Lumis's Office - Sept 21 - Security Concerns

[Domanic Taylor]

Lumis rides his private elevator up to his office level, from the parking garage down below. He looks upset, his eyes have an orange hue, and his skin is blotchy with patches of shadowy dark.

Knowing her employer well, Denise doesn't greet Lumis at all, she just slides a datapad over to him as he walks past her desk. He takes it without even looking at her, and walks into his office.

When he takes a seat, the security report does nothing to improve his mood.

Lumis touches the intercom. "Network, notify security personnel that we are tightening our sweeps. Activate Logan for campus security, and get Jubilee in here."

Denise gives a simple, "Yes Sir." And starts contacting people quickly and effeciently.

[Barbara Chronopolis]

It seems that Binary never really sleeps anymore, which is useful for any working parent. When the alert level goes up a subroutine in the campus network alerts her. Even though she's not an active part of the X-Team program, she's concerned enough to make her own way to Lumis' office to observe the briefing and chime in if needed.

[Domanic Taylor]

Lumis looks up as Binary comes in. "Hello Binary."

"Hello... hello... hello...."

[Barbara Chronopolis]

"Lumis," she nods, pursing her lips at the echo, "I know I am not exactly active duty, but it sounds like things are not going well and you know I am always willing to help."

[Domanic Taylor]

"We've had students attacked, and a teacher taken captive. Also, the interrogations have uncovered some disturbing things. As soon as Jubilee gets here I'll fill you both in."

[Barbara Chronopolis]

She winces and nods, "It never gets any easier, does it."

[Jubilation Lee]

"Sorry. I was getting my beauty sleep." Jubilee said when she arrived at Lumis's office "What is up, my marshmallow peeps?"

[Domanic Taylor]

Lumis frowns at Jubilee but doesn't say anything about the light hearted talk.

"We have a faculty member captured, non-X-Team, Stan Bowen. Students have been attacked by Vampires. Jubilee, I am putting you in charge of organizing a studen X-Team to follow up on leads that our interrogations have given us. I believe that Team 6 was slated for duty, but use your judgement."

[Jubilation Lee]

Jubilee thought for a moment "Six is solid, but for something this big I want to call in Four as well. Are we moving out tonight?"

[Domanic Taylor]

"Tomorrow, evening or day, as you deem best. The 'Vampires' seem to be more active at night, which would make them easier to find but more dangerous."

"You'll need the rest of the evening to go over the interrogation details and choose theaters of operation. I'll give you the broad strokes in brief, and make the reports available to you."

[Jubilation Lee]

"Shiny." Jubilee replied "I decide when after I read the reports."

[Domanic Taylor]

"The 'Vampires' are not mystical creatures at all. They are a group of mutants that for some reason share a very specific, and very powerful mutation, all with the same kinds of traits. We have some evidence that gene-therapy might be involved, but we're not certain if that's the full answer."

"The Vampires are very strong, and fast, as we knew from our previous battles with them. But they are also somewhat psychic, and have the ability to heal, if they feed on mutant blood."

[Barbara Chronopolis]

Binary nods and factors the most current information in to the equation, "If you need any surveillance support for the teams, let me know. I have a number of resources deployed at this point which can provide some assistance."

[Jubilation Lee]

"Interesting." Jubilee said with a nod "Anything you have that shows what these guys can do in a fight would be awesome." she said to Binary. Glancing down at the pile of paper Lumis had given her she added "I see some of them came up with a address in Mutant Town. Anything you've got on that would be keen."

[Domanic Taylor]

"They gave us a location for their base, but apparently it is mobile, so we shouldn't expect it to still be there. Still, it's worth looking at the spot where it used to be. It's in North London, here are the coordinates."

"As for the Mutant Town address, you might as well deploy the drones there, we don't have any intelligence on it yet."

"Finally, as for their fighting skill, the Vampires seem to have a very high level of skill, and physical power on par with Beast. Some of them are obviously stronger than others, we have one name, Jezebelle, seems to be a leader of sorts, and was reported as being significantly more dangerous than the rest."

"I have someone programing a danger room sim with the basics of what we know about how the vampires fight, it should be ready in a few hours. The sim is mostly guesswork at this point, but we have some hard data to put into it, and we'll continue to refine it as we learn more."

[Jubilation Lee]

"Thats why they pay us the big bucks, right?" Jubilee said with a little smile "I don't want to wear my people out in a sim, but I'll show it to them at the briefing, so I know what they're dealing with. Team 4 will go to North London to check out that base, and Six will go to Mutant Town and see what they can see. Sound good?"

[Domanic Taylor]

"Yes, it does." Lumis takes a moment to control himself, for a moment there were psychic whispers building up in the room...


"Anything else you'd like in the brief before you hit the reports?"

"Or Binary, anything else to add?"

[Barbara Chronopolis]

"If we have the resources, it may be prudent to expand team patrols to the Mutant Town district. We are not the only ones under attack by these pseudo vampires, and if we can protect any of our brethren off campus, we should."

[Domanic Taylor]

"I agree. We can either tap another team, or I can send professional X-Men out there."

[Jubilation Lee]

"Tap another team if you want." Jubilee said "Send them out in the morning, have them knock on doors, see if any of the locals can tell them anything about the vamps."

[Domanic Taylor]

"We'll see how it goes with the first two teams, and the campus itself. They seem to value stronger mutants, so I think the campus will be the more prominent target in any case."

[Jubilation Lee]

Jubliee looked up from the files "Maybe....they seem to be inclined to pick off people who get off alone, instead of hitting harder targets. No offense to Vanguard, but he was in his prime when I was playing with barbies."

[Domanic Taylor]

"That's why I asked the students to maintain a buddy system, but so far they seem reluctant to do so."

[Jubilation Lee]

"They're young enough to think they're immortal, which ok, in some cases is true, but you know what I mean...." Jubilee shook her head "Just don't let them off campus alone. Or at least remind them not to be dumbasses."

[Barbara Chronopolis]

"Hopefully cooler heads will prevail, but it is always difficult to control young mutants. Not unlike herding cats."

[Jubilation Lee]

"Cattle prods." Jubilee said with a grin "Works every time."

[Domanic Taylor]

"And they're old enough to make their own mistakes. Alright, this briefing is over. Binary, send out those drones. Jubilee, you go over those reports, and keep me posted on how the teams are doing."

"Any questions or concerns, send them to Network and they'll get to me post-haste."

[Jubilation Lee]

"Sounds good." Jubilee said, gathering up her files and getting ready to head back to her apartment.

[Barbara Chronopolis]

"Consider it done. I will feed any relevant data through Network for team dissemination."