Play@YSDC

OOC:   How much time has elapsed from our fleeing the scene at Mather's house?

We holed up in the safe house, then to Malta and back.  

OOC:   Twelve to Thirteen days I think. You were holed up for a week in the safe house followed by several days creating fake ID's. Then Malta and a further Four days after the visit to Westerlund's villa and finding the "planted evidence" enough time to read the thesis on a device rather than hard copy.  

OOC:   Sorry - I'd missed G's post pointing to this thread.  

OOC:   Things do do:

Overarching Objective: Workout how the Verbetoi knew who to target. *

• Pin down date of the fire at Gossham's cottage - what was it's purpose? (destroying work or attempt on AG's life or both?)
• 'Secure' the artefacts/papers that were put into 'storage' after the fire.
• Determine who MB really is and their motive* (may involve checking the charity Kush nderton (Who builds (translated from Albanian) )
• 'Interview' Westerlund, see what he knows
• ditto with Shauna Wilcox (maybe)
• Looking into 'Kush nderton' may mean investigating 'Reddrup & Vosper'

*The Verbetoi were either told who to target or knew of the targets from intercepting/reading Gossham's emails (or by reading Maria Demachi's emails. Shauna Wilcox probably knew who had copies of the papers, Maria Demachi knew as well. MB had a copy of the paper... if MB is dead then they're not responsible for the 'leak' but we don't know who they are. If MB is from Kush nderton then it's possible anyone in that organisation could be the leak (check their receptionist for a tatoo of a stylised horse )  

OOC:   *Basically the plan would be to set-up a website (wordpress/eblogger) and publish some of Gossham's thesis/paper - then email the MB (from a new email a/c) 'ohh look what we found.. blah blah excerpt of thesis/paper ... more online <click here>' We ought to have access to the log-files of the site - we can see who visits and do the same from any email received back. These details won't tell us much but we might get a general location. We might be able to engineer a 'sting' (maybe ransom the papers). Too complex?  

OOC:   Setting up the site and (and covering her arse so to speak while she does so) as well as writing code to harvest visitor details for about anyone who visits it - will take Liz about a day and a half - it doesn't really require a computer roll, its a fairly mundane task without any time pressures. Crafting some spyware to infect the browser's computer to do some additional snooping does require a Computer Use roll  

OOC:   As its been mentioned earlier, Jacob reminds everyone he knows Redrupp and Vosper by reputation. The offices of Redrupp and Vosper advertise themselves as experts in company and commercial law, as well as advising high net worth individuals on their personal and financial affairs. Basically, if you want to hide your piles of cash from the Inland Revenue they're your man. By reputation R&V are known to be highly litigious taking people to court if there is even the slightest hint, they or one of their clients has been involved in wrongdoing.  

OOC:   The charity and R&V are essentially the same thing as two out of the three trustees are partners at R&V. Or are you thinking in more generic terms like what has it been up to?  

OOC:   Again also mentioned elsewhere as a registered charity it is simple to obtain the following details about the charity from the Charities Commission’s website:

Kush nderton - literrally translated from the Albanian the name means "Those Who build"

The charity’s stated goals are:
1. To preserve Albanian heritage and history wherever it is found, through the provision of grants for archaeological work.
2. Through the provision of grants to encourage the study of Albanian heritage and history.
3. To promote the education of Albanian history and culture.

The charity’s contact address is given as Reddrup and Vosper a firm of solicitors; Mr John Reddrup, Miss Claire Vosper and a Mr Alex Rudaj are named as the charities trustees.

The charity’s finances show approximately £500,000 coming in from charitable donations and nearly all of that going out on charitable activities.