Run Synopsis
The original APS courier was last known to be in the APS dome on Mars. Teresa and Lyle investigate the hospital where he was detained (while Emilio played courier) to see if files there might list his current status.
Chantal, Boris and Robert investigate the Dejah Thoris and find a coffee/drink/computer bar with a theme of sci-fi and conspiracy theory. Chantal plays with computer, testing various threads, trying to find a link with the number on the matchbook. Boris chats up the bartenders, seeking information on "his friend Emilio". Both come up blank.
Teresa, Lyle and Chantal try tracing the courier's doctor, Dr. LoFat. They end up in the APS dome where the guards chat with Chantal in Japanese and wave her through although they check her companions' purse, etc. The doctor's office is in a very high class unit. Chantal makes an appointment, leanring the doctor is out on a routine pass through the smaller mining domes and will return in 4 weeks, and that he is a specialist in infections. (Group speculates on why a high class specialist might be drafted to the mining section.) Dome.
Recap TimeLine:
| Day 0 | APS courier to Mars |
| Day 1 | Want Ad appears |
| Day 28 | Courier released from hospital |
| Day 34 | Dr LoFat left his practise |
| Day 35 | Courier had a checkup scheduled which he did not make. |
Discover Chantal's credit card has expired. They return to the other dome and go to Chevron building to get card updated. There they notice a wanted poster featuring Robert: wanted for industrial espionage and murder. As Chantal's card is returned, she is told that her father has had something waiting for her for three days. She is introduced to John Larson, her new bodyguard on Mars. He hands her the keys to a new red sports car.
Teresa and Chantal make a quick plan whereby teresa will arrange for a room for Chantal at the Hilton and will maintain contact via cell-phone to keep Chantal apprised of the team's work. It is decided not to try to take out the bodyguard immediately as they tend to be replaced by 3 or 4 more. The hotel room costs a bit of the group's slush fund, as it must seem as though Chantal has had the room for a while. Chantal and the guard go shopping until Teresa calls to say the room is ready. Upon approaching the room, John asks, "Do you have your pepper spray in your purse?" and is rather cautious when he finds she does not. He is a bit baffled to find that the room has not been booby-trapped to take out bodyguards. Apparently he has spent the last 3 days reading Chantal's dossier - particularly on her tendency to lose bodyguards. Chantal takes John to a posh disco that night ... rather than the slum joint he was expecting.
Teresa mentions to Robert that he "has been b-a-d" and he responds, "Not recently." There is no explicit mention of the wanted poster or what he is wanted for.
EPs: ?
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