Re: Mission One: Idiot Test
Jenkins slunk into the diner, his eyes casting around the place. He had something bulky and flat under his arm, which, unfolding it as he sat on the plastic chair, turned out to be an old deck of retro design (from back when retro decks were 'in'), looking like a 20Cth 'lap-top', complete with attached, folding screen and realistic 'hum' sound. He listened to Nomura and Rin as they began the meeting and ordered a sextuple-shot mocha-mocha-espressachino.
"I was thinking about this stuff in the car. This kidnap move being standard practice, this Hiro bloke is going to expect kidnap attempts. Perhaps its even 'polite' for kidnap attempts to be made and to fail.
The coffee arrives (a pint of frothing caffeinated madness in a glass). Jenkins gulps down half in one unrefined chug.
"Little Mai. She's going to be heavily guarded if kidnaps are expected. If she isn't heavily guarded, then maybe they want the kidnap to work and the girl isn't the girl, but a clone with a bomb, or one of those one-two-oh cyborgs, ready to get busy. Makes me wonder whether we're actually meant to succeed here or if we're simply a polite gesture between two Zaibatsu, or the decoy, luring Oshima out into the open while a second team does the real work. Still, 'ours is not to reason why'. Certainly be worth being careful and checking some of those "unknown variables" on location."
Jenkins picks-up the Insider Weekly and flicks through, turning the pages quickly.
OOC:
Some speculation, thoughts and questions.
- What has Munemori Hiro been doing before his promotion (or demotion) to branch director? That might be useful to know: gives a sense of whether kidnapping will come as a surpise to him and whether he's been moved to this job as a punishment, or as a trouble-shooter in a stagnant branch of the corporation.
- What's the security like at the hospital? It might be an opportunity, if the report is correct. The private school is likely to have pretty good security if kidnapping sons and daughters is standard business practice. Then again, it might not.
- Hmmm. I wonder what the copy of 'insider weekly' in the suitcase signifies? 'Ugly' did tell us to take the suitcase with us, but that's ambiguous. Maybe it was an insult left over from the last mission; maybe Makita had been after some other suitcase and we were running a dummy suitcase with this magazine inside to tell Makita (if they'd got it) that they'd got a dummy? Perhaps the contents of the real suitcase were connected to the smear job? Is this the latest issue, or a back-issue? Then again, 'sometimes a cigar is just a cigar'. Still, food for thought.
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