Almost an hour goes by as lighting and costume issues are dealt with before Ben shouts, “Quiet on the set!”
Minnie immediately stops in mid conversation and turns in the bar stool to observe the scene, it gives Sammy a chance to think of the job for moment. Something odd has been bothering her about the setup, but her old friend’s chatter had kept her from really putting her mind to it.
She is not the only one concerned; Fionn had done his best to find someone who could help him access the restaurant’s systems. He had just hit his last dead-end, an assistant to an assistant technical director that was supposed to be able to contact the site security liaison, he had just gotten off the his comm and was trying to explain some unusual situation to the technomancer when the troll called for quiet.
The scene starts. Jenny Freelance walks into a semi-quiet restaurant from the elevator. She looks out the window before sitting down with a nervous-looking man in a white-collared shirt.
“So,” she asks, “what’s the problem?”
He takes a drink. “We need your skills to retrieve an item in Africa. We can pay your standard fee, but we need you to move at utmost haste.”
“Sure. What’s the job, and why the rush?”
“There’s an important map that’s up for sale, called the Piri Reis map. We want you to retrieve it, either from the auction house, or from the buyer. The trouble is, others know of its importance as well.”
Jenny is about to say her line, when an elevator dings.
The noise is like a lightbulb going on for Sammy and Fionn. Sammy realizes in that moment that she didn’t see a security ward around the building when she spoke to her spirit on the astral earlier. Fionn realizes someone had to have fouled with protocols, there was not a single person from the building in the room. These epiphanies come a moment to late though.
The elevator doors in the Lake Union room open, and out comes a small mob of crazed fans. They immediately fan out, shouting for Pandora. It’s not your job to round up the fans, but then you realize that you don’t see any Horizon security around to stop them either.
(Sammy, Torley and Fionn are in rounds. Please roll initiative and declare you general intent, but no action rolls just yet. Because of their position, O’Connor and Clem have no way of knowing this is out of the ordinary, so they are not in rounds.)
