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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Codename: GhostFox" data-source="post: 845813" data-attributes="member: 4113">Day 1. Aulensburg, Central European Sector, European Alliance.Diamonds. Designer fashion. And dilettantes. Sarah and X-cel are surrounded by expensive jewelry, haute couture and a cross section of European Alliance's high society. Celebrities, diplomats, industrialists and even a few well-dressed, yet poorly disguised gangsters rub shoulders with one another, cajoling, flirting and wheel-and-dealing. Many of the guests are inured to their lavish surroundings, the marble floors painstakingly polished to a mirror-like luster, plush, elegant furniture, gilded mirrors, luminous chandeliers and fine accessories. Scores of conversations fill the room with a dull roar and the smell of money is in the air. The gala is hosted by Arthur Gurov, a Petrovin expatriate and one of the European Alliance's wealthiest and most influential film moguls. After raking in huge sums at the box office, Gurov purchased a sprawling mansion in the heart of the historic city of Aulensburg. Ever eager to show-off his wealth and his newest prize, Gurov wasted no time in inviting the Alliance's haute monde to his new home.A source has revealed that an enemy operative is on the guest list. Or rather the agent is providing private security for a VIP attending the gala. Seizing the opportunity to strike back at an enemy of the Republic, Section 9 chose to act quickly and decisively.Late this afternoon, X-Cel and the deadly beauty known as to the public as Sarah Greenwood were summoned to a well-known brokerage firm that served as a DCIS front company. Deep in the bowels of the Brechenmyer-Tsang corporate offices, the two Section 9 agents were given their objectives:* Attend the gala. Between the briefing and the gala, Section 9 was able to cobble together a suitable cover identity and/or disguises for each agent. Sarah and X-Cel were given enough latitude in choosing their approach and their cover identities. * Copy the data from the enemy agent's mobile phone SIMM card using a PDA-sized gadget provided by Section 9. Naturally, this objective must be achieved without the making the target aware that his mobile phone is missing.* Find a way to trace the enemy agent and his cohorts back to their local safe house. That enemy agent is Simon Riese, a dangerous operative and his presence always introduces an unstable element in any DCIS area of operation. He has flitted on and off Section 9's radar for several years. Riese has spoiled several key operations by running interference on behalf of rival agencies. This dark Midas is responsible for neutralizing moles, countless informants and the deaths and disappearances of nearly half-a-dozen Section 9 operatives. Potential strategic victories have turned sour; no thanks to Riese’s withering touch.Among the 11 missing or dead Section 9 agents were field team recently deployed to <a href="http://hyperkinetic.valeraweb.com/fpoint_hadrapur.html" target="_blank">Hadrapur</a>. The operatives were tasked with investigating reports that a criminal gang called the Golden Tigers was using super-soldier type drugs. During the briefing earlier this afternoon, X-Cel's and Sarah's Control Officer also included a <a href="http://hyperkinetic.valeraweb.com/frep_series1_serial1.html" target="_blank">field report</a> on the Hadrapur mission.<img src="http://www.valeraweb.com/hyperkinetic/npc_images/npc-riese.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />X-Cel recognized the face on the viewscreen; it is the face of the man known to X-Cel as "Larkin".((EDIT: Updated the URL for Riese's pic))</blockquote>

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