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[center][color=MediumSpringGreen]Now we might actually be getting somewhere…[/color]

[color=888888]-Ashley Avenir[/color][/center]

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[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5656356]Ashley Avenir[/url]
Max MP: 50 Current MP: 50 - 7 = 43
Casting: [Projectile] 0 [If Foe] 1 [AoE D (10 foot radius)] 2 [Restrain A] 4 = 7 mana

Gear: Clip Light (4) Taser (4 shots) Medical Supplies (4 uses) Flash Bang (4) Kevlar (Coverage 4)

Leveraging: N/A

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Ashley couldn’t help but frown as she listened to Iris’s answer. Not only were the missing Mavericks [i]not[/i] all last seen at the Golden Trove, that revelation also reminded her that some of her missing GEMINI associates had [i]also[/i] last been seen leaving the beach to explore the city. That meant the potential captors could have abducted them [i]anywhere[/i], making any possible rescue attempt [i]far[/i] more difficult, to say the least. She was just about to suggest possibly enlisting Dan’s aid with the search, when she noticed a commotion over by the beach ball container. At first, the high-tech heroine simply assumed that it was just more of the Freelancers’ carefree idiocy, but it soon became apparent that something more was at play when the horned young woman (Rika, was it?) levitated off the ground and began moving with some speed towards the ocean.

[color=MediumSpringGreen]“What the…?”[/color] Ashley breathed, her eyes narrowing to focus in on the strange sight. The Knight of Tomorrow doubted this was in any way Rika’s own doing, and her initial thought was that the freelancer was caught in some form of tractor beam. However, the odds of that possibility being the case swiftly diminished as Alice, the mysterious, raven-haired lady whose clock-themed attire bore an uncanny resemblance to that of a certain former agent’s, transplaced herself with Rika. Now, had the horned young woman [i]actually[/i] been caught in a tractor beam, then it stood to reason that Alice would now be in a similar situation, speeding through the air out to sea. Yet, that was not the case, with the would-be rescuer simply standing in the knee-deep water. Furthermore, a glance at the area near the picnic table revealed that the seemingly dazed Rika had again begun levitating and was once more moving toward the ocean. [color=MediumSpringGreen][i]So, either the tractor beam reestablished a lock,[/i][/color] Ashley reflected. [color=MediumSpringGreen][i]Or something invisible is [b]carrying her…[/b][/i][/color] 

With the odds of the later being somewhat higher than the former, and with Alice issuing some very reasonable orders, the Knight of Tomorrow snapped a quick instruction to her new ally, [color=MediumSpringGreen]“Iris! Try and lock down the area around the picnic table! I’ll rescue Rika!”[/color] Aiming her techno-wand turned squirt wand, she fired a small sphere of bright green energy at the space directly below the horned freelancer. As soon as it hit the suspected mystery abductor, it would expand to form a full body manacle composed of that same emerald energy. At least, that’s what would [i]normally[/i] happen. Now, the restraint would take the form of a large, green beach towel, which would constrict around the hidden kidnapper. While the high-tech heroine would have liked to have employed a spy ray to ascertain just what they were dealing with, the immediacy of the situation meant that such intelligence gathering would have to wait. That said, this was the first real clue as to what had befallen the others, and Ashley wasn’t about to let such a potentially critical piece of the puzzle slip away.