there's nothing we can do but play cops and robbers

[vinovidivici]

Who: OPEN
When: November 27th onwards
Where: City of Siren’s Port
Summary: Any actions/encounters relating to the Rail Tracer investigations sparked by Czeslaw’s broadcast can go in here. You can tag in with an open comment or leave your date/location in the comment header for specific threads.
Warnings: To be added as necessary. Let's kick things

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Bar Shenanigans|11/27|Closed

[cursestained]

[Normally, it's generally a really bad idea to ask a man accused of being a murder-happy monster to meet you in a place of his choosing, without letting anyone at all know you're going.

It's rather dangerous for Naoya, too, but he's not terribly worried. This is the address, let's find a Rail Tracer. He figures Vino will see him long before he sees Vino-being a six-foot-one albino dude in geta has disadvantages.]

[vinovidivici]

[ Matching a face to a voice tends not to be a scientifically accurate exercise, but from his table in the corner Claire watches for a moment before deciding that in this case it's too obvious to be otherwise. Well, even if he's wrong and it's not the right guy, he's here to be sociable, right?

He rises and takes a path to the bar that weaves around some rowdier drinkers and leaves him standing next to Naoya, by what would seem like chance. ] What're you drinking?

[cursestained]

Sake. [He isn't really interested in it, but when in Rome...]

[vinovidivici]

[ Bingo: that was the voice. He orders the drinks - sake and whiskey, neat - and points over to the table he just vacated. For now he's keeping an open mind about Naoya's motives. A business proposition, perhaps? Funny way of going about it but he's had stranger. If it turns out to be something more detrimental he's confident in his own fight or flight capabilities; he doesn't bother with keeping an eye on the other man as he's served. ]

[cursestained]

I'm curious...[Naoya's more than willing to take a seat, pulling his arms out of his haori sleeves. For all intents and purposes, he's completely unarmed.

Or he would be if he wasn't the sort of person who cheats.]

There seems to be a bit of contradictory evidence on what your name actually is.

[vinovidivici]

[ Naoya gets a lopsided grin as Claire settles opposite him. ] I'll answer to pretty much anything you've heard. It gets a little confusin', so since I got here I've mostly been going by Claire Stanfield.

[cursestained]

Excellent. Then, Mr. Stanfield, I think it's best I be completely frank about this.

[Naoya leans forward over the table some, and smiles, a ghastly expression probably suitable only when preceding the statement "I just ate a bus full of children" or the like.]

I'm sure you suspect why I wanted to talk to you, but I don't actually care whether or not you were responsible for the deaths of the people on that train. What interests me is what that would imply about the abilities of whomever did.

[vinovidivici]

[ He'll let a little surprise show. That's not something he expected to be brought up - but a few curve balls add to the fun of the game. ]

Why'd you want to know something like that?

[cursestained]

Well, let me put it this way...[He drums his fingers idly across the table, smirking even wider.]

If whatever killed those people was merely human with whatever core-given powers, it's tragic. If it's something with something more, as I suspect, then either it's not human, or a very extraordinary human.

The former is what concerns me. Whether or not it is this 'Rail Tracer', my business was-is the supernatural, and I'd need to know what I'm dealing with to do anything about it, mm?

[He doesn't mind Claire knowing that much. The fact that Naoya worked with the supernatural at home is hardly secret; so little so that if there were a market for that, he's considered working in exorcisms.

He doesn't think Claire can piece together what Naoya's not telling him; that if the Rail Tracer is a demon, there's a chance Naoya can contract it. If he has that power under his own command...]

[vinovidivici]

That's an interesting line of business you've got. [ There's probably some ulterior motive behind all this information gathering, but since Claire doesn't feel he has any to give he won't pry. He crosses one leg over the other, shrugging. ] I couldn't tell you what killed those people; I'd kinda like to know myself.

[cursestained]

I think most would. But given you introduced yourself with the name, I'm guessing you know at least a little more than a terrified child does about what this...'Rail Tracer' would be capable of? The more that can be eliminated, thec closer anyone is to an answer.

[If Claire is taken in before Naoya's done with him because of this he will be quite put out.]

[vinovidivici]

The kid's got a pretty good idea. [ Grinning at the misapprehensions - both that Czeslaw doesn't know that better than most what the Rail tracer is capable of, and that he's only a "terrified child". The latter he keeps quiet about: "Benjamin"'s real identity might still have use as a bargaining chip, or in getting back at him. ] All right. Well, any joe could tell you that it's either avoiding the trains or catching onto them and ridin' them somehow without coming to harm. What I can tell you is, that kinda thing is possible for a human. Not a normal one, but that word doesn't mean much in this place, does it?