1320/Where no man has gone before

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Where no man has gone before
Date of Scene: 06 July 2017
Location: Unknown
Synopsis: Summary needed
Cast of Characters: 1075, Cypher




Graydon Creed (1075) has posed:
The best money can buy for the lowest bid, that is the security that the standard issue government server in the office of Graydon Creed has to offer. To even a normal person with skill it's kind of a joke but to someone who's power is speaking the language of the machines, it's hardly even a speed bump.

After accessing Creed's office systems and spending time snooping around with no hint of being detected it's pretty clear his office has no idea how vulnerable his system is unfortunately it's mostly pretty dry, boring stuff. Speech drafts, emails about different bill proposals, more emails about lowering taxes and fixing potholes in streets than Doug would have imagined possible almost like people don't understand you have to pay taxes to afford road repairs.

It seems that secretly he's working with the Democrats who have been in office for 8 years now to expand the ACA towards a more single payer based system for all 'pure' humans. His reasoning, according to the letter being that mutants and metas are too costly to provide healthcare for. Normal people are standard issue, well researched and the ailments that affect them are well known. If we focus on lowering the cost of those treatments that we can reasonably control he will sign on to the bill, but mutants, metas and aliens are unknowns. They would require unique and costly medical research that only benefits that one person. He can't in good conscious ask for American voters to pay for research that could never be used to benefit them or their families. That shows the kind of mindset that Creed has. Save the humans, screw everyone else... the question is why.. Maybe Doug could find out if he decrypts the locked files he finds hidden in directory marked Sports. After all, why would someone put a lock on a file of sports data?

Cypher has posed:
All this from a kid lying on a bed in an infirmary. They gave Doug an iPad, and he started surfing the news. And what he sees, he does not like. From CNN he jumps to Graydon Creed's website and from there it's a simple matter of parting the proverbial curtains. A few simple requests made to the website and he penetrates into the server's files, deleting his steps behind him as he goes. You can't even really call it hacking, what he does. He's just... talking to the server. But even among the mundane stuff, there's threads of language he can follow quickly enough.

He reads, silently, the red glow in his eyes faint as the ill-looking young man flicks from file to file to file. Finally he reaches that locked directory and is silent, for a long time--

Then he studies the security on the file... and this time he needs to ask for access somewhat more rudely. But he cracks it open and proceeds further.

Graydon Creed (1075) has posed:
The Sports folder contains a subdirectory almost as large as the main OS's operating system. Each file is password locked and each password is different. Creed really, really doesn't want people snooping around in these. The files Doug can choose from include, Targeted Research, BCare, X_X, FoH, ET, FuckMan, and Forest. It's a standard kind of lock system, a out of the box security package used by lots of government officials. Nothing special or hard for Doug to crack. Which one to go in first is the hard part...

Cypher has posed:
Doug Ramsey flicks his eyes from file to file. He decides to start with 'FoH', then 'ET' - Friends of Humanity and then... aliens?

"Your language is ugly, Graydon Creed." He says, to himself. "Someone needs to make you shut your mouth."

Graydon Creed (1075) has posed:
FoH Folder does include data on the "Social Activism Group" friends of humanity. It's surprisingly big... He's been building the group since college and if Doug takes the time to read through all the files he'll learn that Creed has been in contact with the leaders of several core groups scattered throughout America. Even Creed doesn't know the full list of members but he has profiles on candidates for leadership positions. People who have lost jobs, family members, been injured by mutants, he's obviously way more involved than the press knows about. Each profile is given a 1 of 5 rating by Creed and the leaders of the cells in each state. There are notes on each one. Some are actually pretty reasonable like Creed saying, "He's got the drive and the know how to organize but he seems unstable. We should keep him in reserve for when the war starts. We don't need him tipping off the mutants early at how large the resistance is."

Resistance is a term the letters use often. These people really do think that mutants are a threat to all of humanity. They think that the government is trying to disarm them, make them compliant, make them dependent on "Heroes" so that the mutants and metas can take over and become the new ruling class of earth. As he reads the letters from the members to each other, it makes a paranoid kind of sense. Like the 9/11 was an inside job people, they have built an entire mythos of hearsay and questionable data to support their ideas. The mutants were born to try and rule humanity. The Resistance rises to stop them.

There are a lot of files including the day to day workings of FoH. They do a lot of Humans only charity, buy guns, armor, weapons, they have several 'Camps' for training but the locations are undisclosed. Camp Lionclaw, Camp Eagleclaw, Camp Snakebite and other lovely macho names. Para-military, survival training camps readying humans for the war.

Cypher has posed:
Doug Ramsey takes a moment to quietly obtain server space in... Genosha for uploading files. He creates his own encryption, a language he creates just for this purpose. His and his alone. His fingers dance along the touchscreen as he methodically transfers information to his own storage space, his expression impossible to read as he simply asks his trail to dissolve behind him.

He moves on, to the next file. And the next. Extraterrestrials, next.

He is not going to act on this, yet. No. Now is not the right point in this conversation to be heard. "What is your final statement, Graydon Creed?"

Graydon Creed (1075) has posed:
The E.T. folder that is where the rabbit hole gets even deeper. It's full of historic research on mutants and metas. Files about rumors or legendary people and some just strange ones that Creed has collected over the years. Each legend or rumor is different but Doug's pattern recognition notes they all have a file associated with them. A file that looks like a medical report. Some are blank, some have data, the letter heads on the reports come from BioCare a genetic research firm in Virginia that is clearly tied to Creed.

It takes him a moment to figure it out but he deduces that Creed has been collecting DNA samples from the remains of the dead and testing them for altered genes. Often Biocare tracks down and tests the descendants of these unusual people. But why would creed by trying to trace the existence of metas and mutants through time? This seems to just be raw data, maybe the answers are in a different folder.

Cypher has posed:
Doug Ramsey copies this information too, his eyes running down the list slowly and then back up. He narrows his eyes, as he begins to extrapolate. "I know this language... where have I heard this language before?"

He moves on. The next one is 'TheFuck'.

Graydon Creed (1075) has posed:
TheFuck is actually the least paranoid and most amusing file in the hidden directory. It's got opposition research on "The Bat" who the senator has a personal grudge against. There are text documents which are just 20K+ word rants about FUCKING BATMAN!!! Slashing the tires on his car or skulking around his house. He sweeps his office and home for bugs every day now because he knows Batman is spying on him. There are recordings of the sound of his phone line, just open static with the occasional pop like any other phone would have attached to notes saying. "Can't the CIA do SOMETHING about him tapping my GOD DAMN PHONES?!" he has extensive files on Batman's villains and battles creating a timeline with the title above it, WHO IS BATMAN? Some of the files are just ranting obscenity, "I know that son of a whore is the reason they keep screwing up my Amazon orders! I hope the Joker shoves a Joker Fish right up his bat asshole!"

Cypher has posed:
Doug Ramsey grabs that one too. That might come in useful. "Graydon Creed, your language reeks of fear. You fear the Batman. I'll remember that."

Then he moves on. Read files. Copy files. Read and copy, in the peaceful dark of the medlab, using an iPad as if it were a top of the line machine, fingers dancing across the touchscreen as Doug Ramsey who should be dead but isn't speaks the language of information. Forest, X_X, Targeted Research, and BCare. In that order.

Graydon Creed (1075) has posed:
Forest contains his plans to run for president. It's pretty boring, standard issue political stuff. He's got lists of people who will support him, goals he wants to accomplish, universal healthcare for humans, bringing the military back home to America so that when the war starts America won't be overextended, free college so that humans will be educated and heavy regulation of the food industry so that humans will be healthier and able to fight when the war starts. For all of his crazy, it's clear from his notes he really is doing it all because he thinks that he is saving humanity. He's violently angry, ruthless and willing to crush anyone who stands in his way but he really does think he's doing the right thing... which makes him all the more dangerous.

X_X is surprisingly not porn. It is tracking information on two specific mutants. Sabretooth and Mystique. It looks like he's been gathering data on them for years.

Victor Creed: Known Aliases: Sabretooth, Slasher, El Tigre, Der Schlächter ("The Butcher" in German).
Creed has people searching the world for this man with orders to follow, observe and report.

Raven Darkhölme
Known aliases: Mystique, Brandy Trudo, Wife of Baron Christian Wagner. Her file includes note on Kurt and Rogue.

It's clear from the notes he really, REALLY hates Mystique in the most intense ways possible. What is more scary is that there is a diary file in the folder.

"Doctor Hunter says I should write down my feeling and get them out so they don't keep on poisoning me. I think she makes more sense when her mouth is full of my cock but I guess she might have a point. My anger issues aren't good for the cause. So here we go, I don't know what to feel about Kurt. It's not his fault his mother is such a cunt. He was born a freak in the worst way. She abandoned him too. She abandons everyone. Some people say she even tried to kill him to save herself. So, I guess I can feel sympathy for the fuzzy blue freak. When the war starts I'll make sure he gets the cure. He may hate me for it but it's better than living with her tainted legacy in his blood. As to the adopted Sister. She's.. Really hot actually. Hopefully she'll take the cure too. I would like to have them on my side. It would be a nice change to have family. "

Cypher has posed:
Doug Ramsey scowls at this. "...Your language is more than ugly, Graydon Creed. It's broken." He's able to extrapolate the man's interest in Sabretooth and Mystique easily enough, and he copies that one too -- and encrypts the file itself before he sequesters it away. He's met Rogue though, and he likes her, so this one fills him with a particular sense of unease.

"...Cure."

He moves on. What's left? Targeted Research and BCare.

And for all the world, it looks like this kid is just sitting and playing on an iPad.

Graydon Creed (1075) has posed:
The final two files Targeted Research and BioCare are perhaps the most terrifying.

Targeted Research is a list of violent mutant criminals from around the world and a hunting log of Creed tracking them, stalking them, and killing them with his bare hands. Scattered among the notes are ratings comparing them to the viciousness of Sabertooth, notes on unexpected powers and ways to deal with mutants who have them in the future. Test notes for SaberGel and it's effectiveness against feral shock-troop mutants. There are doctor reports of the many, many injuries he has had over the years. He's been beaten, broken, and still got back up to fight. More therapy notes read, "Doctor Hunter thinks my quest to kill my father may be a psychological crutch, an excuse to do violence. She says if violence is the answer, I'm asking the wrong question. What the hell does that even mean? She doesn't understand. I can feel him, feel him in my bones. As long as he's alive I'll be tainted. He has to die and I have to be strong enough to kill him. Once he's dead, once I break them both, then I can rest. The future of humanity will be safer without me. The world I want to build has no place for men like him in it, or me.

The Biocare folder contains the research done with all the data collected in the E.T. folder and it's... pretty conclusive actually. Doug may want to run it by Hank and there are gaps in the data where they just couldn't find enough genetic material to absolutely prove it throughout all of history but there is a mountain of evidence that someone has been tampering with the human race since almost the beginning of time.

The scientists theorize that mutants are one branch of an experimental system done by one alien race while metas are possibly an experiment by another cosmic faction. The evidence is pretty clear that humanity's evolution has been enhanced in historic spikes of different time periods. The charts and graphs show spikes of activity spread out across the timeline of history. Spread out enough to go unnoticed or reduced to myth but lately, the activity curve has grown exponentially.

In the late 1830's a sudden spike in mutation started to grow and never stopped. The scientists don't know why the activity rate has continued it's rapidly upward trend but they conclude it may be the beginning of an evolutionary shift in humanity on a scale unprecedented in human history. Of course all of the good, solid scientific data is read by Creed and his followers to mean that the Mutants and Metas are weaponized humans.

One of Creed's non-scientist friends even comments on the findings. "That explains why mutants and metas are so different. A mutant might have the power to throw fire or spit acid but all of their abilities seem to focus around a single theme. They are tailored weapons for a specific function. The Metas seem to have a wider range of powers in each case. Flight, super-strength, invulnerability, gravity defying tits, clearly this is a war between two races with two different military styles. One wants mutants to be specific tools with specific functions while the other wants metas to be a generic multi-function front line soldier. The winner gets the planet."

Cypher has posed:
Doug Ramsey reads the language of the information in the BioCare file and he can piece together the words. He does not know their names but he can see their fingerprints at work, individuals meddling in the genetic history of mankind for their own individual goals. The Supreme Intelligence. Vandal Savage. Black Queen. Apocalypse. High Evolutionary. The Head of the Demon. Sinister. He would know their work again if he saw it.

He copies the last of the files, wipes his trail, and then closes out. He lies there, in silence, and then says, to himself, "I need to get well. I have to stop this."

Graydon Creed (1075) has posed:
The sins of our past always catch up with us. So many sins, so much greed and arrogance. Like so often happens in history, all it takes is one man weighed down by the weight of those sins to lead the world into the worst possible kind of wars. Doug can see it now, it isn't just Creed they are fighting, it's history, it's a thousand bleeding wounds throughout time threatening to drown them all in blood and death.

In the old days a sacrifice was made to the Gods to stave off the end of the world. Perhaps another sacrifice is in order but if they go down that path, if they give the life of one man to save the future, are they any better than the monsters he thinks they are? Is there a better way? Can they change the fate of mutant kind? Only time will tell.