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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tokiwong" data-source="post: 922207" data-attributes="member: 961">The Kingdom...San Francisco, Chinatown0430 hours, local time, July 1st, 2014The open-air market was empty as the woman crept through the dark-lit streets, her eyes darting back and forth; she was out of place here.  Her long jacket was huddled close for comfort, as the chill wind blew through her hair.  She adjusted her glasses, and moved forward with a purpose, knocking on the door of an address scrawled hastily on a small sheet of yellow paper.The door slid open, as an old stooped gentleman beckoned the woman in, pleasantries though were skipped, and this meeting was all business.  The woman took a seat in a crowded kitchen, and looked around at the various Chinese knick-knacks laid out carefully on the counter and the table.  The old man returned a dropped a package on the woman’s lap, a small wrapped parcel, which she quickly unwrapped.Inside she held a small data card capable of holding several terabytes of information, marked on it in a quick printed scrawl was ”Kingdom”…Oz1400 hours, local time, July 3rd, 2014Joseph Patterson, Buddha to those who knew him best, looked over the recent Intel brought in by the field agents across the world.  Most of it was pretty normal, all of them except one, the disappearance of a well-known crackpot in San Francisco.  Apparently two days ago, she came out with information that she had evidence of actual extra-terrestrial activity, nothing big except that two days later before she was supposed to come out with the information, she disappeared.That would not seem so big, if she had not been connected to another scientist in the area that recently was found dead in  car crash by a drunken driver.  Dr. Henry Bradshaw, a scientist for Vanguard Secure Computing (VSC) was a close colleague of hers, and even though his death was attributed to the accident, there was some speculation that perhaps he had been killed deliberately perhaps for sharing information he should not have.  Now this, it was just too coincidental.Buddha scowled, and hit the button his desk bring up the video commlink, “Stacy, get me Team 6, looks like we have a mission…”OOC: Alright you guys give me a post on where your characters are at, hen you receive the call, approximately 15 minutes from now. After the introductions, I will post a follow-up with a briefing…</blockquote>

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