Meeting at the D.O.I.

[maggotbone]

Who: Callie, Julian, Jack and all those that signed up here
What: A secured meeting at the D.O.I... Things get rolling towards Import action against Skrulls and Vulcanu
When: Thursday, 6pm
Warnings: None?
Notes: Assume your characters have been contacted by either Callie, Julian, and Jack prior to the meeting- pin pointing their interest in helping with Import support and taking down Vulcanus. Any questions just PM Brakish.



Callie waited as the Imports they had contacted filed in to the conference room. She glanced over the room, giving a nod to her assistant who closed the door. Clearing her throat, Callie stepped to the head of the conference table.

"Thank you for coming tonight. As you all should know by now... we have communicated with you due to our attempt to rallying an Import committee to finally take a stand against the organizations that threaten us and in effect, the natives that live here. The D.O.I. has been continuously running an investigation since the last major clusterfuck. We've run across a couple leads... but the trick here being most activity we are seeing is happening over seas."

Callie gave a nod, projecting a map onto the screen behind her.

"Here you see our biggest lead-- As you can see, there's some activity in England..Skrull related. Our guy in question is the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs-- Craig Williamson." She clicked to a picture of the fellow in question.

"He's fairly public, incredibly vocal about immigration restrictions, and thought fairly highly of by his government. As the Import population rose in number, he called for stronger border control. It was to the surprise of no one that he became one of the earliest supporters of the ImBargo Act, and was one of its strongest champions in the British Cabinet. His role in securing the necessary support for the Act in the Cabinet as well as within Parliament itself cannot be overstated. A popular and trusted Foreign Secretary, he is viewed on the whole as having the country’s best interests at heart, even though the ImBargo Act itself has always been a subject of controversy."

She stepped ahead. "Support for Mr Williamson suffered a marked decline after ImPorts were attacked in Venezuela by Vulcanus. Mr Williamson has given fewer press interviews over recent months, though his stance on ImBargo remains as firm as ever, and he rarely comments on protests against the Act from other quarters except to restate his own position."

She shook her head. "As you can probably guess, we need to confirm him as a possible Skrull, which requires deeper investigation.... which means infiltrating the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as agency workers. If there is corruption, it'll be found in their filing systems-- particularly evidence that Williamson's policies represented a marked change from his predecessor's. Involvement with Vulcanus will be found by way of his private office, no doubt. Records, diaries, and expenses will be telling."

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[incywincyhero]

After talking to Callie, Spidey skittered over in Jack's direction, hopping up onto the back of a chair. "Heya, Chief," Spidey said. "Looks like I'm staying in town for now, which means I'm all yours. And you don't even need to buy me dinner, first, though I'd never say no to coffee."

[out_of_time]

Jack resists the urge to flinch when approached by the man that moves like a bug. Spider-Man's unique body movements can take some getting used to. "Glad to have you with me," he says, nodding in greeting. "There'll be plenty of coffee, don't worry. How are you with research?"

[incywincyhero]

"You know how some kids want to be superheroes when they grow up, and then they grow up to be a research scientist in some underfunded lab somewhere? Well, when I was a kid I wanted to be a research scientist in some underfunded lab somewhere. Funny where life takes you."

'Course, technically he is a research scientist in a very well-funded lab, now, but that's such a recent development he still doesn't quite believe it's his life.

[out_of_time]

Congratulations Spider-Man, you actually got Jack to laugh a little at a high-tension serious-business operation meeting.

"Well here's your chance to live your dream, because we don't have a lot of funding and we've got a lot of research to do," he says. "Any information on our end that the other teams can use, we'll find and compile it. Any information they send back, we'll be the ones running analysis."

[incywincyhero]

Though Jack couldn't see it, Spidey smiled as well; it was nice, having his attempts at lightening the mood appreciated for what they were. Jack understood his sense of humor wouldn't stop him from getting down to business.

Even if putting it in those terms immediately got that one song stuck in his head.

"Sounds good. Where are our headquarters gonna be, here? Or are we splitting up the workload and doing it on our own? What are our security protocols?"

[out_of_time]

"We'll work from here as much as we can," Jack answered, glad to get right down to the brass tacks of this project. "It's got the resources and the security we need. A comm filter has been set up so we can contact everyone on the team confidentially. Sensitive intel gets circulated between us, Callie, and Julian before it goes to the whole team, though."

Jack was acutely aware that a team this size had as many risks as it did eventually. It would just take one of the teenagers having loose lips to sink everything.