Log:FBI Task Force Log3-Rough

2013/06/16 	 Danyelle Dark Horse Ten Anthony Quinn|Quinn 1

Danyelle calls up the FBI research team again. "Hello, Johnson? This is Danyelle. I was wondering if I could ask you to look something up for me, love? We believe that Taylor Kirton might be involved in our current case. He's a football player for Oakland. I'm not sure how the schedule for American football runs. At this time of year would he be with the team or on his own? Can you find out his current whereabout, and where he might have been this time last year and the years prior?"

Agent Johnson answers immediately, "Taylor Kirton? The second QB for the Raiders? Though he might just be in the starting line up this coming season from the rumors going around the summer camp. He's here. In Colonial Bay. Don't know where he's staying but the team practices are at the CBSU stadium and in Steel's Gym. It's kind of a tradition for the city to host a NFL summer camp each year."

Danyelle relays the information to everyone else.

Dark Horse raises a brow, "Interesting."

"Not to mention extremely convenient for him," Quinn comments. "Can we get a location trace on his qPid and car?" he asks.

Ten says, "Sounds more than a coincidence." She asks Danyelle,,, "can you tell if he's magic if you see him?"

Danyelle says, "Maybe, unless he's masking it with whatever magic he's using to conceal his identity."

Danyelle asks Johnson, "Would they be practicing today?"

Johnsan answers Danyelle, "Yes. At Steel's Gym in the morning and then at the Stadium in the afternoon. I've got a camp pass so I'll be there in the afternoon. I'm a Junior League coach you see, so I get a chance to take a few of our junior team to meet the Pros."

Danyelle repeats the information for everyone else's benefit. "If we do think he's our man, we could follow him. Do you think we have enough for a search of his possessions?"

Ten says, "Do we try to intercept him at the gym, then>"

Dark Horse says, "We could. We might want to have one person remain with Lorraine, or at least nearby, though."

Quinn shakes his head. "I don't think we should be leaving," he says. "We could always be wrong about it being Taylor, or perhaps he can send a demon or something to do the job. I was simply thinking that a location trace might give us warning if he starts moving towards us."

[To Danyelle] Ten says, "Perhaps you should go to check him out while we stay on guard?"

Danyelle nods to Ten. "I can check him out. Do you want to come with me?"

Ten says, "I'm probably better on bodyguard duty - and I can't tell if he's magic."

Quinn ponders for a moment. "Perhaps it would be better if I go with her," he says. "The odds of me being able to talk my way into watching a practice is probably pretty good, and its not exactly an unheard of thing."

Danyelle says, "Johnson ought to be able to get us in, if you recall."

Quinn nods. "Sure, if you want to flash badges and things," Quinn says. "I was thinking of setting up a meeting to talk to the team management about sponsorship. From there I'm sure I can get an introduction to their new star player."

Danyelle shrugs and heads to her motorcycle. "You go your billionaire route. I'll go my route. Hopefully one of us will be able to turn something up."

Ten stays on guard duty, staff in hand.

Quinn smiles to Danyelle. "You don't think I could have a guest with me while I'm doing that?" he asks. "I mean, if you really don't want to go that route that's fine, but then I should probably stay here. I don't have any way to detect anything. I was simply offering a way to get you close."

Dark Horse waits with Ten while the other two sort things out.

Danyelle says, "Sure, let's go."

Quinn departs with Danyelle, heading back to Quinn Tower to change out of his armor into something more casual. He calls one of his assistants and requests that a meeting be set up that morning with someone from Oakland's publicity department to discuss a sponsorship during Oakland's time in Colonial Bay. "Do you need to go get any tools?" he asks Danyelle while they wait for daybreak.

It's 09:05am when the assistant calls Anthony to inform him the meeting requested can take place anytime at his choice. The assistant says he checked with Anthony's dairy and arranged it tentatively for 10:00am at Steel's Gym where the team are training that morning.

Dark Horse says to Ten, "I kind of hope my hunch about Reuben taking Taylor's place is wrong, honestly."

Danyelle looks down at her belt of gear. "Given that we're not really sure what we're up against, I'm all set."

Ten nods. "But it makes a horrible sense - if he can shapeshift or something. But his original power was telekinesis, right? So maybe he can't."

Quinn nods to Danyelle. "All right," he says. Despite the casual dress of the two he arrives at Steel's Gym in a bright red sports car that is low slung, with a deep throaty rumble and an unpronounceable name. He sets to with glad handing the various people, talking about his ideas for a sponsorship program with the athletes encouraging kids to stay in school, steering things toward getting a meeting between him and several of the players.

The publicity and management of the team basically come close to fawning over Anthony. As soon as the general thrust of his conversation is understood the coach is taking Anthony, and his guest, around to introduce him to the players as they exercise in the Gym. Taylor Kirton is a typical looking player, with the QB build. He seems to be articulate and personable although without any great feeling of warmth from him.

Danyelle shakes her head to Anthony, when they have a moment of privacy. "Nothing."

Quinn quirks an eyebrow. "Curious," he says. "I was almost certain it was him. No possibility that he's able to mask himself or something?"

Danyelle says, "It's a definite possibility. I wonder where he's keeping the book."

Quinn shrugs his shoulders slightly. "It's only a working theory," he says. "It's entirely possible that Reuben replaced someone else, or even that it isn't Reuben at all."

Danyelle says, "I'm going to check the locker room. Be right back."

Quinn nods to Danyelle and runs interference for here, mingling with the players and lamenting about how he's unable to take part in pro-football due to the Q-Drive. He does a couple of stunts with lifting and while there are certainly stronger linemen present he shows a surprising degree of strength considering his build.

While Quinn holds court with the players and staff, Danyelle slips into the locker room.

As soon as Danyelle gets into the locker room she's assailed by the mystic malorder of black magic, the blackest of black magic. Tracking the source down she isolates it to a sports bag. The name on the bag is Taylor Kirton.

Danyelle messages Quinn. 'Jackpot'

Danyelle grabs the bag, and she tries to slip out of the locker room with it, with a towel strategically placed over the name tag.

It's by a so slender margin that Danyelle gets clear of the locker room with the bag just before a player heads back to grab a fresh towel enters.

Quinn continues on with his distraction as Danyelle makes her way from the locker room, giving her as much time to do whatever it is she needs to do.

Danyelle leaves the gym and waits with Tony by his sports car. While she waits, she calls the others: "It's Taylor. I'm at the gym with Quinn, and I've got the book."

The publicity people continue to cluster around Anthony. And Anthony gets camp passes for himself and his guest for the afternoon session at the CBSU stadium, along with a glowing description of the corporate boxes available at the Oakland stadium.

Ten says, "Should we stay here on guard, or...?"

With Danyelle out of the gym Anthony wraps up with the players, shakes more hands with people, and heads back out to his car. Once they are back underway he asks Danyelle, "So what did you find?"

Danyelle says, "I've got the book. It was in Taylor's gym bag."

Anthony nods to Danyelle as he checks the rearview mirror momentarily. "So where to?" he asks, "because I'm fresh out of hobbits to give it to."

Danyelle says, "Not sure. To be honest, I'm making this up as I go."

Anthony nods. "All right," he says, "well, crazy as this sounds I think we should take the book and Lorraine and take them both out of town to somewhere safe. I know that bringing them together seems like a bad idea but at least it will keep us from splitting up our forces and it isn't like it will cause us to have more enemies attacking the same location. Just the one guy."

Danyelle says, "Wait. Pull over."

Danyelle waits for Tony to pull over before she opens and looks into the bag.

Quinn quickly pulls the car over to the side of the road.

The book that's revealed on a search of the bag is not the Compendium, it's an even more horrific volume, the Malfactorius Demonica. A ritual for taking the powers of a demon into a human form. However, each time the ritual is performed a little more of the demon seeps into the human and remains even after the period of 'power' is over.

Danyelle shakes her head. "This is the wrong book... it's worse than I thought. The Malfactorius Demonica. You summon the powers of a demon into a human form. The powers fade after a while, but the demon remains. And then you do the ritual again for more power..."

"Huh," Anthony says articulately. "So is that how he's stealing their powers or is this simply something else he bought from Amazon.com for a temporary boost in between bouts of killing his friends?"

Danyelle says, "My guess would be an temporary boost. Maybe the first death was to protect his secret. And the later ones because he's more and more demon."

Danyelle says, "Well, we have two options... Maybe we should get everyone and everything together. Or maybe we can set up away from Lorraine and tell Taylor where to come to get his book."

"Well, considering he ran over his friend the first time I doubt he was using any demonic powers to do that," Quinn says. He thinks for a moment and says, "I think we should get everyone together. There's no reason to believe he needs this book first, so if he goes after Lorraine all we will have done is split up our forces."

Danyelle nods. "Let's roll." In the mean time, she tries to figure out a way to get rid of the book.

Quinn nods to Danyelle and heads back to meet up with Ten and Dark Horse. "Well, the good news is that it seems that we can be pretty certain that Taylor is our killer," he says. "With luck that will at least give us some warning when he makes his attack, and maybe we got lucky and cut down on his fire power."

Recalling what she knos, Danyelle believes one way to destroy the book is to burn it using the imflamable blood of the summoned demon as fuel.

Ten says, "When the good news is someone is a killer, it's bad."

Dark Horse nods. "So, do we have a way to get rid of the book?"

Danyelle says, "And we think we've got our hands on a book he's been using to help him kill. It's not the Compendium. In short, we need to burn it using the blood of the summoned demon as accelerant."

Ten says, "Huh. Flammable blood? That might be usable if we have to fight the thing."

Quinn steps back outside to a waiting van where he gets suited back up into a full suit of armor. "So what now?" he asks. "Just dig in and wait for Taylor to come to us?" he asks as he returns.

Dark Horse nods slowly, "That's one option. Another would be to let him know we have it, and if he wants to get it back, he needs to meet us someplace."

Dark Horse says, "He's not due to attack Lorraine until tomorrow. That gives us a little leeway."

Quinn nods to Dark Horse. "Probably a better idea," he says, "since we could take the fight out of the city to somewhere safe."

Ten nods. "Out of the city is good."

Danyelle says, "What do we do with Lorraine, while we're setting up Taylor?"

Dark Horse says, "Good question. I'm not sure there."

"I think she should stay with us," Anthony says. "Makes better sense than leaving her unguarded or splitting our forces, even if it does mean she'll be near the fight."

Dark Horse nods. "Seems reasonable, if she's willing."

Anthony nods. "What about the Lucky Strike Mine?" he says. "Far enough outside of the city to be safe and it seems defensible."

Dark Horse nods. "I'm not really familiar with it, myself. But I'll take your word for it."

Ten nods. "Sounds good then."

Dark Horse says, "I can send him an anonymous message. That'll get him to show up, for sure."

Dark Horse pulls out his PDA, and starts typing.

Anthony nods to Dark Horse. "That seems to be the last step then," he says. "Lets get some food an water and get going."

Danyelle nods. "Ok."

Ten grins. "I'd have thought someone with your income could spring for more than water!"

Dark Horse sends his anonymous message to Taylor: '

Dark Horse sends his anonymous message to Taylor: 'Have your book o' evil. If you want it back, meet me at the Lucky Strike Mine tonight at 8 PM.'