Another IT death

Yes, there has been another death recorded with Methias' symbol. Alastor thought that it was a server bomb that had killed him, but the blast wasn't large enough.

Local authorities believed that there was terrorist activity involved, since there was an explosion that destroyed his office. It was another man, of black skin. Methias must just like them since they look more like he does. I say like, but I guess it's not really - otherwise it wouldn't be them dying, now would it? Anyway, more to the point - we went to Peterborough to take a look. It was Arthur's first official mission as a member of Sector Nine. He's changed a fair bit, but he's still Arthur. Still has a young spirit and a kind heart. He's just more serious now about this kind of thing. I think he's more confident, now that he's had a couple of years hard training - he knows that he has the ability to help and get out of situations. He just has to learn to deal with the real world now. It would have been difficult to begin with I'd imagine, but he seems to have embraced his new bicorporal nature.

Getting back to the IT case... We arrived, and Arthur sniffed around for any more explosives (yes, Wedge has trained him to do that...and he attends our public meetings as our highly trained wolf hybrid agent. He looks slightly odd with his mane and massive size, but still wolf-like enough to pull off being a wolf hybrid to humans. It's very handy actually...). Once it was safe, we had a look. There indeed was damage done to the office, and the charred remains of a body on the floor. Burnt onto the wall was Methias' symbol.

After investigating, I concluded that the explosives were actually attached to him...but produced more heat energy than force causing the place to burn to a crisp but not be destroyed into rubble. That was interesting.
Wedge then found that his hard drives were gone. Even if they were lost in the fire, the remains would be somewhere. But there wasn't anything, and the computer itself was quite blackened to make it look like the drives had been lost in flames.

So that leaves us with another body, a hard drive missing and nuclear explosives being strapped to the country's vital servers.

What is he up to?

Littleport

We've tightened security a little on the blogs, so at least now we can write specifics here - names, locations, data etc.

We're in Littleport, where there is a large nuclear bomb device attached to a large server hub. These servers are underground, and reletively isolated and the amount of fissionable material wouldn't cause a destruction of the entire town - but a little is still enough for it to get noticed. I have noticed traces of another materials as well as the Uranium - an unknown one, and a mixture of Lithium, Soduim, Potassium, Flourine and Chlorine. Given the nature of the other elements, I don't really need much hints as to what the unknown compound will do. Obviously, the Li Na and K are being kept separate to the F and Cl. I just don't want to be around when it does mix - since they are all in their unstable states. Very strong oxidants and reductants.

So we did put a field around the room, however it was hard to put anything there that wouldn't be noticed since it's essentially a secret underground government server base, and human governments don't like others messing about with their things.

Alastor's looking in to what these servers are actually being used for as we speak, but their jobs are often so varied that I doubt it would give us an insight as to what Methias would want out of destroying it.

As for the murder of the man in the building in Kibworth Harcourt, I assume he came across the device and to silence him he was poisoned. The poison was a standard one known to us, but undetectable to human science at this stage. So I injected some common poison that they would be able to detect so their coroner would have a cause of death.

Wedge should only be a day or two away from returning, leaving Arthur to finish another week without her their to guide him. One year learning, one year training. Hopefully not much will happen until then, because it feels a little odd working without her. Just like we're missing something... that inquisitive mind. Not that we have specific duties or anything...it's just nice to have her around.

I've also picked up on another lead that I have to divulge once I get more information.

Number 3

Murder number 3. An IT professional. It seems a little out of pattern, since we were all expecting a recieving depot on the truck route to be hit next. Invites more thinking though. When I place myself in the shoes of the everday people working about the county, I can't help but get nervous. They have no idea what is going on, or that they might accidentally come across something they see as inconspicuous and then suddenly wind up dead. The only consolation is that they don't know anything about the threat. So human, to happily exist in oblivion. That's what makes it so easy to remain secret...the one thing about humans that has aided our survival and secrecy - they don't want to know. They are all happy being completely oblivious to whatever around them that doesn't suit their thinking. They are doing it about their own world - all the horrors that are being done, all the damage, but they just choose not to think about it. So if something strange appears now and again, they just ignore it. I'm sure if the general public joined the dots we would be exposed fairly easily...but no, they prefer to just ignore the whole scatterplot. There are times when I envy them.


Alastor and I are at the building where the IT man was killed. As the saying goes, two is coincidence but three's a pattern. All three have been male, all three have had black skin (well I say black, but it's really just dark brown), and their ages are within a decade of each other. So at least we can predict that the next one will also be a man between 20 and 40, and have dark skin. Where and who? Well that's the part that hasn't shown up so clearly.

The man was found in the server room. A dank, dark basement room with towers of servers for the company's system. Same mark on his chest. But the thing is, he doesn't have the radiation signature. There is a higher signal coming from the servers, but we're looking in to that as I type (Alastor is anyway). I'm hoping that Wedge is reading this, because while we aren't allowed to communicate with people in the TDAR because of time reasons...this blog doesn't count since it's not instantaneous. If you are reading this Wedge, know: read1 dev1 3425 d 453 m.i.n at rad 234mic level 10093 tan.hausts red.

The body was killed from poison, again. So two poisonings, one electroshock. No message.

We're going to invesigate the room further.