In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

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In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jul 16, 2018 11:49 pm

Sam makes her way through Victoria Station with Tereza, wincing at spots due to the number of people she has to comb through.

Miriam's job may be easier, as gingers are highly visible.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:41 am

With this many people, Tereza's on edge, trailing along in Sam's wake which she seems to take comfort in.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Miriam Bell » Tue Jul 17, 2018 3:33 am

"Oh good, you brought the blood-hound." Miriam says as she emerges from the crowd to the side of the two.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jul 17, 2018 4:42 am

"I brought my girlfriend. I needed a ride, and with what you said we could probably use someone a bit tougher."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Tue Jul 17, 2018 2:07 pm

"Besides, Sam says you're hungry," Tereza adds, "And as long as I can eat afterwards, I should be able to stand up to you taking the edge off."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Miriam Bell » Tue Jul 17, 2018 3:25 pm

"Not every word from my mouth is sarcasm, Samantha. You can follow a trail and you know Will's smell, right?" she turns her head towards Tereza.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Tue Jul 17, 2018 3:54 pm

"I can try. There's a lot of people down here."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jul 17, 2018 6:38 pm

"I suppose there are worse ideas."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:38 pm

"Point me in the right direction then. The longer we wait, the colder the scent gets."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Miriam Bell » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:50 pm

"Try that newsstand over there, she went through there, it's possible she came out the same way." she says, hoping she won't have to lead them to the room with the dead body to pick up a trail.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:56 pm

Tereza wanders over to the news stand, making a show of perusing the offering while she tries to pick up some sort of trail. Direction's hard to tell from scent and she has to make a fair bit of assumptions about how her prey is behaving.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:43 pm

"She had to have picked this place as one that's easy to get lost in."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Narrator » Wed Jul 18, 2018 1:49 am

WIth a couple hundred thousand people going through Victoria Station every day, any trail of Will was spotty, at best.

There were vaguely familiar trails all around the newsstand. One headed down towards the tube platforms, another towards the train platforms, and the third towards the members' only region in the back.
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Postby Tereza Rozanov » Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:10 am

"Got three trails," Tereza thinks to the two telepaths, "Train platform, tube platform, and the members only area. Can't tell which is fresher. Too many people."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Miriam Bell » Wed Jul 18, 2018 3:10 pm

"She came through the tube and went in the back, so she must have taken the train."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Wed Jul 18, 2018 3:24 pm

"Unless we can get on the exact same train, my nose isn't going to be of much use there." She heads down towards the train platform.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Narrator » Wed Jul 18, 2018 5:37 pm

Victoria Station is a nightmare to travel through, though people give the War Goddess, the Vampire and the Hound more than a wide berth.

19 platforms, with trains leaving every two to five minutes, headed <i>all</i> over the UK. Eastbourne, Littlehampton, Orpington, Brighton, Epsom Downs...here, there and everywhere.

Assuming Will had gotten on one of these trains -- and the trail did seem to indicate that -- and further assuming that she wanted a direct route and wasn't planning on switching stations multiple times to throw them off (after all, she had led Miriam here?), it seemed likely she was going southeast. To head back north towards Maldon and other areas, you'd have to change multiple times, which seems like such a hassle.


That didn't excessively narrow things down, but it at least gave them a place to start looking. Where could a Will with a brainbug on the run be looking to go? Where could she hide?
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Wed Jul 18, 2018 5:56 pm

Once she's lost the scent, Tereza loops back to Miriam and Sam. "Where to now? Seems like Will took a train, but there's no good way to tell which one and where it was going."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Jul 18, 2018 6:11 pm

"I don't think she's headed back to Maldon, at the least."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Wed Jul 18, 2018 6:25 pm

"If it weren't the middle of winter, Brighton might make sense, but I don't see Will being much of a winter beach fan."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Miriam Bell » Wed Jul 18, 2018 6:54 pm

"It's not Will in charge anyway. It's some kind of twisted imprint of..." she trails off. She might not like the thought but in a way Melpomene is her. The worst possible version. Where would she want to go, what would she be trying to accomplish?

"She's trying to lead me out of the city. But why..."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Jul 18, 2018 6:56 pm

"London's probably too much risk for her."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Wed Jul 18, 2018 7:01 pm

"And too far away at the wrong time and you'd be out of luck when the sun comes up, assuming that's an issue for you," Tereza says, "Like dragging me out just before a full moon."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Miriam Bell » Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:00 pm

"Trying to put me in a vulnerable position... maybe. And she did make quite a mess, she might just be putting some distance between herself and... that. Let's just take one of the lines going south-east and see what we can pick up. She might not be expecting Sam's range..."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Narrator » Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:05 pm

The line to Brighton seemed like the best bet, from the trio's musings. The other primary line led to Dover and, presumably, a ferry to Europe...but the line to Brighton included Brighton itself (with a large mutant community, and not always the best behaved in the world), as well as Gatwick Airport, in case Will WAS trying to leave the country. That would presumably be faster than waiting for a boat.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:34 pm

"Alright, do we want to go on that line or take the bike down? Maybe both to give her less options?"
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:32 pm

"We won't all fit on the bike," Tereza points out.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:45 pm

"I'm just throwing ideas out. We've got to move soon, though."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Miriam Bell » Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:46 pm

"Let's just get on the train. We can check people at the stations we pass through if they remember seeing Will. It's what I did to track her here and with two of us we might not have to get off."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Thu Jul 19, 2018 5:35 pm

"Let's get going then."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Jul 19, 2018 5:46 pm

Sam nods and goes to get passes with the other two and ultimately boards.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Narrator » Thu Jul 19, 2018 8:59 pm

Going through all the stations takes time, as each station in the vicinity of London is huge, and they have to check each one, not even knowing if they'll be able to find their target (after all, Will can switch forms, can't she?)

No one saw her at Clapham or Croyden or Redhill. Gatwick Airport took longer, but unless Will has disguised herself (and solved the issue of not having a passport or other documentation), she wasn't leaving the country that way. Nor had anyone seen her at Haywards Heath.

And now the train was rolling into Brighton, the end of the line, and the hunger was driving Miriam mad at this point. She would have fed on Will hours ago, and the lack of a meal is really beginning to take it's toll. It doesn't help that the sun is bound to come up at any moment.


But! A janitor has a flash of a memory of green hair going around the corner. The ticket taker remembers a woman blowing past him, changing her appearance as she went out into the street. The trail, while cold, was still there.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:20 pm

"She's figuring out how Will works alarmingly quickly..."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Miriam Bell » Fri Jul 20, 2018 12:42 am

"Do you ever listen when I talk or do you just assume I'm insulting you and tune out?" Miriam is getting more than a little testy now, her sharp incisors clearly showing now as she talks. "She's worked Will over body and mind for god knows how long. How do you think that imprint got there?" she snarls.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Jul 20, 2018 12:47 am

"She wasn't able to do this before, obviously. Something had to have been standing in her way."
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Fri Jul 20, 2018 1:24 am

Tereza works on trying to sort out the trail. As Miriam's gotten snappier and hungrier, Tereza's gotten more and more on edge as her wolf reminds her there's another hungry predator very close by.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Narrator » Fri Jul 20, 2018 1:31 am

The path...changed, partway through. If Tereza hadn't been familiar with Will, she would have lost the scent entirely. She had had SOME experience with Will in shifted forms, however, and she was focused on the task at hand, so presumably, this NEW scent would be the one to follow now.

Unfortunatley for Tereza, the path was hours old, and so following it would be slow going. In better news, it didn't seem to be going that FAR, quickly ducking off the main road into the backstreets and shops of North Laine.

North Laine had become Brighton's default mutant area -- former slums, now a more bohemian artsy sort of place, where mutants gathered in the open. During the day, this was probably a nice little enclave, with fun shops and art and what looked like a neat pub on the corner.

At night, things were...darker. A lot less welcoming, as the trio had eyes of all colors and sizes trained on them as they walked through, strangers in a strange land.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Fri Jul 20, 2018 5:20 pm

Ordinarily a place like this would have made Tereza more comfortable. These were her people after all. But she's having to let the wolf ride her even harder to help sort through the scents and the wolf's getting antsy. The wolf keeps prodding at her, telling her that she could have a better nose for this if only she'd let them shift, but she grits her teeth and continues the slow process of following the trail.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Narrator » Fri Jul 20, 2018 6:26 pm

The path ended up winding around through backstreets, ending in front of what appeared to be a tattoo parlor, with the stairs going down into a below-street-level building.

Closed and locked, of course.
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Re: In a borealic iceberg came Victoria...

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Fri Jul 20, 2018 6:32 pm

"Unless you want me to start breaking down doors, I think this is as far as I can go," Tereza says, finding a place to lean so she can keep a good eye on the area.
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