The Foundation (IC)

[Chanlin]

Doyle seems lost in thought for a few moments before speaking again. "Seems ta me if I were ta do dis alone Oi'd arrange ta be at one o' da public shows ta case da place." He glances over at Black, "Don' suppose ya got a photo of da glasses, or a convincin' replica already made?"

[Jay 2K Winger]

Romanza's Briefing Room

Joey nodded a bit at Fred. "Sounds like you have some postcognition as well, but a bit more broad-spectrum. Mine is a lot more focused and item-specific." He glanced to Romanza. "Sounds like we should take him to Calverton, let him see the most recent scene and see if he can pick up something. And trust me, I have no intention of deliberately touching that knife if I can help it." He shuddered. "I'm going to be having nightmares as it is from touching that woman's blood earlier."

[Mytical]

Fred thinks "Well, any chance we can either see or visit the last spot it was? Mostly I don't need a vision to find things or people. I can take a single look at a room and if there is even the smallest traces can tell you who's been there, what they did, and even sometimes figure out where they might go next. That and there is a chance seeing the area might trigger a vision."

[Kheldarson]

"So...main goal is getting me close enough to the glasses to pocket them. And then out. All without being noticed." Loren sighs. "That's a tall order."

[KabeRinnaul]

Black's Team
"You can handle the details, and I'll make suggestions if I think you're missing something. Aside from that, I'll just be letting you know how things are set up. The object is in what amounts to a private museum, where he likes to show off his collection. Doors are locked and alarmed, as are his display cases - reports indicate that the case the glasses are in is especially secure. We also know private security has been hired to watch the building when it's closed to the public."

[Chanlin]

"Sounds like it could be interestin'" Doyle says noting the reactions of his soon to be partners. "Da details of how ta do it up ta us or ya already got it planned fer us too?"

[Sarlon]

"glasses are the second most commonly lost thing among humans you know....besides keys."

Sarah speaks a little more confidently now...

"when do we leave and how exactly are we getting there?"

[Kheldarson]

"You want us to steal glasses?" Loren sits back in mild disbelief.

[KabeRinnaul]

Romanza's Team
She nods, and taps the various locations to bring up short profiles of each incident. "The fey tend to carry items of ritual importance, and use them repeatedly. When we find this one, I really suggest you avoid touching that knife." The last part directed towards Joey.

"I like where Black was going with this grouping. I just really wonder if there isn't a way for you to see where it is now." And that one towards Fred.

Black's Team
"Hm... not that we've ever encountered. Now, there could be plenty of other reasons. A particularly mischievous awakened animal, certain forms of poltergeist, or the odd case of interdimensional slippage. Last one is always fun to figure out. Turns out most solid shapes are actually rather flimsy, 4th-dimensionally speaking. Things get a bit jumbled. Then again, maybe that's exactly what it is and you get to uncover a new type of EN. Anyway, to answer the previous question, there's a wealthy collector of oddities near Savannah, Georgia. Most of his collection is the typical 'Believe it or Not' garbage, but he's recently acquired something that caught our eye. A pair of glasses that somehow distort perceptions and lead to feelings of euphoria. We're not certain exactly what they are or how they work, because the agent sent in to investigate didn't have a chance to try them, only see them used by someone else."

Cassandra's Team
"Probably. But then again, I'm probably our most experienced agent, so a good number of unknowns get sent my way, too. I hope you're the adventurous sort, because we'll probably be getting all the weird ones."

She waits until everyone finds places around the table and brings up the touch screen again, this time displaying what seem to be new cases in need of investigation, and begins flipping through files.

"Mysterious disappearances, anyone? I've got three of those. Including one involving human trafficking. Hm, and a mysterious crime spree with indications of some sort of sex cult. And one... Hm. Well, this one is best left alone for now." She pulls the four files up on the display, while closing and removing a fifth.

[dragon_wings]

'So we'll be hunting fey' mused Siobhan interested.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Joey nods to Fred. "My own visions-- I think the technical term for them would be 'postcognition'-- can be triggered by touching something." He shrugs a little. "Most of the time, what I pick up is so low-key as to be unnoticeable. But if something particularly 'strong' happened to it or around it, what I pick up is a lot stronger." He massages his temples. "It doesn't work when I touch a person or something living, except for bodily fluids, especially blood."

He nods to the map Romanza's called up, pointing to the dot in Virginia. "Calverton, Virginia. Most recent hob attack," he says, barely noticing that he abbreviated 'hobgoblin' like that. "The hob used a knife to butcher its victim, apparently made of obsidian."

[Sarlon]

sarah listens carefully to black a thoughtful expression on her face.

"Mr Black, this may seem a silly question, but my foster mother used to think we had a house goblin....you know....make things disappear even though you've looked the same place 50 times? then suddenly its there again....do they really exsist?"

[Chanlin]

Doyle gives a slightly bemused Grin, "So who be da someone we're gonona relieve dis item from?"

[Mytical]

Fred shrugs. "I have no idea..or if they actually have triggers. Can be something as mundane as a cat is going to knock over a vase to when an earthquake is going to hit. Though it seems the higher the stress I am under the more powerful the visions are, and the more relevant they are. The clearer, and more informative, the vision..the worse they hurt. As for how they work..it's like watching a movie in my head...only i am on the set of the movie. Nobody can see me, and I can move around .. sometimes..and sometimes it is too quick to do so, but I can't actually interact with anything, just see different viewpoints."

[KabeRinnaul]

Black turns his attention to Doyle. "I'm going to have you doing a recovery job. You remember the bit about anomalous items? Good, that's going to be important. Now, to get things started, how about we take over the neighboring conference rooms and spread out into teams. Romanza, you get to organize going after the hobgoblin. San, I'm sure you have things under control."

She nods, and gestures for her team to follow her up the hall, which includes Savant, the one she came with in the first place, with Romanza leading Fred and Joey to a similar room in the other direction, and Browning and Winchester heading out towards the transports.

Cassandra's Team
She answers Terry's question as the move down the hall. "The hobgoblin Romanza's team is concerned with is one example. Cannibals, basically, and very strong. Fey share a few traits, which is why we group them together, and believe them to be somehow related. First, they're very resistant to damage from anything but certain forms of iron. Second, they have a particular look about them, to our sight. And third, they're sociopaths to a one. Not to mean they're all killers, but they don't seem capable of seeing anyone but themselves as anything but objects."

Romanza's Team
Romanza leads the two into a room similar to, but slightly smaller than, the one they'd just been in, and starts working on the table's display surface, bringing up a map of the mid-Atlantic coast, covering from eastern Pennsylvania down to the very northernmost parts of North Carolina, with a series of locations lighting up. "So, Fred, how exactly do your visions work? What triggers them?"

Black's Team
"Well, now that we have the room to ourselves, we'll continue." He pauses. "Although I have to say, I like the part where I get left the biggest room. Makes you feel special, you know? Anyway. Anomalous objects are those random little items that pop up and either cause problems, or do things we'd really rather no one know about. Once had a key that would link two doors together. You'd lock the goal with the key, then you could unlock any other locked door with it, and you'd come out of the one you'd locked before, instead of passing through the one you had just unlocked. We're still not sure how that works. But this time we're going to be trying to get an item from someone's personal collection."