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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1500242" data-attributes="member: 13737">ChinaRaisaXi replaces the staff in its rack.  "I am certain Master Wen will allow you to help train him," Xi says.  He extinguishes several lanterns, leaving much of the dojo in darkness.  Finally, only one lantern near Jackal remains lit.  You notice Michael staring at the canister you are still carrying with you. "Is that... from my brother?" Jackal says, eyes never leaving it. Xi is standing by the door.  "I am going to eat and speak with my Master.  Remember the circle," he says as he leaves, sliding the door closed behind him. X12"...it.  X, stop it.  I said, stop it!" you hear, coming around as something large and remarkably strong grabs your arm and pulls you up and off your feet.  "Give me that!" a deep voice says and you focus to see Carl dangling you up by your forearm, plucking a bloodied stone from your hand.  "Come on, get it together," he says, giving you a shake.  "If you start going self destructive on me, I'll slap the taste right out of your mouth."   Finally, he sets you down.  His hand is covered in blood from where he grabbed you, and you see your wound finish closing as he lets go, though you obviously have been doing this for some time.  It looks like it will actually leave a scar. "I'm going to go wash up... again," he says.  "You better get it together, man," he says, heading back to the bath house he obviously just got out of.  He nearly runs right over Li as she comes from the bath house herself.  He mutters an apology and heads into the bath house. "Here is your shirt," she says, dressed again in a simple shift for sleeping.  Her hair is wet and hangs down her back.  She hands you a towel.  "You should wash up before you rest," she says, making no comment on your bloodied arm other than that. EPIC HQJohanAbout fifteen minutes later, the door opens, and Monica, dress now rather wet, wheels out Anna, who is pretty much dressed for any other school day. "I have never gotten ready that fast in my life," she says with a stunned expression.  "I'm not even sure I have everything on that I should have on," she says, fidgetting a bit. "Hey, next time, get up on time," Monica scolds.  "Now hold on!  You get a fun ride before we are too late.  Stand aside, stud," she says to Johan as she suddenly explodes into movement, blitzing down the hall at breakneck speeds.  As they quickly vanish around a corner, you hear Anna shout out. "Weeeeeee!" You are left in their dust. War Room"Forget it, ARIS, it's not important.  The important team members are here, so let's just go over what you need to do," Mendez says.  Once everyone takes a seat, he quickly reviewes your missions. "Michelle, you'll take your team to Methesda Ironworks and Johan is taking his to Lockheed.  Let's just go over the datafiles again briefly.Lockheed National, Arizona Divison The Arizona division of Lockheed National is located 20 miles west of Tucson. Attachement: CNN News Coverage of Theft The data files involving Lockheed National start with the uninformative news footage. Since the cameras never even got past the security fence, nothing but speculation is in it. Attachement: EPIC Briefing by FBI Agent Mitchell Simmons Our investigation is coming up blank in all regards except what was stolen. Three highly specialized cryogenic containers were taken. These containers were being specially developed for safe transport of bio-engineered medical research samples. The area they were taken from is a highly secure warehouse located thirty feet under ground. From what we can tell, there has been no break in. Even from security tape footage, it appears as if the containers simply vanished. CEO Morgan is on his way to the facility to supervise the internal investigation and was very willing to have EPIC investigate the situation. Also present will be Scientific Design Engineer Braum Kentworthy, who did extensive work on the container project. Attachment: Thunders' Notes From the limited information Lockheed was willing to dislcose, it appears the containers were designed to fit into the trucks, or very similar ones, that were stolen on the Freeway last month. I find this a little too convenient. Try to find any evidence of the Mole's involvement. Also, since Lockheed National is involved in top secret government research and development, a non-disclosure agreement is in place. Nobody outside EPIC's teams are to know any details of research and development you may witness, nor are we permitted to use anything we might see. Methesda Ironworks Methesda is located on Pier 57 of the New York City docks. It is an metal works and armored vehicle development company. It is also rumored to have a robotics department. Methesda is very secretive about its clientelle. Getting any information from them will be difficult, but do not be afraid of using force if necessary. Just be careful of any security they may have. Even if you do use force, Methesda will not press charges for fear of an FBI investigation. The owner is Bryan Methesda. Beyond his tax records, we have no file on him. Only this picture. <insert blurry picture of man in wheelchair here> You'll probably end up dealing with his in house lawyer, Ronald Falcon. Attachment: Blueprints, Methesda Compounds The whole review only takes about ten minutes.  Rebound comes in about five minutes into the meeting.  Anna comes in, pushed by Monica who is running at a rather fast clip and slides to a halt inside, just as the meeting ends. "Ok, that was fun!" Anna says as Monica is obviously out of breath.  Johan runs up a few moments later, obviously having lagged behind. Sanjay comes in whenever Agamon wants <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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