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[JohnnyCon7]

Project Ashcroft

[Kitrona]

I haven't been doing so because I don't know /what's/ important.

[soleta]

well, several points strike me on first read:

-Alex Peterson was a subject of genetic engineering. So were Naomi and Aly. This suggests an obvious link; perhaps this is a continuation?
-in PokeKiller's final IM chat, General Stoffel talks about the thieves who stole the genetic engineering technology. ProjectAshcroft2: You see, it was a simple genetics project in the 80's but when we closed it down, a few crazy workers stole the test subjects and continued it black-op.

I would be really interested to know whether PokeKiller ever recieved that floppy disk, and if so, what was on it.

[Alyx Chusil]

Alex is in Atlanta, Georgia.

[Alyx Chusil]

[Alyx Chusil]

You know, the area code has been bothering me since I read it the first time. It's almost the same as the first one. Miami = 786, Atlanta = 678. Coincidence?

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The following are all the permustations of the area code 678.

678 = Atlanta, GA, USA
687 = None
768 = None
786 = Miami, FL, USA
867 = Yukon/Northwest Territories, CA
876 = Jamaica

[AprilAWZ]

Yikes....Suffice it to say, Alex is no Aly...

I did try the number, and had a rather...er...interesting conversation. Let's just say that I'm feeling pretty lucky that I come from a hunting background and have experience with guns...lol! Other than a few threats, I didn't get much to go on, other than learning a bit of what happened since Ashcroft 1. In between not-so-veiled threats, he'd tell me that he was not impressed with my knowlege of the situation, so I have a feeling that what I found out might already be known from Ashcroft 3.

I only read the first Ashcroft so far, so I kind of had it in my head that Alex was along the same lines as Naomi and Ali...good people in bad circumstances...not so. I'm inclined to keep him at arms length at this point. I can see why TA and the govt are so eager to contain the guy.

[Alyx Chusil]

I'm thinking our Russian is the good guy in bad circumstances. Ol' Tranny said he had a falling out with some unsavory group by not killing someone. Anyway, if and when we make contact with him, we should know who is our friendly contact.

[AprilAWZ]

Chatting wth TA...this came across...TA is playing dumb, as was I.

[20:51] TransientAxiom: ffffffffffffffsd'
[20:52] AprilFCG: Who is this?
[20:52] AprilFCG: TA?
[20:52] TransientAxiom: 4rtgcb tr6u7jnfv v nb y6tuv 6frb6rfbcwse65 w57svg
[20:52] AprilFCG: Who is this??
[20:53] TransientAxiom: Hm. Apologies.
[20:53] AprilFCG: What was that?
[20:53] TransientAxiom: Slight malfunction. Nothing to worry about.
[20:53] AprilFCG: that gibberish?
[20:53] TransientAxiom: Indeed.
[20:54] AprilFCG: oh...alright, I'm glad to hear it. Again, a bit twitchy over here!
[20:54] TransientAxiom: Nothing to worry about.
[20:55] AprilFCG: So, you are sure about the security of the database?
[20:55] TransientAxiom: Oh, most certainly.

He blew it off as a glitch, I didn't press the issue.

[Alyx Chusil]

Splendid. Our first cipher. I am working on it now. Anything else he may have said that could be a decrypt key? I'm working under the assumption that the key might be ffffffffffffffsd' right now.

[AprilAWZ]

[Buckshot]

Where Alex is going

[AprilAWZ]

Ok...I should have posted this yesterday, but I wasn't sure how I was supposed to handle this, so I decided to sleep on it.

When I talked to Alex, I told him that I was willing to ally with him...I told him that I was never one to trust government anyway. After a while, he told me that he was on his way to find Nikolai Petrovsky, his Russian rival. He basically told me that his way of knowing he can "trust" me was that when I was talking to all of you, I was to keep this to myself, hence the delay while I tried to sort that one out.

He also told me that Aly and Naomi were the first two to escape, although there were two more later, John Peterson, his brother was the third, and Alex was the fourth, and apparently, last. Alex told me that he killed his brother, for no other reason than "dominance".

At the time I talked to Alex, I wasn't sure what side was the least of the evils, although I did what I could to convince him that I wanted to help him out.

I called the number TA left, and told him that Alex was headed to SanFran. I didn't tell him the name of the Russian, simply because Alyx Chusil's reasoning about the Russian possibly being a "good guy" (ie, he refused to kill someone) is starting to make a lot of sense to me. The US govt. is also after Nikolai, and I don't want to help them yet, since we've not had a chance to "size up" Nikolai yet. And, just as he was hanging up, Alex told me it was a shame that I was basically helping to kill an innocent man...

Soooo, at this point, I'm going to try to keep Alex thinking that I'm in his corner. In the meantime, I'm going to try figure out what I can about Nikolai Petrovsky (interesting last name). As far as TA is concerened, I think he's ok, but I don't trust his employers fully yet. However, where I can, I think I should continue to feed info to him, as long as it doesn't give up info about Petrovsky.

But anywho, that's where I'm at...feedback reqeusted!!

And no, I've not cracked that cypher from last night yet...grrr!

[Alyx Chusil]

Ha! I knew it! I got my brother in on this a few days ago and I told him yesterday, "she's hiding something." And you were!

We don't hold it against you, though. Not now that we know what it is.

Right, then. I will try to get in contact with our Russian. Right now, I'm thinking we should keep April as our Alex contact, on of us a Russian contact, and, if he doesn't leave like he said, one of us in contact with Ol' Tranny. Of course we'll continue to collaborate and, in effect, play all three sides to our gain. Until we see all the proverbial cards, that is.

Also, an interesting name. Quite. I've read much about the Great Game, though, admittedly, my knowledge is more on the English side (obvious reasons). Possibly this is not the Russian's real name?

[Buckshot]

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