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Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:19 pm**

You had a plane to get you and your "guest" quickly back. In American soil he was taken awaw, and you had a car waiting to drive you to New York.
After a quick stop in an hotel to take a bath and change cloths, you went to the Caduceus headquarter. Someone is waiting for you and takes you to the sixth floor.
You already know the place (with a lot of people working there), but this time, when they see you, they all start... aplausing you.

Posted: **Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:43 am**

"I guess whatever we did helped," says Harry. "They know more about what's going on than we do."

Posted: **Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:30 pm**

Butch is not used to being the center of attention like this and quickly raises his hand to acknowledge the applause but just as quickly moves through the gathered people to the meeting room.

"Thanks everyone. Just doing our jobs. You all just keep doing yours."

Posted: **Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:57 am**

Jan saunters at the back of the group, smoking a cigar. She's still wearing breeches and purposely ignores the scandalised stares from the Caduceus employees.
"I hope we get recompense for our last expedition; I need some recuperation"

Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:48 am**

"Oh, err, you are too kind, really." Crowley looked unexpectedly embarrassed, and made small negating gestures with his hands.

"Honestly, I was given the chance to fly an aircraft in combat one more time, that's all the thanks I'll ever need."

Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:19 pm**

Still limping from his exertions in Borneo, Alex keeps his eyes fixed forward, murmuring quietly about 'Goddamned mass murderers.'

Posted: **Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:07 pm**

Someone comes in your direction (a muscular, bald man) and speaks:
"Mr Meadham wants to speak to you. He wants to know the people who captured one of those creatures. Please follow me".

Posted: **Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:51 am**

"Of course," says Harry. "So he'll be treated as a captive and not a guest? No hotel room for him?"

Posted: **Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:00 am**

"By all means. Is that nice snake lady about?"

Posted: **Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:28 pm**

"And we'd like to know the person that's sending us out on these missions. Was he aware that this area was full of otherworldly plants and animals? What is going to happen to the man that killed Shapiro?"

Posted: **Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:35 pm**

...gonna give those bastards a piece of my mind...'

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:46 pm**

"No, he is not a guest. He is a menace to humankind, but thanks to you, one less that we must worry. I don't know anything about the plants and animals, didn't read your report."
He arrives at an elevator, and uses a key (this is a private elevator) to call it.
"I don't know much about the snake lady as you say; we keep everything separated, so if anyone is capturated, he won't give much information besides it's own field".

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:20 am**

"Perhaps she could convince our captive, turn him," suggests Harry.

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:55 am**

"I was just thinking she might enjoy a dinner at a good New York restaurant."

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:32 am**

"I think the other clients would be a bit disturb. About the prisoner, not my business. It's here".
It is the floor 18.
The door from the elevator open and you that the entire floor is an office.
While the office is sparsely furnished, the furniture is solid, expensive, and tasteful. Floor-to-ceiling oak bookshelves hold volumes on pharmacology, medicine, and human anatomy.
A Japanese lacquered cabinet holds drinks.
Next to this cabinet stands a human skeleton, mounted on a metal stand and hung from a chain small metal plaque on the top of the
stand reads, “Memento Mori.” A number of wooden filing cabinets store vital documents, although these largely relate to mission planning and finances.
You see a man in his 70's with a white hair and beard.
"Here you are, come in please".

OOC: Make spot hidden roll.

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:38 am**

Success.

The room definitely caught Crowley's attention.

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:57 am**

Harry notices something.

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:33 pm**

OOC: Success

Butch enters the room and scans the area. He's never been comfortable in such ostentatious surroundings but he takes note of the trappings that the old man surrounds himself with. He waits patiently to hear what is undoubtedly coming next.

Posted: **Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:36 pm**

Alex is particularly taken by the grotesque inappropriateness of the skeleton.

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:15 am**

In the bookshelf you notice two curious volumes that seem very old: the Book of Eibon and the Zanthu Tablets. There is also a safe and one wall contains two doors set into its wooden paneling.

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:49 pm**

Posted: **Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:30 am**

"Interesting reading material," comments Harry.

Posted: **Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:05 am**

Crowley gives the man in his 70s a polite nod. "How are you, sir. I don't believe we've met."

Posted: **Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:33 pm**

OOC: Roll occult

Posted: **Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:39 pm**

Fail.

Posted: **Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:15 pm**

'Unusual reading material indeed,' notes Alex.

Posted: **Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:14 am**

Harry knows nothing about these books.

Posted: **Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:17 pm**

Mephistophilis wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:15 pm

'Unusual reading material indeed,' notes Alex.

L79%d%

The liber ivonis is a book of fabulous antiquity from ancient Hyperborea, written by the wizard Eibon.
The Zanthu Tablets were written by Zanthu an ancient priest from Mu; they use the Naacal language.

Posted: **Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:07 pm**

Sidling up to the bookcase, Alex notes some of the volumes. 'The Zanthu Tablets, interesting, I have a little Naacal myself, I would love to have a read...' he says. 'And the Liber Ivonis, do you read Hyperborean as well? Quite the rarity.' He tries to slip the Zanthu Tablets out from the bookcase to take a closer look at its authenticity.

Posted: **Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:20 am**

Butch glances at the bookshelf but is more interested the meeting than reading.

Posted: **Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:06 am**

Mephistophilis wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:07 pm

Sidling up to the bookcase, Alex notes some of the volumes. 'The Zanthu Tablets, interesting, I have a little Naacal myself, I would love to have a read...' he says. 'And the Liber Ivonis, do you read Hyperborean as well? Quite the rarity.' He tries to slip the Zanthu Tablets out from the bookcase to take a closer look at its authenticity.

He seems surprised.
"That is interesting. The number of people who can read it is very small in the word; a dozen maximum, and I doubt that half of them are human. I would be interested to know how you contacted with this kind of knowledge."

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:50 am**

"We've met some native speakers of Naacal in the course of our missions," says Harry. "There are probably more than you think."

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:34 am**

"I think we killed most of those we met, so maybe he's right and there aren't many left. Besides us."

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:52 pm**

'We didn't kill all of them. Tyranissh for one. And Charles in Bolivia. Sometimes a little conversation and Christian charity gets you further than the barrel of a gun.'

Posted: **Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:46 am**

"The guns were useful too," says Harry. "Like Al Capone said, you can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Of course, he's in federal prison for tax evasion, so maybe he's not the best source of advice."

Posted: **Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:06 pm**

Somewhat bored, Jan flicks her fingers along the shelves looking for natural history books or books on strange beasts.

Posted: **Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:56 am**

"Who is Charles? Those creatures are not to be trusted and should be eliminated because the risk is too big. We have only spared Tyranissh because she is from a time that humankid didn't existed, so she shouldn't have any prejudice against is. But that is not the reason I send you: I want to congratulate for your excelent work, that have surpass all our expectations. As a reward you can take a full week to do whateaver you want with your accomodations and food paid- but don't exagerate, I don't want to have an emergency meeting with the people of the accounting section."

Jan:
Spot hidden

Posted: **Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:36 am**

"Thank you," says Harry. "I've always wanted to stay at the Plaza, but that would probably be overdoing it."

Posted: **Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:42 pm**

"I was rather hoping to take the snake lady out for a meal. Perhaps a private room at one of the more discreet, upmarket restaurants New York is known for? Or even a private room here if you could have a good chef brought in for the night."

Posted: **Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:46 pm**

He seems really suprised.
"Going to a restaurant? This is a joke, right?"

Posted: **Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:01 am**

Undeterred, Crowley pressed on. "Well, a dinner here then. With a decent chef brought in for the evening."

Posted: **Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:39 am**

'There is much this Tyrannish can teach us,' he looks directly at Meadham, holding eye contact uncomfortably long. 'Including about weapons of unspeakable horror and destruction,' he looks away, 'Or perhaps we have already learned enough?'

Alex is still haunted by the destruction wrought in Borneo and is expecting answers.

Posted: **Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:25 am**

"She also knows more about her people's culture and language than we can learn anywhere else," says Harry.

Posted: **Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:36 pm**

Butch is relatively uninterested in the books and the conversation as he scans the room for security devices and cameras.

Posted: **Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:30 am**

"Yes. Cultural exchange..."

Posted: **Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:22 pm**

"She is being interrogated by competent people. I may let you speak with her since you actually saved her. She hasn't be very cooperative to be true."

OOC: There aren't any cameras.

Posted: **Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:53 am**

"Well, if you're going to do that anyway, how about springing for a good New York chef? Treat her like a valued ally, not an imprisoned enemy being interrogated. Dinner with friends might accomplish a whole lot more."

"I'm quite partial to a New York steak, myself. And it doesn't look like it'll bankrupt your organisation."

Posted: **Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:30 am**

"I definitely appreciate a New York steak," says Harry.

Posted: **Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:55 pm**

"Well, you can go now. Enjoy your stay."
With this, he seems to say that the conversation is over.

Posted: **Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:18 am**

"At least we can go visit and talk to her," says Harry. "Maybe we can bring her the food ourselves."

Posted: **Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:01 am**

Crowley sought information from the Caduceus minions on how the party might arrange a time to visit the snake lady.

Posted: **Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:38 pm**

As they are leaving, Alex grumbles to the others, 'What side are we on exactly? The goodies or the baddies? I don't think I know anymore.'

Posted: **Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:46 am**

"I'm not so sure myself," says Harry. "There may not even be any goodies. It could be the baddies fighting the other baddies for all we know."

Posted: **Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:34 am**

Crowley rolled his eyes. "We're on the side that doesn't steal and eat dead and buried bodies. We're on the side that doesn't sacrifice people to weird giant slug things in Antarctica. We're on the side that isn't the Nazis." Moral ambivalence clearly meant nothing to him.

Posted: **Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:35 pm**

'We are currently on the side that locks up and interrogates intelligent beings aeons older than our own. The side that detonates bombs of unimaginable destruction in the midst of human habitation as a means of infectious disease control.' He shakes his head in disgust. 'I'd rather talk to the serpent woman.'

Posted: **Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:08 am**

"Ah well, on that at least we can agree.". Crowley actually looks quite cheered by the prospect.

Posted: **Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:04 am**

A person is waiting for you. Then he takes you to an elevator. And you go down.
And down.
And down.
You are leaded to her cell (a nice place, even if it is a cell), with a huge poster of a tropical forest, and lot's of flashlights to simulate the sun.
You see two guys trying to talk to her (they have several manuscripts and books) and frustrated because she simply ignore them and is throwing a baseball ball to the wall and catching it.

Posted: **Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:42 am**

Crowley gave the snake lady a polite, short bow. In his limited Naacal, he said, "Beautiful scientist, I am so pleased to see you again."

Posted: **Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:19 pm**

Snapper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:42 am

Crowley gave the snake lady a polite, short bow. In his limited Naacal, he said, "Beautiful scientist, I am so pleased to see you again."

GM: Do you want a Speak Naacal roll from Crowley for simple communication? His Naacal is currently 26%.

OOC No, with more than 25%, you can speak the language (but if you want something more complex as a love poem, you will have to roll).

Posted: **Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:42 pm**

"We're on the side of science." Butch says quietly. "Most of this is above my pay grade but I'd have to say we", he gestures to the group, "we're doing good."

Posted: **Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:50 pm**

Alex's Naacal is not quite at Crowley's level but he tries his best to follow, and attempts 'Greetings Tyrranish, a pleasure to be in your company as always.'

Posted: **Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:19 am**

Harry attempts a simple greeting in Naacal, not being confident enough in his understanding of the language to say more. He probably mispronounced it too.

Posted: **Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:25 pm**

Not having quite the linguistic experience of the others, Butch will just attempt to listen and understand what is being said.

Posted: **Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:34 pm**

She doesn't make any eye contact but says:
"When they ask you what we are talking about, just tell them that I'm making questions about the modern world; those two are humans that are clueless and don't understand the language, but yesterday there was a third one that belong to my kind; he didn't speak but I could detect him".

Posted: **Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:37 am**

"Yes, we brought him here," says Harry. "How are you able to sense him? Is it telepathy?"

Posted: **Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:33 am**

Crowley looked at the two interrogaters, rolling his eyes. <In English>
"She's asking the usual boring questions about the modern world, how are walls made, why do the lights glow, that sort of thing. Deadly, deadly, boring and dull."

He looked back at the lady snake. <In Naacal> "And are you well? I'm trying to arrange for us all to have a good meal together."

Posted: **Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:14 pm**

'Unfortunately some of your kind attempted to release the Yellow Death on a human settlement. Well, the one we met was more of a hybrid creature, that may be who you saw. We also encountered some other unusual beings, some eating our corpses, others seemed to be the mythical dholes of the Dreamlands. It all ended in rather a spectacular explosion and the loss of much life. We would welcome your insights into how we can avoid such an incident again.'

Posted: **Mon May 20, 2024 11:11 pm**

"No, I could smell him. His sense isn't as good as mine, so he didn't understood that I identify him. I'm terrible sorry for the humans dead. In my dreams I can travell far away and I followed you. It was this was that I saw the other human being killed and substituted. I'm still trying to understand what is happening, I have followed several and I think they are several organizations here from my kind but they use the same language that you use, so I cannot understand fully their planes."

Posted: **Tue May 21, 2024 2:35 am**

"Perhaps he was able to sense your presence the same way," says Harry. "He probably knows you're here, anyway. We can help you translate, as we know a little of your language. What parts of their plans can you understand?"

Posted: **Wed May 22, 2024 9:31 am**

"And are these people trustworthy, in your opinion?" Crowley waved in the general direction of the Caduceus people.

Posted: **Sun May 26, 2024 5:46 am**

OOC: Not sure if I understand what is being said.

Butch listens to the conversation and watches the guards to see how much they understand. He casually starts a conversation with them.

"Do you know anything about this creature? Are there other snake people infiltrating our society?"

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2024 6:16 pm**

Buck
"I never saw one of those creatures, but I read that they existed. Of course I read about a lot of creatures and until you actually find one, it's impossible to know if they were real, or just invented stories. Our organization fights against all kind of threats to humankind, and until we understand if she is dangerous, we must be careful"
He seems to be honest.

To Crowley and Harry
"Those two yes. But I'm not sure about others; a pair once asked me about weapons and what I knew about the organizations of my kind and what side of them I would join. It is an odd question since I have been sleeping for all this time. I think the organization is infiltrated and there is some war, but I don't know much more for now.

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2024 9:43 pm**

'Did they mention what organisations of your kind are active?' Alex asks Tyrannish. Wondering whether there might even be allies they could seek within the snakepeople themselves.

Posted: **Wed May 29, 2024 3:38 am**

"What did you tell them?" asks Harry.

Posted: **Fri May 31, 2024 8:59 am**

"Well, I still think they owe you and us a good New York dinner."

Posted: **Sat Jun 01, 2024 5:40 am**

"If they won't let you out, maybe we could have it delivered," says Harry.

Posted: **Mon Jun 03, 2024 2:32 pm**

"I don't know. To be able to follow you in dreams, I couldn't investigate more. I would like to escape here, but I am not interested to go to an outside world alone. But this I know: the leader of thisn organization must know a lot more, to be able to to create an organization taht has been able to find my tomb and the place you found now."

Posted: **Mon Jun 03, 2024 6:17 pm**

'Could we help teach you our language? And in return you could help us with yours...' Alex looks embarrassed, 'I am afraid we are rather butchering the pronunciation.'

Posted: **Mon Jun 03, 2024 9:14 pm**

"I'm not as good at her language as you are. Is she saying anything useful? No one seems to know what's going on." Butch says when there's a moment to interject.

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2024 3:17 am**

"I can help with teaching English," says Harry. "I'm not the most educated, but I've been speaking it all my life."

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