Iona withdraws to the base' lab, kicks out the scientists working there, and locks herself in while she takes her first real look at what lies beneath her skin. What she sees in the mirror is surprisingly human, and yet alien. covering a white framework much like a skeleton are light gray fibers banded together into muscle-like clusters. At the joints they extend into black tendon-like motor enablers. Moved in and amongst the synthetic muscle are yellow-white conduits that seems to contain an energized fluid the way veins ferry blood. A lot of the more internal regions, where vulnerable organs would be, are covered by thin armoring which blocks off vision. Nestled in the eye sockets of her skull are two clear gelatinous ovals.
While the engineers didn't actually repair any of the damage done to Iona, they did clean and patch her up to the effect there is very little she feels she could safely remove. But she is able to collect her samples from the engineers that worked on her earlier. This includes some 'muscle fiber' and frame work fragments, as well as a ruptured segment of a power conduit. After hording away her samples and taking some pictures of herself, Iona calls for her First Generation escorts and later meets up with them. The trip to the Under City is an ordeal in her state, but her escorts keep her from harm.
About an hour after talking with Aiden Diego is approached by Tilly, and he receives an update from her. She informs him of the discovery of Romper's exodus from the Ward, as well as the vehicle's description and license plate number. It wasn't much, but it was something to go on. Something to track. Though you already know where the Jaguar controlled territory is. Before separating, the Corporal asks Diego for the location of the weapon cache he had been talking about in the debriefing and planning meeting earlier. She explains that she intends to send some people to check it out.
Wednesday 3rd, April 2019
Diego
Wednesday morning Corporal Sander approaches Diego, in private with beat in hand. Three is a furrow to her brow as she begins tapping at the tablet.
"I heard back from the team sent to investigate that weapons cache you were interest in. It's clear out. Nothing left to salvage. But the team found a hidden camera and video footage to go with it. You should see this."
Turning the tablet around she hands it over to Diego. It begins with an external view of what amounts to a heavily fortified storage container. Two groups are fighting. One of them is wearing Stronghold's urban camo, and insignia. The other is a battered group of young people who look weary, are wearing street clothes, and wielding mostly improvised weapons. The fighting is brutal, but the Stronghold force is eventually overcome.
One of the youths, wearing a hocky mask and brandishing a pear of metal boomerangs, uses some electronic device to open to cache doors. As the group enters the view transitions into the interior where Diego is able to get a better look at the group and their faces. Two he recognizes as Ren and her twin sister Jun. Other than the person in the hocky mask, Ren, and Jun, there are three teenage girls, and a teenage boy.
The interior of the weapons cache has compartments containing six sets of gear. Not an extensive armory. What is there is impressive though. The group goes about collective automatic varies of mag-rifle, mag pistols, fully sealed hard suits with tactical helmets, exo-frames, and swords with armored cables extending to some kind of power pack. There are even more exotic pieces of equipment that Diego is not familiar with. As the group goes about stowing the equipment away in duffle bags Tilly speaks up.
"They're all First Generation. Can't tell who the person in the mask is, and we don't have anything on the twins. The boy is Jamie Kane. That's girlfriend Anika Montrose."
Tilly points to one of the girls, a dark red haired serious looking young woman who is moving away from the others the work at an case with a biohazard warning on it.
"That is Mel Sarah."
Moving her finger of the screen Sander indicates a girl with brown hair who had earlier danced around the battlefield battering her foes with what looked like a skillet and toaster, swung around by the cord.
"Those three were special forces trained and saw fighting during the war."
The Corporal points to the last of the girls. This one had been using a small caliber pistol during the fighting and now that the fighting was over, seemed to be organizing the others.
"This is Maryanne Fairweather. She was a functioning part of the Dreaming reeducation program. Social engineering to the scariest level. Here is where it get's weird. Watch Anika."
Stepping up alongside Diego, Tilly adjusts the magnification to zoom in more on the girl she mention, who had been off on her own while the others seemed to be debating something. In time she manages to open the biohazard case. Inside is a single cylinder with a vibrant red fluid that almost seemed to glow. On the interior lip of the case is a screen, which turns on displaying Dr. Sokolov's face. His mouth is moving, but the entire feed Diego has been watching is without audio.
After the video of Dr. Sokolov concludes, Anika looks over her shoulders at the rest of the group, which are arguing now. She then takes the container of red fluid, presses it against her next, and depresses a button on the side. The fluid drains into her ans as it enters her yellow-white veins of energetic light spreads out over her skin from the injection site. Her eyes go wide as the veins of energy reach er eyes, it fills them, pours out of them. Her moth opens and she screams, light pouring out of her. The others turn in shock. Jamie moves to run towards. As the illumination pouring from the girl increases the video turns to static.
Iona
OOC wrote:If there is a scene you would like to play out before the meeting with Ascendant Chen, we can do that now.
After Iona's repairs, Dr. Sokolov is going to have her harvest more "material" from a prisoner for her future repairs. We do not need to play that out though.
