Hellfire Club: The Mission [CLOSED]

[astonishing_xmods]

WHO: Nightcrawler and those selected for the mission.
WHAT: The Hellfire Club infiltration mission
WHERE: Manhattan
WHEN: Late evening
WARNING(S): Could get violent.

Team One was already on the ground, infiltrating the party. The rest waited in silence aboard the Blackbird, hovering in complete stealth mode high above the island. Back at the Institute, Professor X closely monitored the communications of the team, ready to give the signal when ready...

It was go time.

[[ OKAY HERE'S HOW IT'S GOING TO GO.

Top levels will be going up for each mission phase. Each phase will, OOCly, go on simultaneously so no one has to wait for another team to complete their task. Players have freedom to play as they like, but the mod characters in each team (Feliks, Shindou, Reimu) will most likely lead the action in the direction it's intended to go. The mod account will pop in for NPCing every now and again.

Have fun! ]]

Comments

[eternalprincess]

Thanks to Feliks, it was clear she didn't look out of place at all, it really was good work on his part. It wasn't often that she's been in places like this, though. Certainly not in this particular building.

Suddenly, as she entered, she has a near miss, a collision that was barely avoided. "Oh, it's quite fine. I don't think you got any on me."

[the_black_king]

The young man gave a sigh of relief, handkerchief still in hand.

"Thank goodness. I'm so sorry, I should have looked where I was going more closely..."

A moment passed awkwardly, and he hurriedly tucked his handkerchief away again.

"Ah, I don't think I've met you anywhere, have I?"

[eternalprincess]

"Hmm, probably not." Kaguya replies, looking rather relaxed despite the actual reason she was here to begin with.

"Most of my concern lately was avoiding the bitter cold we're having this winter." Which is sort of true, she is unused to the cold, and hails from warmer climes.

[the_black_king]

"It's been pretty awful, hasn't it?"

Still smiling benignly, he continued: "Honestly, I don't spent too much time up here this time of year. It's easy enough to work remotely, so why not spend the winter in the tropics?"

[eternalprincess]

"Certainly something to consider for next year, especially if you're not used to the cold."

It wasn't too hard for her to slip into the mindset of a self-centred socialite, which was, perhaps, fortunate in this case.

[the_black_king]

"Are you?" he asked with polite interest, taking a sip of his champagne. Couldn't let it go to waste, right? "Used to the cold, I mean."

[eternalprincess]

"Ah, not by a long shot." That was true of anyone she knew that happened to come from warmer places, like Greece or the tropics in general.

[the_black_king]

The young man nodded, with an air of understanding and a look of vague sympathy. He brightened pretty shortly thereafter, though.

"I don't suppose this is any kind of a place to dwell on things like that, though! You certainly wouldn't be able to tell about the weather out there, if you didn't know." In spite of all the cold-looking marble, the room was quite thoroughly and comfortably heated.

[eternalprincess]

She nods, she finds little reason to argue with that, it was dulling the mood.

"Of course, you're right. No point dwelling on the frankly terrible weather." They seemed to have gotten the heat just right in here, not too cold, but not too hot either.

"I imagine you're a frequent visitor to events like these?"

[the_black_king]

"Well," he said, with a slightly embarrassed laugh. The embarrassment seemed forced somehow, more than the laugh itself did -- a little show of the modesty one was supposed to have.

"I've been to one or two before, we'll say that. It's not a bad kind of place to make business contacts, depending on what market you're looking at!"

[eternalprincess]

"It's not without risk, but nothing worth doing is risk free."

Keeping a polite, civilised appearance was really par the course...

[the_black_king]

As a waiter passed by, he grabbed a drink from their tray in his free hand and offered it to her. Didn't seem polite to stand there drinking by himself, did it?

"No, I don't suppose it is.

"...I'm so sorry, I haven't even caught your name!" And he'd only just started drinking. Where were his manners?

[eternalprincess]

She was waiting for a chance to grab a drink for herself, but it appears she doesn't need to. Ah, good. She'll be happy to take the offered drink. "Ah, thank you."

"Oh! It's Hime." Like she's silly enough to give her real name? "And what might yours be?"

[the_black_king]

"Oh, right... It's Mitchell. Mitchell DiAngelo -- you may have heard of my father's firm?"

It was a large, well-known financial firm, dealing largely in real estate and commodities trading -- a major benefactor of every push for financial sector deregulation in decades, and no stranger to front-page controversy as a result.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Hime. Can I interest you in a toast? To risks, and those who choose them."

[eternalprincess]

"Indeed I have. Real estate, correct?"

She's heard of the firm all right, she'd imagine that most people would.

"Pleasure's all mine," she said politely. "And I don't see why not. To risks!"

[the_black_king]

He raised his glass, and took a long sip.

"And what do you do, Miss Hime?"

[eternalprincess]

"My family deals with electronics," she replied, looking the part of an heiress that has little interest in her family's dealings.

[the_black_king]

He caught on to the disinterest, at least, without much of a struggle.

"I won't bore you too much with talk of business, then," he laughed. "What would you rather do?"

[eternalprincess]

"I simply wish to lead a life of leisure," Kaguya responded smoothly.

[the_black_king]

He laughed, but if she was watching closely, looked a little bored, nearly disappointed in a way. He hid it a moment later in a sip of his champagne.

"Well, of course. We all want to live the good life, don't we?"