Not brain surgery, but a head injury early last year hasleft me with both attention and memory deficits. Keeping up with the PbP has been difficult, although I love it I just wanted to be ale to drop from the game "in character" rather than just leave it hanging...

Hey Impala, very sorry to hear it's affecting you that much, man. I knew you'd been messed around by it, just didn't realize how badly. Fingers crossed that it gets better or you can find a way to sort it out.

I got a bad concussion about two years ago that affected me more than I realized. It took about a year before I got fed up with how slowly it was improving and decided to find an excellent Cranial Osteopath to see if they could help. (I'd gone to a Cranial Osteopath immediately after the injury but, while the one I went to was ok, they didn't have the experience to sort out what was really going on.) Fortunately, the second Cranial Osteopath was able to identify the damage the first one had missed and start putting things right. From there it took about three months and three more trips to the osteopath to get me pretty much back to normal - yeah!

Thandon

I can't think of anything else, so unless my companions have other questions, thank you for your time.

Andros looks at Newton to see if he has anything to say.

Newton:
I think that will do us for now. Thanks for your help.

Oh, by the way, did you hear about the murder next door? Wasn't that awful. That poor guy.
Newton looks expectantly at the shipping company clerk, hoping he might have add some gossip to add - you never know, he might have even met Vlen Backett himself.

Murder! Oh my stars! I had no clue she says I hope it wasn't anybody you knew!

What do you want to do next?

Andros looks at Newton and says:

I'm sure the autorities are looking into that, no reason to worry the helpful lady.
Then he turns back to the clerk and asys:
Thank you miss for your time.

Then Andros wanders out to head back to the car (and he hopes Tryn)

Tryn is nowhere in sight - Make an investigate check.

Is it ScrubKai that is required to make the test? I don't have the skill so I won't be.

Anyone can make it.

Just so you guys know I am going on holiday from Sunday - Wednesday next week, so I will not be posting during that time. Be back after that!

Newton rolls Investigate 2 with Int +2:

You think you see Tryn down the street, surrounded by what appears to be gangsters. You can hear a slight siren in the distance.

I'm in favor of the scrawled note or the garbled comms message. It would be nice to know that Tryn is off pursuing his cause somewhere and that, tochtli, you have the option of joining up again if you decide to in the future.

As an aside, there is also the game side of things. For all that Newton lives a life of deception, he's very loyal to his friends. Newton wouldn't be able to just walk away if Tryn suddenly turned up dead - instead, he'd feel honor bound to seek some form of justice (not necessarily legal) for his friend's death. Of course, if something else takes Tryn out of the story (e.g. serious illness, or being 'called' in a different direction), then Newton will be happy knowing Tryn is doing what he needs to.

Is that Tryn?! Andros, we need you. Newton yells as he starts running down the street towards the group in the distance

Newton notices the look on Andros' face as they run towards the group.
Steady on, Andros. There's more of them than there are of us, and it looks like Tryn might be hurt. We might need to talk our way though this.

MAKE WAY, DOCTOR COMING THROUGH! he yells as they approach the group.

Persuasion 2 +2 Int =>

and.... I'm back!

The group of gangsters look at Newton in a befuddled sort of way, and then one of them says this chap has been trying to spread religion. Forbidden, of course. We could call the authorities, but thought it would be easier just to deal with it ourselves.

Good to have you back Matthew.

Apart from the befuddled group of gangsters, what else do Andros and Newton see when they arrive? Where is Tryn? What state is he in?

Yay...Glad your back!
Probably a good time for a recap to see where we are in time and space right now
I am assuming this is still running parallel to my Auto repair shop events?

Andros shakes his head:

Gentlemen, you realize that "taking care of this" may well create a martyr that will just encourage more of his kind to come here. May I suggest you let me care for him and then we turn him over to the authorities. They can ship him off world and hopefully stop his kind from visiting.

The burliest of the five men turns towards Andros.

I suppose that would be agreeable.