<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/a0/Leotard_and_Lace_profile.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Antimony</strong> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243890.msg12052526#msg12052526)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Context</strong></td><td>Streets of Little Shanghai -&gt; Zhang's Augmentation Parlor</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tagging</strong></td><td>The Team</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Fate Points</strong></td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Moderate Consequence (4)  </strong></td><td>---</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Major Consequence (6)</strong></td><td>---</td></tr></tbody></table><hr/><br/>"I'm not really the type to be very free with my personal details,"  Antimony responded to Krysta, falling in on her left side and taking the Fury's arm, letting herself get nice and close to the muscular combat morph for protection as they walked along.  "I find that cultivating an air of mystery helps to accentuate my womanly charms."<br/><br/><hr/><strong>Antimony:</strong>/whisper @Hachi And if this mission should wind up going south and one of us gets captured, our only real defense against a good psychosurgeon will be not knowing enough about one another to give our real identities away.<br/><hr/><br/>"That said, trust is an important part of any relationship, and you need some knowledge about someone in order to be able to properly trust them...  Oh, I know, why don't we make a game out of it?  All those mesh messages we've exchanged contained quite a few little clues about me already.  Why don't you and your muse go over them and tell me what you can piece together about me?"<br/><br/><hr/><strong>Antimony:</strong>@Drop As I said when I first introduced myself, my specialty is subverting security systems.<br/><strong>Antimony:</strong>@Drop A face to face meeting with Zhang will give me multiple opportunities to subvert the Night Cartel's security for the big meeting. They may try to tighten security, but once I'm in, I can create all the blind spots we'll need to pull this off.<br/><hr/><br/>And with her defense for her actions given, it would likely be a rather uneventful trip down to the part of town that Zhang had his augmentation parlor in.  Most might feel rather intimidated at seeing the warehouse-turned-surgical parlor, brimming with armed, well-muscled Night Cartel thugs, but Antimony wasn't most people.  Detaching from her escort with a quick motion to hang back, she brazenly made her way up to the nearest thug she could find and reached out, clinging to his arm in a rather desperate, hungry manner, shamelessly pressing herself up to him in order to grab his attention as she spoke.<br/><br/>"I'm sorry, sir, and please excuse the interruption, but my name is Lin, and I have an important appointment with Zhang."  And as she said her next words, she gave a little push with her mind...  "If it's not too much trouble, could you please<em>escort my friend and I to his office, and let him know I've arrived</em>?"<br/><br/>...And was quickly rewarded with the sensation of a part of her brain shifting within her skull, like the ignition of an old combustion engine turning over and causing the entire thing to come roaring to life.<br/><br/>It was not a natural feeling.  The organic portion of her brain was not supposed to feel like this, like it was vibrating within her skull, trembling with a power that she could barely control, writhing and squirming and trying to free itself from the cage of bone and metal that entrapped it.  It was inherently wrong, an alien sensation that the body she was currently inhabiting was never designed to feel.  That only made it all the more disturbing to her that a part of her mind liked it, that on some level that she was not quite able to parse she actually derived a sense of pleasure from delving into this strange power that was available to her.  It was almost like the alien sensation was actively trying to tempt her into indulging in it.<br/><br/>That said, the power she was now experiencing did have its uses, and those uses were part of the reason why she had been recruited into Firewall in the first place.  Using the power made her feel like she was doing strange and disturbing things to her own brain, but using it also allowed her to do things to the brains of others, to subtly bend them to her will.  She would not keep the power active for very long, just for long enough to place a little post-hypnotic suggestion in the mind of the thug she was speaking to...  And once it was in place, he would carry out her request with no resistance.<br/><br/>And then it would be in to see Zhang, and with but a touch, his mind would be vulnerable to her, as well...<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Deceive:</strong> 3 - 2 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=85851) + 2 (Subliminal) = 3<br/><br/>Basic Overcome roll to be directed in immediately to speak with Zhang.  If that's not enough to succeed, then I'd prefer to succeed at a cost and have the cost involve some bout of unusual behavior related to being an async.<br/><br/>Once I actually get in to speak with Zhang, my opening move is going to be to Create an Advantage against him by using Charisma to make myself seem more charming, magnetic and persuasive to him.  Something like 'Sexy Little Lin' might work for the aspect name.<br/><br/><strong>Rapport:</strong> 2 + 1 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=85852) + 2 (Charisma) = 5<br/><br/>Definitely hoping to succeed with style on this one, though I suppose that depends on his Willpower roll...</div></div>