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Lanestol had been hearing the conversations between Alexander and the other patrons present. He had looked over as a rather imposing woman entered and vented about what seemed to be her latest endeavor beyond the plane of Ravnica. Sounded to him like the type of assignment he would rather not get involved in. Any number of things could go awry, from what he had previously heard of Zendikar, and with the sorts of things that could come about, even his own protective powers would not be completely reliable. He did happen to notice the fur coat over the top of her armor and its familiarity struck him.

Seems like she's been to my home at least once...doesn't look like she's been there too recently. That looks like normal werewolf fur. From what I heard from the survivors the last time I went, if she went there now, she might still come across one of them who were corrupted and come back with something half covered in tentacles or with a coat fit for someone with seven more appendages than usual.

He had glanced back the other way to see the short hooded figure pull back its hood as it had been asked. Upon seeing a Myr, he started feeling a churning unease within his stomach. He tried to discreetly continue listening and keeping the Myr in his peripheral vision. He had not been to Mirrodin personally, though another planeswalker he once talked to had been in the early stages of the blight's conquest. At Alexander's the first mention of the oil, he started to regret coming to drink as his unease sent his heart pounding. He began to take another drink to try to steady his discomfort. Overhearing the Myr say it hoped it didn't have the blight, he halfway choked up a moment on the drink in his throat and halfway spat up what was in his mouth. He placed the mug back on the counter and gripped his staff tight with both hands.

"You hope you don't have the blight!?" Lanestol interjected. "When was the last time you could have been exposed?" The end of his staff began to glow as a protective aura surrounded himself.
Eric took the photos and magazine article drafts and started sifting through them, closely scrutinizing the photos for seams or signs of alteration. He shook his head as he started realizing the truth to the information provided in the rejected drafts and the veracity of the photos taken.

"Why would he have photos like these taken, though? Even if he probably never could be charged for a crime because he's in cahoots with the media, this seems...arrogant. To just leave incriminating evidence around like this for someone to pick up. Surely, he realizes he has enemies in this world, even if none of them are in any seat of power? I don't doubt these are real. I don't understand why he would leave anything tying him to this warmongering..."
Eric followed Deadpool around the apartment, noting the books his ally kicked aside as they entered what seemed to be his war room.

Oh, wow...that's quite an extensive map...I can only start to imagine what connections all of these guys have in with each other that he'd have to off them...and the way these are dated, I'm also interested in why it had to be this specific order...wait...did I hear that right?

"The CEO of Comcast? I've heard the company's practices are evil and borderline criminal, though I thought that was more just some corporate fatcat getting away with technicalities of US law. Even to the point of trying to alter US law so it fits their agenda. I could understand begrudging his ability to capitalize on the cable market. This is the first I've heard of someone like him using that to fund wars in third-world countries. This is a pretty massive front operation. I'd like to see what you have that led to him."
Lanestol looked up to accept his drink, an odd brew someone from the Izzet League had purchased once they called Niv-Mizzet's Failed Experiment #5043. He had liked it, though after he tried a second Failed Experiment it with the alcoholic components of a Rakdos Revel, he found it a perfect balance.

"Business has been on the lighter side today, as far as I have seen. More people paying a visit to the Maw to pay with life than with coin. I am aware of who they will send later today and they did ask me to assure you the agent they send will be much more intelligent than a thrull. They cannot guarantee if they will be dead or alive--that agent is...meeting with an Advisor. That's all the business they asked me to come for for now.

"I am just here to have a drink and maybe something to eat as well. I do not know what exactly yet; I will have a look over the menu." He took one up and started to browse their offerings for the day. "Personally, I had come to unwind from a...rather confusing trip home. The business information was because Advisor Karlov asked me to tell you."
A tall and somewhat slight human entered the tavern, seeming a bit weary and completely disinterested in the stage show. He leaned slightly on his staff as he walked, the upper end of which bore the white and gray sun insignia of the Orzhov Syndicate. Anyone who didn't live under a rock with the Gruul clans cleared some extra space for him as he walked through the foggy tavern. The cloak draped over him bore the same symbol on his back, a symbol he had come to learn demanded respect of some and fear of many, even if he did not wish for it to be so. He would seek redemption in turning corruption to piety, even within his own small place as a cleric among the Orzhov. An opposite progression of what he had seen in his life and what he learned had happened in his time away from home in Innistrad. Even if he could pull the planeswalker card and take command of the Syndicate, for the time being, he elected not to and decided to at least earn some respect first.

Until he could reform the Syndicate at least back to its tradition of actually functioning like a church, he carried a name which raised him up as a symbol of the Orzhov's sway in Ravnican financial matters and their willingness to exercise it. The Cardinal of Calamity. It was no official title since he still bore the official standing of a cleric. As he did not exercise the greatest extents of his power and his power didn't have great extents regarding spirits to begin with, he was deemed rank-and-file in the eyes of the Obzedat and the Advisors. More or less, another attendant to the Church of Deals, another accountant in clergy robes ruining lives and afterlives alike. Still, he was a bit more notable than others from his constant presence around the city and his tales of strange places beyond the City of Guilds. Some thought him crazy. Among those folks, they thought it made him more intimidating.

He took a seat at the tavern bar and kept one hand on his staff, staring a bit longingly at the end of his staff with the sun symbol. Some shock still resonated within, and he snapped to attention once he realized he was no longer looking at anything in particular and had let his mind wander off to events far from where his body resided now. Even as he turned to greet the bartender, someone he knew more by name than anything else, he still seemed a bit despondent and his eyes half wandered and half drooped.

"It is nice to sit down once in a while here. To actually relax and not talk to someone just to get them to pay. Might need bigger or more drinks if I actually dealt with that part of the process. How has the place been while I was away, Mister Pax?"
Eric followed Deadpool through a short path through the back streets and arrived with him at a run-down building.

I might have actually used this place as a nest once or twice...seems like a place I'd use, anyway. No one's around, it's decrepit, no one would want to go inside...figures it'd be a perfect hideout for him, too.

He followed his new partner inside, ascending several flights of stairs to the top. Fortunately, he still kept up enough training he could only feel some wind out of his sails from climbing to the top of the building before entering the "apartment" at the end of the hall. A putrid odor had lingered throughout the abandoned complex, though it was merely vacant and festering. The stench of lived-in squalor hit Eric like a heavyweight uppercut. Eric's eyes watered a bit as he was more used to an organized living space.

"Well, with this kind of work, I could understand cleanliness falling by the wayside for a while..."

This dude's place smells like Satan's outhouse!
Eric stood up and started to follow Deadpool out. He grabbed his gear at the door since they weren't too keen on letting him take his .50-cal into the main bar area. Once they had left the bar, he kept his eyes peeled as he continued to follow Deadpool, curious as to where he stayed.

Better keep an eye out. He seems to have any nearby threats covered...I can put that thousand-yard stare to some positive use...
"That's fine with me. Going in, guns blazing would be okay, if not for what we're after. We spook the target too soon and he'll start thinking ahead and thinking of where to hide."

So he can do the interrogation and I don't open myself up to going too far.

"Looks like our first order of business will be to scout that office. It's probably no secret who runs the place while our man's away. It'd just be a quick look on the Internet. The next step, we get as much info on the building as we can to plan our way in and out. Building plans or schematics would be nice, though he might have already thought of that and they won't be available. Last, we get a feel for his head henchman's work patterns. Then, we can capture him, set up a conference room and go from there."
"True. Not like this town is the nation's exemplar of peace on Earth and goodwill to men. It'd at least help me more to get an inside look at this place. Might have seen it before, but I wouldn't know it housed this fatcat if I saw it. Plus, I need to figure our available routes in and out, how tight they keep security, where he is and when, things like that. If he has a seven-figure payout, there's gotta be at least five different factors making this hit worth that much, and at least three of them have to do with what he can buy."
Good to know he is that crazy.

"Not like I was gonna try to disguise my way away from you. You're at least useful to me right now. Or I'm useful to you, if you want to look at it that way. We'll be more successful taking this cretin together. I was talking more about using it to slip cops and this executive's minions. It might even be useful to make them look for the wrong guy or think there are more people infiltrating than there really are. A Potemkin army, if you will."
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