IC: Denver Missions Team 2 Options

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 8:00pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]
Kreskin | PAN = hidden | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin nodded, took his credstick, and said, "We appreciate your business and I think I speak for all of us when I say that we'll do everything we can to get that information for you before your nine-o-clock deadline. Problem is, we've eliminated the Runners and their employer as suspects. That doesn't leave a lot of people who could have known that the run had taken place, in the time frame we're talking about." Kreskin looked at the rest of his team.

"Our best suspects, now, would actually be members of your security staff who may have had the opportunity to notice the run taking place on the security footage and chosen to attempt to blackmail you, rather than attempt to stop them - without knowing the true purpose of the abduction." Kreskin didn't really like casting accusations about Falcone's staff, but that was, actually, the only situation that made sense to him at the moment. "That, or you have an enemy with a lot of luck, patience, or enough intel on your operation to know when things like this happen, here, before you or your staff do." He shrugged. "In either case, since we're here already, do you have any objections to us taking a closer look at your affairs, or should we focus our attention... externally?"

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 8:00pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]

"It's less about my comfort level, Mr. Demasi, than that I've run through an internal investigation over the course of the last ten hours and feel confident that the ransom was demanded from outside of my organization. I want this... person... and I don't want you to waste your time in finding him, her, whoever." You can see the anger seething under his professional exterior.

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 8:00pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]
Kreskin | PAN = hidden | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin seemed confused when Falcone called him by the name of his fake SIN. He was still getting used to being 'Cody Demasi', and it took him a second to realize who he meant. "Then we shall do exactly that," he said with a smile. He then gave everyone else the opportunity to ask any other questions, and tried to think of another lead they could explore.

[Kim]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 8:01pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, The Horse Trot Ranch]
Kim: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Angel Snow

Kim had wondered why Kreskin avoided naming the Black Cats; surely he didn’t think we owed them anything? She had figured that Falcone would notify the authorities, as soon as he knew the address where B was being held. It came as a big surprise to her that not only he wasn’t interested in neither name nor address, but even more that he paid them without any proof of their story being true.

Not having done anything to earn the money, Kim felt a bit dirty for taking the credstick. She had seriously considered not to take it, but justified it by thinking she would get paid 5k for finding out the person behind the ransom.

Kreskin’s accusation of the security staff didn’t make much sense to Kim; removing the videos would hide their incompetence, but the ransom note didn’t. She didn’t understand why he had eliminated the Black Cats and Ares as suspects either, since they both knew about the kidnapping. Kim only agreed on one point Kreskin had made and that was that it had to be someone who knew B was taken from the ranch before Falcone knew about it.

According to Kim, that meant there were still a lot of possible suspects, but just one of them answered all her questions: Belenkiy.

“I’m going to need to see B.”

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 8:01pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]
Kreskin | PAN = hidden | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin thought about it and nodded, "We might be able to arrange that. Good idea."

[Zyerne]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 8:01pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, The Horse Trot Ranch]

"I'm not sure they'll agree. Guess it's worth a shot though."

<<@Kyra [Wolf] One of my team wants to meet with Belinkliy, see if he has any idea on ransomer. Doable?>>

"I'll let you know."

[Kim]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 8:02pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, The Horse Trot Ranch]
Kim: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Angel Snow

After some consideration Kim thinks it won’t hurt if Falcone hears why she wants to meet Belenkiy too.

“This is what I think happened. B came to this ranch to relax. He contacted someone for matters of personal nature, who gave him the tobacco. Sometime after that he gets a message from someone working at Ares who is loyal to him, informing him about the impending test. B knows that if he somehow avoids being taken, Ares will just try again another time. It also explains why he was still awake, seemingly waiting for something. He finds out that the owner of this ranch used to be a fixer. So B comes up with this plan, to let his commlink leave a ransom note after he’s gone. To make sure Falcone will hire a runner team he makes it look like it’s personal.

Either he has to get through the ordeal and maybe earns a quarter of a million or he gets rescued early and Ares will most likely still think he passed the test. Pretty clever if you ask me, and it would have worked too if we wouldn’t have talked to the team who took him.”

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 8:02pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]
Kreskin | PAN = hidden | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin nodded, appreciatively. "I think, of all of our scenarios, that one actually explains the most. Like I said, there can't be too many other people who knew when the extraction was going down." He thought for a second, and looked apprehensive. "Any luck with that commlink, Riot? If B set this up, and intentionally left his commlink behind - and active - the proof would be on there."