3148/Looking for Allies in All the Wrong Places

Looking for Allies in All the Wrong Places
Date of Scene:	14 November 2017
Location:	Gotham City
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Red Hood, Silk

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Red Hood has posed:
    Gotham is beautiful this time of year, all cold with rain blowing in off the waterfront. Ironically no thunder and lightening tonight, but the bottom has dropped out and there is a torrential downpour of cold rain coming down all over the city. The wind has picked up slightly, blowing the rain sideways and making the night just that more insufferable.
    The city is lit up like a grease painting, the lights of the street lamps and traffic lights softened by the rain and seeming to pool in places along with the water.
    The Red Hood doesn't have the luxury of taking the night off. Well, he could take the night off, but he doesn't want to. He would rather catch a cold apparently. Jason sits huddled under a wet and dirty blanket, keeping his eye on a street corner where a certain dealer has been every night. The Dealer has seemed to take the night off, but no one has told Jason...so here the Hood waits, miserable and cold.

Silk has posed:
    And along comes a spider- Silk has made her way to Gotham, hoping to find the world famous Dark Knight to aide her in the defense from those beings which were hunting her and others. She's dressed in her 'Silk' uniform- white spider silk covering her form tightly. The rain seems to skitter off the silk she's wearing, as if it were designed to wick away moisture. However, much of her caramel-toned skin is visible and glistening in the torrential rain.

    That corner is there- and it so happens that Silk is perched on the side of a building as she tries to search out Gotham for Batman- here, in The Narrows, she was sure he would appear. She'd read about dozens of sightings here in one of the most crime ridden areas of Gotham.

    A car slides past, headlights shining off the rain-slicked road to illuminate the woman in white silk peering down Jason's alley.

Red Hood has posed:
    Jason blinks once, twice, three times...

    "Oh great, another vigilante?" The Red Hood grumbles to himself. "I need to get Batman to file a Noncompete Clause." He stands, pulling off the blanket slowly. He doesn't reveal himself fully, but Jason does move to get closer to Silk, trying to scope her out better in the light of the street lamps.

Silk has posed:
    Twhip! A line is shot from Silk's fingertips, although in the dark and the rain it might easily be mistaken for any other kind of device used to rappel up a building. She swings from the face of the building where she'd been perched on a window's small ledge. For a moment, at least, she disappears from Red Hood's vision as she swings across the street to another vantage point- this time, on the top of a squat apartment building that has an excellent vantage point for the near-by alleyways and intersections. She's perched delicately on the very corner of the building, knees wide as she leans on the balls of her feet- ready to move, and in perfect equilibrium.

Red Hood has posed:
    The Red Hood attempts to track her moment, momentarily losing her, but reaquiring her when she stops moving. He moves quickly, attempting to cover the ground quickly to get closer to her. The Hood leaps from rooftop to rooftop, not as graceful or elegantly as a spider, but with trained practice.

    While he holds no ill will towards Silk, he manages to get close enough to set off her Spidy-sense if she has it.

Silk has posed:
    Silk's version of Spider-Sense is far more developed than that of the other famous Spider. Long before Red Hood was there, she felt him coming- felt him tugging at the webs of her Silk-Sense. She can't be too careful, and she looks over her shoulder at Jason when he arrives. Militaristic dress, pistols, blood-red bat at the belt and a rather frightening red helmet.

    Silk leaps- twisting in the air. Its the sort of thing one only sees in wire-work, or video-games. Her grace is such that she makes even Spider-Man seem ungainly by comparison. She ends up attached to the wall of the building next to them- in a more defensible position. How she's attached, who knows? "Who are you?" she asks, one hand raised- just in case.

Red Hood has posed:
    "I could ask you the same question," The Red Hood says, standing in the rain and giving Silk a measured stare. "Gotham doesn't typically like new vigilantes, though that doesn't stop them from cropping up." He takes a step closer, his hands at his sides. "So...what's your gimmick? I would guess something to do with Spiders."

Silk has posed:
    "I'm not here for pleasure. I'm here for business. I'm looking for the Batman." Silk replies simply. "I need his help." she states, then. "Do you know where I can find him?"

    "And no gimmick. I'm Silk." She says as she stays clung to the wall very much like Spider-Man might do. Solid there, despite the rain, not slipping an inch as she's mounted to the vertical surface.

Red Hood has posed:
    "Red Hood," Jason says by way of introduction. "Welcome to Gotham. Don't mind the muggers, they are harmless if you break a finger or two."

    Jason regards her for a long moment, rain drops running down and over his mask. "What do you need him for?" He asks, remaining distant. "I can get a message to him if you like."

Silk has posed:
    "Someone is hunting me." Silk replies. "Bad things will happen if they get me. Really bad things." If on cue, there is a flash of lightening and thunder. Gotham is lovely for drama like that. "I need his help. I need a lot of people's help. I can't do this alone."

Red Hood has posed:
    "Who is hunting you?" Jason says, crossing his arms. "And when you say bad things, can you be more specific? After all, bad things happen to lots of people daily in Gotham." He looks up at the sky as there is a sudden peal of thunder, then back to Silk.

Silk has posed:
    "Morlun." Silk replies. "And his family." she takes a slow breath, "One of them said they need me for their ritual. They.." she pauses, "Okay, before I say this its important to let you know that I'm not crazy."

    Silk pauses another moment, "Which, I realize someone who is often considered crazy would say." There doesn't seem to be any danger- so she jumps over to get closer to Red Hood. Again, its as if she were dancing in air, coming to land on hands before she's again on her feet. It comes naturally to her. "There are these guys, okay, and they're totemic hunters. They hunt for people like me. If they get me, and they do whatever ritual they want, it could cause a lot of suffering for a lot of people. Not just here, but in other dimensions. They travel from reality to reality, killing and eating people like me."

Red Hood has posed:
    Silk wouldn't be able to see underneath the helmet, but Jason's eyebrow is raised. "Crazy?" He chuckles. "You are a woman wrapped in spider silk talking to a man in a red helmet on top of a building in a rain storm. We passed crazy more than a mile back."

    She jumps down in front of him, and the Red Hood nods almost imperceptibly impressed. "So they hunt for people who are totemic aspects of...something...and seek to consume them?" He asks, dropping his arms back to his sides. "And they are hunting you now?"

Silk has posed:
    Silk nods, "Yeah, that's about the whole of it, yeah. Except, with me... Well, its worse if they get me. Not just because of the value I place on my own life, but because of what might happen if they get this ritual going." Another pause, "The man who told me about them said it could destroy the world." She just lets that one hang out there. Growing quiet for another long moment as the rain beats down around them.

Red Hood has posed:
    "If half the people who claimed the world would end because of their machinations were telling the truth, we wouldn't be here," Jason says, raising a finger. "But I can understand the trepidation of being hunted, believe me." He gives her a hard stare. "Don't take this the wrong way, but what is so special about you?"

Silk has posed:
    "I'm the Avatar for The Bride." Silk replies, "And before you ask, I don't know why that is more important than anything else, but it has something to do with the Web of Life and Fate." Cindy offers, with a shake of her head, "And again, I don't really know what that is- just that it is *very* important to how the world works. How every world works."

Red Hood has posed:
    "Basically if they perform the ritual in question, they remove you from this Web," Red Hood replies, attempting to follow the logic. "And if you are removed, then basically everything falls apart and goes tits up? Am I close?" He gives her a very hard look.

Silk has posed:
    "Yeah. Basically." Silk replies, "And not just here, everywhere. Even in different versions of reality. They can move between them, using the web." she explains, "And I can feel them. I can feel them skittering along- they're far away now, but.. I feel them, Hood."

Red Hood has posed:
    "So we are dealing with Extreme Nihilist?" Red Hood asks with an almost amused sound in his voice. "Those kind of fantatics are always fun to fight. They try so hard, god bless them." He shakes his head. "How far away are they, and how long will it take them to find you?"

Silk has posed:
    "They can smell me.. sorta. And right now? They're not here." Silk replies, "By here.. I mean our universe. Our reality. They're... far away now, but... they know I'm here. Spider-Man, like an idiot, opened my bunker and brought this down on everyone." Silk states with a frown, "All those years, all that sacrifice for *nothing*." she snorts, a vein of anger entering into her voice. "And now, I need to clean up this mess, and I have *no idea* what the hell I'm doing. I need help. I'll take any help I can get, because I can't do this on my own."

Red Hood has posed:
    "Smell you in the metaphorical sense, I assume," the Red Hood snorts. "So they are on this plane of existance and hunting you down, all because the web slinger opened the piece of tuperware you were shelved in? Makes sense. That's how things usually go when the problem is just shelved rather than dealt with." Jason looks away, regarding the sky for a moment. "I can pass on the message to Batman. See who else wants to step up. This sounds like quite the rumble coming."

Silk has posed:
    Silk nods, "Thanks. I appreciate it." she replies, taking a slow breath. "I need to keep moving. I don't want to stay still too long." she offers, looking over her shoulder. "I think I've stayed in one place too long already." Whatever may be true or false, its obvious Silk is terrified. Whatever is coming certainly has the young woman on edge. "Thanks, Red Hood." She says, bowing her head, before she turns and sets off running.

    Again, she is graceful beyond measure. She flows through the movements as she leaps from roof top to roof top at full speed. A human would need a vehicle to keep up with her- and then silk extends from her finger tips, imbedding in the wall as she swings off through the rain and storm towards the edge of Gotham.

Red Hood has posed:
    "If nothing else," The Hood says before she leaves. "You can come find me. I'll be here."

    The Red Hood watches her go, the rain falling onto him and soaking into his armor. "This will be interesting." He says to himself. "Time to go meet the old man." He turns and disappears into the storm.