Madam Victim has an update for you,
So LOCA decrypted those files, we got some stills of the thief which you can see, here, here and here.
We've also confirmed that the Clockworks made it onto the scene after the theft, presumably through the same hole that the thief came through in the first place.
As for the technical diagrams, I haven't completely deciphered them yet, but if my preliminary findings are correct, we need to get the chip back as soon as we can.
Now for my update, from the security cameras I assume the thief is one Midnight-Strike. The problem is that we need to locate who she took the chip to rather than Midnight-Strike herself. And I know from experience that finding Midnight-Strike is near impossible.
heya blue, got yer message
so let me get this straight...
this chick came in, stole some stuff and left, and now we gottaget the stuff back but we dont know what it is...
and you say we better just find the man who payed her and don't bother with the chick? well sure boss, let's do that.
exept the only one who knows who payed her is her. so how 'bout we go after midnight-strike and teach her how to choose a proper villain name. seriously. midnight? strike?
anyways. if it's so bloody hard to locate her, how about we ain't? we make her locate us! let's just hire her to steal some [censored] for us and then ambush her. me an' grin, we know people on rogue isles, we know who to call, just give us the word boss and some fancy target
Good plan, there's a new jewel in the Atlas Park Jewelry store that's likely to catch some villains eye, the Eye of Hera I think.
Hire her to grab it then ambush her at the scene, her phone number is 179067.
Officer Tracy reporting.
After placing the call with Midnight-Strike I went to the shop to place her under arrest. Inside the shop I was assaulted with 4 security guards that I immediately arrested for assaulting an officer despite me flashing my badge.
After examining the jewelery case I found some evidence in the form of a note.
The note was addressed to me personally and not under the assumed allias I was using. It stated that someone else had contacted her just before I did to steal the same Jewel. Including a warning that I would try to arrest her.
It appears that we have a leak in the organisation. I suggest we sweep the building for bugs.I also suggest we make sure that our future conversation cannot be overheard by anybody but us.
baaaaah!! freakin spys sappin' my beautiful plans! raaaage!
anyways, that ain't all bad news, we have a new clue ya see. the spy.
i ain't really want to go after midnight-strika anymore anyway. she's just another gun-for-hire like us, tryin to keep it to the rules. we better aim the spy's head instead. it's either one of us or some bug in the kitchen.
nothing we can't track.
btw. didya said you have new leads blue? i'm all ears
also in the future, we should do our conversations in the middle of some lake in a riddicoulsly small boat, but not talking, only writing on yellow papers bits, which is to be destroyed immedietly after reading. like the general did in the second season of prison break. the dude rocked back then, and spies did not break his perfect plans either, so yeah thats how we should roll to. i think.
How does Midnight-Strike's bank account records hit you. Both myself and Longbow know her identity but have no real evidence of wrongdoing.
The last three payments were put in within 12 hours of each other, (except your downpayment for her services, that will be reimbursed soon however) were from...
Catherine Harbridge, a known Arachnos agent.
A shell company for Crey Industries.
And a small warehouse company specialising in parts for mechanical brass clocks. Real subtle on Nemesis's part there.
So who are we checking out first?
were the payments in this order? also how old are these records?
if they're from after the atlas park jewlry job we can make the brass-boys last priority as they probably payed for the jewel. and i might not be a technowiz, but as far as i can tell mehcanical brass clocks ain't fueled by microchips.
so whositgonnabe? arachnos or crey, crey or arachnos? would be nice to know more about project freerunner to decide, so how about you give posi a call and ask him insted of playing with the encrypted data
but more importantly: ANY NEWS ON THE LEAK? aint no spy messin with me and gettin away!!
Project Freerunner is top secret, technically Posi is arguing that he wants the technical diagrams back.
From what Madam Victim has decyphered it appears to be capable of accessing systems remotely, but without the chip nothing can be confirmed. He has confirmed however that if it falls into the wrong hands then the city is pretty much doomed.
As to the leak, I'm looking into that. The only person outside myself, Madam Victim and LOCA who's aware of the investigation is Positron. As I'd trust Mel and LOCA with my life, that leaves Positron. And that's as likely as Mel signing a new contract with Crey Industries. We are looking into the possibility that my office is bugged, but that's a complex process due to Mel's disability.
Well all 3 of those organizations would be interested in a top secret project from Positron. Including Nemesis. While looking archaic, his devices are less steampunk then they appear.
The most obvious one to go after is the last one. However I smell a rat here. Why would she tell us about this? Unless she wants to put us on a sidetrack.
Check out one of the other two. In the meanwhile sweep the office for bugs. A bug can tell us much about the manufacture.
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However I smell a rat here. Why would she tell us about this? Unless she wants to put us on a sidetrack.
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Midnight-Strike didn't tell us about these, LOCA hacked into her bank account and "acquired" them whilst you were laying the ambush,
I knew Catherine straight away, another villain with little to no actual evidence of wrongdoing, the shell around the Crey company fell after a cursory investigation and why would a company specialising in Brass Mechanical clocks pay a freelance thief and assassin $12,000? A little intuitive guesswork and it was soon obvious who pulled those strings.
But she told us that she was warned just before I talked to her. There could be various reasons for her to do that and not having met her, I don't know how she thinks. But it might well be a ploy to put us of guard and on the wrong track. She knows that we would scramble to find out our leak.
In the meanwhile the buyer could get well ahead with his program. Of course, hitting her last caller, might recover the Hera Jewel which is a plus.
It's your choice, who do you want to hit up for information first?
yer call grin, i'm all lost with this whole speculating.
as for me i think nemesis is badass, and arachnos smells funny which leaves crey, who are traitorous spyin little [censored] anyway...
Hmm decisions decisions, the benefit of going for the last caller under the assumption that he is the leak. Is that we get the gem back and perhaps find out more about the leak itself. So even at the worst case and she tries to act clever we do solve at least a part of the problem.
Let's go after Nemesis then.
The mission is set, arc ID 187292.
WARNING - This mission carries a 15 minute time limit before Nemesis destroys the evidence. Good luck!
to tell ya the honest blue, i got into things last night, beer things, and i kinda slept wherever the first shines of the sun found me. i'm gonna back in the city asap and deal with those totally cool brass fellas, and find that totally lame spy and i'll eat those ice-creams (might've mixed up these two) and all but first i need some waaaaaterr
Officer Tracy reporting:
I entered the office and found it full of Nemesis soldiers. I proceeded to arrest them all but noticing that theee were to many to arrest in so little time I had no choice then to give the others a stern warning while I proceeded to find the clues before they had a chance to be destroyed.
I ran into Suspect Prime (Nemesis), who ordered his troops around to destroy all the evidence. I arrested him and while he put up a good fight, it was not a thing us police officers should fear. With the inspirational words from Roll Call Sergeant Hendricks in mind I managed to defeat him.
At the bureau his identity proved to be that he was just a copy of the real suspect prime, a fake.
I did find some paperwork that had not be sufficiently destroyed. It contained some information of our own suspect Midnight Strike.
Her real name = Rebecca Brown, age 22, blood type B
Her mother is named: Stephanie Brown.
She is supposed to have a brother who's identity is unknown but Nemesis suspect him of being a hero.
This was not the information we were hoping for. But we can use this information perhaps to place Midnight Strike under arrest. If the address of Rebecca Brown is known.
Ps. It might be wise to try and find her brother. He could be in danger here.
Allow me to get this straight, you want me, to issue a warrant, for the arrest of a woman, based on evidence found in the posession of Nemesis forces.
Yeah right, I have a look into this brother thing though, do you want to check out one of the other suspects whilst I investigate?
what the [censored]?! i'm out of town for what? like two days? and you already want to arrest little girls! seriously! what the [censored]?!
we won't arrest her (back me up here Tracy, would ya?) we gonna go and talk to her! like normal people does.
and you supposed to be the hero between two of us?
attacking little girls secret identity... not cool man! not cool at all...
Hey, I am not at the controls here. I personally applaud the little miss for robbing from Positron. I don't mind if his top secret projects fall into the good hands. Only problem is, it ain't my hands.
So this case is for the heroes and well Officer Tracy likes to arrest things. But Herczeg, don't do the righteous indignation thing about using secret identities. I bet you have used knowledge of that type for your own benefit before.
So lets give the lovely Miss Tracy the space now.
I thought he never shut up. He is a big windbag isn't he? Ok, let's not arrest her then, but keep her under observation. She is the suspect of many robberies and assaults and if found guilty belongs in the Zig. But let the professionals handle the observation while we investigate some others. Crey next?
Crey it is then.
I hate to say it though, I can't issue the warrant for Crey however, we've had a few run ins in the past, and the tribunal...
The good news is that Positron will issue the warrant, ask him for warrant 199641.
Oh, and take this, it's a tracker designed by Madam Victim, this ones set to find anything relating to Becky in the system, it should come in useful.
Here is the data, hope you can decrypt it. I also arrested every person inside, they should..
What, they are out of jail already? Lawyers..... Ooh and an automated letter from the countess herself as well? Let me guess, she put charges on us for bothering her employees?
So any news on the brother? Or should we go bother the Arachnos next?
uhm... g'day people, Vadamber were out of reach again so when he got your message, he asked to look up those nice crey gentelman for you. now i thought i have seen pretty much anything in this life, but me arresting badguys with a varrant issued by positron. crazy days i say, crazy days.
so me and my boys swept through that office and i must say i'm pretty dissapointed
back in the days you couldn't finish off the lowest villain without learning his evil plan. but these guys, these creys, they just wouldn't talk. no bragging. no gloating. no whispering. no monolouges. no laugh! i tell you, not one world. i don't know about the countess, but if i had minions like that i would kill them off myself. my ninjas, now they are villains. they brag, they gloat, my jounins wirte monolouges every poet would cry over, and my demons, my friend, those guys can do mad laugh like none.
villains are just scum these days, i say. no elegance, no style, no traditions...
oh yeah Vadember won't be back in a while so contact me whenever you have a lead, the decrypted data or the location of the next target or anything. the name is Jack. Butterfly Jack.
You got that right Butterfly Jack. It was uncanny, as if they could not talk!
/\ what he said.
also we talkin about clockworks, so we better just look up Clockwork King in the book and ask what's this all about.
also when clokcworks are involved there is one more name that comes into my mind. Penelope Yin. maybe she can help maybe she can't, but for now, i think we better put her on speed dial