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x-pete.livejournal.comThat was a really peculiar meeting. Off to Xavier's for the night - I need a word with Forge, then a drink.
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x-pete.livejournal.comAll of 24 hours back in the office, and someone wants an after hours meeting with me, here. My bastard sense is tingling, boys and girls. Still, I'll see what "Mr Smith" wants later, I suppose.
Folks, do me a favour, and make sure you're out of the office by about half seven at the latest tonight - if this turns out to be something dodgy, there's no sense in letting him get a look at anyone we don't have to.
Emma, Bets, I know you said you wanted a chat with me at some point. Hound the rest of them out for me at closing time, we'll talk before this geezer shows his face. Fair enough?
Folks, do me a favour, and make sure you're out of the office by about half seven at the latest tonight - if this turns out to be something dodgy, there's no sense in letting him get a look at anyone we don't have to.
Emma, Bets, I know you said you wanted a chat with me at some point. Hound the rest of them out for me at closing time, we'll talk before this geezer shows his face. Fair enough?
Yesterday's News
Aug. 7th, 2008 02:49 pmx-pete.livejournal.comI'm back. Astonishingly, neither Dom nor I have done anything stupid (besides smash a few things - thanks Doug) in the last 24 hours, in the face of remarkable provocation.
Amanda was right - my little tantrum yesterday was because I put together some of the research you all did the other week, and Emma made a few calls and confirmed my suspicions, and we found out that Lense is currently working for Sebastian fucking Shaw. His putting Nate in a coma is personal on any number of levels.
Dom and I very nearly fucked off to slot Shaw there and then, but sanity just about prevailed. Killing him will only bring a shitstorm down. So, new job: reprisals. Lense, however personal this is for him, is the monkey. I want the organ grinder. So we need to work out why Shaw is in bed with Trask, but more importantly, we need to send him a message. So: find me something he owns that we can fuck with - factory, warehouse, investment portfolio, I don't care what it is. Just find me something that's his that we can take from him. Nothing major, nothing he can't get by without, and preferably off US soil. Just enough to bloody his nose and send him a message.
Amanda was right - my little tantrum yesterday was because I put together some of the research you all did the other week, and Emma made a few calls and confirmed my suspicions, and we found out that Lense is currently working for Sebastian fucking Shaw. His putting Nate in a coma is personal on any number of levels.
Dom and I very nearly fucked off to slot Shaw there and then, but sanity just about prevailed. Killing him will only bring a shitstorm down. So, new job: reprisals. Lense, however personal this is for him, is the monkey. I want the organ grinder. So we need to work out why Shaw is in bed with Trask, but more importantly, we need to send him a message. So: find me something he owns that we can fuck with - factory, warehouse, investment portfolio, I don't care what it is. Just find me something that's his that we can take from him. Nothing major, nothing he can't get by without, and preferably off US soil. Just enough to bloody his nose and send him a message.
Some Work For You All
Jul. 30th, 2008 04:46 pmx-pete.livejournal.comRight then. I'm just back from Xaviers's Halfway House for Criminals, Substance Abusers and People Who Can't Be Trusted With Anything Sharp. I have been visiting Nate, for what good that might do. I don't have so many old friends that I can spare one, and some fucker has put him in a coma. Guess how happy I am?
Anyway, while I was there, I checked in with Summers, and Dom, who is in town for obvious reasons, and as I'm sure you can all imagine, even less happy about this than I am, which only makes my mood worse. Anyway, it turns out that one of the coma-dispensing shitbags in question is John fucking Lense, late of Mistra, and apparently not terribly happy about the "late" part, the ungrateful cunt.
I'm going to make some calls, because I suspect even the US Government aren't stupid enough to let a special-forces trained mutant out of psychiatric care without trying to keep some kind of tabs on him, even if they do believe he's "recovered", despite what Summers got off the rehab-scheme people when he spoke to them. It'll give us a starting point anyway, but I want to know what the fucker has been doing, and preferably, where we can find him now, because there is a lengthy queue of people lining up to hurt the bastard - I believe I'm in fourth place, behind Moira, Dom and Angelo, but the very important part about this is that behind me there are a large number of ex-Mistra types who are taking this really personally, and if we don't find something fairly fast, they may decide to start smashing things at random on the basis he has to be hiding behind something.
Dom's told them we're looking into it, so they'll sit on their hands for now, but Mistra did not select for patience and willingness to sit around doing nothing when they picked people to screw with. As Dom put it, she can keep them from going off the reservation for a while, but it'd be much better if they had a target, and we could all go off the reservation together and teach the fucker his lesson.
Anyway, while I was there, I checked in with Summers, and Dom, who is in town for obvious reasons, and as I'm sure you can all imagine, even less happy about this than I am, which only makes my mood worse. Anyway, it turns out that one of the coma-dispensing shitbags in question is John fucking Lense, late of Mistra, and apparently not terribly happy about the "late" part, the ungrateful cunt.
I'm going to make some calls, because I suspect even the US Government aren't stupid enough to let a special-forces trained mutant out of psychiatric care without trying to keep some kind of tabs on him, even if they do believe he's "recovered", despite what Summers got off the rehab-scheme people when he spoke to them. It'll give us a starting point anyway, but I want to know what the fucker has been doing, and preferably, where we can find him now, because there is a lengthy queue of people lining up to hurt the bastard - I believe I'm in fourth place, behind Moira, Dom and Angelo, but the very important part about this is that behind me there are a large number of ex-Mistra types who are taking this really personally, and if we don't find something fairly fast, they may decide to start smashing things at random on the basis he has to be hiding behind something.
Dom's told them we're looking into it, so they'll sit on their hands for now, but Mistra did not select for patience and willingness to sit around doing nothing when they picked people to screw with. As Dom put it, she can keep them from going off the reservation for a while, but it'd be much better if they had a target, and we could all go off the reservation together and teach the fucker his lesson.
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Jul. 1st, 2008 11:49 amx-pete.livejournal.comWhy the hell did we not know about this? Contrary to what conspiracy nuts and paranoids would have you believe, it's not really that possible that someone could build a suitcase nuke, and no-one would notice, it's just that you couldn't prove they'd done it in a court of law, but when it comes to suitcase nukes, most governments seem unsurprisingly willing to suspect due process. How did no-one notice and stop these bastards?
This does not add up. And you know how I get when things don't add up. I'm sure someone will be along in a bit to claim responsibility, but I'd like to find them and kill them before they do that if we can, because once they do, they're a cause, and that invariably makes things messy. I'll be on the phone most of the morning - if anything breaks on the news that isn't already in they system, then someone hammer on my door.
This does not add up. And you know how I get when things don't add up. I'm sure someone will be along in a bit to claim responsibility, but I'd like to find them and kill them before they do that if we can, because once they do, they're a cause, and that invariably makes things messy. I'll be on the phone most of the morning - if anything breaks on the news that isn't already in they system, then someone hammer on my door.
In Other News
Jun. 6th, 2008 04:01 pmx-pete.livejournal.comYou'll find footage from the attempted break in at Muir the other day on the shared drive. Even if this wasn't one of our friends, there is a history of bastards with bad reasons to be trying for things on Muir, so this is a priority job, boys and girls, and I hope none of you had important weekend plans.
Who are these people, and why are they trying to fuck with my friends?
Who are these people, and why are they trying to fuck with my friends?
Security Heads Up
Jun. 6th, 2008 03:14 pmx-pete.livejournal.comI've noticed that Xavier's Home For Wayward Psychotics and Unwed Mothers is maintaining its typically high standards for who they allow through the doors.
Be aware that the new face round their way teaching hand to hand combat is on my personal shit list in quite a big way, and should be regarded as a suspect character.
The personal bit, well, I admit it's personal. But what's relevant is that she's connected to a dodgy mercenary group who I can well do without learning a fucking things about us. The only reason I'm not shouting about her all over the public journals is that Nate knows the score there too, and he's willing to keep his gob shut, because she's apparently there for treatment of some kind and Charlie might actually follow through on his usual bed-wetting threats if that got disrupted.
Still, Nate is very old, and his brain has gone soft in places with all the getting hit in the head he does. Treat her with suspicion - she's more than capable of playing a very long con, and has done so in the past with very little regard for the person she was fucking up at the time. She may be there for treatment, she may not, but I'm not willing to have our security compromised because Charlie can't turn away a sob story.
And if anyone can think of any way to make her life more unpleasant without it getting in the way of any treatment she may or may not be getting, and without it being traced back to us in any way, then please, let me know. She deserves a certain amount of screwing with, and there's drinks in it for you.
Why yes, I can be very childish when I'm fucked off with people.
Be aware that the new face round their way teaching hand to hand combat is on my personal shit list in quite a big way, and should be regarded as a suspect character.
The personal bit, well, I admit it's personal. But what's relevant is that she's connected to a dodgy mercenary group who I can well do without learning a fucking things about us. The only reason I'm not shouting about her all over the public journals is that Nate knows the score there too, and he's willing to keep his gob shut, because she's apparently there for treatment of some kind and Charlie might actually follow through on his usual bed-wetting threats if that got disrupted.
Still, Nate is very old, and his brain has gone soft in places with all the getting hit in the head he does. Treat her with suspicion - she's more than capable of playing a very long con, and has done so in the past with very little regard for the person she was fucking up at the time. She may be there for treatment, she may not, but I'm not willing to have our security compromised because Charlie can't turn away a sob story.
And if anyone can think of any way to make her life more unpleasant without it getting in the way of any treatment she may or may not be getting, and without it being traced back to us in any way, then please, let me know. She deserves a certain amount of screwing with, and there's drinks in it for you.
Why yes, I can be very childish when I'm fucked off with people.
If anyone manages to get hold of Wanda
Oct. 25th, 2007 09:09 amx-pete.livejournal.comTell her not to fuck about with getting a commercial flight out of DC - half of them are fucked and the other half are failing to pick up the slack in any useful manner. Tell her Emma's jet is waiting for her, and to get her arse back to work as fast as possible.
x-pete.livejournal.comI know one of the bastards that Campbell hired, and it turns out he's not happy about the job at all. Which is good, because otherwise I'd have to hunt him the fuck down. As it is, he's rolled over on them, and I'm heading up to Charlie's place now with what he gave me.
We caught a break
May. 10th, 2007 09:15 amx-pete.livejournal.comOur break, however, may not be good for the kids.
It looks like the kids have been kidnapped by Dr Rory Campbell. Yes, the one that used to work with Moira. Xavier's has received notes addressed to Moira from someone calling themselves "Ahab", but Nate swears the handwriting is Campbell's.
So: Nate has supplied us with everything Moira had on him, which given that he used to work for her, is quite a lot.
So: work him up. Trace anything we have from Moira's files. Start with his money - what's he been doing to earn a crust since MacTaggart gave him the boot? He's obviously got resources from somewhere, and I want to know where, because it's not like there are many operations that hand out free money in exchange for the kidnapping of children. Campbell's intelligent, but he's not a pro. He'll have slipped up somewhere. Find out where.
It looks like the kids have been kidnapped by Dr Rory Campbell. Yes, the one that used to work with Moira. Xavier's has received notes addressed to Moira from someone calling themselves "Ahab", but Nate swears the handwriting is Campbell's.
So: Nate has supplied us with everything Moira had on him, which given that he used to work for her, is quite a lot.
So: work him up. Trace anything we have from Moira's files. Start with his money - what's he been doing to earn a crust since MacTaggart gave him the boot? He's obviously got resources from somewhere, and I want to know where, because it's not like there are many operations that hand out free money in exchange for the kidnapping of children. Campbell's intelligent, but he's not a pro. He'll have slipped up somewhere. Find out where.
You've seen the news by now
May. 8th, 2007 09:37 amx-pete.livejournal.comXavier's has sent me what they have, which is not very fucking much. It's on the server.
Doug: threat analysis. Who's got a motive for this? Who has the technology to pull off a stunt like this?
Wanda, Betsy: get down to where the were grabbed, see if you can turn up anything - witnesses, missed evidence, funny hunches, anything. Try not to annoy the coppers around the area too much.
Angie: In the even you can get anything that seems relevant, then your best guesses, please, and then give Doug a hand.
Amanda, Illyana: you get to try and keep as much of everything else off everyone's else's desk. Yeah, I know it's not the glamorous and exciting stuff. Sorry.
Mark: very fucking unlikely, I know, but is there anyone new and suspicious in town? Anyone stupid enough to be mouthing off about their exciting new job in places where Silver's patron's might hear?
I'm going to talk to a mate in the NYPD, and with any luck, I can persuade Garrison that it'd be really nice if we got to hear about anything the FBI might be looking at.
Doug: threat analysis. Who's got a motive for this? Who has the technology to pull off a stunt like this?
Wanda, Betsy: get down to where the were grabbed, see if you can turn up anything - witnesses, missed evidence, funny hunches, anything. Try not to annoy the coppers around the area too much.
Angie: In the even you can get anything that seems relevant, then your best guesses, please, and then give Doug a hand.
Amanda, Illyana: you get to try and keep as much of everything else off everyone's else's desk. Yeah, I know it's not the glamorous and exciting stuff. Sorry.
Mark: very fucking unlikely, I know, but is there anyone new and suspicious in town? Anyone stupid enough to be mouthing off about their exciting new job in places where Silver's patron's might hear?
I'm going to talk to a mate in the NYPD, and with any luck, I can persuade Garrison that it'd be really nice if we got to hear about anything the FBI might be looking at.
Just's so's you know...
Apr. 19th, 2007 07:45 pmx-pete.livejournal.comYes, I have hired Illyana Rasputin. Anyone willing to break in to russian military bases with no training is someone we might as well hire and teach them to do it right.
Sofia, I wish you the very best of luck.
Sofia, I wish you the very best of luck.
Mansion Journals
Apr. 4th, 2007 05:09 pmx-gambit.livejournal.comI know you all want to have fun with the newest refugee that's washed back up to the mansion. But let's keep the veiled hints about what we do to a minimum. Allerdyce has gone bad, granted incompetently, once. No reason why he wouldn't do it a second time, or just end up shooting his mouth off at the wrong people without thinking first.
If you're all good, I'll make this week's training session about countering pyrokinetics prior to kicking their lungs out.
If you're all good, I'll make this week's training session about countering pyrokinetics prior to kicking their lungs out.
Take a long weekend folks.
Mar. 19th, 2007 05:11 pmx-pete.livejournal.comI've just heard from Nate that the leather mob have been out stamping on people again - some of these Preserver fuckwits.
Afraid you all lost your shot at a two week holiday, since the human-bomb-making bastard did not make it through the stamping experience in one piece.
So: the Preservers are added to the threat list, but that's enough for now. Between them and our little outing to the middle east, you've all worked very bloody hard over the last month or two. Amanda's already declared her intent to take today off for personal reasons. I see no reason why the rest of you should not as well.
So: if you're already in the office: fuck off. If you're not, don't bother coming in.
Afraid you all lost your shot at a two week holiday, since the human-bomb-making bastard did not make it through the stamping experience in one piece.
So: the Preservers are added to the threat list, but that's enough for now. Between them and our little outing to the middle east, you've all worked very bloody hard over the last month or two. Amanda's already declared her intent to take today off for personal reasons. I see no reason why the rest of you should not as well.
So: if you're already in the office: fuck off. If you're not, don't bother coming in.
Bomb makers
Mar. 8th, 2007 11:13 amx-pete.livejournal.comSeems like the we caught a bit of a break: The US government caught a Preserver bomber the other day.
Here's where it gets interesting: according to Nate, the reason there was no explosive residue at the blast sites is that the explosions seem to have caused (assuming that this guy is the same as the others, anyway) by mutants losing control of their powers. Not just in the usual teenage early-manifestation way, though. There's another mutant out there who is able to cause other mutants to build up to some kind of explosive power discharge, with fatal consequences for them and large chunks of the nearby population.
This happened to the guy they caught, too. Jean Grey got what little info we have from the bastard's brain, shortly before he went critical. This had just happened when Nate dropped me a line and he'll pass along anything more once everything is a little calmer.
Here's where it gets interesting: according to Nate, the reason there was no explosive residue at the blast sites is that the explosions seem to have caused (assuming that this guy is the same as the others, anyway) by mutants losing control of their powers. Not just in the usual teenage early-manifestation way, though. There's another mutant out there who is able to cause other mutants to build up to some kind of explosive power discharge, with fatal consequences for them and large chunks of the nearby population.
This happened to the guy they caught, too. Jean Grey got what little info we have from the bastard's brain, shortly before he went critical. This had just happened when Nate dropped me a line and he'll pass along anything more once everything is a little calmer.
x-pete.livejournal.comAs the more observant among you will have noticed, I'm not back with the rest of them. I'm going to hang on here another week or so, unless something comes up that you need me back in New York for urgently.
Work Orders
Feb. 21st, 2007 09:45 pmx-pete.livejournal.comRight:
First of all: Yeah, like Amanda says, workup time. Who are these arseholes, who's running them, who are their mates, and how can we arrange to have an extremely public and messy example made of them?
Secondly: What, if any, ties to they have to Lensherr - that sounds like his uniquely fucking stupid brand of ideology to me?
Thirdly: Why am I only hearing about them now? How did we miss this?
Lastly: the first one of you that arranges for me to spend ten mintues alone in a room with the man who arranged for the exploding fuckups will get my undying gratitude. In practical terms: I will personally pay for a two week holiday wherever you want, if you can accomplish it.
First of all: Yeah, like Amanda says, workup time. Who are these arseholes, who's running them, who are their mates, and how can we arrange to have an extremely public and messy example made of them?
Secondly: What, if any, ties to they have to Lensherr - that sounds like his uniquely fucking stupid brand of ideology to me?
Thirdly: Why am I only hearing about them now? How did we miss this?
Lastly: the first one of you that arranges for me to spend ten mintues alone in a room with the man who arranged for the exploding fuckups will get my undying gratitude. In practical terms: I will personally pay for a two week holiday wherever you want, if you can accomplish it.
You've all seen the news by now..
Feb. 16th, 2007 04:45 amx-pete.livejournal.comIt's not even the crack of sparrowshit yet, but Nate called me half an hour ago, and I've just got off the phone with Emma. Domino and Angelo are among those hurt. Amanda, Mrs Espinosa and I are leaving for Tel Aviv on Emma's jet just as soon as Amanda gets back with Angelo's mum and I'm done writing this. I thought I'd let the rest of you catch on the morning news, because that's the last lie-in any of you are likely to get for the near future.
I'm sure you all know this, but I'm saying it anyway: I want answers very fucking fast. Who did this, and how the fuck did we not know that someone was planning to strike our friends? Given the part of the world, there's quite a list of choices.
I'm sorry folks, but your weekends are all cancelled. As is pretty much everything that is not a minimum of sleep and breaks for food and drink.
I've called Yossi, and I'll go see him just as soon as I can once we've landed, so with any luck, I'll be able to pass on what the Israeli's have with only a modicum of alterations.
I'll be in touch.
I'm sure you all know this, but I'm saying it anyway: I want answers very fucking fast. Who did this, and how the fuck did we not know that someone was planning to strike our friends? Given the part of the world, there's quite a list of choices.
I'm sorry folks, but your weekends are all cancelled. As is pretty much everything that is not a minimum of sleep and breaks for food and drink.
I've called Yossi, and I'll go see him just as soon as I can once we've landed, so with any luck, I'll be able to pass on what the Israeli's have with only a modicum of alterations.
I'll be in touch.
Alright, back to work.
Dec. 5th, 2006 11:28 amx-pete.livejournal.comNo, you don't get time off. We'll all be back in the office in a day or two, so I'll bung this up now while it's fresh in everyone's minds.
That's the first part of the job done. Well done. Pats on the back all round, and I'm buying the drinks on Friday night.
In the meantime, we have two new things to keep an eye on: firstly Kim-Ye Xorn. My initial instinct is that he won't be actively malevolent, but then, my instincts have been wrong before, and I don't think he'll be remotely easy to keep an eye on, but frankly, he's fascinating, and more importantly, potentially dangerous. I'm going to let Xavier know about him and I'd like everyone to keep an eye out for anything that looks like to might be connected to the man over the coming months. The Chinese wanted to weaponise him, and I'm sure others will too. I don't expect they'll find it so easy, but I'm sure some stupid bastard will try.
Which brings me to my second point: Dr Nathaniel Essex. Consider him a medium grade priority, folks. I want to know what he's been doing for the last few years, and I want an eye kept on him on an ongoing basis. I do not believe that he helped us help Xorn simply out of the goodness of his heart, or even just out of respect for ten million lives. At the very least, I am certain that his motivation for helping Xorn was that he hopes at some future date to be able to study the man. It would not surprise me to discover that he already has an agenda to bring that about, and I think I would prefer that the bastards he works with not learn anything about Xorn at all. I don't think this'll be much easier than keeping an eye on Xorn - he's got industrial grade connections with bastards, after all. Still, worth trying - even if he never goes near Xorn ever again, I'd still like to know what shady crap he's up to, in case it needs stopping.
See you all when we get back. Nice work.
That's the first part of the job done. Well done. Pats on the back all round, and I'm buying the drinks on Friday night.
In the meantime, we have two new things to keep an eye on: firstly Kim-Ye Xorn. My initial instinct is that he won't be actively malevolent, but then, my instincts have been wrong before, and I don't think he'll be remotely easy to keep an eye on, but frankly, he's fascinating, and more importantly, potentially dangerous. I'm going to let Xavier know about him and I'd like everyone to keep an eye out for anything that looks like to might be connected to the man over the coming months. The Chinese wanted to weaponise him, and I'm sure others will too. I don't expect they'll find it so easy, but I'm sure some stupid bastard will try.
Which brings me to my second point: Dr Nathaniel Essex. Consider him a medium grade priority, folks. I want to know what he's been doing for the last few years, and I want an eye kept on him on an ongoing basis. I do not believe that he helped us help Xorn simply out of the goodness of his heart, or even just out of respect for ten million lives. At the very least, I am certain that his motivation for helping Xorn was that he hopes at some future date to be able to study the man. It would not surprise me to discover that he already has an agenda to bring that about, and I think I would prefer that the bastards he works with not learn anything about Xorn at all. I don't think this'll be much easier than keeping an eye on Xorn - he's got industrial grade connections with bastards, after all. Still, worth trying - even if he never goes near Xorn ever again, I'd still like to know what shady crap he's up to, in case it needs stopping.
See you all when we get back. Nice work.
Alright boys and girls:
Nov. 1st, 2006 10:29 amx-pete.livejournal.comAs I'm sure you'll have gathered from the swearing and throwing things, I am not fucking happy. But today is a holy day, and god has spoken unto me, and told me what I need to do in order to cheer up, and that's make other people work when they have hangovers.
Today, your jobs are simple: I want a briefing on everything we have on Erik Lensher, by the end of the day. Xavier's has just lost it's ace in the hole, and I'm sure they'll take him in. I'm sure the twat in the hat will not be happy. I don't seriously expect him to come knocking on the door up at the school, but let's be sure. And once we've taken stock of everything we know, I want everyone's best ideas on what we can do to improve what we know, for obviously bloody reasons.
Any questions?
Today, your jobs are simple: I want a briefing on everything we have on Erik Lensher, by the end of the day. Xavier's has just lost it's ace in the hole, and I'm sure they'll take him in. I'm sure the twat in the hat will not be happy. I don't seriously expect him to come knocking on the door up at the school, but let's be sure. And once we've taken stock of everything we know, I want everyone's best ideas on what we can do to improve what we know, for obviously bloody reasons.
Any questions?
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