Initial Report

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Okay, North sent his missing reports back by hand with Jubilee, and I'm sorting through the information right now. The major worry point is that a few of his contacts in the old Soviet Union are dead or missing under extremely suspicious circumstances. And apparently the ones that aren't dead or missing are running scared.

It's unclear whether this is part of a coordinated attack on us. I'm currently looking into the dead and missing people, trying to find some kind of pattern. I could use help from everyone not busy with something else.

Comments

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I will be in the office in half an hour. How many contacts has North lost?

First we are set up and then we start losing contacts and the destruction of the tower? Perhaps a coincidence but I think we should bet on not. Text me names, I can start calling while I walk to the subway.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Enough to pretty seriously worry him.

And is it paranoia if they really are out to get you?

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is just justified paranoia. What a silly question.

Does no one in the Ukraine answer their phone? Voice mail, voice mail, this number is no longer in service, voice mail.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

To be fair, it is the middle of the night (like 1 or 2AM) there right now.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

If I have to answer my phone at two in the morning for contacts, they should return the courtesy.

[x-marrow.livejournal.com]

Guys, since when was our downstairs neighbor a globetrotter? Because I swear, I just saw him here in Warsaw.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Jubilee saw him in the airport a few days ago... this is too many coincidences. He lives in our building.

Warsaw? Doug, are any of North's missing contacts from Warsaw?

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

...no, but a pair of ex-KGB agents who fit the pattern of killings were.

Okay, time to hack...er, "ask politely"...the TSA database to see where he's been traveling.

...then again, he might not be traveling under his own name if he's responsible...which means it's probably time for some of the finest facial recognition software in the world, if I say so myself (and I do) to do its thing as well.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I will just pop over to the corner store and get you a case of.. what ridiculous caffeine drink are you taking these days?

I hate this. Did I mention that I hate this?

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

I'm in the office, so put me to work. I can check into the ex-KGB agents if you like, or just look for pattens.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I want you to go dig through as many newspapers from Russia and the other former USSR countries and get me deaths of anyone with mafiya ties, or who had money and was any kind of business owner. Not 'corner market' business either.

I knew I recognized some of those names in Doug's list of missing and dead. Jake and Emma and Remy and I ruined one of their major investments.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

I think I remember the report on that one. I've sent you some initial findings in e-mail, looks like there's a whole bunch of deaths that look suspicious.

Not exactly news for mafia but along with the other information we have, it's hinky.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Merde. At this point I am starting to wonder if this Winter Soldier is actually real.

I am going to end up selling my soul to Vazhin, I just know it.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

Don't go selling your soul just yet. I'll send you the rest of this stuff when I'm done.