Final Destination

They remember from driving up there are no gutters on the building. It would also be difficult to scale the wall, due to large areas of relatively smooth surface. It's also tall enough that dropping from the roof doesn't seem viable.

With most external doors boarded up, the main doors seem like the only point to just walk in or out. Second story windows are the highest you think it would be reasonably safe to drop from. The left side seems easiest... the right side has a barrier/doorway in the hall, about there was a lower roof you could potentially drop onto.

(You would have seen older photos of the Seattle Center. There was a row of carny games outside, and while the games have been gone for years no one changed the actual building... meaning the roof is still halfway between floors.)

There is the personnel door that leads downstairs, to the maintenence tunnels.

Both the tunnel door and the stairs to the second floor have a posted guard.

"What the hell are you doing?" the armband walking with Stan will look at him, clearly unimpressed. "You aren't even subtle... What are you up to?"

"Bullshit," the man snaps. "Quit fucking around. Don't make shit harder on either of us, yeah?"

Amaresh isn't entirely certain, but she vaguely remembers a conversation from her youth where the word "Kindred" was used -- a foreigner was asking about legends regarding Impundulu. It only stands out to her because many people laughed at the foreigner... but not her uncle. Which was odd, because he laughed at everything.

Unfortunately, no one outside of Yuri seems to be seen with William with any regularity. Even the night crew seems to exhibit a certain deference to the man.

If Stan mentions wanting a meeting to one of the armbands, their eyes get a bit wide and they quickly tell him that even though they're part of his organization, they don't speak to him unless he speaks to them first.

"It's bad form," the guard says. "The height of impropriety, considering our station."

Stan notices not too many people talk to William directly -- at least not out in public. He notices a few though. The man is... big. You get the impression he's never seen a 45 pound plate he didn't like. You've seen him around a bit, he's usually all smiles and laughs. Never spoken to him, of course, even though he does mingle on the floor a bit.

When you see him go up to William, you notice William actually smiles. You also notice the two men talk. That is, when people do speak to William they do so quickly, and then they're off. However, William and this other man spend a solid two hours in conversation. Even when Yuri comes up, she seems to greet the other man with a laugh and a smile. You've seen her, every night... although it took a while to realize it was the same woman each night. Every night, she looks different. Her hair, her piercings, her tattoos. The only two constants are 1. She dresses about as lasciviously as possible while still being dressed, and 2. She is never without her entourage of ridiculously pretty people. (You've even noticed her eyeballing Rain on multiple occasions.)

The entourage is left behind when she approaches William. After a few words, the very petite woman shifts into a much more aggressive posture: fists on her hips, feet shoulder width apart, chest forward and shoulders back, and even though she has to look up at the much taller man it still feels like she's looking down.

William seems unimpressed, but after a minute or two of her posturing he stops leaning on the rail and pulls himself up to his full height, adjusting the wrist of his dress shirt sleeve as he glares daggers through her. Eventually after some more talking, she visibly deflates. William doesn't back down though, instead stepping towards her. She actually shrinks away, a far cry from her prior bravado. She nods her head as William speaks, and when he finishes he goes back to leaning on the railing. Suddenly they both laugh, and she walks -- no, skips -- off, rejoining her entourage and heading back to the flood.

Unfortunately, the next few nights show no consistancy with who William talks to. Indeed, outside of Yuri it truly is rare to see him talk with anyone except in passing.