Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25389303-20160708180726/@comment-5999656-20160713205348

Zanipher immediately felt a surge of adrenaline - the setting of a phone call was obviously a ploy to gain some information about her, probably her location. A series of responses flashed through her head: end the call, smash the Scroll (that was a tempting one), address him anyway. Clearly Diaboli was playing a trick on her, and whether or not Hector had been a willing instrument this was a brilliant tactic.

Calm down, just because he knows where you are doesn't mean he can do anything to you.

Her best bet was to respond as someone other than herself. Pretend to be the disgruntled customer? No, he could end the call at any moment. But then she had an idea, one so clever she decided immediately to use it.

"Decadere Diaboli, this is the VPD. We received an anonymous tip that you are harboring the wanted killer using the alias 'Smiler'. We are tracking this call as we speak. If you fail to turn over the man and yourself to the nearest police station within 24 hours, you will be implicated as an accessory in crime and face likely imprisonment." Zanipher paused, trying to maintain the no-nonsense deep voice of a law enforcement officer. She tried to think of something else to say, but figured that less was more, and ended the call.

That should get him thinking.

Meanwhile, Zanipher was actually going to send a representative to the nearest police station. Better to let them in on what's happening; it meant more firepower on the streets. What did this action mean? It meant that Diaboli was more concerned with taunting her than establishing contact. And while her trigger finger was itching, a simple refusal to communicate didn't quite warrant being blown to high heaven, not yet.

No, that wouldn't work at all.

She would direct the most elite Syndicate members towards the investigation of the Patched. The Dragons themselves were still extremely secure in the shadows of urban Vale. So while there was no immediate threat, her job would be to track them down and establish actual contact. And if that failed... well, she would just wait until an actual conflict arose to unleash the covert army, and things would roll quickly from there, wouldn't they?