Log:Sins of the Doctor, Part 2

2008/09/13 	 Jace Lightray Lorelei Mystique Narosia Sable Dr. Emil Szasz 1

Olivia is sitting at one of the tables looking at a magazine and sighing softly, a bit happily by the sounds.

Joseph comes into Past Times humming a cheerful tune. He smiles as he views the now familiar surroundings and makes his way to counter to place an order.

Regan opens the door to the coshop, offerig the assembled crowd a soft smile as she fishes a small purse out of her satchel and sets course for the counter.

Joseph nods a friendly greeting to Regan as he takes an iced tea and a lemonade from one of the waitstaff.

Lorelei, sitting at a corner table, looks at the time once again, and tries once more to call Yolanda.

Olivia looks up and wavesto a few people, she has a small stack of magazines next to her, catalogs maybe. And is smiling as she looks through it.

Joseph turns as Narosia enters the coffee shop. "Afternoon, my dear. I got a lmenonade for you." He smiles warmly at the pale young woman.

Lorelei shakes her head and looks just a touch worried.

Lorelei gets the following recording: "The voicemail inbox you have reached is now full. Please try again later."

Narosia passes the door, taking the lemonade on cue from Joseph, as if this were a carefully positioned scene played through beforehand, thanking him under her breath.

Lorelei says, "That's *not* good."

Joseph glances over at Lorelei as she speaks, then back to Narosia. He then wanders in Lorelei's direction, taking a sip of his tea as he walks.

Regan stands at the counter having just placed her order and paid for it. She returns her purse to her satchel and hitches it higher over her shoulder again before looking over her shoulder at Lorelei. "Pardon?"

Narosia follows Joseph as a pale little shadow or minion, letting the ice cubes clink while she sips. "What is amiss Lorelei?"

Lorelei replies "Yolanda's voicemail is full. And she was meant to meet me here, and is late. I think something's happened to her."

Olivia looks up as well, putting the catalogs back into her bag and then nods, "Yes, is something wrong?" she breaks off for a moment, "Um. not good, especially since she was worried about that released guy the other day."

Lorelei nods. "That's just what I was thinking...."

Joseph nods. "Released guy?"

Lorelei says, "Yeah, um... what was his name? It's gone."

Michelle finds herself wandering into the coffee shop and ordering more sugary sweets.

Olivia nods, "There was a mentalist, who she altered his mind to prevent access to his powers and he became a model prisoner and was recently released." she says and thinks, "I can't think of his name either."

Regan's brows lift slightly. "Well, is her phone active, many phones can be traced by inbuilt GPS systems if your phone is marked as friedly. Barring that I'd recommend checking her home and office."

Narosia says, "How strong a mentalist was he?"

Lorelei says, "Good thought with the phone - Emil Szasz! That was it."

Lorelei says, "Where she lives is easy - it's downstairs from my place. But calling her place of work might be a good place to start...."

Lorelei looks up the number for Mens Sanus and gives them a call.

Joseph nods as he sets down his iced tea. "Well, I hope nothing has happened to her. I am afraid I have an appointment I have to go to." He looks over at Narosia. "I will see you soon, my dear."

Olivia nods and waits a bit patiently, getting a bit worried as well.

Narosia nods business fashion as Lightray approaches, glimmer of smile under the poker straight manner.

Lorelei reaches the main number for Mens Sanus, and after a few steps through a phone menu, she reaches an actual human being. "Hello, how may I help you?"

Lightray comes into the coffee shop, talking to someone on a battered PDA. He ends the conversation, then, after putting the PDA away in a hip pouch, goes over to Narosia. Taking her hand and kissing it lightly, he murmurs in accentless English, "Good afternoon, tomosnya tsareyna."

Regan crosses to where Olivia is seated. "Mind if I join you?"

Lorelei says, "Hi, I'm trying to track down Dr Yolanda Simmons. She was supposed to meet me and hasn't turned up - and her voicemail is full. I'm worried something may have happened to her."

The voice on the other end says, "May I ask who's calling? I'll see if I can put you through."

Narosia says, "My good tsar...you heard the situation?"

Olivia nods, "Feel free." she says and waits to see what Lorelei can find out. She looks at Regan and smiles.

Lorelei says, "This is her neighbour, Lorelei."

Lightray smiles slightly, "

Regan sets her cup on the table and settles into the offered seat, hands running down her thighs to smooth the fabric of her skirt. "So what are you reading?"

Lightray nods slightly, "I have been informed, yes. It is certainly not like the good doctor to disappear." His gaze turns to Regan and he nods politely to her.

Olivia shrugs a little, "Was looking through a swimsuit catalog." she says softly and seems to flush a little.

After a few moments, the voice on the other end says, "I'm sorry... I'm afraid that I can't reach her. She's not in the buliding or answering at home. This is unusual..."

Lorelei says, "That's what I thought. When did you last hear from her?"

Regan smiles and nods approvingly. "Always wise to check out where things lie."

Mystique walks into the coffee shop for a change.

Regan turns to the door as it swings open and offers Mystique a nod of greeting.

Olivia shrugs, "it is for a possible job." she says softly. She looks back at Lorelei, not liking the sound of that.

"Friday," the voice on the other end says. "She was in Los Angeles on a client call. She was due back in the afternoon via Transmat. She didn't arrange for a car to pick her up from the Transmat station, but that's not out of the ordinary."

Lorelei doesn't notice Mystique's entrance, concentrating as she is on the phone call.

Mystique nods to those she is acquainted with on her way to the counter. "The usual please. It's busy today I see." she says to the server.

Lorelei says, "Do you know who she was seeng in LA?"

Lightray looks over as the door opens and then smiles after a moment at Mystique. He nods politely to her then turns his attention back to Lorelei.

Regan nods smiling. "Very much so." She confirms to Mystque before commenting to Olivia. "That is a good thing."

Michelle hrms and heads over to the group and drinks some coffee "Hrm... whats going on?" she asks

"I'm afraid I can't release that information," the voice says. "But the client is a regular... I think I should notify someone here."

Olivia nods and frowns, "Not sure yet."

Narosia touches Lightray's upper arm lightly, "Excuse me...I shall scout ahead or similar. You keep fort, as they say."

Lorelei says, "You do that.. one more thing. She was concerned that Dr Emil Szasz, who was released from prison, might have a grudge against her. Do you know anything about that?"

Lightray looks over at the humanoid skunk and smiles warmly. "A friend of ours is missing. She was supposed to meet us here, so naturally, we are concerned." He offers a hand to Michelle. "I am Lightray. And you are?"

Michelle smiles some and shakes the hand "I'm Michelle, and I guess the first place to look would be where they were last seen"

Mystique turns towards the gather. "No. The first place to look is TransMat. That is the bottleneck indicator whether she returned to the city from LA or not."

Lorelei nods in agreemehnt with Mystique, having noticed her at last. That was her plan, too.

Lightray nods to Narosia. "As youi will, Narosia. Be safe."

"Uhm... I'm afraid not," the voice on the other says. "I'm just the office admin for the weekends. Look, I think that I should get in touch with a manager. Thanks for calling -- can I reach you at this number if we need to?"

Narosia says, "You too...Lightray."

Lorelei says, "Yes, that's fine. Please tell me if you have any news!"

Lightray returns his attention to everyone else. Addressing Michelle sotto voce he murmurs, "I tend to just follow others in these situations. More than enough leaders after all." He smiles as he speaks.

The voice says, "Yes, I will. Goodbye."

Regan's lips purse as she looks to Lorelei. "Would there be anyone at the institute"

Olivia stands and cocks her head to the side, "I am at your assistance."

Regan trails off as the phone call ends.

Regan's lips purse. "Is there anyone here who can like locate her mind or anything?

Lorelei says to Regan, "Pardon?"

Lightray glnaces around at the others, then shakes his head. "Not I"

Lorelei says, "Oh. I can't. And I imagine Mens Sanus will be trying that..."

Lightray looks at Lorelei. "Lorelei, could this be connnected to why the doctor and you asked us all to come here today?"

Mystique sighs, "This is going to be another not billable case isn't it?" She comments abstractedly. "If she is in the city I can either find her or eliminate much of the city as posible locations. However narrowing down the area to the city limits would be a good starting aim."

Lorelei says, "Let's find out if she came back from LA for a start."

Transmat, as usual, proves to be willing to help the heroes. A manager there explains the trackng procedures and provides the information. Everyone travelling through a Transmat gate is photographed, and lo and behold: there's a photograph of Yolanda returning to Colonial Bay from LA on Friday, after lunch local time...

In addition, the Transmat facility has good security cameras, after a terrorist attack by Enemy Ace a year or two ago. There's footage of Yolanda leaving the terminal and hopping into a black town car, the sort that many executive taxicab services use.

Lightray looks at the footage. He muses, "I wonder if a towncar company is missing a driver or car today?"

Through high-tech image enhancement, the license plate of the town car is revealed.

Regan's brow furrows as she looks to Mystique. "Am I the only one who heard you? Or am I going bonker?"

[To Regan] Lorelei says, "Pardon?"

Regan says, "I thought that our friend here" She gestures to Mystique. "had said that she could locate Yolanda's mind. Did I miss something? Isn't that going to save us some time?""

Olivia cocks her head to the side as they check things on and isn't sure what she can do yet. She is mostly just muscle support.

Lorelei says, "She also said that narrowing down first would help."

Mystique says, "You misunderstood, Regan. I can scry for Dr Simmons. That will be effective if she is not being held in a secured location. Sadly, given Dr Simmons has mental talents, it would be rather foolish not to held her, assuming she is being held, in a secured location."

Regan nods

Regan says, "Ok, then I suggest the following. Check the license plate against stolen vehicle reports for the last few days. Those should be listed on the CBPD website.""

Mystique nods to Regan. "Yes. A good start."

Regan says, "Also check the CBPD website for missing person reports for chauffeurs. And check the image of the car to see that it is not a rental, they usually have stickers on the inside of the windscreen."

Regan says, "If we fail to get any hits there then we do a stright trudge through the limousine services as listed in the phone directory."

After a quick search, the town car is indeed listed as stolen. It was taken from a body shop where it had just been fixed up. The car wasn't noticed as stolen until Friday night, which is when it was reported.

Lorelei says, "Darn, I was hoping it hadn't been stolen. THat would have given us a better lead..."

Regan says, "On the other hand if we're dealing with a mentalist and not a car thief we're in luck. Limousine services have anti-theft hardware, including transponders to get the car's location."

Lightray looks over at Mystique. "Do you need any special location to scry from ma'am?"

Mystique nods to Lorelei, "It's probably in a thousand parts by now in a recycling plant."

Mystique says, "Here will do fine."

Regan says, "That's true but we may be able to trace its movements up til then"

Olivia looks a little confused for a moment and nods, "Well, maybe try to get a hold of her work again and share info and see if they can narrow a location down given this information?"

Mystique sits and starts expending her scrying area, mist streaming away from her and seeking and flowing and streaming out in every direction.

Lightray smiles and nods to the witch. "Perhaps if you could then? It may simplify matters."

Lorelei says, "Didn't Detective Akeno say he'd be checking up on Szasz? I suppose we should try to get in touch with him."

Lorelei does so.

With a little bit of sweet-talking on the telephone, Lorelei is able reach Szasz's parole officer. Szasz is staying in an apartment building in Harrisburg. He's gotten employment in the neighborhood as a fry cook.

Lightray smiles as he watches the mists stream away from Mystique.

Lorelei tries to get the address of the apparentment and place of work out of the parole officer too.

Regan says, "Is it normal for people on parole to wear locator bracelets in this state?"

Jace enters with a bang of the door. He has a backpack over one shoulder and a large PDA in the other, he scans the cafe from the bar to see who is familiar and who to see if he can sit with.

Lorelei says, "Well - shall we go talk to Szasz, as our prime suspect or is that too risky?"

Lorelei says, "Jace! Hey!"

Jace grabs his order and heads over to Lorelei with a smile, "Hey, hows things?"

Olivia nods, "I do not think that it is too risky, not if the right people go along."

Lorelei says, "Not good at the moment I'm afraid. Yolanda Simmons has been abducted, it seems."

Jace says, "Abducted? Really?"

Lorelei says, "Well, I think so. She's not answering her phone, she was supposed to meet me, and she was last seen getting into a car coming back by Transmat yesterday. We're about to pay a visit (I think) to the prime suspect."

Jace says, "Well if you could use some company i'll come along. If your invitation is open that is"

Lorelei says, "It is. BUt be warned: the bad guy's probably a mentalist. If he
 * is* the bad guy."

Jace says, "grins and shrugs, "ehh, don't have to be worried about me. So long as its sunny outside, things are A-OK. Worse he could make me do make me squawk like a chicken or something."

Jace says, "They still do those shows? I never watch TV anymore...."

Lorelei says, "Trip to Harrisburg then? Or does anyone have a better idea?"

Jace says, "Hey, i'm game."

Mystique stirs after about twenty seconds. "Nothing. Either the car and Dr Simmons are outside the city or that are in a secured location. I can eliminate 99.8% of the city. Sadly the remaining areas are spread over thousands of locations."

Olivia nods, "Sounds good, I can go along, not the best place to wander without help."

Jace stands up and cracks his back with a torso twist, "So, we need to make a map or something? Circle locations or something?"

Lightray nods. "Thank you Mystique."

Lorelei says, "So where do we take, his home or his place of work? Or split up?"

Regan says, "Can't we call his place of work?"

Jace says, "Sounds good to do both. I'm better at home drop ins me thinks"

Lorelei says, "We could, Regan, but do we want to tip him off? He may not know we're after him, yet."

Regan tilts her head slightly. "Fair enough."

Lorelei says, "Still, I'm not really happy about splitting up, not with a mentalist involved."

Regan says, "Well, where does he work again?"

Lorelei says, "Some local eatery - here, I took down the address."

Jace blinks for a moment, "So who am I with?"

Lightray nods. "Well, why don't we all go to the aprtment first?"

Lorelei says, "It makes sense. If we go to his work first it's more likely someone will be there to warn him we're going to his apartment if he's not there, if you see what I mean"

Jace nods, "Good plan."

Szasz lives in a low rent section of Harrisbrug. His home is a three-story three-family home where he rents a room on the third floor. To either side of the house, empty lots sit, overgrown with grass and weeds. In one of the lots, kids play around a stripped abandoned automobile. A pair of men sit on the front stoop of the home, smoking. A CB Gas & Electric truck is parked in front of the home.

Lightray gets out of the taxia nd holds the door for anyone else getting out.

Jace piles out after lightray and looks over the place. "This is the place? This doesn't look promising."

Lorelei gets out, trying not to look too much like a famous celebrity.

Lorelei says, "How do we want to play this?"

Jace says, "I always like the selling stuff approach"

Jace says, "We should have stopped and bought some cookies or something."

Lightray smiles slightly. "Well, we could try honesty. Just knock on the door and ask to speak to Emil Szasz about Dr Yolanda."

Lorelei says, "I can't come up with a better idea, frankly."

Jace says, "Well there is that approach i suppose"

Lorelei looks about. "DOes anyone have a better idea?

Jace says, "Well i guess we'll try the honest approach...never have before"

Lorelei shrugs and walks up to ring the doorbell then.

Lightray murmurs softly, "Well, there has to be a first time for everything, no?"

Just as Lorelei rings the bell, the door opens. A Gas and Electric workman stands on the inside, looking rather surprised to see Lorelei and the others right in front of him. "Oh!..." He's at a loss for words at the moment.

Jace waves to the Gas man and nods, "Hi"

Lorelei says, "Oh hello - I was looking for the people who live here. Is anyone else about?"

Lightray nods politely to the gas man, but lets Lorelei do the talking.

Michelle is here, although she's been pretty quiet up till now thinking about things.

Lightray thinks. o O (My, what a nice outfit Lorelei is wearing as his attention wanders)

"The folks on the first floor are in." the workman says. "I'm not sure about the other floors." He nods politely to all the heroes. "'Scuse me," he says, turning sideways as he tries to slide past the heroes. He's lugging a large tool box that almost bangs a person or two on the knee as he makes his way towards his truck.

Jace says, "Well thanks, excuse me though...sir?"

Lorelei turn toward the man. "Pardon my asking - but it something wrong?"

"Hm?" The man pauses and turns. "No, nothing... why?"

Michelle peers at the workman for a moment "Maybe we should look inside?"

Regan smiles to the man. "Pretty rough working on a Saturday with that heavy case."

Meanwhile, Dr. Szasz turns the corner. He's coming home from the diner, it seems.

Lightray turns his attention back to the workman and his gaze shifts to the figure turning the corner.

Lorelei says, "You seemed to be nervous about something - mind telling me what it is?"

The workman shrugs to Michelle, "That's between you and the tenants..." He answers Regan. "Yes it is... and I've got two more jobs to go today, so if you don't mind..."

The man turns to respond to Lorelei. "Yes. I've... I've..." His body stiffens suddenly, and he drops his toolbox. His eyes roll back and he starts to fall to the pavement.

Jace says, "Well...thats odd.."

Jace kneels down and opens his box, "Anyone check that guy out, okay?"

Lorelei kneels to check if the guy's ok. Not that she knows much about such things.

Meanwhile Szasz continues to walk towards his home and the people gathered in front of it. At a glance, he's a gray haired sixties-ish man, wearing glasses. He's dressed casually in a shirt, tan slacks, and loafers. "is that man alright?" he asks in a quiet, flat tone.

Lorelei says, "I think he'll be ok. Are you Emil Szasz?"

Jace says, "Whao....we need to leave...."

Lorelei says, "huh?"

"yes i am," the man says. "i used to be a doctor... i could help him, but i don't remember how anymore..." He shrugs.

GM Note: Jace sees the contents of the workman's toolbox -- plastique and detonators.

Jace says, "Bombs...military tech...this place is wired"

Lorelei says, "I was afraid it might be. Let's move away from the house, shall we? Can someone help me with the 'repairman'?"

Jace says, "Well we need to get these people out....call the bomb squad."

"what's going on?" Szasz asks quietly.

Lightray looks at Emil Szasz. "I see. We are looking for Dr Yolanda Simmons, sir. And..." He trails off as Jace speaks. "Perhaps we should step away from the building, sir," he says addressing Dr Szasz.

Lorelei does her best to carry the 'workman' across the street.

One of the guys who was sitting on the front steps looks over to Jace. "A bomb? There're people inside..."

Jace flips open his PDA and dials a number. "Yea...well we should get moving on that..."

As Lorelei carries the workman, he starts to stir. "Wha... where am I...?"

Lorelei says, "Anyone here any good with bombs?"

Mystique turns into mist and flows into the building to start a search.

Jace says, "Can someone help Lore with the firebug and i'll go inside."

Lorelei says, "Why, just across the street from the building I believe you've rigged to blow up. Mind telling me why?"

Jace moves inside the front door to start and his own inspection.

Lightray gestures to Dr Szasz to cross the street with Lorelei, the workman, and himself. "This way, sir."

Szasz nods to Lightray. "i see..." he says calmly. He follows Lightray and walks across the street to join Lorelei and the workman.

On the first floor of the building there's a family inside, three children in the kitchen watching television and a mother in the bedroom, on the phone.

Lorelei awaits the workman's reply.

Mystique reforms as Mystique, "You need to evacuate this building I'm afraid. Is anyone else on this floor?" She tells the family.

Regan folds her hands in front of her, her lips :moves with Doctor Szasz across the street, hitching her satchel higher over her shoulder.

Jace moves down the hallway until he sees a fire alarm. He stretches up with shadowy arms and jabs at it trying to set it off.

The workman looks up at Lorelei. "Where am I...?" He starts to look around and down at his clothes.

Lorelei sighs, not surprised. "Who are you? What's the last thing you remember?"

Lorelei also asks Szasz, "Did you say you don't remember your medical training any more? How is that?"

Everyone looks to Mystique, the kids and the mom, but they don't quite seem to understand what's going on. The mother shakes her head no, in response to Mystique's question, as she holds her hand over the mouthpiece of her phone.

Lightray looks at Dr Szasz for moment, then back to Lorelei and nods. "If you all will excuse me, I will go see if there are people on the upper floors." He takes flight with a quick movement of his wings.

Jace finally gets the thing to fire, "Finally..stupid low rent death traps." He retracks his shadow, letting is however just above his skin, waiting for the inevtible bang.

Szasz says, "as part of my parole, i agreed not to do any of the things i was doing before i went to jail... chemistry, biology, telepathy, mind control..."

Mystique sighs, "The building has a Gas leak. You can see the van parked outside. I've come to get you out without having to pass through the gas in the hallway. Gather around me and hold onto me and each other." She lies with a straight face and clear conscience.

Lorelei says, "It's looking like someone else *has* been using mind control, unfortunately."

"Come here, children," the mother says, dropping her telephone and moving over to Mystique. Her children follow suit and hold hands. The mother closes a protective arm around one of her children, and the reaches for Mystique as well.

Dr. Szasz looks to Lorelei. What's she's said has gripped his attention. "... mind control...?"

Lorelei is still waiting for the 'workman' to reply.

Mystique teleports the entire family out of the building into the street on the opposite side of the road. "Go down there." She tells them pointing along the street away from the building. Then she turns back to mist and flows back inside the building once again.

The workman says, "I'm not sure... I was going to a meeting... some kind of gang was hiring extra muscle... I don't remember much about it."

Lightray flies around the upper floor of the building looking for people inside. He knocks on the window when he spots someone inside.

Lorelei says, "Please try... it's important/"

The fire alarm goes off. A door on the second floor opens and a confused looking man stares out at Jace.

Jace says, "Fire friend...time to go. Grab your pets children, etc"

The woman gathers her children and hustles them over to the far side of the street.

Lorelei says, "Dr Szasz, do you know anyone who would want to harm you? Perhaps both you and Yoland Simmons?"

Regan smiles. "II'm just going to the bathroom."

A surprised looking man looks back at Lightray. He opens the window halfway, which his as far as it seems to go without sticking. "What's going on?!"

The man on the second floor nods to Jace before ducking into his apartment again.

Jace goes down to the next door and bangs on the door. "Fire alarm means fire. Please listen and you know...run"

Lightray smiles at the man. "Gas leak in the building. You need to get out tof the building. Anyone else on this florr you know of?"

The workman tries hard to remember. Szasz, his eyes narrow for a moment and a slightly look of amusement goes to his face. "... Yes."

The man on the third floor says to Lightray, shaking his head. "No, it's just me, just me."

Lorelei asks Szasz, "Who?"

On the second floor the man reappears from his doorway, holding a pair of fishbowls beneath his arms. At the second door however, there's no response. Loud music can be heard blaring from within.

Lightray smiles reassuringly at the man. "Just take the stairs down to the first floor and go across the street. You will alright." He speaks in a firm tone.

Jace knocks on that door harder....with his foot.

Once out of sight Regan swiftly ducks behind cover, reappearing moments later in her armoured suit. She climbs a building in a series of swift acrobatic leaps and bounds, emerging over the rooftops to join the heroes involved in the rescue.

The man nods to Lightray and breaks for the stairs.

Mystique extends misty tendrils throughout the building from basement to roof looking for people needing to be warned to leave. Whenever she sees someone she passes the location on to the other heroes with SG communicators.

Lorelei wonders if she should help evacuate the house. But it's not her forte, and it's possible either or both of these men need to be watched.

Lightray continues to circle the upper floor, knocking on windows and waiting for reponses. He mutters to himself, "Now would be the time for some of the proophtic abilities you once bestowed, oh Utu-Shamash."

Szasz becomes more animated, almost jittery with energy. "Who indeed... There's a universal truth about the world that nothing comes with out a price. For every action, there is a... a... it escapes me now... But you understand the principle, yes? Even if that price is deferred it must be paid..."

Lorelei nods. "Yes, I understand - now if you could just tell me?" She's getting a little jittery herself. Mind Control bothers her, and she's not quite sure what been done to Szasz's mind, to boot.

Sable's lips purse as she hears Mystique's briefing over the comm channel and she changes direction, leaping down to the main enttrance to the building to find where the main gas line branches into the building.

Jace busts in the door and looks a bit shocked himself. "They just don't stop making them like they used too." He looks around the apartment and yells. "Hey! Fire! Time to go out!"

Lightray flies up to the roof of the building to make sure no one is up there.

Sable comes across the access to the gas main, it's easy to locate by the hissing sound of leaking gas. Also by the timer than's next to it, counting down from 8..7...6...

The rof of the building is clear.

The roof of the building is clear.

Inside the apartment that Jace has busted into there's a young man practicing guitar, and another young man cranking the stereo to drown out his twanging.

Jace moves over to the guy cracking the stereo and turns it off. "HEY! PAY ATTENTION! Fire alarms kid!"

The man with the fishbowls from the second floor makes it out ahead of the lone man from the third floor. They both run clear of the building.

Lightray flies back down to the crwod across the street. He asks all the gathered people, "Look around. Is there anyone missing who you think was in the building?"

The mother from the first floor says, "Those two boys from the second floor. I think they're still in there."

The man listening to the stereo looks started to see Jace standing there. He hurries up to step out the door. His friend with the guitar keeps it as he heads out too.

Jace moves back into the hallway down to the next room with a closed door in the hallway.

Lightray flies back towards the building's second floor.

Jace Demon muses. o O (Why are you wasting your time here? Your going to die if you stick around....WE are going to die. You saved what? 1 or 2 people? Well good job and times up.)

Jace grits his teeth and moves toward the stairs of the apartment.

Lorelei says, "GEt down, everyone!"

Lightray looks back as Lorelei shouts, then starts to move back from the building.

Szasz straightens up, to get a clear look at the blast.

Sable sees that the count down is nearly complete and she's out of time. SHe grabs the bomb, ripping it from the gas mains as she crouches and leaps poerfully straight upward raising her free hand to protect her face as she crashes through the ceiling above.

Lorelei says, "Szasz! Get down!"

Sable smashes through the ceiling above in a splintering bundle of crumbling floor-boards. As she does she twists into a stunningly fast forward roll to plant her feet against the next ceiling. As she absorbs the impact. She tosses the bomb away, trying to bounce it behind the first floor stairwell even as she leaps for the doorway

Szasz ducks his head at the last moment.

KABOOOM! The house is rocked by a large explosion that demolishes the staircase. However, most of the house is still intact.

Car alarms are set off for three blocks.

Sable is caught in mid-air by the blast and the rapidly blossoming fireball hurls her like a rag doll out the front of the building, her limbs loosly flailing as the force of the blast spits her through the air to bounce once in the middle of the street and then thump into the side of the bomber's truck, leaving a heroine-shaped dent in the side of the chassis.

The explosion is no doubt heard all over town, and then of course the police band becomes very full of chatter about said explosion. One of the advantages to flying over the town is it makes the explosion very easy to spot. Seraph winces, unsure of what he can do but knowing he needs to help however he can he banks in the air and then with strong beats of large feathered wings he starts to make haste, flying as fast as he can to the area. Fortunately at his speed it doesn't take to terribly long to cross town and he swoops in, getting a birds eye view of the devastation and the scene to try and figure out where he would be best useful.

Szasz says, "Impressive."

Jace stands up from the rubble unburying himself, dusting himself off, holding his ribs. "Gaw...that never feels good"

Lorelei watches Szasz's reaction.

Sable slumps unconscious to the pavement, dropping inert with a soft thud as the flickering tongues of fire crackle and lick at the fabric of the building, rapidly gathering enthusiasm for their task.

Mystique was in the building when it exploded. As the dust and smoke starts to clear slightly it becomes obvious there's no sign of her.

The building is smoking, but not really on fire. The explosives detonates with more of a blast than anything else.

Jace 's Demon muses. o O (See....now if this building falls in. Your going to die. In this light, i will perish. Good job. )

Jace tries to move down whats left of the stairs to make it out the front.