Episode 5: Hide and Seek on Murder Planet

**Hide and Seek on Murder Planet** is the 5th episode of the Rollplay**®**: Far Verona show. Originally airing June 27th, 2018.

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## Plot

In a Hong Luan alley the two Sperens, Nomi and Nominator Serpens Barnes Adorján, with an unconscious Jaycen flee from the sounds of the Loyalty Brigade approaching. Soon after the rest of The Crew show up around the counter, except Yancy.

The two Serpens decide to leave Barnes' assistant, Li, to delay the incoming paramilitary and escape without her. With the encroaching danger, Riley suggests going to the relative safety of the A.C.R.E. spaceport to secure an eventual exit strategy. Barnes has an issue with this "peasant" suggesting an idea and Booker quickly shuts him down. As this happens, a drone flies overhead and orders them to halt. Reactively, Booker shoots but misses, and Holtzmann & Ramirez take it down.

The Crew dashes off through the unfamiliar alleys, but are cut off by approaching Loyalty Brigade revolutionaries. Nomi pulls her gun on Barnes, trying to collect a "bounty" on him as The Red Murderers and return "their stolen" property (A data-drive of Barnes' local backups). Nomi is successful in negotiating the deal and The Crew retreat to their slum-y motel to let Jaycen recover.

When Jaycen comes to, The Crew debrief and make plans for their next steps. Riley is to decrypt the data-drive while Booker and Nomi are to try and find a biopscionicist or other medical attention for Jaycen. meet with their Scorpion contact Radovan and try and get medical attention for Jaycen. Jaycen is to sleep it off.

Spending all night Riley is able to crack into the data-drive and gains access to Barnes' personnel files of known nobles on Hong Lu.

As Booker and Nomi are leaving they get word from Radovan, via a child courier, that they should look into a person known as Boss Ho: a prominent gang member, and alleged smuggler. The two double down and seek our Radovan at The Scorpion, but when they arrive Radovan is gone. Steeljaw, an associate of Radovan, tells Nomi and Booker that she thinks the Loyalty Brigade are probably detaining him to extort a bribe. However, Steeljaw provides someone to get Jaycen back on his feet and sends them off to the motel.

*Cut to a scene of Barnes being tortured by the Loyalty Brigade, and snitching on Nomi Qa'a.*

A mysterious figure arrives and the confused Jaycen tries to rouse Riley and Ramirez from their slumber to warn of potential danger. Answering to "Doc", the individual reveals they were sent by Steeljaw, and provides Jaycen with aid. A dose of locally produced Lift brings Jaycen to fighting shape and an extended runner's high.

In the middle of the night, Yancy returns unscathed and still petulant and walks in on Jaycen shadow-boxing katas. An awkward conversation ensues about Jaycen's extra Lift injector and proper allocation of resources. In the morning, Booker reprimands Yancy for threatening the operation and for not supporting the crew, as is becoming the custom, it washes over Yancy without much lasting impact.

Jaycen thank's Nomi for getting him out of the Barnes/Keblimp situation and lets her know she can call on him for a favor. He goes on to play poker with Holtzmann and Ramirez talking about the danger they are all in on Hong Lu.

Nomi extracts information on a PRISM investigator named Aesop Heinz is allegedly looking into Boss Ho's gang-affiliations from Barnes' data-drive. Riley, using all of her A.C.R.E. charm contacts Heinz but has to resort to backtracing his address when Heinz figure's she is just selling something. On her way out to make a house call, Yancy stops Riley from leaving alone and escorts her to Heinz's apartment. At a seemingly cordial stop at a gelato stand, Yancy flips the script, dumps his cold treat, and reminds Riley's place on the great chain of being. Taking it in stride, Riley forces her way into Heinz's flat and Yancy pulls his gun on the reporter. An interrogation goes less than smoothly, Riley accidentally mentions Yancy's first and last name, but they get actionable intelligence on Boss Ho. The gangster is a Robin Hood-like figure who is probably dealing with off-world connections and informants in the customs agency to smuggle without the approval of their superiors. A successful talk in Riley's mind, until she walks away and Yancy executes the loose end.

## Characters Appearing

**The Crew**

* Booker Greaves
* Jaycen Argus
* Limmar Riley
* Nomi Qa'a

**Recurring Characters**

* Officer Crux Ibanez Yancy
* Sergeant Crux Holtzmann Yitzhak
* Officer Crux Ramirez
* Nominator Serpens Barnes Adorján
* Radovan's personal bouncer

**Non-Recurring Characters**

* Hong Lu Loyalty Brigade enforcer
* Kid courier
* Steeljaw
* "Doc"
* Investigator Aesop Heinz
* Gelato vendor

 * Episode 1: Green A.C.R.E. Part 1
* Episode 2: Green A.C.R.E. Part 2
* Episode 3: There is something about Yancy
* Episode 4: Droppin' the Keblimp
* **Episode 5: Hide and Seek on Murder Planet**
* Episode 6: Just a Milk Run
* Episode 7: Into the Ho's Nest
* Episode 8: Lust, Money & Murder
* Episode 9: No Respect for the Gravity of the Situation
* Episode 10: Vela, Vela, Vela, What Have We Here?
* Episode 11: Seeress Business
* Episode 12: The Ballroom Blitz
* Episode 13: Airlocked and Loaded
* Episode 14: Ain't no Party like a Church Party
* Episode 15: The Good, The Bad, The Trilliant
* Episode 16: Welcome to the Hotel Trillifornia
* Episode 17: Lost Sails
* Episode 18: Retconned
* Episode 19: Trilliant Gear Solid
* Episode 20: Once Upon a Time on Berkmann III
* Episode 21: Party Politics
* Episode 22: Behind the Veil
* Episode 23: Flight of the Navigator
* Episode 24: Prime Directive
* Episode 25: Death Cab for Nomi
* Episode 26: Over a Barrel
* Episode 27: Big Trouble in Little Shān
* Episode 28: Seeing Double

 * Episode 1: The Shape of Things to Come
* Episode 2: Down the Barrel
* Episode 3: The Cake is a Lie
* Episode 4: Syph Pilgrim vs. the World
* Episode 5: A Walk in the Park
* Episode 6: He Stole My Gun
* Episode 7: Interstellar Vignettes
* Episode 8: One Bunk Short
* Episode 9: Fool of a Toque
* Episode 10: Long-Term Projects
* Episode 11: Rudolph - 'Christmas' Special
* Episode 12: The Bells of Ain't Martin
* Episode 13: Com-Posting Pics
* Episode 14: Keeping Up Appearances
* Episode 15: Cut Loose
* Episode 16: Martini, Shaken Not Stirred

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