Carth's magical adventure, ROUND TWO, MOTHERFUCKERS!

[Carthrat]

Carthrat ponders for a moment, then locks himself in another room.

When the police don't work, there's an alternate source of help, which isn't supposed to be used except in the most dire circumstances.

This wasn't really it, Carthrat knew for a fact he could get the children out, albeit after killing alot of people and making a mess and probably getting himself incarcerated, but he was lazy, really.

Where nobody can hear him, he dials a number into his phone.. "Hello? Tokyo Times?"

[Anastasia]

"Hello, Ishino her...Oh, it's my favorite pychotic news source. Hey, Carthrat," Ishino Koto's voice comes through the phone. A late shift reported for the Tokyo Times, he has been a link for you whenever you've needed to expose something to the harsh light of the media.

In his speedy, interested voice, he continues. "Got something cooking?"

[Carthrat]

"Yar, there's an underage prostitution ring at.. um.. this address," says Carthrat, rattling off the specifics. "Lots of guys here. With guns. I can get the kids out but don't know where to take them. They've tipped off the police, so I've called in my last resort.

Listen, get as many reporters as you can near the place. Tip off other papers, networks, whatever. I'll reimburse your losses, but I want as much of a ruckus ready to go when I start making a mess. Got it?

I'm gonna bust out the kids and split the scene, if you have any buddies in the police department who *havn't* been bribed, get them down here, too."

[Anastasia]

"Kids? Shit, man, that is a big story," he breaths into the phone. "But...yeah, I think we can pull this off. Give me, say, a hour?" he asks. "And keep your name out of it as usual, I assume?"

[Carthrat]

"An hour? You've got half that. This place sickens me, dude, and I might need to spring them early, anyway. Get anything you can down here. Order pizza for the place or something, I don't care."

[Anastasia]

"I'll try," he says into the phone. "You'd better get all those kids out of there, or you'll catch hell if you're caught up in this," he warns.

[Carthrat]

"Fuck, there's only two people in all the world who'll guess it was me," replies Carthrat. "Cya, bud."

Carthrat decides to make good his escape plan. Heading into the room next to that of the kids, he lays a small blob of C4 plastique in the corner opposite the kids room. Very small, so he can blow a hole in the wall without blowing himself up if he's opposite corner.

Then he keeps his ear on the walkie-talkie earpiece and listens, waiting for about 30 minutes for something to happen..

[Anastasia]

For about ten minutes, all you hear is general information about sweeping the parameter. Then...

"Come in, boss. The kids are getting restless. Can you get the keeper back in here already?"

[Carthrat]

Carthrat heads out into the main corridor in order to get a better look at this 'keeper'.

[Anastasia]

As you walk out, you hear. "Yeah, we're about done. He'll be back in shortly. Damn bad luck for him to be out for a meal during all this. We could use you guys outside.  Keep'em quiet until then, out."

The hallway is empty.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat decides to wait for this keeper-person, figuring that the cavalry won't be here for another 10 minutes at least.

So maybe 20 minutes tops was pushing it a bit thin, but once explosions started happening..

[Anastasia]

Ten minutes pass. The word from the goons is that they are about done and that the keeper is about to be escorted back inside. Sounds like things are going back to...normal here.

[Carthrat]

Hmm. Let's just wait a little longer.. the perfect moment will soon be here.

[Anastasia]

A minute or two later, you hear noise in the hallway...The sounds of a few sets of feet coming close to where you are.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat moves out the way, as to get a shot at the persons back when he walks past..