Log:Legion of Doomed, Scene 1

Legion of Doomed 2012/08/02 	 Dorian Enid Guardian Mindstar Okami Spirit Star Girl Total Babe 1

Total Babe has dropped in at Starguard, as she often does before or after work, to see if there are any updates on anything, such as the Jade Ashcroft business. Or maybe just to be sociable,, really, since any real updates would doubtless be sent to her.

Star Girl enters the lobby of the Starguard building, just ahead of Okami. "This..." she says, gesturing in towards the rest of the building, "...is Starguard." She smiles to him. "Oh, there's Total Babe," she says pointing her out for Okami's benefit.

Toby is bored, and decided to see if anything interesting was happening at Starguard. So, here she is, walking in, and glowing like usual.

Starguard. Abby didn't expect to be spending -so- much time here these days. All she wanted to do was train her marines. But when her CO called her.... and told her she needed to report to Starguard... again. (Mind you, Majors don't ignore full bird Colonels.. at least not very often if they can help it.) She dropped what she was doing, grabbed a shower, changed and headed over. She would've driven but she was in a rush so a golden glow fades away from her as she lands out front and walks in wearing... well, glorified summer street clothes. Something about her bearing though just seems to scream discipline and military.

Okami arches one eyebrow as he glances around at the facilities. "Looks like it's seen a bit of wear lately," he comments.

Total Babe nods to Okami and Star Girl. "Hey."

"TB, Okami. Okami, TB." Star Girl gestures back and forth between the two. "Oh, and that is Guardian." She waves to her, before explaining aloud, "I ran into Okami last night on patrol."

Total Babe says, "PLeased to meet you - new hero?"

Okami gives a short nod to TB. "New here," he says simply. "Been around for a while," he adds, not bothering to elucidate any further.

Toby makes her way over to the gathering of heroes, waving to them and smiling, "Hi." Toby looks to Okami, and nods, "Nice to meet you." After which, Toby turns her attention to Guardian, tilts her head a bit, "Hmm...I haven't seen you before."

Total Babe nods. "Well, welcome!"

Dorian enters from Commander's Office.

Hands clasping behind her back, Abigail inclines her head towards Toby and lets her glowing golden eyes roam slowly down and then back up, "And what are -you-?" she asks. "Aside from being pink enough to terrify a whole squad of tomboys?" She shakes her head. Then she pulls her right hand from behind her and holds it towards Toby, "Name's Abigail. You?" And she nods towards Star after that exchange, "Making new friends I see." she offers.

Dorian comes in from the entrance to the landing field. There's a brief flash of light as he enters through the door, changing form into his mundane appearance. He moves through the security gate, waving to the guard on duty.

"Yep." Star says. "We ran into each other on patrol last night!" She points out Toby for Okami's benefit. "That there is Toby."

Toby frowns at Abby, untilting her head, "Well, for starters, nothing I asked to be. Trust me, I'm no more thrilled to look like this than you are to see me like this."

[To Toby] Total Babe says, "Um - you dodn't happen to have a wish granted by a demon or something?"

Okami gives a short nod of greeting to Toby. "She was following someone that I've been searching for," he says by way of explanation about how the two of them met.

Dorian notices the folks gathering and walks over. "Hey there." He waves to those that he knows.

Total Babe says, "Hey, Spirit!"

Toby looks to Total Babe, "If only I knew. I went missing for a few days, I woke up looking something like this." Toby also waves to Dorian, "Hi."

[To Okami] Star Girl explains to Okami. "That's Spirit... he's kind of like the team's mentor..."

Jolt is at Starguard today... Though she was called in for other reasons. She was probably called in for scientific reasons. That being some scientists wanted to run some tests on her. Naturally she comes walking along and happens upon the gathering of Heroes and offers a wave "Soooo.. what blew up this time?" she asks everyone, assuming some sort of crisis with this many heroes present at one time... either that or a scheduled 'meeting' which sometimes is almost as bad.

A nod towards Dorian, and Abigail steps back from the group as if keeping a bit aloof. "I see." she remarks softly as she looks towards Jolt with a shrug that eloquently expresses her 'damnifIknow' response to that inquiry.

Total Babe frowns. "Oh. At least I know what happened to me - even if I'm not proud of it. Though I must say I've been a lot happier since finding out the demon isn't happy with the outcome either!"

Dorian offers his hand to Okami and smiles, "'Mentor' might be a bit strong. I'm currently a reserve member of SGG. Dorian Perrault, AKA Spirit."

Okami extends a heavily gloved hand to Dorian. "Okami," he says, not expanding any further at the moment.

Dorian nods, "Nice to meet you."

"Toby here." Toby smiles, nodding to Dorian, giggling a bit.

Star Girl says, "There's some new guy in town called Lazarus, who might have ties to Wolfguard. Okami's been tracking him, and I thought I'd try our databases to see if any hits turn up. My guess is that he's ex-Wolfguard. Not sure what he's doing in Colonial Bay though."

Total Babe thinks. o O (Maybe I needn't have worried so much about the demon thing. No one here seems half as faxed by it as I was....)

[To Star Girl] Total Babe says, "Ex-Wolfguard - that's bad, right?"

Okami gives a nod to Star Girl's statement. "Whatever his connection with them is, it's old," he says. "At least ten years, probably more."

"Wolfguard?" asks Abigail. She inclines her head a bit as she processes this. "Do you have any visuals we could enter into the database for a potential facial recognition search?" she inquires. Aside from that, she's standing off to one side, back against the wall, hands clasped at the back of her waist.

"What exactly is Wolfguard?" Toby asks, her face lined with her curiousity (not in a literal sense).

[To Total Babe] Star Girl explains, "Wolfgaurd is a group of genetically engineered assassins run by a crazy world conquerer type super vill named the Baron. Chen's dad was one of them, apparently." Her work in studying Stargaurd threat assessment reports is paying off.

Total Babe says, "As I said, bad."

Okami shakes his head to Abigail. "No pictures," he says. "Not sure it would help anyway. Seems like someone's deleted any and all records about who he was and they've got some sort of worm or some such in the network looking for people trying to find him."

Star Girl mutters, "Wish I could do that with MyFace photos...."

"Meh... Why bother with a database, why not just find the guy and ask him?" Jolt asks the others with a shrug, she's always been one of ones who like the direct route when possible "So who are the newb..." she cuts herself off and self-corrects "... new people" mostly referring to Okami and Toby since she's met or seen the others around at some point or another.

"Well, no security measure is one hundred percent perfect. But yes.." Abigail smiles and nods towards Star Girl, "Good job on the homework." she adds before saying to Okami again, "Is there any information you -can- provide that would assist in locating this man?"

Total Babe shrugs. "Look on the bright side. Before MyFace it was easy to blackmail people. These days people seldom have worse on people that their 'friends' have already posted."

[To Abigail] Star Girl nods to Abigail. "Thanks... I spotted him in Harrisburg last night, but I lost him. He's sneaky! Like totally Batman."

Dorian says, "There are a bunch of security and traffic cameras around the city. Perhaps one of them picked him up?"

Total Babe says, "Oh, you've spotted him already? that's something...."

Total Babe says, "How did you come to be looking for him?"

Okami nods to Abigail. " 'Bout ten years ago someone tried to kill him and he fell off the grid," he says, "Don't bother looking for any connections any earlier than that. There's some kind of definite connection with Wolfguard but I don't know what it is. He's older than he looks. Got a lot of unpleasant skills. Metahuman. Maybe some kind of super soldier. Stronger, faster. Regular things."

[To Okami] Star Girl says, "See what I mean?" thumbing towards Spirit. "Total mentorage."

Star Girl announces, "I'll go check on the camera footage right now... I'll be back."

[To Star Girl] Okami says, "Personal reasons. Started trying to find out about him after he had his prints run in a sheriff's office in some backwater."

Toby goes to follow Star, "Mind if I come with?"

Smirking a bit, Abigail shakes her head, "You'll forgive me if I don't take your word on the whole... no connections thing. Everyone has -some- sort of connection." She takes a breath and gestures to Dorian, "That's a good idea. Also, Harrisburg? I'm sure we could get some folks out there... maybe if we got a sketch artist to mock up a drawing of him based on your personal observations?"

Total Babe thinks. o O (Star Girl's got enthusiasm, I'll give her that - going to check as soon as it's suggested!)

Okami shakes his head to Abigail. "Trust me on this," he says, "Whatever his connection with Wolfguard is it goes back to before he vanished."

"Good luck you know how much footage per minute that stuff generates?" Jolt points out to Star Girl then shrugs a bit and focuses her attention on the others "So what is this guy you're looking for like defected from them or something ya think?"

"Have you -seen- his face? Ever?" asks Abigail. "Or any visual cues that can be used to ID the guy?" Her arms come out from behind her back and fold over her chest. "Nothing at all?"

Dorian rubs his chin, "I have some connections in Harrisburg. I could ask around. The Watch might know something."

Toby changes her mind, actually. She decides not to follow Star. But otherwise, she simply remains silent for the moment.

Total Babe says, "Average height, average build, brown hair, brown eyes, 7 arms...?"

"I've seen him close up," Star says. "I'll work with the sketch guys." She heads off into the secure section of the headquarters.

Okami shrugs his shoulders slightly and says to Jolt. "That's one possibility. Another is that he's just running from them because he worked for them and found out something he shouldn't." He then turns to Abigail. "Yeah. I've seen his face. Not much to say though. Big guy. Little over six feet. Blond hair like mine. Brown eyes."

Total Babe says, "Well, I was right on one point."

With a nod, Abigail adds, "Well, even if you think it's not a lot of information, you'd be surprised what a sketch artist can get for detail from a person. Shocked the hell out of me the first time I worked with one."

Dorian raises a brow, "Hmm. We could also ask some of the former Wolfguard folks that are around. They might know the name."

"Excuse me?" someone says. That someone is a woman in her thirties. Her outfit looks like its the uniform of a clerk from some large grocery chain, blue polo shirt and khaki pants, complete with name tag: 'Enid'. "I need to talk with someone in charge..."

Total Babe asks, "What Wolfguard folks?" before turning to see the newcomer.

"Big guy, six feet talk blond hair" Jolt smirks and applies some joking cynicism "That just narrowed it down to about 25% of the population of Colonial Bay"

[To Jolt] Total Babe says, "I think we ruled out the ones with seven arms too."

Okami glances over towards 'Enid', but seeing as he is clearly not the person in charge he says nothing.

Dorian looks to Total Babe. "The Markham twins, for example." He then looks to Enid. "What can we help you with?"

Dorian isn't really in charge, but...perhaps she just needs directions.

[To Total Babe] Jolt says, "Point taken, so about 20% of the population, assuming 5% of the population has 7 arms."

Toby turns toward the clerk-lady, and simply 'Hmm?'s.

Raising a single brow, Abigail turns her head towards 'Enid'. She reaches a hand up to move a wisp of hair from getting in the way of her eyes, "Hold on a sec folks." she suggests before moving towards Enid. "Can we help you ma'am?" she asks.

Enid's jaw just sets. She pauses before opening her mouth. "It's my husband..." she says with some difficulty. "He... he showed up last night... And he gave me this..." She raises her hand and a diamond necklace on gold chains drops out of it and dangles from her fingers. The stones sparkle beautifully.

Total Babe thinks. o O (I'm guessing that's not what she's complainiing about, exactly.)

"And that's a bad thing why...?" Toby asks, confusion showing itself.

Dorian nods. "But...you're wondering how he could afford it?"

Studying the necklace for a moment, Abigail turns her glowing eyes back towards the woman's face, "I assume that your issue has to do with level of income, and ability to afford..." And she grins, pointing towards Dorian, "What he said."

Enid sniffs trying to hold tears back, "It's just like he used to do... He would show up with wads of cash, expensive jewels... We don't have the money!" Enid swallows. "My husband was the masked criminal Warhammer."

Total Babe thinks. o O (That accounts for why us and not the police.)

Total Babe says, "Warhammer? I don't think I've heard of him."

Dorian nods. "Well...I'm pretty sure that a piece like that, if it were stolen, would have been reported so. We should be able to check recent reports."

"Oh." Toby frowns, "Well, that's no fun. It could be worse though."

Okami says to Enid, "You said he was. Why'd he quit and when?"

"You do understand ma'am... that if we do find him, and if he -has- been breaking the law.... he's going to be rather... isolated from you for a while. Is that something you are prepared to deal with? Him going away for a time?" asks Abigail as she reaches a hand for the other woman's forearm.

"No, no, no, no no!" Enid says shaking her head. "You don't understand! Warhammer -- my husband -- he died two years ago!"

Total Babe says, ".... oh."

Dorian raises a brow. "Huh. How did he die, exactly?"

"Well..." Toby mutters, looking at everything but Enid.

"Well, then how did... did he have a partner? Was the body identified?" asks Abigail. She looks at the rest of the room, suddenly not sure where to go with this.

Dorian blinks. . o O (A 'partner'. If this 'Lazarus' guy was Wolfguard, he'd have a twin, most likely. I need to ask Jen about the name.)

Enid explains, with unmasked anguish in her voice. "It was a burglarly gone wrong...he was chased up on the roof of the old Griffith hotel... Eleven was chasing him. He was trying to jump to the next building, but... but it was really cold that year in October... icy..."

"I was at his funeral!" Enid says angrily at Abigail.

"How long ago?" Okami asks. "Do you still have any of his things and where were you when he gave you the necklace?

Total Babe says, "Eleven - that's a vigil;ante who used to hang out in Harrisburg, yeah?"

Nodding, Abigail understands the anger. She's not going to get defensive about it here and now. She says to Dorian, "Think we can get access to the police and coroner's reports from that incident?" she asks. Then she looks back to Enid. "And how did he give this to you then?" she asks.

Dorian nods to Total Babe. "Eleven was always viewed by the media as a killer, but I knew Jack personally. He refused to kill. He was a pain in the ass, but he refused to kill."

Enid shakes her head. "The police took most of his things as evidence... " she says. Her jaw tightens again. "His dad's body is still in the morgue, and I have to explain to my son why the police are taking daddy's things..."

Okami nods once more. "Where were you when he gave you the necklace?" he asks.

Enid says to Abigail. "He showed up at work... I go to the alley in back for my smoke break... And there he was, like nothing had ever happened..."

A pause, and then Abby asks the rest of the room, "Transmat maybe?" She shrugs, "Unless Warhammer was -also- Wolfguard."

Okami turns to Dorian. "You think you can get a couple of shirts or something of his from evidence?" he asks. "Can see if maybe it was someone impersonating him or something. Rule that out."

"When did he give you the necklace?" Toby asks.

Total Babe says, "And did he say anything?"

"So either he's a ghost or he's not really dead" Jolt ponders out loud "... Stranger things have happened I guess" she doesnt really want to imply the widow could be crazy or wouldnt know her husband after all.

Enid looks over at Okami, teary eyed. "It was him! It sounded like him, it looked like him... it felt like him!" She looks to Toby. "Today... he gave it to me today during work..."

Dorian nods to Okami. "Maybe. I have lunch with the DA pretty often. I'm sure he can help me out." He pauses, "There are a number of possibilities. Including other dimensions. Or perhaps he recovered. I'm a prime example of how 'final' death can be for some metahumans."

Okami nods to Enid. "Lots of possibilities," he says to her. "Got to eliminate some of them."

Toby nods to Dorian, thinking o O (Don't I ever know it......that was a bad day......)

Dorian says, "The other two thoughts I had would include...a ghost. Or an imposter."

Enid says to Total Babe. "He said..." she pauses and puts her free hand over her face. "He said that he was coming back. That he had one shot at coming back and that he had some work to take care of first...."

Total Babe says, "Well, if we know where he was sighted, any chance of tracking him from there?" To Enid she says, "Oh - and what are his powers?"

Mindstar rushes in a little breathless, "Oh, Hi. Sorry, got roped in for family duties. What have I missed?"

Okami says to Dorian, "Longer we wait the more the alley degrades. Sooner would be better than later on the clothes. Couple of other possibilities you might want to check as well."

Total Babe says, "Anyone any good at tracking?"

Dorian nods. "I'll head to City Hall to ask around."

Spirit changes form in a flash of light, and heads back out toward the landing area. He waves to Mindstar as he heads out.

"If he has unfinished buisiness, it's probably not a good thing." Toby mutters, directing toward the group.

Total Babe says quietly to Mindstar, "She's just been given a necklace by her supervillain husband who died two yeats ago, apparently."

Mindstar frowns, "Died, or seemed to die?" she wonders.

Toby also turns to Mindstar, and smiles "Hi." Then she frowns again, maintaing her previous demeanor.

Enid shakes her head. "I had no idea about the superpowered... just that he was up to no good... He had this.. this... mace. This super mace..."

Okami nods and heads off with Spirit for a moment until they are out of earshot of Enid. "Probably be a good idea to have someone peek into his grave," he says, "Make sure there's a body still there."

Enid sobs at the notion.

Enid just sobs.

Mindstar moves over to comfort Enid.

Spirit nods, speaking quietly. "Already considered it. I'm pretty sure they can use imaging to check."

Spirit says, "I'll check it out."

[To Mindstar] Total Babe says, "Died -she was at the funeral."

"He died!" Enid says. "I identified his body for the police!"

Okami nods to Spirit. "I'll go and check the alley. See if I can turn up anything there," he says.

Spirit nods, andheads outside, and takes off in a streak of light, flying eastward toward the city center.

Mindstar tries to establish a telepathic link with TB.

At this point, Abigail is just standing off to one side. She's not sure what to add at the moment, or what to say. Everyone else is contributing and so she just stands there quietly, projecting confidence. After all, quite often that is all an officer -can- do.

Total Babe permits the link.

Toby tries comforting Enid as well, "We'll figure out what's going on here, and hopefully set things right."

Okami takes off through the more pedestrian transportation of his feet.

Mindstar says, "Enid, I know this is hard for you, but if we're to get to the root of this event any and all help you can give us will be useful. With that in mind, may I have your permission to view your memories of the meeting?""

Enid looks at Mindstar with tear-streaked eyes. She nods, slowly.

Mindstar reaches out and if allowed grips Enid's hand in a comforting manner, being careful and gentle as she insinuates her mind into Enid's deep enough to read everything, consciously and subconsciously, recalled about the encounter.

Okami leaves Reception Area and enters Alien District.

Mindstar relays the memories to TB as well, on the principle that the more people the more likely nothing will be overlooked.

Toby stretches, "I'm going to go fly around the city and see if I spot any trouble. It might be a bit fruitless, but hey, maybe it'll turn /something/ up." And with that, Toby heads for the door, waves, and takes of, surrounded by some type of glowing green light.

Total Babe says, "May we examine the necklace? It could provide some sort of clue...."

Enid offers the necklace over to Total Babe. "Here. Take it..!" she says, happy to get rid of the thing.

"While we get boots on the streets, maybe we could try to figure out ... yes, the necklace. Let's figure this out though, alright?" She shakes her head and sighs, "Did your husband ever serve in the armed forced by any chance?"

Total Babe has a good look at the necklace, though she has no powers or skills to bring to bear on the matter., really.

Enid nods, "Yes... he joined out of high school. He was out before we met though... Why?"

"What branch? We might be able to get some more information from his service record." Abigail turns towards the computer and asks, "Can you give me his full name, and rank he seperated as? If you happened to know his service number, great.. if not, it's not necessary."

Total Babe shrugs and offers the necklace to anyone else who wants a look.

"It was the Army... his name is James Lloyd Ray." Enid says.

Mindstar accepts the necklace as TB offers it, and although not an expert, she looks at it with eyes that have seen jewelry at formal and state social events.

Inputting the details, Abigail connects to the military servicemen database. "James.... Lloyd.... Ray." She pauses, "Army... officer? NCO?" And she starts the computer searching, trying to help narrow things down as it does.

Mindstar asks Enid, "When was his birthday?"

"NCO I think..." Enid says. "His birthday is February 17th."

Total Babe meanwhile does a search for recent jewel robberies.

"Everything seems to match up. No classified concealed details." suggests Abigail. "But, here's his last known service photo." She gestures to the screen, "Ma'am, is that your husband?" she asks, just to make sure it's the right guy.

Enid nods. "That's him."

Total Babe looks over at the screen.

"He still had his hair back then," she says, sobbing.

"Well, unless he's somehow back from the dead, or it's him from an alternate universe... I'm stumped." offers Abigail with a shake of her head. "Anybody else got any ideas?"

Total Babe says, "I've got a possible match of the jewel robbery - couple of days ago. The local police are handling it."

Mindstar says, "There's insufficent facts to base any theories on as yet. Total Babe suggested the necklace could provide some information. That's good work, Total Babe. Any details available regarding the robbery?"

"Can we get the police on the line?" asks Abigail. "Maybe find out if there were any prints or other evidence at the scene?"

Total Babe says, "There's not much here. But a necklace of I'd guess similar value was reported missing, so it seems likely. I guess we'' have to talk to the police for more."

Mindstar nods. She turns to face Enid, "Is there someone we can call to be with you for the rest of the day?"

"I can go to my sister's..." Enid says

Mindstar says, "We can arrange a car for you I'm sure."

Enid nods.

"See if you can get the police on the line." suggests Abigail. "I apologize, but I'm not going to be able to remain on site. I have a cruise heading out at Norfolk." That said, she heads for the door, leaving the file up on the screen.

Mindstar is thinking we need to see Enid is taken care of, but almost is out of the way so we can speak freely without distressing her.