2322/Lost and Found

Lost and Found
Date of Scene:	04 September 2017
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Crusader, Katherine

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Crusader has posed:
With intergang still on the loose with advanced alien tech, Crusader has decided to go on the search for them in his own way. He was attempting to 'feel' the weapons intergang was using via his cyberpathy. He was hoping along from roof top to roof top carefully - going through any and all technological signals he comes across to see if they match up with the weapons.
    But eventually he choose to go ground side and take on a form that is a mix of Vorn and Crusader so that he won't be as...noticible. As such he appears as a hulking nearly white orc wearing a thick heavy blue cloak, armored boots, bracers with a tribal sun symbol, plus black cargo pants, but no shirt. Alright so he is still noticible, but at least no one will recognize him as Crusader.
    Ground side, the orcish being begins o weave through the alleyways of suicide slum - still putting out his 'feelers' in search of the weapons. Most people stay well out of his way.

Katherine has posed:
And there's some technology nearby. Not alien, well, as far as Katherine knows there's no alien hardware in her systems. And there she is just walking down the streets of Suicide Slum with no shoes on. She's moving along easily, gingerly one might even say, while she's looking around for the odd disturbances she was noticing in people's tech. Little... fingerprints, almost, tiny bits of code that don't necessarily make sense being left behind and then soon gone. Perhaps as a result of the wide scanning with cyberpathy that Vorn is doing.

This woman looks to be human as she finally comes to stand somewhat in the way of Vorn, albeit a block away, she is looking kind of quizzically in his direction. Though she looks human, it's likely Vorn can detect the advanced level of technology that is actually running within her system. She hrms a little bit and tilts her head, "Orc? I did not realize that there were Orcs inside of this area of the community. I suppose this city is actually a place for all people of all stripes, like that man at the bus stop told me." She's talking to herself, aloud, and she taps her lower lip with her fingertip in thought. "Strange... Excuse me, sir... Orc? There's over a 90 percent chance that you, or something on your person, is causing little code ripples about this neighborhood? I was wondering... might you know why?" She's smiling, congenially, in Vorn's direction. Happy, and seemingly unperturbed by the hulking Orc mass.

Crusader has posed:
Vorn gives pause - Katherine definintly registered as advanced, not alien, but advanced. Being a block away, he is not much for shouting - big person shouting usually ment trouble. He didn't feel like being trouble.
    Instead a cyberpathic message is sent out - one that Katherine can recieve and interperate if she so choose (he often assumes sufficently advanced tech is sentiant if not sapiant). It would translate as "Sir will surffice Little Women. Yes it is comming from me, One is searching for special tech" he informs her. The 'voice' if recieved would be odd, as if it coudln't decide who it is
    But none the less physically Vorn makes his way over towards Katherine as she was indeed a curiosity. Though as he got in front of her - folks did glance his way, as if wondering if he was about to cause trouble.

Katherine has posed:
The communication comes in her direction and she looks at you oddly, before speaking aloud and walking toward you. "Great, well that solves problem number two hundred and seventy eight today." She smiles big still, enthusiastically, "I prefer to speak, if you don't mind? I understand that it can be slower, and horrible for a lot of people, but I find it very comforting." She indicates with a slight nod of her head, "Alien technology though?" And she starts to look around before looking at Vorn again, "I am, technically alien, though the hardware is not. And I guess I'm more interdimensional... well, no, interuniversal intergalatic technology... of a kind, at least." She offers a slight shrug, still mostly non-plussed.

Looking around at people looking at them, especially this Orc, she hmms, "It seems you cause quite a problem. I've already intercepted eight hundred frames of images headed to a place called Facebook. In order to slow down mass panic though, I find it better to show them that the post has gone up as if it has, but really it hasn't, meaning they will soon forget about and it will also not cause mass panic." She speaks about it before adding, "Plus, it is really funny to look at the tops of heads from people a few floors up. Did you realize you dwarf me..." Waiting a moment, she starts to laugh exuberantly, so much so that she's almost half bent over with her hands on her knees, shaking with the laughter.

Crusader has posed:
Vorn says, "One does not mind speaking, but big man yelling from a block away, makes folks more nervous than just seeing one" he says speaking physically -hence the initial cybermessage. "One is searching, that is all" he wasn't about to explain the specifics out loud, in public that much is clear from the look on his face. After all he cannot go giving away his going on to any would be listeners
    "One is...both alien and native in a sense" he explains "Though you now perk ones interest" he looks around and people quickly move on "Yes, while metropolise has a mutant and meta population it is...less common we find. In mutant town back in New York City, or in general, folks would not bat an eye at seeing me. But people make assumptions no matter where you are." he than peers down at her "One would suggest you just let the photos go through, they will not matter." he certainly seemed a stoic individual. And when she begins laughing about him dwarfing her....he was now the one to stare at her.
    Stoic or not, he didn't lack humor "Little Women, you must be high in spirits if this make you laugh" he says actually chuckling "But if it makes you feel better.." and *POP* suddenly there is a 3ft orc looking up at Katherine - and yes everything shrunk with him. "Better?" he says with a gentle smile"

Katherine has posed:
When you indicate you are searching she puts up a finger, as in 'give me a moment' while she is still laughing, and laughing hard, before finally it starts to quell. She sucks in breath between gasps of laughter, and then a few chuckles make her grin throughout the process, and her hand even comes up and wipes tears that just start coming down out of one eye before she sighs out happily. And then her face goes back to a neutral look with a small smile on it, as if nothing had happened. You shrink down though just in time for that, and she tilts her head looking down at you, "I actually prefer the rather large orc. This seems like you would be a baby Orc. As they say, Bigger is Better." She tilts her head a little in your direction and then gives a very obvious wink, full on, before smirking, "Know what I mean? Huh, huh?" She questions before standing back upright and indicates, "Utilized sexual innuendo... check."

Then with that Katherine adds, "If you wanted to find this technology faster, I could certainly help. And the images shouldn't go online, if you are searching for alien technology. Anyone could piece together images, backtrack, cross reference, and eventually identify where you began your search and narrow down who you are." She brings a hand up to her hair and kind of looks sidelong at one of the strands that is falling in front of her right eye, and she brushes it back, just to have it arrive again, and then brushes it back. She keeps her eyes on it, "If you did not increase my attractiveness by a solid 2 percent, I would cut you off... this instant."

Crusader has posed:
Vorn cants his head - it seems he didn't actually know what Katherine ment untill she said her last sentence "....your trying to figure out how to be a person, are you not?" he asks. After all, thats the only thing he can think of if someone is checking to make sure they are using a joke. He grows again into his much larger form.
    "That is fine. We are not one person, nor are we multiple people, and many forms we do take. The images also give a sense of normacy - which is helpful when you are not normal. Sides there are already images of me online" he states. Seems he wasn't worried. "And you know, if you styled your hair into a baid, you would not have this problem" he tells her
    "But if you wish to help, simply tell me how you can help, and than we will decide" he says before going into an alley once more either expecting her to follow or stay in contact her own way

Katherine has posed:
"Trying to figure out... how to be a person?!" Katherine opens her mouth in faux exasperation, "Whaaaaaaaat? Noooooooo..." She indicates, her tonal variation is almost as bad as a melodrama, and she puts one hand on the side of her hip while the other dangles and she is leaning forward a little bit. She shakes her head and grins some, "Why would you even -say- that? I am... clearly... a person." She mentions, before standing upright again, hand still on her hip as she chuckles a bit, "In a technical... sense, of the word." And then she ohs, and persk up as you start to walk, and so she starts following behind you, the first few steps quickly paced to catch up.

"Well, you see, I am very good at tracking people down. Especially technologically based people. And I have a vested interest in finding alien technologies, some of it may be infected with a viral nanite race that is hell bent on destroying all organic life in the Universe..." She says, with a humorous tone, before adding. "You seem to be going about things the 'hard' way..." She bunny ears around the word hard, before she chuckles, "That's what she said... am I right?" A pause, with a big grin to see if that gets a chuckle.

Crusader has posed:
"Let me rephrase than, your trying to figure out how to act as a human person" Vorn grunts out. "And from the looks of it a very very dramatic one. Good thing humans have a love of theatre when done right" was that his (rather terrible) attempt at a joke? WHo can say
    "My race is hell bent on assimilating all forms of life, organic or otherwise" he says with a straight face. "And...yes argubly hard. One does have a limited range of perception" and the joke again flies over his head. He stops and gives pause "...oh, it was one of those jokes again, was it not?" he asks. "Great, One has ended up with a teenage robot from outspace of another universe. Welcome to earth were anything is possible, and the impossible no longer exists" the alley way is suddenly filled with the sound of a laughing audiance that echos throughout before it dies off
    "You would get along with Dragonfly we think." jokes may or may not be lost on him

Katherine has posed:
There's a look at you as you do not get the joke. And she definitely does not get the joke that you are trying to pull off if you are doing so. "Dramatic? Online it indicaated that male humans prefer women of the jovial type, especially those who perform sexual innuendos espcially. They find that they can more easily be 'buddies' with them, and it is from that group that they generally find they are most attracted. Often complaining to their wife or girlfriend about, and I quote, 'Why can't you be more like Kim? She's basically one of the guys, with tits.' And so on." Katherine hrms a little and taps her lower lip, "You are probably not the best social experiment in this regard, since you... are presumably, not human?"

As you tell her that your race is hell bent on assimilating all forms of life, she quirks her mouth to the side, "Well, you are biological, I would not stop you from existing. Though... that said, you ought not attempt to assimilate anyone while I am around. Or watching... and I have quite the range of perception." She calculates for a moment, before adding, "I am not a teenager, though my demographic of crowdsourced responses does lean heavily on the 17 or 18 year old crowd. Though it is weighted a bit in the direction of a woman..." She stops, looks down at herself, not that she can see much beyond the excessive cleavage, "I would say, approximately 20 to 22 years of age." With that she looks back up, "Though it does take resources to determine who and where someone is posting from, and there are quite a few instances of repeats or false positives, and web... bots, which come from where exactly... robotic spiders?" She waits... with a goofy grin on her face.

Crusader has posed:
"While perhaps true...it sounds a bit forced. Of course, one is also not in the proper frame of mind...We are between Vorn and Crusader right now...for us, we change our shape, we change our mind" he explains to her. "Not to be confused with multipersonlities...just multiple modes" As they walks he cants his head as if listening for something "Hmmm" but than looks back to Katherine "We recommond a bar if you truely wish to test these things out"
    But at the question about being human...he looks to the alleyway again "That is...how do we put it.... well best way to put is, a Part of the Whole was indeed human and lived a full human life. How much other would consider us human or not, is of little concern."

"And that was a joke, sort of." he says in regard to assimilation and actually chuckles. And than when Katherine tries her latest joke...it actually works. He begins to laghs "Oh now that a good one, robotic spiders for the world wide web!" he actually gently punches Katherine shoulders. Guess this guy might be the 'nerd' type.

Katherine has posed:
"Sounds forced?" Katherine questions a little bit while she is walking behind this amalgam man and she notates, "Everything is forced. It is a byproduct of computational inquiries done on the storage unit. In humans, that is the brain, and in computer systems the hard drive, not much of a difference. Though each one presents a case of being forced by an entity really it is not aware of... since the brain does a lot of things outside of human conscious awareness." Katherine pauses for a moment, in thought, and then grins, "Or, yes, I mean... I will work on that. Hee." She giggles a bit, as if that's a catch-all response.

Looking around still, she's taking in the environment, and nods her head, "You are something of an amalgam, that is fine. Multiple aspects of the same person, but each one different yet still part of the whole. I fully understand." She does not have the normal 'self equals 1' mentality that most humans might, and she continues, "I should go to a bar afterwards, and attempt to work my jovial theory on people presented there. Though I will have to change, this is entirely too formal for a 'dive' or even this alleyway. Though I have had not had time to make new clothes just yet." And then she grins large when you laugh at her joke, punching her in the shoulder even, a quick analysis shows that's not a threat but a worthwhile and good sign. "Ah. Good. Geeky humour. Perfect. I will remember that selection." And she nods her head "Now, do you have an energy signature or information on the alien technology that you are tracking? I can certainly source a lot of cameras and sensors to attempt to find them."

Crusader has posed:
Vorn says, "....mabey one should come with you" Vorn says as she begins to explain how everything is forced. But none the less he was chuckling. "Sides....we love challenging folks to drinking contest....we always win!" he says with a grin. And considering he can change size, it no wonder really. "Though as far as being an amalgam goes..." he looks to the sky a long moment. He suddenly seems closed off to talking about that part of things, almost as if something scarred him. He jumps rails as she asks about the weapon. He quite litterly reaches into his torso and pulls out a sleek weapon with some dials - its construction was definintly not of this earth. He hands it over to her "The energy signature is foreign...the metal is foriegn, the whole thing is foreigh. We have even consulted with other aliens who have technology far more advanced than earth...and it is foriegn even to them. We have not been able to determine species, let alone galaxy of orgin. All we know is SOMEONE is providing these criminals these weapons. This one is able to melt through...pretty much anything at max power, within seconds" he grimces and instinctly touches his chest - almost as if remembering being hit by it.
    "The crooks are known as Intergang, so far they have been favoring underground tunnels. From my understanding, the Suicide slums is one of the oldest parts of metropolish - with much of the old infrastructure having underground connections. Hence why We are searching here. But so far no luck""

Katherine has posed:
There's a tilt of her head, and Katheine asks, "You want to come with me to the bar?" She wonders, looking at him before offering, "Are you asking me out on a date? I have just met you. Though, many people seem to enjoy dating upon first meeting. And then regret it later. Otherwise, there would be no reason for you to come along, since having a person present lowers the chances of my experiment actually working." She is a bit ocnfused but then distracted by the weapon that comes out of you. When you hand it to her, she starts to look it over and analyze it with all of the minimal sensors she has right now. "Hmmm. Yes, alien, that is for sure." She turns it around and around, looking at it, before she offers, "The energy signature is probably unique, if we can identify what powers it, then we can certainly identify the source and perhaps a workshop that maintains the weapon. Even alien weapons break down or get damaged from time to time. You said, Intergang?" She starts processing all the news feeds with Intergang's appearances and trying to isolate regions that they might actually come from.

Crusader has posed:
"No, we are offering to come along, as an observer of sorts" Vorn explains "Or as /just/ Vorn....instead of who we are right now. Social outings are a good way to build relationships, such as friendships." he claims "Sides...you are not our type." he politely tells her. "And...well your experiment sort of requires people or multiple persons to be present anyways." he says with a smile, a joke it seems
    "That or they are just getting new weapons when these break down. The workshop we have worked from, does indicate a unique energy signature - but so far no way of finding it that we have found. And yes intergang"

As Katherine news feeds would tell her - intergang is a newly developing threat seeking to spread its influence. Low lifes and criminals, no one on record shows they should be capable of having such technology. Their last robbery took place recently at Gotham First National Bank - and were cocky enough to tell everyone about it. Worst part is, they actually got away with it too! But intell also says they are moving to advanced to other cities such as metropolise. In most cases intergang activity does take place in seedy or less well to do areas.

Katherine has posed:
There's a moment, and Katherine nods her head, "I can understand. I will not be everyone's type, just highly attractive. I find that people speak more when someone is attractive, they are friendlier, and kinder. It works in almost every situation." She sifts through the news feeds pulling in information on how quickly the gang arrives and disappears, but she also takes note of the demographics in Gotham that they've been hitting before comparing those to Metropolis to get a more centered idea. Only banks? Only in poor areas? On the edges? Etc. She's comparing and contrasting the information, "What would be useful, is to see them take over a place, steal from it, and then leave. With the ability to scan the energies while they are using them it should be easier to track them. To do that, we need to either wait for them to boast again about where they will hit, or predict based upon past jobs."

Looking over you once more she mentions, "Why would I not be your type? Is it because of my jokes? Or due to the fact that I am not... human? It would be interesting to model this idea, and figure that out."

Crusader has posed:
Vorn crosses his arms "That is essentially what happened at the bank. We were stationed there...and they completly emptied the vault. They than made their presence known by comming out of the vault and trying to take everyone hostage and loot them as well. We managed to catch around eleven intergang members. ANd knowing bats...he is likely doing what you said now that we think about it" he consider this. Paranoid bat? Plasuble.

"No, not that. Physically we are simply attracted to being that more resembles us - that is to say masculine. Weather it is instinct...or the sum of our personas we cannot really say." he explains "Personlity wise, well, we do not know you enough to make that call yet, but you would be valuble asset we think" he so didn't know if this was comming off right, but he is going along with it.
    He gives pause as he suddenly sesne a text message from nearby - "We got the kid." and a reply that says "Hopefully the right kid"
    Vorn grumbles "Joy, well it is a high crime area"

Katherine has posed:
"I am an exceptionally vauable asset to whatever group I am working with." Katherine holds back out the gun, "I do not use... weapons, usually." She makes note though she adds, "Ah. I understand. My creators were particularly male and as such, I have a fondness for male types as well. It is not any predisposition, it is merely that it has arrived because of nostalgia, or sentimentality." She indicates before shrugging her shoulders some and then saying, "If I see more of these Intergang, I will let you know. Do you have a cellphone? Or other means of communication?" She did experience some of it before, but she's looking for more of a piece of gear than anything else. "I should investigate these bars you were talking about, and if you come across any of the super minds of this era, I would also be inclined to speak with them."

Crusader has posed:
"We are a weapon" is Vorns response to that. He takes the gun and re-engulfs it as neatly as before. He does something quite old fashion, he takes out a peice of paper and pen he had stored away and write down a number "This should surffice" he says handing her the paper "Hmmm, as for people with great minds - you can try seeking out the Fantastic Four, or visit Stark Towers, Tony Stark along with Reed Richerds are very intelligant. That or perhaps someone at the Halls of Justice might be of help" he says as possibilities.
     He cracks his knuckles "Now if you pardon me, there are some criminals who need beating up, and a child that needs to go home, unless you wish to come along" indeed he had shifted gears from search to rescue, as they are a determination in his eyes.

Katherine has posed:
Katherine shakes her head a little bit in response, "You seem like you will have this well in hand. I am on a more immediately concerning venture." She indicates as she takes the piece of paper. She probably could have figured out the numbers from the way you wrote them on the paper, or when the text message came in, but she still takes the piece of paper. Her pants have no pockets so she just folds it and holds it for right now. "It was nice to meet you. And I will work on my jokes."

Crusader has posed:
Vorn nods "A pleasure meeting you as well" his expression indicated he wasn't sure what would be a more concerning venture than this...but than again he wasn't from a dimension where nanites are trying to eat everything. He turns and continues on - moving much quicker than before, and even seeming to dissappear from conventional sight.