Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26130256-20150806184438/@comment-26130256-20150914031440

No, Azulius thought with horror as he saw the machine his partner was now strapped to. This was crossing a line. This was now serious. Neither of these men were leaving this room alive if he had anything to say about it. This was, without a doubt--

"AZZIE!" Uriel shouted, knocking the wind out of him with the blunt side of Lupara, then hammering him to the floor. "It's been too f&$%ing long!  How have you been?  We have so much to catch up on."

Azulius dragged himself to his knees, coughing and gasping for breath as he went. "Uriel Espinas.  And here I figured you'd be swimming in Atlas's harbor by now." This remark earned him a swift kick to the face on behalf of Uriel.

"See, this is why I hate working with gamblers," Uriel complained, while Azulius tried to slow the blood dripping from his nose. "Even in situations like this, they still act like they actually have a chance.  Since you love games so much, I'll explain the rules to this piece." He grabbed the mobster by the collar and dragged him up to his level. "I am going to ask you some questions about our shared past.  And then I will kill you. If you don't feel like answering, or I think you're lying, I'll kill the dame with the feathers as proof of my sincerity.  And if my friend up there," Uriel forced Azzie's head towards the phantom, "thinks you're trying to pull a fast one on me, he'll push that button, and God only knows what fun that will unleash."

The Blackbriar dropped the Cardamom back onto the floor, then stepped back and aimed Lupara at the magician. "Have I been clear?"

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Outside, Trigo's grip on his shotguns went from firm to white-knuckled. He would have loved nothing more than carving a path of bodies to Uriel and giving him the kind of savage beating that would make any snuff writer ill. But there was a hostage to consider, and the enforcer knew better than to risk a hostage over personal satisfaction. But the video he had from his nephew's belt buckle gave him an idea.

"Brick.  Send the word to everyone here, and back to the hacker cave.  I want to know if there is a way we can cut the power to that building, and how quickly."