"It's A Magical Place. "

Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. The low-income borough of Lambeth has been largely taken over by London's mutant population and is now known as Mutant Town.

Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Narrator » Thu Apr 07, 2016 3:10 pm

As Basil is wrestling with Weikun and taping her to the floor despite her best efforts to try and kick his knees, Chase makes his way out of the club. Quite a bit of time has passed since he last saw Yin, but out here is a lot of chaos between people trying to look through the doors, others swarming the valets for their chars and a good chunk of bodyguards trying to keep their employers safe. He can spot the people from the table Weikun and later Yin had been at getting into a car with darkened windows.
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Postby Chase Delacroix » Thu Apr 07, 2016 3:15 pm

Approaching them wouldn't work, so he looked for anything to identify Weikun's... cover? clients? Could one be the target?
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Narrator » Thu Apr 07, 2016 4:09 pm

Taking a closer look at the group shows that some of them are wearing those little American flag lapel pins. They're probably part of the attaches and security details that are in the city in preparation of the summit. If one of them was Weikun's mark then that begs the question why they aren't dead yet and why she seemingly abandoned the group to talk to Chase. At the very least Yin Dao would have had plenty of time to finish the job while he was distracted. There must be something else at play here.

As they are climbing into what's probably an armored limousine someone from the group spots Chase looking at them and seems to alert the people around them, everyone suddenly looking very nervous and much more hurried. Diversion and infiltration. One of Chase's lessons comes to mind and he realizes that the two assassins probably tried to integrate themselves into the group of Americans and used him and Basil as a distraction to point out as would be assassins, playing on the paranoia that an invisible person would add.
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Postby Chase Delacroix » Thu Apr 07, 2016 4:18 pm

He did the only thing he could think of and slowly and non-threateningly pulled out his X-Men identification and held it up as he walked closer. They might not respect it, but delegates to a summit should at least be able to discern its authenticity and know they don't assassinate people.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Narrator » Thu Apr 07, 2016 4:32 pm

Unfortunately they don't seem to agree with Chase's conclusion. Public image of mutants in the US is significantly worse than in the UK at the moment, mostly thanks to a series of mutant terrorist attacks and with the earlier protest breaking out into violence these people only seem to see this as Chase straight up admitting he's a mutant. Two of the bodyguards draw their guns without quite aiming them at him yet as the international sign of 'Stop right there'.
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Postby Chase Delacroix » Thu Apr 07, 2016 6:57 pm

He stopped and took a step back.

"You do realize that 'bodyguard' that told you my friend and I were a threat ran the second your female escort or whoever you thought she was attacked me? Unprovoked, I might add."
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Postby Narrator » Thu Apr 07, 2016 7:53 pm

"Nice try. She's the one who alerted us to your presence and offered to keep you busy to cover our retreat. Now back the fuck up, Mutie." the bodyguard barks back at him, his aim drifting towards Chase.
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Postby Chase Delacroix » Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:15 pm

"Are you really going to shoot a fully cooperating mutant with all these club kids snapping video of everything? Somehow I don't think so," he asked as he stepped back again.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Narrator » Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:23 pm

"Not if you're staying the hell back, buddy." he says as the rest of them climb into the limo, taking a couple steps back towards the open car door himself before slipping inside. The car starts moving almost immediately.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Chase Delacroix » Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:34 pm

He took a picture of the car's diplomatic plates with his phone and went back inside. He did an internet search for where the American delegates attending the summit as we went. He could hopefully use his training to find out where they were staying and which had enemies is southeast Asia.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Narrator » Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:46 pm

Finding the delegates isn't too hard. Finding many details beyond that is tricky because the news are flooded with talks about the summit and mutant rights in general. Any searches specifically on the American side of things is also inundated with talks about the upcoming election and the President's mild (in terms of US politics) stance on Mutants compared to the Republican nominee's downright hate mongering on the topic. No particular tensions in South-East Asia stand out, the region mostly being focused on their own issues with China and Russia making subtle threats at each other and a lot of people speculating the power-dynamic in the region shifting increasingly in China's favor.
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Postby Chase Delacroix » Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:56 pm

He looked for connections to Madripoor in summit delegates across the board. Mutant slavery had to be a topic brought up, right?
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Narrator » Thu Apr 07, 2016 9:44 pm

Here and there it's mentioned, but usually only in the context of slavery perpetuated by mutants and even then this isn't exactly an issue that concerns the average US citizen or really most people in First World Countries. Certainly not something somebody would hire assassins over seeing how mostly forgotten the issue is in a lot of circles.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Basil Benson » Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:06 pm

While Chase was busying himself with God knows what, Basil had not only done as he was told, but probably over-achieved, having essentially 'Spiderman'd' Weikun to the floor. He continued to watch her, silent as the dead.

It was probably much more unsettling than he meant it, but he was in his own head now as a Basil is wont to do, letting Chase do whatever it is a Chase is wont to do when ninja assassins were destroying his life.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Chase Delacroix » Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:08 am

He was more than a little disgusted by the total lack of concern for anti-mutant human rights violations.

"How many rolls did that take?" he asked as he kept scanning headlines for possible reasons for the Lotus to get or be paid to get involved.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Basil Benson » Sat Apr 09, 2016 1:58 am

Basil didn't reply verbally, instead tossing the nearly empty roll to Chase.

Nearly. He had enough if they needed it for some kind of duct tape emergency, but that was it.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Narrator » Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:43 am

Weikun makes some vague mumbling noise from where she's taped to the floor. Unless the two want to do anything else the police is probably going to arrive soonish, with X-Corp probably following soon after.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Basil Benson » Sat Apr 09, 2016 3:05 am

"Well then mate." Basil says, the trousers rising from the ground.

"This has all been a smashing good time, but I'm afraid now that I've done my bit getting your friend under control I'll be returning to the hotel to collect our things for the trip home, seeing as the two of us don't have safe and cozy embassy walls to cower behind like all of the big wigs took off to do once your ladylove decided painting the bar top with your brains sounded like more fun than a public execution."
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Chase Delacroix » Sat Apr 09, 2016 3:27 pm

"I wanted to tell you," he said apologetically, possibly misreading Basil's comment.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Basil Benson » Sat Apr 09, 2016 3:32 pm

"Tell me what? Why tell me anything? Why aren't you chasing after your friend?" He asked.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Chase Delacroix » Sat Apr 09, 2016 3:40 pm

"They aren't..." he said before sighing.

"I lost..." He stopped mid-sentence to check a sudden frightening theory. Maybe they wanted to implicate the Americans by being seen with them. Xavier was allowed to speak via video, but was he in London?
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Basil Benson » Sat Apr 09, 2016 3:48 pm

"Jesus-tapdancing-Christ Chase, no wonder you're not longer an assassin. You lack as much stomach as you lack brains?" Basil admonished in a fashion Chase had never heard him treat anyone.

" You were over there googling your brains out expecting the computer to think for you. You were looking for something, what was it? What are you trying to find? Why did you come back?"
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Chase Delacroix » Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:03 pm

The surprisingly harsh tone snapped Chase out of living in his head.

"The other one got away and I'm trying to figure out who they're after. If it is one of the American's they're doing a weird job of it."
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Basil Benson » Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:04 pm

"What makes you think they're American?" Basil asked, having stayed behind to subdue Weikun.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Chase Delacroix » Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:14 pm

"Shit. I only got a good look at their bodyguards..."

He quickly brought up the license plate photo he never actually looked at.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Basil Benson » Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:34 pm

Basil has no idea what tangent Chase is off on yet again, instead starting to analyze what little information Chase has given him. He began to pace in circles slowly near Weikun. It would take him a minute, maybe two, to pick apart everything Chase had given him to come up with an answer for him. As he passed Weikun, he ripped the tape from her mouth unceremoniously. He needed her, for the moment. He needed a reaction from her to try to gauge which of the two things he was about to say were more likely.

He did not explain any of that to her however and went back to pacing as he spoke, acting as if he wasn't watching her even though he was. He was looking for any tip off he was on the right trail.

"If their bodyguards were all Yanks, then the target was likely a Yank. Jeremy McApplepie isn't exactly known for faffin' 'bout these parts solo, let alone in groups, so the likelihood of the target being a different nationality than their entourage is extremely low.

Now you just need to determine if they were American celebrities or delegates from the summit. If they're a celebrity , they'd likely be taken back to their hotel even though that's not the safest place to be. Celebrities were normal people before they became famous, so they don't understand how much danger they may or may not be in in terms of the world at large, and as such celebrity hired help tends to be rubbish. There's a few hotels popular with the Americans.

However if it was a delegate, then I've already given you your answer. They'd be returning to their embassy. It's what you do when you're in a country and a hostile situation goes down. Good security would know that.

Where ever they are going is where your friend is."
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Weikun Liang » Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:45 pm

Looks like American diplomatic plates on the car alright. If Yin left with them it's possible he's on the way to embassy with them in that car right now. If their target wasn't any of the people here tonight then maybe it's someone who's going to be at the embassy. Like, say, the heads of state arriving for the summit tomorrow. The security detail of the ambassador's staff is probably easier to fool than those of higher ranking members of government.

Meanwhile Weikun stares up at the two. "You have no idea, do you?" she laughs. "Well, that's why they send us on the really big jobs and you get to screw up taking out Onyx' little apprentice."
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Postby Chase Delacroix » Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:05 pm

"That's what happens when you train brainwashed puppets to only follow orders and send them halfway around the world," he snapped. "It's as if you wanted me free. Thanks by the way."
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Basil Benson » Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:11 pm

"Alright children that's enough." Weikun was apparently included in that statement, Basil starting to remember why he gagged her in the first place.

"Well Chase what's it going to be? Do I need to get you a list of five stars or should I tell whichever school rep shows up you moved onto the embassy?"
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Chase Delacroix » Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:33 pm

Chase exhaled slowly.

"Okay... first... who else is coming to the summit that might be at the embassy?"

He cursed. "No... they wouldn't be so bold as to target the President... would they?" he thought aloud.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Weikun Liang » Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:36 pm

Weikun doesn't say a damn thing, but she can't help but show the hint of a proud smirk at hearing that. Not everyone would get the honor of being selected for a mission of such importance.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Chase Delacroix » Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:49 pm

He noticed the smirk.

"Holy shit... that is it."

He looked to Basil. "Looks I'm about to go do something incredibly stupid."
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Basil Benson » Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:59 pm

"Should I call someone to let them know oooorrrr...?" Basil didn't seem to be throwing his hat into this stupid idea. He'd done more than his normal share of heroics for one evening, and with what he assumed to be a reinjured arm from knocking over Weikun and next to no formal fight training, he figured he'd just slow things down.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Chase Delacroix » Sat Apr 09, 2016 8:12 pm

"You've done plenty Basil," he said, "Just try to send backup my way."

"For what it's worth, I'm sorry for getting you dragged into this."
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Basil Benson » Sat Apr 09, 2016 8:15 pm

"Worry about that later.

Me and your friend will spend some quality time getting to know one another while you're gone...

Won't we poppet?"
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Weikun Liang » Sat Apr 09, 2016 8:31 pm

"In your dreams." she says in a tone that suggests she would have tried spitting on Basil if she wasn't taped to the floor.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Basil Benson » Sat Apr 09, 2016 8:35 pm

"Don't flatter yourself. " Basil replied, sounding disgusted and ill-amused. "I meant I was going to babysit you."
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Chase Delacroix » Sat Apr 09, 2016 8:53 pm

"Don't underestimate her," he said as he exited through a side door.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Weikun Liang » Mon Apr 11, 2016 3:14 pm

"You know, you would make a killing in my line of work." Weikun says as they wait for the authorities to finally show.
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Re: "It's A Magical Place. "

Postby Basil Benson » Mon Apr 11, 2016 4:34 pm

"Mmm, think so?" Basil replied, more to entertain her and keep her calm than anything. "Sadly, I haven't the stomach to kill."
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