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FUCK YEAH HARLEM QUEST.

Fuck yeah.

Harlem Quest, you say? Sweet. Welcome back, Ellington.

HARLEM QUEST! FUCK YEAH!

I am here to assist in decision making.

As I recall, we've had some pretty shitty luck lately. We lost Big Jim, and had to raise Amigo Prime from the dead, our weapon shipment to the Germans got sunk, and we pissed off Alexander pretty bad. The monthly meeting with the Chinese went pretty well, but that's about all that's gone our way. Let's see if we can do better this time around.

>>14694337
Yeah man, Alexander and Troy. Shit is fucked.

>>14694353
> Alexander and Troy

someone sure likes names from greek myths

>>14694353
No shit. Anybody see that one guy's idea about Alexander at the end of last thread? Almost definitely wrong, but kind of an interesting notion.

>>14694366
>myths
>lrn2history

You say that like it is a problem. Have we not brought down a Welsh Dragon wizard >>14694366

>>14694337
Don't forget, we also destroyed the Dutch around Harlem.

WEEK 15
WARCHEST:
-- 64,250 dollars.
ASSETS:
-- Wessler Building
-- The Boom Boom Room (managed by Sweet Johnson)
-- Henry's (managed by the Old Amigo)
-- The Well Travelled Inn (managed by Sweet Johnson)
-- (14) Holdings.
-- (5) Rented Speakeasies (Unsegregated)
-- Net Profits Per Week: 16,250 dollars.
STATE OF PLAY:
-- Jews: Excellent.
-- Chinese: Peaceful.
-- Harlem: Feared and revered.
-- Alexander: Reviled but accepted.
-- Troy: Unknown

Abe has returned from his trek trying to fly across the Atlantic. He seems to have much better control of his ghostly shape because of this intense need for constant movement. He's no Chandler but he might finally start being useful to you other than to tag along after Chandler all the time.

You have as much influence in the Financial District as it's currently possible for you to have, due to your connection with businesses in the Wessler building and the amazing amount of respect incoming Germans have for you.

Your search for a new ship to buy for your import/export business has landed you a possibility: a small tanker costing 25,000 dollars. Buy it? Or continue to rent space on other people's ships?

What other decisions do you want to make this week?

>>14694412
Technically that was Olukwele. He used our intel to do it, but we didn't actually take them down. The only benefit we got from that is now our enemies need another footpad. Something tells me the Dutch assassins went after us on some greater power's behest. You don't enter into some deal with an angel just to hurt one member of a rival gang.

>>14694425
Buy the ship, begin converting it for cargo rather than crude. Probably cost a bit more for that, but we can't have our own export business without ships.

Besides, the business owner probably wasn't too happy to lose his only ship. Buy it up, fix it up, get it going.

To keep relations up, try and schedule a nice dinner with the Jews. Friendly chit chat. Nice food. A forum to air any grievances or concerns. HIGH SECURITY.

>>14694425
Yes, buy it. No more weapons shipments to war zones until the blockades cool down, though.

>>14694425
Keep on the lookout for additional housing to purchase. Not just in the financial district, but back in Harlem as well.

>>14694468
Rather than trying to force or sneak through the blockade, we could go through the Mediterranean, coming up through Austria into Germany by land. There would be risk for the weapon shipment of course, but the ship would be in far less danger.

Can we have any shipment people donate a bit of their hair? You know, so we can talk to them if they fail. Fulfill last requests. Take their souls and experiment with binding.*cough*

You buy the tanker for 25,000 and then spend another 5,000 on getting it converted so it's ready for cargo. This will take two weeks.

When you send a message to the Jews that you want to have a meeting they say they're busy and they don't mention why, but you get the feeling that they're involved in some tense negotiations. They say they'll meet you in 3 weeks if that's acceptable.

Ro mentions that she thinks she was followed to work today.

>>14694526
Lend her a protection charm if she doesn't have one already, and have Chandler shadow her for a while, keeping a look out.

>>14694526

Shit. Someone's trying to dick with our peaceful relations with the Chinese.

If our hostage goes missing, we're fucked.

Tell Ro to remain inside the Wessler building as much as possible for her own safety, and she's only to leave under heavy protection.

Have Chandler sweep the area for anything suspicious.

>>14694526
Tell the Jews that three weeks is fine. There's nothing urgent to discuss. Just a nice friendly dinner with neighbors.

>>14694526
Interesting. Thank her for letting you know, and ask her permission for Abe to follow her for a little while. It's fairly low-effort for him, so it's good for more training, and he can keep an eye out for any spies/stalkers tailing her. If you ask first, it might give her loyalty a bit of a boost, showing you trust her and will respect her privacy.

That is right, we still have someone trying to kill us, they have a lot of resources and are very motivated to do us in. Can we return the wine stones already! We don't need the fricking church after us all the time! You remember that it was the church that asked our Irish luck cop to find the stones. They might have found out about his fate and decided that the gloves where coming off.

1) Have Ro escorted by a ghost and told be cautious at all times.
2) Have Ro escorted by a ghost and several heavies to keep her safe.

Vote.

>>14694598
Will someone second this motion?

>>14694598

Interesting point.

Are we actually planning on using these water-to-wine stones at any point?

If not, we should consider selling them back to the Church just to prevent any future squabbles. They can't be too enthusiastic about our brand of magic either, so it couldn't hurt to be proactive in seeking to settle.

>>14694603
Second.

>>14694613
Second, but we should negotiate something in return.

>>14694613
The crystals are pretty damn valuable. Hrmm. Returning them to the church could earn us some favor with them. But they're damn powerful.

IF, and that's a strong IF, we return them, first we should make a large stockpile of wine.

I'm wondering if the stones could be used as a weapon. Turning the water inside of a person into wine.

>>14694603
Depends. We might want to lure them out. Heavies might scare the tail off, and prevent us from learning more. Just a ghost for now, but maybe loan her an enchanted weapon/protection amulet.

Just giving her an inexperienced ghost will probably lead to her getting killed.

>>14694660
Agreed. Have a ghost shadow her. Give her protection and a weapon.

But damn, if she's killed, that will not help our cause with the Chinese.

>>14694675
Good point. Maybe there should be some heavies on-call, just in case, but not with her at all times.

>>14694668
That's why Chandler follows her. He can affect things on the material plane a bit. And he knows how to spot people.

FUCK! YOU! TROY! He might have been the one to tell the church! This seems like something he would set up!
This is only speculation, but my gut tells me yes.

Alright, the Chandler votes have it.

Chandler will follow her and you've informed her that her safety is a priority of yours and that she'll have an invisible friend with her at all times.

She's visibly relieved.

You've also started making large quantities of wine, in preparation for the day when you'll open negotiations with the Church to return their stones.

Anything else before we conclude this week?

>>14694723

You're starting to see Troy behind every door. Take it easy, Mr. Paranoia.

>>14694683
>>14694660
This sounds pretty good. Chandler following, enchanted pistol and MPA, with heavies in the vicinity and ready for trouble, but not following.

>>14694685

Chandler won't be enough to stop a team of hired guns, only give her advance warning.

Don't forget our lady Ro is essentially a medic too, so any guys we put in with her have a decent shot of not getting seriously wounded.

I think we should seriously consider selling the crystals back to the Church for a flat fee. After all, those rocks brought a LOT of heat onto Pitt, and it's pretty sure that the Church will get serious about finding them eventually.

>>14694729

Sounds good.

>>14694742
Not a bad idea selling them back for a fee. Make it clear that you weren't the one who stole them, though.

>>14694729
What about a zombie as muscle? It'd be very tough, but as only one body it wouldn't be threatening enough to make someone immediately back down (and if they identify it, then they'll probably try another route).

WEEK 16
WARCHEST:
-- 50,500 dollars.

-------

Chandler has been following Ro for the week. Nothing has happened and he's starting to get bored.

You arrive at your office one morning and find Willy Dean waiting for you outside your office

"Well, hey there handsome," he says, leaning against the door frame. "Had breakfast yet?"

>>14694769

We shouldn't really bring the dead out into broad daylight, even Zombigo.

Our allies don't know that we've animated the dead, and in particular, I don't think the Chinese or our German townsfolk would be down with that.

If nothing else, we should keep practicing and just have crazy zombies guarding the Wessler building from assault.

we could make a lot of money off the stones if we used them to the wine export buisness.

>>14694769
I don't think it would be a good idea. Angel bullets will be a one hit K.O. to Zombigo.

>>14694800

"Can't say that I have, Willie Dean. Why don't we take a stroll and remedy that situation?"

Ask Willie how things are and what we can do for her?

>>14694815
I support this, the whole zombie thing seems like somthiing the chinese would consider a crime against nature

A bit off-topic since we haven't seen him for a while, but does anyone get a "pic related" vibe from our encounters with Troy? I hope things don't come to a head for a while, because I get a seriously bad feeling.

>>14694831
You walk down together to a canteen and get some food.

You sit across from each other and Dean seems to be feeling you out more than anything else. He's less flirtatious than usual, although by any normal standard he's still throwing himself at you.

"I'm getting tired of this laying low business. I'm thinking of heading out west, permanently."

"Unless I had something to stay for. Like, say, a good man. I'm tired of hanging around, dear Duke. It's time for me to get the hint. Except I'm getting conflicting...vibes."

"Give me a clue, lay it out for me, anything." he says pointedly, eyes focused on you.

>>14694881
I've got nothing. We don't want to lose him/her, but we don't want to dick around with emotions just to keep a strategically advantageous person around.

Oh man... This is not my strong suit...

>>14695005
Shit, if we have nothing to say, just say this. It is the truth.

>>14695007
Well, based on the wealth of responses, maybe it's not Duke's, either. Is "stunned/surprised silence" an option?

>>14695024
>>14695005
You go with this response and for a moment you see two emotions quickly pass over his face. The first one is quite clearly Dean's, he's genuinely saddaned. And the other is contemptuous triumph, which you attribute to the woman within him who's taken you for someone too dangerous to hang around since the beginning. It occurs to you that she probably talked Willy into getting this all out into the open and splitting if you weren't interested.

"Well," Dean sighs "I guess that's that."

"If you're ever out by California, you look me up." He finishes, knowing full well you'll never go out there.

He stands up, grabs his hat and puts it on. He doesn't even try to kiss you like that last time he left, like you almost expect him to do. He just leaves.

>>14695074
Well, that went about as well as the "let's be friends" talk ever does. So it goes. We're many things, but an emotional manipulator isn't one of them.

_______ALERT___________

Chandler pops up next to you in the canteen.

"Boss, Ro is gone!"

Oh, damn. Let's bind like thirty ghosts into a tommy gun in a freakish alchemical experiment of sadness swallowing.

Shit.

As he leaves, say "Thanks, I will keep that in mind. Good luck out here, stay safe."

I guess we need to start working on keeping the people we have left happy and safe.

>>14695123
I pity whomever spirited away Ro. We are a very depressed and angry person right now.

"Give me the facts, where did she go missing, is it an anti-magic field? Or did this seem like the sniper brothers kind of dissaperance act?" Lets grab Zombigo and Secondus and head out in a car.

>>14695169
THIS. Here's something we can actually do something about. Press for details, and find out what he means by "gone". Get the ghosts out hunting, and get yourself and the functional Amigos to her last known location.

We need another clairvoyant to track her down.

>>14695194
>>14695169
"Boss, she was just a block away from the building, she was on her way to work her."

He speaks slowly and makes sure he gets every word right because he's terrified you'll blame him for her disappearance.

"It was weird boss. She was just walking and I'd cleared the neighbourhood, no one was following her and no suspicious characters were hanging around. But between one step and another, she fucking disappeared! A single step and she's gone."

Chandler is trying desperately to keep it together. He realises what a big deal this is and he's seen you Ghost Whip other ghosts you're not pleased with.

You walk outside the Wessler building with Zombigo and Secundus. You arrive in less than a minute at the sight where she disappeared and nothing feels strange here. No residual energy.

No trace of Ro.

>>14695226
Would Astral Plane-ing it help any? Otherwise we might have to seek out otherworldly info.

Have a ghost check on our own hostage? If both hostages are missing we can work with the Chinese, otherwise we mustn't let them know.

>>14695226
May I say: FUCK! Do we know any more psychics since Auntie Lissa got Welsh'd way back when?

>>14695226
What can we do in terms of tracking magic, or people? Could we find someone by having a bit of their hair? Could we rip the soul of someone using only a bit of their hair to ask her directly. Rip, as I understand it does not kill the person as the soul returns in about 60 seconds and we can summon full dead spirits from only hair.... TRY THIS PLEASE! We could have Chandler pop back with her soul to get a location on her.

Failing that let us get a clairvoyant on the case too.

>>14695249
This too.

Also, my bad Rip was 30 seconds, we need to train it!

>>14695226
well, the only teleport magic that is not far beyond our leage is not that subtle. We also were visibly vulnrable to illusion based magic.

So, my money is on illusion magic being used to cover a mundane abduction. We really need some sort of detection magic

>>14695260
>>14695249
You send Chandler over to the Chinese part of the District and begin walking back to your headquarters in order to call in any favour you can in tracking down someone.

Chandler returns fifteen minutes later and says Randy is safe and seems to be doing some kind of fighting practice with a whole team of elementalists.

>>14695274
Your rip abilities are only in line of sight so this is not feasible.

>>14695315
Could we, at higher levels, do so with only a bit of hair?

Randy is safe, that is good. Can we have Chandler leave a note in his pants about the situation and to be on the look out for anything strange?

Could we bring back the dead seer and ask her to use her powers?

>>14695338
She's been gone a looooong time. Even if we could call her up, she'd be pissed as fuck.

>>14695307
also, have our ghost do a quick search of the nearby buildings. Assuming that whoever did it is not a badass super mage they probably cant keep it up too long and will need somewhere to lay low while we scour the area.

Olukwele destroyed the dutch right?

Okay, besides the immediate problem, this is getting seriously old. We need to get some damn illusionists and diviners on staff once this is handled.

>>14695350
[insert jilted and grief ridden retort] She has not been gone to long, and we have a lot more power to push her further down than before.

>>14695338
Nope, that's just not how Rip works.

>>14695352
You order Chandler to do two things, first to give Randy some warning about the situation and orders to be very wary. Secondly you order him to begin a sweeping pattern of all the nearby buildings, and Abe helps with this.

You pray that this will help you find her.
----
On your way back to the Wessler you suddenly feel yourself robbed of your abilities. Immediately you're on your guard because you know what this signifies.

You find Councilman Troy walking towards you, seemingly just out on his daily walk with his two hulking bodyguards a few steps behind him.

He displays a genuinely happy smile at the sight of you "Oh Duke, what a pleasant surprise. How are you? Beautiful weather isn't it?"

>>14695382
Ok, game faces people. Betray no emotion and keep a pleasant smile for the snake.

"Yes, it is a lovely day for a stroll, through it feels like a storm later today. What brings you to my neck of the woods?"

>>14695382
Of course. Somehow I'm not surprised in the least. Still, we have to play nice, at least for now. Act like we don't think he's involved. He won't be fooled, but he'll appreciate the effort.

"Indeed it is, Councilman. A pleasure to see you. Unfortunately, I'm a bit distracted at the moment. My assistant, who I believe you've met, seems to have gone missing."

I don't want to ask him for help, though. War with the Chinese or no, the price of his help would be far too high.

>>14695382
unless its his ability whatever it is that makes the anti-magil field is a small easily hidden object. We are also powerless and our lucky items nutralized, very bad situation.

Dont we still have a certain lord pitt bound? the guy who astral-killed the old diviner lady?

Becouse I do believe we still have him bound, and that he might be usefull in his bound state. Get a something of Ro's and have him search for her

>>14695419
Don't even mention Ro, he knows what is going on and is feeling us out. He wants to know how well we could handle him if we try to go against him.

>>14695435
Now there's a suggestion. As long as we can trust him, his power from life might help us immensely.

>>14695433
We have training in Guns. The luck only gives us that extra edge that puts us over someone of equal skill. Better skilled than lucky, but the luck we do have helps.

>>14695456

Trust? not for a second, the guy has expressed a will to kill us, but he is bound so all we need to do is phrase it well and he cant do anything but follow orders

>>14695413
>>14695419
"Please, join me" he says and indicates you should walk together.

"I'm sure you know how it is. It's all well and good to have a lovely office to work out of but sometimes one must walk amongst the common man, and get a feel for what's happening. My father always said the key to winning elections is understanding your constitutents!" he exclaims, dropping some wisdom on you.

"I love how things are going in the Financial District at the moment."

"I understand you have a nice little peaceable agreement with the Asian members of your community? That's marvellous, really. It is. Though, I understand they take the details of that sort of thing very seriously. I remember hearing somewhere that if they leave something with you they expect it to be taken care of." His constant smile never changes. Never triumphant, never gloating, just pleasant, amicable and wholly mundane. His body language and demeanour suggests he's discussing nothing but the weather and the latest baseball scores with you."

"Were anything to happen...well apparently they take a scorched earth approach. Completely destroy whatever you left with them and declare you life long enemies, until either party is left standing."

"Now about that little...continuing hindrance we spoke of during our last little tete-a-tete. Are you ready to take on a more...active role in our common pursuit?"

It seems like we have to decide on which side we will go.
Alexander or Troy

Ellington, you dirty fucker.

>>14695498
It's got to be Alexander.

You guys probably need to talk for a while. I'm going to make myself some dinner. I'll be back in about 20 min.

What we know or can be very sure of:
Troy has Ro and is now trying to blackmail us.

Chineese would not be happy with Ro ending up dead.

The chineese boss hates Troy to death.

I say that if we cannot get Ro back post haste (Again, Pitt) then we should be open and honest by contacting the chineese and giving them a full report. We will most likely loose Randy but *perhaps* we can avoid a full war with them.

>>14695498
>>14695520
According to everyone, Alexander is not to be fucked with.

We need to remove Troy. Slimy motherfucker.

>>14695490
bust a cap in his ass, the longer we wait the harder it gets.

>>14695520
I agree, we don't really have a choice there, but how do we do that without losing Ro? Whatever we say, however we phrase it, a "no" gets us fucked.

>>14695549
Troy isn't to be fucked with either, clearly, but he's inimical to everything we are and know. We have to throw in our lot against him.

>>14695558
We don't have to go along with what we say.

Fuck.

Fuck and Shit.

The fucking bastard is setting us to get killed by the Chinese if we do not help him by taking Ro. If we agree to help him Ro shows up not harmed and if we don't she stays gone. Fuck. Fuck. FUCK!

The second we can talk to Chandler again have him send an updated note telling him to tell the Chinese that Troy has taken Ro to set us up to fighting each other. I can not say they won't fall into his trap, but at least we can mitigate the risk by going full disclosure with them. No good comes from withholding information like this with our allies.

>>14695546
Once we're clear of Troy, send word to the Chinese, as follows, but prettied up, of course.

"Troy has kidnapped Ro, and means to use her and our arrangement into getting me to do his dirty work. I understand what this means in terms of our arrangement. As far as I know, Ro is still alive, and I have no evidence of it being otherwise. I hope to be able to recover her and remove Troy from the scene in one swoop. I understand what will happen in regards to Randy if I fail, not to mention the relationship between our two groups. I take full responsibility for what has happened, and for what now must happen to restore balance. Please consider your actions carefully, for both of our sakes. Together we can be powerful allies. Apart, and at each other's throats, we are weak, and easy pray for Troy and those of his ilk. I ask you not to make any moves against myself or Randy until this situation is resolved. Thank you."

>>14695569
Yeah, but Alex won't wait to find out if that's a lie. He's just waiting for any excuse to take us apart. I hate to say it, but going to the Chinese NOW, saying Troy has her, is our only hope.

removing Troy seems to be a valid option. We can avoid war whit the chinese and might even get back Ro. The problem is that Troy has some very powerful alies (Government? Police? Gangs?).
Since Alexander is a demi-god or something it would be wise to side with him and kill Troy.

Have zombigo kill the gaurds and Knuckleduster Troy (do they work in tha anti-magic-field?)

>Implying it's going to be easy to kill Troy
Guys, do you not get that's he's fought far more powerful people than us just to get where he is? His backers, these two guards, will not be what they seem. But we can try, if you must.

I like Ro. She is a good kid, and Randy is starting to become a man. Fuck!

If we kill him here on the street we get blasted by goon 1 and 2, plus the death of Troy would not take down the anti magic field if it is an item. More than likely this is not even Troy himself, but a body double acting as his mouth. He has more than one kill switch set up if we say no or act against him right here. Fucker has us backed into a corner real nice. The only outcome is death, death of someone and it does not have to be us.

I am starting to understand why he did not leave his tower...

>>14695634
theres no way its going to be easy, but if we strike now(as in before we leave when its just us and his two thugs) It will be easier than if we strike when hes prepared to defend himself not try to diplomance us

>>14695612
Zombigo and dusters will not function in the anti-magic field. Our lucky charms where turned off too.

Fuck, even if we say yes to help him he most likely wont return Ro until after we have done what he has asked....

>>14695683
>Implying Troy's stupid enough not to have failsafe plans

Tell Troy we need some time to think about what he's asking. We need to ask real questions too, like how he shuts off our powers and what that means for us if we support him and he wins. We have to ask questions we really would be asking if we were allied with him.

We also have to think about how our superiors are dealing with Troy, because they certainly are one way or another.

In whatever time he gives us, we message Alexander and we message the Chinese.

>>14695701
The only way we have to contact Alexander is to not pay for a week and wait for him to show up. We did this already to tell him Troy's plans, and he didn't give a shit. He was mad that we'd implied he didn't already know.

>>14695764
Then maybe we should go with Troy because that's a pathetic organizational structure. Either way, we need to buy time and ask these questions.

1) Tell Troy to fuck off on the spot. Send a message to the Chinese and then make a plan to attack him ASAP if they'll join forces with you.
2) Tell Troy to fuck off on the spot. Do not send a message to the Chinese. Make a plan to attack him ASAP.
3) Agree to help Troy, send a message to the Chinese and make a plan to attack him ASAP if they'll join forces with you.
4) Agree to help Troy, do no inform the Chinese and unilaterally attack Troy ASAP.
5) Attack Troy immediately.

I hope that's a fair summary. Vote now please.

>>14695798
3 first. If no one else wants to do that, then 6. Agree to do it. Wait, and shoot him in the back.

>>14695798
3, but we should negotiate with Troy for a while if only to find out more information about him.

Let's at least get some kind of guarantee out of Troy.
"If it's as you say, it's possible all our resources will be committed to defending against the Chinese for the foreseeable future."

3. Get as much information as we can. Information is key!

1

>>14695798
Fffffuuuuu- 3, and hope to all hell old Alex doesn't take the excuse to take you out.

On the plus side, if there's any reason the Chinese would accept for losing Ro, Troy would be it.

>>14695798
Three. If we don't pretend to go along with him, then he'll kill Ro immediately.

>>14695845
We know Alexander has a weakness for Egyptian titties. We should send some hot Egyptian babes to his place.

... we don't know where he lives.

don't agree too much with him, it could backfire.

Questions to be asked:
Where is Ro, what trick was used for hiding her?
How does he his magic-blocker?
Who is Alexander realy?

Oh man I'm late. Gonna be reading down from the top but FUCK YEAH HARLEM QUEST

>5) Attack Troy immediately.
he is relying on us to wait and muster our strength to which he will react by finding some new way to fuck with us

>>14695862
>implying he'd admit to taking Ro
>implying he'd reveal his anti magic secret to us

Maybe phrase it as a resigned "What do you want me to do?" Technically, that isn't the same as saying "yes", it just sounds like it.

>The consensus seems to be option number 3.

Troy is quite pleased that you agree to finalise your deal with him.

He extends his right hand to you, with the smile of a shark.

Do you shake his right hand with your right hand?

1) Yes.
2) No.

>>14695862
Those are too direct and obvious. We need to talk about what our arrangement would be, what his plans are for the city, what his ability means for us magic-users and who his backers really are. We won't get all the answers, but we will get something.

>>14695897
Lift up your hand, and say you have some questions. "We need to talk for a bit first. Need to know I'm buying a survival I can live with here. Gotta talk about what you want, what you gonna do."

Offer our left hand to shake.

>>14695897
Damn you. This would only be an issue if something seriously bad happens by shaking.

>>14695897
No, invent the fist-bump instead. Maybe that won't have the same effect as the shake.

>>14695897
no hand shake

>>14695897
No. Explain that we'll only shake with men that we can trust. Men in politics cannot be trusted.

>>14694800
>>14694881

I know that I am late to the fucking party but previous thread I pointed out to move him/her away from POINTLESS waiter position and make him/her the head of personal spy network.
We were busy doing other stuff, that's why I told to do AFTER we were done with them and went to the timeskip.
Several people agreed to this course of action.

The reason why I didn't tell this before the time-skip was that I needed to go to sleep and couldn't be there when we were done with delicate stuff (I think we were meeting with the Chinese)

Fuck, I knew this was going to happen. That's why I suggested more lucrative position.


I wish someone had reminded about this or that Ellington took note of it....

>>14695911
"Life isn't simply about survival, Duke," Troy smiles, "If you recall our very first conversation it's about prosperity!"

"If you join me, you don't to concern yourself about mere survival. With me by your side and at your back you'll have no trouble at all in this city. Once certain matters are dealt with to your satisfaction."

His hand continues to be extended.

>>14695918
like being bound to keep the agreement

>>14694857
I didn't make the connection before, but now that you mention it... Very prophetic mentioning him, too.

>>14695948
Cough/Sneeze into our hand and refuse to shake. Germs, you know.

>>14695977
Not a bad notion. He'll probably see through it, though. Say something about how you don't want Alex to suspect you're working together, so it's best not to be seen shaking hands and the like.

>>14695948
"Well shit, Troy. You really know how to force a man's hand."

Gesture forward with one hand as if to shake, draw and shoot faster with the other.

I was really... not in favour of attacking here. But if the agreement is going to be magically bound then we may as well. This is him while he's vulnerable as it gets.

When you decide not to shake his hand, he doesn't show any distrust or hurt, he simply accepts it and shrugs it off.

"Ever so wary, huh, Duke?" Troy says.

"It's more than alright, I understand. Sometimes events overtake us and we simply must do our best not to get carried away." He grins. Is there anything that will make this man stop smiling?

"I must get going now, constituents to see and babies to kiss, you know."

"I expect to see you at my suite tonight," he says in tones that aren't even close to approaching a request.

"Do the smart thing, Duke!" he says as he walks away.

You've bought yourself some time and begin to plan your message to the Chinese Is this one (>>14695591) what you want? Or something else?

>>14696002
Shoot. Shootshootshootshootshoot. Once he's turned his back on us, and is as far away as necessary so we can aim at the three of them in turn easily, then shoot. Get a message to the Chinese ASAP. In minutes or seconds ASAP.

I kind of think that Troy already has planned for #3 here >>14695798

>>14696002
That one is good. Maybe tack on something about hoping we can meet immediately to discuss this in person, as well as airing out what both of our responses should be.

>>14696024
IGNORE THIS WE ALREADY WENT FOR 3

>>14696002
Yeah, that will work, but include a request for help against Troy. Say that he can't just be "lived with" anymore, he's too dangerous, and getting too close to making his move.

Also, gather ANY information we can on him. Does Olukwele know anything at all? Somebody in this damn city, alive or dead, has to know something about him!

>>14696002
I want to shoot him in the back of the head and then runlike hell.

>>14696002
Get in contact with Olukewele first. We need to tell him what we are doing. NO asking permission. We're going after Troy tonight. But we might need help, and if not, then we need to know whatever he knows about him. Then see if Olukewele can use his special trick door powers to get us over to the Chinese without us being seen traveling to their turf.

>>14696036
I was one of the people that went for three, but come on. We didn't shake, he knows we don't trust him, he might just be luring us there to kill us. We will _never_ get a better opportunity than this moment.

>>14696002
I think we should meet personally.

Or at least deliver the message where he is in private. We can't afford that anyone else hears about this in Chinese district, he will be bound to follow the honour law otherwise.

Some of you seem to have changed your minds.

1) Attack Troy immediately
2) Continue with plan #3 as voted before.

I'm only counting votes from now onwards and this is the final vote on this. No more takebacksies.

>>14696076
#3
followed by
>>14696059
on account of it making sense.

>>14696076
Don't attack troy. You KNOW he has to have some sort of anti bullet charm. I mean we do, why wouldn't he? I'm sure he has mundane enemies.

>>14696076
Shoot as soon as he's a little distance away.

>>14696076
3. Things never go well when we do something spur-of-the-moment. Time is short, but we still need to gather any possible intel and gather as many allies as we can. The time has come, but it doesn't have to come right this nanosecond.

>>14696088
Agreed

Call chandler and have him observe them from above (the field cannot go unlimetely above ground)

Have him also search for the centre of the anti-magic field, the source if you will,

>>14696088
3. Think he'd really walk up to a meeting like this without some sort of security?

Don't forget to ask Pit if he can find Ro in the astral plain.

>>14696088
Same plan as before, then this
>>14696103
HAVE CHANDLER FOLLOW HIM AS CLOSELY AS HE CAN

>>14696076
Stick with 3. Attacking alone, with no allies, no plan, and no prep time, is sheer suicide. Only attack now if Ellington is bored of running HQ, and wants it to end.

Very well. Proceeding with #3.

You order Chandler to follow Troy and try to ascertain the length, width and height of Troy's nullification field.

Meanwhile you get in your car and decide to talk personally with Lee Fu-Ying to explain what has happened.

You arrange for Abe to drop a written message requesting that Lee Fu-Ying meet you in private without telling anyone and then wait for the chinese boss to appear. You've made it very clear that this is an emergency and there's no disrespect intended in the short notice.

While waiting in your car you see Fu-Ying approaching it, in his younger more Americanised look. He's slipped away from his people to talk with you.

"What is wrong, Duke?" he asks "This is highly unusual."

Speak to him.

>>14696142

look around to see if anyone has followed you, or look out for anyone suspicious.

>>14696142
Punch Lee Fu-Ying right in the dick.

>>14695591
Something like this...

>>14696160
Ignore this troll

>>14696142

"I have unfortunate news. Councilman Troy has taken Ro to an unknown location. He hopes that this action will destroy the reputation between our organizations, and will eventually force me to work for Troy, allowing him free reign in the Financial District.

He has underestimated me, and also you."

Explain to him you understand the severity of the situation, and will be seeking to "rectify" it tonight. Let him know that we will hunt out Ro as if she is one of our own, and we hope that by acting in concert, we can retrieve her safely and ensure that Troy will no longer be a threat to our mutual interests.

>>14696142
"Ro's gone. Troy's got her prisoner. I know what that means for Randy, but I have no reason to believe she's dead, at least for now. I don't know how long that will last, though. He's trying to force our hand, get us to back him. That can't happen. The time has come, he's getting far too dangerous, but I can't do this alone. I need allies. You, the Outfit back in Harlem, the Jews... Anyone who might be able to help take him apart. Working together, we might actually stand a chance. Will you stand with me? Do you have any allies who may be able to help us?"

>>14696142
"Thank you for meeting with me, and I apologize sincerely for the circumstances, but Troy has kidnapped Ro, and means to use her and our arrangement into getting me to do his dirty work. I understand what this means in terms of our arrangement. As far as I know, Ro is still alive, and I have no evidence of it being otherwise. I hope to be able to recover her and remove Troy from the scene in one swoop. Tonight. I understand what will happen in regards to Randy if I fail, not to mention the relationship between the two us and our groups. I take full responsibility for what has happened, and for what now must happen to restore balance. Please consider your actions carefully, for both of our sakes. Together we can be powerful allies. Apart, and at each other's throats, we are weak, and easy pray for Troy and those of his ilk. I don't have much time to speak, I have to prepare for tonight. Troy must die. If you will help me, I will be thankful beyond measure. If you choose to leave me to my own fate, then I understand, and hold no ill will against you. This is not a light matter. This is the moment where everything is decided. Troy will not stop at you or I. He'll keep going, spreading out like a cancer, until everything is his. And I won't have that. I'm going to do something tonight. I don't know quite what, but I won't be pulling no rabbit out of a hat."

>>14696181
>>14696201
Combine these. Make it clear that this disturbs you as much as it does him, and that you're absolutely serious in your intentions.

>>14696181
>>14696175
>Alright, a mixture of these two.

"You have lost my -- Ro?" he asks astonished, the thought unbelievable to him. "It is a good thing you have decided to tell me this in private," Lee Fu-Ying admits. "If you had simply sent a message I would have been honour bound to retaliate immediately." He looks gravely concerned. Despite the youthful appearance he currently maintains there's an ancient sadness resting on his shoulders.

"Because of the respect I have for you and how you have comported yourself with our people, I may show some discretion."

"Twenty four hours," he announces. "Assure me of the safety of Ro in twenty four hours or we will be at war. It will be bad for business, terrible in fact. But business is business, and honour is honour."

"Do not think to solicit my help. Should word of this slip beyond me, I could not restrain my people from their honour bound duty."

"For both our sakes, Duke, I pray to the divine spirits of my ancestors that Troy will not be successful in pitting us against each other."

"I wish this had not happened," he ends the conversation, trying to not sound accusatory but failing. He exits your car and walks away.

Tell him that you are almost pretty much sure that Troy kidnapped or orchestrated the kidnapping of Ro.
Tell him of the events that led to this and his immediate appearance.
Tell him that you think he wants to initiate a war between us and Chinese. Quote him directly when he was talking about Chinese customs.

Tell him that you do not want a war with Chinese. That you do not want to fall into his trap.

>>14696222
Pretty much as expected. Try and score some credit with him by saying that if you fail you will hand over yourself to him.

>>14696222
Can he at least hint or point to someone (who is not Chinese) who can help us to track her down?


Shit, we might need to hire some Mercenaries

>>14696222
I don't think he knows anything else of Troy that he hasn't already told us.

Get in contact with Olukewele. Immediate like.

>>14696261
We'll put out the feelers and get a diviner and some bad ass ghostly motherfucker to help us. Shouldn't be hard.

>>14696222

Fair enough.

That said, gear up.

Spend that warchest outfitting a war party, and assemble the team.

I want Zombigo on the front lines with maximal armaments and defenses.

If possible, I want him to be wearing a dynamite vest. Troy's nullification field might stop magic, but I doubt it would do much good against 300 lbs of dynamite.

>>14696222
Well, that didn't go as well as we'd hoped. Okay, get hold of every friend and ally we have in this city. All of them. The Jews, the German immigrants if we've found anyone promising, and of course, the Harlem gang and Olukwele. They owe us for our kickass work with the Dutch. Contact every ghost we can, somebody might know something. Get in touch with our old weapons dealer, load up. Maybe even see how Zombigo feels about being a suicide bomber.

We may not know how to react to a confession of love, but /tg/ damn sure knows how to react to a friend in danger.

>>14696288
>>14696277
Thirded. Also, undeadsuicidebombermind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYoq6sovr8Y

>>14696269

Is the Jewish Army still around?

They may have heard something that Chandler missed.

Let's be ready for war, but not triggerhappy.

We should prepare for ridiculous amounts of carnage, but still barter with Troy for Ro before we go in guns blazing; once we get Ro back we can doublecross that ass.

>>14696288
>The Jews
Let's get a Golem.

>>14696242
no way

>>14696242
Dude, if we fail, we're dead anyway. One of us isn't coming out of this.

>>14696328

Not likely, we're a necromancer. Anyways, even we fuck up and get Ro killed, we'll just have to go toe to toe with the Chinese. We'll have a decent shot at winning, especially with Randy turning out to be a goddamned badass.

Ok, so we need to get some mundane explosives. Hand grenades, I mean. Serious ones.

You're driven back as quick as humanly possible to the Wessler building and there you get in touch with Olukwele by phone.

"Ah, Duke, for once I did not expect to hear from you. What is the matter?" he asks.

As you slowly explain the situation you're in, he sighs openly and says "I understand. When you were first given the task of taming the Financial District in our name, did I not say that you would be on your own? That any battle was yours alone?"

Moments pass. "But I am not ungrateful. I know what service you have given our Outfit and the aid you've given us in destroying our enemies in Harlem once and for all."

Olukwele outlines what he'll do. He'll send you 75 goons, 10 of them spell slingers of various kinds. However neither he nor the lieutenants of a similar rank to you will join you and he will completely disavow any action you take against Troy.

Your new bunch of goons will arrive in one hour, giving you a total of 125 soldiers.

Now you guys need to agree on a medium term plan/battle plan.

can we hire some mercenaries?

>>14696386
Ask Olukwele where he stands with Troy. Ask as an acquaintance, if not as a friend.

Contact the Jews. I want a Golem, damn it.

>>14696386
Fair enough. We thank him for his generosity, and apologize for troubling him this way. Refresh our memory, if you would: What all do we know about this guy right now?

(Also, inb4 it turns out he's just some idiot, completely without powers past the anti-magic field and some hired goons and mages.)

>>14696386
I have no face with which to express my feelings upon this matter.

>>14696386

Basically, we need to kill Troy as fast as possible. However, the magic nullification field means we're going to have to go heavy on traditional armament once we're in range.

I suggest we make heavy use of grenades, explosives, and other concussive type weapons for our regular goons.

Secondly, that nullification field is only so big, and Troy likely doesn't expect a direct assault.

Thirdly, our magical support should act to break the majority of Troy's forces, or hopefully draw them outside the barrier where they can be slaughtered, when our goons with guns and grenades can then force a surrender on Troy and we can quick and dirty bind him to discover Ro's location.

We need the layout of Troy's building, his likely defenses, ALL INFO. This guy is practically a shadow in terms of strategic data.

>>14696406
Sure you can. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you what's available and how much it'll cost you in this time frame. It won't be cheap, I'll tell you that right now.

>>14696410
"Like I said," Olukwele confirmed to you before he hung up "Troy is the vilest of snakes. Do not think he will stick to any agreement he talks about. He will stab you in the back as soon as it suits him and he'll be smiling while he does it. I do not envy you this situation you've fallen into."

You try to contact the Jews but it seems they're still busy elsewhere with whatever it was that caused them to delay meeting you. They're effectively incommunicado.

>>14696386
Before the meeting, send in some goons to get rooms in the building, interspersed in the hours before the meeting. Hopefully not too suspiciously. Of course they'll have guns and explosives and shit.

Spell slingers and the like do the same, spread out in the streets around the building and get ready to hit any reinforcements coming and swarm inside if they get the signal.

We go in, armed with pistols and grenades, hidden under our clothes, including one under our hat. When we take off our hat, we put it in front of us, grab the pistol hidden inside, and start blasting. But that comes after we find out information and or Ro.

WE NEED SOMEONE WHO IS A DIVINER/CLAIRVOYANT TO TRY AND FIND RO.

While people are looking, take bound Pitt and have him try to find her.

>>14696386
first we need intel, that includes some way to find out what magic shit troy has.

The only thing I can think of for the magic detection is putting Pitt in some glasses

I'm not sure, but aren't architectural plans usually public record? If we could get hold of the building layout, that might help plan a bit.

we need to prepare an attack startegie that dosen't need magic (TNT, Zombie?, angel Bullets?). Also Illusion magic... (Get a detector Amulet)

we should have shot him, then summoned and bind his ghost to locate Ro and counteract any failsafes

Didn't we have a Jew who could make some wicked curses?

Can't we use them to our advantage somehow?
(should have laid a curse which activated if something happened to Ro ... eh)

>>14696494
Oh yeah, I forgot about the angelic bullets. Would they work in an anti-magic field? Does divine magic operate in a different fashion from conventional magic in this setting?

Time until you're expected in Troy's office for a meeting: 7 hours.

Time until you're expected to produce Ro: 23 hours.

Chandler returns to you with full details on the hotel that Troy uses as his base. He informs you that Troy's nullification field extends in a sphere with a radius of about 25 meters. It covers the floor he's on and the one below it.

Otherwise the hotel is simply a regular hotel.

>>14696514
He's our white middle man in the Wessler. We need him out there putting in work. No more sitting on his ass collecting a pay check. It's time to pulls his weight.

>>14696528
WE NEED TO GET INTO THE ROOM DIRECTLY BENEATH HIS.

>>14696455
A diviner, an illusionist, explosives and a mundane fighter with experience going up against all sorts of supernatural tricky shit.

>>14696455
>Sure you can. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you what's available and how much it'll cost you in this time frame. It won't be cheap, I'll tell you that right now.
We just need good fighters/soldiers who do not use magic or magical equipment.
(of course, we should keep in mind that Troy might remove the anti-magic bullshit when the shit hits the fan)


Right

Pitt might know someone who can help us locate her.

lets go to the City Planning department. In the 12th floor was a very helpful man in explaining the key structural Points of the Wessler Building. We might have to buy another temporary architect's license.

>>14696541
Unless you have some other special request in what you're looking for with mercenaries, I'll save you the money and tell you that you've already got those in abundance in your goons.

>>14696539
These are included in some of the people that Olukwele sent over.

The Diviner is a middle aged black man whose milky blue eyes seem to stare right through you. His name is Joe.

"I have looked for this young lady you told me about."

"I have been unable to find her," he says apologetically. Joe shrugs and asks if you want anything else.

>>14696594
Yeah, we want him working on Troy's holdout and the surrounding neighbourhood.

>>14696594
Ask all the magic users, scholars, whoever, if they've heard of the anti magic kind of shit that Troy uses.

>>14696528
>Otherwise the hotel is simply a regular hotel.

Lets just blow up the hotel and crash it down.

Or at least blow up the floor below his or something.


Did Chandler tell you where exactly the center of his field was? That was the main reason I asked him to scan it, so that while he is outside, we can determine where that thing comes from.

Seriously, get someone into the room directly beneath Troy's suite. Could be he has anti magic shit in there. Or goons. Or Ro! Either way, we could still surprise him from below with explosives or shit if we have to.

>>14696599
Joe lays down on the ground in front of you, with his back to the ground and his arms spread out.

He closes his eyes and you feel some shift in the space around you, though you can't tell why or what's happened.

15 minutes later Joe returns from wherever he went and gives you some more details on the Hotel.

Somehow, he's figured out that all the employees are goons in disguise who work for Troy. The place isn't as open as it seems

The surrounding buildings are occupied by various offices and have nothing to do with the Hotel or Troy.

>>14696594
Ask him to feel out Troy's base, but pull out if he feels the magic equivalent of black ICE (like what Pitt did to our first diviner). Failing that, ask him to get a feel for any minds who might know something about Troy, so we can get in touch with some of them. I hate surprises.

>>14696631
Ok, good to know. All Troy up in that bitch.

Summon Pitt. Tell his ass that he's gonna ghost/astral rape some motherfuckers.

>>14696631
Huh. So much for taking him by surprise. Not like that was ever going to realistically happen anyway.

>>14696617
Chandler determined that the centre of the nullification field is on Troy's body.

>>14696620
Chandler already told you that the room underneath is covered by the nullification field.

>>14696606
Since your first meeting with Troy you've been doing research on this and you've come to discover a few facts.

There are a few ways this effect is created. Either someone is a natural nullifier and can manipulate their own nullification field or a nullifier's spirit has been used somehow to create an item with the nullification properties.


>Time until meeting with Troy: 3 hours

>Time until Ro must be produced: 19 hours

How good were sniper rifles back then? Can we have people positioned on the surrounding rooftops? Probably won't do any good, but since we don't know anything about him, even the windows might be a valid escape route for him. Take no chances, take no prisoners.

1) Attack before the meeting is supposed to take place.
2) Go to the meeting and begin the attack during the meeting.
3) Attack after the meeting is supposed to take place (specify whether to go or not).

Vote.

>>14696594
>Unless you have some other special request in what you're looking for with mercenaries, I'll save you the money and tell you that you've already got those in abundance in your goons.

How about snipers?
Do we have snipers?
(were there sniper rifles, you know, scoped long barrel sniper which is associated with the word "sniper" in that period?)

We should surround the building with a dozen of them.
Put them on roof-tops and what-not.


Also, inform the magic users that Ouekewele provided of 25 meter radius.


Also, get body armor for yourself and your goons. At least the more important ones like Amigos.
Zombrigo should stay behind. No telling what anti-magic field can do to him.

>>14696681
How are Pitt's astral fuckery abilities?

Plan now being, Duke, a few of his security thugs come up, armed with pistols and grenades. Other small shit.

They go up for the meeting. During the meeting, Pitt comes in (if he can, otherwise fuck this idea), and starts Astral Dragoning bitches all over the hotel. Then come our thugs, swarming all over the bitch.

If anyone can fly, they do so, coming up to the suite and blasting on in through the windows with weapons. Everyone looks for a Chinese girl during the assault.

>>14696704
Go at the specified time, but don't attack "during" the meeting. Attack INSTEAD OF the meeting. We're going in full force, everyone at our disposal involved. Apparently we can't get any intel, so we have to do it this way.

Actually, does anybody know if he has charmers on-staff? Last thing we need is our own guys magicked into turning on us.

>>14696717
>How are Pitt's astral fuckery abilities?

Non existent. Ghosts are ghosts, mere shells of what they used to be, a force of personality and nothing more. Magicians might have more will power and become more powerful ghosts than a regular human but they don't retain any abilities. We established this way back when you ghostified the first O'Leary - he didn't retain any of his Luck.

2. Gives us the best chance to work down the building to find Ro. If she is not at the meeting itself. If so 3

>>14696717

Finding Ro should be our NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. During the battle, Joe should continue to do his remote viewing thing to search for her.

Seriously, the last thing we need is an honor war with the Chinese, especially since those fuckers won't give up.

Can we have the ghosts search through the hotel before the battle? Every room, every wall.

>>14696760
This is why we have to go to the meeting first. She could be inside the nullification field, and he could just shoot her straight off.

>>14696681
>Either someone is a natural nullifier and can manipulate their own nullification field

Can a nullifier also be a powerful magic user (of any kind)?

Makes me think of a null mutants from X-men. Those don't have any special powers aside from making other mutants powerless, right?


Also, guys, we have not taken into consideration that he might threaten to kill Ro or something cliche like that

Okay, missing the immediate point, but Ro's Lee Fu-Ying's daughter? Shit, man, when they give us hostages, they don't dick around! That's some serious trust he placed in us, so let's not disappoint.

>>14696774
Of course we've all considered it, but do you have anything we can do about it? We don't exactly have an overabundance of options here.

You guys seem to be saying #2 but do you want to have the meeting first and attack during it or attack when he expects you to arrive?

>>14696712
You've hired a group of genuine commando snipers, 6 of them - 3 shooters and 3 spotters. For the handsome price of 15k.

What instructions do you want to give them?

>>14696775
When was that said?

>>14696809
Tricky. We don't have the element of surprise, so our odds don't improve if we attack midway through the meeting, and it'll mean we have less guys with us while facing Pitt, but OTOH, he might not have a chance to off Ro that way...

Play along, but attack during the meeting. If he can possibly turn our allies against us, we don't want our whole army in the room with us.

>>14696809

Sweet,
Commando snipers

Position them in different places around the hotel.
Have them have the best view of the windows into his hotel room.

We should try to get him to fight outside but if we can't manage that then nothing else to do.
Also, consider the political fallout of the shit we are going to pull.
This isn't just another gang-fight. We are planning to off a senator. Holy shit, we are going to have FBI or whatever on our tail after this.

>>14696809
Have them look for Ro and kill anything not black around her.

>>14696809

If they ever get a clear shot at Troy, TAKE IT.

We can get Ro's location much much faster by binding that fucker and making him spill the beans.

>>14696816
>"You have lost my -- Ro?" he asks astonished, the thought unbelievable to him.

Admittedly, the "daughter" part was never said, but considering his age and Ro's age, how many other ways could that sentence have ended? Besides, even if I'm wrong, she's SOMEONE important enough to get that reaction. That says family or lover. My point about the level of trust he showed stands.

Alright: Choose two bodyguards who will go in with you to the lion's den (and nullification field), while the rest of your forces surround the building and prepare to attack when you give the signal.

Then we'll start this shit.

>>14696850
Councilman, not Senator. The reaction won't be any better for the difference, but at least it will be slightly lower profile. Notice, I said SLIGHTLY.

>>14696882

shit

Man

why would he send such valuable hostage?
Dem Chinese man, dem Chinese

>>14696896
Well, Amigo Secundus is obvious. For the other... With Jim dead, Ro captured, and the other Amigos magically animated or in no shape to fight, we don't really have anybody left.

>>14696896

Choose two of the burliest fuckers we have, and kit them out with some BIG guns and vests. Wouldn't hurt to have them wearing the best in magical protection too. Definitely wouldn't hurt.

I'd love to take Zombigo, shame that he won't work in the null field.

>>14696896
What's the signal, and how do we send it? It might be better to have an agreed-upon time.

>>14696896
Oh wait

aquire severa RPGs, grenade-launchers or bazzookas and give them to the best goons

We never know if we need to level the whole damn place.

Also, radios.
We can't rely on ghost messages right now.

grenades, grenades would be good too.

>>14696933
I'm assuming the signal will be you tugging on Chandler and Chandler relaying that to Zombigo. Unless you want it to be something else.

>>14696938
When you absolutely, positively have to take every last motherfucker in the building with you, accept no substitutes.

>>14696896
Amigo Secundus, of course. Can we equip him with our best protection that we aren't using already for ourself and some kind of machine pistol?

Take the biggest goon sent to us and kit him similarly to Amigo Secundus with orders to tear apart Troy once we attack.

>>14696944
I'm the worst DM ever, I forgot about my own nullification field which would stop you from doing this.

IGNORE MY RETARDEDNESS PLEASE.

The sound of you firing your first gun shot, will that do? Chandler can watch from the outside and when he sees you fire he'll relay that to Zombigo.

>>14696960

Sounds good.

>>14696944
Depends. Can we do that in an anti-magic field? If we can that's the best approach, since there's no other way to prevent us from sending the signal out.

Also, an "alternate signal" will be if any of the snipers or ghosts see him off us. Level the fucking building if that happens.

Don't forget body armor

>>14696919
We might want to choose someone from the goons that Owekle send us.
Someone who is the best.

>>14696960
Fuck you, you're an awesome DM.

We should tell the rest of our men to systematically sweep the hotel and kill any hostile employees as soon as we start firing. Zombigo should lead the charge.

Why are we even going to the damn proposed meeting?

Lets not go into serpents den.

>>14696933
Wave to the snipers?

>>14696960
Okay, I guess you answered my question while I wrote that last post. I don't know, I'd rather go with something less obvious. Something that surprises him when they hit first, then lets us shoot him while he's surprised. At least one shot won't be expected.

>>14696983
We need to find Ro's location. The easiest way will be to kill Troy and summon and bind him.

>>14696983
Because if we just attack the lobby with nobody facing him directly, he'll just have Ro killed before we can get to him.

Can we rig up some kind of flashbang device?

>>14696990
If we go with a surprise first shot, we should go with the idea of a gun hidden under our hat. We take it off, hold our hat in front of us, and begin blasting. Of course, we have other guns as well, but that will be the first shot.

If we bring another nullification amulet, will it cancel out his?

Come the hour, come the man. The man's name in this case is Duke.

You arrive at the hotel and everything seems to be normal inside. Receptionists and bell clerks seem to be doing their level best to do their jobs and civilians mill about as they're wont to do.

What no one realises is that you have this hotel surrounded with a ridiculous number of goons and magicians, snipers and ghosts.

You go in with Secundus and an intimidating goon named Reggie, people refer to him as a badass killer but you've never seen him in action. Tonight yo uwill. You go up the elevators. The two men who have your back are outfitted with the best defenses available to you (MPPAs) and automatic weapons hidden underneath their jackets.

When you arrive at the suite you find Troy and his two bodyguards standing in an almost identical position to how you saw them the very first time you arrived at this hotel. They're milling over by the bar talking to each other. At the sound of the elevator opening up Troy turns to you and smiles, unaware that he's being watched by Chandler from the outside. Chandler waits for your signal.

"So glad to see you could make it," Troy shouts to you. He walks casually across the room.

"How was your journey here? Not too much traffic I hope?"

>>14697040
Never assume this asshole's "unaware" or "unsuspecting" of anything. Even if Ellington himself say so.

"About as well as can be expected this time of day. I see you're still living the good life up here."

>>14697040
Walk up casually. We're here for a meeting of course. Don't remove our hat yet, shrug. "Same as always, I figure. Couldn't help but worry about my Chinese friend and wonder where she happened to get off to, though."

>>14697040
Most expedient. I take it our meeting tonight is not a social call, Senator.

>>14697040
For now, play nice, make small talk, and wait for a suitable time to take the shot. And by suitable, I mean a time when we can make an ice-cold one-liner just before or after.

>>14697088
>>14697083
>>14697061
>>14697053
>>14697061
>>14697053
Troy smiles wider than you've ever seen him smile.

"Your Chinese friend? Are you quite serious, Duke?"

"The moment you decided not to shake my hand, I came back here and ordered that pretty little girl's head sent back to her grandfather, Lee Fu-Ying."

"Now if you're foolish enough to move against me, I will ruin you. If you by some quirk of fate you manage to destroy me, well, it won't be cheap and I get the feeling it won't take the Chinese long to mop up what's left of your organisation and kill you once and for all."

"Wouldn't you say the smart thing to do would be to walk on out of here and go back to your silly little tower so you can prepare your defenses against their attack? Who knows, maybe they're doing it right now while you're here?"

Troy chortles at his cleverness. He practically giggles.

>>14697088
OH MAN, I KNOW THE PERFECT ONE LINER. THE ONE ABOUT NO RABBIT OUT OF A HAT. The thing I posted back in the first thread and that the mods deleted because of the N - WORD.

You know what I'm talking about Ellington. YOU KNOW THAT WOULD BE THE PERFECT TIME TO SHOOT TROY WITH A GUN HIDDEN UNDER OUR HAT!

>>14697105
this is where we shoot him in the head, like we should have done at the meeting.

>>14697040
"What a nice office you have, Senator. The prosperous life looks as good as you said it was. Now that I'm here, let's talk about the specifics of the deal you offered earlier. Forgive my suspicion, but in our day and age, the likening of politicians to devils is a very real prospect."

>>14697105
FUCK! START NOW AS HE TURNS AND POURS A DRINK!

>>14697107
That'll work just fine.

>>14697105
And now would be the time. Speech it up first, though, make it clear that you aren't playing his game anymore. Take the shot, several times, during the speech, rising in volume with each part. Pissed now.

>>14697105

"Now, Troy, don't you think -" SHOOT HIS WHITE ASS NOW.

YOU SHOOT HIM.

>>14697105
Knew it, said we should have shot him as soon as we didn't shake his hand.

i know i'll be outvoted but i say we walk away and do as he suggests. we simply cannot take on troy and the chinese at the same. a two front war will end us.

>>14697105
"Let me tell you somethin', Councilman Troy. My father, he was a magician. He'd do all the tricks, all the spells. Pulling rabbits outta hats,"

Duke takes his hat off, holding it in front of him,

"turnin' a feather duster into some flowers. Made some good money outta it. Then one day, my old man gets a job to do a stag party for this white nigga. Gonna get married the next day, they tell him. Want to see some magic.

So my daddy goes over to this old house outside the city. And there's a buncha cars outside it, and lights shinin' through the window, so he thinks nothing of it. When he goes in, he sees all the white faces. And since he was hired by a white boy, he thinks nothin' of it and sets up to show them a bit of his talent.

And then they take out the rope and show him the tree. And try as he might, my old man couldn't turn that rope into a snake and make it slither away.

These hands of mine? They ain't my daddy's, but they come from him. They're like his. They're better than his. Am I a magician? Might be. But I ain't pullin' no rabbit outta this hat."

And shoot the fucker.

Hold on, guys. Take your hat off, act like you're accepting his comment, turn to leave respectfully. Just before you leave, turn back toward him. "Oh, there is one more matter..." SHOOT WITH EVERYTHING YOU HAVE.

Unload everything we have in the room into Troy.

Send half the men we have outside back to our HQ as fast as they can.

>>14695865
I told you all, give him time and he will fuck with us more.

>>14697170
The HQ is pretty okay for now. It has the defense feature that anyone trying to do harm to it is drained, and the energy used to repair. The only danger is to people inside, and most of them are here with us.

We should leave as fast as possible back to our HQ.

>>14697170
Don't bother. We will kill him here and then deal with the fallout with the Chinese as calmly as possible.

Are we fuck leaving now. We fucked up by delaying and being wishy-washy before, and we're not fucking doing it again.

Ventilate this slimy son of a bitch.

>>rancorous outhess

>>14697160
>>14697165
Either one of these will work just fine. Matter of fact, I'm glad that one speech got canned against O'Leary. It was too good for somebody so small-time. It needed to be saved for a Big Bad. Fits much better here.

If he really has killed Ro, which I am inclined to believe, then shit is fucked. We could always try and bring her back, but that might not help matters much.

damnit you retards, every time we fuck around instead of shooting him things get worse. dont give him a fancy speach, shoot him in the face a few times in the face and THEN say somthing witty. Have none of you read the evil overlord list?

>>14697216
This. This fucker is too treacherous to let live.

>>14697216
We haven't been fucking around until now, we've been putting up with his shit while we bided our time. That time is now.

>>14697232
We have. We publicly showed that we weren't on board and then let him walk away. Fucking retarded.

You make your grand speech, wait for your moment and then shot Troy right in the forehead. There was no way that was ever going to miss with your luck and your skill combined.

Your two allies in the room get the message and begin firing, which Chandler notices immediately and makes him zoom down to ground level and appear on the material plane to Zombigo so the main assault can begin.

Your bullets fly across the across room and tear massive holes into Troy and his bodyguards. Their legs, torsos and arms are destroyed in a mash of blood and guts. And still they remain standing, which is hugely odd.

When you cease firing for a second to reload, Troy's toothy grin is still apparent and it says to you "So is that the choice you've made?"

Somehow the skeletal arm remaining on Troy reaches inside the body somehow and removes a black pebble. He grips the pebble and crushes it, turning it into black sand that falls to the ground.

Suddenly the nullification field is gone, your magic is back and you feel a boost of confidence.

Until you notice that in front of you stand an Elf Lord and two of his sworn Knights, clad in medieval armour and wielding swords. Troy appears taller than he was before, his ears pointy and his face suddenly more cruel and alien than you've ever seen it before. His eyes seem to glow blue and his silver hair floats - charged by some fey energy you can't detected.

The Elf Lord you've pitted yourself against smiles, taking the moment to enjoy the look on your face.

>>14697261
There will be no hint of fear only rage. Angel bullets right to the heart.

>>14697261
Ooookay. We knew he wasn't human, but what's an Elf Lord? What do we know about these things, besides powerful, tricksy and untrustworthy? And, you know, the fact that they can regenerate?

>>14697261
"Go suck an eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg." And toss a grenade at him. Then evacuate out of the room and prepare for magic.

See if we can't get somewhere secure and summon Khalazar.

>>14697277
Cold iron is said to hurt true fey. Is that true here?

>>14697261
We did load up the angelic bullets, right? Take this fucker. Have your guys get the two guards first, though. The fewer enemies, the better, even if it's just the weaker ones that go.

>>14697261

Rip, soulwhip and keep firing! We need those snipers firing NOW.

Killteams should rush the Hotel NOW, and Zombigo needs to get in that elevator going up.

We need to back rowards the elevator as fast as possible.

What do we know about Elves? Fucking Elves.

On that note I have to get going. We'll continue on Tuesday.

Good night.

Hey, Ellington, now that it's too late to change our minds, what would have happened to us if we'd shook his hand? Was there some kind of badness spell, like we'd expected?

>>14697304
Oh, dude, you suck! Might as well stop on a cliffhanger, though, long as you don't have to leave for a couple of weeks or something.

>>14697313
Nope. He knows how seriously human beings take the shaking of hands so he was just testing you. He would've gone back to the Hotel quite happy with recruiting you.

>>14697334
Daaaaaaaaaaaaayum.

oh fuck yes harlem quest finally back, will check the archives to get up to date soon enough.

ellington pulled some hardcore left turns in the last couple of threads

shit is getting tense

motherfucker is bluffing. time to start shooting.

>>14697334
I will repeat: Dude, you suck! Oh well, we should have known you wouldn't have TPK'd us over that. Our bad. Great writing, as always.

Archived at sup/tg/. Go vote.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/14694234/

>>14697373
>slowpoke.jpeg
disregard this, I should f5 more.

OP, you could probably make some money out of this if you wrote it down and made it into a novel

Just sayin

FUCKING ELF LORDS. WHY THE GOT TO FUCK OUR SHIT UP?

Important question: Does Alexander know that Troy is an Elf in disguise? Would it make a difference to him?

>>14697373
We did. It didn't take.

>>14697403
My guess, an elf lord as well.

>>14697415

>>14697403
To the first, almost definitely. It's Alexander. We don't know who or what he is, but we know he'd stomp our shit even faster than Troy. Maybe the elf lord thing is the source of his hate, maybe not. Depends on what Alex really is. He damn sure ain't anything human.

>>14697418
I dunno about that one. If old Alex is an elf as well why would Olukwele be afraid of him? Olukwele didn't seem to be afraid of Troy, he just wanted to not have any entanglements with him and warned us about how treacherous he was. Alexander on the other hand Olukwele was outright not willing to move against on any grounds.

The only way I see Alex being an elf is if he's some kind of elf king as opposed to Troy's elf lord.

Honestly, I get the feeling we're well and truly fucked.

ELVES.

FUCKING ELVES.

>>14697441
>ELVES.

>FUCKING ELVES.

couldn't agree more

>>14697437
Alexander?

More like Oberron.

Thanks for the great quest as always, Ellington! Of course, if not for this, I might have actually gotten this damn term paper done today. Oh well, guess it's a late night for me. Totally worth it.

>>14697437
>>14697418
Unlikely. It seems like we're going with the classic elves, not Tolkien elves. That being the case, he's way too LN for the seelie/unseelie.

>>14697467
Oberon you say? I will kill him.

I'll kill them all.

And in death - bind them.

>>14697492

a disturbing thought occurs to me. if Troy = seelie how fucked up and crazy do you think unseelie will be? holy shit

>>14697504
Why do you think I'm hoping to all fuck he's as unseelie as they come?

Remember when I said that the reason why Troy uses anti magic field around him is that he is a magic user so powerful that it is impossile to conceal it?

yeah...


Also, if anyone feels like it, someone could search up on elf lore (the scary, traditional elves) to find out their weaknesses.
Also
damn, I really hope he was lying/bluffing about Ro. Because he knows that Chinese will go to war even if she was just kidnapped (their leader evem told us so). And having her hostage would give him opportunites in the future.
I REALLY HOPE HE WAS BLUFFING, ELLINGTON. YOU HEAR ME?

I'm still surprised how unanimous we've been with Troy. Didn't trust him from the start, don't shake his hand under any circumstances... The only question was WHEN to kill him. Good damn villain. Glad we didn't shoot him in the street with no backup, though.

Also, did you hint anywhere of Troys true nature like you did with Pitt?


what is a seelie?

>>14697517
that was definitely my biggest surprise. seeing how Ro was used against us. we were all so sure that the alliance with the chinese would be strong because of the hostage trade and now it looks like they'll be coming to war against us. to the death.

i was the guy who suggested earlier that we walk away from troy so we can begin defending ourselves. i think even if we kill this elf lord and survive somehow the chinese are going to take us out just like Troy figured.

ellington is fucking evil. pure and unadulterated evil.

Well, now we know he wasn't faking the permasmile. He was just always amused at himself, tricking the foolish mortals.

>>14697531
Nothing really useful. The usual shit: Cold iron, church bells, holy ground, can't cross salt/running water... I don't see anything that'll do much good.

>>14697543
Fairies, elves, brownies, etc. fall under the heading "seelie", or they're part of the "seelie court". It's not used too much anymore, though. Midsummer Night's Dream referred to them. The unseelie are their more evil equivalent, like boggarts and the like. Google them to find out more.

Seems like bullets dont do much against him.

Good thing we still have wolfs knuckles, life-drain chinese knuckles (we should give these to Zombrigo since he literally will not give fuck , because we can necromancy him back up), luck amulet, angel bullets and mppa

hopefully this will be enough to take him down.

>>14697543
Elf, fey, a force of fucking nature!
I am using Dresden Files for my lore, and some of the older folk tales. From what we have seen of toy, he is not a Queen by any standard. High ranking, yes, but not the strongest. He might be aligned with Summer, Change and all that.

>>14697558
Yeah, I expected him to use her hostage status to manipulate us. Guess not, or if he did, he figured the lack of a hand-shake meant that wouldn't do much good. Of course, we assumed he was rational, albeit somewhat insane. A fey might kill her just because the idea amused it, though.

>>14697590
The life-drain knuckled are used up. They have no more power.

>>14697590
OH SHIT, I TOTALLY FORGOT THAT WE HAVE OUR MAGIC GEAR REACTIVATED NOW!

WE FINALLY HAVE A CHANCE TO USE OUR WOLF CLAWS!

"Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

Nah bro
I'm pretty sure that life-knuckles recharged by draining Old Amigos life-force.

>>14697646