Chapter 17: The Season for Taking

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

the next thread...for when the last one has 20 pages..

[Anneli Laukkanen]

Anneli leads Bonifaz back to the interrogation room. She's feeling a little restless from sitting so long through Bishop's interrogation, and kind of wishes that Bonifaz's holding cell had been further away so she would've had more of a chance to stretch her legs.

She holds the door of the room open for him, and takes her seat after he's entered.

"I am sorry that you were neglected in there for so long." Anneli says, again, feeling the need to sincerely apologize. As far as she knew this was the man that had cooperated, and come to HQ willingly. "I'll try to make this as painless as possible." She smiles again.

"Alright..." She looks down at the file, only to see that there was no name for this man either. It makes her feel a little uneasy for some reason. "To start with, might I ask your name? And how you acquired an invitation to the banquet?"

[Bonifaz Artz-Lehrer]

"My name is Bonifaz Artz. I recieved the invite from my father, who could not attend. I was attending on behalf of our company, the Artz Lehrer Pharmaceutical company. My father's name is Frederick Artz-Lehrer." Bonifaz explains. The room is dark. He can't make out much of anything in the room. He leans back in his seat, but realizes that he is probably on video camera. He looks around for any sign of the cameras.

"Why didn't you attend the party? You don't get any time off?" He asks her.

[Anneli Laukkanen]

Anneli nods, taking notes on the blank sheet of paper in front of her. Its a little hard to see since the room is so poorly lit, but its something she deals with.

She shook her head. "I simply wasn't interested, and I didn't really have the time. There were things to be done and such." Anneli shrugs.

Now that she'd heard of everything that'd happened during the party, from the gruesome entertainment to the crazies exploding things, she was glad she'd missed it.

"Where were you when the explotions took place?"

[Bonifaz Artz-Lehrer]

"I was outside eating, I then went inside the mansion to see what I could see. I didn't see much, only a clown looking guy..who left quickly when the Creditor went after him." Bonifaz explains. He was in the kitchen for a while, but he doesn't mention this. He feels it would make him seem cowardly if he was hiding in the kitchen trying to spy on the events going on within the mansion.

[Anneli Laukkanen]

Anneli perks up in her seat. A clown looking guy? This was new. "This clown-esque man...did he seem suspicious? Can you give me a better description of what he looked like?"

A creditor chased him out? How had he escaped a creditor? Weren't the pink haired andriods supposed to be flawless? "And the creditor that was after him, was it the one that was standing outside your cell?"

"Or was it another one?" Anneli would probably have to question the creditor involved as well, and find out what they knew.

[Bonifaz Artz-Lehrer]

"The clown looking guy..well, I only saw him for a moment. He was wearing a purple suit and had green hair. His face had makeup on it and he had a large smile. He looked...well, like a clown." Bonifaz explains. He saw the clown looking guy when he first arrived at the party and just a glimpse later as he was leaving. "As for the Creditor, no, it wasn't the one by my cell. It was another one. But they all look pretty much the same to me."

[Anneli Laukkanen]

"A purple suit, with green hair..." Anneli murmured to herself as she scribbled it on the paper. "Was there anyone else with him? Anyone, besides the creditor, that'd followed him out? Or did you happen to spot him earlier in the evening with a date or something along the lines of that?"

She sighed, and nodded. "Yes, they are all quite similar, aren't they? I have a problem distinguishing them from one another myself."

Bonifaz is being extremely cooperative, and his interrogation is going much smoother than she'd anticipated. She appreciates that. "I'd like to thank you so much for your cooperation thus far." She says. "It makes my job so much easier."

[Bonifaz Artz-Lehrer]

"I would like to have this done as soon as ..I can. So, it is nothing. I would like to go home and resume my life." Bonifaz states.

He then thinks about her question.

"Since I was outside, I didn't see him arrive with anyone. I was so distracted by the commotion that I didn't see anyone with him either. So, that's all the information that I have. I suppose there might have been people upstairs when the explosions happened. Maybe Dinari Dollar or a female that I don't know. She wasn't famous, but she was with Calithin...I think." Bonifaz replies.

[Jack O. Trades]

With sharp whistle and a wave of the hand the goon reading his paper got up and went down one of the many halls. Turning in the chair he sat sideways in it throwing his legs over an arm seeming to grow a sudden fascination with his nails despite his hands being covered in gloves. Seeming to have forgotten the two were there for a moment he blinked snapping back into focus, looking between the two absently. His eyes focused on the one who had asked for coffee as he turned his head grinning broadly " Come come, sit down."

As his focus suddenly shifted to the nervous one his grin changed from purely jovial to a savage smile. Swinging his legs around his feet settle onto the ground as he folds his hands under his chin utterly ignoring the man who came back with a cup of coffee, offering it to the man who asked for it before going back to his paper "Now.....What is it...you wanted to sell me? Much as I love visitors, I do get busy this time of year"

[Archer Aylmer]

I turn around and give Heikki a decidedly pained look. Why why why would one possibly accept anything to eat or drink from clearly dangerous individuals? Ugh.

I repress a heavy sigh and turn back to Jack, trying to produce a casual smile and mask my unease.

"We recently came into possession of some red leaf. No need to ask any questions as to how-- you know the way things are. We're currently capable of either selling you and your... Employees, recreational amounts of the drug to use at leisure... Or larger quantities, if you were interested in reselling for a profit. I imagine funding your... Operation here... Can be expensive."

I clear my throat and place the backpack I have been carrying with me on the ground. I unzip the top zipper and pull the sides open, revealing the red leaf contained inside.

"Feel free to inspect. Top of the line stuff, guaranteed."

[Toolah "Tuvi" Renee]

Tuvi smiles and puts her business things away. "Dinari isn't hard to handle. He does his thing and I make sure I take care of any legal and financial issues that come from him doing his thing."

"Honestly, things have been running so smoothly, I've been taking some down time from work and catching up with life."

Tuvi pauses but hey, he did say they were more into the lunch part of this. "What do you do for fun?"

[Heikki Toivonen]

Heikki graciously takes the coffee and sips it quietly. He mostly just listens to what Archer has to say, since he doesn't want to add anything or mess things up. He sips the coffee quietly and does his best to take in the strange atmosphere and strange person. He wonders if this visit to the amusement park will be worth their while or what they will do if it turns out he isn't interested in their drugs. Heikki takes another sip and waits...

[Jumala Keitoleinen]

Keitoleinen passes through the biometric scan and enters his labor card code. A small area of the force field opens to him, and he is allowed through. He passes through a check point of Creditors and feels impressed by the level of security at this get together. Perhaps the Manalists and their supporters learned something from the incident at his mansion.

Keitoleinen enters a large, log building where there is food, music, and stuffy people from the Global Bank. He sighs since this party is going to be far less entertaining than his banquet of the Blessed.

[Calithin Crest]

"Life the magazine? No, but seriously. We're all so disconnected from everything, that'll be what people say in the future... And they'll mean it. When talking about life."

I shrug a little and take a long sip of my drink in contemplation of just what it is I do, in fact, for fun.

"For fun I like to... Sail. I like sailing. The oceans are all polluted, and that sucks, but I never really liked fish anyway. Too many of them-- it's difficult to distinguish. Easy to undervalue. Um... Also I like reading, indie movies, trampolines, acrobats, making up legal questions I then try to answer, shopping, tying people up, scavenger hunts, balloons, sleeping... That's a big one. Looking things up, demolition, parties, art museums, and... Eccettera."

I am very happy with my thorough answer and smile brightly.