Sunday Bloody Sunday

[Bjorn]

It wouldn't register on his face even if he had been, but Cadfael is not surprised.  Instead, he grabs a bar of soap, reaches up to the security camera, and sets about making sure that the lens is thoroughly obscured.

[Carthrat]

The lens now has a large smudge of white soap in it, and it doesn't look like it's detecting anything, no-sir.

[Bjorn]

Some basic privacy thus ensured, Cadfael quickly strips and gives himself a thorough scrubbing with some soap and a hand-towel, ignoring the shower.   Done in a matter of minutes, he dresses again, and steps out of the bathroom.

[Carthrat]

Barry is nowhere to be- oh, there he is, talking to a naked blonde woman in one of the baths. It's one of the hot baths, so there's lots of steam, but very little is left to the imagination in any case.

[Bjorn]

Slouching inconspicuously along, Cadfael enters the elevator, and studies his options.

[Carthrat]

Cadfael can head to ground level, and below; the building, apparently, ranges from 6 basement floors to the roof, which is a hundred floors up. Unfortuantely, none of the floors are actually marked with purpose.

There's also the usual range of elevator controls, from 'Close Door' to 'Emergency'.

[Bjorn]

Cadfael racks his memory, and then hits the button for floor 61, which is where he recalls Kinomoto's office as being.

[Carthrat]

The breathtaking view of the expansive blocks is soon lost to the cold blackness of the elevator shaft, which quickly becomes an opening into Shizue's office. The door down the corridor is, once again, shut, and the plain space is still quite the contrast to the rest of the building.

[Bjorn]

Pausing just outside the elevator (and keeping an ear out to track if it is about to open again), Cadfael uses the Storm's Eye to look around for security devices.

[Carthrat]

There are several cameras in this corridors, this time, getting a look from all possible angles. There are also some other kinds of unidentifiable electronic devices; what could they be? The spell doesn't really make it clear. The corridor is laced with devices of some kind, hidden in the walls.

[Bjorn]

Electronics unclear to Storm's Eye... Cadfael's face remains blank, but his mind races.  Should be able to tell.  Can't.  Not straight electronics, then?  Resources are much better than they should be for a 'little player.'  Hm.  Bypassable?  Probably.  Mana flare bleeding into electromagnetic spectrum.  Same trigram-to-whorl modification.  Add twelfth and third pentagrams to split energy.  Then...

For now, it's a thought experiment alone.  But it's sufficiently complex to keep Cadfael's interest as he stands, passively waiting for someone to show up with his contract.

[Carthrat]

"You can come in now, Cadfael," announces Shizue, over a speaker in the corridor. "I believe you've been waiting long enough."

[Bjorn]

It takes a few more minutes to work out a tricky issue with resonance in this new rune, but when Cadfael has finished, he jerks into motion and opens the door to Kinomoto's office.

[Carthrat]

Shizue is sitting behind a desk, which has a new feature on it; a sheaf of paper looking vaugely legal-like and formal.

"It's all here," she comments. "Take as long as you need."

[Bjorn]

Taking the contract, Cadfael starts to read with the sort of stolid patience that can make others die of teeth-gritting.