I12DT - Channel Surfing ((open))

by **ASHLIE** » Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:04 pm

Ashlie is sitting in the common room, watching TV and changing the channel roughly every 0.1 seconds.

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by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:38 pm

Mars collapses into a chair, sorting through her mail.

"Morning," Mars says to Ashlie.

by **ASHLIE** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:43 pm

"Good morning, Marcie."

"Do you want to watch?" she asks after a moment, unsure if she should slow down.

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:46 pm

Mars smiles, "Don't worry about me, Ash. I don't want to get in your way. Just enjoy your shows."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:53 pm

"Okay!" she smiles and keeps flipping through the channels. "How are you today?" she moves on in ehr mental smalltalk checklist.

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:54 pm

"I'm doing alright," Mars says, "How are you?"

by **ASHLIE** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:00 pm

"Alright. A bit bored, but that happens a lot."

by **Narrator** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 8:08 am

The mail was mostly school notices and news that, for some reason, people still insisted on printing up on brightly colored paper. One envelope though was addressed to her with no return address and no postal mark of any kind. The flap was even sealed with small piece of tape rather than properly sealed.

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:02 pm

Mars frowns and starts to open the strange letter. Hoping it's not poisoned.

"I'm sorry to hear that," Mars says.

by **Narrator** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:05 pm

Inside was a simple folded sheet of paper with a high quality image printed under the words "Do You Know This Person?" The image depicted a much younger Natalya in some sort of suit launching ice at some sort of mansion.

by **ASHLIE** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:11 pm

"No no, it's not a bad thing. It's kind of neat sometimes, actually."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:17 pm

Mars frowns, studying the picture.

"You like being bored?"

by **ASHLIE** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:20 pm

"Sometimes, sure. You don't?"

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:23 pm

"I hate being bored," Mars says, "Hey, what can you tell me about this?"

Mars hands Ashlie the photo.

by **ASHLIE** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:43 pm

She takes the picture and runs an image recognition algorithm on it to try and determine the location.

by **Narrator** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:45 pm

It took a minute, but the picture matched images of the Westchester campus of Xavier's Institute from nearly twenty years ago.

by **ASHLIE** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:48 pm

"This is a picture of Miss Romanov wearing some kind of augmentation suit attacking Xavier's Institute in Westchester, New York about 20 years ago."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:52 pm

"That's....really specific," Mars says, looking at the picture again, "Thanks."

by **ASHLIE** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:04 pm

"Why would someone send you this picture?"

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:06 pm

"Hell if I know," Mars lies, "Maybe someone is trying to screw with me."

Mars crumples it up in one hand.

by **ASHLIE** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:07 pm

"Do you think someone is trying to warn you?"

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:11 pm

"About what?" Mars says, "Something Natalya did twenty years ago? Kind of late for a warning."

by **ASHLIE** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:16 pm

"That is true."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:30 pm

"I'm going to find who sent this," Mars says, "They need to learn some boundaries."

by **ASHLIE** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:33 pm

"Do you need help with that?"

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:41 pm

"Are you sure you want to help?" Mars asks, standing up, "I'd hate to interrupt your boredom."

by **ASHLIE** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:46 pm

"Good point." she says, apparently serious. "But it's not as important. I can bored some other time."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:41 pm

"So, how would you go about figuring out who sent this?" Mars asks.

by **ASHLIE** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:55 pm

"We could check for fingerprints. Or security footage from the mail delivery."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:43 am

"Sounds like a plan to me," Mars says.

by **ASHLIE** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 12:00 pm

"You don't want campus security to know about this?"

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:51 pm

"I'd prefer to take care of this myself," Mars says, "I don't want Natalya to worry about it."

by **ASHLIE** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:53 pm

"Okay. I understand." she lies, not really understanding it at all. "Let's try to access the security files then." she says, getting up.

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 2:20 pm

"Okay, but fair warning," Mars says, "I'm not really a...computer person."

by **ASHLIE** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 2:22 pm

"That's okay. I am!" she smiles and they head over to the computer lab.

by **Narrator** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:37 am

With ASHLIE's access, she had no trouble getting the security footage from the day's mail delivery to the common room. Compared to the previous days, it looked like the normal campus staff handling the mail. He brought the container of mail and unlocked the face plate of the boxes and started sorting mail into them. Part way through, they saw him take the envelope in question and look at it. He flipped it over a couple of times as if inspecting it and then, somewhat stiffly, he put it in Mars' box and went back to sorting the rest of the mail as if nothing had happened.

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:24 pm

"That's weird," Mars says, "Do you know who that guy is?"

by **ASHLIE** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:33 pm

"Yes, he delivers the mail. So we need to figure out how the letter got into his bag."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 4:20 pm

"Plus, when he was brainwashed," Mars says, "'Cause trust me, I know brainwashing when I see it and that guy definitely fits the pattern."

Mars had a bad feeling about this.

by **ASHLIE** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 4:36 pm

"Are you sure?" she asks, replaying the clip so she can look at it again.

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