Blacklist, Mission 1: Mississippi Murder

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A thin card handed to you on your way in flashes to life. A sitting, silhouetted figure appears on it as if it were a television screen.

"Good morning, Agent." The man says, his voice deep and distorted. "You have been called in for a mission, but this is a special one. Your client: Us.

The target is a member of this very organization, one who has fallen out of favor with us. We suspect him of committing quite a few unsavory acts against us. For these transgressions, the punishment is termination from the company, and from life.

Due to the target's in-depth knowledge of the inner-workings of our organization, and his large supply of henchmen, we are sending in three teams to infiltrate his base - A large Steamboat on the Mississippi River - lead by three supervisors: Tidal Rage, Gaijimbo, and The Man With Two Names. Information about your team and the mission follows. Good luck."

The screen fades to black, and is slowly filled by informative text on the operation. It reads...

TARGET: Alias "Mark Pain"
REAL NAME: Samuel Clam
AGE: 57
LOCATION: Aboard the steamboat "Felicity"

Accompanied by a picture of Mark Pain himself. After a few seconds, this screen also fades away, and more text providing team groupings appears.

TEAM 1:
Supervisor: Tidal Rage
Sutures
The Walking Man
Pixie
Reaver

TEAM 2:
Supervisor: Gaijimbo
Tesla
Black Angel
Osmosis
The Dragon

TEAM 3:
Supervisor: The Man With Two Names
Wrath
War
Flux

TEAM 1 INFILTRATION POINT:
From the Western bank of the River

TEAM 2 INFILTRATION POINT:
From the Eastern bank of the River

TEAM 3 INFILTRATION POINT:
Parachuting onto the deck of the ship from a stealth aircraft

These words soon fade as well, and only a few more come to take their place:

"SIGN IN: YES/NO"

((OOC: Basically I want you to just post to confirm that you're here and participating. K thanks))

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The good doctor continues to a bench in the reception area, and taps the "YES" on the card, only slightly incredulous that it would work.
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Subject: Re: Blacklist, Mission 1: Mississippi Murder Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:35 pm

A little kid completely covered in a tattered robe with a hood up looks at the card with a strange face, slight confusement, and maybe tiredness...

Sighing, he presses the "YES" button on the card, amazed at the technology (or whatever it is) of today.
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Subject: Re: Blacklist, Mission 1: Mississippi Murder Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:37 pm

The exotic Asian woman sits on a chair and pushes "Yes" while drinking some sake.
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Subject: Re: Blacklist, Mission 1: Mississippi Murder Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:40 pm

The tall man leaning against the wall in the back of the room stared at the card briefly before giving in and pressing "Yes" not even sure it would do anything.
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A young boy in dress clothes looks up from his sundae in the cafeteria. He wipes his hand on a napkin and taps the "YES" on the card, before lifting the spoon to his mouth again.
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YES.
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Subject: Re: Blacklist, Mission 1: Mississippi Murder Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:32 pm

A man in a bloody lab coat saunters in and takes the nearest seat, barely skimming over the mission details on the card as he takes a long sip from his flask. He quickly taps YES as soon as the option appears then proceeds to check his various medical supplies.
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Subject: Re: Blacklist, Mission 1: Mississippi Murder Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:48 pm

Wordless, and without expression, Wrath taps "yes" on the card, never so much as looking at it. He stands at the back, away from everyone, waiting.

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Resting his head on the table, Tesla mumbled something about how the card talked too much and mustered up an extremely large amount of effort to tap "yes" on the card. People always gotta be interrupting his sleep.
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Subject: Re: Blacklist, Mission 1: Mississippi Murder Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:03 pm

Reaver grinned, and gently flicked the "Yes." with her fingertip.
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The card flashes blue and red, emitting a siren's wail.

"ATTENTION, ATTENTION."

It fades into the silhouetted figure.

"Hello, Agents.

I regret to say that, due to unforseen problems, Agent Flux will be unable to participate in this mission. To compensate, Agent THE DRAGON will be transplanted from TEAM 2 to TEAM 3. Thank you for your cooperation.

As the rest of you have signed in, it is time to begin the mission. I'll need you to move to your relevant Team Supervisors."

Tidal Rage, Gaijimbo, and The Man With Two Names have, somewhere amidst the hubbub, entered into the room. For time consumption's sake, we'll assume that the group assembles to their appropriate supervisor.

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Very good, then! Your mission will begin shortly. We at the agency wish you all the best of luck in its completion. Now, in approximately five seconds, this facility will self-destruct."

The card fades to black as two walls shoot from the ground and onto the ceiling with a pneumatic hiss, separating the three groups. Groups 1 and 2, situated on opposite sides of the room, feel the floor beneath them tilting into an obscure angle. True to his word, exactly 5 seconds later, there is a loud booming noise. Groups 1 and 2 are ejected violently from the room in the makeshift capsule they were herded into. Looking up, they seem to have met and learned of their objectives in a plane of some sort, as they were very high in the air, until now that is where they are being hurdled at incomprehensible speeds towards the ground.

"Brace for impact, greens." Tidal Rage snarls, spreading his legs apart and pressing his arms firmly against the capsule's walls.

"Oh man I hate this part." Gaijimbo unsheathes one of his katanas and plunges it as deep as he can into the floor (a few inches), pressing deeply down on it to keep his ground.

"Alright, pard'ners." The Man With Two Names smiled, as he always did. "Grab a parachute and hold on." He instructed, picking a pack off of a nearby rack and slipping it on.

At about the time Teams 1 and 2 hit the West and East banks of the river, respectively, the capsule Team 3 was in broke open, the near-weightless walls and floor floating away on the wind. The Man With Two Names and his team quickly deployed their paracutes. The steamboat, Felicity, was clearly visible below them.

Tidal Rage broke open his capsule with a strong kick while Gaijimbo sliced (after a few botched attempts) his own with a diagonal strike. The teams filtered out onto the opposite banks. The Felicity was passing by at a lazy pace. The three supervisors looked at their subordinates, and all of them asked,

"Alright, so what are we going to do (pard'ners)? "

Subject: Re: Blacklist, Mission 1: Mississippi Murder Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:56 am

Misa made sure her parachute was strapped on her back while checking if her battle fans were in place. She bowed towards her supervisor, as was the custom in her country.

"What are your orders, Two Name-san?" she answered him.
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Osmosis scratched his head in perplexion for a moment, concerned with how they had been dropped rather recklessly into an area without much intel.

'Oh well!' He raised his hand.

"I would recommend we get to the boat, Mr. Jimbo sir! Most likely via swimming or flying."
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Subject: Re: Blacklist, Mission 1: Mississippi Murder Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:54 pm

[this posts assumes, for the sake of saving time, that each character would at least have a cursory understanding of their teammates powers/skills]

Sutures slowly gets his bearings then takes a long gulp from his flask to flush the shark-head anatomical questions out of his mind.

"Well Mr. Rage, it looks like we've got two big ol' fighters, two doctors, and a regenerator to boot."

He sighs before continuing reluctantly.

"So I guess if there's one thing we can do pretty damn well it's dealing with the injuries that would result from a head-on attack."

He looks around, as if hoping someone has another idea.

"But of course if any of you wanna propose a sneakier plan that doesn't involve as many bullet wounds for me to deal with then that'd be fine too."

He hits the flask again, knowing that either way this is gonna be a long night.
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