenues if you really want to get in, but those options won't work.
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Zyzzak
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Scanners: Senses; Vision Gains Penetration, extended
Pattern Array:Enhanced Targeting system
Defensive: Repulsion Defensive Field
Wrist Emitters: Tractor beam


"Have we a need to enter, or is it just because we've been told we cannot enter that makes it desirable to do so?" Zyzzak asks Luke and the others innocently.
"Something pithy this way comes."
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Harry "The Shield" Mackenzie
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"Catching the bad guys is our job, holding them is theirs. Nothing we can do or say will change that, anything we try will only make things worse in the end."

"All we can do is make sure they get to the prison. After that we give them all the information we can, send it through channels that we think they're up to something to be very sure they got that information and hope that the people in charge are up to the task,"
Harry says, "We don't have any jurisdiction, and we can't afford the black eye in the news at this point."

"We've still got work to do. And we need to be here to do it," Harry gives a determined look, "And if they do break out? We'll be waiting to put them back in."
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Evelyn "Bulwark" Gracen
HP: 1
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Evelyn offered a singled nod of acknowledgement when there fellow AEGIS agents didn't give them any guff about escorting the captive Horde members to the prison. Her head then turned to look at Luke when he offered try to talk their way past the guards and into Lockdown. She waited, eyes still lingering on Luke, as Zyzzak and the Canadian Shield chimed in on the matter. After they had said their peace she gave her response to the offer.

"Your willingness is appreciated Luke. Getting inside the prison isn't necessary though."

Then, raising her voice a touch, she started towards the team's V-Tol.

"Let's move people. The sooner the Horde is locked up, the sooner we can move on to other matters."
OOC wrote:
Metal Control wrote: [20] - Protection 10 [Flaws: Sustained Duration (+0/r), Quirk "Requires Adequate Quantity of Metal to Act As Armor" (-1 pp) ; Extras: Impervious 11]
[11] - Str Based Damage 11 [Flaws: Quirk "Requires Metal" (-1 pp) ; Extras: Variable Descriptor "Metal Weaponry" 1 (+1 pp)]
[07] - Flight 8 [Flaws: Platform (-1/r), Quirk "Requires Metal" (-1 pp)]
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