Wednesday, April 12, 2006

4/12/13: Spontaneous Combustion

PARTICIPANTS: Mantis, Bane (GL kibbitzing)

Mantis and Bane went to the Los Angeles home of Ulysses Ingram, business manager of Jonathan Lucius Jacoby, the eccentric billionaire who clandestinely purchased almost all of STAR LABS stock, and now has complete control of the company. They entered the home, and found that other than some furniture near the windows to give the appearance of occupancy, the home was completely empty.

They then travelled to Las Vegas, to attempt to gather information directly from the Penthouse home of Jacoby himself, located on the top three floors of the Old Fashioned Casino Hotel called the LYONNE.

While Mantis tailed Jacoby's business manager Ingram to a meeting at a bank, Bane located and broke into Ingram's apartment across town, and found that it, too, was completely empty.

Later that day, Mantis and Bane split up, and attempted different methods of entry into Jacoby's penthouse suite in the LYONNE. Mantis took the direct approach, and climbed the building and phased through the windows, while Bane located the secret elevator and climbed the shaft.

Neither found anything other than emptiness, until Mantis found Ingram sitting in an office staring into space (while Bane was shimmying through a ventilator shaft on the floor above, towards a set of oak double doors). Mantis attempt to look inside Inram, but found he was unable to phase through him, and alerted Ingram to his presence. Ingram set of the alarm, then moved to the elevator, and said that "Mr. Star" should reveal himself. Apparently, Ingram had somehow recognized Star (notwithstanding the fact that he was invisible and dispersed) from earlier in the day, when Star had introduced himself.

Finally, Mantis appeared (dressed in black) to Ingram, and Ingram muttered "most unfortunate" and promptly rolled his eyes back into his skull, fell forward, and burst into flame, for no apparent reason.

Mantis and Bane both made their exit from the scene (Mantis carrying a small charred finger as a sample for analysis). They later larned, to their surprise, the Ingram himself had made a report to the police regarding the break in, appearing totally unscathed.

Award: 5hp

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