Through the Grapevine [Matsui]
Posted Aug 22, 2018 1:25:41 GMT -7
Post by Vieri di Adatto Isabello on Aug 22, 2018 1:25:41 GMT -7
Mundanes didn’t have much in terms of fire power - or living power should someone with fire show up - but it’d be flat out irresponsible to think they didn’t have their uses. They had connections, they had resources; a lot of the smart ones he could pay or offer to protect had organizations with whatever network was relevant to them. If nothing else, they had eyes and ears. They may not be able to take a mage, but they sure could pass along tips about them.
A lot of the weird shit rumors Vieri got about ‘suspected mages’ was nothing more than strings tied to creaky floorboards, some guy in a gorilla suit, or some other bullshit that completely wasted his time. He’d gone to the first few in person, but after going to the sight of just a normal-ass wildfire and the house of an old woman who didn’t have powers, just a lot of cats, he started just sending one of his men to check it out first. If they came back alive they’d give him a solid update. If they didn’t, that was an update in and of itself.
This, however, was one of the rare instances where there was actual, possible credence to this claim of a person with superhuman powers. Out in the middle of god-knows-where-only-accessible-by-helicopter, but credible all the same. This nose wouldn’t turn up unless something really weird was going on, and he supposed there were worse ways to spend an afternoon than heading out to the quiet countryside. It gave him time to work through the harder paperwork about building regulations in scientific Shanghai in the limo ride from the portal to the first helipad, and meant he’d be in a place with very few people. Few people, few minds, less of a headache. The electric buzz of others’ thoughts had gotten worse since the Entity Asshole had attacked and the range of his abilities had evidently gotten larger.
Vieri stepped out of the helicopter that’d brought him here and waited until the routers on the top stopped spinning and inducing headaches before he took off the noise-cancelling headphones. The place was idyllic if nothing else, for lack of people and a lot of grass and animals. Not entirely free of people, however, as he’d been told he’d be meeting an ‘escort’ there.
Yume Matsui
A lot of the weird shit rumors Vieri got about ‘suspected mages’ was nothing more than strings tied to creaky floorboards, some guy in a gorilla suit, or some other bullshit that completely wasted his time. He’d gone to the first few in person, but after going to the sight of just a normal-ass wildfire and the house of an old woman who didn’t have powers, just a lot of cats, he started just sending one of his men to check it out first. If they came back alive they’d give him a solid update. If they didn’t, that was an update in and of itself.
This, however, was one of the rare instances where there was actual, possible credence to this claim of a person with superhuman powers. Out in the middle of god-knows-where-only-accessible-by-helicopter, but credible all the same. This nose wouldn’t turn up unless something really weird was going on, and he supposed there were worse ways to spend an afternoon than heading out to the quiet countryside. It gave him time to work through the harder paperwork about building regulations in scientific Shanghai in the limo ride from the portal to the first helipad, and meant he’d be in a place with very few people. Few people, few minds, less of a headache. The electric buzz of others’ thoughts had gotten worse since the Entity Asshole had attacked and the range of his abilities had evidently gotten larger.
Vieri stepped out of the helicopter that’d brought him here and waited until the routers on the top stopped spinning and inducing headaches before he took off the noise-cancelling headphones. The place was idyllic if nothing else, for lack of people and a lot of grass and animals. Not entirely free of people, however, as he’d been told he’d be meeting an ‘escort’ there.
Yume Matsui
