Current Assignment: The Memory of Azov
Rogues Gallery!
You are charged with recovering the Faberge Egg - The Memory of Azov, recently stolen from the Kremlin Armoury in Moscow Russia.
October 1: Briefing, settling personal affairs (Dallas) and otherwise getting to know new team member Dr. Celeste Hart, while new team member, Dr. Kieran McNamara is already busy in Moscow with collabortors Luci, Dmitri and Anatoly.
October 2: Flight to Moscow for the group, with some odd experiences on the plane... could it be gremlins? Gargoyles? Whirling, swirling mists of green and silver... Later that evening, Charlotte has an affair, but mysteriously disappears while everyone else has yet another mysterious experience... too personal for most, and lots of gloom and doom... or help?
October 3: Emergency meeting at 7 AM at the Radisson, to which Kieran is asked to attend, along with Luci, Dmitri and Anatoly. There is some consternation as Gregor seems to believe some 'monster' is involved with Charlotte's disappearance. Celeste and Jonah appear to have gotten to know each other quite well. Dallas is flippant as usual. Felice seems quietly upset, possibly spending a tear filled evening. The meeting ends with several leads being investigated - Trevor to see if he can get a face from the security video of 'wheelchair' man dumping his wheelchair in an ally. Upon returning to their rooms (or digging through pockets and purses) characters find certain 19th century 'gifts' of various kinds... and in working through that... the Sangraal team slowly learns that it is now apparently October 3rd, 2009! After much consternation... they accept this... for now. though Jessica is thrilled that Beringer will meet her in London, having sent her gifts for two years now!
October 4th: Road Trip - in search of Nicholoas's journal in Kostroma..
NPCs to remember (or not!):
Russian Team with Kieran McNamara:
- Dmitri Sokolov, Anatoly Radchenko, Luci Markorov
- Bodyguards: Igor, Yuri, Ilsa, Mikhail
Bernie - Kieran's boss at the Smithsonian
Various dignitaries involved:
- Sergei Ivanovich - project manager at the Kremlin Armoury in charge of Kieran's project. A bit ineffectual looking, watery blue eyes, nervous and often pompous and very suspicious of others.
- Pierre Salon - French, debonair, with UNESCO
- Otto Schwartzhand - German, German, with UNESCO
- Gregor Yurievitch - Attache
Trevor's Faberge Egg Research Results
Trevor's early results (1 - 2 hours of search time) :
Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg, Ukrainian, owner and president of Renova
Group - a large Russian conglomerate. Shows many transaction, much
larger than 50k, and has traveled extensively in the past 60 days.
He owns 15 of the eggs and in 2007 the Forbes eggs he collected were on
display in the Kremlin Armoury and in Dubrovnik.
Trevor's search finds that most of the eggs are in museums:
Kremlin Armory Museum, (Moscow, Russia) 10
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, (Richmond, Virginia, USA) 5
New Orleans Museum of Art, (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) 3
Royal Collection, (London, UK) 3
Edouard and Maurice Sandoz Foundation, (Switzerland) 2
Hillwood Museum, (Washington, D.C, USA) 2
Walters Art Museum, (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) 2
Cleveland Museum of Art, (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) 1
**Albert II of Monaco collection, (Monte-Carlo, Monaco) 1
Russian National Museum, (Moscow, Russia) 1
Fersman Mineralogical Institute, (Moscow, Russia) 1
Private Collection 4
Digging out the names of private collectors is more challenging and will
take more time. The records of these are few and conflicting and often
a dummy trail of corporations listed as having owned these at one time...
Location Unknown 8
No further information on the unknown.
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Russian Files that Trevor has been going through since before the break:
The files details a long range of KGB experiments run from 1970 to 1982 performed by the following:
- Mikhail Lomonosov
- Dmitri Kutuzov
- Vladimir Dostoevsky.
Those who bought this info:
- Nicholas Poliponi
- Arthur Gibbs
- Michael Weston
- Nachman Farkash
After roughly two hours work, Trevor finds a something that looks
like a code key to the author - it is the opening bars of a song
famous in Russia during the late 50's and 60's.
After a quick search, Trevor comes up with the name - Leningrad
Nights/Midnight in Moscow/Moscow Nights/Evenings of Moscow's Suburbs
written by composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy and poet Mikhail Matusovsky
in 1955, but upon the request from the Soviet Ministry of Culture,
the song title was changed to "Podmoskovnye Vechera" (Moscow Nights
in English) and the original lines of the song were also changed.
Those bars of music to the song seem to be the signature of the author.
Which brings to mind an obscure name in the hacker world:
Ivan the Potter...
going by IP...
A possible suspect. All that is known about Ivan the Potter is that
he views himself as a defender of the common man against powerful
authority figures/government.
He finds information related to the drug tests. Specifically:
a. effects were temporary and random
b. included mind-reading, fire starting, out of body travel,
levitation, etc.
c. those with analytical minds were able to control, but eventually
went mad
d. high doses maintained effects for weeks, but additional doses
needed to maintain effects
e. subjects craved drugs after as few as 3 doses.
f. IP Ivan was reported killed in a laboratory explosion in Italy in 2004
g. He gets the feeling his efforts on Ivan are being tracked.
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Trevor's hacking results for Starkovich cell phone records:
Current phone:
Long list of calls - what stands out are a flurry of calls made
beginning just after midnight on the 14th (London time).
First is a call made to the same number in Texas - the Russian
import/export company listed below from the old phone records.
Then a series of other calls, all made to Texas... that eventually
resolve themselves to belonging to Lewis and Clark Trucking Company
Then a series of calls, to London that resolve to three different
places - a pub called The Sticky Wickett Inn, a private residence
with no further information, and the American Consulate.
Then a series of associated text messages to Lewis and Clark...
dates, times, pick-up and delivery type information. Apparently,
they are to retrieve two packages, difficult and fragile package, to
be handled carefully, put it on a plane from Dallas, Texas to
London's Gatwick Airport. The sum of 10,000 is mentioned as payment
for the job.
A series of text messages to the pub summarized - pick up package at
Gatwick, a sum of 5k is mentioned, discretion and extreme caution advised.
There is a lull before several other calls stand-out - these
occurring at roughly 8 to 9 AM of the 14th (yesterday):
A text message to Heracles... agreeing to continue doing jobs and a
request for 25k in advance of that work.
At 10:45 (London Time) of the 14th is a brief call from the Russian
Import Export company.
Other calls are familiar as being to other Sangraal team members,
ie., Ian and Jonah.
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Calls missed because Dallas forgot to set up her old number to roll
over to her new number - these are time stamped from noon of the 14th
through to current time.
2 Missed calls, no messages left, same caller. Same caller also
texted the following (same message twice):
Dallas, please contact me so I can explain. It isn't what you think.
Diogenes.
Over a dozen missed calls from the same number beginning after 10 PM
of the 14th. No messages left, no text messages.
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There is a gap from September 10 through the morning of the 13th when
she didn't have a foundation phone. Presumably she was using a
'disposable' phone during this time of transit - she was in Miami
which is the location of the last calls.
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Old Phone:
The following are 'flagged' for being repeats, always very short, and
out of country and have corresponding text messages.
The last call to Dallas' phone (which went unanswered) was from a
number in Portugal that eventually is resolved to belonging to a dry
cleaner's shop there. There are three text messages in Portuguese,
which looks sort of like Spanish, but not quite.
Next to last call from a number in Cairo that is eventually resolved
to belonging to a book shop. There are over a dozen short calls to
this number over about 3 days. There are associated text messages,
in what seems to be Latin. Very short phrases.
The following calls are noted for their length and frequency, no
texting however:
September 8th, 9th, 10th - several on each day, both incoming and
outgoing. It is for a number near Dallas, Texas and is eventually
resolved as belonging to a Russian company, Firebird. Before this 3
day period, there are regular calls to this number, several times a
week for a half hour each call, though there are breaks in that
pattern with months or weeks going by with no calls at all. This 3
day period however show a distinct difference in the previous pattern.
More detail of the above:
The Russian Import/Export company based in Dallas, TX named Firebird.
Limited Partnership, trail of corporations (based in Russia,
specifically St. Petersburg) and the following names come
up: Nicholai Radchenko, Alexi Kozlov and Brina Radchenko.
Lewis and Clark Trucking Company, Dallas TX. Proprietors and owners
- John Lewis and Matthew Clark.
Then in London: The Sticky Wickett Pub (owned by brothers - Johnny
Red and One Ball Bill according to official records.
An unlisted residence - no further information
The American Consulate, general number.
The Dry Cleaners in Portugal is owned by/registered to Ricardo
Perezi, though if the shop number is tried it will say it is no
longer in service.
The book shop in Cairo is listed as being owned by Rene Duval, again,
if the number is tried, it will say it is no longer in service.
No further information on the very insistent caller.
No further information on the texter who identified himself as Diogenes.
No further information on Heracles.
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