2020-05-19 The Warehouse: LA Mall Briefing
LA Mall Briefing
Participants: Chandra Dallas David Elle (2021) Lenore
Storyteller: David
Location: Sun's Bright Cafe - Kitchen
Date and Time: May 19, 2020 12:00pm
Summary: Info Dump
David has brought everyone together. It's lunchtime, and it's a little busy at the Sun's Bright Cafe, but people are able to pass through, and grab a snack and a coffee as they do on David. Once in back, they'll see David there, the large bird with a device steathily clipped to this wing, and a discreet object tagged to his leg.
Once everyone seems settled in, hell begin. "Thank you for coming all. I don't know if we've all met, so let's go around and introduce ourselves please. I'm David Marcus. I'm originally from Alaska but I've been in LA for years now. The reason I've brought everyone here though is a possible Pentex problem.
"The Garou are buying a building, formerly Bundy Dry Cleaning Supply in the Fashion District. It's out of business, and the former owner now still owns the building. But the business itself was sold. I think we need to find out who owned that business and, if Pentex is involved, we need to clear out the source of the banes that the Garou are going to claw/claw/bite."
A small, extremely athletic woman dressed in a snug baby-doll t-shirt and dark jeans sitting near the front lifts a hand, her brows furrowing. "Bundy Dry Cleaning Supply? Have you found Banes therre, or are we sniffing after Pentex's trail?" She leans back slightly in herer seat and folds her hands together, rolling her shoulders. "Ah... Glacial Fury. Ice Stalker. My dad was from Alaska too." She frowns.
Chandra speaks from her spot in the shadows behind Dallas. "That the one wit da oil spill?" The black woman crosses her arms, eyes scanning those assembled slowly before moving back to David.
Scarfing down on the juiciest peach ever, Dallas looks up to David from the floor, his eyes roaming the devices tagged to him. " Is it safe?", as if asking if it was safe to speak. Giving a head nod to Chandra, "Introduce yourself darling. They all came to hear your name.", tssking and checking out the polar bear. "Huh...", giving her a nod. "De la Cruz, just call me Dallas. Tunnel-Runner.", another bite of the juicy peach.
Chandra nods at Dallas before regarding the others. "Aight Dallas. Folks round these parts call me Miss Jackson or Ma Jackson if dey wish dey was my kids. I'm a Knife Skulker."
Lenore swoops down from the branch she was perched on, soon shifting into her homid form. Her legs criss crossing before she plops herself down in a seat, drawing her legs up to tuck in. Her elbows resting on her knees as they loosely hang. She remains quiet, just listening for the time being.
David flaps "Great everyone. Yes, Miss Jackson. This is the same situation we talked about. The Garou are buying the building probably today. They're going to kill the banes, clean the spill, cleanse the whole thing, and sell it. It's not safe, but if the wolves are great at anything, it's running into unsafe situations. I'm happy to see them take charge of that.
"But our job is more subtle. We're going to find out more. Whoever we have that can dig into the records, into the filings, into the newspapers and Internet articles, we'll do that. Then..." The bird's head turns to look at Elle, Dallas, and Chandra, "Whatever tough fighters we have can hande any nastiness we find there, so it won't happen again. We'll handle that while the Garou fight with each other and the Wyrm in a two front war."
Chandra tilts her head to the side. "You got a bug in the garou ear? I mean...we aint gonna get to look at no files if mongo smash and den they just sell whatever left. We got hookups or we need to get in before the dogs piss all over everything?"
"I can handle several of the white wolves or sludge banes if need be," Elle replies with a nod, her voice taking on a quit rumble as she does. "And I'm good for scouting around the building too. Just let me know where you need me." She crosses her arms over her chest and leans back into her seat.
Chandra gets an arched eyebrow, but Elle eventually nods. It may have taken her a moment to catch on.
Dallas just nods, and remains silent. Leaning on the wall like it was his job to hold it up. Contemplating in his head. Eyeing da birbs and da bear. Pointing to Elle, "Chandra, if shit goes side ways. You hide behind mama bear. They build them like tanks."
David trills softly. "The good news is the records aren't in that building. So we can let Wu and Smiling Angel do their thing. One of us ravens will help them scout, so if it's really bad in there they don't get themselves killed. But they can just handle that without any of the rest of us.
"What I think makes sense is if we can pair a sneaky rat with Lenore here to dig into government and industry records to find out who benefited when Bundy closed. Then sneak into their building and dig into their records. And.. if necessary, right."
"Dallas, do you agree with that? Glacial Fury? Oh and what part of Alaska? North slope?"
Chandra says "Yeah I could get on to that." She smiles at Elle. "I'll be right behind you girl.""
"Alright, Chandra. You got your marching orders. Protect the bird and steal the Intel.", finishing off his peach. "Simple enough.", tossing the pit into a place to properly dispose of it. Dallas then went to wash his hands.
"Little town in the woods somewhere north of Anchorage. I... Haven't had a chane to ask him about it in a long time." Elle flashes David a smile, but she's deeply introspective as she shrugs hers houlders and settles back into her seat. The bear is, as most bears are, slow and methodical in her speech, and she lets everyone else have a turn before continuing. "If there's a problem you'll have trouble *not* being behind me." Chandra gets a wink. "If it gets really bad I'll toss cars to buy us time. Warning you just in case."
Chandra nods to Dallas, "you got it.". She then fans her breast and neck sarcastically as Elle boasts about her abilities. "My hero." She chuckles as she looks back to David. "All my friends in low places. Department of Public Records is where I think we start, figure who the players are fore we start the drama."
David flaps. "Alright then. That sounds great. Miss Jackson, If you have any ways of getting into government records, that'd be great right now. OTherwise we'll do that, and get back to you for the actual break-in.
"Dallas, Glad to have all the help you can supply.
"And Glacial Fury? Are you stealthy? Might be good to have you in for the break in. But we'll definitely wnat you there for the follow up, if it turns out the buyer was Pentex or something. Your choice. Also, if he was up by Denali Park, I might have photographed him at some point..."
"That's me. Captain Vehicular Homicide to the rescue." Elle rolls her eyes, but there's obvious good humor in it. She nods slowly when Dallas asks about stealth. "Yeah. I can be pretty quiet if I need to be. But bears aren't blessed with the Moon's grace, so I won't be keeping up with the Rats if things go south."
Chandra says "I mean I can break in but if you got a computer guy to hack in, thats less footprints on our part. I aint a computer whiz."
Dallas nods to the assumedly lower rank shifters, "Play nice, follow your litanies, earn renown. Do us proud. If you really need help, let me or David know. But I think you gals got it.", wiping his hands off and heading to David. "Hey brother. I was curious if I can make a deal with you. I'm in need of something...", whispering into the birds ear.
Chandra says "I think my part is more breaking in to old buyer's house, gathering physical clues, capture, a nice chat, disposal, that kinda stuff my shit."
