With the direction provided James nodded rather than risk a response and remained on point, aware that the Progenitor entity was likely not on comms and would probabaly need to see them move unless it got the scent itself. Staying ahead of them he moved as quickly as he could, aware that Vadim's assessment of the situation was more likely right on the running out of blood to lose.

OC: Forces roll got me at +1 dice for Perception at the moment correct?

(correct James, though specifically on listening to sounds that are a-typical for your current surroundings. Also, you already labeled this as pseudo science and so would your supervisor so it would be wise at a later point to "figure out" why this worked with little to no preparation)

James took point followed by Vadim and Alpha closed the ranks. The sewer emptied into a stormbassin from which 3 other sewer tunnels ran into separate directions. The bassin was about 5 cubic meters and largely empty save for some brackish foul smelling water at the bottom. A small stairs could be used to go down into the bassin. On the bottom of the bassin a couple of big brown rats ran away from a wet pile of textile when they heard the threesome enter their home. James took a second before recognizing Jacki's shirt.

Vadim looked around but knew that the blood trail was likely done being followed.  The shirt was another clue but he wasn't sure if it was relevant to their current tracking.  What he did know was that he was going to need the aid of those same satellites that he had used before to extend his awareness far enough away that they would be harder to ambush.  Slipping his hand up to his temple he double tapped again to initiate the procedure that would feed data down to his contacts and perhaps help in their further hunt.

Bringing is hand back down to the shotgun he waited patiently as the request was queued up again.  Like Tetris the area around him was re-layered and overlaid in an augmented reality way as the data regarding the various directions of the sewer for a few blocks around them began overlaying his vision.  He began to appear to look at the walls while he actually was analyzing the tunnels from where he was.



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ooc: 22:52, Today: Vadim Dragomirov rolled 3 successes using 3d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 4 ((9,9,9)) Procedure: Eye in the Sky

OC: Noted and cheers.

Wincing at the sight of some of Jackie's clothing, having hoped that she had simply been in enough cover on the upper level that he had not found her yet, James indicated to two of the tunnels for those with him before moving to a third. Once satisifed there was nothing lurking in them waiting for them to go into a firing pit like the basin he planned to check out the clothing and if the water below was in fact deep enough to hide a human-sized body.

James Ellings rolled 2 successes using 4d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6.  Per + Alertness (or Investigate).

The bassin room appeared to be empty except for the hunting party and the body in the water. Something about the body felt unnatural. James couldn't exactly put his finger on it but something was off about the body ...

Meanwhile Vadim saw the world from a topdown view, his visors filtering space for valueble information to help in tracking the rogue HITMark. He immediately spotted 3 heatsignals, obviously belonging to himself and James and Alpha. Three tiny blobs scampered away from the body.
The visual information on display was overlaid with known municipal maps of the underground sewersystem.
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Vadim narrowed his eyes a but and then remembered that even HITmarks had some capability at reading signals from comms, secure or not, so he looked at James to get his attention.  As he spoke through the sub-vocal he also made hand movements, "I've got one signal," he lightly tapped his ear to let him know that the HITmark may be listening in and then put up two fingers to denote the actual number he saw, "partial at best moving away...I think on the left tunnel"  He then pointed down the correct tunnel that he knew was the one they needed to head down and followed with another two fingers followed by a pair of closed fists to denote the distance to target.

Taking the indicated directions from his fellow agent James hesitated a moment to look at the discarded clothing below before heading to the indicated tunnel instead. If Jackie was down in that there'd be little hope if the HITmark got them into the basin and opened fire. Primary problems first then retrieval. With the info from Vadim confirming conflicting details he seemed to suspect it might be listening in so James let himself get to the indicated tunnel, paused to check the oother operative was ready and then advanced.

As the three hunters followed the trail Vadim pointed out they encountered a few dead rats. They'd been dead for a few days. Something had bitten off the heads and supped on the intestines, something with sharp teeth.

Alpha smelled up closely and made a pitiful Mew sound before it followed the hunting party.

Dead for days was not heartening but he quickly kept his attention on the targets they were tracking.  His interface with the advanced satellites gave them both advantage and surprise, and his idea that the HITmark was listening in and using his comms to feed false data would help keep them alive, or at least he hoped it would.

Vadim scrolled ahead of the target, to discern where the target might be heading.

Though reasonably sure the whole alligators in the sewer was just a coverup story that occasionally got used when something got loose from a Progenitor's lab James still regarded the dead rats with a hint of nervousness. Most of the time the rats somewhere like this did the eating rather than were eaten and the fact they'd had the insides sucked out was an extra flavour of creepy. Despite that he stuck to the advance, keeping up with Vadim whilst still scanning the  sights and sounds he could make out down here for any sign of the missing cyborg.

The hunting party continued their track, following the trail Vadim had pointed out.

With the intruders gone the rats that had eyed Jacki's 'corpse' for their next meal returned to feast on the blood the shirt was smeared with. One-Eye was first, he was fast and the other two feared his strength. One-Eye tore into the shirt, gnawing the fabric and pulling it a bit. He was disappointed when he was greeted by a hard inedible surface. He felt it shifting under his feet and leapt away.

Vadim paused in his advance when he finally got an idea of where they may be aiming to go and motioned for James to come close so he could whisper to him with little chance of the HITmark listening in, "Eventually ahead of their path is a pumping station and from there it is a short link to a subway station where they can head in any direction to escape or cause even more mayhem.  I'm no jumper so I can't cut him off at the pass and if we radio in they will know we're on to them and move quicker.  Do you know who or what the second blip is?"  His eyes moved behind the shades as he looked for alternate routes that they could take to get in front of the HITmark and other target...

"Depends, how you seeing them? I'd assume it's Jacki but if they're moving under their own power this route might have been a planned extraction path and another team member." Replying calmly as he tried to work out a route that might let them cut off he scowled and continued, "I think we might just need to-"

Cutting off mid-sentence James' eyes widened for an instant and though he did not shout the next word it was definitely hissed louder and with more urgency than before as he put action to speech and took off down the tunnel away from where they had just come, "Run!"

Vadim lurched forward into as rapid a gait as he could as soon as James told him to run.  He knew he was taking in a lot of data from the satellites and sometimes his mind processed it in abstract ways that delayed certain danger signs that James had seen.

There was definitely some concern as Al moved about, being somewhat cautious of the odd warning signs of something...

Hearing one of the two agents call out, the large bipedal creature began to move towards the pair, concerned that they may have finally spotted the prey target.

5 minutes ago. 20 meters back.

Michael dragged the young woman after him. She'd been impressive, most likely the victim of genetic manipulation by the Doctor. Should have been dead with those third degree burns. Probably had a whole bunch of powers. He didn't know her name so he called her Brunhilde. They were all Brunhildes to him, sympathizer scum. American civilians who'd given up on liberty and the american way, bunch of goddamn sauerkraut-chewing traitors. But if he could get her away from the nazis following him .. perhaps the Spirit of 1776 could sway her to see the error of her ways and  once more light the fire of patriotism that houses in every american soul!
Entering the bassin chamber he quickly pulled the woman's shirt off and tapped on his shoulder to release an explosive device from a secret compartment. Setting a bomb was a dirty trick but all is fair in love and war.

Now, 200 meters ahead.

Michael heard the explosion in the tunnel behind him. The fools had taken the bait as he'd hoped. The fragmentary bomb would have shredded anyone in the bassin room unlucky enough to be too close to the decoy. The subway station was up ahead, from there it would be easier to escape the nazis.
With a bit of luck Portal would be able to pick him up on the run.

Now. Here.
Fortunately the blast of metal shards remained contained in the bassin room. Vadim and Alpha had a ringing sound in their ears from the resounding explosion. James, who's equipment had been specifically keyed to enhance sounds that didn't belong in a sewer .. like explosions .. couldn't hear a damn thing. But at least no one was fooled by the decoy and blown to pieces.

Vadim checked on James for a moment before re-checking the grid.  If the HITmark thought they had been dropped by the bomb it may not move with the speed it had been and that might give them the chance to get ahead of it.  Vadim motioned for James to follow him while his hearing recovered and for Alpha to bring up the rear and make sure James didn't fall behind while he tried to bring them through the tunnels in such a way as to get them ahead.

Blinking in a mildly dazed manner after the detonation James touched one hand to his ear and ,mouthed a low curse that he could not hear before scowling. Glancing up sharply at Vadim's attention he nodded acknowledgement before pointing to his own ears and shaking his head. Hopefully he had not blown his eardrums out but he would be working near deaf for a while.

Taking the cues for his new position he let Vadim lead on, matching his speed as best could.

Alpha followed James and Vadim through the sewer tunnnels. He didn't much like the smell. Something about the tunnels smelled off .. unnatural.
Vadim first reached the door to the pumping station. The door was slightly opened. inside it was pitchdark, as expected.

Knowing there had been a booby-trap previously Vadim took a moment to update the tactical data from the satellites and see if something had been altered or adjusted recently.  With the HITmark's ability to partially avoid detection or scramble the signal he needed to make sure before blundering into a trap.  Between the Eye in the Sky and the special glasses he should be able to avoid one...



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<Orange>15:50, Today: Vadim Dragomirov rolled 3 successes using 4d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6.  Perception + Alertness.</Orange>

Vadim checked the room from high above and noticed the two red blips on the other side of the room, about to head up a flight of stairs leading up to the subway station, and between them and the hunting party a set of 4 large pumping turbines. The room was about 8 meters long, 3 meters wide with most of the space taken up by the turbines. Vadim couldn't see any obvious traps, though with barely a meter of walk space between the turbines and the wall it did not leave much room to dodge or weave should the prey decide to turn on the hunter here.

Vadim again used his limited mime skills to gesture to James and Alpha that the three of them were on one side of the room and the prey was on the other and about to go up stairs.  From his earlier comment they would remember him mentioning the subway and getting away shortly after that.  The lack of room to dodge wasn't good but it also meant that their shotguns would be just as effective in return...or so he hoped.  Still it was a HITmark and he needed to either hit it hard and fast or Alpha needed to sneak up and drop the electroencephaloclamp on him.

He hoped that Alpha had enough intellect to understand him as he moved close to him and quickly removed the device that could slip on the HITmark's head that would immobilize him as he almost sub-vocalized to Alpha, _{"If you can get close enough to drop it on his head it should knock him out cold.  Otherwise stay out of the line of fire.  Don't want you to get hurt."}  If Alpha took it then he would nod in thanks, if not he replaced it into his suit and removed a plain black credit card that he grasped in his palm underneath the grip of the shotgun.

Continuing the same steady pace after Vadim's miming James kept his aim high looking for some sign of their target. No doubt they were pretty close to out by now and unless they got him before it got to witnesses the sewer trip would be unfortunately wasted. To say nothing of the fact that they could not exactly pursue any further with the Progenitor experiment they had with them.

Once both of his companions had given a sign to understanding or not Vadim moved to intercept the HITmark...fairly certain should he increase the worth of his shotgun now it would be noticed and blow any stealth they had...he also didn't report their status knowing if he did that would also blow their cover.
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