Log:Christmas in July, Scene 2

Christmas in July 2014/07/17 	 Anthony Quinn|Quinn Detective Carpenter Aoi Spirit Dr. Ellan Tilbury Enforcer Timewarp Vajra Snow

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Detective Carpenter

Detective Carpenter is a clean shaven young man with a crewcut, making him look like he might be ex-military. He's relatively muscular for a police officer, with the requisite tie and long trenchcoat.

The lobby of the police headquarters is grand in design and size, with a vaulting roof and a Romanesque series of columns against the walls. The floor is dark marble, emblazoned in the middle with a large mosaic of the CBPD logo depicting Lady Justice in front of a stylized sun. Coming from partially concealed fixtures in the walls, the lighting is relatively subdued. A large black elevated desk is positioned on the wall opposite the double-door entrance, the usual station of the on duty desk sergeant and other reception personnel. A pair of doors rest behind the main desk, leading into the first floor hallway of the department. Flanking the desk on the right is a bank of elevator doors, on the left a series of computerized informational kiosks and communication terminals. These displays and those behind the main desk glow softly. At most times of day or night, there are numerous CPBD police officers and support staff milling about the department hallways, on duty, or dealing with the regular influx of civilians seeking assistance or being processed after arrest.

Vajra

The lobby of the police headquarters is grand in design and size, with a vaulting roof and a Romanesque series of columns against the walls. The floor is dark marble, emblazoned in the middle with a large mosaic of the CBPD logo depicting Lady Justice in front of a stylized sun. Coming from partially concealed fixtures in the walls, the lighting is relatively subdued. A large black elevated desk is positioned on the wall opposite the double-door entrance, the usual station of the on duty desk sergeant and other reception personnel. A pair of doors rest behind the main desk, leading into the first floor hallway of the department. Flanking the desk on the right is a bank of elevator doors, on the left a series of computerized informational kiosks and communication terminals. These displays and those behind the main desk glow softly. At most times of day or night, there are numerous CPBD police officers and support staff milling about the department hallways, on duty, or dealing with the regular influx of civilians seeking assistance or being processed after arrest.

Porter leaves Colonial Bay Police Dept. and enters City Center.

Detective Carpenter is in a conference room, waiting for the heroes he hopes are arriving soon. He checks his notes on his PDA while he waits.

Timewarp just appears in the designated conference room at the designated time, to the millisecond.

Timewarp(#2661PenACcF?)

Timewarp doesn't have a costume yet, so she preserves her identity by keeping accelerated enough she looks like a blur. It's clear she (if it is a she) is fairly short and probably fair-skinned and dark-haired, but that's about it.

Enforcer arrives early whenever he can; its an old tendency to scout the area with time to spare before meeting with anyone. It's served him in the past, even if this is a relatively safe location. Before anyone notices, he's leaning against a wall near the back of the conference room with his arms folded over his chest and his hood drawn up. He definitely wasn't there just a second ago. His head is tilted down slightly to allow the hood to cast a shadow over all but the bottom half of his face.

Anthony arrives in his normal business clothes rather than armor. He chats genially with various officers as he makes his way to the conference room although he has no idea who the majority of them are. It doesn't appear to be a matter of being too lazy to learn names or anything of that nature, just a fact that he doesn't know a lot of Colonial Bay's finest.

Rae thought it might be a good idea to show up, she heard about some of the facts of what had happened and while she might not be too much involved, she might have an expertise that might come in handy. She makes her way into the conference room, a small laptop under one arm.

Aoi arrives a couple of minutes early all suited up, flying down to the entrance and walking into the Police HQ and heading to the conference room after asking where the meetings is being held.

Detective Carpenter smiles and nods to each as he notices them arriving. Though the teleporters do catch him a bit by surprise. "Thank you all for coming. I've been doing some research on the freak snowstorm and heist from last week, and I wanted to speak to as many heroes as I could manage to see what you thought about my theories on the matter."

Vajra arrives, twirls, bows, and waits for the briefing.

Timewarp poises to take notes, with pencil and paper no less!

Amplitude hands out a couple of pieces of paper to each hero from a stack of actual paper he had on the table in front of him. The paperless society never quite became completely paperless. Especially the powers-that-be. "You'll find here some photos of our perps. I was able to get a tentative identification of all four members of the team that robbed the bank."

Carpenter hands out a couple of pieces of paper to each hero from a stack of actual paper he had on the table in front of him. The paperless society never quite became completely paperless. Especially the powers-that-be. "You'll find here some photos of our perps. I was able to get a tentative identification of all four members of the team that robbed the bank."

Aoi looks at the photos, trying to commit them to memory.

Enforcer accepts the papers from Carpenter and starts shuffling through them, skimming at first before returning to the first page and studying more carefully.

Timewarp makes a good study of the photos too, slipping into accelerated tome to make sure she can manage this without missing any of the briefing.

Rae takes them as well to see if she recognizes any faces or anything. She looks around to each of the others and then back to the papers.

Vajra looks over the photos, transmitting them to her home server.

The photos have pictures of four individuals, all taken from the security cameras of the bank. There's a large earthen being, looking like an elemental. There's a woman with a burgundy leather outfit with white hair cut into a Nagel-like hairstyle. There's a second woman with long white hair and a blue and white costume...with a white tiara. And lastly, a man in a long trenchcoat and a white costume underneath. The outfit has a flame motif.

Carpenter goes back to the front of the room. "This group is, my sources tell me, 'The Masters of Disaster'. A group that operates out of L.A. Basically, they're a bunch of mercs or thieves. Depending on the day. In order of the photos, you're looking at 'Terrayne', 'New Wave', 'Coldsnap', and 'Torch'."

Anthony nods as he looks over the images. "Ok, so then my guess of 'Hot Flash' was pretty much off the mark for this guy," he says.

Carpenter smiles slightly, "Have any of you dealt with this group before last week? I know it's a long shot, but I figured I should ask." He waits a moment to see if anyone speaks up.

Enforcer just shakes his head in the negative once.

Vajra muses, "I wonder how Torch got stuck with the boring name? . . . I've never encountered them before last week."

Timewarp says, "I'm wondering what New Wave's powers are."

Carpenter smiles, looking at Timewarp, "Water control. The team is all formed about elemental powers."

Vajra says, "But there's only four of them..."

Timewarp says, "And isn't Coldsnap water, well, ice?"

Carpenter raises a brow, and looks over to Vajra, "You expect more?" He shrugs a bit, "Sure...there's some overlap. I don't know if they had tryouts and kicked the 'air' person out, or something."

"Wrong elements," Anthony says to Vajra. "In this case he just means basic forces. Ice isn't an element in any mystical philosophy that I'm aware of." He pauses for a moment and then adds, "Of course you could probably put my knowledge of mystical philosophies in a thimble, so that doesn't mean much."

Vajra says, "Maybe Coldsnap is 'Air', since she controls weather? I was thinking they were missing Void."

Aoi says, "I thought there were four elements? Air, Earth, Fire, and Water."

Carpenter looks a little confused, "Void? Hmm. Perhaps there's another member we dont' know about? I'll make a note to check on that."

Vajra says, "Some systems have Earth, Fire, Water, Air, Lightning, Ice, Light, and Darkness too."

Timewarp says, "And helium."

Anthony shakes his head to Aoi. "One hundred and three," he says. "Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Berylium, Boron, Carbon..."

Enforcer shrugs indifferently. "They're Californians. Maybe ice seems like an element to be reckoned with all on its own. By the way they dress, they don't seem very into mystical philosophies."

Vajra may have played too many Japanese computer RPGs growing up.

Timewarp says, "maybe ice cream could be an element."

Rae shakes her head, as she just listens for the moment.

The detective chuckles. "I think it's not necessarily a strict organization. Just...a general theme. But I'll look into it, all the same. At any rate, they didnt' take any cash from the bank. Just the contents of two safety deposit boxes." He hands out a couple more pictures, the first of the local mobster Tommy Cangelosi. The second is a grainy photo of a woman, apparently taken at Johns Hopkins University. The name listed is 'Dr. Ellan Tilbury'.

Aoi raises her hand.

Carpenter continues, "These are the owners of those deposit boxes." He looks to Aoi, "What's your question?"

Timewarp looks at these photos too and writes down the names. She also sketches an ice cream elemental.

Aoi says, "Uh, you were probably going to answer anyway. But I've been told Tommy Cangelosi is a local criminal, with Mafia connections. Is Dr Tilbury also a criminal?"

Vajra transmits the new pictures for later reference.

Rae hmms, "Well they just went after the safety deposit boxes....Then they were hired, it was a professiona job. Someone specifically wanted what was in those to, but yes, we know a little more aobut Tommy...Do we know mucch about the Doctor?"

"She's got Doctor in front of her name," Anthony says. "That's never a good sign." He pauses to think. "Then again, Doctor Tilbury doesn't exactly sound like she's going to be conquering the world any time soon."

Carpenter nods and hands out one more photo, this time a photo taken at the local cemetery. "That photo of Dr. Tilbury was from her time as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins. This is a more recent photo, taken at the funeral of Dorian Perrault. You may know him now as 'Spirit'. But before his return to life, he was considered dead...and a funeral held. The being in the wheelchair is Dr. Tilbury, who was apparently a friend of Mr. Perrault." The photo shows a female snake-person in a wheelchair...the chair being pushed by Black Mamba.

Timewarp thinks. o O (Yeah, why don't you ever get a Dr Nice?)

Aoi purses her lips, "Oh."

Timewarp says, "Wait - Spirit is a real ghost?"

Carpenter, "Now...Black Mamba at the time was on good terms with Perrault as well. He even joined the hero group 'Spirit of Justice' upon Spirit's return." He shrugs and looks at Timewarp, "Honestly? I've no idea. I just know he 'got better', and another version of him, 'Syphon', caused havoc in town and is in holding up in Tranquility."

Anthony shakes his head. "He's a quasi-stable energy being operating at a non-specific frequency of the quantum spectrum," he says to Timewarp. "At least that's my guess."

[To Anthony] Timewarp says, "So... he's a sciency ghost?"

Carpenter smiles, "If you want to know more about Perrault, I think you could just ask him, assuming he has time. Or you can ask the D.A., Richard Chamberlain. The two seem to be friends, as far as I can tell."

Enforcer studies the last photo curiously. It causes an eyebrow to raise as he listens to the backstory.

Timewarp's sketch now shows the ice-cream elemental fighting Spirit and a snake-woman.

The detective continues, "This last photo is the one that concerns me. The items stolen from the safety deposit boxes were determined to be some documents from the one owned by Cangelosi, and...a couple of vials of something from the one owned by Dr. Tilbury."

"Yeah, sure, sciency ghost," Anthony says. "I believe that's what he puts on his census forms since they lack the space for quasi-stable energy being operating at a non-specific frequency of the quantum spectrum."

Vajra tilts her head back and forth as she thinks. Her face plate switces from (^ ^) to (? ?)

Timewarp says, "Vials of something owned by a Dr Someone sounds bad."

Enforcer pushes off the wall silently and paces casually, ending up behind Timewarp and looking over her shoulder. "Great detective work. You've found the other member of the Masters of Disaster," he whispers grimly by her ear as he notes the sketch she's made.

Aoi nods, "Especially when the Dr Someone is a half snake." she says agreeing with Tali.

Anthony says, "Did you ask Dr. Tilbury what the vials were?"

Timewarp covers up her sketch, as if embarrassed. . o O (Oops - people might work out who I am if they see my doodles!)

Detective Carpenter nods, "I suspect the vials contain something dealing with the transformation, but I haven't been able to find where Dr. Tilbury resides. Apparently she's keeping a low profile."

Rae frowns and shakes her head a bit as she thinks.

Carpenter says, "I was considering speaking to Mr. Perrault. I figured he might know her whereabouts."

Carpenter considers his last statement, "I don't really have enough pull...but are any of you on good terms with him? We might be able to get him to come over here to talk for a bit."

Timewarp looks at the others - as a new meta on the block she's no use with this!

Aoi raises her hand again, "Not with Spirit so much although I've met him a few times, but I'm talking to the Operations Director Paul Van Sterran about supplying body armor for the Delta Troops so I'm known at Starguard. I could try asking."

Enforcer steps back and away from Timewarp, paying attention to the proceedings again, generally being silent and observent.

Carpenter nods to Aoi, "Could you call him now? I think it would be helpful to have Dorian speak with us as soon as possible."

Rae shakes her head, "I wasn't quite as active then." she says and shakes her head a bit.

Aoi shuts up abruptly and looks at Anthony, "Err, aren't you a Starguard consultant? You must know Spirit far better than I do."

Anthony gives a shrug of his shoulders. "I do some consulting for them," he says. "I've talked with Spirit, sure, but it's hardly like we go out for beers and things. I've done pretty much the same thing you're doing with the body armor."

Enforcer folds his arms over his chest and turns his hooded head to Aoi. "Just go ahead and call Spirit," he says in a calm but commanding manner. She needs some encouragement, he figures. Even if it means ordering her around a bit for a boost.

Timewarp says, "Do sciency ghosts even drink beer?"

Aoi nods to Enforcer and dismisses her battlesuit so she can get to her PDA in a pocket of her undersuit clothing, and places a call to Starguard asking to speak to Spirit.

Aoi seems to get through, "Ah. Err.. This is Yushio Takaga, Commander. I'm at the police headquaters with Detectie Carpenter and a number of heroes. We're looking into a bank robbery. Some of the items stolen belong to a Dr Tilbury, who you know, I think. If you could spare the time could you come over here and answer a few questions about her?"

There's an affirmative answer on the other end of the call. And it's only a minute or so before Dorian arrives.

Dorian enters from City Center.

Dorian steps into the room, and looks around. "Hello, all. So...you wanted to speak to me about something?" He looks to the detective standing at the front of the room.

Aoi hangs up the call, "He's coming ove..." she starts to say, and then Spirit arrives.

Detective Carpenter nods...and lays out the same information as before, showing Dorian the photos. Dorian's face gets a bit darker as he gets more details.

Timewarp continues her doodle. Spirit is now drinking a beer as he fights the ice cream elemental.

Dorian rubs his chin, "Hmm. I havent' spoken to her in quite some time. But...I do know how to get in contact with her. How much do you all know about MAMBA?"

Quinn shakes his head. "Not much at all," he says. "They've got some kind of sleep machine that was recently stolen, but beyond that..."

The detective sits on one of the tables, listening.

Timewarp says, "Isn't it a kind of dance?"

Vajra says, "Nothing at all, Perrault."

Dorian nods. "They are...an odd organization. Or at least they were. A franchise system. You pay some money, and they turn you into a snake being and give you access to a series of devices you can buy to help you set up your villainous franchise in the city of your choice."

Rae shakes her head, "Very little," she says and then blinks for a moment. "That doesn't sound good."

Dorian says, "There are...or were, three levels of power. The more you spent, the more power you got. Black was the lowest. Green was the second. And Gold was the top. So...that's why there have been more than one Black Mamba here in the city."

Timewarp makes notes on MAMBA.

Dorian says, "That's all just background. Dr. Tilbury was one of the original scientists who created the process. But...she isn't one of the folks who set up MAMBA. She was a victim. The ones who were the motivators used her as a human test subject against her will and held her family as virtual hostages as collateral. When I was known as Syphon, I helped rescue her relatives and bring down the leadership of MAMBA at the time. They've apparently rebranded themselves a bit. I'm not sure what's going on with the organization now."

"Soooo....it's a license to get your ass kicked?" Anthony asks. "Seems odd. Most people are able to find ways to have that done for free."

Dorian says, "The Black Mamba that was part of SoJ with me...was a member of MAMBA, as one might suspect. I convinced him to turn over a new leaf."

Vajra giggles, "I spent about $1.7 billion to get my ass kicked, as you put it."

Enforcer rubs his chin thoughtfully as he listens. "Turnkey villainy. Interesting. So if Dr. Tilbury was a victim, why was she seen at your funeral with a Black Mamba?"

Dorian smiles slightly, "Like most owners of a franchise, or people in general, each Mamba is quite different. The prior Black Mamba was a stone-cold killer."

Carpenter makes some notes, taking down all of the information on MAMBA.

Timewarp says, "1.7 billion?!"

Rae nods her head, "So possibly someone has stolen serum that will turn them, and documents...maybe how to make more. Was the mobster ever tied to Mamba activities?"

[To Timewarp] Vajra says, "Bespoke armor suits are ex~pen~sive~!"

Aoi thinks. o O(I built mine for a hundred and twenty million. But it took me six years.)

Carpenter shakes his head in answer to Rae, "Not that I could ascertain. There doesn't seem to be a connection as far as I can tell. But...it might have been a 'two-fer', so to speak."

The ice cream elemental is now stealng a *big* bag of money.

Enforcer's eyes shift to Vajra. "Sounds like that money could've been spent more efficiently," he says quietly.

Rae thinks for a moment and nods, "There has to be some link. The job was too precise." she says, "They specifically went to those two boxes and only took those items. I wonder if I run a web search looking for common variables, what will turn up."

Dorian tilts his head, "Dr. Tilbury has been working in recent years to reverse the process. The process...is permanent. So...it's likely that the vials have to do with that reversal, I'd think."

Dorian shrugs again, "Though it might have to do with the original process as well. I'm...not really sure, to be honest."

"It's deceptive," Anthony says to Enforcer. "The cost per unit is high but then you're able to take the research and development and amortize it across multiple projects, rolling it into the cost of your production units. It's like how a jet production process can run hundreds of billions of dollars. To be honest I'm surprised she was able to keep the costs down as much as she was."

Rae nods, "It would make sense for her to have vials of the original process as she would need samples to try to engineer a reversal process, and the original would be more effective." she shakes her head, trying to put her analytical brain to work. "What I wouldn't give to get access to organized crimes, files on our mobster." even as she says it she is thinking about hacking in to try and get them.

Vajra ponders, the eyes of faceplate turning into slowly spnning hourglasses. "Perhaps... someone Cangelosi considers important was turned into a snake person, and thee Masters of Disasters were hired to one, find out who the Cangelosi might be, and two, get the cure, or promise of a cure, to then blackmail or extort something from Cangelosi?"

Enforcer side glances at Anthony. "Yes. Well, I'm sure there's a profitable market for," he looks over at Vajra and motions her up and down with a nod. There are no words, really, "That. I imagine a lot went into the design phase."

Carpenter nods in response to Vajra, "That would make sense, assuming whoever it was...was familiar with Dr. Tilbury's work."

Enforcer thinks. o O (Aoi's looks much more practical. I'd bet hers against this other girl's any day.)

Aoi says, "You'd be surprised, Enforcer. I've had offers in the billions for my work on the Aoi suit."

Enforcer glances over at Aoi for a few moments, studying her curiously.

Dorian nods. "There was another scientist involved in the project. A guy named Dr. Baron Stannis. He was the one who ended up running MAMBA, and ordered that some thugs should break Dr. Tilbury's back before the test was done on her. To make sure she wouldn't be able to fight even after the transformation. He's in custody, I believe."

Rae nods her head, and looks around and then decides against trying to jack in and hack the system, "It still would be interesting to see what a search would turn up, I might even be able to write a program that would predict and try to predict the exact motives." she does open her laptop and starts to take a few notes.

Anthony shakes his head to Enforcer. "Even though I don't plan on marketing my suit," he says, "the R&D done on it can be used for a variety of other things. Exo-skeletal systems for construction, personal transportation, cybernetic refinements, personal assistance devices for people with disabilities... It really is surprising."

Dorian rubs his chin, "Do any of you have any further questions? I don't know if I can answer them, but I can certainly try."

Enforcer doesn't add anything to the viability of powersuit R&D, paying attention to Dorian with sudden interest as he talks about Dr. Baron Stannis, causing him to frown at the news of his crimes.

Detective Carpenter thinks about it, "Nothing is coming to mind."

Vajra raises her hand, "Can you eat ice cream or drink beer~?"

Rae cocks her head to the side, "Did the Baron, have ties to the mob?" she asks.

Timewarp thinks. o O (Is everyone here snoot?)

Dorian blinks, surprised at the question from Vajra, "Um...I can. I'm made of energy, but I can convert it into matter. So, I'm effectively a human. I don't need to eat or drink, but I can." He looks to Rae, "I'm not sure, but it would seem likely. If you're setting up villain franchises, you need to have contacts in the areas you're pushing into. At least, that makes sense to me."

Rae hmms, "Could it be some means to try and get him out of custody? Or am I reaching too far? He was the one that had the thigns done to the Tilbury yes? He would know if she still had samples." she shakes her head a bit.

Dorian nods. "It does seem like Dr. Stannis might be involved in some way. After all, not that many people know about Dr. Tilbury. Stannis is one. Ed Collington is another. He was the money man for Stannis. So...if Stannis doesn't have mob ties, Collington likely does."

Vajra nods, "Than you for answering Perrault~"

Anthony turns his attention from talking about armor to the break-in for a moment. "If they stole something from Cangelosi's safety deposit box then they couldn't have been working for him," he says. "But they needed information from him. That's got to mean something."

Dorian grins at Vajra, "You can call me 'Dorian'. And you're welcome."

Vajra says, "From him, or about him."

Rae nods her head, "More variables for my program.' she mutters, "Stannis, Collington, Tilbury, Cangelosi." she seems to be thinking a bit.

Dorian nods to Rae, "Collington was behind bars, but it's been a decade. He might be out now. I'm sure Stannis is still in custody, though."

Rae nods her head, "So they need documents...maybe something to blackmail Cangelosi...they need to finance something. Vials of serum from the doctor. We need to talk to the doctor find out exactly what the vials were, they could be the key."

Timewarp nods.

Aoi raises her hand again, "Could the local Black Mamba be behind this. Maybe he wants to reverse the process and be human again?

Vajra says, "Could perhaps one of us, " She glances at Enforcer (> >), "Who could pass for shady, try to work Congelosi and see if he wants to get the contents back and might hire a mercenary meta?""

Dorian nods. "I can set up a meeting, if you like. I suspect she likes her privacy too much to have me give out her contact info." He nods to Aoi, "There might be a new one who feels that way. But...the one who was in SoJ, I'm sure doesn't need to do that."

Rae nods her head, "A meeting would be good, whatever precautions she wants, even if it needs to be conference call or something."

Enforcer smiles thinly at Vajra's comment as he looks to her. "I'm sure something like that could happen."

Dorian smiles. "A conference call...that would work. Give me a couple of minutes, and I'll contact her."

Rae nods, "Technology has its uses, can even reroute it through various points so it can't be traced if she is concered about that." what do you expect from a hacker.

Dorian heads into the hall to make a call, "I'll be right back."

Carpenter nods, "Okay...so where does that leave us? We'll hopefully talk to Tilbury, but what's next after that? Talk to Stannis? Collington? Cangelosi?"

Timewarp sketches the people in the room, just because.

Rae nods her head, "First step is the Doctor, find out what is in the vials." she puts her deductive reasoning to work, "Then Cangelosi, but you might have to offer him immunity to prosecution for anything having to do with those documents to get him to talk. For the moment, we need to check those out, they proceed, found out where Collington is and where Stannis is locked up."

"It'd probably serve us to have a little chat with Cangelosi. I'm sure he'll want to hire someone to get his valuables returned," Enforcer says slyly.

Dorian comes back into the room, with his PDA set to speaker mode. He sets it on the table, "Dr. Tilbury, can you still hear me?" On the other end of the line, you hear, "I can, Dorian."

Rae looks to the detective and then back to the PDA not wanting to step on anyone's toes or anything.

Detective Carpenter speaks up, "Hi, Dr. Tilbury. This is Detective Carpenter from the CBPD. I'm here with some local superheroes and we wanted to ask you a few questions about the contents of the safety deposit box you had locally here at the bank in Old Town." There's a long pause, and she says, "I see."

Dr. Tilbury speaks up again, "Both vials were taken?" Carpenter nods, "That's correct. Both." There's some muttering on the other end of the line, and she replies, "That was a portion of the cure I've been working on. I'm not sure how much Dorian has told you about the cure."

Dorian shakes his head, "Just that you were working on it."

Rae mutters but then looks like she has some questions but doesn't just want to blurt them out.

Dr. Tilbury continues, "As there are three levels of Mambas...each level is undone independently. If you counteract one, it 'knocks you down a level', so to speak. I had come up with a means to suppress the process, but not counteract it permanently. Until now."

Timewarp says, "You've succeeded?"

Vajra listens quietly.

Rae nods, "YOu said a portion, what portion? Also was that your only samples, are you able to recreate it?" she asks with a bit of concern too.

Dr. Tilbury answers Timewarp, "Those two vials were a prototype of the cure I've put together. I have another set of all three serums here, so there's no major loss for me, exactly. I'll be hopefully putting the full cure together for myself in the next couple of months. But if someone took them, they knew what they were looking for. Either they're looking to stop me, or someone else needs the cure."

Rae raises a brow, "The prototype could be used to counter your cure?" she asks.

Timewarp says, "Oh! And which two serums were they?"

Dr. Tilbury tries to answer both questions, "Yes, someone could theoretically bind proteins differently to keep the cure from working. Having the protoype might give a geneticist the means of doing so. The serums were prototype cures for levels one and two. So...anyone who was a Green Mamba or lower. Though it woudln't help with some of the new transformations I've heard about. Only the original ones that I worked on personally."

Timewarp muses. "So does someone want a cure - or is someone trying to remove someone else's powers?"

Aoi listens but her expertise is in the physical sciences, not biochemistry.

Vajra listens, but her expertise in cultural studies, not science.

Dr. Tilbury says, "Do you have any further questions for me?"

Rae hmms as she thinks for a moment, "Have you been contacted by anyone looking for a cure or to be changed recently? And do you know a Mr. Cangelosi?" the last she mostly asks as she is trying to make some connections.

The doctor answers, "Well, yes to the former, but I'm sure that the person in question isn't the one who stole it. He's a collaborator. As for the second questions, no. I haven't met any Cangelosis other than our illustrious mayor."

Rae blinks, "Were they looking for a cure or to be changed? Do you have a name?" she asks curiously.

There's another pause before Dr. Tilbury says, "I'm not going to give you the name of my collaborator. For his own privacy. Dorian can vouch for him." Dorian nods in agreement as she speaks. She then continues, "But he's helping me work on the cure."

Dorian says, "Some identities need to remain a secret."

Rae nods, "That is alright, thank you for your time. If anything useful comes up please let us know." she is back to thinking.

Dr. Tilbury says, "You're welcome. If there's nothing further, I'll get back to work. I have some cells spinning."

Dorian smiles and says into the phone, "Thanks, Ellan. I'll be in touch." He then hangs up.

Timewarp looks expectantly at the more experienced heroes - surely it's time to do something?

Rae hmms.. "Alright, we need to talk to Cangelosi find out what they took." she says softly, "We have someone who stole a cure, either for themselves, or as the good suggestion was, to take away someone else's powers."

Detective Carpenter nods, making notes. "He'll be a hard nut to crack. I'm not sure he'll talk. If it's something he had as leverage on someone, that'll make it even less likely."

"Whatever it is, if it was worth storing in a supposedly secure bank, he'll probably be looking into getting it back," Enforcer comments off-handedly.

Dorian shrugs a bit, "I'm afraid I haven't had much contact with the local mob. That's really something more up the line of Silver Spider...or Dark Horse. Or the Markhams."

Enforcer says, "Which means he'll have to talk to someone eventually."

Rae nods, "The immunity thing could work, though you probably need to talk to the organized crime division to make sure we are not stepping on any toes." She thinks for a moment, "Really need to know what those documents were, I will run a few searches as well and see if I can come up with any connections."

Aoi says, "We could try catching the Masters of whatever. If they'd gone back to L.A. maybe we should go there?"

Timewarp says, "Papers could be almost anything - but surely it's got to be connected somehow."

Carpenter nods to Aoi, "They might still be in the area. I'll see if I can get a lead on their whereabouts, though I dont' have anything yet. And..." He looks to Enforcer, "You're likely right on that. If he needs it back, he'll likely hire someone to get it back."

Rae does give her number to the Detective since she is a public hero. "Let me know if they surface with the snow again. I can probably help there."

Enforcer nods slightly to Carpenter. "I'll keep an ear out for any potential hiring he may be up to."

Rae plans on using the internet to do a little snooping of her own, but can't exactly talk about that here.

Quinn just flat out isn't the investigatory sort. Between his own projects and running a company he just doesn't have the time for such activities, even if he had the skills. Fortunately there are plenty of others around who are good at such things and he is only too happy to leave it to them.