Max I: Beauty and the BeaZT

Murri turns his head a bit to look at Diwa, "Well are we not all at least a bit of both of those? As for me, well... if I were to say no to either one or both of those, would you believe me at this point? Still we do have much to learn about one another if," he gestures to powerful individual, "he decides we are what they or their benefactor wants."

Carter has had enough. Sure we can do that and I guess you want 'the culprit' brought here. He figures this is fastest way out of this building.

At the mention of not trusting Carter's father Murri cannot help but think to himself, 'Yeah you and me both on that one.'

Murri takes careful note of the name Vincent provided perhaps he would ask him later about this Bakunawa but for now he would do just that let it sleep. Then Murri watches with great interest what Vincent is doing. When the image is rendered by Vincent, he closely studies it committing every detail he could to memory. "Manila is a big place and I doubt they are hanging around Tondo any more. So how do you suggest we go about finding your needle in the proverbial hay stack? Do we have leads beyond this image?"

Murri thinks for a moment running the layout of Manila through is mind and the details provided thus far by Vincent then replies with a clarification question, "If I am understanding you correctly, we should start here in the Tondo district looking for this man, and you know its a man and not just someone using a clever disguise, and this individual is either still within the city limits of Manila or are you actually saying they would not leave the district of Tondo? Still I do not understand, you seem to perhaps know who this individual is or at least a lot more information about them then you are sharing. I mean do they have a name or a identity on the streets that they go by or any other details that might help make this needle in this haystack a bit bigger, that would help greatly in locating them. Lastly, I mean unless Diwa here is a highly skilled bounty hunter that operates within the city of Manila, I am wondering if you picked the right crew because I know neither I nor Carter here are skilled in the investigative arts of bounty hunting and we both kind of draw attention when interacting with the folks of Manila. I mean no objections to doing the job, just not fully understanding why us and why so limited intel when there seems to be a lot more intel available."

Carter says agreeing Some more info about this individual would lead to fast recovery for sure. He doesn't question the matters of a lack of investigator and such. Or if we were mischoosen. He is short cash as his father hasn't sent any. So he is ready to most anything.

"He's giving us limited intel because it's a test. Like, look at him. He could go pick the guy up himself, no sweat. This isn't about getting the job done, it's about seeing what we can do. Besides, Slightly Problematic over there can use his toys to scan from the sky, and I know my way around Manila, and Tondo. I grew up here. I don't know what you can do, oh-he-who-can't-speak-straight, but we might as well get started rather than arguing with our employer." Diwa stretches and starts towards the door, before stopping and turning around to ask one final question. "How much time do we have, ya think?"

With that Carter just turns and walks to the door. He will await others to come out and then talk. He will recover his fly as well once out and looks over the sky to guess the weather. Job is set.

Murri had meant these strange folk that seemed to think being abrasive was how one showed friendship but he always wondered why they did not understand it was what caused them to not have those friends they were wanting, either that or they just seemed to be okay but not okay with being a loner. It was simply a strange psyche to him. So he just ignored the barbs as they were fairly innocuous and not backed with hate like many of comments directed at him by others for just how he looked.

"Well you two, we can all head out on a madcap most likely futile endeavor or... we can take a moment to make a plan."

Murri pauses for a moment before speaking to Diwa, "Okay Diwa like I said Carter nor I are truly skilled in the art of bounty hunting and I would normally not take such a job but this individual does need to be brought in."

He glances back at Vincent directing his next comment in their direction, "Although I cannot fathom why anyone would use this as a test, if I knew where this guy was and had the means I would just have picked him up myself posthaste, but then I actually care about the folk in this region." Well perhaps provoking someone like that was not a good idea but Murri found them extremely heartless and besides they appeared to be completely out of touch with reality at this time as to mostly out of touch the rest of the time.

He looks back at Diwa. "Still what do I do besides communicate effectively you did ask. Well I typically operate as a scout or reconnaissance but I can be support, distraction and misdirection as needed. I work very well at night or underground but I find the daylight to be disconcerting. On the flip side as can be seen I do not operate well as a face or anything that has to do with direct social interaction with folks that I have not already built up a quality rapport with. I have been working on my matrix skills but I am by no means a decker as of yet. So does that help facilitate a plan on how we might go about finding this needle Diwa. I mean Manila is a big place with lots of unclaimed abandoned places to hide out in, many of which I know about. Heck even Tondo has quite few places one could lay low in and that does not count the ones claimed by some group. Further we do not even know the identity of this individual nor do we even have a clear representation of them. All we seem to have is a bunch of maybes. They maybe a man, they maybe an elf, they may have long straight hair, they may have a dragon tattoo on their right arm, and they might have the ability to use fire magic. However that could all be part of a disguise which if I were to torch an entire district I would be wearing as much of a disguise on top of a disguise that I could get my hands on which could mean we have absolutely nothing to go on at all. So unless this individual is a total idiot, which they just might be since that individual," he thumbs a hand back towards Vincent, "thinks we can find them by this evening, still even if it is all true that is rather skimpy intel to go on. Oh can probably render near-to exact image of what we just saw later on if needed." Murri then rubs his chin and cocks his head to the side a bit as he posses a question to Diwa, "I don't suppose you have magic that can locate something or someone do you?"

Carter calls back, Come on Murri. Lets chat in the fresh air and I can watch over my hog that way too.

Carter didn't want to talk in front of him. Point of fresh are was just a way to bring the others outside.

Murri nodded to Carter understanding what it was he was wanting but then gestured gallantly towards Diwa saying, "After you m'lady."

Diwa wanders out, walking backwards to talk with the others and occasionally glancing over her shoulder to make sure she doesn't bump into someone who might be lurking outside the door. Her eyes nearly glaze over at Broke's Victorian Professor style of speech, but she (barely) manages to follow along. "That's a lotta words to say you do a bit of everything. No, I don't know any Divination magic. I can heal your wounds or cure diseases or get rid of your hangover, and I can explode someone from the inside. I'm useless with technology. Can barely work my commlink. Growin' up on the streets of Tondo will do that.

But as for a plan? Easy. We talk to people. Lotta people lost their homes in that fire. Plenty of those will be happy to spill the beans on the guy who started it. Your friend should probably leave his bike behind, though. Looks like rich asshole, and people don't like rich asshole around here."

Seems to Carter that he isn't just standing here. He says to Diwa. That is a Hog. Not something that as you say RICH ASSHOLE owns. Appears Carter is a bit offensive toward the Diwa's words about his bike.Looking to Murri, Where do you think we should start?

"Well I think our new lady friend here seems to have the best course of action and with us being rather new to this part of town I am good with letting her lead the way. Besides most folk in these parts when they first meet me think I am an Aswang and that does not carry good connotations with it and you my friend as she said speak to these people badly for a completely different set of reasons. I can set us up a matrix interaction hub nothing secure mind you but something we can use to stay in touch more easily. You might as she suggested earlier use your drones to scour the area and feed the information back to her, meanwhile I will just follow her and keep a non-descript safe distance so as not to detract from her ability to work the streets but be close enough should something go down." He then turns to Diwa and asks, "How does that sound to you?"

"Whether you think it screams 'rich asshole' isn't important. What's important is that around here, it grabs attention. People have been staring at you since you got here," Diwa responds to Carter, her voice not hostile, though rather blunt.

"Anyway, that plan sounds good to me. Like our mysterious, incredibly dangerous benefactor suggested, we should start at the source of the fire. I'm not gonna lie, I want to get to the bottom of this. The official story just doesn't hold water, and this place is my home. I want to know who hurt it."