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xp_communication2011-06-02 12:31 pm
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E-mails to Amanda, Haller & Doug
To: [Sefton, A], [Ramsey, D], [Haller]
From: [Carlysle, V]
Subject: Any luck?
It looks like we had less time than we had hoped to have. Another victim was added to the list this morning. Bishop got on scene thanks to an old friend but tracking the killer's scent didn't do us much good. The scent disappeared at the street.
Have you guys had any brilliant ideas by chance? Haller, Xavier nominated you as my new telepath go to guy. He rang me this morning and told me he'd missed the kill on Cerebro entirely. He couldn't manage to pick anything up. I think it was when he found Laura and Bishop at the crime scene that he realized it and called. He seemed to think you might have some sort of epiphany or brilliant insight that he wouldn't come up with. Here's hoping, right?
Lucas and I are still working the typical detective/investigator angle over here. I'm worried we will end up with twice as many bodies before the killer gets killed when they attack the wrong person or, even worse, just disappears.
-V
From: [Carlysle, V]
Subject: Any luck?
It looks like we had less time than we had hoped to have. Another victim was added to the list this morning. Bishop got on scene thanks to an old friend but tracking the killer's scent didn't do us much good. The scent disappeared at the street.
Have you guys had any brilliant ideas by chance? Haller, Xavier nominated you as my new telepath go to guy. He rang me this morning and told me he'd missed the kill on Cerebro entirely. He couldn't manage to pick anything up. I think it was when he found Laura and Bishop at the crime scene that he realized it and called. He seemed to think you might have some sort of epiphany or brilliant insight that he wouldn't come up with. Here's hoping, right?
Lucas and I are still working the typical detective/investigator angle over here. I'm worried we will end up with twice as many bodies before the killer gets killed when they attack the wrong person or, even worse, just disappears.
-V
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From: [Haller, David]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
The professor told me he was kicking this to me and I'm still not sure why he did. I have this feeling it's a roundabout way of telling me to get out more. A really strange one.
Anyway, there are two potential reasons Cerebro missed the murder. First, that the killer is shielded somehow, or second, that there's something about the killer that means there's no emotional spike. The first option's pretty expensive, and the second is pretty unusual. Serial killers aren't my speciality, but from what I gather it seems like there's usually some kind of emotional spike that would accompany the killing -- excitement, gratification, something. He's going to continue scanning, but without a spike there's nothing to really stand out against the everyday psychic background noise. The victim didn't spike either, but from the news it sounds like the deaths are quick, so that's not unusual. Either way it's hard to track.
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From: [Carlysle]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
You need to get out more so he's trying to set you up with a serial killer? Thoughtful.
Lucas and I were actually talking about the lack of apparent emotion while pouring over the crime scene photos last night. It looks about on par with butchering a lamb. Slice, slice, go home. Nothing's stolen, no one's tortured, nothing's taken as a trophy. It's just putting down a lame animal to someone. Actually, people probably care more about slaughtering an animal since they are either losing a pet or something that could have made them money. I'm not sure if the "Damn, that's a shame" sort of reaction counts as a spike emotionally, though.
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From: [Haller, David]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
Yeah. The professor is weird sometimes.
Damn, that does complicate things. Especially in a city the size of New York, where extreme emotions aren't exactly uncommon. So if his feelings are muted it's no surprise they're getting drowned.
My second idea would've been to scan for tertiary emotions, like suspicion or unease from the victims, but again . . . New York. I need to think about it.
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From: [Carlysle]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
You're starting to see our problem. It's like that from every angle we attack this from. Frustrating is quite the understatement.
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From: [ramsey, doug]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
Okay, I've been poring over the files and everything I can find about the killings. It's been pretty slow going, because other than the mutant angle, there is no real rhyme or reason to these killings.
Weirdly enough, the only pattern I can spot is a sort of negative pattern, if you will. That is, despite the fact that the killer is going after mutants all over New York City, there hasn't been a single incident matching the killer's MO in District X. It's like they're going out of their way to avoid the obvious mutant location.
-D
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From: [Carlysle]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
What? You want to take out mutants but you don't go to the biggest concentration of them? The killer hasn't killed a single visible mutant yet and there's a lot of those in District X. Maybe that's the reason for avoidance.
I'm also having a terrible thought. If they live here it could be why they aren't hunting here. Don't shit where you eat and all. I'll pass this onto Lucas, maybe he can do something with.
V
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From: [ramsey, doug]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
That's one possibility. The only other one I can think of is, maybe it's an attempt to 'fly under the radar', as it were. If you go for non-visible mutants that don't live in "mutietown", then it's less likely someone will put two and two together?
-D
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From: [Carlysle]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
The risk of someone with a big, dangerous mutation seeing and interfering is also higher here. If you have one mutant to take out it could be fairly easy but if you're suddenly surrounded you aren't likely getting out unscathed or possibly alive. People get cranky about you trying to kill others of similar genetic status these days, after all.
V
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From: [Haller, David]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
It looks like none of us have enough information. Muted or not, even knowing which mind to look for would be a help.
Actually . . . wait, Amanda, your link with the city is sort of mental, isn't it? Is it just the present, or does it have some sort of memory?
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Wait, I think I get where you're going. Like that time in China, right? With you, Doug and Sof doing the mind meld thing?
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I -still- get a headache remembering that. :P
-D
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From: [Haller, David]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
At least you didn't end up with Wanda having to push you around on a handcart at the airport because your brain was still slightly unraveled. Just because you can make contact with a global consciousness doesn't mean you should.
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From: [ramsey, doug]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
No, I just took two of the painkillers that Marie-Ange normally takes -one- of and was massively stoned and typo'd all over the journals. :P
But yeah.
And despite theoretically learning that lesson, if the 'brain trust' needs me, just let me know.
-D
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From: [Haller, David]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
Fortunately I didn't have journal access at the time. Though I do think I sent bizarre emails.
I'll keep that in mind. I think Amanda's connection should serve as a natural filter, or at least give me something to pattern myself on to cope with the information, but it's probably just as well you won't be too far away. I can't say I've ever tried to link with a location before.
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From: [Haller, David]
Subject: Re: Any luck?
Yeah. I'm . . . not really sure what I'm hoping -- I honestly don't really know how your magic works or what a city's brain is like, but maybe I can use you as an in to pick up the memory of a psi-print, or something like that. I'm not sure if the city would record something that insubstantial, but Adrienne's psychometry could pick up memories at a touch. Clearly objects can retain something, maybe locations do, too. It may be worth a try. At worst I think we risk a headache.
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Well, at least I'll be out of the mansion.
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