Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26104528-20150518191206/@comment-26130256-20150610053004

The short fellow with the scroll surprised Azulius with his stealth, but he didn't show it for long. Why not just talk to him? Let's see here, he thought, quickly glancing at Akiba. ''Sort of aloof demeanor, big scarf, hiding in the woodwork until I started asking questions. If I had to place a bet, I'd say he was mute, but I'll ask when we're not tracking down serial killers/terrorists.''

"Here," he said gently, handing the card to his silent associate. "Look mainly at the decor, the other Hunters, and especially their styles of dress and symbols.  I think there's someone here with a lion motif, and he may be these guy's next target."

But when Estelle played back the answering machine, the last tumbler finally clicked in Azulius's mind. He jogged back to Akiba just long enough to take a picture of the card, then ran back to Estelle.

"By some chance, do you know this Leon guy?  And if so, do you see him in this picture?  I have the feeling he and the village he's at won't be sleeping well at all if we don't do something."

Azzie turned his thoughts about the theme Stahlfritz had brought up, he overheard someone replaying a speech snippet of some kind. Broad called herself Matriarch Creatore, and it took the magician just under three seconds of listening to her speech to place her squarely in the looney bin. But what was she talking about, 'the gift of Remnant'? Or 'our sacred inferno'?

"I wouldn't be too surprised if they could," he answered Browning. "But there's plenty of ways to make a WMD.  Think of good old-fashioned Dust.  You get enough Dust and enough idiots together, and you can level a building no sweat.  Just imagine what can happen if you try that on purpose.  Either way, if they're going after Leon's village, it sounds like their style.  Destroy the walls they're building, let the Grimm in, give us the revenge we supposedly deserve, follow this crazy pattern--it all fits." He gulped worriedly, realizing the damage that could be done if they didn't get a move on.

"Someone please tell me I'm wrong..."