Click-click-whirr.

[Fade]

Fade clapped her hands to the sides of her sensitive ears after the bird-robot shouted at Obed, causing pain to shoot through her head. Despite years of training to ignore such noises close up she still felt the pain that accompanied it.

That was nothing compared to what happened next, the bird-robot-things engines roared to life and emitted such a loud bang that the assassin had to fight to keep herself conscious. Fade screwed up her eyes and gritted her teeth and willed herself not to succumb. Not here, not in front of so many people. It was bad for her reputation.

The mutant had to wait for several minutes before she finally opened her cold, watery grey eyes and blinked away the spots. It took a little more time for her to remove her hands from her ears and once she did, heard nothing but a constant ringing.

Fade had gone temporarily deaf.

[Cloud]

Cloud had been consumed by the landscape behind the small gathering, disappearing from view. He had become bored of this nothingness that had enveloped these people. They didn't know what to do, where to go or what was happening. This was certainly a mystery.

Sitting atop a cardboard box that was conveniently placed near him he waited. His short sword lay abandoned, taken from 501 not too long ago that he couldn't be bothered to hide back inside his cloak.

[Danikat]

Danikat sighed, frustrated with their lack of progress. "You mean to tell me we know nothing? All of us were right here when this bomb went off but none of us saw a thing?"

"Arian, have Team 2 begin searching nearby buildings. If they don't find anything spread the search out gradually but start in the immidiate area of the square."

((Basically what this means is armadillos are going to be sneaking and/or teleporting into the buildings all aroud the square and looking around for anything suspicious. If anyone's in those buildings they might well see some of them.))

[Shine]

Whiteoak said to Danikat:

"Actually, Danikat, I have found something you might be interested in. Could you come with me over behind that pillar?"

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Mr. Sanders entered the square. He noticed something that might have been the tail of an armadillo slip behind a fallen sign, but..... that would be unlikely, this far north, so he dismisssed it.

He checked his hand held device, put it away and turned to go over to a local man who was sitting near the bus stop nursing a cut in his right fore arm. This man matched the picture on the "suspects" file he had sent to Whiteoak and Obed.

They conversed for a while.....

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Obed wandered a step or two out of the conversational circle, on the pretense of looking for Sfot's leg, and at a point when his head ws turned away
He opened his mouth, and from his mouth did issue a "Plague of Flies!"

only, these were the very tiny no-see-um gnats, that look like a speck of dirt, until it bites you.

They are specially created for a task.....

((Some of you, in just a bit, may notice some of them land on you, and some of you may even get bit.))

[Danikat]

"Of course," Danikat said to Whiteoak, glad to have any leads at all.

She followed him over to the pillar.

[Shine]

Very quietly, Whiteoak said to Danikat

"look interested in this piece of broken nothing...

Are you interested in a little very confidential information sharing? My people keeping your people informed about what we know and vice versa? But you gotta promise to keep it quiet."

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Sanders talked with the Dojodian local enough to discover he was not a local. He was from the south, supposedly here to visit relatives and had come to the city center to do some shopping. He seemed evasive and there were some obvious holes to his story. Frustratingly enough he could not be eliminated from the list of suspects.

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The no-see-um gnats continue to fly around among the increasing number of insects drawn to the square by the large quantity of blood and Gore
((yes, there are several Al Gore clones wandering about worried about Dojo-warming. ))

[rosebarks]

Lilic, who had been following Whiteoak this whole time looked around. "Uh...Sir?...." She said to him, trying to get his attention. maybe a little too quietly.

In a whisper she asked Whiteoak something, tapping him on the shoulder or where ever she could reach at being 5'4" tall. "What are these...specks of dirt?" she asked curiously.

[Shine]

Obed had seen Lilic attempting to follow Whiteoak, and tried to intercept her, he tried to get between her and the norn. As she reached to tap Whiteoak on the shoulder, Obed said:

"What speck are you talking about, turn this way ((away from Whiteoak)) so I can see it in the light better. ya know? it almost looks like a very small gnat. I'd like to look at it more closely, can we move over there?" he says nudging Lilic away from Whiteoak.

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Whiteoak turned a bit away from Lilic and he took his handheld device out of his pocket, he showed it carefully to Danikat (so NO ONE ELSE could see it), pointing at the word "Possile Suspects" On it were pictures of: ((some of the image were eliminated with an X))

-a blue clad individual ((Fade))
-a well dressed dapper gentleman (Abidusrav)
-X- -((Cloud))
-an unknown dojodian
-((Caps))
-X- -another dojodian
-X- -a small female angel with a red dress and saphire tipped wings,
-an older dojodian old woman
-a Yaut'Ja predator

He then pointed at Sanders's question on the bottom of the screen. It read:
"Whiteoak, Obed, can you rule out any of these suspects?"


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Sanders had moved on to talk with an older woman, after leaving her he put an -X- next to her picture.



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Gnats taste with their feet, they don't have to bite you, just land on you. Obed can sense the "taste" coming from his creations. They are tasting for a chemical component of the bomb which Sanders's "drones" had detected at the blast epicenter. He will add his findings to the handheld device when he gets a chance.




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[rosebarks]

Lilic showed him the gnat as she looked at him. "What is a gnat?" She asked him looking to him. "Oh, I don't think I introduced myself to you sir. I'm Lilic. And you are?" She asked politely to him with a broad smile on her face.

[Danikat]

[Shine]

Whiteoak replied to Danikat
"I know you have an intellegence organization at your command, so I'm betting you've got them active. I gave you something, you know our list of susspect, what have you figured out so far, you got any suspects? or important information?

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"Well, Ms Lilic, forgive my social ineptitude. I, dear lady, am Obed, Guardian of the Sacred Ark, Master of the Holy Plagues, Master of Science - Bioengineering, and owner of Obed's Sandwich Shoppe, (just down that road and in the next block and on the far left corner), where on Tuesdays you can get a free latte drink with the purchase of a hot toasted sub." the last he said with a slight smile.

"and you ask about a "gnat"? A gnat is a very small insect related sort of to a fly. They taste with their feet and if they like what it tastes like, they bite. They can't bother me much, because of the fur, but you furless beings, well, they can be a real bother. Not so much the biting, they don't bite all that often, but they tend to swarm around in a cloud. And they're little, like you just about can't see them.

Question: You got any idea who would have done something like this ? We've got to find them and stop them from ever doing it again."

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Sanders couldn't shake the feeling that there was something suspicious about the Dojodian man he had talked with. He had seemed real nervous. Sanders looked for him and saw him again just as he was going down one of the streets leading off the square. As Sanders began to move in his direction, the man entered one of the buildings. The robed, elderly, gentleman will also carefully enter that building when he gets there.

[rosebarks]

Lilic smiled at Obed when he mentioned the shop. "I might have to pop by there sometime for get a toasted sub and a free latté." She said smirking before it left her face for a more serious look as she nodded about the gnats smirking when he mentioned the 'furless beings'. "No...I honestly don't know who would have done such a thing to this place. It seems almost unnessicary to do such a thing." She explained.

Lilic continued on speaking after the little bit, taking a breath to do so. "The people here...From what I can gather anyways...Generally seem to be nice, easy going people. Sorry that I can't be of much help in the information department, but I will help try to find the person and stop them from doing any further damage if that helps at all Mr. Obed" Lilic told him bowing her head slightly in respect to him.

[Danikat]