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Strom's Interview: Ash
« on: March 04, 2012, 03:17:57 PM »
Before starting the interview, Strom looks at Ash for a long moment, deep in thought.  Then he leans forward.

"Agent Wednesday, can you start by giving me a brief summary of what exactly it is that you do?"
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Re: Strom's Interview: Ash
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2012, 04:11:01 PM »
Ash's eyes float over the recorder for a moment, before going right back to Strom. He makes no attempt to hide the looks, in fact does them briefly but methodically before speaking. "I act as an enforcing agent for a company specializing in para-military operatives. As a lifetorn, my natural durability and strength makes me a valuable asset for such a company. In fact, the group I run with are all lifetorn, with civilian handlers. But you wanted to know what I do...

"I'm a combat specialist; I've personally worked with skipping crews and security forces. I have been utilized as a tank and holder - in the first, I draw enemy fire and provide frontal threats to force compromising reactions from enemy combatants, and in the second I hold a small area as part of a perimeter crew. If you have vaults, bunkers, buildings, or similar structures that need holding, I hold them. If you need a small crew to be protected for some job, I am the one who protects them."
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Re: Strom's Interview: Ash
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2012, 09:03:47 AM »
Strom nods, as if that was what he was expecting.  "Thank you.  And can you confirm that your agency was hired for bodyguard duties by a man named Salvador Macharra, beginning two days ago at 10th bell, and ending yesterday and 14th, both Evernight Standard Time?"
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Re: Strom's Interview: Ash
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2012, 01:20:47 PM »
Ash's face looks contemplative; it seems as though any expression of emotion is completely mechanical and unnatural. And yet, he still goes through the motions, and more scarily his voice retains some essence of expression. "I was assigned very suddenly to a two-day shift for some foreign-looking gentleman, though I don't know his name. Never did, never do. Generally, they only give the Plug - I'm sorry, the Oracle-Networker - that info. All I have to do is visually identify the client; anything else gets left to the Plug, like if for some reason the client and crew are disconnected, and a visual overlay of his position is needed. Since I only need to know their physical, I don't get burdened with a bevvy of info, you understand.

"So in short, It's possible that was the job, though I couldn't say for sure. Why?"
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Re: Strom's Interview: Ash
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2012, 03:11:11 PM »
Strom holds up a holo, showing a picture of a swarthy man with a fu manchu mustache.



"Is this the man you were hired to guard?"
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Re: Strom's Interview: Ash
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2012, 05:02:43 PM »
"That looks like the client, yes. Though he was disheveled and haggard, presumably from stress, when last I saw him."
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Re: Strom's Interview: Ash
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2012, 09:25:02 PM »
"Can you give me any details about what happened while you were guarding Macharra?"
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Re: Strom's Interview: Ash
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2012, 12:59:03 AM »
"Debatable." He said it with a smile. Which was all the more unnerving; Lifetorn usually aren't supposed to crack jokes, being just barely more than a living body, if indeed more at all. "As you are an officer of the law, though, I'm sure I can give a basic rundown of the events that unfolded."

He sat back against his chair, ever calm. "I mentioned that I was assigned suddenly; the job had already had a few of our members assigned to it, so it was unexpected that we should suddenly pour more support onto the client. I would assume he paid more, but I have no knowledge as to the reason. In any case, we locked him down in a secured room, within a secured location. You'll understand I cannot specify where this location was. In any case, arrival was swift, as if we were in a combat situation, and for two days I was awake and active. I was in a locked position for 30 hours, securing a portion of the perimeter before we had a reported break, and I was almost immediately ordered to fall back to the second barrier point. You can understand the issue presented; that situation is usually indicative of a threat to command and the necessity to give up a perimeter area and consolidate remaining forces. However, it didn't seem as if we lost anyone. I still fell back to my next position.

Now, the first perimeter was the outer layer of a building. Falling back to second was falling back to an inner section of corridors and hallways, with only three points of entry to the center. My team, three of us, held one hallway, and after a few hours had presumed hostiles probe just at our firing range. We fired warnings, they remained behind cover. After a few more hours of even comm-quiet - being little activity to report over communications - we got our order to fall in to the third perimeter, which was at the door of the containment area, for which there was only one viable hallway approach. This time, there was sporadic firefighting for a few hours, during which the client was unharmed, though we sustained two minor injuries.

Eventually, our comm-head suddenly disappeared, which was bad since he was far off and should have been both secure and a ways out of reach. A secondary command ordered us to evacuate if possible, so we managed to do so. Three of us pushed the hallway, as  decoy, while the group escaped through a channel that had not been made apparent to the agents on-duty. We were pursued, disengaged the pursuers, and eventually got to a second safe location, where essentially all agents were switched out with a relief crew from a secondary company."
He finally stopped. He almost made you want to breathe for him, the way he could just go on and on nonstop. "I would assume speaking with our command network might yield information beyond my personal experiences."
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Re: Strom's Interview: Ash
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2012, 10:49:12 AM »
Strom nods.  "Yes, thank you.  That was very helpful... Agent Wednesday, I'd like to take a few minutes to go through your description more thoroughly.  If you'd stay in the waiting room for a little while?  I may have more questions."
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Re: Strom's Interview: Ash
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2012, 05:01:13 AM »
Ash nodded, then stood and nonchalantly left. Walking into the waiting room, he thought to himself how he needed to start speaking a little less; he was being a pretty poor lifetorn, all things considered.
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