I knew it!
OK, so I still haven't made complete sense of all this yet, but clearly the disaster I predicted is coming. So someone -- I think Mr I-Hate-Drake -- tried to break into our servers. Max planted some false info for the hacker suggesting that there was a meeting tonight.
We all went to the coffee shop to hang out pre-meeting, when Max suddenly gets a call from Laney. She says to meet her around the corner -- but when Max and I go there, it turns out that she's being held hostage by the super-ninja minion of Mr I-Hate-Drake. He demands that we back off. (To which I think, "From what?") At this point, I'm getting pretty fed up. So I ask him in the nicest possible way, "You and what army." He blathers some more about how mysterious he and his employer are. At this point I swing at him.
Now, I feel kind of bad about this in retrospect. He somehow duplicated himself and his super-ninja-duplicate cut up Tiff pretty bad before we took him down. He was really tough and super-fast. His employer Mr. I-Hate-Drake then showed up, but was chased away by a huge animated stick-figure of broken glass.
We take him back to the Batcave for interrogation. But damn super-ninja just goes on about how he's just not going to stop even if we let him go. He's some kind of pseudo-Buddhist fanatic or something, though that doesn't stop him from threatening product managers and slicing up interns. He does give some useful information that Drake was some non-human thing cursed into human form, and now he's trying to collect enough power to change himself back. I maybe should have seen this coming, but Drake then chopped his head off.
Drake immediately dropped it, and tried to weasel his way out of it. We argue for a time. The thing was, I was facing the same dilemma now about Drake. Here's a guy who's probably mostly evil. Do I drive a stake through his heart? If not (and it seems like it would be overmuch), then what do we do with him? At this point, though, the driveway comes alive, and a vampire sorcerer who calls himself "Mr. X" shows up to liberate Drake. The killer thing is, Tiff goes with him. Ack! Angst! Still turning it all over and can't come to resolution.
We all went to the coffee shop to hang out pre-meeting, when Max suddenly gets a call from Laney. She says to meet her around the corner -- but when Max and I go there, it turns out that she's being held hostage by the super-ninja minion of Mr I-Hate-Drake. He demands that we back off. (To which I think, "From what?") At this point, I'm getting pretty fed up. So I ask him in the nicest possible way, "You and what army." He blathers some more about how mysterious he and his employer are. At this point I swing at him.
Now, I feel kind of bad about this in retrospect. He somehow duplicated himself and his super-ninja-duplicate cut up Tiff pretty bad before we took him down. He was really tough and super-fast. His employer Mr. I-Hate-Drake then showed up, but was chased away by a huge animated stick-figure of broken glass.
We take him back to the Batcave for interrogation. But damn super-ninja just goes on about how he's just not going to stop even if we let him go. He's some kind of pseudo-Buddhist fanatic or something, though that doesn't stop him from threatening product managers and slicing up interns. He does give some useful information that Drake was some non-human thing cursed into human form, and now he's trying to collect enough power to change himself back. I maybe should have seen this coming, but Drake then chopped his head off.
Drake immediately dropped it, and tried to weasel his way out of it. We argue for a time. The thing was, I was facing the same dilemma now about Drake. Here's a guy who's probably mostly evil. Do I drive a stake through his heart? If not (and it seems like it would be overmuch), then what do we do with him? At this point, though, the driveway comes alive, and a vampire sorcerer who calls himself "Mr. X" shows up to liberate Drake. The killer thing is, Tiff goes with him. Ack! Angst! Still turning it all over and can't come to resolution.