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|Date of Scene=2018/09/25
|Location=The internet
|Synopsis=A gathering of immortals as the Warlord Crule is contacted by his centuries-lost sister, Ekaterina Vespucci, and SHIELD is on the line.
|Cast of Characters=1604, 1849
|Tinyplot=FLASHPOINT KENYA
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:1604|Derek Khanata (1604)}} has posed:'''<br>A.U.T.O.F.A.C. YELLOW PRIORITY ALERT<br>Call Log 657-5397-FPK<br>Flagged: OPERATION SOLAR KILL<br>Verified Participants: Ekaterina Vespucci<br>Suspected Participants: Warlord Crule<br>TIMESTAMP: 25/09/26 11:04 EST<br><br>TRANSCRIPT BEGINS<br><br>WARLORD CRULE: &lt;snarling noises&gt; Who dares disturb my slumber? If you are a telemarketer, worm, I shall feast upon your entrails!<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1849|Ekaterina Vespucci (1849)}} has posed:'''<br>EKATERINA VESPUCCI: Hey there big brother it's your little sister. Remember me? Ekaterina Vespucci. But you knew me back when I was Engelberga of Parma 1200 years ago.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1604|Derek Khanata (1604)}} has posed:'''<br>WARLORD CRULE: &lt;laughter&gt; Sister! I shouldn't be surprised. Word of my deeds of late have reached even your ears, eh? It has been too long, little queen. Do you once more yearn for a kingdom to call your own?<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1849|Ekaterina Vespucci (1849)}} has posed:'''<br>EKATERINA VESPUCCI: You are all over the news. I've etched out my little piece of Manhatten. But you never call never visit. Even Selene pops by once in a while. I'm beginning to feel neglected.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1604|Derek Khanata (1604)}} has posed:'''<br>WARLORD CRULE: &lt;laughter&gt; The last time I came calling, little sister, you set that twice-accursed puritan upon me; he hounded me to the very heart of Africa, damn his eyes, and I have yet forgotten how those flames lashed! It is a horrible thing to die by fire, little one, and a favor I won't be quick to forget. &lt;pause&gt; However, it has been many years since a Holy Roman Emperor reigned. If you wish to make peace, I am willing to accept an apology.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1849|Ekaterina Vespucci (1849)}} has posed:'''<br>EKATERINA VESPUCCI: Come on brother the first time we met you tried to kill me. It might have been 1200 years ago. Who put you up to that? I bet it was Selene. In any event Solomon Kane was never going to be able to kill you. He was just a darn nuisance. I'll apologise if you apologise.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1604|Derek Khanata (1604)}} has posed:'''<br>WARLORD CRULE: Hrmm. You should be grateful, brat. Were it not for my hateful duty to the High Council, our kind would be thrice more numerous--you simply proved yourself worthy to survive. &lt;long pause&gt; These are strange times, little sister, and there are queer portents in the air. To speak frankly, you are not the only member of our elder brood to reach out as of late; I suspect we are being drawn together by unseen forces, our convergence coinciding with the dawn of a new aeon--the turning of the wheel of fate. I will not begrude you a place in the kingdom to come, should you wish it. I am aware of your not-insubstantial resources.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1849|Ekaterina Vespucci (1849)}} has posed:'''<br>EKATERINA VESPUCCI: So population control? That was it? Ah well cats out of the bag now. There are lucha libre regaled superpowered wackos messing up every corner of the world. And immortals are becoming darn near pedestrian. I met a famous amazon and had coffee with her in Times Square a week ago. So who is this member of our elder brood? Thankyou for the invite I guess. Eldritch forces drawing us together? Are you sure that we aren't just being played like puppets by some darned Sorcerer?<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1604|Derek Khanata (1604)}} has posed:'''<br>WARLORD CRULE: Does the stench not reach your lofty high-rise, little sister? Blood is in the air, down here in the mud and the muck. The decadent West has turned inward, wracked by internal struggles of the new pantheon that arises on your shores; the field is open for the bold to wrest a new empire from their feeble grasp. &lt;spitting noises&gt; Your eight century adolescence is an embarassment, child-queen. You shall never know glory until you pluck the bloody crown from the still-cooling corpse of your predecessor--prove yourself worthy of the gift the gods have bestowed upon you!<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1849|Ekaterina Vespucci (1849)}} has posed:'''<br>EKATERINA VESPUCCI: Actually that's a twelve century adolescence big brother. Are you sure it's the Gods that bestowed this upon us. I have a nifty theory that involves the unpopular convergent evolution thesis. That aside I had my period of rule. I had the lions share of Europe at one stage. I'm not sure doing things in the open politically served me very well. As for whether the west has turned inwards well you are going to have real empirical evidence of whether that is true with the state you are carving out in the dark continent. You're going to make us alot of enemies brother.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1604|Derek Khanata (1604)}} has posed:'''<br>WARLORD CRULE: &lt;laughter&gt; Let them come! I have supped on the marrow of mankind's greatest warriors since the dawn of recorded history, and the superhuman among them always tasted the sweetest. With the forces that I have arrayed at my command, none shall stay my hand--least of all the West, who shall benefit from my rule.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1849|Ekaterina Vespucci (1849)}} has posed:'''<br>EKATERINA VESPUCCI: There are alot more of them now brother. You have friends you are benefitting then across the Atlantic? Why does that not surprise me? And you still haven't told me which elder of our brood has signed up with you? There were only ever about eleven of us if I recall. I'd like to see what the big blue boy En Sabah Nur thinks of your plan. He might think you're stealing his sunshine. He was always a buzzkill.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1604|Derek Khanata (1604)}} has posed:'''<br>WARLORD CRULE: The so-called "tweets" of these American heroes are appropriately-named, for they are no more than the squawking of crows who wait to feed on the lion's catch, once he has had his fill. The West conceded Africa to China a decade ago, and they are far less squeamish about the truth of things--as long as the trade ships ply the waters of the Gulf of Aden unharried, and the Kenyan oil flows unabated, all methods are justifiable. Order in the Horn of Africa--and the eradication of the Mohammedans in Al-Shabaab--is more valuable to those who sit behind the throne than the pleas of bleating sheep, too bloated from their fast food hamburgers to do more than "share" and "like". &lt;spitting sounds&gt; As far as which of our siblings has joined us, why not come to Africa and find out for yourself? Discover once more what it means to truly be alive. Nur himself may appear not 'ere long; we are not far from his homeland. I suspect he would welcome this struggle.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1849|Ekaterina Vespucci (1849)}} has posed:'''<br>EKATERINA VESPUCCI: Yeah I'm not one for social media either. Oh I had my fill of the jihadi's when I helped drive them from Andalusia. You're right you are not going to make the west unhappy by wiping them out. And Al-Shabaab 'The Youth' or Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen 'Movement of Striving Youth'. The names get worse and worse as time passes by. Please put them out of our collective misery. I'm definitely considering a visit. I have a private army now you know and they are gathering dust over here guarding my Star Wars figurines and commercial galleries. We'll see what the big blue boy thinks soon I imagine.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1604|Derek Khanata (1604)}} has posed:'''<br>WARLORD CRULE: That's the spirit, little sister! We'll make an External of you yet, Crom willing! &lt;static&gt; Fly to Mogadishu--I will have an escort awaiting your arrival. &lt;sound of gunfire followed by laughter&gt; &lt;&lt;AUTOMATICALLY TRANSLATED FROM THE ARABIC: This one still has some life in him! Alpha, fall back to the barricade. Charlie, flank him from the West.&gt;&gt; Our time is up for today, child-queen, for I make my move. Do not tarry; this family reunion is long overdue.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1849|Ekaterina Vespucci (1849)}} has posed:'''<br>EKATERINA VESPUCCI: Bye then big brother. Hmm always thought you were more a Yog-Soggoth guy than a Crom guy.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1604|Derek Khanata (1604)}} has posed:'''<br>WARLORD CRULE: &lt;sounds of a nearby explosion&gt; &lt;&lt;FROM THE ARABIC: Good shot! That'll send the curs running!&gt;&gt; It has been said that one should not call up what one cannot put down; I have abided by that wisdom these many centuries, and it has served me well. The witch-queen may dally with such demons, but the first gods suit me better--our relationship is uncomplicated. We shall speak soon! &lt;static&gt; &lt;gunfire&gt; &lt;screams&gt;<br><br>END TRANSCRIPT<br><br>KEYWORDS LOGGED: Warlord Crule, Ekaterina Vespucci, Al-Shabaab, immortality, En Sabah Nur<br>AUTOMATICALLY-SUGGESTED KEYWORDS: External, High Council<br>A.U.T.O.F.A.C.-generated summary: Warlord Crule, leader of Somali-based mutant guerillas Sheyga Hiddo (see SHIELD File 45443603-TK9LV), is called by Ekaterina Vespucci, international arms dealer (see SHIELD File 0052KY-9966504). Discussion indicates familial connection, previously unknown immortal race designated 'Externals' or the 'High Council', probable members include: En Sabah Nur, AKA APOCALYPSE (see SHIELD File 000079-1090APO) and an unknown woman named 'Selene'.<br>LOG ENDS<br> <br>
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