#plot drop 005

WHERE: Utopia Club, Las Vegas, Nevada

WHEN: July 1963

It has been an exciting and hot week in Budapest, and our spies have packed for their departure. After The Weapons Expert’s arrest, Agent Marks successfully bailed them from jail despite detective Agoti’s insistence. MI6 arrived on scene to take agent Thursdays body and simultaneously took full jurisdiction for the case. All evidence has been confiscated and will be transported back to headquarters. A team will be assigned to investigate the death, and the Budapest police as well as the CODA team have been asked to let it go.  

Vald’s interview with Sandra went successfully. He has been warned not to share any of the information he acquired, under the penalty of death. Sandra made it very clear that if Vald were to leak information assassins would be sent after him and whomever was told. While he has not been fully informed or initiated into Vronsky’s cause, but he has been invited to Russia to stay in Moscow and meet with Vronsky themself. However, this meeting is three weeks away and the team has another intriguing lead to follow in the meantime.

Bobby took it upon himself to break into Sandra’s hotel room after her meeting with Vald. Because he knew the room number this was quite easy. He had enough time to root through ehr personal belongings and find a notebook, filled with what appeared to be meeting dates. After being translated from coded russian shorthand by Henry, it was discovered that Sandra’s next location was Las Vegas. The words translated were ‘Apex’ & ‘Utopia’ and it was associated with the time and date 5pm Friday.

The team believes Sandra has arranged a meeting with Stewart Rundberg, of the Apex mining facility in Nevada. It is a top producer of uranium in the area, and it’s likely she’s making a deal with him to purchase some. As for Utopia, it’s likely a reference to the club on the Las Vegas strip where wealthy men go to watch dancers, gamble, and talk business. The team has been assigned with infiltratign this club to gather as much intel as possible. Klara and Lena have been assigned as dancers. Vald, Noah, and Harper are posing as guests. Henry, Levi, and Bobby are waiters. Hyunjin and Nila are working surveillance from the outside. Eden and Mortimer have been given the role of doorkeepers, meaning that they must not let anyone why isn’t on the list inside the building. Except, of course, their teammates.

The team has been assigned a new handler: CIA Agent Feng. She’s tough as nails and sharp as a tack, she offers no leash to those whom she suspects. She is keeping a special eye on Nila and Eden. Some know of a story that she once killed an agent she was supposed to be monitoring so that he would not reveal sensitive information. This may not be true, but it’s a widely accepted rumor.

Until the meeting next week the spies must be careful of keeping their cool and their cover. Feng will not hesitate to suspend anyone from the mission, and the Utopia club is known for housing a shady bunch.  The team must gather as much information as possible before the meeting without arousing any suspicion.

THE OBJECTIVE: Infiltrate the Utopia club. 

As the opulence of the Masquerade Ball began to wind down, the early morning hours ticking towards an impending dawn, the population of Salem’s Point within the halls of the Gautier Manor had put on a spectacle of their own. In the great room and in private, relationships were terminated, others were revealed, and quite a number began amidst the slow seduction of a dance. It was all mindless, normal drama for a town as small as this and strangely welcome when compared to the horrific events as of late.

Yet when has the status quo of Salem’s Point ever paused long enough to regain equilibrium? 

Not tonight. Not ever.

Neon lights washed over the Underland, painting the mechanical landscapes in hues of red and blue. Sirens could be heard. Their call was so loud it was hard even for New Elias to ignore that something had happened. A crowd gathered outside of Snake Eyes. People were clamoring to see what all the commotion was about. It was then that the doors opened and a body bag was seen being pushed out on a stretcher. Orion Bartholomew was dead. Not only that, but a confession was left. Orion had been the one orchestrating all the disappearances. It was the king himself, Hades, who turned in evidence. He was tired of having his name dragged through the mud by the hands of someone else. He had given Orion a step up in the world, and what did Hades get in return? Betrayal. Offering up proof was the least he could do. With news now circulating of his death, many were left with questions: What would happen to Snake Eyes, and who would be Orion's replacement? Many villains lined up at Hades' door begging for a seat at the table, but Hades already had a successor in mind. Logan Teague, the poor soul who had been indebted to Orion Bartholomew for many years, was given the keys to Snake Eyes and a shiny new title as Hell Baron. It was Hades who had freed him from the horrible clutches of his former boss, offering sanctuary for himself, his siblings, and Mavis Vaduva. Hades wanted to show that the council had it all wrong. The Underland was a place of opportunity. Anyone could achieve anything here. They could go from being in the slums to living like a king. The Council was now left scrambling. Everything they had discovered in the last few months was now worthless. How were they to prove Hades was the mastermind after this? They couldn't. So now they're left with the fallout. All eyes are turning to them with suspicion. And Hades is now on top. Just as he always planned to be.