>>36885579
>We can't be pushed around like this. We'll find the bomb and the bomber.
Believe in Sparky, trust in Sparky.

>>36885579
>We can't be pushed around like this. We'll find the bomb and the bomber.

>>36885579
>>We can't be pushed around like this. We'll find the bomb and the bomber.

Honestly, I'd think this would be taboo to do to another company, even as cut-throat as things have gotten. Otherwise every performance, period, would get multiple bomb threats, and no one would get anywhere.

>>36885579
>We can't be pushed around like this. We'll find the bomb and the bomber.
Sparky you can do this.

>>36885579
>>We can't be pushed around like this. We'll find the bomb and the bomber.

"Get cole to help tina sweep."

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>>36885579
>We can't be pushed around like this. We'll find the bomb and the bomber.

>>36885579
>We can't be pushed around like this. We'll find the bomb and the bomber.

>>36885579
Morgan mark all of the hiding places you can see from the rafters. Sparky mark on a map all the places you'd hide a bomb. Cross examine your maps.

>>36885579
>"...yes." Jenner concedes. "But might also be a ploy to sabotage the concert. Standard operating procedure is to cancel any event and evacuate the building in the event of a threat."

"that's the thing, though. We have one of their idols, so if they actually pull the trigger..... their company goes down for being idol-killers."

"I dare them to to press the button. Even if they don't, This is the kind of shit we can hang their company with. Maybe even get them kicked off the council for attempting. "

PLAN OF ACTION
a) Tap into the tacnet-sense feeds to get an idea of where everyone is and what they can see. Military high-stress coordination is kind of our THANG, dawg.
b) Cross-reference entrances security didn't cover, and ask the security forces - who almost certainly know its been called in - where the actual vulnerabilities in the structure are. They would konw better than we do and it will save time.
C) get tiny-tina's opinion. Crowd-damage, electronics-equipment destriction, vs going after a load-bearing wall, etc.
D) Morgan always has good recon/perception advice - and so does our girl with Stay Frosty actually. use that to our advantage. Rough hotspots of likely avenues mapped against threatening locations, then exectute search and disarm.
e) KZ-wolf's threat and sensor packages are great, put him on the prowl.
F) Cole needs to be on the field for this. Electro-sensing and bomb-detonator jamming is just too useful to pass up for this. Even if we find it she can defuse a dead man's switch/hostage situation just by making sure the signal to detonate never arrives.

GO GO GO TEAM.
""

>>36885579
>>We can't be pushed around like this. We'll find the bomb and the bomber.
>>Sparky's time to shine.

She is a bomber so have her snuff them out

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>>36885579
"We can't be pushed around like this." You grunt. "We'll find the bomb and the bomber."

"What's the plan?" Jenner asks.

"Morgan and Sparky will try to plot where the bomber and the bomb might be hiding." You say.

"That will take some time." Jenner grunts and looks to the captured sniper. "What do we do with her?"

"You think she might be connected with the bomber?" You ask.

"Not sure. He didn't make any specific demands."

>We'll have Rochelle and Cole continue to interrogate her.
>Leave her be for now. Have Rochelle and Cole help with the search.
>Other

>>36885924
>Other
Cole keeps the idol busy, Rochelle helps with the investigation.

>>36885924
>>Leave her be for now. Have Rochelle and Cole help with the search.

Cole needs to be on the search team.
Rochelle can either watch her or use police-tactics to help the search.

Either way, someone needs to watch the precog with a close eye if she's up.

>>36885924
>>Other
Cole and Rochelle try to find the bomb, Jenner interrogates the captive.

>>36885924

>Other

>Rochelle and Cole will help with the search I'll interrogate her.

We are Army special forces so we must know interrogation techniques.

She says we're kind but I think this might be the time to show the Producer before he became the Producer considering she is threatening our idols

>>36885924
>>36885993
>>36886011
This, either or. As much as i imagine P-san being hesitant to possibly torture a girl shit is urgent right now

>>36886011
Lets do this then. Seconding.

>>36886011
>She says we're kind but I think this might be the time to show the Producer before he became the Producer considering she is threatening our idols

Not even torture.
A lot of that shit's mental intimidation. You can't just give pain - get answers; because people will lie to make it stop instead of telling you what you want to know.

EIther way, though, she called us out as being too soft: which isn't true. The producer has some real steel in his teeth. Its just covered by wool and niceties that he actaully enjoys, but its always there when he needs it.

>>36886011
This.

Time to show what happens when you push producer.

>>36886115
Well either way we may use techniques that we may not be comfortable with on using on a teenage girl.

However the latter part I totally agree with though this is something I'm sure P-san doesn't want his idols to see.

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>>36885924
Okay, so just to make sure, you want to send Rochelle and Cole out and handle the interrogation yourselves?

>Y
>N

>>36886195
>Y

>>36886195
>Y

Time to get our hands dirty.

Remember the 3 Degrees.

>>36886195
>Y

>>36886195
>Y

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>>36886195
"Rochelle, Cole, help Morgan and Sparky with their search pattern." You say. "This is a big building, and we have a lot of ground to cover and not a lot of time to do it in. Your acts are coming up soon, after all."

"Got it!" Rochelle and Cole both nod and dash out.

Now that just left you with you and your prisoner...

>What sort of devious interrogation techniques do you have in mind?

>>36886352
Tickle her feet until she begs us to stop.

I don't have a foot fetish.

>>36886352
Water boarding. Non-lethal but effective.

>>36886352
Play mind games with her. Talk about some particularly vile methods we have for her, fill in a few details, but let her imagination run wild on the other details. Let her own thoughts fill her with dread until she caves in.

>>36886352
Smash up her dominant hand.

Lots of little bones, lots of screaming

>>36886352

As your picture indicates.

The dreaded headpats.

>>36886352

Start by breaking her nose.

An idol's face is important. If she doesn't comply, we move on to knives.

>>36886352
Regale her with some of your nastier war stories and draw a few parallels between her situation and them.

>>36886352
Anything we can use in this document.
http://lawofwar.org/interrogation_techniques.htm

>>36886361
>>36886399
>>36886414
>>36886425
oh come on, she already thinks we don't dare do anything physical. this isn't helping.

>>36886352
Water boarding is always fun. Makes you think like you're drowning with no physical harm.

>>36886405
>>36886423
Wow what.
Going too far there, guys.

>>36886352
Waterboarding is a tried and true method of interrogation and anyone who says otherwise is a pussy.

>>36886447
Well if she doesn't crack quickly bust out the batteries.

>>36886405
>>36886423
Isn't torture of a captured Idol, even a Combat Idol, frowned upon by the Tribunal?

>>36886490
only assassination

>>36886490
Well given the context of the entire situation, I guess so. Seeing as it was either cancelling the whole show or continuing on.

>>36886352
First off, offer her a safe word. For when she wants to start talking.

Then, begin with using a rope to immobilize her arms and suspend her from her legs from the nearest convenient fixture. Spin her around for a bit. Then begin the waterboarding.

If she keeps silent at that point, we'll see what we can do from there. Might actually have to cause some permanent damage, though that would be a shame.

Oh, and make sure Himawari disables all the cameras in the vicinity first. Wouldn't want this getting out.

>>36886480
We don't really have the time to be fucking around.

>>36886490
And wouldn't sending bomb threats to events be equally frowned upon? As >>36885638 nothing would ever get done, if this wasn't the case.

>>36886352
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkgntZqYDHU

>>36886478

but it takes time, several hours to be effective. time we do not have since we're on a bomb hunt.

>>36886352
Do our best Jack Bauer impression. Get up real close and shout "WHERE'S THE BOMB?" Rough them up if they don't answer.

>>36886352
>>36886425
This first as a warning, Physical stuff if she doesn't comply

>>36886352

turn her into a punching bag.

no questions.

just punching.

until she cries out the answers we want or she breaks.

Why is everyone so insistent on causing her physical injury? We're likely to run out of things to break if we do that.

>>36886566
Electricity then.

>>36886566
Because a) time b) she doesn't think we'll do it. Prove her wrong from the word go.

>>36886352
>http://lawofwar.org/interrogation_techniques.htm
Apply, Category I interrogation techniques

or

>>36886439
This

Nothing physical yet

>>36886566
I just don't want to leave marks on her body to prove that we tortured her.

>>36886587

Fuck nothing physical, that just reinforces her image of us not daring to do anything.

>>36886598

Our doc can help with that.

>>36886352
>>36886425
This, please

If she doesn't comply then physical stuff or apply whatever the army uses

>>36886352
Why not just go with as much of a guilt trip as possible? Make her feel bad enough to tell us?

>>36886352
Okay, so things seem to be boiling down to:

>Verbal intimidation
>Waterboarding

>>36886624
That is why I'm referencing the document, it has nothing physical for category I

>>36886352
>>What sort of devious interrogation techniques do you have in mind?

>"I'm not telling you anything." The girl finally says, her voice barely a whisper, though you're not sure if she's naturally quiet or if it's the effects of Cole's shock treatment. "You're not going to do anything to me. You're too soft for that."
>Huh, well, she might actually given you quite a lot. Those words implied that she, or at least whoever she works for, at least knows who you are and how you operate, roughly. However, before you can ask any more questions, you get a call from Jenner.

"Now, miss. A line like that, it makes me wonder why you'd say something like that. I have plenty of steel, you just want to see it. So let's cut the bullshit."

"You help me make sure everyone walks away in one piece, and I'll return the favor." (nasty smile, implied connotations) "I just want to us to all get along, you know?"

Call jenner in. Have her be the bad cop. They've worked together/have simliar experience, and iirc she had law-experience. DEA was it?

>>36886642
>>Verbal intimidation
Time for the 2nd degree. Telling her what we'll do to her. 3rd degree is actually doing it.

>>36886642
>>Verbal intimidation

>>36886624
Effective torture doesn't have to be physical, you know. And I doubt we can make broken bones just vanish, even if our doctor is willing to cover up for us.

>>36886642
>Verbal intimidation
We may not be able to sing or dance, but we can terrify easily enough.

>>36886642
>Waterboarding

>>36886642
>>Verbal intimidation
I like our 'nice guy' shtick we got goin for us.

>>36886642

>>Other

Electrocution.

Faster that way.

>>36886642
Just break her damn wrist to prove the point that physical stuff isn't off the table and go from there. Verbal threats into doing said threats.

>>36886642
>Verbal Intimidation

>>36886642
>Verbal intimidation
If she doesn't comply then hurt her

>>36886642
>>Waterboarding

>>36886642
>>Waterboarding

>>36886642
How about we do both at once? Waterboard her for progressively longer periods, and give her breaks in between to spill if she wants where we talk about what more we've done to others and what we've had done to us in the past?

>>36886642
>Verbal intimidation
THEN
>Waterboarding

>>36886642
>>Waterboarding

>>36886642

Hey, i'm late to the party. >>36886646
Don't discount me! i just hit enter early because things seemed to be coming to a head.

Mental Intimidation. Good-cop-bad-cop with Jenner. Don't actually give her what she wants - she's sussing out as much about us as we can - but instead treat her like a trained enemy agent.

Which is why we need the P-san and Jenner working on this case.

A mind-comm link to our Psychology will help us judge her reactions and help break her will. She was in this biz for a LONG time, and her talents can be used to press on stressful thoughts just as well as it can be to smooth them over.

Also phone in a call to the Big Boss, and ask him if she knows who she works for. Elements like that - that we know exactly who she is when she's still trying to figger us out - go a long way to making them feel like they odn't have a lifeline.

In short: Verbal Intimitdation/Mind games. But leveraging all our staff's powers to contribute with smoke and mirrors and the brain-radios we have on hand to make it look like we're frakking working magic.

>>36886642
>>Waterboarding

>>36886642
>>Waterboarding

>>36886642
>Waterboarding

>>36886642

fuck waterboarding. This is something we don't want to get back to us, because then it makes it so its legal to do against clover

ITS A TRAP

stop thinking with your boners

>>36886763
Hey somebody gets it!

>>36886642
>>Verbal intimidation
>apply common interrogation tactics

>>36886642
>Verbal intimidation

>>36886642
>Waterboarding

>>36886642
>Waterboarding

>>36886642
>Waterboarding

>>36886642
>>36886763
>>36886733

hell, you guys are missing the biggest threat we have of them all.

"OH, yeah, sure. We're just going to leave you under this load-bearing wall with the bomb threat."
"Do you really think your friends with the trigger will care if its your life on the line? How much do they really care about you?"
"You see, its really easy to save your own life. All you hve to do is stop it, and I can make that happen."

"I know you can see the future, but I'm betting your'e too scared to do it very accurately with your heart racing."

"So really, this isn't my decision. This is on you. And if you let this happen, everything you enjoy about your company is going to get buried just as hard as this stadium when the retaliation hits."

*have tiny tina rig scary-demo-charges to ratter her will like they're going off outside in a first-wave*


Alternatively: Inject her with harbinger-nanites, rig the enemy agent, pick up her radio, and call the show off.

Fuck waterboarding.

Play intelligently.

Pretty sure with all the triple votes for waterboarding we got a samefagging going on hard.

>>36886852

Yeah, its pretty blatantly obvious, and I hope merc does the smart thing and actually reasonably escalated instead of going straight to war-crimes, in what i would call a break-of-character for the producer.

Clearly, everyone else needs to start samefagging for the better option in response, tho.

>>36886852
yes and?

where do you think we are.

>>36886763
Fair point, but there's nothing we can do here that can make her talk that we're fine with being done to our idols.

>"Hey. Have you ever wondered how much pressure it takes to rupture an eyeball? I mean, I'm sure you've rubbed your eyes on occasion, right? And you might've gotten an itch /right there/ on your eyelid, where my thumb is right now. But have you ever wondered just. How. Hard... I can press before it starts to deform permanently, before it... breaks...?
>"I'd think it's starting to really hurt right around now, isn't it?"

>>36886904
A merc command quest where it plays to think things through?

>>36886897
As if they'd stop and let us win.

>>36886642
>Verbal intimidation
Ask her if she thinks her employers would still bring the stadium down with her in it.
Move her towards a load-bearing wall.

>>36886904

Look man, i know TPB just died but there's no reason you need to try and force an author to write your loli-torture porn, man.

This is 4chan but seriously, take that shit to reddit. S'what it was made for.

>>36886642
Verbal Intimidation

>>36886642
In view of recent arguments, I'll change >>36886714 to pure
>Verbal Intimidation
though I'm not sure how well it will work.

>>36886642
>Verbal intimidation

Though let it be noted this vote should really be between

verbal intim
Jack bauer mind games
waterboarding

soooooo....

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>>36886937
imply im the samefager.

im just pointing out where exactly we are and how this isnt new.

>>36886642
>Verbal intimidation

>>36886642
>>Verbal intimidation
Waterboarding is just entirely out of character for Producer-san. We've been able to talk our way through all our other verbal battles so why should we change that?

>>36886642
"Well now, Miss Whatever Your Name Is..." You pull up a chair and sit right in front of her. "It seems like you and I have a lot to talk about."

The girl stays silent, and just glares at you.

"A name would be nice. It would make talking to each other so much easier." You say with a cold smile.

"Artemia." She mumbles.

"Artemia." You nod. "Do you understand the situation you're in?"

Artemia just sits there silently.

Well, it was time to get to work.

>roll 1d20

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>36887026

Tell us what you know.

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>36887026

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Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>36886937
>>36886964
and wtf is TPB anyways?

>>36887026

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>36887026

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>36887026
roll

>>36887031
>>36887032
>>36887035
Looks like we'll need a star power to pull this off...
>>36887037
Because THIS GUY was too slow.

>>36887037
of course....

>>36887031
>>36887032
>>36887035
I guess a 13 isn't TOO-

>>36887037
FUCK

>>36887037
And here we see a twenty in its natural habitat. Outside of the first three. Go me.

>>36887059
Rather not use it. We only have 1 STAR POWER left.

>>36887026
"You know," You say, casually pulling out your old combat knife and letting it rest in your palm. "You're in a pretty bad situation. You know what it's like to be captured by the enemy?"

Artemia, of course, still says silent, wondering what you were up to.

"You may not know it, or maybe you do, but I've done my stint in the Army." You say as you start using your knife to clean the underside of your artificial fingernails. You didn't really need to do it, but it was a little habit that you honed to perfection to pass the time while sitting in a foxhole. "And you know, you can see some serious shit happen if you stay long enough..."

You see Artemia's eye twitch. You could tell her mind was making up possible scenarios, which was what you wanted. Uncertainly created fear, and scared people were more likely to talk.

>Tell her about what happened to that one rebel girl you captured in Kurdistan.
>Tell her about that time you got captured in Vietnam.
>Other

>>36887213
>Tell her about what happened to that one rebel girl you captured in Kurdistan.

>>36887213
>>Tell her about what happened to that one rebel girl you captured in Kurdistan.
A bit more relevant to her situation.

>>36887213
>>Tell her about what happened to that one rebel girl you captured in Kurdistan.

>>36887213
>Tell her about what happened to that one rebel girl you captured in Kurdistan.

>>36887213
>>Tell her about what happened to that one rebel girl you captured in Kurdistan.
i want to know more about the pain producer caused

>>36887213
>Tell her about that time you got captured in Vietnam.

>>36887213
>Tell her about what happened to that one rebel girl you captured in Kurdistan.
Funny thing is it was considered "nice"

>>36887213
>Tell her about what happened to that one rebel girl you captured in Kurdistan.

>>36887213
>Tell her about that time you got captured in Vietnam.
Tell her about the feeling first-hand.

>>36887213
>>Tell her about that time you got captured in Vietnam.

She'll hopefully feel some sympathy or be impressed.

>>36887213
>Tell her about what happened to that one rebel girl you captured in Kurdistan.
Do you know why I'm so nice to my girls?
It's because I know just how unpleasant it can get for one of them. I should know; I was the one doing the unpleasantness.

>>36887213
>>Tell her about that time you got captured in Vietnam.

>>36887213
>Tell her about what happened to that one rebel girl you captured in Kurdistan.
>Funny how the world works? You say I'm too nice to do what is necessary yet I've done it more than once before.

>>36887213
>Tell her about what happened to that one rebel girl you captured in Kurdistan.

>>36887213
>Tell her about what happened to that one rebel girl you captured in Kurdistan.

>>36887213
"Have you ever heard about the war in Kurdistan?" You say as you casually continue to clean out your fingernails.

"No." Artemia says.

"Christ, what do they teach you school these days?" You say with mock indignation. "Well, either way, it was a war, just like any other. One set of people killing the other. I happened to be on one side. It was years ago, in the middle of some bumfuck desert. We got intel that some guys were infiltrating kids into a bunch of local schools to stage attacks. Managed to ID one of the kids and grabbed her."

"What did you do?" Artemia asked, now caught up in the story.

"Well," You say with a grim look on your face, "we knew she could ID the other kids. Our unit wasn't a traditional one, so we had quite a bit of 'leeway' to operate. Well, that practically meant we could do anything..."

"A-anything?" Artemia stumbled.

>Tell her every single gory detail.
>Keep it broad. Let her mind fill in the blanks.
>Other

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>36887600
>>Tell her every single gory detail.

>>36887600
>Tell her every single gory detail.
Fair to assume the truth is worse than what her teenage mind can imagine.

>>36887600
>Tell her every single gory detail.

>>36887600
>Tell her every single gory detail.
>>36887614
.............

>>36887600
>>Keep it broad. Let her mind fill in the blanks.

>>36887600
>Keep it broad. Let her mind fill in the blanks
Imagination is a hell of a drug

>>36887600
>Keep it broad. Let her mind fill in the blanks.
As said, uncertainty is the mind-killer.
She'll create all sorts of scenarios that'll freak her out badly enough to get her to talk.

>>36887600
>Keep it broad. Let her mind fill in the blanks.

>>36887600
>>Tell her every single gory detail.

We pulled out her fingernails.

>>36887600
>>Tell her every single gory detail.

>>36887600
>Tell her every single gory detail.

>>36887600
>>Keep it broad. Let her mind fill in the blanks.
She seems to already be filling em in. Might as well let her.

>>36887600
>Other
Tell her MOST of the gory details.

>>36887600
>>Keep it broad. Let her mind fill in the blanks.

The human mind can be its own worst enemy.

>>36887600

>tell her all the gory details.

"She was a tough cookie, that one. I had to marry her and then made her feel the pleasures of a woman. All. Night. Long. Every known position in the Kama Sutra, even. Kept everyone awake by how loud we were."

>>36887753
You take that back. Producer saved himself for Jenner.

>>36887600
>Keep it broad. Let her mind fill in the blanks.

She's already doing a better job of this than we are. Let's see what she comes up with.

>>36887798
I doubt Jenner did the same.

>>36887600
>>Tell her every single gory detail.

>>36887600
>Keep it broad. Let her mind fill in the blanks.

>>36887600
And you tell her every single gory detail. Your unit wasn't actually equipped for interrogation, and you were on a time limit. So, the conventional tactics wouldn't work, and you had to improvise with whatever you had on hand. Furniture, utensils, electronics, jumper cables, a power tool or two, whatever worked.

You lose track of the time yourself. Maybe it was five minutes, or an hour. But you methodically list off every single technique you used, and the exact damage to the body you inflicted to her. You did practically everything imaginable.

Well, except rape. You weren't monsters, after all.

>roll 1d20

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>36887893

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>36887893

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>36887893

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>>36887905
>>36887902
As expected.

>>36887898
>>36887902
>>36887905

So...the two cancel, and that leaves us probably needing to use our Star Power?

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>36887893
>She stares at you dispassionately. "Is that all?"

>>36887902

star power!

cancel this!

>>36887915
Not sure if we want to use it. We only have 1 left.

>>36887919
Of course!

A second 20 right after our cancelled 20.

>>36887927

a 9 is not going to cut it.

if we can star power out the 1, thats for the best.

>>36887927
This is probably big enough to use it on, and Id like to put the fear of the Producer into someone.

>>36887927
Or we can do the completely stupid and inane, and use SP on the 1 and demote the 20 to a regular success to get a SP back.

>>36887991
That wasn't the plan?

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>>36887893
WELL. You can leave things as they are and allow the 1 and 20 to cancel each other out, but then you'd have to deal with a lowly 6!

OR, you can use STAR POWER to keep that 20, but you have 1 point left!

Do you use STAR POWER?

And no, you can't trade the second 20 for more STAR POWER.

>Y
>N

>>36888009
You dont want to see what this nat20 looks like?

>>36888032
Y

>>36888032
>Y

>>36888032
>>Y
Sure. Let's go.

>>36888032
Y

>>36888032
>Y

>>36888032
>Y

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>>36888032
I miss Loki.

>>36888032
>>Y
Let's find that bomb.

>Y

>>36888066
He was good fun.

>>36888066
I know
It was nice having someone to(justifiably) blame.

>>36888032
>Y

>>36887893
Does anyone picture P-san listing off every single thing he did to that girl by counting with his fingers with a glazed look in his eye.

>>36888032
>STAR POWER USED

Artemia now looked on the verge of wetting herself as you continue to casually clean your nails.

"Now, it'd be a damn shame for me to start using this knife. Blood's really hard to clean, after all." You say simply.

"Okay, okay, I'll talk!" Artemia squeals.

"Good." You lean forward. "Who are you working for?"

"I-I'm from Rose Entertainment." Artemia mumbles, choking back tears.

You figured as much.

"And the bomber? He's working for you too?"

"Y-yes." Artemia nods quickly. "Freelancer guy. C-calls himself Fat Man. Real creepy fuck."

You make sure to note that.

"Okay, then where's the bomb?" You ask the real important question.

"I-I-I don't know!" Artemia wails. "He didn't tell us!"

You try to gauge her truthfulness. It seemed her words were genuine, as she was now literally scared for your life. Actually, you were a bit more afraid she'd give you false intel just to get you to stop.

>Call it off here. You've gotten what you need to know.
>She must know more. Keep pressing.
>Other

>>36888400
>>Call it off here. You've gotten what you need to know.
well shit this just turned into a sneaking mission

>>36888400
>>Call it off here. You've gotten what you need to know.
>Headpat her and smile.

I feel good about this.

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>>36888400
>Fat Man

Fuck.

>Call it off here. You've gotten what you need to know.

Give her a headpat.

>>36888400
>>Call it off here. You've gotten what you need to know.

I hope we have that Spray.

>>36888400
>>Other
What does he look like?

If she cooperates and nothing really bad happens I'd like it if we reverted back to nice Producer-san and treat her like our previous hostages.

It pays to be a gentleman.

>>36888400
>>She must know more. Keep pressing.

"You got his number? You must have comms open for an op like this."

>>36888400
>Call it off here. You've gotten what you need to know

>>36888400
>Call it off here. You've gotten what you need to know.
Quick, before he blows up the woild, and gets action figures n stuff!

>>36888400
>>Call it off here. You've gotten what you need to know.
I hated fighting Fatman because it was such a pain to freeze all those bombs in the middle of the fight.

>>36888400
>Call it off here. You've gotten what you need to know.

>>36888400
>>Call it off here. You've gotten what you need to know.
>Give her a headpat and smile.

>>36888450
Sure, but I don't think she'll be the same after what we just told her.

>>36888400
>Call it off here. You've gotten what you need to know.

>>36888400
Ask what he looks like , then
>Call it off

So...What do we do with DeRosa after all of this? Do we mete out Justice, or show Mercy?

>>36888565
We have one of his idols hostage. If he can manage to pay for her ransom, we have one less to deal with since we probably scarred her for life.

Might have nightmares of P-san, we should probably ask Lilith later on her condition.

>>36888565
Tough to say really. Depends on what happens and how he treats his idols.

>>36888400
"All right, what does he look like." You ask.

"He's bald and, well.... fat." Artemia sighs. "That's all I know! Honest!"

"I believe you." You say, patting her on the head, which causes her to squeak in fear. "You sit tight. We'll figure out what to do once this is all over."

"Um, one more thing!" Artemia shouts. "Did... did you really do all those things?"

>Lie and say you did.
>Lie and say you didn't.
>Tell the truth and say you did.
>Tell the truth and say you didn't.

>>36888741
>Tell the truth and say you did.

>>36888741
>>Lie and say you didn't.

>>36888741
>>Tell the truth and say you did.

>>36888741
>>Tell the truth and say you didn't.

>>36888741
>>Tell the truth and say you did.
Let's add some depth to P-san.

>>36888741
>Tell the truth and say YOU didn't.
We weren't the interrogator, but we were there.

>>36888741
>>Tell the truth and say you did.

>>36888770
Forgot to add on:
"This is why I try to treat my girls as nicely as possible."

>>36888741
>other
Don't say anything. Let her stew it over.

>>36888741
>Tell the truth and say you did.

"That's why I try to make up for it now."

>>36888741
Tell the truth and say you did.
There's a good reason i'm nice to my girls.

>>36888741
>Tell the truth and say you did.

>>36888741
>>Tell the truth and say you did.
"Mostly"

>>36888741
>Lie and say you didn't.
>Tell the truth and say you didn't.

I don't really care if we're honest or not, but I'd rather we not scar her any more than we already have.

>>36888741
>Tell the truth and say you did.
He's been in wars, you know.

>>36888741

>Other

"I did what I had to do."

>>36888763
Add >>36888795
>>36888809
>>36888813
I kind of like these. P-san had to do it didn't mean he enjoyed it.

>>36888741

Other: do our best evil genius laugh impression. Leave her wondering. "Wouldn't you like to know?"

Attempt to act all suave by flipping our knife about, and holstering it all smooth like.
Fumble it a bit and 'cut' ourself(mechanical arms), doing the whole aw-fuck that smarts routine and putting the finger in our lips so she doesn't notice the blood.

Like, don't actually spell it out, but questions the fact that we spilled this totally badass story and fumbled the ending leaving her to wonder if we really have Got It at all or not.

also seriously fuck giving the enemy incriminating evidence.

>>36888859

You know, in Meet the Spy where the scout is fucking around with the butterfly knife and can't handle it and nicks himself?

Do that.

Don't actually answer her question.

>>36888741
>Stare at her a bit, then walk away

This is one of those things that should be left ambiguous.

>>36888859
>incriminating evidence

We're in a cyberpunk setting. Worse probably happens to combat idols.

>>36888741
keep it ambiguous

>>36888741
>>36888878
>This is one of those things that should be left ambiguous.

Truth. Agreed wholeheartedly.

"Every good story has embellishments, and great stories grow with the retelling. "
Blow on our finger nails as if inspecting them.

"I'll leave you with this to think about. What's scarier? A man who could do all that with a straight face, or a man who could joke about if afterwards?"

>Tell her the truth and say you did

>>36888911
No. I don't like the idea of Producer being a some cool tryhard.

I'd rather he be slightly glad he doesn't have to do anything like that anymore.

>>36888741
>Other
"We didn't actually use a circular saw to cut off the fingers of her right hand. We only had the drill and the power sander."

>>36888886

hahaha yeah.

I don't like the idea of p-san's suddenly about-facing into a total monster like this thread has him tempted by.

First waterboarding, then going against established buddy-buddyness with old army players like the captain.

In the end, it doesn't matter what we did, but how other people regard is - i don't see any value in defining it.

Either the p-san is an actually horrible person, or a person just close enough to the edge he can fake being close enough to be convincing through having Seen Some Shit.

I like.... overall, the idea that P-san is a decent person that tries to do good things, and doesn't look fondly back on war-days because they test the mettle of a man when it comes to following orders you don't wanna.

And like this simple prompt, the truth should always be more complex than a yes-no question.

maye it wasn't the p-san who did these things, but a buddy he covered for or turned in. maybe it was the captain instead.

Etc.

I just don't see the value in spelling this answer out right now - and..... frankly, it cheapens what would also be a good storytime with the captain and jenner and the idols going 'tell us war stories!' and jenner goign 'so... captain, what's this man im' interested REALLY like under the suit?'

so yeah. Ambiguity best

So guys, What do you guys think Derosa managed to pay this guy?

I mean we blew all of his assets up or stole them.

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>>36888976
>thinks waterboarding is bad

>>36888741
Agree with
>>36888911

>>36888979
IF he was that desperate.....He sold one of his girls.

>>36888741
>>Tell the truth

"I didn't. But I walked in on someone who was. And then I got to debrief him because nobody else wanted to interrogate the creep. "

>>36889002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUk8PCXa4E

>>36888979
It's Fat Man, the prospect of blowing a big stadium up is payment enough for him.

>>36888976
How is this a going against the buddy-buddy shit with our friends.

They understand what they did and what they had to do.

>>36888741
>Tell the truth and say you didn't.
"Doesn't mean I didn't see it done."

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>>36889019
>thinks waterboarding is bad

I never said it wasn't torture. It's just morally ethical torture.

It doesn't hurt the individual. It just makes them think they are hurt.

>>36888741
You just give a dry, humorless laugh.

"You think I'm soft because I treat all of my girls nicely? Well, bad things can happen to them at any time, which is why I go out of my way to look out for them."

You then get up from your seat and head for the door, but pause for a second.

"I'll leave you with this to think about. What's scarier? A man who could do all that with a straight face, or a man who could joke about if afterwards?"

You then leave Artemia to stew as you close the door. As you do so you think you can hear her loudly sobbing.

"Jeez, Producer, that was harsh." Jenner frowns. "I think you've traumatized that girl for life."

"One of the dangers of the job." You shrug.

"So... did you really do it?" Jenner asks.

"Do you really want to know?" You say.

"On second thought... no." Jenner shakes her head.

You couldn't blame her for that.

"Okay girls, I hope you have good news." You say through your comms.

>roll 1d20

>>36888979
Fat Man would do it for shits and giggles.

I hope this doesn't go as badly as last time we had a 'special guest enemy'.

(H.U.N.K for those that weren't around for it. Things got...really dicey.)

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>36889044

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>36889044

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>36889044

>>36889049
>>36889059
>>36889063
Looks like we found something.

>>36889047
We managed to pull through though.

I almost feel bad for Artemia, Almost...

Also it seems this thread is Sparky's time to shine.

Think our girls heard it?

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>>36888911
>What's scarier? A man who could do all that with a straight face, or a man who could joke about if afterwards?"
>>36889044

MFW when merc copy-pastes my own typo.

hahahahahahhahahahahahaaaaaaa

I wonder how many try hard /k/ommandos got into this thread.

>>36889044
"Well, the bad news is that we haven't been able to find anybody suspicious, other than a few rabid stalkers." Rochelle sighs. "But Sparky and Cole have managed to narrow down the locations of possible bombs."

"Really?" You ask.

"Yeah." Cole speaks up. "Sparky told me that all bombs emit a slight EM frequency. I've been searching for it, but I haven't found anything out of the ordinary."

"That means he's hiding it somewhere that's got lots of machinery to hide its signature." Sparky says. "Best bet will either be the generator room, the lighting deck, or the pyrotechnics rack."

"Sparky, do you happen to know anybody by the name of 'Fat Man'?" You ask.

"Where did you get that name?" Sparky's voice suddenly goes cold.

"Our prisoner said that they hired him to plant a bomb." You explain.

"Oh no. Oh nonononnononononono." Sparky groans. "Not A bomb. We'll be looking for BOMBS."

Uh oh, sounded like the two had a past...

>Tell me what you need.
>Do you know this guy?
>Other

>>36889165
>>Tell me what you need.

>>36889165
>>Do you know this guy?

>>36889165
>Tell me what you need.
Exposit later, planning time.

>>36889165
>>Tell me what you need.
>>Do you know this guy?

>>36889165
>Tell me what you need.

>>36889165
>>Tell me what you need.

She knows him, we need to act on that. Explanations after action starts.

>>36889165
>Tell me what you need.

Explanations can wait until the crisis is over.

>>36889165

>Tell me what you need.
>Other
Anything we can do to help?

>>36889165
>>Tell me what you need.

>>36889165
>>Tell me what you need.
Let's get down to business.

>>36889165
>Tell me what you need.

>>36889165
>Tell me what you need.
We'll get the history later.

>>36889165
>Tell me what you need.

>>36889165
>Tell me what you need.
You can tell me about him later.

>>36889165
>>Tell me what you need.
>>Do you know this guy?

We rarely talk to Sparky

>>36889165
>Tell me what you need.
>Other
This is getting pretty serious. Can we order a private bomb removal squad from Hyperion or our other sponsors?

Also, email Rosa. Tell him that we have direct evidence that he ordered the bombing, and we'll expose him unless he calls it off and any other attacks.

>>36889244
>Also, email Rosa. Tell him that we have direct evidence that he ordered the bombing, and we'll expose him unless he calls it off and any other attacks.

I was JUST goign to suggest this and lo and behold, sanity.

"JENNER! get derosa on the line!"

>>36889165
Tina and Fatman, huh...

... will we be seeing other crass references, like eon in this game? its like, the most classic cyberpunk stories out there.

>>36889275
I thought fatman is a reference to MGS2.

>>36889165
>Tell me what you need.
Less talk more rock

>>36889244
>>36889275
Also as a note, record the conversation encase he refuses. Then he'll be REALLY done for.

>>36889293
likely what he's referencing from the sounds of things.

>>36889165
"Tell me what you need." You say simply.

"Okay, okay. We're uh, gonna need pheromone sniffers. "Sparky says. Fat Man's a real creep, and like any bomber, he can't resist leaving a signature mark on his stuff. For him, it's women's perfume."

"K-Zwolf, can you track scents?" You ask.

"AFFIRMATIVE." K-Zwolf buzzes.

"Good. Everybody rally backstage." You say.

"Should we get Melissa and Julie, too?" Jenner asks.

>Yes. We need all the help we can get.
>No. Keep them stage to keep an eye on Rin and Niko.
>Other

>>36889325
>No. Keep them stage to keep an eye on Rin and Niko.

Bombs might be a diversion.

>>36889325
>>No. Keep them stage to keep an eye on Rin and Niko.

>>36889325
>>No. Keep them stage to keep an eye on Rin and Niko.
We can't risk it being a distraction.

>>36889325
>>No. Keep them stage to keep an eye on Rin and Niko.

>>36889325
>>No. Keep them stage to keep an eye on Rin and Niko.
Our stars need to be seen but they will need protection as well. We will be spreading ourselves thin but I see no better way

>>36889325
>Yes. We need all the help we can get.
Its Fatman, the bombs are distractions for the other bombs.

>>36889325
>>No. Keep them stage to keep an eye on Rin and Niko.

We can't lose focus on the stage right now.

>>36889325
>No. Keep them stage to keep an eye on Rin and Niko.
>Other
Is any of our security trained in bomb search and disposal? Is is possible to get private bomb disposal immediately?

Also, get DeRosa on the line.

>>36889325
>No. Keep them stage to keep an eye on Rin and Niko.

Need to keep eyes on our performing girls. Not sure Melissa and Julie would be of a ton of use here anyway- last I checked, Fat Man was a quick tub of blubber anyway. He's not gonna just sit and let folks pound at him.

>>36889325
>No. Keep them stage to keep an eye on Rin and Niko.

Hmm...Do you think Sparky has her own signature?

Yellow smiley face?

>>36889325
>No. Keep them stage to keep an eye on Rin and Niko.
No need to make sure Derosa doesn't try a decapitation strike.

>>36889397
Nah, that's long since been taken.

I have to admit, this is making me nervous as all hell, simply because meta-wise, Fat Man is a known quantity, so I'm scared not of what he COULD do, but what he WILL do. Same thing way back when we went rounds with H.U.N.K.

>>36889445
A shit ton of bombs, one of them is really good, and the last one on him?

>>36889325
>No. Keep them stage to keep an eye on Rin and Niko.

>yfw the bomb threat is just a distraction to distract us from their distraction for their distraction

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>>36889397
pic related

>>36889293
>>36889321

Damn. And here i thought the shadowrun adventures of krass, eon, ronillion and the others were something i wasn't alone in experiencing.

>>36889476
Actually? Yes.

Also what anon said here >>36889370

He might be pulling a Big Shell gambit, and I DON'T LIKE THAT THOUGHT.

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>>36889325
"No, keep them on stage. Those bombs might be a distraction to draw our attention."

"All right." Jenner nods.

"And get Derosa on the line." You say. "I want to speak. With him."

"On it." Jenner nods.

Meanwhile, you head backstage, where Rochelle, Cole, Sparky, and K-Zwolf are assembled.

"All right, so where should we be looking?" You say.

"I say the lighting deck or the pyrotechnics rack." Rochelle says. "Morgan has line of sight on both areas and can provide sniper support."

"Except the bomber probably figured those areas would be exposed and put it in the generator room. Much more cover down there." Cole says.

"Sparky?" You ask.

"I... I don't know." Sparky frowns. "Fat Man is extremely theatrical. He'd want to put the bomb somewhere where everybody can see it, and the generator room doesn't fit that description. Then again, I don't see how he'd be able to get to the pyro rack or the light deck without being seen..."

>Check the pyrotechnic rack.
>Check the lighting deck.
>Check the generator room.
>Split up to search all three areas.
>Other

>>36889557
>Check the lighting deck.

>>36889557
>>Check the pyrotechnic rack.
>>Check the lighting deck.

>>36889557
>Check the pyrotechnic rack.
Nothing says "theatrical" more than the stage exploding during the climax.

>>36889557
>Split up to search all three areas.

I'm getting paranoid here, but 'He'd want to put the bomb somewhere where everybody can see it' is making me think...

Is there anywhere he can hide it in plain sight?

>>36889557
>>Split up to search all three areas.
We have enough girls to do it.

>>36889557

CHECK ALL THE PLACES

>>36889534
The important thing is that if we ever feel that this situation is going to get out of hand we protect our idols. We have testimony that Derosa played some dirry tricks and as annoying as that may be to our schedule, a dead idol would destroy us as a family.

>>36889599
Semtex in the idol outfits, air dropped bombs, etc.

>>36889557
>Split up to search all three areas.
>Other
Get all remaining private security we have left, and have them support the search

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>>36889628
Those would be some small bombs though, Fat Man is in it for the big booms.

>>36889599

IT'S UNDER THE STAGE

>>36889599
SHIT, THE FUCKING STAGE!

>>36889557
>Check the pyrotechnic rack.
He could have gotten to the rack by impersonating the guy who loads the pyrotechnics

>>36889557
>>Other

"This is almost certainly on the pyrotechnic rack.

But... he also had help. a diversion. There's going to be one on each. we need to cover all bases. It sucks, but if even one gets through..."

>>36889599
>Is there anywhere he can hide it in plain sight?

JUMBOTRON!

>>36889655
>>36889658
Time to take the show to the skies via VTOL?

>>36889687
There has to be like an anti-grav stage we could use.

I always hated hide and seek...

>>36889658
>>36889655
I CAN'T TELL IF WE'RE BEING TOO PARANOID OR JUST PARANOID ENOUGH.

>>36889557
>>36889655
>>36889658
It makes perfect sense. Everyone is looking on the stage, therefore it blows up.

>>36889744
Okay, evacing the audience would take too much time and cause too much chaos. Our only real options are to: 1. Defuse the bombs 2. Find a way to move the bombs

>>36889734
Remember in msg2 he placed a bunch of dummy bombs in the wrong places, but the really good one under the main support.

Same trick here

>>36889767
We could do the crazy thing and play it off as part of the show.

I'm thinking launch it into the air, set it off as a huge firework. It's probably already set to go off at whatever climax there is.

>>36889774
Part of me hates that we're using meta knowledge to try and figure this creep out.

But it's Fat Man.

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>>36889557
"Okay, we'll split up. I'll have stadium security help you search, too." You say. "K-Zwolf and Rochelle take the generator room. Cole take the lighting deck, and Sparky takes the pyrotechnic rack." You say.

"Got it." Your three idols say.

"And Morgan, you see anybody suspicious or matching the description, call it out. Don't be afraid to take the shot if you can."

"Da." Morgan responds.

"Producer, I got Derosa on the line." Jenner says.

>What do you say to him?

>>36889821
Call off Fatman or your idol sings how you bombed a concert.

>>36889821
Smile at them.

"Seems picture taking is on hold for the time being."

>>36889821
Really you think bombing this place is going to help your case at all? Don't bullshit me I know it's you and your and you hired Fatman. Stop this now otherwise you're going to be in a world of hurt. A lot of companies would go after you on principal and unlike me you don't have any real friends after the various bits of asshattery you've pulled.

>>36889821
Call off Fatman or I'll drag you down into the deepest pits of Hell myself!

>>36889821
Also, record the damn conversation

>>36889852
ooh this is great. Let's do this.

>>36889821
You're a bitch, you're momma's a bitch, and your daddy's a ho.

no really

"We know you hired Fat Man. I don't know what game you're playing at, but this is ridiculous. Why are you so desperate you snuff us out?"

Also, >>36889875
Record the convo.