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Post by Lady Blue on Dec 24, 2004 3:01:20 GMT -5
After half an hour of searching we find the apartment we're looking for. I knock on the door three times and await an answer.
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Post by Josef Stalin on Dec 24, 2004 3:02:28 GMT -5
(Sorry Bassarov, my Russian is very bad. I only know a very little bit and am using a common phrases site to help me speak it. Any chance you could translate that?)
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on Dec 24, 2004 3:03:23 GMT -5
"We could capture her and try to hide her from Red Infinity. I certainly don't want to kill someone without good reason, but...something that valuable to Red Infinity...something capable of destroying so many lives...should be destroyed." Bassarov replies.
"But we will work on capturing her first. That is a step in the right direction. We may be able to convince her to join the rebels. We have to see."
Bassarov realizes that it was rude to speak in Russian when Huey, an american, likely didn't know what he said.
"About the Russian, all I said is that I was very glad to hear that all was well with Stalin and that there was just one small problem. I didn't know how we would enter the Ministry of Science."
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Post by Sherman "Sherlock" Holmes on Dec 24, 2004 3:04:40 GMT -5
Sherman sighed. He knew the peace was too good to last. He stood up and headed for the door, closing his book and placing it on the side-table. He opened the door and saw a woman standing there.
"Lady Blue, I presume." Sherman said after looking her up and down.
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Post by Huey P. Newton on Dec 24, 2004 3:07:06 GMT -5
"Sorry, Bassarov. Just can't bring myself to break the honor code that Bobby and I wrote. Taking a life when it's not absolutely necessary just don't sit right with me." Huey said, sitting down in a futile attempt to relax.
"If Red Infinity tries to get her, or if she just don't wanna switch sides, then there is no alternative but..." Huey trailed off.
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Post by Lady Blue on Dec 24, 2004 3:07:24 GMT -5
"Yes, but my name is Charlotte O'Niell. Lady Blue is just a cover name to help protect me from some of the enemies I seem to have collected." I look around the apartment. It is very clean, but disorderly with open files and books, and smells of cavendish tobacco. However I soon come to the point. "Mr. Holmes, would you be at all interested in some semiperminant employment?"
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Post by Sherman "Sherlock" Holmes on Dec 24, 2004 3:09:59 GMT -5
"I suppose that would all depend on what kind of employment it is. Please, won't you come in?" Holmes asked, stepping inside and gesturing for them to enter. "I'm sorry that things aren't more habitable, but I wasn't expecting company..."
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Post by Lena on Dec 24, 2004 3:11:22 GMT -5
Lena shivers. "Yeah, amazing, harmless.." She mumbles. After a few moments, she finally sits back up right and looks at Peter. "I wouldn't call my fears simple.. but that's because they're my fears." She sighs and rubs her arms as if she were cold.
"So, who is this Hope?"
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Post by Anima on Dec 24, 2004 3:11:43 GMT -5
I say nothing, merely standing behind Lady Blue and watching the man. I can tell by his eyes that he has a keen intellect and would be of much use to us.
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on Dec 24, 2004 3:13:54 GMT -5
"I understand. I am not a violent person myself. We will capture her and see what happens from there. Even if we can stall the project, that is something."
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Post by Huey P. Newton on Dec 24, 2004 3:16:27 GMT -5
"I completey agree." Huey said. He looked at Bassarov with a saddened face. "If I could help you capture her, I would. Unfortunately, if they find out that it's me who's helpin' you... well, let me put it this way, it'd be best if only your closest and most trusted friends knew that Stalin and I had been here to help you."
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Post by Lady Blue on Dec 24, 2004 3:17:29 GMT -5
"Thank you. And don't worry about the mess, it doesn't bother me." Unlike most girls I grew up with steam engines and guns instead of dolls and crayons, I'm used to the disorderly order of a machine shop. And to an academian this is the same sort of arrangement. "What I'm interested in doing is hiring you for long-term investigation of our enemies, as well as whatever other odd jobs we come up with. You are free to take other jobs on the side as long as they don't comprimise the security of the FRA. Payment will be a lump sum upon your agreement to accept this job, plus an operations fee per assignment."
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Post by Peter "The Owl" on Dec 24, 2004 3:19:08 GMT -5
"She's the most advanced android in existance." Peter takes a can of soda out of his bag and pops it open, "Well... maybe the second best, hard to say." He takes a drink of the bubbly liquid, ignoring the unpleasent tingling in his throat when he drinks it too fast.
"She and I were working on a project in Lapland. Then we had to go to a strange place to find information. When we did... Hope did some things that I didn't expect her to do. Anyway, long story short, she's been avoiding me for nearly a week now. Problem with that is that I can't do this alone. I need her help."
He takes another drink of soda. "I think she's avoiding her problems, again. Hope is nearly human, she has emotions, but she doesn't always deal with them, a very human trait I might add, she avoids them. I think that's what she's doing now."
Peter sighs, "To be perfectly honest, she's also a friend and I'm worried about her. She's emotionally fragil right now and shouldn't be on her own. Ever since her boyfriend died she's been different, even though she tried to hide it. She needs to get some stuff of her chest, but she won't go through with it. When I tried to get her to talk she... she found a way to avoid the subject..."
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on Dec 24, 2004 3:19:09 GMT -5
"I think the rebels can handle it. I will talk it over with Zero later. Or perhaps Mischa and I could take this on. It has been a while since Mischa and I have done something like this together."
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Post by Sherman "Sherlock" Holmes on Dec 24, 2004 3:20:52 GMT -5
Sherlock sat down for a moment, pondering this proposal. "So, as long as my clients don't ask me to compromise FRA security, I'm free to take on other assignments? I just wish to be perfectly clear on things before taking on a long term contract."
He reached for his pipe but, before lighting it, looked back at Lady Blue. "You don't mind, do you? A filthy habit, I know, but I can't seem to quit."
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