" Cinnamon Carter" by Lady Celeste Crusader

[esercito sconfitto]

Cinnamon Carter operates her planescape voyage device and looks over the different portals. She noticed one in particular that seems to house an Internet writers community. She was looking for the link key, which would normally allowed a short route between the Pen and this site, but she couldn't see it. The blond bombshell walks over a café and sits at a table that was not to far from the bar. Moments later, while drinking her cappucino, she overheard a conversation about that writers community.

- "I've just had my membership to enter the manor.", clams a woman who have the same proportions' as Cinnamon, "I've waited for it since so long."

- "I'm so proud for you", replies her friend while looking at her watch, "I have to go. I'm awaited for my lecture."

- "See you later", replies back the first woman.

The second lady leaves the café. Cinnamon smiles inwardly; this girl will be very useful. Cinnamon finishes her cappucino and walks outside the café. She spots an alley in which there's a cloth dumpster and thinks that its an excellent hiding place. The sexy agent waits for a moment and the woman walks out heading to the opposite direction to the alley. Cinnamon drops her purse in a noisy way. Her victim turned around to help her but the spy injects sleeping drugs in the writer's arm. After the woman fells asleep, Cinnamon drags her behind the dumpster. Ciannamon pulls out small wax mold, in which she casts her victim's fingerprints. She then uses a spray that quickly changes the color of her hair in order to matches the girl's red color. She uses green contact lenses, applies finger print skins on her's and borrows some of her victim's clothing in order to complete her quick made disguise. She then, ties the woman off and puts her in the dumpster. She puts her stuff back together and check the lady's purse for her ID. The card reads: Elaine Delanoe.

Perfect! I've got an ID and a disguise, I've got 45 minutes to get this done

Cinnamon, now Elaine, heads over the manor, ready to get the link. At the gate she sees the name given to the huge construction: "The Able Muse Recollection". She looks around the area and sees a woman pressing her index on a device that scanned her finger prints, then a small door next to the gate opens, allowing the woman to step in. Our spy in disguise smiles and heads toward the the lock. She puts her index as instructed and she makes her first step within this large community.

Its so huge! Where I'm supposed to find the link key? I need to find someone who'll guide me within this place.

Cinnamon walks over a rather small gathering of what it seems a group of newly accepted members. The men and women are chatting with each other while a man seems to wait for someone. Intrigued, the agent walks over the gentlemen who seems to be relieved by her sight.

- "Madame!", he quickly said with his strong French accent, "Are you by any chance Elaine Delanoe?"

- "Yes I am, sir.", answers the impostor while mimicry the original's pronunciations.

- "Oh! Excellent then!", replies a rather relieved gentlemen, "Join up with the others so we may started our guided tour."

Cinnamon obeys and the guide hailed his group in order to have their full attention. The writers stopped their chatters and looks over the rather tall gentleman.

- "Greetings, Mesdames et Messieurs," starts the writer, "Welcome to the Able Muse Recollection Manor. My name is Édouard Montpellier and I'll be your humble guide for this tour. Please follow me."

Édouard leads his group in the gargantuesque main hall. What Cinnamons sees left her breathless. Heavily inspired by "La Belle Époque", impressionist style artworks decorated the walls and the dome ceilling of the impressive entrance. A olive green carpet covers the champain marble tiles from the entrance to the main stairs.

- "Impressive isn't it?", asks the guide with a touch of pride in his tone.

He then introduce the writer's community. The lady agent listens intently for anything interesting but so far, no luck. The group travels from room to room, with nothing about links for Cinnamon. Then, the group heads for the library.

- "Here, in the library", Édouard introduces, "you can find books of all ages and on any formats. This is the favorite place for writers to find their muse, to ressources themselves or to study writing techniques and styles."

The group climbs a stairway and heads for a room. Computers and links library are aligned ordely on desks.

- "This room is for the most adventurous of us.", resumes the guide, "This is where the adventurers of the planescape do their researches. We have a link library here. Some said that it is scace, is that because we don't give away our link key easily. Although that some manages to have our link without our consent, we prefer to give this link to other writers community. But, we cannot hold it to secure for our own members and we make our link key avalaible for them so they can safely return here."

He then shows a black box in the corner with a small scanning device.

- "The link key is here and the procedure to access it is the same that is applied at the gates. We will provide you key cards at the end of this tour. Now, lets proceed to the next room."

Cinnamon looks at the time, she only have 10 minutes left and she can't afford waisting much time. When the guide and the remaining of the group left the room and proceeds downstair, she quickly opens her purse and grab her link downloader. She opens the black box with the scanning device and inserted it in the link key's opening. The link's exchange went up smoothly and she smiles when she sees The Pen's link is now mentioned. With now a copy of the link key, she quickly pulled out the device, shoved it back in her purse, closed the back box and leves the library.

She manages to catch up the group dicreetly and she was relieved to see that nobody noticed her absence. She looks around the new place and she finds out that the tour has not ended yet. Cinnamon asks for the lady's room and Édouard nicely tells her the direction, which was the opposite direction of where the group is heading while mentionning about the rest of the tour. The agent nods and heads for the restrooms. She waits for 2 minutes and heads back for the gate. She finally make her way out of the manor's field and quickly returns to the alley, where she left the real Elaine. She opened the dumpster lid and gives the still drugged Elaine back the stuff she borrowed from her. She wrotes down the indications for the guided tour and writes down the guide's name on a piece of paper. Then, she left the alley and returns to the planecaspes portal.

Once back at the hotel, she opens the Pen's link updater and downlaods the Able Muse link. With a smile she decided to leave a note to the others who havent returned from their trip that she is waiting for them at the Hotel's bar.


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Quill-Quest: Impossible
Started by Lady Celes Crusader, Mar 21 2002 03:00 AM