The Adamescu Files
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Date: 04/10/2018 Time: 1:00pm EST |
Detroit, MI
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Mihai Adamescu is a busy man. Being down an assistant, he's back to doing the paperwork, the prep work, and the truck driving himself. So unfortunately he can't take the truck to Lincoln Park today. Instead he drives it out to the fringes of settled Detroit, to a park near Measure 2 territory. The line between park and vacant lot being a fine one around here. He gets out of the truck, pulls out a cigarette, and starts puffing. He's dressed like a chef: Comfortable shoes, jeans, white t-shirt, apron hanging on the rear view mirror. So Kai shows up with Wednesday - in his car - and when he's parked, promptly hops out, like the car just can't quite be allowed to contain her any longer than necessary. She's in a green sweater and black jeans and boots; no jacket today. Backpack slung over a shoulder. "Mr. Adamescu," she greets. <<DICE>> Kai rolls Perception + Alertness, difficulty 6 to Jim <<DICE>> 3 successes (2 5 8 8 10, Specialty: No, Willpower: No) Wednesday eases himself out of the older model beige Lincoln Town Car parked across the street from the food truck. It's not a clean car, and the back seats seem cluttered with all sorts of belongings piled high. He closes the driver door carefully, and follows Kai across the street, his one good eye narrowed, searching the truck and the man Kai addressed. <<DICE>> Wednesday rolls Perception+Alertness, difficulty 6 to Jim <<DICE>> 4 successes (2 3 7 9 9 9, Specialty: No, Willpower: No) Adamescu drops the cigarette and grinds it out under his foot. "Good afternoon," the balding man says with a very serious look on his face, and a heavy Romanian accent. Who knows when was the last time he really smiled? "I'm glad to meet the Magic police today," he says with a chuckle, but still no smile. Meanwhile, across the park from them, at the street on the other side of the block, a car pulls up. it's old, boxy. At least 30 years old. A white haired individual in a dark sut gets out, pulls out a rifle, and starts leveling it right at Adamescu. Wednesday sees the white-haired man out on the corner of his eye, follows his aim, and begins to rush Adamescu as if going for a tackle. A lot happens at once. There's the loud crack of a shot. A sudden gust of wind. And a scuffle by the truck. Wednesday's attempt to bring down Adamescu simply results in the two clenched in a grapple leaning on the truck, which doesn't help him get out of the field of view at all! But fortunately the bullet that was sailing in Adamescu's direction is pushed by Kai. Sailing right over Wednesday's sedan and breaking a window above it. Glass tinkles down onto the roof of Wednesday's sedan. Romanian cursing spits from Adamescu's mouth, as he cranes his neck aroudn trying to see who's shooting at them. <<DICE>> Jim rolls 5 dice, difficulty 6 <<DICE>> 4 successes (4 6 7 8 9, Specialty: No, Willpower: No) <<DICE>> Jim rolls 1 dice, difficulty 6 <<DICE>> 1 success (8, Specialty: No, Willpower: No) Kai sees that shot with -just- enough time to take a great breath of air and /blow/ - not a particularly subtle way of getting that shot off-target, but somewhere in bounds. "Whoa!" she says, lifting hands at the crack and the sound of glass shattering. She glances at the pair of men there, at the car, but - no obvious injuries? She's starting for the shooter, moving right into the firing line - probably to give time to find cover. She's not going at a run, but at a brisk, angry walk. Wednesday looks Adamescu in the eye and nearly growls, "Get behind your truck!" Then turns, and follows Kai - behind her and off to one side, trying to give even more cover to the cook. As he walks, he begins to chant, low in his register, "sul sal sil sel sol..." The old man across the park stares at Kai a good long moment, but then gets to work. He climbs off of the hood, tosses his rifle back into the passenger side, and gets into the car. The tires squeak as he takes off with a start. The chase is on? Or not. Adamescu himself pushes at Wednesday, "Unhand me. That's Nicolae Radu. He is of the old regime. We must flee." Well, Kai is not about to like, literally -fly after- a dude in a car, so when the rifle gets tossed into the car, she stops her steps, watches the car move as she moves back toward the pair. She clearly doesn't want to lose sight of the guy if a chase is on; on the other hand, threat averted for the moment, getting the hell out also works. She takes one look at the broken glass, jerks her head toward Wednesday's car. "Then let's go. You can explain in the car." Adamescu makes no argument. His truck left without a thought, he follows with Kai and Wednesday, hiding behind the sedan, ready to go. "We must hurry. He was a member of the secret police. He really is the Magic Police, madam." Said Magic police is skidding around corners, the boxy old car not the most nimble. He himself has seen them retreating, so he's taking the office, and driving TOWARD the crew. "Oh good," Kai says; it's -really hard- to tell if she's being sarcastic or, uh, spoiling for a fight. (Both?) She climbs into the car and swings her backpack onto her lap, unzips it enough to start rifling. Lighter, knife, a photo canister. She'll hand the canister off to Wednesday - or rather, tuck it in one of his pockets - then get a sense for where the guy is with his boxy car in relation to their - hopefully at this point moving - vehicle. Hearing the squealing tires, Wednesday looks up to see the gunman rounding the park towards them. He nearly spits something like "Nightgarm!" like a curse, leaves the door open and rushes to the driver's seat to get the car in motion, his big coat billowing a bit behind him. He accepts the cannister as his hits the gas hard. <<DICE>> Jim rolls 8 dice, difficulty 6 <<DICE>> 3 successes (1 2 3 4 6 6 9 10, Specialty: No, Willpower: No) Adamescu ducks into the back, ducking his head out of sight. He looks to Kai. "Thank you for helping me." He then pauses. "I wish I had finished that cigarette." He hangs on as the sedan starts off. Interestingly, the sedan does not move in the direction Radu was expecting, and so Radu's car blows by Wednesday's sedan. But with more skidding, he manages a bootlegger, getting the car turned around. And so abruptly Radu is following. <<DICE>> Wednesday rolls dexterity+drive, difficulty 6 to Jim <<DICE>> 3 successes (6 9, Specialty: No, Willpower: Yes) [POOL] Wednesday spends 1 points of Willpower. Reason: Automatic Success The big man glances over at Kai...grinning. "This is trouble - an ambush, a shady trickster, and a chase!" Wednesday's grin fades just a bit as he continues, "Should we try to lose him, or bore him to death?" Kai keeps her eyes on the car, knife in hand like she's at a whole other kind of fight, lighter jammed under her thigh. As an afterthought, she reaches to buckle her seatbelt. "Huh?" she says to Adamescu. "Uh. Yeah." She's waiting, for now, to see the Magic Policeman's play. Adamescu lifts his head up, just in time to see Radu gunning it. He ducks his head again. All in Wednesday's boat of a sedan feel a start, as Radu rams his car in. It's an attempted police maneuver, but apparently the old man's a bit rusty, as Wednesday does not lose control at all. The chase continues. <<DICE>> Wednesday rolls Dexterity+Drive, difficulty 6 to Jim <<DICE>> 2 successes (8 10, Specialty: No, Willpower: No) After the jolt of impact, Wednesday's grin is gone. He shouts, as if Radu can hear him, "That's my stuff!" and jerks the wheel, attemping to take a surprise turn at the next intersection. It's amazing how much that appears to have made Kai lose her temper as well. She peers back through the window of Radu's car, stares right at the man, and flips the knife in her hand so that she grasps the blade - and squeezes it, bloodying her hand. Maybe... a distraction? <<DICE>> Kai rolls arete, difficulty 6 to Jim <<DICE>> 3 successes (2 6 10, Specialty: No, Willpower: Yes) [POOL] Kai spends 1 points of Willpower. Reason: Automatic Success <<DICE>> Jim rolls 4 dice, difficulty 6 <<DICE>> 4 successes (6 6 8 10, Specialty: No, Willpower: No) <<DICE>> Jim rolls 8 dice, difficulty 6 <<DICE>> 5 successes (2 3 4 6 7 9 9 10, Specialty: No, Willpower: No) <<DICE>> Jim rolls 7 dice, difficulty 9 <<DICE>> 4 successes (5 7 8 9 9 9 10, Specialty: No, Willpower: No) Kai's knife work is not ineffective. The old man may be over 60, but he apparently has superhuman will, based on how his reaction is to squeeze the steering wheel tight, and JAM the gas. This time he hits the angle dead on. Despite Wednesday's driving as well as he's driven in his life, sending Wednesday's car skidding to the side, threatening to get out of control. Wednesday can try to keep going, but he may risk rolling it over if he does. Adamescu can be heard muttering a quiet prayer. Wednesday spits another curse the the next impact forces the Lincoln to the side. "Enough of this - hold on," he calls to Kai and Adamescu, and he brings the car to a stop as suddenly as he can safely. Throwing it in park, he's about to fling his door open. Kai does as told, because maybe? Possibly? She's seen the effects of car accidents before. Knife hand goes down between seat and door, pointed safely down so she doesn't -accidentally- stab herself (on purpose seems to be ok with her???), and the bloodied hand goes to the dash, elbow loose. Adamescu has no seat belt on, but apparently prayer has some power, so the combination of the second hit, and the stop, don't send him flying. He does thud against the seat in front of him though, and goes wide eyed in surprise. More muttering. Radu was fully expecting them to stop, so he jams on the brake as well. Grabbing his weapon, getting out of the car onc emore. The rifle is not your usual AR 15. Nor is it an AK 47. It's a PA model 1986. No bayonet or grenade launcher, though. Wednesday throws open his door, angrily stepping toward the gunman, trying to block any immediate shot at Adamescu. "Explain, tree-of-wounding-wasps!" His hands are mostly up and signifying surrender, though. Kai pops her door, too, and steps out; she's still got her hand around the business end of a blade, and she says nothing because she's focusing. You know that hurts, right? She knows it hurts. It works for her. They are apparently playing good cop bad cop? She is the bad cop. And Radu is the worst cop. :( <<DICE>> Kai rolls arete, difficulty 6 to Jim <<DICE>> 3 successes (2 8 10, Specialty: No, Willpower: Yes) [POOL] Kai spends 1 points of Willpower. Reason: Automatic Success <<DICE>> Wednesday rolls Charisma+Expression, difficulty 6 to Jim <<DICE>> FAIL (2 4 5 5, Specialty: No, Willpower: No) Radu holds up the rifle in his right hand. The left is used to point toward Adamescu. Replying to Wednesday, he says roughly "He is a willworker. And so is one of you. His family is of criminals. Attacked my best friend. I will have my revenge. Give him to me." Adamescu is sore and does not get out of the car. He shouts "My grandmother did nothing to you! You lie! I will never surrender! This is America and I do not have to be afraid of you anymore!" He then adds a crude insulting word in Romanian afterward. Those words cause Radu to begin to raise the rifle toward Adamescu. Sidestepping to try to stay in between Radu and Adamescu, Wednesday smiles just a little. "You know what spends better than revenge?" Gesturing back at Adamescu, he continues, "This man has a business, and a way to make a good amount of money." <<DICE>> Wednesday rolls charisma+expression, difficulty 6 to Jim <<DICE>> 1 success (1 3 4 6, Specialty: No, Willpower: Yes) [POOL] Wednesday spends 1 points of Willpower. Reason: Automatic Success "Plus," Kai says, bloody-knife-hand down at her side: "if you don't try to shoot him, I don't have to break your hand." She looks like earnest in her desire to not break his hand, at least? <<DICE>> Kai rolls Manipulation + Intimidation, difficulty 6 to Jim <<DICE>> FAIL (4 5 5, Specialty: No, Willpower: No) Adamescu goes quiet. The middle aged man sitting in car goes motionless as he looks up at Radu. Adamescu thinks he's about to die. And so, doing his best to honor his ancestors, he begins to hum a Romanian folk tune, one associated with opposition to the Communist regime. Radu does in fact begin to bring his hand to the trigger, carefully and deliberately. "Stand aside willworker," he says to Wednesday. "I gave you an out, storm-ash." And Wednesday begins to chat again, the same chant he used back at the park - a low crowing, gutteral thing." Kai also gave him an out, and lifts her knife hand to squeeze it again. It doesn't do more damage - thanks, soak - but it does make the blood drip, which is all she needs. <<DICE>> Kai rolls arete, difficulty 6 to Jim <<DICE>> 2 successes (2 2 9, Specialty: No, Willpower: Yes) [POOL] Kai spends 1 points of Willpower. Reason: Automatic Success <<DICE>> Jim rolls 7 dice, difficulty 6 <<DICE>> FAIL (1 1 1 5 7 8 8, Specialty: No, Willpower: No) Adamescu closes his eyes. He's waiting for the shot, but it doesn't come. Instead, as Radu's hand begins to clench on the trigger, he suddenly spasms in pain. The weapon is dropped to the ground, and he begins to writhe around in pain. Grabbing his wrist, moaning out. | |
