Jhiaxus
Member
*He nods and makes the call*
*You head outside, and to the terminal, you wait for a young lady to finish using it. The Psionics War was 50 years ago, when people with Psionic abilities were forced to register with the government. Most did not, some did, and a war was fought. It is now illegal for any who practice Psionics to do so without being licensed and part of HAND.*
Jhiaxus
Member
*HAND stands for Humans Against Neurological Disorders, they consider Psionics a mental disease it seams. Penalties range from fines, to incarceration, to death, and the worse is live vivisection. There are HAND offices throughout all the major cities. If you are unlicensed and turn yourself in for training, there are no penalties. They think that is humane. You find there is a location 5 blocks west, in the Central Plaza*
johnosevens
Member
"Sure. Let me just let the pawn shop guy know we're going. If he's really going to be two hours, we should be back by the time his antique expert gets here."
I let the pawn shop guy know we're running an errand, but not exactly where, and that we'll hopefully be back by the time his guy gets here.
And then we can be off.
Jhiaxus
Member
*He says the expert will be there, and hands you an electronic tag with the other end on the pistol*
"So you have a record of where it is."
*You head over there, no distractions or disruptions, you see the building, it has HAND with a symbol of a Hand grasping a fleeing person, there are two guards at the front gate, dressed in SWAT type gear, but more futeristic.*
"Halt, state your business!"
Jhiaxus
Member
*They look at each other and then you and get on their radios, by which I mean they just start taking*
*First one*
"We have a code 10-82, out in the lobby."
*You hear back over the air*
"10-82 is disappearing a dead hooker from Ben Affleck's trailer, you mean a 10-81 Psionic Deviant turning them self in."
*Second one*
"Roger Wilco good buddy."
*First one*
"Please wait here, while the Recruitment Officer comes down to um, greet you."
*Ari turns to you*
"Who is this Ben Affleck, and why does he have his own code for dead hookers?"
johnosevens
Member
"He's someone famous, love. Apparently he has that problem a lot." I shrug.
"I'll keep on here."
Then I turn to Ari and hand her the tag key the pawn shop guy gave me. "Go back and make sure the guy shows up. I'll be back as soon as I can. If anything goes wrong, take what you can get for it and ask where you can find a place to rent. I'll be okay here."
Jhiaxus
Member
*The Recruitment Officer comes down into view, she is 6'4" 200 lbs of solid muscle, buzzcut, large chest, face that could turn a man to stone, with a HAND badge that says Stone*
*She looks you up and down, in a non sexual way*
"So you are the Psionic Deviant, turning themselves in for evaluation and training." *she pulls out a pair of latex gloves and snaps them as she puts them on* "The first step in evaluation is the full body cavity search and physical to make sure you are not carrying any bombs, microphones, recording equipment, interference devices, poisons, conceiled weapons, biological weapons, cultures, diseases, viruses and lastly drugs into this facility."
*She pauses*
"Oh and welcome to HAND, We give it coming and going, for the United States of America"
johnosevens
Member
"I'm not carrying anything illicit, but let me leave some of my personal effects with my wife before I go in - just a few things too expensive to leave behind."
I'll go off a ways with Arabella, and... never come back. I don't care that they've probably got a picture of me now, there's only so much I'm willing to put myself through in order to get training. I'll deal with whatever for practicing in private, but this is getting silly.
Jhiaxus
Member
*The recruitment officer agrees, you have a problem though, as does Arabella, you came through a secure front door with a bunch of guards there. The place looks easy to get into, hard to get out. Are you just going to try to walk back out, or do you have something in mind?*
((Failed Persuasion Check))
Jhiaxus
Member
((Not for you, should be plenty of fun for me when the time comes))
*I am going to assume you will mill around for two hours, then go back to the pawn shop for the expert. The expert is a living, breathing, Simpson's Comic Book guy.*
*He turns to you and says*
"Most of the time, I wouldn't get out of bed for something like this, that would be an obvious fake. This one time out of a hundred, it was worth it. This device is unique, one of a kind, and real. You can easily get $5,000,000 for it."
*The pawn shop owner, pays him, and off he goes.*
"My offer is $2.5 million, or 80% trade on what I have and cash for the rest."
johnosevens
Member
"Let me see what you have before I decide. I don't want to take 80% trade and then find out it's $3 million worth of second-hand guitars."
Rather than ask for a complete inventory of this guy's shop, what I'm looking for is:
Native clothes
Native weapons (as I'll have to put aside my swords here)
He mentioned something about genetic enhancement? I want to know more about that, and cybernetics, too, if he knows anything.
I want a lead on apartments for rent, and I'll consider a positive lead to be worth cash.
Books or other information media, especially having to do with psionics and the War.
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