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Amelia Johnson, Chumley Metrodora, Drae Blitzen, Kiara Umbrielle
Jenny, Ryan, Drae's Alpha (Greece), Bravo (Greece), Charlie (US Safe House), Delta (Operations), and Epsilon (Greece) teams, Two IDF/Mossad members, local Greek house maintainers, Klevis (Uncle) Kurti, Orges (Father) Kurti, Diar (Uncle's son) Kurti, Arms Dealer van der Merwe, The Gray Man, four airport prisoners.
[6:06 PM] GM: When last we left our intrepid heroes ...
[6:10 PM] GM: The setting is the lovely villa, on the water, in Greece. There are two sets of prisoners. Those from their village and those from the airfield. They do not know of the other's existence. So far, Uncle (Klevis) has been wrung mostly dry. Father (Orges) is up next. The airport workers are untouched. Chumley and Kiara are on site. Drae and Amelia are in their situation room, half a world away, and yet as close as they could be, outside of a VR environment.
[6:12 PM] GM: Kiara: Father is positioned, arms stretched out before him, chained to an iron ring set into the middle of the stone table. There is a blood gutter around the edge of the table that his arms are crossing. There is a bag over his head. The table and chair he is sitting in are both fastened to the floor. The other chair across from him is between the table and the big screen, which is currently off.
[6:14 PM] GM: Kiara, you are wearing something modest and demure like a peasant skirt and blouse, and a head covering. Should you get to a point that you remove the bag over his head.
[6:17 PM] GM: Kiara: So far, the languages used have been English and Albanian. And everyone involved on your side has been able to understand both. Those on the teams in the room who don't have had closed-captioning provided in just about real-time by Jenny, on the screen.
[6:18 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: I walk in quietly, modestly, demurely. I take a seat politely and ask him sympathetically: You have lived long enough to know right from wrong. Why did you choose this?
[6:18 PM] GM: Kiara, in what language do you ask it?
[6:19 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Albanian of course.
[6:20 PM] GM: Orges: I do know right from wrong, and I have tried my best to protect my people from the wrong.
[6:20 PM] GM: Orges: We live in an imperfect world, alas.
[6:25 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: You keep saying protect - but I wonder, were you just cleaning up someone else's mess?
[6:28 PM] GM: Orges: I'm sure you mean my brother.
[6:28 PM] GM: Orges: But we all choose the path we walk.
[6:31 PM] GM: Orges: What path have you chosen to walk, young lady?
[6:34 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Paths don’t just appear. Someone chooses where they lead. Was it you, or was it him?
[6:35 PM] GM: Orges: You might have to be a little more specific, young one, I don't know the action you are asking after.
[6:37 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: I mean that depends ... which of these actions do you think brought us to this lovely blood soaked room?
[6:40 PM] Chumley Metrodora: We can assume Chumley having finished with the Uncle, has gone to clean up, and watch from the viewing room.
[6:43 PM] GM: Chumley: that works.
[6:43 PM] GM: Or you can just listen in with your earwig, and use any of it to continue with Uncle.
[6:44 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Ah yes, I can hear what all of this.
[6:44 PM] GM: Orges: There are too many, and yet, none that I know of would deserve this.
[6:44 PM] Chumley Metrodora: I will stay put, and wait.
[6:44 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Will you please tell me about the gray man then. When did your paths first cross?
[6:46 PM] GM: Orges: Is that the outsider who is tempting my brother so deeply that he turns his face from what is good for our family?
[6:48 PM] GM: Orges: He sends our children out, into the world, they come back with such sinful habits.
[6:50 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Sinful habits don't happen by accident. How exactly does he send them and to where?
[6:52 PM] GM: Orges: I hesitate to befoul the ears of someone so young and innocent with such things.
[6:54 PM] Amelia: Why would his brother even listen to this foreigner?
[6:54 PM] GM: Amelia: That's in Kiara's ear, right? Not just aloud in the room?
[6:55 PM] Amelia: Yes.
[6:55 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Help me to understand - so I know what dangers to looks for. Surely it is better to hear it from someone who has seen it clearly.
[6:58 PM] GM: Orges: I have not, myself, seen it. Before I was head of the village, our father sent him out, into the world, so he would know of the sins of the world, to better protect us from them. Alas, when he came home, the sin had laid eggs in his heart (you aren't sure that translates exactly properly) and they hatched after I stood in my Father's place.
[6:59 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Talking of these unpleasant things can leave the throat dry - would you care for some water kind Father?
[7:01 PM] GM: Orges: I would appreciate that, yes, very much.
[7:02 PM] GM: Orges: Be careful though. Our captors seem ... anxious to keep us in duress. Do not get caught.
[7:05 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: You can't see me right now, but I am listening. And I trust your eyes and ears, even if they are covered.
[7:06 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Excuses herself and exits the room.
[7:07 PM] Amelia: Taps lightly on the desk Drae, I'm not sure how much more we can get from this man. He doesn't know what his brother has been up ti. He doesn't know the gray man directly. Does he even know his name?
[7:08 PM] Amelia: If we send them both home, that's it. But if we send only Father home and keep uncle, then maybe the gray man will return to the village looking for him?
[7:09 PM] Drae Blitzen: I see your point. We may be at the edge of our ability... for now. But look at Father, here. Still willing to see a foreigner as part of his flock.... This might be useful out in the wild.
[7:11 PM] Drae Blitzen: Kiara, do you think you can see if Father is willing to point us in the direction of any other dogs to put down? Or, if that's not possible, be willing to consider an alliance to protect his flock?
[7:13 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Yes we can do that.
[7:16 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Opens the door quietly and then sets down the glasses of water in front of Orges.
[7:17 PM] GM: What material are the cups? And do they have straws?
[7:18 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Styrofoam, straws are paper.
[7:19 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: If there are others out there who would harm the people, maybe we could find help. An alliance to help keep the flock safe.
[7:21 PM] GM: Orges: That was the dream that my Father sent my brother out into the world to find, alas. And that did not turn out well at all.
[7:22 PM] GM: Orges: But, if you need sanctuary, my family can always see about adopting you.
[7:24 PM] Drae Blitzen: Let him know that some people are blinded by the dangerous sparkle and the traps it hides, like his brother, sadly. But others were born into that light, and can navigate the lies of that world with more experience...
[7:24 PM] Drae Blitzen: Or some version of that spiel you can leverage.
[7:28 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Sighs quietly That is a generous offer - a sanctuary. But this world is not a very kind place at all. Some people are blinded by the shimmer of promises that hide a trap beneath. Like your brother sadly.
[7:29 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: But others ... are born in the light. We have walked through the lies long enough to see where they lead and how to step carefully through them while protecting our flock.
[7:30 PM] GM: Orges: Sighs True. And I realize I might not actually survive long enough to even offer you sanctuary, in truth. I know not what he has become involved in, and I worry that all of us will pay the price for his greed and hubris.
[7:33 PM] Drae Blitzen: Checks our resources to see if I can set up a rotation of agents who happen to pass by this area once a week on their way back from one mission or another, stay a day in the area, but not encroach on their space and daily activities, and then continue on to their next location.
[7:34 PM] GM: Drae: Their village? Or this safe-house? You might be able to do so, here in Greece, but ... in Albania? Not so much of an excuse to have folks traveling through, there is no real "through" there. It isn't on the way to or from anywhere.
[7:36 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: You may not know everything kind Father. None of us ever do. But even small truths - small signs - can help us understand what storm is gathering and where it may break. Can you tell me what you have seen? Even the smallest thing can help us protect our flock.
[7:36 PM] Drae Blitzen: Village. I want them to feel safe from repercussions, and would be willing to spend fuel and some resources on rerouting teams past here to get home a day later.
[7:39 PM] GM: Drae: You could build a team, or part of a team, with just that focus, maybe even as a "retirement" or "holiday" track rotation from the other teams, but ... really, the only things to do in Albania, besides visit these folks would be like your first mission there.
[7:39 PM] GM: Orges: What I know, I would gladly tell them. I just don't know what I know. Hopefully it will be enough to keep them all from the slaughter.
[7:41 PM] GM: Orges: And maybe, someday, my brother's body will be returned to us, so we might bury it in haloed ground, and maybe get some peace for his spirit.
[7:44 PM] Drae Blitzen: That'll work. Kiara, let The Padre know that if he is willing to leave out an offering at midnight on Sunday, friends will do their best to keep a distant eye out on his space. We trust him to pick it. It has to have value, and we trust him to leave an explanation if the value isn't obvious. A loaf of bread has value as much as 2 coins. Whatever the offering, it cannot be his last of anything, nor can it endanger the well-being or happiness of his people. We will also give him a way to call for help, and we will get to him if we are able.
[7:46 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Kind Father, there are those among us who still believe in tending to the vulnerable flock, even from afar.
[7:47 PM] Drae Blitzen: We can take care of getting the body where it needs to be, right?
[7:47 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: You could leave out an offering — something that carries value. We trust you to choose what’s right. And if the value isn’t obvious, a small note explaining it will do. It is about trust - that kind that protects, rather than takes.
[7:48 PM] GM: Drae: You can. Especially since it's not a body yet ...
[7:48 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: If danger comes and you need us, you will have a voice that can reach beyond these walls. We will come if we are able. This choice is yours alone Father.
[7:49 PM] GM: Orges: If I survive this, I will pray and ask for guidance. It sounds ... almost too good to be true.
[7:50 PM] GM: Orges: I have learned that things that are too good to be true often aren't true, at all. and the cost is to one's soul.
[7:52 PM] Drae Blitzen: Tell him "Souls were already paid for this. We strive to make that coin paid by the pain of the past sow fertile seeds for the present... and future. We have to be the miracle your forefathers prayed for."
[7:57 PM] Amelia: Off comms I think I understand the sentiment, Drae, but it seems to me that you're being far too kind to them. Yesterday, they were our enemies.
[8:01 PM] Drae Blitzen: Looks at Amelia and gets off comms The ones who fought us and will fight us, those are our enemies Those who believe differently but mean us no ill will, they are innocents.
[8:01 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Kind Father, Souls were already paid for this. We strive to make that coin paid by the pain of the past sow fertile seeds for the present... and future. We have to be the miracle our forefathers prayed for.
[8:02 PM] GM: Orges Slumps a bit more in his chair.
[8:03 PM] GM: Orges: The souls of our children, who have gone forth. I did fear that I failed them.
[8:03 PM] Drae Blitzen: His brother attacked us, and we will weigh his heart as is our right. But are these people... this man and the people he is trying to protect, any different than us? Also, if we are wrong, he is watching, and everyone slips...
[8:04 PM] Amelia: still off comms They were innocents who took action against us. That still makes them enemies. If we can turn them into allies, is that really worth what you intend to spend on them? If not, it's just random charity.
[8:06 PM] Drae Blitzen: It's an investment. At my warmest, we are helping the good within the bad. At my coldest... if retribution comes here, then we have people who may have more answers than the good Father, here.
[8:07 PM] Amelia: nods I also hope the investment pays off.
[8:08 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: You have not failed them, kind Father. Not while you still care, and still act.
[8:08 PM] Drae Blitzen: Me too... but I was taught... painfully... at a young age, you never make an investment you can't afford to lose on. We'll make sure we have more irons in the fire.
[8:10 PM] GM: Orges: Thank you, child. You bring me hope in this dark place.
[8:14 PM] Chumley Metrodora: It now seemsclear no further info is to be forth coming, I slip out, to clean up, and get ready for whatever comes next.
[8:14 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Hold onto that hope, kind father. it may carry us both through the dark here.
[8:15 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: If the chance came… to walk free of this place, to return to your flock, to keep watch over them with the hope you've rekindled—would you take it?
[8:16 PM] GM: Orges: Pauses for a few breaths. Yes, yes I would.
[8:17 PM] GM: Orges: And I hope that isn't my hubris talking.
[8:18 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: The world beyond these walls still needs watchful souls and your work isn’t done yet. be ready for when that moment comes.
[8:20 PM] GM: Orges: I will try.
[8:21 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Excuses herself politely out of the room.
[8:22 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Drae can we arrange my smuggling him out?
[8:24 PM] Drae Blitzen: Dear, most of the people in that safe-house are my people. we can put him wherever you want with little difficulty.
[8:26 PM] Amelia: Are our Israeli friends still around?
[8:26 PM] GM: They are. But they are being as quiet as mice.
[8:27 PM] GM: And the hosts/caretakers have left the building.
[8:29 PM] GM: I believe that is why the "most".
[8:30 PM] Drae Blitzen: Also, these guys didn't want the prisoners... just the information, right?
[8:31 PM] GM: That's all they claimed they wanted, yes. They might have wanted prisoners further up the chain, though, it is unclear.
[8:32 PM] GM: There is still the speculation that they, or their colleagues, were the ones who took out the enrichment process, as well as all of the internet in Iran.
[8:33 PM] Amelia it would be interesting if it was these guys specifically who did it.
[8:35 PM] Chumley Metrodora: I am getting the feeling, it is time to wrap up here in Grease, and start thinking about where this Arms Dealer, and ultimately the Gray Man are.
[8:35 PM] GM: Drae: You do have a line on van der Merwe.
[8:36 PM] Amelia: The other prisoners are still at the same safe-house, right?
[8:36 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: It is pretty unlikely this guys did - he may have been peripherally involved - he is not the one that manipulated these events.
[8:36 PM] Chumley Metrodora: For My part, Orges can be dropped back in the Village. And Klevis, in a dark hole I am sure Drae can find for him.
[8:37 PM] Chumley Metrodora: In case we have more questions for him.
[8:37 PM] Chumley Metrodora: And his son, too.
[8:37 PM] GM: The other prisoners are, indeed, at the US location safe-house.
[8:38 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Perhaps Amelia can question the next prisoner?
[8:38 PM] Amelia: I meant from the airport. Am I remembering wrong, or did we take people from there too?
[8:39 PM] Chumley Metrodora: I thought everyone from the airport were redacted from history?
[8:40 PM] GM: No, the ones you incapacitated from the airport you have, as well, here in other rooms. I don't think that was redacted. I can scroll back and check, though.
[8:42 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Do we have any expectation of intel from them?
[8:43 PM] GM: Well ... they are another thread that can be pulled. As well as the Switzerland school, and the "good will tour" of the daughter of the President of China.
[8:45 PM] GM: My quick scroll-back shows that you still have those four prisoners. As well as the folks in the US safe house as well.
[8:47 PM] Amelia: What do we know about the four prisoners from the airport? They're connected somehow, but not part of this Albanian group.
[8:48 PM] GM: Indeed. I believe Chumley (and Kiara, as over-watch) grabbed them during the plane loading.
[8:51 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Are the 4 prisoners together, or in separate rooms?
[8:51 PM] GM: They are radioactive, and I don’t remember if they had their silkwood showers yet.
[8:51 PM] GM: Gibbs rules applied, so they are all separate.
[8:52 PM] Drae Blitzen: To Chumley: The dealer is somewhat traceable. We can see where that leads, but it is probably time to get you guys home.
[8:53 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Sounds like Silkwood showers for all those that have not had them, and we bring those coming, with us. In shackles, of course.
[8:55 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Could I suggest transportation include isolation gear (headphones, and goggles for our prisoners ... we might be able to do some of the lower level interrogation in transit.
[8:57 PM] Chumley Metrodora: I assume there is a plane here in Grease?
[8:57 PM] GM: There can be, much more easily, yes.
[8:58 PM] GM: They might not even know they are radioactive.
[8:58 PM] GM: You can play it up with some badges in the silkwood showers, if you wish, and that might get them to spill everything that way.
[8:58 PM] Chumley Metrodora: While that may be true, if we want them to survive, it would still be an issue.
[8:59 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Please remind. which team leads are with us?
[9:00 PM] GM: Let me check, I believe you have three teams with you, Hororshow, and Millie were taking the interrogation leads, with Karma held in reserve.
[9:01 PM] Chumley Metrodora: That matches my thoughts.
[9:02 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Millie: Can we get 2 volunteers per prisoner, to give Silkwood showers, full MOP gear, mostly for effect?
[9:02 PM] Chumley Metrodora: I will drop in on each of them during to ask questions
[9:03 PM] GM: Yes, Alpha, Bravo and Epsilon are in Greece.
[9:04 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Drae, do you want any part of the shower interrogations?
[9:06 PM] GM: Charlie is in the US safe house, and Delta is in the operations center with Amelia, Drae, and Jenny.
[9:06 PM] GM: Kringle is the one who is arranging for the flight home, at the moment.
[9:08 PM] GM: Millie: Same gender, or mixed, for embarrassment levels?
[9:09 PM] Drae Blitzen: No, I feel we’re good. let’s see what shakes loose first.
[9:09 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Roger that.
[9:10 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Millie: Lets mix it up. but same gender speaks, till we see a good reason for the embarrassment.
[9:10 PM] Chumley Metrodora: With our folks in full MOP, it should not be evident that we pulled that, unless we want it known.
[9:11 PM] GM: Chumley: One of the prisoners who recognizes you as the person who (probably) shot out his knees, is willing to spill everything he knows, in fact, it's hard to get him to shut up, once he realizes that it might not be likely he is going to survive the experience, and no one told him it was radioactive materials he was loading, he thought it was just chemical warfare.
[9:11 PM] GM: Millie: My thoughts exactly.
[9:12 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Lets start with him.
[9:13 PM] Chumley Metrodora: And yes, I am going to wear full MOP as well, even if I do not really need to.
[9:14 PM] GM: Kneeless child: I was recruited through my new mosque, because of the devastation of my village in Afghanistan is entirely the Americans fault, and I wanted my revenge.
[9:14 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Who recruited you?
[9:15 PM] GM: Kneeless child: One of the Wahhabists in the mosque. It also didn't hurt that I was promised pay that was much better than I could have otherwise made in several years. Too good to be true, but sigh I went for it anyway.
[9:16 PM] GM: Kneeless child: I have yet to be paid, and ... knowing that they expected me to probably die of nuclear exposure, well ... now I don't believe the pay was ever a real thing.
[9:16 PM] GM: So, apparently his loyalty to them is ... quite thin.
[9:17 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Where is your mosque?
[9:18 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Can you point out this person?
[9:19 PM] GM: Kneeless child: The mosque is two villages over from where my village used to be.
[9:19 PM] GM: Kneeless child: Describes it well enough that you are fairly certain you could map it.
[9:19 PM] Chumley Metrodora: I pass this back to Drae.
[9:20 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Once you were recruited, where did you go? Time line, places?
[9:22 PM] GM: Kneeless child: Abh Ahl al-Hadith was the name of the Wahhabist.
[9:26 PM] GM: Kneeless child: We were all sent to a training camp, because I wasn't the only person who didn't know how to use the equipment they were going to need, and to train to fight. which I already knew how to do, but they insisted I train anyway.
[9:26 PM] GM: Apparently there is some arrogance or pride on his part, over the fight training, because he thought they already knew more about fighting than their trainers. If you recall, they were pretty good in the hangar. Not you or Kiara-level good, but pretty good none-the-less.
[9:27 PM] GM: Kneeless child: From the training camp we were sent to a holding location, for all of 2 days of rest and recovery, prayers, and food that wasn't as good as home, but there was plenty of it. Then, well, we were captured doing the loading, and you know the rest.
[9:27 PM] Chumley Metrodora: How many were in the training camp? Where was it?
[9:27 PM] GM: A total time of maybe 3 weeks.
[9:28 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Can I assume Drae is hearing all of this?
[9:28 PM] GM: Kneeless child: Lots of folks were in the training camp like, a lot more than was in my village. It was somewhere out in the desert. I doesn't know where, but it was nothing like the hills I grew up on.
[9:29 PM] Chumley Metrodora: How long a ride from the training camp to the resting place? How long a ride from the resting place to the airport where we interrupted them?
[9:29 PM] GM: Kneeless child: Both were flights, several hours in duration. I knoew this, because I had to go to the bathroom after each one.
[9:30 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Was the airplane the traveled on, at the airport when we go there?
[9:31 PM] GM: Kneeless child: I don't know.
[9:31 PM] GM: It is probable. Jenny might be able to track it backwards, regardless.
[9:31 PM] GM: From the tail numbers and records, if nothing else.
[9:32 PM] Chumley Metrodora: How many people were in the plane you arrive at the airport on?
[9:32 PM] GM: Kneeless child: All of them. All the people I interacted with, and more.
[9:33 PM] Chumley Metrodora: 2, 5, 20, 50?
[9:33 PM] Chumley Metrodora: How many?
[9:33 PM] GM: Kneeless child: I don't know? Closer to 50?
[9:33 PM] GM: Kneeless child: Could be more. I doesn't like planes, so I took the sedative they were passing out and went right to sleep.
[9:34 PM] GM: Kneeless child: Both times.
[9:35 PM] Amelia Are the rest of us hearing all this?
[9:35 PM] GM: Oh, and from his conversation, and timelines, and the fact that he only survived the destruction of his village, because he was off goat-herding, suggests to you he is probably in his teens.
[9:36 PM] Chumley Metrodora: I would have the ear piece in, so you should.
[9:36 PM] GM: You have your mic open Chumley?
[9:36 PM] GM: Then, yes, everyone who chooses to, is hearing this.
[9:38 PM] Amelia: So they flew 50 people around multiple times for this. That's a lot of air travel. Also, it sounds like they didn't leave 50 people at that airport. Where else did they go?
[9:38 PM] GM: Oh, there were that many at the airport conflict easily.
[9:38 PM] GM: Just not all loading the plane.
[9:39 PM] GM: And not all 50 flew into the base.
[9:39 PM] Amelia: Jenny, can you find the flight numbers and trace the itineraries?
[9:39 PM] Chumley Metrodora: The training village sounds like a rather lager than 50 people place.
[9:39 PM] GM: Jenny: I will.
[9:39 PM] Chumley Metrodora: As does the resting location.
[9:40 PM] GM: Chumley: Yes both of those are true.
[9:40 PM] GM: Kneeless child: Both had barracks-style living, and cafeteria style eating. So ... lots of people? shrug
[9:42 PM] Amelia: twirls a strand of her hair while talking It might be nothing, but I don't like the idea of them passing around a sedative like it's standard practice. Was it really just a sedative?
[9:43 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Does this person have anything else of value to share?
[9:46 PM] Drae Blitzen: Looks over the data If you are recruiting kids with propaganda to secret locations, you can't always psyche check them. sedatives get them where you want them to go. It's sadly a classic maneuver.
[9:47 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Drae, might be of value to have someone look at that Mosque.
[9:47 PM] GM: Jenny: It looks like the most probable plane can be traced back to the Tindouf camp area in Tindouf Province, Algeria
[9:48 PM] GM: That is just south of Morocco.
[9:48 PM] Drae Blitzen: Already looking into the Wahhabist.
[9:49 PM] Chumley Metrodora: I step into the rooms with the other 3 prisoners, mid shower.
[9:49 PM] Chumley Metrodora: First one to give me interesting information, gets to survive a trip state side,
[9:50 PM] Drae Blitzen: I want this guy's everything and ask my people to find it.
[9:50 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Before coming back to the first person.
[9:50 PM] Chumley Metrodora: What else do you have for me? Start with your Name?
[9:50 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Date of birth?
[9:51 PM] Chumley Metrodora: And go on from there.
[9:52 PM] Amelia: Jenny, can you look at air traffic in and out of the Tindouf camp area and trace the most likely locations for the training place the prisoner described?
[9:52 PM] GM: Chumley, they might not see a "trip stateside" as a positive, and might decide to take their lives instead of dealing with that ... and you would be aware of such.
[9:54 PM] GM: Jenny: I traced it back as far as I could. Too many refugee movements through that area that are not unique enough to trace further, including all the aid, and those still moving in and out of the camps.
[9:54 PM] GM: Jenny: If someone wanted to hide their movements from data analysis that is a really good place to do so.
[9:54 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Kiara: Would your new friend be able interested in helping get intel from these folks?
[9:56 PM] Amelia: Nods This seems to be a well thought out operation... and a large scale one at that.
[9:57 PM] GM: Chumley: They probably don't have a language in common. Pashto is what is being spoken in the interrogation with the kneeless child, and he doesn't speak English.
[9:57 PM] GM: Amelia, yes, there seems to have been a lot of resources used behind this operation.
[9:57 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Ah ... I assumed they all came from he same region.
[9:59 PM] GM: Chumley: You do get the moment of admiring the op-sec of bringing people in who can't spill anything, because they can't speak the local language. A pity that you (and the other folks you have joined with) have that fluency.
[9:59 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: I can ask the Kind Father.
[10:03 PM] GM: Chumley: As you are moving away from the interrogation of the kneeless kid, one of Millie's teams shows you all of their sievert levels are up at 6-7, so ... you are pretty sure none of them are going to last long at all.
[10:04 PM] Chumley Metrodora: I am back and forth to other rooms as well.
[10:04 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Currently in the Kneeless kids room.
[10:06 PM] Chumley Metrodora: I comment out loud in Pashto: That's not good. They planned for you to die in this. And I am pretty sure you will. If there is anything else you know, now is the time to share... so we can get even for you.
[10:08 PM] GM: Kneeless child: Once they thumb to the other folks showering him told me it was nuclear, that and the vomiting I didn't think I was going to make it. That's why I thought they were never intending to pay. I've told you all I know, may your hand ease my ghost.
[10:10 PM] Chumley Metrodora: We will get them.
[10:12 PM] GM: Kneeless child: My grandmother was right. Enemy of my enemy can be a strong ally.
[10:13 PM] GM: The other interrogates are sure that their vomiting was because you poisoned them, and the slikwood showers are just a scare tactic. And are not offering much if anything up.
[10:14 PM] GM: And we should call the game here.
[10:14 PM] GM: Next run: Following up on the threads.
Post Game Notes:
Drae, your information on the Wahhabist is ... somewhat interesting. There is a fund that traces back to the Saudi Arabian Prince discretionary fund, and is also fed from several charities that ... might not actually be charities, after all, that are pulled upon by at least three different individuals, maybe as many as fifteen of them, depending on how fast they travel, but your forensic accountant has pinpointed at least three withdrawals that cannot be the same person, even though the same account is being used, and the credentials for that account all claim to be the same Abh Ahl al-Hadith. So this might be some code-name or the like that is a recruitment cover, in Afghanistan for the Saudi government, or something more nefarious.