He turns to get in his car, "I'll send you an email. damn millennials."

Knight chuckled inside the helmet, making sure the sound wouldn't leak outside the suit.  Apparently he sounded significantly older and stuffier?  It was amusing, and helpful, he supposed though for some odd reason he felt slightly offended by the comment.  He gave a mental shrug and activated the recall, assuming no alerts popped up before hand.

Once back in his lab, he hung the suit up once more before moving to the command terminal.  He had quite a bit of work to do.  Setting up secure sites and bouncing any traces seemed prudent at this point as well as making sure his own searches were as subtle as possible.  Whoever/whatever was behind the security firm had put a decent amount of time and planning in.  It would be wise to assume a heightened level of alertness on their part.

OOC:
Assuming no issues call for my attention, heading back to do some digging.

Roll assuming one is needed w/ 9 skill
22:59, Today: Knight Wolf rolled 14 using 2d10 ((9,5)).

Your initial research finds the following:
1. This is at the west side of the state near a large preserve.
2. It is the address of a refinery (mid-sized) and the security firm.  The refinery does high end fuels (think racing or scientific vehicles).
3. Both are owned by the same company, once you jump through information on a few shell/holding companies for both.
4. You are not personally/business connected to any of the companies or c-suite of any, that you find/know.
5. All though maybe odd to have this connection, what you find in the public space seems like legitimate businesses.

[OOC]Is there any specific questions you have?  There is some space on you die roll for more.

OOC:

1) Primary is to find out who owns them, after all the shell corporation stuff.
2) The public businesses, shell corps there too?  What are the businesses?
3) Who owns the preserve?  What's it a preserve of?

[OOC]

In reply to Knight Wolf (msg # 275):

1) Primary is to find out who owns them, after all the shell corporation stuff.

So you want the ultimate company at the top of the pyramid?  Trans-World Holdings.  By FCC description it is a public multinational with major offices in NYC,Leipzig, Cairo, and Santa Cruz do Sul.

2) The public businesses, shell corps there too?  What are the businesses?

You are finding companies in the chain and with a little research and can determine/guess which are only holding companies (P.O. Box mailing addresses, limited information available, some you find other people have marked them as 'shell companies').  I have not detailed out the chain, but will.

3) Who owns the preserve?  What's it a preserve of?

It is a state forest preserve.

More questions welcome.....

OOC:
Board/CEO of Trans?  Major shareholders?  I'm trying to determine the who/whom (or how many people) is behind it/truly in charge.

Don't need to detail the chain.  Can just say I've got it listed somewhere.

I, the player, happen to know that a lot of NJ state forests are preserved sites around old mines that are closed/sealed.  How big is this state forest?  A small one or big?  Also, was there a mine here?  If so, how hard was that data scrubbed/how hard was it to find?

[OOC]
I will put something together.  I like your thinking.

You have a list somewhere.  :)

The facility is west of Blairstown, on the outskirts of the Worthington State Forest.  This is not a densely populated area.

OOC:

Ok.  Trying to get behind the curtain. ;)

Hmm.  A commercial/industrial park on the edge a state forest.  Suspicious to put it mildly.  A little digging into the area, the forest.  Anything of note/suspicious there?

[OOC]

The facility, from Google maps satellite  view, is not large.  It would be approximately 1/2 mile by 3/4 of a mile.  You can see office buildings, tanks, and endless layers of pipes.

Of note, there is a clear zone of 20 yards all around the facility, with security towers, and multiple patrols captured in the shot.  It looks more akin to a jail in some ways.

Sitting back, frowning at the information he dug up, Dean spent a moment in contemplation.  Clearly this was a bit bigger than originally intended.  Taking a moment to check and see if Mindstrike had responded, Dean put a little work into his other projects for a little while.  The list never seemed to get smaller...

OOC:

Ok, so can't figure out who the board/individual in power is behind the whole thing?

Or a fort/base...

Unless missing something, think that's all I'm getting for the moment?

Will continue his other projects/research for the moment.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:05, Thu 07 July 2022.

[OOC]
I have to provide a board and CEO information.  I just have to sit down and do that, but you do get that.  It is a mix of public information and 'took a little digging'.  I can answer questions about it in general now, but I have to create company name to CEO to board to next company in some format that makes sense.

You have a list of companies.  "Don't need to detail the chain.  Can just say I've got it listed somewhere."  I had thought that the bulk of the 'holding companies' and 'shell corporations' were not necessary.  But I agree you have it.

OOC:
Ok, all good.  Just wanted to make sure I had it and wasn't sure.

Do any of the names on the board/owners have any significance?  Going to start a little careful digging there too, just for completion sake, just to be thorough.

[OOC] None of the names have a significance to you in particular. Looking through them you find links to other companies and can see their pages on LinkedIn and/or other pages.

Much of this is easy to find.

Sitting back, Dean sighed.  Short of going there or getting new information, he was fairly certain he'd exhausted this line of research.  Nothing from Mindstrike either.  Checking the local news, Dean turned to his other work.  Checking and adjusting the various search routines was a part of it along with some multitasking as he played with some new design mods.


OOC:
Drawing a blank on what to check next with this one.

So will check on other searches/work (island searches, supers data, ACTP and the 2 agents).  Checking news and such as well as I work.

[OOC]
Refresh my memory on the 'island search'.

OOC:

I was able to determine the Nazi artifacts almost certainly led to a hidden/lost Nazi base on/under an island, like an old Nazi sub base kind of thing?  I wasn't able to determine which island as didn't have that info so I was trying to find it through other means, weather patterns, rumors, historical incidents, disappearances, 'blank spots', etc etc.

[OOC]

Give a roll.

[IC]

You sit down and find a huge amount of information has been gathered and needs to be reviewed.  It will take caffeine....

OOC:

An eh roll but high skill helps (I hope) perhaps!

19:54, Today: Knight Wolf rolled 12 using 2d10 ((3,9)).

[IC]

As you go through your collection, you find something of interest.  Although not from a scholarly article, a document about the Third Reich mapped out known and supposed 'secret Nazi' bases after the war.  You find that the known bases map to locations in the travels/assignments of your target.

This map also shows several 'unconfirmed', 'supposed', 'not found', and dis proven bases in the North Sea.  Approximately six are in close proximity (by boat or plane) to his last location to be accessible.

[OOC]
If I've forgotten something, hit.  Posting from work....

OocOOC

6 is good.  Very workable.

Don't suppose some of crossed off?  Seeing if modern events would remove the possibility.  If not, that's fine.

Will do an IC post tonight probably.  Busy of late.

[OOC]
That was cut down.  Sorry.

Sitting back, Dean rubbed his chin thoughtfully.  He had narrowed the search down considerably.  Short of new information, he deemed it unlikely continued searches would gain much.  Sending off a second message to Mindstrike only took a moment.



Turning back to his console, he monitored for alerts as he dove back into his research and design work.


OOC:

Sorry.  Completely lost track of this.

I assume I don't have to worry about arranging for transportation if I/we want to head there?

I have absolutely no idea where I am in time/day schedule thing compared to the rest.

[OOC]

You have resources to go yourself or even send a team...you rich.

You are on the same day as the others.  We've not really set that to a specific day and time.

Dean turned back and continued to work on his various projects for a little while, letting the scanner run in the background.

OOC:

Fair enough.  I just wanted to be sure

Going to continue doing design work, researching my various topics.  Probably stop around dinner since normal day stuff already done..

Your research and work goes uninterrupted.

[OOC]
Working on answering a few things from your post.  Tomorrow....