Chapter 1: Landing in Calgary

Carlo gets out of the air cab and stands beside the vehicle.

"I didn't know how important this was for him, I should have been listening better." He said, his ears low.

"If you want to go after him, I can let the others know, if you want to go inside I'll join ya, or if you want to be alone I'll take off and give you your space." He offered.

And so the two members split, Misha, takes her things and brings them into her home, once ready, they headed to the welcome home party where her entire family had come to gather and celebrate the return of their own. Filled with food, drinks, cheers and joy, the Tabaxi's make it a welcome home that you would not soon forget.

Many members of your family embrace you and shower you with love, as the party gets late into the night, there aren't as many as there was before, the children and their parents have taken off to their homes, leaving a much smaller group that is still sticking around to have drinks with their war hero.

Some of them are your father and mother, your three uncles and two aunts, two of your brothers and three sisters, as well as a few of your cousins that are drinking at a large table, laughing and talking with you.

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RU467, you walk down towards the streets of the city of Calgary, you had picked up the location of the office in one of the many digital maps that are being displayed on the street. As you travel, you feel something, it's very faint, and only for a moment, but what you feel in your mind is a sense of worry and fear, then, it's gone.

This is something that you have felt before, it's a beacon that is built into all Warforged, it was designed to be like an alarm system to other Warforged, at the bare minimum you are able to feel the emotions of the one that is sending out the signal. If your receptors were actively looking for a signal, you would also be able to hear from the sender and possibly even learn the location from where the signal was coming from. Over time, Warforged have learned to use this signaling system to be able to reach out to one another, just to notify that one of them is nearby and was looking to meet up with other Warforged.

The mechanism can be made to be used by humanoids, but it just takes time and resources to make one.

The signal was there, then was gone, faint and seemed from far away, but you did feel something. As you looked around, you now realize that you are in front of the building that you were looking for. The lights are on still inside, as it seems to operate 24 hours, at a desk that you can clearly see through a window is another one of your kind, smaller, slimmer, looking like it was built for a desk job, it's currently typing on a computer.

The robot reacts to your words and look up from the computer, but continues to type as he listens to you.

"Well howdy there partner! The names Goodreau," he stops typing, stands up and salutes you, "great to see another Warforged around these parts! Did I feel a beacon? No, unfortunately front desk workers like myself were designed without that little part, those resources were left for soldiers like yourself. First and foremost, I thank you for your service, and I am glad to have the pleasure to be here for your release into civilian life." He said as he put down his hand, then saluted again when Sir Bedivere did.

"Now that you are a civilian you will need to find work, do you have anything in mind? Have something set up?" Goodreau asked Sir Bedivere. While he is asking you, you gain that feeling again, but stronger this time, suddenly an image appears in your mind in the point of view of the one sending the distress signal, it looks as if they are in a Sea-can of some kind, punching and banging on the side. Clearly, whoever this is was attempting to get out of their prison.

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Misha, it seems that the party is starting to wind down, yawns can be seen and hear and they start to say their goodnights to you as they leave. Your cousins all laughing and bunched up head onto the street to start their walk down the road, when suddenly a car that is still riding on the road instead of in the air comes roaring through the street and strikes one of your cousins, and with only a moment of hesitation, the car starts to take off again. The family that is there cry out and rush over to their wounded family member.

"Misha!" You hear a voice, it's Carlo, as he comes up on the road with his own vehicle, "Get in!" He shouts!

"FUCK! I don't know, I didn't even get a good look at them! But it looks like they are heading somewhere important enough to hit Kila and not even slow down!" Carlo shouted back as he hit the gas on his own vehicle. The little engine roared as he attempts to catch up with the car.

The car you are chasing is booking it, heading somewhere as fast as they can. Around the tall buildings and flashing lights you see a large crane. Wherever they are headed, they seem to be heading towards the direction of that crane.

Carlo attempts to gain some distance on the car, but they swerve and move themselves in front of other vehicles, using them as a shield from any attack that would come from you.

From where you are, you can estimate that they are about 200 feet in front of you.

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Because you recognized that you were looking inside of a Sea-can when the signal last came, you go back into your mind, you bring up the map that you looked at and realize that there is a train station not far from where you currently are. You calculate that even if you just ran the distance, you would make it to that location in little time.

Before you left the building you could hear Goodreau begin to say.

"I don't have le-" but the door closes, if you looked back, you could see him place a hand to his ear, calling for police you assume.

As you move, you don't seem to notice anyone suspicious on the streets, there are a number of low cost vehicles, stuck on the ground driving in their respective lanes, people walk along the sidewalks.

Misha calls 911 as Carlo attempts to gain some distance on the vehicle, the line rings and is picked up by a female sounding voice.

"This is 9-1-1, what is your emergency?" Asked the person, Carlo is able to gain himself 50 feet. The enemy car makes a right turn down a block and then a left, continuing the path that towards the large crane, that is continually getting bigger and bigger as you drive closer to it.

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As you activate your Jump spell, you see that there are a number of options that you can now take, if you wish (will need an athletics or acrobatics check if you do please) you can cut into an alley and jump against a wall, then push off and jump to the other building and possibly get yourself on some higher ground. Or you could use that ability to take a big leap and further down the road to get yourself closer to the construction site.

You estimate from where you are to the map you looked that you are about 4 minutes out, if you use your 1 minute to jump forwards and only forwards, you will cut that time down to much less than that.

People can be seen pulling out their mobile devices and taking pictures at the spectacle of a Warforged running and jumping through the crowds of people and over vehicles that were going to get in his way.

Another signal comes into your mind as you see the being one again standing within a sea-can, but that now it can hear voices coming from the outside of it, and then, can hear that someone is touching the container.

You arrive at the one end of the site (Red SB block) and see a number of sea-cans on railroad tracks, to the east, you see that a train is getting loaded and prepped to leave the station. Walking along the carts are dwarves and humans, armed with weapons and their eyes peeled for anything strange.

Misha and Carlo chase the car, and see that it stops as it enters the same area, but from the opposite end and the car stops and they get out and begin to rush over to a group of people talking to each other. Both are human, young, in their early 20's, one of them holding a large bag.

"Hey boss, I think we got company coming our way!" Shouted one of the men, the group turns to the two.

"Shit, you got the money though right?" Said one of the people, who can't quite be seen in the dim lit area.

"Yeah, we got it." He said as the other member held up the bag.

"Good." He said as he snapped his fingers, the group turned to the two, lifted their weapons and let them have it, the two are turned into swiss cheese (17 & 16 are dead).

"Go get the bag, let's hurry it up, still need to make the deal." The person said.