AGWW Online - Log 2003/07/29
Mage - Technocracy UK
Session 11: Arrival at Hong Kong
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Dr.Arthur Addams (Iteration X) - played by Sven Jan Pieterszoon (Syndicate) - played by Dingo Maverick - played by Asmodai Pavithra Adhri (Iteration X) - played by Asmodai Dr.Peter Schmidt (Void Engineers) - played by Stayka Simone Carsweld - played by Asmodai Storyteller - Asmodai
<Storyteller> AS all of you settle comfortably in your chairs you open your files... all of you seem to have a identical file on Deepwater and a small memo on your objectives...
<Storyteller> As you open the folder with the letter Deepwater stnciled on it you find a numer of files and microholos...
Peter_Schmidt looks at it reead reads it carefully
<Storyteller> The file details the history of the project...
<Storyteller> Project Deepwater seems to have been a Void Engineer idea from the 30's
Peter_Schmidt commits it to memory with some Mind tricks he learned during the initial Voider training
<Storyteller> they envisioned a underwater arcology that would allow humanity to live underwater...
<Storyteller> this project would spread across all the waters and finnaly allow humanity to take to the oceans and finnaly conquer thw whole of EArth...
<Storyteller> unfortuanateley the thing was postponed for the late 4o's once WW2 started...
<Storyteller> and once the 50's came the project lost the NWO and Syndicate backing due to the time table shifting to accomodate Space Travel...
<Storyteller> the Earth Exploration Division was furios...
<Storyteller> their first experimental underwater bases were working perfectly...
<Storyteller> Yet they didn't have the clearance or funding to start the project on their own...
<Storyteller> the clearance was easy... but without the NWO backing they ouldn't persuade the Syndicate to give them enough for the project to really hit it off..
Peter_Schmidt shakes his head fatalistically. Typically Syndicate!
<Storyteller> In the 50's a branch of Progenitors joined and backed the idea... they managed to procur a deal with a company named Primium Oil about deepwater drilling of the ocean and sending it up...
<Storyteller> threough this contract the base could be funded...
<Storyteller> The link with this leading company in Oil production and change was excellent for convining humanity that underwater arcologies would be plausible and efficient...
<Storyteller> For the location was chosen a point in the ridges of Marianna Trench...
<Storyteller> the inital survey pointed the place pefect for underwater exploration and pointed a large well of Oil that could be mined and sent to their funders...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (oh bugger, those Syndics *g*)
<Storyteller> With the general expenses covered both Syndicate and NWO approved the project, although NWO expressed worries about the project taking too mcuh tiem from the space programme and humanity not wanting to live udnerwater...
<Storyteller> nonetheless the project started in 1952
Peter_Schmidt thinks those black hats should better worry about other things. The Void Engineers always explored * all* frontiers!
<Storyteller> the materials were brought down and the building of a gigantic city started
<Storyteller> (insered is a number of sketches of a "underwater city of tomorrow", copies of smaller bluepeints and images of construction under lamps...
<Storyteller> all the images seem to include odd looking fish and occasional whale...)
Peter_Schmidt raises his eyebrows in fascination as he examines the planes
<Peter_Schmidt> plans
<Storyteller> (Jan you seem to have a small post it pasted to your part of the file: "Where did they get funding for that? We didn't give enough, and Primium would have defiently not funded so much underwater construction...)
<Storyteller> The files go on about the constrouction and work on the base...
<Storyteller> in 78 the base opened lab space for the first time for the Progenitor and VE scienticts...
<Storyteller> the vase was still work in progress and there were problems with energy and space...
Peter_Schmidt looks for technical specs
<Storyteller> Finnaly it was discovered that the marian trench had a immense quantity of ghemotermal energy and that a part of the oil could be used for station purposes... also the scands proved that the marianan trench had quite a concentration of quintessential energy...
<Storyteller> in '79, t VIP's from Primium (that has changed its name to Endron through the years) were allowed to visit the station...
<Storyteller> they were overwhelmed and allowed for budget increases in case they could get a stock part of the station once it goes habitable...
<Storyteller> They also insisted on their liason from the 50's , a Mr. Klieg, a drilling expert from America, to stay permanently on the station with a team of Endron tehnicians and keep track of oil production and safety measures...
<Peter_Schmidt> (How much do we known on Endrom?)
<Storyteller> by the end og the 80's the base was operable and the labs were working well... the whole base stopped most of its common problems and it was obviosu that the consens will be soon ready to accept such a base...
<Storyteller> (how much do you know about Enron... exxludinf the last two years?)
<Peter_Schmidt> (Well, what is Pete allowed to know?)
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (I only know that the company controlling Enron Oil is Pentex)
<Storyteller> (Jan knows that it is a global company that work with oil and refine it... they also fund exploration off places with possible locations for using fossil fuels... Syndicate controls a small part of it since there seems to ba larger interest in it by a large multinational corporation...)
<Storyteller> (Peter knows that it is a hue Oil company with a lot of operatiosn around the world... ditto Art)
<Peter_Schmidt> (ok)
<Storyteller> in 1999 the base was finnaly complete and put to work...
<Storyteller> the plan is to test it and how it works on the crews untill 2011... if all tests show it to be healthy and secure for mudane humanity it will be used as its original concept for human habitation...
<Storyteller> (added is a number of pictures that show sketches of life in the arclogy that will robablx used in campaigns to send people there...)
<Storyteller> there is also a small copy of the time tbale for outting thing operationable:
<Storyteller> 2000 - 6 month jaunts i nunderwater bases
<Storyteller> 2004 - a year stay in a base
<Arthur_Addams> (Sorry for being a little bit absent. A friend needed an open ear...)
<Storyteller> 2005 - public opening of the California underwater location
<Storyteller> 2008 - News of working on a underwater city in the mexican gulf
<Storyteller> 2010 - News of a exploration/life station in the Pacific...
<Storyteller> 2015 Grand Opening of Atlantis 1 in Mexico gulf
<Storyteller> 2019 - Grand opening of Deepwater to the public...
<Storyteller> what follows is a sketch of a brochure to popularize the thing
<Storyteller> there is also a list of expenses i nthe last year
<Storyteller> after that follow medical reports on the health of the crews... what seems to be a thing that sprung up since th 70's is that crews seem to need to rotates ince too much work i nthe arcology seems to make them ill...
<Storyteller> there is a adenda on Progenitors working on a resolution of this problem since '88 with varying sucess...
<Storyteller> The current safe life time at the location is 1 year 3 months 4 days...
<Storyteller> the symptoms are confusion, paleness, feeling of being lost, lightheadedness and throwing up...
Peter_Schmidt frowns and thinks it's a pity he doesn't have any medical training
<Storyteller> ... in some cases it is known that people go mad from the thign and start behaving violently...
<Storyteller> there is also a list of incidents around the place...
Arthur_Addams checks all the stats, the technical specs and thinks about the side effects, hoping his collegues will find a way to prevent them.
<Storyteller> next to this list (half a page) is a long file of some 12 pages about the problems, injuries and deaths...
<Storyteller> this other one shows quite a bit more problems then the official one has... the font and paper type shows that this was added into the folder additionaly...
Peter_Schmidt thinks this sounds a little like the proplems the staff at Dark Side Moonbase has
<Storyteller> Further files detail life i nthe station, listings of equipment, base maps and a lot of data on the place and operations there...
<Storyteller> there is a list of current prtojects and a short marne biology file in the creatures that live there...
<Storyteller> Soon you have coem to the end of the folder...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (And our mission being??)
<Storyteller> benaeth it is a small flat datadisk with a thumb scanner that can be pluged into most tehncracy reader devices...
Peter_Schmidt grins and think Mission Impossible
Arthur_Addams checks for a connection, so he can upload it directly into his ADEI
<Storyteller> Art takes it and after pressign it with his thumb softly holds it to his neck...
Peter_Schmidt has his backpack with him and digs out his laptop. He only hopes it won't selfdestruct after he read the files
<Peter_Schmidt> (Art, careful ^_^ )
<Arthur_Addams> (ah, the sweet touch of technology, the caressing of date *g*)
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (Okay.. I'm not such a fancy technerd, who carries enough equipment around to rebuild a sattelite.. any datareaders installed in the plane?)
<Storyteller> The datafile scans your clearances and data in your head... soon your head is filled with the mission parameters... ony our disk there is also a schematic of the Deepwater that is stored in your head...
<Storyteller> (you cna use your datapad/organiser/mini computer whatever)
<Storyteller> as you plug it into the reader on your lapt op the disk scans your computer and asks for 2 clearnace codes that are used to identify you...
Peter_Schmidt gives all the clearances the disk requires
<Storyteller> The images flower on your screen
Jan_Pieterszoon insert the disk in his PDA.
<Storyteller> the PDA shows a image of a lock and the lock twirls asking you for a retinal print...
<Storyteller> After al ot of around talk there is a long scroll of objectives and mission things...
<Storyteller> there is a short retell of the data you read an there are thigns that you are to do...
<Storyteller> there are also notes about Dr. Redraven and a Matthew Perkins, joining you in case that certain points of the mission prove that additional infomration is required...
<Storyteller> in short your mission is to analyse the station fro meach of your angles and see how it ticks... you need to chekc expenses, security,operation and technology...
<Storyteller> There seem to b problems with Deepwater and someone is needed to check if everythign is working down there as reported...
<Storyteller> there are also personal notes from Andersen telling you that this is a great opportunity for that, since it seems that noone is concerned about soemthign lie kthat that is supposed to hosue the masses within 20 years...
<Storyteller> ... he also notes that this will be a perfect opportunity for the 3 of you to be removed from Birmingham and the unwanted attention you have all goten to yourself...
Arthur_Addams hopes the attention wont follow them
<Storyteller> Art and Petey have notes that the things that have been monitoring them should lay off once they think noone is nosying around them...
Peter_Schmidt sighs
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (So for the duration of this stay we actually have a clearance "higher" than the local supervisor
?)<Storyteller> Jan has a note that once he is back all the problems should have been cleared and he will be able toappear in public with ease...
<Arthur_Addams> (ask.. Bathroom break)
<Arthur_Addams> (afk)
<Storyteller> (not publicaly... the thing is that you need to discover as mch as possible without incuring too much attntio nand warnign them this is actualy a scrutinous look into the Project...)
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (okay.. so we only get to see what they show us?)
<Storyteller> (and what you snoop yourselves... you are there for 2 weeks...)
<Storyteller> (sorry 1 week) Arthur_Addams
<Storyteller> There is also information that you will stay for 36 hours in HOng Kong before leaving for the Trench...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (Then what is our excuse for being there?)
Peter_Schmidt is somewhat relieved. He didn't like the fact that he couldn't say goodbye to Zatto in person..
<Storyteller> (the excuse as written is that you are a unit there on vacation...)
<Storyteller> (for each are provided cleartances to indulge your perosnal projects and look around, but you are there as a change of air beacuse of reasons that threatened each of you...)
Peter_Schmidt smiles and thinks he will certainly make use of the lab facilities here eye_onus (eye_onus@ET239-14.boisestate.edu) joined #agww. Arthur_Addams (Marvin_Bla@pD9E20261.dip.t-dialin.net) joined #agww.
<Peter_Schmidt> (Hi :-)
<eye_onus> Hello.
<Storyteller> (hey)
<Storyteller> There is also information that you will stay for 36 hours in HOng Kong before leaving for the Trench...
<Storyteller> (for each are provided cleartances to indulge your perosnal projects and look around, but you are there as a change of air beacuse of reasons that threatened each of you...)
<Arthur_Addams> (ah... You leave your machine alone for a few moments and it cuts the connection!)
<Storyteller> Your objectives are to look into the place...
<eye_onus> (I'm guessing the AiDW game is long ver...)
<Peter_Schmidt> (Dan: The DW game is now at the 1st and 3rd Tuesday in the month)
<eye_onus> (I'm not even sure if I should get back into it, seeing as I've been (involuntarilly) missing for 10 weeks....)
<Storyteller> (any questions or other things about the mission that could/should be in the files)
<Storyteller> (well we are on a new story arc)
<eye_onus> (I see that.)
<Storyteller> (this is Asmo's game :) unconectedtothe DW game... :))
<Peter_Schmidt> (Dan: The DW Story is currently at a point where you could enter again)
<Arthur_Addams> (Eye: You could check the latest interludes featuring Marv ^_^)
<Peter_Schmidt> (But we are now en route to Hong Kong ^_^ )
<eye_onus> (Anyone got AC's web address so I can look at the DW backlog's? I wanna see how DAN's MIA was handled.)
<Peter_Schmidt> (ST: Are there contacts mentioned for us?)
<Peter_Schmidt> (Dan: http://technocracy.info )
<Storyteller> (there are people in the place that you can talk to.. no contacts other then the member os the Pearl Paradigms in Hong Kong)
<Arthur_Addams> (ST: Anything abour who to report to and how frequent?)
<Peter_Schmidt> (Am I given some VE I can talk to about the lab space and stuff?)
<Storyteller> (is that a trick question? or you are forgetting who is your boss and wht he told you? :)9
<Arthur_Addams> (I am talking about "official" reports, and local supervisors)
<eye_onus> (If you guys don't mind, I'd like to observe this one- I miss the WoD.)
<Storyteller> (well there are people lsited like lab superivsior, misc projects supervisors, security chief, defence unit, Bilogical unit commnd, the underwater garages director... etc)
<Storyteller> (no problem)
Jan_Pieterszoon wonders what a beancounter like me should do there... and why he would look into their finances while being on a "holiday"
<Storyteller> (it seems that the station itself is controlled by a triumvirate... a Dr. Rogers of the Progenitors (counceling seat) J Kleig (primium) and Peter Quart the VE supervisor...
<Peter_Schmidt> (Another Peter ^_^ )
<Storyteller> (you are to actualy see if the financial reports they provided and projects they are doing are realyl somethign that should be funded and how the hck they have so much money for somthign that should not exist yet)
<Arthur_Addams> (Any ItX down there?)
<Storyteller> (there are two Ix Technicians and a number of support stuff... they work on the equipment along with the VE's)
<Storyteller> there are absolutely no NWO or $ operatives there...
<Storyteller> (most are VE, there are 4 Progentors + staff and 2 ItX scientiscts/tehnicians + staff
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Interesting.
<Storyteller> The current crew conists of 9 Void Engineers, 4 Progenitors, 2 ItX, 50 support staff, 8 pilots, 30 mundande families, 30 Endron officers/tehnicians/workers and around 60 biological entities for deep work
Peter_Schmidt thinks that is quite a staff
<Storyteller> (this is supposed to be a gigantic underwater city...)
Arthur_Addams is glad other ItXers will be there, too
<Storyteller> (plus it is currently a lab and a drilling operation)
<Storyteller> (anything else?)
<Storyteller> There is a recommedndatio nath e briefings that you leave the files and the datadisks at the plane...
<Peter_Schmidt> (Not that I would know at the moment ^_^ )
<Storyteller> ...or at least remove anything that infers that you will actualy be checing the place
Peter_Schmidt hopes his Mind trick helped him to commit everything relevant to memory
Jan_Pieterszoon has also tried to memorize the whole thing.
<Storyteller> (gimme an arete roll... other then the briefeing there was a lot of data)
<Peter_Schmidt> (Ok.)
Peter_Schmidt rolled 3d10 dice and got: 9, 2, 6
<Storyteller> YOu feel you will remember everything...
Jan_Pieterszoon rolled 2d10 dice and got: 8, 3
Peter_Schmidt hopes his feeling doesn't betray him this time ^_^
<Storyteller> YOu are confident you will remember the important points...
Arthur_Addams has all his data stored safely in his ADEI
<Storyteller> (yep) Mav3r1ck (raven@ad6-m217.net.hinet.hr) joined #agww.
Mav3r1ck enters the lounge...
<Mav3r1ck> Gentlemen i hope you are enjoying the flight...
Mav3r1ck grins...
Mav3r1ck sits at one of the comfy chairs next to Jan and turns it towards the others crossing her legs...
<Mav3r1ck> We should be there pretty soon...
Peter_Schmidt smiles at the beautiful pilot
<Mav3r1ck> i noticed you were taken by reading your briefings...
<Peter_Schmidt> Well, fortunately the flight was uneventful so far
Jan_Pieterszoon smiles
Arthur_Addams raises an eyebrow and looks into the direction of the cockpit. Then he guesses the auto pilot must be running
<Mav3r1ck> Sowhat are you doing in HK? Daddy never talks much other then fly here, fly there...
Mav3r1ck scowls...
<Mav3r1ck> (te cockpit cannot be seen)
<Mav3r1ck> So i end up here, flying you guys on orders ogf the big one and noone wants to share...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Waiting to leave on for a mission somewhere else.
Mav3r1ck looks pleaingly...
Jan_Pieterszoon smiles at her
<Arthur_Addams> (He just looks into the general direction, not into the cockpit :) )
<Peter_Schmidt> Well, we were transferred to Hong Kong for some relaxing, we have been told
<Mav3r1ck> ...that is not what i was asking.. though it seems i won't be taking you back then... i'm to pick up some stuff in Pearl Paradigm and leave back home in 8 hours...
<Mav3r1ck> oooh?
Mav3r1ck looks at Jan...
<Peter_Schmidt> So we will consider it a little vacation from Birmingham...
<Mav3r1ck> ... so you are taking vaction from bullets?
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Sorta..
<Mav3r1ck> ... he doesn't send anyone on vactions on company expenses...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> But you are to leave in 8 hours after arriving?
<Mav3r1ck> i guess you are to do something...
<Mav3r1ck> Yes...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Well, since we are on a vacation of some sorts.. how about a tour of the city?
Mav3r1ck smiles widely...
<Mav3r1ck> Gee... i don't know i'll be tired from flying all this way...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Well, if you are too tired....
Arthur_Addams thinks about the other girl he has seen Pete with... What was her name again...
<Mav3r1ck> ...though i may pick some time if you have a nice planof doing something interesting in HK...
Peter_Schmidt thinks it is a pity that Zatto had to stay in Birmingham. He definitely had to find a way to make up for that rudely interrupted dinner
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Well we could hit some of the clubs there. I
<Jan_Pieterszoon> 've heard that there are quite some places where you can find an interesting party.
<Mav3r1ck> We shall see
Mav3r1ck looks at her watch
<Mav3r1ck> Oh i need to get back...
<Mav3r1ck> We'll be landing in 12 minutes...
<Mav3r1ck> See you later
Mav3r1ck heads towards the cockpit waving her long hair...
<Arthur_Addams> Bring us down safe and sound.
Jan_Pieterszoon makes sure that Maverick (OOC: aka Moira Anderson) knows im looking at her behind
<Storyteller> (Anderson? sicne when is she called Anderson?)
<Peter_Schmidt> (How so? *g*)
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (Daddy is the boss... who's the boss of the construct?)
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (or at least that's my guess)
<Storyteller> (i missed a set of colons, but hey...)
<Storyteller> Soon the plane seems to tilt a bit and the clouds soar around you...) Paf_watching (adelie3@modem-38.bear.dialup.pol.co.uk) joined #agww.
<Storyteller> AS the clouds become rarer and rare you see a gulf...
<Peter_Schmidt> (Sorry, had a phone by my bro again, some computer problem ^_^ )=
<Storyteller> the gulf is gettign larger and larger and the plane seems to be spinning in circles above it getting lower and lower
<Storyteller> It is night
<Storyteller> Below you you see lights along the gulf...
<Storyteller> on the norhterns side there seems to be a large concentration of lights...
Arthur_Addams makes a mental notice to ask a Progenitor collegue for something against jetlag
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (Art.. you will have jetlag when you return... not now)
<Storyteller> just south of it there is a large island that is shining as if it is whole alight...
<Mav3r1ck> You are getting lower and lower, but you feel neither inertia nor acceleration...
<Storyteller> Soon you see the outlines of a island covered in skyscrapers with
<Storyteller> neon light shining na enticin oen to come...
<Storyteller> soon you see the harbour... and as the plane corrects, mere meters away from your right side a gigantic 747 passes between the skyscapers towards the mainland...
<Storyteller> You are flying just above the largest skyscrapers... you can see the lighted streets, the markets of Wanchai, and activity everywhere...
<Storyteller> ... the plane goes on above the city to circle above a gigantic park aroudn a mountain at the wast side of the island...
<Storyteller> the jet storms nback over the city in lights and heads straight towards a big skyscraper with a strange spike formation above it...
<Storyteller> The jet zooms towards the spikes that are closer nad closer, but the speed is obviosuly falling since the lights are no longer a blur...
<Storyteller> You stop in front of the spikes and the plane starts descending slowly verticalyl down...
<Storyteller> the whole skyscraper top seems to be lighted...
<Storyteller> to the left of you you notice a group of people stnading... and below you is a large helipad... Mav3r1ck (raven@ad6-m217.net.hinet.hr) left #agww.
Peter_Schmidt puts the datadisk away in some secure compartment on the plane
<Storyteller> The plane stops softly, and mavericks voice informs you to go and meet your meeting party....
<Arthur_Addams> Pete: Shall we hide the discs in the same place, or different ones?
Peter_Schmidt loosens the seatbelt and gets up, putting on his backpack
<Peter_Schmidt> Well, I think we can put them all together
<Storyteller> You hear the soft hum of doors far behind you, and the unlockign of the equipment compartment behind you...
<Peter_Schmidt> They are separately coded anyway
Arthur_Addams puts his disc to Petes and unfastens his seatbelt
Jan_Pieterszoon fetches the bag with his clothes in it and pockets his disc.
Arthur_Addams fetches his stuff and first of all checks for Ally being safe and sound
<Storyteller> the group of 4 people seems to be waiting for you on the left side.. behind them is a large glass pane and a small stairway booth...
Peter_Schmidt walks towards the group
Peter_Schmidt bods politely towards them and greets them in English
<Peter_Schmidt> Good Evening. I'm Dr.Peter Schmidt of the Birmingham Construct, UK. These are my colleagues Dr.Arthur Addams and Jan Pieterszoon
Simone_Carsweld is a handsome woman in a sharp stylish business dress with, wearing high heels, next to her is a tall Spanish man in a looseley cut suit, a chinese woman in jeans and a t-shirt, behind them is a large chinese man in a black suit...
Simone_Carsweld puts her hand out...
<Simone_Carsweld> Welcome to the Pearl Paradigms...
Peter_Schmidt smiles and shakes the hand
<Peter_Schmidt> Thank you very much, Ma'm.-
<Simone_Carsweld> I am Simone Carsweld... these are Lorenco Gil, Xi Wu Yen and Neng Shou
Simone_Carsweld smiles
<Simone_Carsweld> I welcome you to HOng Kong...
<Simone_Carsweld> we will take care of your accomodations...
<Simone_Carsweld> and we can help you with anythign you require...
<Peter_Schmidt> This is very mindful of you, thank you.
<Storyteller> Next to the lift doors there is a woman clothed in a long red coat with short black hair... she seems to be of indian descent... what is odd about her is that her eyes are glowing visibly red
Peter_Schmidt also greet the other persons with a friendly nod
Arthur_Addams greets Simone and the other staff, after he saw Ally is all right
<Simone_Carsweld> Here i will take you to our lounge and make sure that you get rooms in the Opera hotel next to our building...
Peter_Schmidt suspects that woman might be a colleague of Arthur's
Simone_Carsweld shakes
<Peter_Schmidt> This is very attentive of you, Ms.Carswelt.
Simone_Carsweld smiles while her assocites shake hands and introduce ach other...
<Arthur_Addams> So here we are...
<Simone_Carsweld> Yes... if you will please accompany me...
<Arthur_Addams> Oh... Sure.
Peter_Schmidt waits to be led to the lounge
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Of course.
Peter_Schmidt smiles and follows her
Arthur_Addams follows the others and looks around curiously
Simone_Carsweld leds the way towards the stairway booth... the two men offer their hel pwith the luggage, whiel the odd woman at the doors looks around... Pavithra_Adhri (raven@ad6-m217.net.hinet.hr) joined #agww.
Pavithra_Adhri waits at the doors...
Peter_Schmidt looks around at his environment
<Storyteller> As yo ucome to the doors the two men an the chines woamn enter witha better part of your luggage
<Storyteller> YO usee skyscrapers and lights all around you...
<Storyteller> (Who of you has any weapons or combat tech in his hands or on person?)
<Peter_Schmidt> (It depends if you count a laser pointer and other tools ^_^ )
<Arthur_Addams> (Ummm... no)
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (I've got my gun in a holster on my back)
<Storyteller> The view is magnificent... to the left yo usee the bay that is lighted and boats that are coming to the port... the whole island seems to shine... if you had not seen the park o nthe eastern side you would have thought the ciry was fully plugges in...
<Storyteller> (Ally?)
<Arthur_Addams> (oh.. Sorry... I'm so used to Ally I forgot to count her as a weapon)
Pavithra_Adhri lets Peter pass but halts the other two...
Pavithra_Adhri speaks in a slow English...
<Pavithra_Adhri> Stop...
Pavithra_Adhri puts her hands out to Jan...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (I've also got my Cane, could be used as a weapon *g*)
<Pavithra_Adhri> your gun please...
Jan_Pieterszoon takes the gun from his holster, makes sure the safety is on and no bullets are in the chamber, removes the clip and hands both to her.
Pavithra_Adhri takes it and places the X-5 in her coat...
Pavithra_Adhri lets Jan pass...
<Pavithra_Adhri> You... your suitcase... that Alanson?
<Arthur_Addams> Ummm...
Arthur_Addams sighs
<Arthur_Addams> Ok... But take good care of it.
<Arthur_Addams> I don't want to see any scratch on it.
<Pavithra_Adhri> Sorry about that.. i know how people bond to them...
Arthur_Addams reluctantly hands over the suitcase containing Ally
Jan_Pieterszoon frowns a bit (who would think that someone who hated his gun in the beginning would feel naked with it now (vampires can change your opinion about guns)
<Pavithra_Adhri> you can keep it... jsut give me the battery...
<Pavithra_Adhri> (heh
Peter_Schmidt waits for the others
Arthur_Addams opens the suitcase and carefully removes the battery from Ally. He repacks Ally neatly into the suitcase and hands the battery to Pavithra
Pavithra_Adhri msiles and sets the battery in her pocket...
<Pavithra_Adhri> Sorry again...
<Pavithra_Adhri> please head down...
Arthur_Addams walks down
Pavithra_Adhri shows him down with more courtesy then she had shown anyone else who passed
<Storyteller> You all enter a giant penthouse suite...
<Peter_Schmidt> Neat...
<Storyteller> it is arranged with comfortable couches, some made in leather some covered with furs, in front of them is a large fire...
Peter_Schmidt thinks this looks way more luxurious than anything else he had seen in a Construct
<Arthur_Addams> Hey what do you need this much space for?
Pavithra_Adhri walks jsut behgind him...
<Pavithra_Adhri> It is our central room... we do briefings and private meethings here...
<Storyteller> the whole place is finely aranged and decorated, with expansive paintings... you can notice a lot of artowrk set aorunf the place... the long comfortable couches have nice cushions on them...
<Storyteller> on the wall above the fireplace is a gigantic thin plasma screen tht seems to move down in front of the Fireplace...
Jan_Pieterszoon grins at something he tought about.
Simone_Carsweld waves to the two men that have the suitcases and they set them i na corner net to a closed door...
<Simone_Carsweld> Please be seated...
Peter_Schmidt takes off his backpack (he has all his clothes etc in there).
Jan_Pieterszoon sits down on one of the chairs.
Simone_Carsweld sits down in a comfortable chair in front of the U shaped couches...
Arthur_Addams sits down on one of the couches
<Simone_Carsweld> (couch only)
Peter_Schmidt takes place on the comfortable couch closest to him
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (well a couch then)
Simone_Carsweld crosses her legs and sits comfortably into it...
Pavithra_Adhri sits down on rhe corner of the U couches and takes of her long coat... she is wearing a fitting black bodysuit... her eyes stopped glowing...
Simone_Carsweld takes a cellphone and talks something into it...
<Simone_Carsweld> ... ah it is settled...
<Simone_Carsweld> the building next this oen is the Opera hotel... it is our operation and you have all been assigned rooms on the 14th floor...
<Simone_Carsweld> you can take the tube connection at the 18th floor of the Pearl Paradigms building...
<Peter_Schmidt> This is very practical
Peter_Schmidt smiles at her
<Simone_Carsweld> Ah.. welcome...
<Simone_Carsweld> this is the Pearl Paradigms building...
<Peter_Schmidt> It is impressive!
<Simone_Carsweld> the construct takes the upper 4 floors of this building...
<Simone_Carsweld> the rest are business offices..
<Simone_Carsweld> we modified the Penthosue into this lounge and two suites...
<Peter_Schmidt> It looks very comfortable
<Simone_Carsweld> we have one operations level, one armory/training level and a labs/living space floor...
Arthur_Addams listens closely
<Simone_Carsweld> We don't need that much space since allmsot all the enlightend operatives we have are in this room..
<Simone_Carsweld> It is 22:35 by local time...
Peter_Schmidt nods
<Simone_Carsweld> do you want to take some rest or do you want to go out to town?
<Simone_Carsweld> We can show you some sights, or the labs... or take you to the town...
<Simone_Carsweld> Hong Kong works most of the night...
<Simone_Carsweld> and it is a wonderfull place...
<Arthur_Addams> The labs would be nice. Are there any new designs for hardsuit around here? Or news on Mecha development?
Simone_Carsweld looks at Pavithra
<Pavithra_Adhri> Well we aren't working much with mecha here...
<Pavithra_Adhri> We are workign amore on cybenetics, tools and weapons...
<Peter_Schmidt> I'd like to take a look at the labs, too, if you wouldn't mind
<Pavithra_Adhri> The Japanese and Korean offices are doing quite some work...
<Simone_Carsweld> ...
<Arthur_Addams> What kind of weapons?
<Simone_Carsweld> Ahemmm...
<Simone_Carsweld> The labs are not currently filled... the technicians are at home...
Jan_Pieterszoon smiles
<Arthur_Addams> I'm always looking for improvements and additions for All.... ehm my hardsuit.
<Simone_Carsweld> only the security staff, operatiosn and those of us that coud lattend are here to great you...
<Simone_Carsweld> most of us don't even live here...
Peter_Schmidt looks a little disappointed that the labs are not manned right now
<Simone_Carsweld> You can get a tour though...
<Peter_Schmidt> Well, I have to thank you then doubly that you sacrificed the time to greet us
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (How long was the flight?)
Peter_Schmidt gives Simone another smile
<Storyteller> (around 5 hours)
<Storyteller> (not that you noticed)
<Arthur_Addams> I really hope you can show me some new designs.
<Jan_Pieterszoon> I'd like to visit my room and refresh myself, after that I wouldn't mind a tour through the city.
<Simone_Carsweld> Ah it is not that common that we get visitors here... though that may be changed once the Seul connection is complete...
<Simone_Carsweld> Okay... take these...
Jan_Pieterszoon wonders how much farther Pete can get his head up someones ass.
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (thats a thought)
<Peter_Schmidt> (^_^ )
Simone_Carsweld nods and the chinese man hands each of them a contact disk that plugs into a cellphone or PDA...
<Simone_Carsweld> Okay...
<Simone_Carsweld> We willdo it liek this...
<Simone_Carsweld> you all go nad rest or do whatever you want... once you have questios nor suggestions just call this number
<Simone_Carsweld> One of us will respond and we eil lsplit if you need something to do...
<Simone_Carsweld> Okay.. we can retire then...
<Simone_Carsweld> Pavithra will take you to the connection tunel and give you your weapons back...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Oh, just one small question now..
<Simone_Carsweld> you call i nand we will inform you what then...
<Simone_Carsweld> Yes?
Simone_Carsweld smiles...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Any places where I could take out a lady for an interesting visit of something in the city that is also worth visiting alone?
Jan_Pieterszoon smiles
Peter_Schmidt will retire to his quarters, too. After all, the labs are not manned and he doesn't have much interest to go sight-seeing.
Arthur_Addams will go to sleep now and try to get over the jetlag
<Arthur_Addams> (I'm in for a cut soon. I am getting tired)
<Pavithra_Adhri> ... Oh... i think Lorenco can give you a few place where you cna find someone to spend this time with...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> That was not what I meant.
Jan_Pieterszoon turns red
<Simone_Carsweld> oh?
Pavithra_Adhri heads up towards the ladders...
<Pavithra_Adhri> (steps)
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (I take it we were handed a key(/card) for our room?
<Simone_Carsweld> (not yet)
<Simone_Carsweld> What did you mean, Mr. Pieterszoon?
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Well there is this lady here in Hong Kong that might visit me while I'm here. I was just wondering where I could take her for a decent night out. A place that's also interesting to visit on your own.
<Simone_Carsweld> Oh...
Simone_Carsweld looks at Lorenco...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (We are here to stay for 36 hours aren't we
?)<Simone_Carsweld> (yes)
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (Then it's not such a strange question)
<Storyteller> Lorenco Gil: Well there are two or three places...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (I can fin a decent brothel on my own) Paf_watching (adelie3@modem-745.buffalo.dialup.pol.co.uk) joined #agww.
<Storyteller> Lorenco Gil: though i wouldn't recomemnd you trailblazing to some of them a new as you are and not knowing Chinese...
<Storyteller> Lorenco Gil: It depends on your and your ladies preferences...
Pavithra_Adhri enters the room with Maverick holding a Colt '45 in her hand... Mav3r1ck (raven@ad6-m217.net.hinet.hr) joined #agww.
Mav3r1ck coems down talkign with Pavithra...
<Simone_Carsweld> ahh... Moira...
<Simone_Carsweld> I haven't seen you here in a while...
<Mav3r1ck> Hi Si... i've been around...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Anyways.. time for a quick shower..
<Arthur_Addams> Or time to rest...
<Simone_Carsweld> Well we must talk about that horrible guy...
<Simone_Carsweld> ... i hoped he died and he turned up in a British center of ops...
Simone_Carsweld loosk back to the others...
<Simone_Carsweld> Okay i need to talk to Moira here... would yo uall please excuse us?
Pavithra_Adhri gets up and throws her coat over her shoulders...
Jan_Pieterszoon walks over to the luggage and picks up his own.
<Storyteller> the two mwen rise and head towards your luggage and towards a set of sliding doors that open into a lift... --- Wed Jul 30 2003
Peter_Schmidt fetches his backpack and wonders if they get some keycards now
Mav3r1ck looks at the others and sits next to Simone on the U end,throwing her hair over the couches and lies down...
Pavithra_Adhri goes with the other two man and the visitos into thelift and closes the door...
Arthur_Addams gets up and picks up Ally himself
Simone_Carsweld leans to Maverick when the doors close... Simone_Carsweld (raven@ad6-m217.net.hinet.hr) left #agww. Mav3r1ck (raven@ad6-m217.net.hinet.hr) left #agww.
Pavithra_Adhri rolls up her sleeve...
Pavithra_Adhri takes three keycards from her coa and passes them along her forearm...
<Pavithra_Adhri> Here....
Pavithra_Adhri hands each of them a keycard...
Arthur_Addams takes his keycard
<Arthur_Addams> Thank you very much
<Peter_Schmidt> Thank you.
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Thank you, miss.
Peter_Schmidt smiles at her, too
<Pavithra_Adhri> No problem...
Pavithra_Adhri gets off on a floor and she takes the visitors out and puts on her coat...
<Storyteller> Lorenco and the Chinese man continue down with the lift...
<Pavithra_Adhri> You go through the corridor connecting the two skyscrapers...
<Pavithra_Adhri> Below you yo usee buldings, cars, and the lights of the city living...
<Pavithra_Adhri> (gah that needed to be ST)
Jan_Pieterszoon doesn't look down, not because he has vertigo, just because he doesn't like heights.
Pavithra_Adhri opens the door with a keycard and you are on a lighted hotel passage...
<Storyteller> A cleaning lady and a bellboy pass... they are talking and seem suprised at seeing you here...
Storyteller takes yo uto the lifts and opens the doors...
<Arthur_Addams> (That's so nice of you ST *g*)
Pavithra_Adhri waits for them to enter
Jan_Pieterszoon enters
Peter_Schmidt enters, too
Arthur_Addams follows
Paf_watching follows too. Oh wait a sec...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (LOL)
<Peter_Schmidt> (LOL)
<Arthur_Addams> (hehe)
Pavithra_Adhri takes the three to three rooms next to each other...
<Pavithra_Adhri> These are yours...
<Pavithra_Adhri> Anythign else?
<Jan_Pieterszoon> Thank you, that would be all....
Jan_Pieterszoon grins
<Arthur_Addams> No. Thank you.
Arthur_Addams smiles
<Peter_Schmidt> Thank you.
Pavithra_Adhri looks at Jan dissaprovingly...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (Bad Joke, I know)
Peter_Schmidt smiles at her again, although she very likely is more a Cyborg than a woman..
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (I actually considered tipping her)
<Arthur_Addams> (I guess then she would consider tripping you)
<Pavithra_Adhri> Okay... in that case i will be seeing you... if you want to head somewhere or need somethign jsut cal lthe number...
<Pavithra_Adhri> (shed shove it quite deeply back into you :))
<Peter_Schmidt> We will... Thank you and good night.
Pavithra_Adhri nods and turns around...
Jan_Pieterszoon opens his door.
Arthur_Addams enters his room
Pavithra_Adhri heads down the corridor towards the stairs...
Jan_Pieterszoon unpaks his suits and hangs them in the closet.
<Peter_Schmidt> /me enters his room and takes off his backpack.
Jan_Pieterszoon then heads for teh shower and takes a long warm shower...
<Storyteller> You all enter your rooms... they are all finely arrnaged with taste... they all hava a bathroom that ic closes by y glass sliding door...
Arthur_Addams looks around his room
<Storyteller> there is a TV on a nice table and there is a huge bed...
<Storyteller> On the beds there is a tray with some sweets, a bread basket and something covered with a bell... next to it is a glass of soem sort of red wine...
<Arthur_Addams> Ah. That's just what I need now. I can unpack my stuff tomorrow, too...
<Storyteller> the food is a well done stake in a mushroom dressing... next to it is some sort of rice preapred like you never saw before...
Jan_Pieterszoon enjoys his shower
<Storyteller> the stake seems to have been boiled in small bits and then served with the dressing...
<Storyteller> ...next to it are both sticks and a fork, knife and a spoon...
<Storyteller> next to it is a small ornate bowl with a pudding in chocolate and vanilla...
<Storyteller> (two questions)
<Storyteller> (1 more tonight or later?)
<Arthur_Addams> (I vote for later. *yawns* I'm tired and already see the quality of my play going down)
<Peter_Schmidt> (later)
<Storyteller> (2 want to have a adventure in Hong Kong?)
<Peter_Schmidt> (Sorry, I almost fell asleep at the keyboard now)
<Storyteller> (everyoen vote)
<Arthur_Addams> (I'm not against a mini in HK later)
<Peter_Schmidt> (I think Pete won't run around in Hing Kong. He will check out his colleagues and the transporter.)
<Paf_watching> (I would prefer a porsche)
<Peter_Schmidt> (If you can convince him to accompany you, he might do it. But it needs to be some good reason)
<Storyteller> (so everoyone is for later... okay i ust need to wrap this up)
<Arthur_Addams> (His toolbelt stolen? ;) )
<Peter_Schmidt> (Art: Evil you!)
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (I'm only interested in one thing, and that would be a mini.. otherwise I'd just visit the city as a tourist and have a look around)
<Storyteller> SO each of you feed and clean up, and finaly fal lto comfy beds seeing through the windos the lights of a huge city...
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (actually not each *g*, but that depends on you)
<Storyteller> Ok so 2 for something in HK 1 against...
<Peter_Schmidt> (Yup)
<Peter_Schmidt> (Well, problem is that Pete is no one to go on some adventure trip like that.)
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (Actually.. what I want in Hong Kong.. was last seen talking to Simone *G*)
<Storyteller> Sure :) though isn't Maverick a bit unavaiable currently? :)
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (Perhaps)
<Jan_Pieterszoon> (Anyways.. I don't really care about what is going to happen here (if something at all)... Jan visits the city...he is an adventurer in a way...)
<Storyteller> Okay we are done playing...
-- To Be Continued --
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