Session Start: Sat Nov 04 13:02:49 2006 (H-1) [Monday, April 18, 2006 - 1545 local time] [H-1 office, around the conference table] As the afternoon wore on, less and less new useful information found its way to the H-2 SitRoom, and the team decided to retire to its own digs to decide what to do next. Lady Neko came with them, and Shihei-san showed up unexpectedly, slipping silently through the doors. She wasn't silent for long, though... [session start] * LadyKiss is slowly flipping through what info she has to try and find anything they might have missed. * LordFate continues to zone out; he's actually claimed a section of the table on which he is cleaning his disassembled pistols. * LadyDestiny is pretty absent-mindedly flipping through the information. * PrincessRoyal sorts her info, eyeing Shihei-san. * Shihei-san growls, inarticulately, in frustration and anger. * LadySnow makes everyone coffee. "Shihei-san, what do you like in your coffee?" Rage, apparently. What's up? Would someone tell me WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS CITY??? ...double sugar. * LordFate checks the weather, and gives a short report on traffic. He's probably being sarcastic. * LadyBobOmb looks up from her PDA, at Shihei-san, blinking politely. We're trying to find out, ma'am. Gaaaaaaaaaah. * LadySnow hands out cups of coffee with whatever people usually like in them. Yes, she has notes of such in her PDA. * Shihei-san takes the cup from Snow, and chugs the steaming drink down. * LadyDestiny is too zoned out to really care what's going on. * LadyBobOmb takes her coffee with hot sauce. ... don't ask. Careful, it's hot! * LordFate drops three no-doze pills into the coffee he accepts from Snow, and lets them dissolve for a bit. * LadyNeko mutters something that no one catches, but doesn't seem to be flattering. * LadyKiss takes hers with lots of sugar. She slowly sips it watching Shihei- san. Royal-sama? If we are ready, I believe we have gleaned enough information to act. * LadyBobOmb checks on the status of the cameras that were take out along the van ride. Sorry, sorry, I'll let you do your thing. ...right. * PrincessRoyal glances at Bob-Omb. "Oh? What plan of action did you have in mind?" Did we get the autopsy report yet? All of the cameras have been checked out now - two blocks of electrical damage on a sunny day. Shihei-san, what do you think is happening? With the outburst I take it it's more then we know. Someone's trying to cause as much disruption as possible, and keep authority running ragged one step behind them. * LordFate absently continues cleaning his weapon, as if discussing the last move made in a publicized Go tournament. Well, while there are always terror threats, that we've had two real incidents in a month can't be coincidence. What's going to be the official response for this? I refuse to believe they can't be connected. I believe they are, ma'am. We should probably investigate the ningyo kidnapping. I'm aware that the Matriarchy is looking into it, but I don't feel that what we should have secondhand information there. I've been doing my best looking for a connection. The Matriarchy is looking to us to look into it, you mean. I agree, The kidnapping is important. The official response is still being formulated. How we lie about it will depend on what we find out. Do we have a for-certain positive ID for that Turquoise girl yet? We're... going to lie? Also, I'm still worried about the ANL, but at this point I haven't thought of anything besides stopping by their headquarters and saying hi. That is confirmed. We got a team to her parents, and the DNA looks good. Of course they are. The truth might not play into the perpetrators' hands so neatly. O-kay. Finally, something concrete. But the truth is someone framed that poor ningyo! * LordFate just half-smiles condescendingly and shakes his head a bit, continuing to focus on cleaning his guns. The good news is that there's been no media report of the dead fish. Of course we are going to lie. The public has NO NEED to know all this info Snow. They need reassured. Snow, dear. This is like someone trying to start a bad rumor. Could we possibly explain her as a victim? Bah. It'll all be clear when we catch the people behind it. * LordFate takes an absent sip of his coffee, and makes a truly disgusted face as he actually glances at what it is before shivering and forcing himself to take another, longer drink. Which he swallows deliberately. Of course, she didn't have any ningyo powers to do attacks like that. Yes, but just as a victim of the... attack? Can we call it an accident, somehow? She was shot in the head... I do not think this will be the last incident. No, a piece of the wall when a steam pipe exploded was lodged in her eye. It will be if we catch the bad guys! We need to say something publicly, and openly, before something else happens and it's revealed we've hushed the Arcology incident. There will be at least one more attack, probably not identical, but similar. ...we can work with that, though Interior is going to be unhappy with saying that such a disaster could happen in one of the arcologies. * PrincessRoyal snorts. "Not like we could hush much about it. How many hundreds of witnesses were there, again?" They're planning something big, and they want you running around like chickens with their proverbial heads cut off dealing with public outcry and nuisance when it happens. Witnesses can easily be wrong, and might start questioning themselves if the truth is shown to them. None of the saw the Ningyo girl - it was H-4 that found her. * LadyBobOmb nods. "It would be a poor impression if we try to hush it up." Well obviously they wanted us to find her. And yes, Fate, I know that, I think we all know that, we have to be idiots not to realize that on some level, do you have something to help figure out what that big thing is? * LadyBobOmb shakes her head. "I suspect they wanted the ANL to find her." It would be impossible is what it would be. But that's not our business here and now, people. * LadyDestiny watches everyone get angry over all the commotion. Mmm. I'll pass all that up the chain of command. * PrincessRoyal taps the table with her PDA stylus. "Ideas for a plan of action, people." Don't cover it up. Not our department. Next. We should um, did we figure out what they used to melt the truck? *shrug* Fair enough. * LadyNeko taps at her tablet. If we can figure out how they got something like that into T-E, maybe we can find the seller. Or the buyer. Or both even. We figure out what their next target might be. Assuming they're trying to cover up something, the ningyo may have some link, otherwise this is an attempt at political strife and terrorism. It was unique, but basically just a colloidal explosive mixture. Okay, that's a better point to look at. How is H-4 doing with the analysis on tha--ah, thank you. Hm. Any idea who could make such a thing? * PrincessRoyal shrugs. "Anyone with the sufficient knowledge. Depends on if by unique you mean one-off, or composed of things you wouldn't normally make something like that from." We could probably make it, but there's no record of the precise mix being used anywhere before. ...you'd need a real industrial lab to do this, it wouldn't be a garage operation. ...oh? Hm. * LadyBobOmb raises an eyebrow. "That certainly narrows it down quite a bit." Do you think they would've had to make it in the city? Unless one of the corps is going squirrelly on us, I bet it was brought in. We also have those 3 blocks where the street cameras lost track of the truck. Maybe we can find something there. At least a place they used temporarily. A more interesting question is: Was there anything of value worth stealing that would no longer be missed after the Arcology attack? * LadyBobOmb frowns. "The ningyo incident was a distraction?" A red herring, if you'll pardon the pun. * PrincessRoyal taps the table some more. "Hmmm." * LadyBobOmb does a search on lost or missing reports in the last twenty-four hours. None of the stores that were massively damaged were really that special. Sporting goods, candy, clothing... nothing upscale. I was trying to see if there were any covert operations going on at the arcology, like there was at the garage, but I didn't find anything there... What they were covering up did not necessarily happen at the arcology. If that is the case. So much light and noise, while the real work was done. Who benefits from increased chaos and unease in the city? Have we all the missing persons reports correlated to that area, yet? No, there wasn't. Oh, well, there's a few sting operations against yakuza, but... just small-time H-2 and H-5 ops. * LordFate nods at BobOmb's statement, and starts putting his guns back together. * LadyBobOmb expands the search parameters a bit, for all police reports period. * LadySnow looks at Shihei. "Nothing with international connections?" The biggest chunk of hits she gets are ANL arrests and protests, not just in the arcology. * LadyDestiny flips through yet more info on her PDA. There's just so much info to process. North China is starting to get frisky again, and there's a little blowback from the UN nomination deal, but nothing that would make sense with this. Royal-sama? Who would benefit if the ANL were neutralized in the city? Who would benefit from a war with the ningyo? If that's what they were trying to start... * LadyBobOmb hmms, and shakes her head. The former Shi'a Nation states are always a candidate for terrorism, but they would have claimed responsibility by now. ...watch out for kidnappings of Ladies. More like who would benefit from destabilization in T-E. I keep thinking about...hm. Of Ladies? Followed by a terrorist attack in Ningyo City. A reciprocal attack, huh... * LadySnow looks at Royal. "Ma'am?" Not necessarily. More like poking each of the factions within this city with a big stick. And get a tracer on Seree. * PrincessRoyal waves a hand at Snow. "Thinking." ...Seree? Why? As if the Matriarchy weren't twitching their tails enough about this. She's the one who keeps showing up and making threats and stupid accusations, and she's the one with connections to the first round of incidents. ...uh, what? What connections? She pointed Anemone to the Global Harvest moonlighters. She may have helped facilitate the actual acquisition of the "yeast" that was stolen. ...that was Anya, Fate. --gah. Seree was the Ningyo who witnessed the attack on Anemone's brewery. ...right, sorry. * LadySnow hmms. "Did anyone talk to the company they picked up the tanning bed from?" The real moving crew from TPU picked it up. The tanning bed was found in the no-camera zone. * PrincessRoyal sits back and thinks. Bloody fish. All look alike. *grumbled* Well, the order of the tanning bed is interesting. Why's that? We're still tracing the transaction - it was bounced through some American banks. But it doesn't seem to have come from the tanning salon. * LadyBobOmb nods. "They probably initiated the order so they knew were the van would be." Oh? I'll get H-3 to make some phone calls, speed up the process. Any idea how long ago? The order was placed two weeks ago. * LadyKiss sighs rubbing her head. "Enough red tape to cause every one headaches then?" Just after the incident at the parking garage? ...interesting. That Monday, actually. * LadyBobOmb frowns. They definitely had a plan worked out then. No question of that. Nothing could be pulled off this tight without a plan. * LadySnow nods. * LordFate checks the chamber of his guns with decisive "clicks". "Yep." But that's why we get paid the big bucks. You know it might help to look at the scenes ourselves. ...Snow? What did you get from t he manager of that delivery company? We do need to look into the ningyo kidnapping ourselves. * LadySnow sends over the information from her PDA. "Here's the files." Thank you. * PrincessRoyal scans through them. ...nothing sticks out - the delivery men were good employees, with no ANL connections or other issues, and the delivery was requested by the tanning bed company. I think we should look where the truck disappeared first. * LadyBobOmb skims them. "Didn't you say that the tanning bed didn't order them?" They knew it was going to take that path. They had to have some sort of ambush set up. Regardless, we need to cast our net wider. *rises to his feet, yawning* Plans this big don't happen without communication. We need to intercept it. Where the people that delivered it the delivery men that left? No. No... it's those *women*. * LordFate frowns, and drinks more of his ... coffee. "What women, Shihei?" * LadyBobOmb nods. "You're right. We can try and play catch-up all we want. But they're not done yet, and if we wish to stop them, we need to get ahead." ...Lady Snow, was it you who set up that search? Yes. There were four women I found when doing a search for Bo in the video from all the camera feeds. Are they working independently, or are they working for someone? Bo? ...interesting, Snow. They all had uniforms from the delivery company. * LadySnow sends the info out to everyone's PDA. Bo. That bitch who arranged Anemone’s little debacle. Boadicea. She was the one who made contact with Anemone about the substance she had brought it at the garage incident. * LadySnow sends the picture and the info on her to Neko as well. We're not cops, and have to stop acting like it. Cops play catch- up, and catch the crooks after they're done. We catch them beforehand. This is a promising lead. Right now, I think she's the one who's orchestrating all of this stuff. These four aren't her. But searching for her caught them... It's likely they're the same whatever that she is. * LadyBobOmb does a quick search on her, trying to pull up information like where she lives, contact information, and, most importantly, where she's been or is now. I'm just worried that people mentioned that meeting her was like meeting the Queen... We have cameras watching the city, don't we? Scattered everywhere? * LordFate starts pacing, idly twirling one of his guns on his right trigger- finger. The faces are... somehow similar. It's hard to say how, though, since they're all also very individual. I was about to try that. I'm trying the easy way first. Heh. The 'easy way'? H-4 has lots and lots of cameras. Yes, indeed. Use 'em. Set face-recognition software up for all four of those women and 'Bo', and report every time one's sighted. Why is it associating them? I need to get the face-rec software people in on this... Have redundant systems watching for black-outs in the camera network. I would assume we already do, but clearly it failed, since we didn't know the cameras had gone out in that multi-block area until after the incident. We need to up our response times. * Shihei-san makes a face. "We'll have to upgrade the systems." * LadyBobOmb frowns. "Also, we may want to watch for electrical surges." I suggested earlier we see what cameras we can find around where the truck disappeared. Maybe we can find these women on one of the feeds around there. We can check back 2-3 weeks or something, can't we? ...no, only a few days. The storage for all this video takes petabytes. And, also, we may want to wear grounding equipment if we know one of them has electrical powers. Well we should get on that now, before the logs expire. Yeeeah. * Shihei-san stands up. "I think I'm going to have to start the budget requests for that. Stay in touch, people." There are mundane ways of cutting through the camera feeds too though, aren't there? It may be a good idea to contact the power agencies and have them report power spikes or drops to us immediately. Well if they did do something like that, maybe we can figure out for how long they have been and that'll at least tell us something. Alright, folks. * LordFate claps twice to get attention. * LadyNeko checks her watch, then looks up. We've got just about everything we can from sitting around here and arm-chair quarterbacking the investigation. * Shihei-san is talking into her PDA even as she's leaving the room. What details are we still missing? Where can we find them? * PrincessRoyal sits back and watches Fate, eyebrow raised. We're a spec-ops team, folks. We're not cops. What we're missing is how the ANL knew about this. Let's go see what WE can find, and find likely points of future assault. Thank you, Neko. So let's go visit the ANL. Because... they DID know about it ahead of time. There is evidence of coordination. Can't we um, just check their phone records. I've tried that. They don't record content, just direction. I'm certain Kiss can get far more in person than we can just from phones. Any calls from a location along those three blocks? * LordFate gestures to the femme fatale, emphasizing her...assets. * LadyBobOmb pulls up the log of the call search, checking the locations on them. We need to stop looking at this like we've only got the legal papers that are gathered by the other H-numbers. We're H-1, we have means at our disposal they do not. There isn't - but there is from a few hundred meters north of there. * PrincessRoyal leans back. "Just a few minutes ago, you all were saying we needed to get on the kidnapping trail. And the video feeds. We certain on this ANL business, then?" She bites her tongue as though holding something back. Not quite, but close. What times? Anything from around two weeks ago? The video is something H-2 and H-4 will need to do. * LadyKiss smiles. "Why! How sweet of you to notice. But, I do believe Princess Royal has something very important for us to do or I wouldn't be sitting here staring at my organization of what we know hoping for some break through to come from my colored index notes." The same day as the arcology incident. All right, that leaves us with ANL or trying to find how they scooped up Turquoise and/or where they took her. * LordFate slashes his hand through the air in a violent, if not entirely meaningful, gesture. "They're all possible leads. Let the cops handle the video feeds and watch for kidnappings. make sure they're feeding us info they themselves may not normally gather, on our stupidly high authority." * LordFate nods to Royal. So Turquoise and the ANL. Sounds like something we can take care of today. Shall we? But but... we should check the neighborhood where the truck vanish too... I'm not certain if the ANL has played their part, or if these women will have further contact with them. In case of the latter, I believe we should leave some kind of monitoring in place. She's got a point. ....timeliness. Trails. What fades away first if we don't look at it in time? The neighborhood. Alright, we have our first stop. Call up the van. The ANL and finding about Turquoise won't be nearly so damaged as a busy Tokyo-E Neighborhood over the course of an hour. * LordFate moves to the door and opens it, gesturing for people to start moving out as he holds it. * LadyBobOmb stands, and heads out. * LadyKiss smiles, and gives Lord Fate a small kiss on the cheek as she moves by him. * Ozawa comes running out of the open workshop door. * LadySnow looks up at him. * LadyDestiny rises from her seat. "'Bout time we did something." * PrincessRoyal rolls her eyes, gathers her materials, and goes. * Ozawa warms up the bus as everyone climbs in. "Where exactly are we going?" * LordFate climbs in and looks to Kiss and Royal to give the coordinates. I don't know why you guys are so unhappy... I was having fun putting the puzzle pieces together. * PrincessRoyal gives Ozawa the directions to the two knocked-out blocks. Hmmm. Okay. Some people don't have the mindsets for analysis, Snow. * LadyKiss looks at Snow. "I'll give you a puzzle box with four different puzzles I bought from low quality yard sells for Christmas." * Ozawa puts the bus in gear, and the team speeds west on the underground bypasses. Analysis can be done by less important people. * LordFate laughs. So can footwork, if it comes to that. It's all a matter of a person's...priorities. * LadySnow frowns. "Let's not fight about it, please." * LadyBobOmb nods. "I agree with that. We're H-1, and we're here to do what others.... can't." * LordFate nods off as the car starts working. * LadyBobOmb lets out a chest-heaving yawn. * PrincessRoyal raises an eyebrow. It's a little longer drive to the affected zone than it was to the Majestic Tiara Arcology. From where the bus comes to a halt, you can see the massive gold-rimmed shape of the structure a kilometer to the north. * PrincessRoyal mutters to herself as she enters in a note in her PDA. "...about...what we actually do..." * LadySnow looks about the neighborhood seeing what's around. Things don't *look* different here - there's a few H-2 vehicles and construction vehicles about, replacing and examining cameras. * LordFate whimpers in his sleep. * LadyKiss smiles and looks around, eyes darting to see everything. * LadySnow hops out of the van after it parks. The really unique thing about the location is that there are three honest-to-gosh vacant lots around the central intersection. * LordFate starts awake with a yelp muffled by an intake of breath, and waits for the others to get out before getting out himself. So, should we spread out and start searching or? Huh. Even in a booming city like Tokyo-Earth, there are inevitably places that are left behind, and this neighborhood is old and undeveloped. * LadySnow looks around for local shops and eateries that'd have a view of the intersection. Not a lot would - there one occupied corner has an old clothing factory, which itself is mostly empty except for offices. * LadySnow decides to go check over there first. Maybe the employees saw or heard something. * LordFate climbs out of the van, wiping some sweat from his forehead and proceeding to lean nonchalantly against the vehicle for a bit, watching what the others do. * LadyBobOmb summons a couple of small, flying bombs who promptly scatter, as she lets them roam around and satisfy their curiosity. She, herself, stays by the van for the moment. * Receptionist stands up as LadySnow walks in. * LadySnow knocks politely on the door before she enters. * LadyKiss shakes her head. "Princess Royal, Ma'am, I'll be scouting the area, looking for anything out of place, and interviewing people. With your leave?" Um, excuse me? How can I help you, ma'am? * PrincessRoyal waves Kiss on. "Go ahead." * PrincessRoyal eyes Fate critically. "Well, hotshot?" * LadyDestiny takes a breath mint from somewhere and eats it before heading out to talk to people. Hi. I'm Lady Snow, with H-2. I was just wondering if you happened to be around here this morning? * LadyKiss seeing where Snow went naively assumes Snow can handle it so starts to spread out on the ground eyes peeled for anything. Oh, my lady! I was here part of the morning, at least. Around 9:30ish? * LordFate takes a couple of deep breaths before meeting Royal's eyes. He looks a bit shaken, still, nevertheless. "Ma'am?" You were so set to get out of the office, what's *your* plan of attack now? Yes'm! I arrived about that time. We start late here - there's not much that really has to be done at this office. * PrincessRoyal eyes Fate a little more closely. "And are you getting sick or something? You don't look too good." Not motion sickness, is it? Ah, did you happen to see anything out of the ordinary in the intersection or along the street here? * Receptionist gestures behind her - the back half of the office room is unlit, and only a couple of cubicles are occupied. ...happens from time to time. Whenever I sleep in the car. Sorry. I'll be alright in a minute. ...right. My plan, such as it is, is in action. *nods to those who've started investigating* ...I don't think so? We don't have a good view out the window here, though. I'm a useless resource in this stage of operations no matter where we go. But Twister and Kiss are both much more useful on the ground than spinning their wheels. Can you maybe describe what exactly you're looking for? * PrincessRoyal shakes her head, and walks off to talk to the H-2 camera investigators. You didn't hear anything? ...no... maybe someone stomped on the brakes once? There was a delivery truck that we believe was attacked somewhere within these couple blocks. There's also the matters of the cameras going out at the same time, we believe to be connected. Oh, wow. We lost a couple of terminals this morning before I got here. One even started smoking, I hear. Was anyone here at that time? * LordFate turns up the gain on his link to the others' radio mics, so he can pick up conversations that they're all having. Rani was back in her cubicle, she, uh, saw her screen go out. Is she still here? Yes, I guess... May I speak with her? * LordFate makes a note to have a watch-response team set up to react to reports of screens going down. Need functional eyes on the ground and overwatching ASAP in those situations. * Receptionist shrugs. "I - sure." She goes back into the office. Lady Kiss finds relatively fresh tire marks in the street - someone was driving north, and slammed on the breaks fifty meters before the intersection. * LadyKiss frowns, and starts looking around where the tire marks stop. She tried to see what cameras might see this area. Something was obviously blocking the way, something big or important enough to actually make it slam on its breaks, hard, fast, and suddenly. * One of the BobOmbs settles on Kiss's head. Apparently her afro is interesting. And comfortable. The size on the tracks fits what she knows of the delivery van. In front of it, there's... nothing. No damaged pieces laying in the road, just some dirt along the edges. The Bob-omb flutters down to the pavement, and starts hopping next to the dirt along the edge. * LordFate watches from his perch near the van. * PrincessRoyal continues talking to the camera people, eyeing the team as she does so. The camera repair and analysis team doesn't have a lot to say - just that there are some popped capacitors on the devices and that it looks like secondary lightning damage. * PrincessRoyal raises her eyebrows and takes notes. * LadyBobOmb makes a querulous sound. It doesn't make much sense, but it does carry over the mics. * PrincessRoyal then taps in a note to the team. [Taking a walkaround of the surrounding area. Keep on doing whatever you're doing.] * LadyKiss watches the BobOmb smiling a bit, and then frowns going down to see what it making noises about. Find something, BobOmb? Not me, but one of the little ones is questioning something that Kiss was looking at. Whatcha got, Kiss? * LadyBobOmb pauses, and asks it what it's found. The dirt has a shoeprint in it - light, but very clean. It's on the small side, like that of a young teen or a short woman. Can we get a casting crew over here? Kiss, it's found a shoeprint. ^^ Yes, It's a good little bomb, can we get some people to preserve it? One of the H-2 crews, this one from the nearby lot where the tanning bed was dumped, comes over as she waves. What have you got? Shoe print. * LadyKiss points to it a bit smiling. ...oh, wow, that's a lot better than the smears we found. * H-2Crewman starts marking it off with traffic cones. * The BobOmb flutters around it, then lands back on the big fuzzy thing that looks like a big BobOmb. It makes a cute sound as it lands back on Kiss's afro. Thank the BobOmb. * LadyKiss reaches up patting it. * Rani ducks out of the cubicles, looking intimidated. Lady? Good afternoon! How are you doing? Lady BobOmb and Princess Royal eventually wind up bumping into each other as they tour the perimeter. Uh, fine? I was wondering if you could describe exactly what happened with your power this morning. My screen went out! Like it was unplugged? It wasn't unplugged! I looked! I know I'm just asking if it sparked or anything like there was a power surge. No, it just went out. Seiji's started smoking, but it stopped after a moment. Were you the only one in the office when it happened? Yes! Mmm about what time would you say? Before anyone else arrived! ...so maybe nine? Something like that - since my screen went out, I couldn't see what time it was! * LadySnow nods and pulls up the pictures of the women at the arcology and Bo as well. "Do you recognize any of these women? Maybe you saw them this morning or another day around here in the neighborhood." There were some women waiting in the street, I saw them! But I didn't see their faces. Any idea what they were doing? The receptionist nods, and notes that she noticed them too. That's why I remember them - they were just standing there! No one just stands around the streets here. Can you point out where exactly for me? And about what time you saw them there? Just before nine... and they were around where your friends are standing out there. Hmm... thank you. If you can think of anything else or any other place you might have seem them, I'd appreciate it if you gave me a call. * LadySnow writes down her number. They nod. Snow finds herself back in the street, looking at the footprint with everyone else. * LadySnow heads back out onto the street, to let Royal know what she found. * Ozawa rolls up with the bus. * LadyKiss smiles and gets on the bus. "Thank you Ozawa." Well we know that they were standing here. Or at least some ladies close to their descriptions were. Where next? * LadyBobOmb makes a 'come hither' motion, and soon enough, the two errant Bobs start fluttering around Kas's head, orbiting her in bad synchronization. One of them bounces off the frame of the bus before recovering as Kas gets on the bus. Ningyo City would be good to go to before things get worse. That or the ANL HQ. * LadySnow collects some of the dirt by the tire tracks to have it tested. * Ozawa grimaces. Those are in opposite directions, my ladies. I know. Hmm. Think we're likely to get more or less answers with most of the members being in jail, though? In jail? Weren't they arrested at the arcology? Not just at the arcology. Uh. I suppose some would have been. I didn't think the protest was that violent, though. Oh. I'm sorry. * LadyBobOmb does a quick search through the call logs, pinpointing which number or numbers could have been called around the same time the call from near the camera outage came from, and then has Glitch ID the people or places associated with the numbers. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just arrest everyone? No. But it'd be nice if we could show them the error of their ways. But they are just people. The one who received the call is the one we want to talk to, and I suspect they were not personally involved in any of the demonstrations to be arrested. If the Queen says the ningyo are okay then they're okay. The phone which made the nearby call to the ANL seems to be a roaming unit - from the ID number, you're guessing European. How do we convince them to talk to us though? * PrincessRoyal pinches the bridge of her nose and shakes her head. * LadySnow sounds kinda nervous about the whole meeting the ANL thing. We walk in there and talk very very nicely to them Snow. * LadyBobOmb frowns. "Though, this is interesting." Hm? The number that was called to presumably inform them of this is a international phone. We don't have it's ID on our databases, but it looks like a European number. * LadyBobOmb checks for recent activity on it, to see if a) it's still being used, and b) if it can be traced through GPS. ...interesting. Huh. Well I guess that at least gives us something to ask them. Belgium, again? Most likely, but that's not something you just ask. It's been used every few days for the last month or so - one number is highlighted by Snow's EI immediately - it's Anemone's brewery. We can probably trace the area code on it for an ident. I bet that was Bo calling her... * LadyBobOmb checks to see if they called the shipping agency about the tanning bed. Not from this phone, at least - that number isn't in the history. I say we visit the ANL. All right. Let's go. We're closing to getting ahead of them there, and unfortunate though it may be, the Ningyo kidnapping will only be filling in blanks at this point. * LadySnow frowns but doesn't say anything. * LadyKiss nods. "Sounds good." How so? * LadyBobOmb continues trying to ID or track the phone, prioritizing what she can to try to get the results by the time they get to the ANL HQ. A lookup of the phone's code confirms it is from Belgium. Any more detail is going to require international requests for information. * LadyBobOmb also tries to put in an intercept request to immediately notify of any calls through any of the local towers or communication nets by that number, or any other international number. All right. To the ANL we will go. * LadyBobOmb nods. "It is Belgium." * Ozawa throws the bus into gear, and the team rolls southward. [break session] Session Close: Sat Nov 04 16:35:25 2006