"Are you sure this is the right place, Mr. The Slick?" Ken U. Belevitt said approaching just behind the leisure-suit clad senior officer. He was no indication that Vic had guessed corretly. Ken had only been following him around since they left HQ in Antartica. "There seems to be some sorta weird convention going on right now. I just had to lose two teenage girls who wouldn't stop calling me Pugsley." The paranoid computer hacker seemed nervous, and to anyone who knew him, it was really obvious: this casino was littered with overhead cameras and monitors. The cameras made him nervous because he was being watched. The monitors made him nervous because of a traumatic incident that occured when he was a child.

((Updated my profile on what Lee's been up to while writing this post.))

It had been a while. A long chunk of time that Lee Jordan spent thinking about how he would put things back to where he'd like them to be. It started when ACME brought him in the second time, determined to put him away "for good". Yea, right. 

After going through what he went through, Lee put all the blame that should have been on himself on someone he considered drove him, Carmen Sandiego. That was it, the root of all his problems.

Lee spent time tracking her down. He was a little smarter now and his patience paid off when he picked up a coded message that looked like something Carmen would send her people. He's been wrong before, hitting dead ends, but Lee had no problem killing time at a place like Macau. He sat in a crowded bar, keeping an eye out for VILE agents he'd seen before.

[OOC: I so told Vic not to post before I do, hehehe, sorry guys!]

 

Patty Larceny was in Macau under the name Lacy Petticoat. She was lost in Singapore for the most part of this week thinking that was the location Carmen meant. While there, she hit Tiffany's and FENDI, getting herself a new bag, shoes, and a pair of sunglasses to match her headband and tight little shorts. So she's a spendthrift sort of shoplifter when she isn't thinking, at least she could pull it off.

 

The little blond girl huffed when she saw Vic's bright sparkly suit. "Don't you know how to do disguises?" she plopped a shopping bag next to Vic's seat. Oh, wookie on things, Patty thought. She wanted to be on a solo heist this time. Maybe Carmen won't go by a first come first served basis. "And what are you doing here, this is so my heist!"

 

Seeing a bushel of hair somewhere behind the polyester suit, Patty almost squealed... again. "OMG, Kenny!" Then she hit Vic on the shoulder, "You guys made an ALLIANCE?!"

Sir E. Brum (a.k.a. El Capitan) looked at the busy streets of Macau. He was waiting for his contact for the delivery.
Suddenly he spotted a teenage girl who by the way she dressed would be described as a "Goth". She was walking slowly while reading a book titled "Circus Gothica. A study on Goths.". As the  walked on he could hear her humming. As she got closer and closer he could hear say "Mandylion without a face. Deathwish without a prayer.
To which he said nonchalantly "End of hope. End of love. End of time. The rest is silence." The girl continued walking on right by his right side and say "This is what you need." in a whisper and continued on her way still humming.
Sir E. Brum felt a large bulge in his pocket. he took out the contents of his pocket and put it in the Suitcase he was holding.

As he turned to leave, he spotted out of the corner of his eye a little blonde girl and a guy wearing a tacky leisure suit. "Those couldn't...but no." Sir E. Brum thought. But who else has blode hair as bright as that; and that guy? Just plain eww. He decided to follow them at a distance and use the mini Directional Mike to listen in on their conversation

"P-P-P-Patty...ah-dah-dah...I-it's not what it l-looks like." Ken was panicking, no doubt because he felt his beloved's wrath upon him and he did not like it one iota. "I-I thought Vic said he wanted to get Chinese!"

Being far from a deducing man of any caliber, Vic barely noticed the vision of proper beauty trimmed with a trail of very light, very expensive perfume past by the bench where he sat. Patty's little high-pitched voice distracted him and he started explaining about how he had no "alliance" with Kenny and even if he did, it was all part of the game. She should get over it.

Then one of Patty's bag started ringing.

"Hey, your bag's calling," he pointed to it so Patty would notice while dodging her girly punches. 

 

[Posting this while it's hot.]

 

 Sir E. Brum quietly whistled. "Whatever is going on it sounds hot. But then again, whenever Carmen is involved it's always hot." he thought to himself. "I want in. Which means I have make myself seen to the others. They'll think I'm in on what they're planning even though I'm here simply by coincedence. Even if they suspect I'm not really in on the plan, they'll let me in on it thanks to the wealth of tech and magical items at my disposal." Sir E. Brum put away the book he was holding "Medieval torture methods."(which in actuality was a front for his mini directional mic) back into his suitcase. He put a stick of Pocky in his mouth and began walking casually towards the Casino in which Vic, Patty and Ken were congregating in. Once in he went up behind the golden-haired girl that was Patty and said politely "Excuse me Miss, but would you happen to have the time?"

Hitting the red button, Patty put the phone in her shorts' pocket to be thrown away when they got to the harbor.  

"Vic, we're splitting up," Patty whispered, "You have to wait 45 minutes then go to the Heliport." 

 

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Emmesey-Squire said:

"Excuse me Miss, but would you happen to have the time?"

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Patty recognized that voice as belonging to El Capitan, a magical member of VILE, but she pretended not to know him.

"I don't have the time, but, like, my uncle does." She pointed to Vic and his watch. They were splitting up into two teams so Emmesey with Vic was even with her and Kenny.  

Patty then waved her hand for Kenny to come with her. "Hey I'm hungry, like, want to go grab a bite of something?"

They were going from here to a cab and then to the Macau Maritime Ferry Terminal 2/F for departure. Patty always thought Kenny was a mix of weird and a pinch of annoying with the conspiracy theories, popsicles, and plans. But this is the first big case they were in together and she didn't work with him all that much outside of headquarters, maybe he's just shy.

Not catching on to the incognito language, Ken shook his head and said. "Well, okay, but I hope this is just across the street instead of across the continent this time." Ken followed Patty towards the exit of the casino. Half way he pulled out his shiny blue yo-yo and clutched it tightly in his hands. After hearing, or at least thinking he heard the whir of a few security cameras turn his way, he began to turn it in his hands. He did this to keep his eyes forward instead of turning his head around. likely he'd glance something that'd startle him and panic, causing a big scene.

"It's about 8 o'clock," Vic replied outloud, making a show of it because that looked like what Patty was doing.  "Looks like it's just you and me, Capt'," he said in a lower voice, "we wait here 45 minutes and head to the heliport, Patty's got a set of her own things to do."

 

 "Thank you." Sir E. Brum responded while at the same time nodding to show he understood Vic's "other" comment.

 

He thought for a moment. "Well I do have the Amulet Coin which is supposed to double your pay out in anything involving money. But I've never tested it out as I don't gamble. Usually I carry it in my pocket for good luck." He pulled out a quarter-sized coin from his pants pocket. The coin was made of pure Silver and had strange writng on it; lookng at it for a few seconds he lifted it up so Vic could see fo himself.

"You look tense, Kenny," Patty stated while she called a cab and in her 'tourist mode' pointed to the destination on a map she picked up at Tourism Macau.

Lee could have killed himself if he missed all the signs, but some VILE agents weren't all that easy to spot in a fancy casino.  He ordered some tonic water and took another look around.

Ken smirked. "Well, yeah, but I'm used to it being my 'first time' in a lot of places these days." Once he and Patty were in the cab, Ken was able to relax, and he put his yo-yo back in his pocket. "It'd take all night to explain my troubles. When we get home I could just show you the color-coded flow chart I made involving them." Ken seemed to be looking at his feet and he wrung his hands together as they drove. He was actually looking out the corner of his eye at Patty. He gave a light humming sigh.

Once in the cab, Patty pulled out her pink iPod Nano and stuck one half of her Shure(tm) headphones into her left ear so she could hear Kenny talk with her right.  She forgot where she stole the iPod, but she remembered saving up to buy the headphones so they would be custom fitted to her size.  And who'd want to use something that's been sitting in someone else's ears anyway? Gross!

"I don't know how I survived that actually. I just closed my eyes and tried to make myself real tiny." Ken shrugged. "It's a small price to pay to be a part of VILE. We're doing the work those corrupt government officials are to scared to do. Freedom for homo-sapiens! Defeat to the San Francisco mole men!"