Mystery of the Missing Plane (Adventurers)
This page is for sharing & collecting information obtained for the "Mystery of the Missing Plane" arc, which began on May 10, 2015, run by the Adventurers super group. Some elements of this page is offered from an OOC perspective.
The shortened link to this page is: http://ow.ly/MLgGT
Team member discussion
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Red Spider: ((Share details that you learn in here! Put a < hr > tag one line after your comment)) Red Spider: ((Day 1 has begun)) Roak: Everything I have gathered thus far is pointing in one direction. I cannot proceed any further until the team has gathered up and I can present my findings to them, as well as convince them of their validity. The next course of actions . . . May divide the group. | |||||||||
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Events
Day 0
Cassandra Olsen (Red Spider) hosts Celeste (Stormherald), Caitlyn (Dreamweaver), Deandre (War Beetle), and Roak at her condominium. The group enjoys some time relaxing in a hot tub. Cassandra receives a call from her father, surprising her with a snap vacation to New York City, for her and two friends, using his company's private jet.
Hours later the flight leaves Millennium City's Wayne County Metropoliton Airport (DTW) for Newark International (EWR). The plane goes off radar shortly before reaching its destination, prompting an investigation by officials at all levels.
Stormherald is likely the first to learn of the potential disaster: she is at her newspaper's offices when the newswires first share reports of a missing civilian aircraft originating from Millenium City.
Day 1
Concealing Info
Adventurers main computer gave a keyword alert while monitoring police systems: search warrants had been issued for the homes of all passengers and crew on the flight. Fox, Meltdowner, Phantasm, and Roak infiltrated Cassandra's condo, taking care to remove references to the Adventurers on her computer, hide her costumes, and seal off access to her panic room. The detective assigned to look around - David Sheffield - found nothing of interest.
Hacking the Flight Data
Hornett enlists the aid of Cyber-Slash - a reformed(?) criminal hacker - to break into satellite tracking & FAA systems. She locates the plane's flight plan, including a full manifest, as well as data on satellite pings received from the plane - revealing it continued east of New Jersey into the Long Island Sound.
The manifest lists the following aboard:
- Pilot: Mason MacTavish
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Co-pilot: James Fenwick -
Flight Attendant: Andrew Cave -
Passengers: - Alaina Brennan
- Cassandra Olsen
- Nicole White
Cassandra's Father
Stormherald, Dreamweaver, Roak, Hornett, & Phantasm visited Mr. Olsen while he was having a private smoke on his balcony. Roak covertly enters the home and plants bugs while the team members talk to Bill. The team learns contact info for the other passengers' families. They also receive the full employee listing of DTO Flights Inc., DTO's subsidiary which provides private flights for the DTO executives.
Addtional to the pilots and crew on the flight, DTO Flights Inc. also employed *Shelly Asner* as their office manager. Bill also agreed to provide e-mails of the flightadmin@dto.us.com account. This will happen on Day 2.
Bill pleaded with the team not to disturb *Marie Olsen*, his wife, who had never quite come to grips with Cassandra's dual life, and is presently beside herself.
Hornett's equipment registered that Bill may have been lying when he said he didn't know of any enemies he might have.
Search
Informed by flight data obtained by Hornett & Cyber-Slash, Lady Justice flew 'Lawbringer', and began to search the coast of the Long Island Sound, from the plane's last radar ping, to Newport, RI. Though unsuccessful, her thoroughness allows that area to be completely discounted for further searches.
Day 2
Black Owl Data
Team ally Black Owl, an old friend of Red Spider's, shares details of his Day 1 solo investigation. He extrapolates the plane's heading and comes up with a search area, a cone heading NNE from the last known position. He also has a fuel calculation.
Black Owl also believes that the co-pilot is not involved in a conspiracy, having visited the man's place.
Roak Visits DTO
Roak infiltrates DTO and Bill Olsen's office computer, finding deleted e-mails to his personal assistant asking for last-minute tickets and hotels booked for Cass's Day 0 trip. Bill also exchanged e-mails with a colleague, pretty much begging him to turn over his booking of the private jet for that evening to Bill. A cursory glance at Bill's computer schedule shows he had a great many appointments to attend meetings about 'Olsen Shipping, Ltd.'. He had also recently deleted e-mails written the afternoon of Day 0, asking his personal assistant to drop what she was doing and obtain a hotel booking, theatre tickets, etc. for Cassandra & 2 friends in NYC immediately.
Tail Debris
Fox flies around the search area on his vehicle. With help from Juggernette, who provides additional analysis of Fox's data remotely, they locate a piece of debris floating alone in the Atlantic, part of the missing plane's tail. It shows no signs of burn marks, but appears to have been torn off of the plane.
Survivors
Lady Justice succeeded in locating two survivors: Alaina & Nicole, Cassandra's friends. Shivering and barely clinging to a floatation device too small for two, Lady Justice puts them in her plane - Lawbringer - and has them spirited away to Newport, RI for immediate medical attention. LJ continues the search using her armor's rocket boots. Doctors at the hospital stress that Alaina & Nicole need a day of rest first before they should be subjected to questions.
Roak Questions Marie Olsen
Roak impersonates a police officer and heads off Mrs. Olsen as she prepares to get into a car and drive to the home of Alaina's parents to see if a phone call comes in. Roak offers to drive her, as she clearly is not in the right state of mind to drive. On the way, Roak asks questions; he learns that Mr. Olsen has been working a lot of late evenings lately - which is unusual for him - and had cancelled a trip to Paris with her last month. She also had no idea he was sending Cassandra to New York City. Mrs. Olsen believes one explanation for his behaviour is that Mr. Olsen is having an affair.
Info on Olsen Shipping, Ltd.
Cyber-Slash calls Celeste (Stormherald) and tells her that ARGENT connections to DTO staff were pretty flimsy, probably not a reliable avenue. But following up on a discovery she made that Bill - not Cassandra - was on the flight plan as the plane's passenger, she found some potentially shady dealings by Bill. She, too, has discovered info on 'Olson Shipping, Ltd.', and an address which she provides to Celeste, a pier where Olson Shipping apparently operates. Operating a company like that is very out of character for Olsen.
Xeno's E-mail Search
Xeno discovered from the flightadmin@dto.us.com e-mails that Bill had arranged the plane booking at the very last minute. Bill pleaded with a colleague to relinquish a booking on the plane, so that Bill could use it that evening. Bill also told flightadmin that he alone would be traveling to NYC.
Wreck Located?
Though not well outfitted for a wide search & rescue mission, War Beetle receives a boost to his capabilities by Juggernette's secondary reading of search data. With Fox and Lady Justice's discoveries early in the evening, Juggernette helps point to a location in the ocean where War Beetle might find more plane wreckage. Just before midnight War Beetle's scanners do locate a large metallic mass consistent with the missing jet, at a depth of about 140 feet. An underwater search will have to wait until Day 3.
Evidence & Data
Images
Newspaper - Day 1 
Flight Plan & Satellite Pings - Day 1 
Fuel Limits & Likely Search Area - Day 2 
Tail Debris - Day 2 
Alaina & Nicole, Survivors - Day 2
Other Info
DTO E-mails
On the morning of Day 2, Bill Olsen arranged to have some e-mails from within DTO to the flightadmin e-mail account sent to the team.
