Arnwulf
4am - and the beer is having an unwelcome effect on the bladder.
The Belter Babe is fast asleep in the bed next to you and you quietly sneak, naked into the bathroom, leaving the main lights off. After a moment and feeling much relieved but still half asleep, you sit on the edge of the bath for a moment to reflect on the previous day when you hear the hotel door open. Someone is definitely coming in!
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To be fair, he half expected some Cavaleiros lout to try again if they knew rooms had been rented for Sabah Media. He did prepare but the loaded shotgun is under the mattress.
From the room plan it looks as though the bathroom door opens to view the entrance door. He waits viewing the intruder though the doorframe, silent and ready to pounce.
So he grabs a towel, twisting it into a tight wrangled thick cord so he could wrap it around someone's neck to strangle them if the person looks dangerous or armed.
Arnwulf The to the bathroom door looks straight up the room at the two-seater sofas, but the plan still works.
With all the lights out, the only light is the safety-light's glow in the seating area. The black-clad intruder takes a quick look back into the bathroom, but doesn't seem to spot you are there. All you can see is the very end of the business-end of some weapon you don't recognise. He then moves on into the seating area where the door to the bedroom stands open.
Initiative Roll Please
Actions please - with unadjusted dice-rolls where applicable.
Free Hasty Recon Roll required.
Stealth Roll required if you are sneaking (as opposed to shouting loudly and charging).
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Arnwulf
The intruder steps forward into the bedroom as Arnwulf charges across the intervening space. Hearing something, or reacting from some animal instinct, the target of the charge turns slightly and tries to dodge behind the bedroom door - The scramble sees the pair stumble almost as far as the bed - the intruder with his head wrapped in a towel, and totally ineffective in attempting to remove Arnwulf.
Arnwulf
The wriggling and squirming continues as you are unable to get a proper strangle or drive the guy to the ground.
The man manages to get an elbow into your side (3 points damage), but fails to get out of the towel.
Jewell has taken cover behind the bed and is scrabbling about over there.
As you make a dive across the bed, your intruder divests himself of the towel and draws a stun-stick from his jacket.
The doorway from which the buzzing sound was heard is revealed to contain another intruder, pointing a weapon at you - which buzzes as it fires.
You end up, lying across the bed, shaking violently and uncontrollably.
"Stop your mucking about with that turban and check to room"
The guy in the doorway moves into the room and calmly shoots both Jewel and yourself a second time. More scrabbling sounds from Jewel and twitching from you. He looks at Jewel and checks her bag
"Damnit, it's not her! I'm going to farkin strangle Musa - And the clients aren't going to be happy with this"
Turban-man continues the search. He finds your wallet, looks at the id and discards it.
Your twitching is dying down. Turban-man notices and whacks you with the stun baton.
More twitching
"There's nothing here" and to someone by the suite-door "Lets go".
The three people leave.
You take a further twenty seconds or so to get full control of your limbs. There is a distinct smell of urine emanating from the direction of Jewel, along with whimpering sounds.
Supposing he should be grateful he was not shot dead, he gets in the shower, booting out Jewelly from the suite.
He could be tempted to rage through the hotel, shotgun in hand, naked as he is but whoever hit the room will be long gone. Security here ain't what it should be.
After breakfast he goes to the ship in search of work.
Arnwulf
Worse, they have Jewel with them - and she is both angry at being attacked and at you for your sympathy and help. While the police want a word, she wants a whole books worth! (Mostly denigrating in nature and suggestive of your being "not quite a gentleman")
It actually requires a second police officer to settle Jewel before they are able to take your statement.
Despite Jewel's continued request to "Jail" you, the police decline to do so.
During the interview the police let slip that the operation was quite sophisticated (Persuade or Carouse or Admin roll depending on the tack you wish to take to getting more info)
The Hotel Security person stays quietly at the back - presumably hoping you won't notice him.
Goes a bit mad, adding a few more creative expletives at the hotel security. After the earlier assasination attempt and the dead Cavaleiros outside he had expected a tighter lockdown on potential troublemakers returning.
He has little to say in actual testimony. Unseen and unrecognised assailants who mercifully stunned them and left. The room had been reserved for one of the shareholders who declined to stay in the room.
He asks how the reservation account was able to be hacked into and laments the due diligence of the police and security present.
Arnwulf's denigration of the woeful lack of process and procedure in securing the Hotel's guests prods the Hotel Security guy into stating "Sir, The hotel was attacked by a heavy-duty cyber-strike and we were unable to rely on any of the electronic security measures normally used - Our guards did secure the entrances as soon as this happened, and one of our staff has also been attacked. If you wish, we will provide a guard on your door as this suite does seem to have attracted especial interest. However, I will note that no special security was requested by you or your companion and we did respond as soon as we were informed of the situation."
Jewel then cheerily joins in "See! Reckless!" and is again restrained by the second police officer.
"Well it seems I must repeat my earlier monologue.
Do you often get gun totting rowdies breaking up the place? Sirens blaring and blue lights flashing outside your door? Armed robbers surely targeting your guests can't help advertise your establishment glamorously.
What say I assist your security endeavours, identify the rowdy culprits and make sure they don't come back.
Fix the door. Stone throwing rowdies made an awful mess with the pebbles from the street. That's all. .... nothing to see here officer."
And I think you reminded me that as the hotel was your concern you beefed security up and the officers left a man in a car on the street, though not the car next to the car with the murdered Cavaleiros in. Much too difficult to nod off if that happens to the vehicle in front ... "
He waves them away with a demand for a refund and hearty breakfast ... and they could call a cab home for the young lady.
If there are no more questions, he goes back to bed and the shop later on.
