7477/Blood on the Water

Blood on the Water
Date of Scene:	22 August 2021
Location:	The Mary-Anne, New York Harbor
Synopsis:	No description
Cast of Characters:	Frederick Foswell, Lara Croft

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Frederick Foswell has posed:
There was a new player in the New York Underworld, at least that's what SHIELD told you on the briefing for your latest assignment. According to rumor, a idol of Tiamat, the Mesopotamian monster, had been stolen from a Museum in Istanbul, and The Big Man, the name this player was going by, was number one on the buyers list. What a leader of a loose collition of street gangs wanted with a statue of Tiamat was unknown to WAND, but it was important that you stop this elusive crime lord from getting his hands on it, in case there was more to this monster that met the eye, and WAND knew exactly where to find it.

Anwar Singh was a Indian national and businessman who specialized in Pharmaceuticals. He was also the secret head of a international street gang called The Rakshasas, with branches active in 5 countries. According to rumor, his NYC Branch had acquired the idol and was planning on selling it to the Big Man for a hefty profit, and possibly a seat on Big Man's syndicate. According to INTERPOL databases, Mr. Singh himself was not in the United States, but his boat, the Mary-Anne was checked out by one of his lieutenants, Raj, supposedly for a day out on the water. According to Wand, this was where the idol was being held, and it was your job to retrieve it.

Lara Croft has posed:
Sneaking aboard a wealthy man's yacht is no simple task. But as it were, Lara had been watching the yacht for a few days now, getting used to the patterns she was seeing. On the night of the party onboard an adjacent yacht, Lara had taken the ferry that was going back and forth fromt he docks to the party yacht and slipped in amongst the party goers.

She didn't linger on the ferry though, and instead slipped out of her clothing and in to a wetsuit that she used to quietly enter the water from behind the ferry's passenger compartment.

Lara is an accomplished swimmer and carries with her a water proof backpack that has additional equipment stored inside it...

With the cover of nightfall the woman proceeds to Foswell's yacht. She moves with the calm waters up to the yacht's starboard side and makes her way up the side of it, using her climbing skills to scale the side of the yacht. She hangs from one of the metal railings while a guard walks past toward the aft of the boat... and once he's gone she just silently slips up and rolls under the railing.

Once aboard, Lara starts to move about the vessel, keeping to the shadows and wearing a mask to conceal all but her eyes. She is wielding a ICER handgun too, able to disable any guards who might stand in her way as she searches for the Idol she KNOWS is somewhere aboard...

Frederick Foswell has posed:
The Mary-Anne was a medium sized yacht of about two stories, and a spacious below deck. According to what little intelligence SHIELD managed to get about the boat, Mr. Singh's office was on the second floor, and where there is an office, there is often a safe. Perhaps this where the idol was being kept? However, before you can make your way up the stairs, you get rudely interrupted.

"Hey Patel, where does Mr. Singh keep the wine?"

"How the fuck am I supposed to know?!"

These two voices where followed by two pairs of footsteps coming down the stiars. The voices belonged to a tall Caucasian man with blond hair and a goatee and a stocky Indian man with sunglasses. Both of them were clad in matching suits and appeared to have blue tooths attached to their ears. They were obviously members of the Rakshasas, and they were coming your way.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara was about to step around the corner to the stairs that the men are coming down when she picked up on their presence with her senses peeled. She puts her back up against the wall of the yacht and slips back in to the shadows under the staircase.... She watches their feet through the glass back of the stairs and sees them round the corner... waiting for them to get their backs to her before she readies herself. She doesn't intend to attack these men, but instead she flicks an arm out and tosses a empty wine bottle out of her bag and in to the water. Her intention here is to make the bottle splash in the water to draw their eyes away from the stairs.... and hopefully make them look up to the party yacht going strong out in the dark bay water.

If it works, she'll dart out of the shadow and take the stairs down in to the yacht to find this Idol she'd come for! Or that's the hope anyway!

Frederick Foswell has posed:
The second the bottle was tossed the two men stopped talking and rushed towards the sound of the splash, averting their gaze away from the stairs and towards the water. The Indian man than gazes towards the party boat and lets out an angered swear while shaking his fist at it. While the man screamed out profanities in Hindi, you took the opportunity to slip downstairs.

As SHIELD predicted, the below deck area of the ship was massive, almost like a labrynth. As you went through endless corridors and hallways you would quickly notice a lack of guards, where could they be? Surely, Mr. Singh and Mr. Foswell would have more tight security. Suddenly, you are interrupted by the sound of a door opening and The Who blasting through the hall. The door opens and closes, revealing a member of The Mods, a gang of spoiled rich kids and trust fund punks mimicking the Mods of the 1960s. This one in particular was clad in a black sweater and fancy looking jeans, and was listen to The Who on his phone. Suddenly, he turns towards you, gapes dumbly for a moment, before charging at you and throwing a fist in your direction

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara was looking for both physical manpower guards, and other security like cameras. She's seen neither, which makes her think that the owners of this yacht are quite comfortable with what they have up on deck, and by all rights that really is generally enough security. Its not every day that a SHIELD Agent is trying to break in to your yacht, right?

Lara progresses down the halls and keeps her back close to the darkest corners she can find, but its all coming to a halt when the figure steps out of the rooma nd spies her form in that dark navy and grey wetsuit, with the mask. There's no excuses that'd change his mind, so instead, Lara just darts her hand up and out and fires her ICER handgun off to snap a quick stun-blast at the charging man!

Frederick Foswell has posed:
The blast from ICER gun normally would stun this rich punk to next Sunday. However, your aim must've been off that day, because you missed badly. As the blast goes over the Mod's head, the Mod charges into you and tackles you down to the ground. He then raises his fist up and tries to drive it into your face.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara lets out a muffled gasp from beneath her mask as she's sent down to the deck of the yacht. She looks up in time to see the fist coming down and just quickly tilts her head to the side to let the man punch the ground where her head had been. She then turns her body and twists beneath him as she tries a jiujitsu move to get her arm around his neck so she can sweep herself up from under him and pull him off of her!

She tries to roll out from underneath the man and raises her ICER up for another shot!