Riftgate 2 - Surlan's Holocaust 3

Location
Harrisburg - This once middle-class section of town has fallen into disrepair: the rows of two-storey homes are mere ghosts of the past. Some of the vinyl siding is cracked and faded from decades of neglect. Children play unsupervised in now weed-strewn vacant lots. Graffiti along brick walls mark the territory of various gangs trying to claim the neighborhood as their own. Harrisburg Elementary needs its tall security fence and guarded gate.

If southern Harrisburg is bad, the north is appalling. Many of the homes are boarded up, perhaps occupied by homeless squatters, and the gang graffiti is ubiquitous. Drug dealers and worse have brought their crime to the district. Few trees or shrubs remain, and lawns are weeds and broken bottles. Here dwell the destitute, the desperate and the homeless.

Harrisburg Clinic - This is an old building, superficially renovated. A hand-lettered sign reads "Harrisburg Free Clinic - No Appointment Needed" in large letters. Underneath, a smaller sign reads "Dr. MacFurgeson, MD" and "Dancing Coyote."

The front steps are guarded by two members of the Harrisburg Watch. They don't appear hostile, just wary. They don't stop you from entering unless you look like you are going to cause trouble, although they do search you for weapons.

The interior, which is not visible from the outside, is surprisingly neat and well-organized. There are fresh flowers in vases that almost mask the hint of disinfectant in the air. A variety of public health and safety brochures are available on a nearby table, along with a basin marked "Donations optional" half-full of coins and rumpled dollar bills. A discreet hand-lettered sign reads "Yes, we do have drugs here. No, we don't give them out. Trust us, you DON'T want to try taking them. Thank you, the management."

There's usually a line of people waiting to see the doctor, mostly poor and indigent. A middle-aged woman in a nurse's uniform collects information from them.

Scene
Mary Brown at the Harrisburg Clinic passes word to various heroes and to Past Times and Steel's Gym for heroes visiting those places. She says that the extra-dimensional visitor who arrived several months ago in poor health, not to mention missing a tongue and unable to speak, has recovered sufficiently from surgry to explain where he came from and why he was stealing medical supplies from the University hospital.

Jade is sure to turn up for this. Extradimensional visitors are interesting, quite apart from the work interest in it.

Lily walks up to the clinic. . o O (I sure hope he's not from the Hell Dimension!)

Devil Dog shifts some rubble out of the way as he climbs out from the church through a hole in the roof, then jumps down to ground level, landing heavily in the parking lot. Dusting rubble off himself with one hand he looks over the trench-knife he just rescued from his old home with the other, tucks it into his belt, and strolls out of the parkinglot and down the street toward the clinic.

Dorian shows up promptly, flying to avoid traffic. He lands outside of the clinic, and changes from his energy form to his more 'mundane' one.

The Harrisburg Watch members at the clinic door have been instructed to allow the heroes free unhindered passage into the clinic. Mary is waiting for them in the clinic's kitchen, with various non-alcholic drinks and cookies on hand while waiting for the arranged time to arrive.

Lily snags a cookie, "Yay!"

Devil Dog moves into the room, glances around, then steps off into a corner. Folding his arms over his chest he leans against the wall, coat leaving dirty smudges on contact.

Jade, being hot, is glad of the drink, though she forgoes cookies. She looks to see who else turns up.

Extradimensional stuff. Always a headache really, but... the Colonel asked Abby to check it out, and since she wasn't in the middle of a SERAF training session, she was available. Of course, such publicly advertised requests seem to her and the Colonel as if someone was almost begging less scrupulous individuals to show up and take an interest of their own in the matter... which emphasizes even more the need to have someone on site who can represent the military -and- Starguard.

Which is how Abby sees her own presence. She doesn't fly, doesn't make a flashy entrance. She just shows up at the hospital with a base-issued car, parks, and heads inside in her non-field fatigues, hat on her head until she steps inside and removes the item before before folding it and tucking it into a pocket. "I'm told there was a request made by a Mary Brown, might I see her?" she asks as she enters. Then she takes note of Devil Dog's presence and shrugs, "Well, I bet that's half the problem right there." she mutters mostly to herself.

The Watch members at the door glare at Devil Dog, and as if to make a point treat Guardian like visiting royalty, escorting her politely into the kitchen where the heroes are gathering.

Dorian waves to Mary as he enters the kitchen, and then to the others assembled already. He doesn't bother eating or drinking, though. And he's still wearing a jacket, despite the warm weather outside.

Devil Dog responds in his soft, rasping whisper, mostly to Spirit though it seems to go out to the room in general, "Good evening." Under his bandana his lips twitch up into a smirk.

Mary checks her watch, "Is this everyone as far as you know?" she asks nobody in particular. "Drifter, that's the name he goes by, is still rather weak. I'd like to keep the question session as short as possible and not tire him out by having more arriving later so he has to repeat himself."

Dorian nods. "He can talk, then?"

Jade says, "I'm-afraid-I-don't-know-if-anyone-else-if-coming."

A polite nod is given to the escorts as Guardian makes her way to the kitchen. Once there, she basically ends up standing at almost parade rest. "I'd bet that plenty of others will be showing up... though I doubt we'll want them to. They might have a bit in common with some of the company present." She looks towards Mary and offers a smile as she declines the offer of snacks and drinks. "What do we know about this.. Drifter so far?" she asks. "I haven't had a chance to review any files on him.. I was just ordered here half an hour ago."

Mary nods, "Yes, Dorian. Nicky arranged for restorative surgery to rebuild his tongue, and he's now able to talk although his pronunciation is sometimes hard to understand. "

Jade nods, and decides to record the interview, so she can if needed go back over it at leisure make another attempt at understanding hard-to-make-out utterances.

Mary nods to Guardian, "We haven't pestered him with questions. He's been healing and learning to talk. All I know is he arrived a few months ago at the hospital via a gate from another world. He and some more people were stealing medical supplies. They tripped an alarm and some heroes who where at the hospital took him on. But after that he escaped from custody and found his way to Harrisburg."

Devil Dog hrrrms, thoughtful, then asks Mary from where he leans, "How'd he lose his tongue, here or in the other domention?"

Mary answers Devil Dog, "Neither. It was a birth defect."

Fortunate winds or simple blind wandering brings the blind man and his quarterstaff back to this place. He hears a ways away a familiar voice before moving towards it. <> he says in chinese. His hat hung low and his eyes bandaged in fresh bandages. The Blind man Kao is here.

Dorian nods quietly as he listens.

"Hence his having to -learn- to talk, not just relearn." offers Guardian as she stands there at parade rest. "So, he came here... how do we know he's extradimensional?" she asks. "But either way, he was stealing supplies and now he's what.. a ward of the hospital?"

Mary leds the group of heroes into the clinic. She stops at a door with a radiation warning sign hung on it. The lamp above the sign is lit and glowing red. She knocks on the door and the light goes dark after a second. "He came through a riftgate, Guardian. Rebound was at the hospital and seemed to be sure Drifter came from another dimension. As to his status, at the moment he's a patient in need of care. When he's fit enough that question can be raised again."

Devil Dog moves silently along behind Mary, turning what has been said thus far over in his mind.

The blind man reaches the group. "Stander!" He says excitedly, seemingly to Devil Dog. "I see the winds of fortune bring us together again." He pauses. "The tone is more solum than I had anticipated, what's going on?" He asks.

Mary opens the door. Inside the room is a bed with a unshielded X-Ray machine beside the bed. The man in the bed is talll but painfully thin. His skin is blotched and marked with scars and healed still noticable sores.

Devil Dog responds quietly to Kao, "Follow me and don't talk so much, at least for the moment, we're about to interview someone from another domention, and he doesn't have a lot of strength. No round about questions for him, all right?"

Mary says, "Drifter, these are the heroes I told you would be coming."

Jade comes in quietly, assessing Drifter as she does so.

Kao nods, though doesn't think there is round about questions. He doesn't understand what they mean by other dimension either but will go with it. The blind man's staff taps the floor as he moves though more as a walking stick than a blind man finding his way.

The man sits up. His frame is even thinner now the sheet slips to his waist showing the py top hanging like a tent on his almost skeletal frame. His movement as he sits up though is so quick it's almost a blur to most watching.

Devil Dog moves along at Kao's side, more to watch out for him than for companionship. As he enters the room he also looks Drifter over, his glowing red eyes unblinking.

There's a slight warmth coming from the X-Ray machine although it's now switched off.

Jade pulls out her omniscanner to assess the man's conditions.

The room has no windows and a layer of lead sheet covering all surfaces.

Jade nods, seemingly satisfied by what she finds.

Following at the tail end of whatever group folks are gathered in, Abigail just keeps her eyes ahead of her... watching the folks and Devil Dog in specific. She doesn't trust that one of course. So she makes sure he's always in her sight. At the X-Ray room, she steps inside without fear, knowing that she'll just absorb the radiation without harm...

Kao is blindly led into a room. he pauses then stays silent

Drifter looks at the heroes hopefully, "Thesse are goodd peeople?" he asks Mary. "Theey can heelp uss?"

Dorian nods. "We can certainly help you. Depending on the situation. Please, start at the top, and let us know how you got here, and why you were doing what you were doing at the hospital."

Devil Dog speaks up in his quiet, raspy voice, addressing Drifter directly, "I'm not a good person, but I try to help. The rest of these people are. Dorian is right though, start at the top, we need information."

Mary nods. "I'll be outside. Don't tire him too much." and she leaves, shutting the door behind her.

"Good, evil, it's all balance. Nothing si without that that isn't and nothing is without that which is." Kao states.

Jade thinks. o O (They'll tire him out before he answers a question at this rate.)

Opening her mouth to reply, Abigail shuts it again after DD speaks. She shakes her head. No sense confusing the poor man. So she just waits silently while questions are asked.

Drifter nods to Dorian, "Fought our way into enclave of Marc Bradford. Used his gate to come here. We needed medicines. Paid in gold. Our world not like yours. Six families hold all as slaves or outcastes."

Dorian nods slowly, "Are you a freedom fighter? Or do you work for one of those families?"

Lily says, "So you need us to go punch them!?"

Dorian grins a bit at Lily's comment.

Drifter speaks at a near shout, "Resistance. Not slave master. Not Lord's guard."

Devil Dog falls silent to listen, letting Dorian step up to ask the questions, it seems. As Kao speaks he reaches up in an attempt to rest two fingers on the man beside him's shoulder, the fingers hot to the touch but not incredibly so. At the shout from drifter, DD doesn't react.

Dorian rubs his chin, and decides to get to the main crux of the matter, "What is it that you'd like us to do to help you?"

Kao is still silent, he seems to have some trouble understanding the man through his speach impedement now. English is his second language.

Drifter gestures around the room, "Help us like this. We outcastes. Many die. Mutant animals. Killer machines from Great War. Die at birth. Mothers too. Lords like in enclaves. Have everything. We have nothing."

Lily says, "Oh! So there are slaves that live with the Lords, but everyone else lives in the wasteland, so you need medical assistance in addition to having the Lords get punched."

Drifter nods to Lily.

Jade is careful to speak slowly. "How may of your are there, outside the enclaves?"

Lily hmmms, "I don't really know anything about medicine, but I'm really good at punching!"

"He's requesting not only asylum, but for military aid and an alliance with his resistance fighters." explains Abigail. She nods a bit and pulls out her super smartphone.. after all, by 2061, they oughta be able to almost clean your home for you! Speed dial calls the Colonel directly. Next on her call list is her superiors in StarGuard. She needs to get their opinions on all this of course. But she steps out into the hallway to make her calls.

Devil Dog hrrrms, an almost growl, then suddenly speaks up to Drifter. "How do the Lords keep their power, how do they keep the outlanders from overrunning them? They have to have something you don't." He waits to ask this after Jade has her question out.

Dorian raises a brow, and looks to Devil Dog. "They probably have things like...food. Medicine. Guns."

Drifter shrugs, "Not know. Kagken says many. I not travel far. Around Bradford Enclave many people Many hands of hands of people. Inside, many many slaves. Many guards. Lord and Lord's family."

Devil Dog gives his head a little shake to Dorian, responding quietly, "My guess, outnumbered and walls, not so much guns. I am sure in a land like he's talking about they live in walled settlements, maybe castles. Sounds like they rely on magic too, they could have skipped guns as a type of weaponry all together, I'm not sure yet."

Jade says, "Magic? What-brings-you-tp-that-conclusion?"

Drifter nods to Devil Dog and to Spirit, "We have spears, knives. They have firesticks, machines that kill, wear metal so our spears and knives not hurt them.

Lily thinks for a bit, "Do the Lords have super powers? Do you have super powers? Once we've punched all the Lords, what do you want to do with them?"

Devil Dog turns his attention to Jade and responds, "The portal, either very advanced technology, or magic. I'm just guessing magic for now."

Drifter shrugs, "Not thought of after. Maybe Kagken thinks. Never close to after. We fight to survive. After not feed hungry. No time to think."

Drifter asks "What are superpowers?"

Devil Dog lets his glowing red eyes turn themselves back to drifter, holds out his left hand palm down, and slowly lets his flaming whip slide out of his palm, hissing and burning as it curls, as if alive, to about three feet long.

Kao states. "These lords seem like they keep those in the dark so that they can have the power. There is no balance, and thereby no harmony."

Lily says, "Um, well, can you lift really big rocks, shoot bolts of energy from your hands, or control people's thoughts?"

Devil Dog says calmly to Drifter, "People that can do things most other people can't, are super powers." To Lily, he adds, "The man is fast, didn't you see him sit up?"

Drifter watches Devil Dog's demo. "Few. Among outcastes. Not Lord's or guards. They not touched by burning winds from Great War.

Dorian shakes his head slowly. "We'd be getting into an all out war. That's pretty clear. I'm not saying I'm against doing this. We need to be aware of the results of our actions, though. I see two ways to help. First, we might help set up a new 'enclave', one which welcomes people and helps to protect them from the mutated beasts roaming the landscape. With perhaps a democratic government. The other would be to overthrow the slave lords. Either way, those lords won't take our actions lying down. They'll show up to remove the perceived threat. We just need to be aware of that."

Jade nods. "He-has-considerable-genetic-damage - and reflexes-on-a-par-with-mine."

Devil Dog asks Jade, "Could the burning winds he's talking about be fall out from nuclear bombs? Sounds like I was wrong about their weaponry too, at least what we had in the early 21th century, sounds like, with maybe atomic bombs and early robotics, if not more."

Lily thinks again, "Maybe StarGuard or the United Earth could send soldiers to help set up a free enclave while we smash the lords. Then UE can move in as peacekeepers."

Kao states. "War? I will not kill if it came to that." The blind man seesm apt to help though. "Though there is injustice, to upturn many in such a manner is not an ideal sollution."

Dorian nods to Lily, "If UE is willing, that sounds great. I'm just wondering how isolationist they're feeling today."

Drifter picks that up from Devil Dog. "Yes. Great War. Atomic War. Merica and Rushire fight over ship from the stars."

Dorian blinks, and looks back to Drifter. "Russia and America? Where did this ship land, exactly?"

Lily says, "Oooh! So you're from an alternate reality where the Guild made contact earlier, and the US and Russian nuked each other because of it."

After a couple phonecalls, Abigail steps back into the room to see DD's whip of fire extended. "Showing off again, great. Put that thing away before you hurt someone." she mutters his way. "Okay, so we're cleared for an exploratory, recon run to find out what the situation is first hand. We need direct intel before we can make any decisions of what we're going to do beyond... wait, nuclear war? Well that's going to be interesting. Anyone here have issues dealing with radioactive fallout?"

Drifter thinks, "Ship land in Ubeckistan. Friend to Merica. But next to Rushire."

Kao says, "Radioactive fallout is.... forgive me on not being wise in the ways of science."

Jade nods. "I-was-about-to-say-making-plans-before-recon-is foolish do-we-have-a-way-to-reach-this-world?"

Lily says, "Um. I'm invincible, but I've never tested it against radioactive fallout."

Dorian looks to Abigail, "I can deal with radiation just fine, personally."

Kao seems confused why they are concerned about it. He does nots eem likely to be able to handle radiation though.

Devil Dog says to the room in general as his whip slides back into his palm, "Not sure how I'd react to radiation, but if I die I can always come back again, and when I'm exposed to something I tend to evolve around it. If I don't have it now, a little while on the planet and I would."

Drifter lifts a arm and pulls back his left sleeve. He shows all the tattoo on it. "This Kagken give me. So know how make gate send me to hospital."

"First of all, Devil Dog, if you die in another realm... another dimension, how can you be sure you'll end up in the same place you are used to going to? Maybe hell there works differently too. I'd just suggest you be a bit less.... assured of your survival. Better to be careful right?" And though.. she shakes her head and thinks. . o o O O (Maybe we'd be better off though...) Then she looks to Kao and shrugs, "Radiation.. energy wavelengths harmful to almost every form of life we can imagine. My body absorbs them like any other form of energy, but most people will suffer what's called... radiation poisoning and eventually, die from it."

Kao stills eems confused. the blind man looks to gaurdian, well actually aobut 15 degrees to the right of gaurdian. "I do not know if i am shielded, but I know I am safe."

Devil Dog responds casually to Guardian, "Maybe a light sabre will cut you in half, fact is we don't know, do we? I'm personally not worried if I die or not though, it isn't as if I have too much to lose."

Jade studies the tattoo, and takes a picture of it for good measure. "Hm dimensional-coordinates! Could-be-a-challenge-to-find-the-reverse-path-with-that-but-at least-it's-possible-in-theory."

Dorian smiles. "If anyone can figure that out, you can, Jade."

Jade says, "It'll-be-a-good-test-for-the-upgraded-equipment!"

"Right, I forgot... your entire method for dealing with advice and criticism, is to respond in kind... right or wrong." mutters Abigail towards Devil Dog. "Well, assuming we can get to this world... I suggest we definitely keep it to a fact finding trip... and I would heartily suggest only those who KNOW they can handle radiation, and those who can perform such recon in a disciplined and orderly manner go."

Drifter asks, "You can go to my world?"

Dorian nods. "We'll see if we can, Drifter. Jade is going to try to use those coordinates you gave her to figure out how to get to your world."

Drifter nods, "Find Kagken. Help resistance. Make slaves free. Teach us. Get ship back for Kagken. He make all free with ship."

Kao says, "If you mean reconnaissance, does this rule me out?" Kao askes Abigail."

Jade says, "Who is Kagken?"

Devil Dog falls silent once again and simply folds his arms over his chest, listening.

"That depends. Can you handle a reconnaissance mission to another world where a nuclear war has torn the world apart and made it into a mostly uninhabitable wasteland?" Abigail asks towards Kai. "We are going there to get a look at the situation, not to just rush in without a plan. We should get an idea of what is going on, make plans, and -then- act when we know what we are up against."

"I can do that, but my question is do you find ti wise to take a blind man?" Kao replies. "I can easily help, but I can not see."

Drifter says, "Kagken leader of resistance. He teach me fight well with hands. He come from stars in ship. Lords take ship while Great War happen. Lords use way for ship to be safe to make them safe when many many many die in war." He reaches across to a table where a uncured leather backpack is laid. Opening the backpack he pulls out a roll of cloth, which unfolds to reveal an energy pistol. But that isn't what he's after. Going deeper into the backpack he pulls out a drawing inscribed on a fragment of slate of a hexopedial alien with lizard like features.

Devil Dog tells Kao quietly, "If they let us go, I will be your partner, and help you with sight problems. You're not half bad."

Smirking a bit, Abigail shakes her head, "The question is not whether I would allow a blind man to go. The question is.. does a blind man believe that he could contribute and assist such a mission?" she asks. Then she chuckles and mutters softly, "Great, the blind leading the deaf."

"Those who are cut from the ilusion in one way may contriubte in ways the others do not see fit. If you'd raise a hand I shall tell you which one was raised." Kao states plainly. "If you want me too I could also likely land a strike against it."

Devil Dog turns then, letting his red eyes settle on guardian to say, softly and raspily, "I haven't done anything to you today, and I'm trying to behave, act right." He then turns and drops his eyes down to the drawing Drifter produced, then the pistol. Moving one hand he motions toward the weapon, "May I pick that up?" He asks.

Drifter nods to Devil Dog, "Lord's guard firestick. Be careful."

Devil Dog reaches down to take the gun by, in this domention, would be thought of as the barrel. Holding it up to the light he studies it with his glowing red eyes, silent.

"Devil Dog... I will not bring it up here and now, but there are a number of issues that you and I have to work out. For the moment, just do me a favor and keep silent?" asks Abigail as the man reaches for the weapon. She also eyes it, curious.

Devil Dog ignores Guardian completely, or so it seems, as he looks the gun over. After a moment he stops being so gentle and handles the weapon casually, checking it out for damage marks. To Drifter he asks, "Is this standard weaponry for guards, or special?"

Drifter shrugs, "Not know. Think standard. All guards have look same firesticks in pouch on belt. Some have longer firesticks need both hands. Not know how firesticks work."

Devil Dog nods down to Drifter, then turns the gun, and rests one finger by the head of the snake along it's barrel. "This is the symbol of a lord, or of your resistance?" He questions.

Drifter looks, "Symbol of Council of Lords."

Right. Oughta be used to this by now. Abigail just turns and heads out the room's door and says on her way, "I'll be prepping for the recon. Those who think they can contribute, and can remain disciplined and actually -listen-... should join me when they are ready. Also Jade, if I could speak with you about how good our odds of actually -reaching- his world are, that would be great."

Dorian raises a brow, "That's curious." He takes a look at the pistol as Devil Dog holds it. "It looks like an early model VIPER pistol. Is that how VIPER got their tech here? From an alien craft?"

Devil Dog flicks the safety of the gun on, then motions to it, "Don't flip that switch, and the gun won't go off in your pack." He moves to place the pistol back on the bed, letting Dorian pick up questioning again.

Dorian's question clearly wasn't for Drifter, since it was about this world. It might have even been rhetorical. He rubs his chin, considering the implications.

Jade looks at the pistol, intersted now.

Dorian steps closer, and takes a look at hte symbol more closely. "That's definitely the VIPER insignia."

Dorian says, "So...the question is...why? Is it a parallel to what happened here? Or...do we have people from our VIPER who entered that world?"

Jade says, "A-parallel-VIPER-could-well-have-been-positioned-to-take-over-the-world."

Dorian says, "I don't think Zu would bother with this kind of thing, would it? VIPER has kind of evolved here...so it would seem likely to either be an offshoot group from here, or their version of it in the parallel world. I think that latter option would be more likely."

Devil Dog asks Dorian quietly, "Does it matter if it's Viper, or is this just for the sake of knowing?"

Dorian shrugs, "It's a matter of knowing your enemy. This clears things up at least a little bit. If they're a true parallel, you can expect to see well armed agent types as guards, but also some snake-themed metas. Much like the group MAMBA here."

Jade says, "It-seems-more-in-keeping-with-old-VIPER I-wonder did-they-engineer-the-world-war-or-just-benefit-from-it?"

Devil Dog nods his head to Dorian, then asks him, "Should we try to organize a meeting with momba? I can probably get in and get at least a couple answers from someone to see if they might have slipped in from our world and did this."

Dorian shakes his head. "MAMBA is a different animal altogether. Similar theme, though. They're more of a franchise. They sell superpowers to those willing to pay, and set them up as a villain in a particular city, with financial support, agents, equipment, etc."

Dorian says, "VIPER, on the other hand, was all about ruling the world."

Devil Dog hrrrms, then looks back to drifter, asking dorian, "Does viper stille xist, or did they evolve into Mamba?"

Dorian shakes his head, "No...MAMBA was created from a different source. VIPER however ended up staging a coup in South Africa. They've since renamed the country 'Zu'. And have gained some measure of respectability, believe it or not."

Devil Dog grunts, gruffly, and tells Dorian, "I'll drop in there and see if I can't talk to them and figure out what's going on. I'll try to stay civil."

Dorian says, "The organization as it once was, no longer really exists. The country has its own problems now. They probably still have their own commandos or whatnot, but they've been keeping out of the media for quite a while."

Devil Dog studies Drifter as he talks with Dorian, then the picture of the lizard man again, "They'll probably have files though. Either way I'm going to check."

Dorian nods. "Just be careful. An international incident with Zu would be...bad."

Devil Dog snorts, quietly, and responds, "One hell spawn creating an entire international problem? If I am able to do that, they're a pitiful country."

Dorian raises a brow, "If you go into their government buildings, guns blazing, that's grounds for an international incident."

Dorian says, "You'd be called 'an American assassin', and a 'clear sign of American imperialism.'"

Drifter sinks back to the pillows, seemingly too tired to reamin sitting up.

Dorian looks to Drifter, "Thanks for your time. We'll let you get some rest."

Jade nods. "We'll-see-what-we-can-do."

Drifter nods, "You help. Drifter thankful." he says tiredly.

Devil Dog hrrms as he turns and starts to stalk for the doors, commenting to Dorian, "I'm american? Hmm, didn't know that, I'm from hell, not america." Laughing softly to himself he walks on out of the room, and shows himself out of the clinic.

Dorian chuckles. "Would that distinction matter to those in Zu? Likely not. You live here, you're considered by them to be American."

As Devil Dog goes out, Mary comes in. "He really rests to rest and have the X-Ray turned on. You can use the kitchen to talk, there's still drinks and cookies. He should be rested enough by tomorrow if you have any other questions."

Devil Dog strolls away from the gathering and on down the street, arms folding over his chest.

Jade says, "I'll-go-see-what-I-can-do-with-these-coordinates....."

Jade leaves - clearly motivated by the challenge.

Out in the kitchen, Abigail has a laptop out and is loading up what appear to be basic maps based on the areas in -this- world where she expects to be going in that world. Though she's trying to get it to account for things like... kinetic blasts and heat flashes of nukes as well as fallout. "Now, if we can just figure out where the base we need to recon is before we get there, that'd help quite a bit." she mutters to herself as folks start coming in.

Dorian nods, "Yeah, there are a lot of variables. Where we'll arrive, for one. And then secondly, where the various lord's enclaves are. And also where this resistance leader that Drifter referred to is."

"Ironic that I need more intel.... so I can get more intel. That's usually the way of it though." offers Abigail. She plucks a light pen from her pocket and starts doodling on the map to try to figure a few details out. "I mean, it -all- depends on where we enter, but we also need to know where that ship is, right?"

Dorian nods. "True. That's something we'll need eventually. Though..it landed in Uzbekistan first...but there's no telling where it is now.