User:MaxShadows/Sandbox

Breaking the Glass Ceiling's plot
Maddie and the player went to the World Exhibition to relax after Mr Alastor's last party. They heard a glass-breaking sound on the Crystal Palace, where they headed to find architect Norah Barnlow impaled with glass shards.

Death in the Desert (done)
Carmen and the player chased The Sword, Chief Ripley's killer, to deep Sahara desert. The team ran across Anir Aznag, who reported the finding of a body in his nomadic camp, where they investigated to find the burned corpse of oil magnate Donald Barnes.

Mid-investigation, Elliot tracked a mysterious signal to a plane wreck in the desert. Furthermore, Angela disappeared when she went out to take pictures, but was found shortly after. The team gathered enough evidence to arrest nomadic woman Mama Yasmine for the murder.

Initially unwilling to cooperate, Yasmine then admitted to the crime. She was against Donald's refinery and foreigners exploiting her land and destroying nomadic traditions. She was pushed to her limit when Donald implied that her daughter would never be glad to visit her back from the United States, which made her strangle him with a rope and push his body into a campfire to destroy evidence. Judge Adaku sentenced her to 20 years in jail.

Post-trial, Carmen and the player looked for clues about The Sword in the nomadic camp, where they found their symbol in a dirty scroll Lars traced to Izzah Farid, who was discovered to be trading weapons to incite violence. Izzah said that some people believed The Sword was a great leader, while others believed it was a god.

Meanwhile, Carmen and the player investigated Barnes' refinery to dig into Jonah Karam's past before trusting him for more information about The Sword. They found a USB key with a file revealing (per Elliot) that Jonah had personally missed a target. Jonah revealed he had missed his target in Russia before leaving in anger. Upon hearing the story, Marina panicked out of the office. Marina then explained she had become Jonah's target when the former Russian president had ordered a hit on her after the interrogation techniques she was developing at university made him confess a multi-billion dollar fraud, forcing him to step down.

Later, Ingrid reported civil unrest taking place in a town outside desert, where the Bureau headed with hopes of solving it.

Killing Spring (done)
On their way to the town Ingrid mentioned previously, Carmen and the player found an oasis. They investigated it to find the body of protest leader Hamza Boussefi with a bullet wound in the back of the head.

During the investigation, Sultan Mahmoud, the governor Hamza was protesting against, threatened to open fire on the remaining protesters. Later, Mahmoud restricted access to the oasis, putting the investigation to jeopardy. Despite the events, the team found enough evidence to arrest journalist Thomas Cox for the murder.

Thomas denied involvement first but soon admitted to the crime. Thomas and Hamza had arranged an interview about the latter's protest movement at the oasis, where Hamza handed Thomas his rifle because the journalist wanted to get a feel for it. When Thomas grabbed the weapon, it accidentally fired on Hamza, killing him. Thomas then seized the death to create a news story in which he blamed the Sultan for it. Judge Adaku sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

After the trial, Carmen and the player talked to Thomas in jail to see if he had ran across The Sword's name. Thomas remembered to have interviewed many protesters who claimed to be following The Sword's orders. Carmen then suggested to look for clues at the protest square, where they found a wad of cash with a note in Aramaic. Per Dupont, the money was addressed to Hamza in exchange of helping SOMBRA, although the historian did not know what SOMBRA was. Fatima Boussefi, Hamza's wife, said that The Sword had been using her husband to overthrow the Sultan, and that they used to meet at the oasis.

At the oasis, the team found another wad of cash with The Sword's symbol. It had traces of sediments from the Nile river, so the Bureau followed Ripley's killer to Egypt.

I Spy a Mummy (done)
The Bureau chased The Sword to Egypt. Jack and the player investigated the Gizah Pyramids, where they found the mummified body of fruit vendor Afif Wahab.

During the investigation, Ingrid reported the presence of a spy in a nearby hookah bar. Later on, Asal Hawaa, the belly dancer they met in Morocco, revealed herself as a Mossad agent and threatened the team. She also said she was spying on Afif because the Mossad suspected him of being a SOMBRA agent. Despite the tensions, the team gathered enough evidence to arrest Zarah Salah, the Minister of Antiquities, for the murder.

After denying involvement, Zarah admitted to the crime. She wanted to steal ancient artifacts from the pyramids to make profit out of them, but Afif was always one step ahead of her. She bribed him to make him refrain from stealing the antiquities, but Afif refused. Wanting to eliminate the competence, Zarah lured Afif to one of the pyramids and mummified him alive. Judge Adaku sentenced her to 50 years in jail.

Post-trial, Jack and the player asked Asal for information about SOMBRA. Asal agreed to share some information if the team passed a trust test she made for them, which consisted in retrieving a spying device she had left at the pyramids. Once the team accomplished the test, Asal revealed that SOMBRA was a worldwide criminal organization with cells in every continent, with the Promethian Cult being their European branch. The team deduced that The Sword was aiming to unite the rebels into one cell in the Sahara.

Meanwhile, Jonah Karam suggested to ambush The Sword by contacting their arms dealer under the guise of rebel leaders, prompting him to inform the assassin about them. At the hookah bar, the team found a little black book which (per Elliot) belonged to Seamus Cummings, one of the most ruthless arms dealers. Elliot also found out per a plane ticket that Seamus was in Dubai. Supervised by Jonah, Elliot called Seamus and arranged a meeting in the United Arab Emirates.

After the meeting was arranged successfully, the Bureau picked up their disguises and boarded a plane to Dubai to find Seamus.

The Parting Shot (done)
Disguised as rebel leaders, Jack and the player went to a rooftop golf course in Dubai to meet Seamus Cummings and purchase a large amount of weapons from him, in order to have Seamus to inform The Sword about them. However, they found Seamus' body with a bullet wound in the chest.

During the investigation, Elliot tracked Seamus' stolen money to the slums of Dubai. Furthermore, Fiona Cummings, Seamus' wife, and pop star Vanna Alabama got in a fight over the weapons dealer. The team found enough evidence to arrest Fiona for the murder.

Fiona initially denied the accusations but then admitted to the crime. Damien Cummings, Fiona and Seamus' son, had accidentally killed himself while playing with the gun that Seamus left unattended. Seamus then had covered the incident up by saying the baby had been killed in a drive-by shooting. When she discovered the truth, Fiona felt fooled and betrayed, thus shooting Seamus with his own gun. Judge Adaku sentenced her to 10 years in prison.

Moments after the trial, Ingrid reported that Andrew Stern, US Ambassador Jessica Stern's son, was kidnapped. Jessica said that Andrew had disappeared after going to the toilet at the underwater bar, where the team investigated to find his teddy bear with a tracking device inside. As Jessica could not track her son without her phone, the team looked for it at the underwater bar, where they found, instead, a note from The Sword with (per Lars) Andrew's tears, which led the team to deduce that The Sword was behind the kidnapping. Carmen and the player then investigated the rooftop golf course and found Jessica's phone, which tracked Andrew to the middle of the Persian Gulf.

Jack and the player then asked Jonah Karam for help. Jonah said that The Sword's modus operandi consisted in shipping their victims out of the country, and then pointed them to the slums. With the help of Asal Hawaa, they found a message implying (per Dupont) that The Sword had been misleading the Bureau into a trap.

Jessica then rushed into the headquarters and said that she tracked Andrew to Iraq, prompting the Bureau to head to the country with hopes of rescuing him.

Die by the Sword (done)
The Bureau headed to Iraq to rescue Andrew Stern. Elliot tracked Andrew's teddy bear to a bombed museum, where Carmen and the player found the beheaded body of Anir Aznag. The team then assumed that The Sword killed Anir. Elliot located The Sword's lair, which the team investigated to find and rescue Andrew. Asal doped Jack with a tranquilizer pill due to the latter jeopardizing their mission with his flirting, and the killer deliberately poisoned Dupont with the murder weapon. Furthermore, Jonah Karam locked Marina inside a bunker and waited outside with a gun. The team then incriminated Omar Bahir as the killer, as well as the man behind The Sword's alias.

Omar admitted to be The Sword and revealed he had the mission of growing conflict and extremism across the Sahara. He then admitted he had killed Ripley and abducted Andrew to lure the Bureau into his trap. Without revealing his reasons behind Anir's murder, Omar prepared to kill Carmen and the player with a poison grenade, only to be shot dead by Jonah from the distance.

After the trial, Carmen and the player helped Angela find the photos she had taken of Andrew and Lars. Among the pictures, the team spotted Chief Ripley. Ripley then walked into the headquarters, much to the team's surprise, and said that she survived the poisoned dart attack in Spain by taking the antidote beforehand. Ripley then faked her death to make The Sword believe he had killed her, buying the team more time.

Chief Ripley then thought about hiring Jonah as a field expert. To prove his worth, Jonah suggested to go with the player to the destroyed town and show them his skills. They found a tiny parachute with an USB key. Jonah said that its logo belonged to COSMORUS, the Russian Space Agency. Per Elliot, the USB key contained a message from Natasha Romanova, head of COSMORUS and Marina's mother, formally asking for the Bureau's help against an alleged infiltration by foreign spies. When informed about the event, Marina said that her mother could not be trusted.

After Jonah was hired, Chief Ripley sent the Bureau to Russia to investigate COSMORUS' security breach and its possible ties with SOMBRA.

Moscow Mole (done)
Following The Sword's death, the Bureau went to Russia to investigate an alleged infiltration in COSMORUS, the Russian Space Agency. Jack and the player reunited with Natasha Romanova at the Red Square, where they found COSMORUS' head of project management Darya Chernova with her throat slit.

During the investigation, Elliot hacked the MGB's servers for information about Darya but the Russian security agency discovered him. As a result, they repeatedly attempted to hack the Bureau's servers, prompting them to hurry the investigation. However, they found enough evidence to arrest British expat Liam Hall for the murder.

After denying involvement, Liam admitted to the crime. Liam remembered to have dinner with Darya, where they drank a lot of vodka, and then to walk with her through the Red Square before having an argument about a briefcase he was supposed to pick for her. Liam then blacked out and woke up with a cut in his hand, without any memory of stabbing Darya in the neck with a broken vodka bottle. Judge Adaku sentenced him to 5 years in jail.

Post-trial, the team investigated if Darya was responsible of leaking COSMORUS' classified information. Jack and the player talked to Liam, who directed them to the Red Square as he was supposed to pick Darya's briefcase there. They found Darya's keycard, which (per Elliot and Jonah) showed that Global Flux Ltd., one of SOMBRA's fronts, had paid Darya 1.7 million dollars for the leaked information. Jonah and the player then asked Nikolai Sharapov about the leaking, but the scientist denied having access to the information.

Meanwhile, Marina wanted to find out if her mother was hiding information, so she and the player asked Anya Ivanova. She pointed them to Komsolmoskaya station, where they found Natasha's shoe, which proved that Natasha had visited Gorky park. There, the team found a briefcase which (per Elliot) proved that Natasha was actually fighting against a corrupt organization.

Natasha then reported suspicious activity in Saint Petersburg, where the Bureau headed to investigate.

Only Truth Remains (done)
The Bureau arrived in Saint Petersburg to investigate suspicious activity in Lermontov Estate, where Carmen and the player found the body of civil notary Mikhail Karamazov with the skull opened.

Mid-investigation, activist Agrafena Raskolnikova celebrated the victim's death. Later on, gypsy Sveta Rasputina tried to avoid suspicion by delivering a message from Mikhail in which he did not blame her for his death. The team gathered enough evidence to arrest Dmitri Lermontov, the owner of the estate, for the murder.

Dmitry initially denied invovlement but soon admitted to the crime. He found Mikhail blackmailing Duchess Anastasia into marrying him. Unable to stand it because he loved Anastasia, Dmitri smashed Mikhail's skull with a brass pestle. Judge Adaku sentenced him to 25 years in jail.

After the trial, Carmen and the player investigated the riverside bridge for more information about SOMBRA's involvement in Russia. They found Global Flux Ltd.'s logo in (per Elliot) Agrafena's phone, so the team interrogated the activist. Agrafena said that Global Flux Ltd. had been signing contracts at Lermontov Estate, where the team found a document with the leaked information. According to Natasha Romanova, the document had launch codes, although the coordinates were missing.

After the team helped Anatasia to find out about her origins, Elliot discovered the coordinates for the launch codes: a COSMORUS' outpost in Siberia. The Bureau then headed to the outpost, hoping to arrive before SOMBRA did.

O Deadly Night (done)
On their way to the COSMORUS' outpost, Lars suggested Jack and the player to stop at Lake Baikal to see the lights. However, they found the frozen body of maintenance technician Nick Kringle with a bullet wound in the chest.

During the investigation, Nick's reindeer escaped from his house, jeopardizing the investigation. It was also revealed that Jack and Asal Hawaa were in a relationship. Furthermore, Lars got stuck in Nick's chimney and had to be rescued by the team. Later, Asal revealed that Nick was a CIA agent going undercover in COSMORUS. After the events, the team found enough evidence to arrest Asal for the murder.

After denying involvement, Asal admitted to the crime. She improvised an ice bullet and killed Nick with it following Mossad's orders, as they believed that Nick was up to something dangerous. By virtue of the relationships between Mossad and the court, and understanding that Asal had to kill Nick to keep the international security, Judge Adaku granted her immunity for the crime.

Post-trial, Marina and the player talked to Asal about her reasons behind Nick's murder. Asal said she was ordered to neutralize him before he could sell CIA's intel to a third party before pointing them to his house to look for clues. In Nick's house, they found a check to the order of Santa Inc., a company that Nick had founded in a tax haven to receive payments from Global Flux Ltd., per Elliot's analysis. Knowing that Nick had been working for SOMBRA, the team asked Forrest Sugarcrystal, his partner in the CIA, who did not know about Nick's betrayal and sent them to the lake as Nick used to spend time there.

In the lake, the team found a phone with a folder called "Darkness Descends", which (per Elliot) contained a satellite hologram. As the satellite corresponded with the stolen launch codes, the team deduced that SOMBRA was planning to launch a satellite into space.

After the team got Dominika Snegurochka's famous eggnog recipe for their Christmas party, Elliot discovered that Global Flux Ltd. had received 3 billion rubles from the former Russian president (the one who paid Jonah to assassinate Marina). He also tracked some of their payments to Mongolia, prompting the Bureau to board the Trans-Siberian Express to the country.

Fast Track to Murder (done)
The Bureau was on board the Trans-Siberian Express to Mongolia when the train went to a halt. Carmen and the player moved to the next carriage to find diamond magnate Ilya Tretyakov hanging from a ceiling lamp.

Mid-investigation, Carmen and the player had to protect themselves from a snowstorm in a cave. Futhermore, Vadim Efremov saved them from being attacked by a bear. Despite the danger they were through, they found enough evidence to arrest ticket inspector Nikita Rukhin for the murder.

Nikita denied the acussations but then admitted to the crime. Believing that Ilya's diamonds should belong to the people, Nikita had stolen the diamonds and delivered them to communist hands in China. When Ilya found out, he confronted Nikita, who knocked him out and hung him by his tie. Via a video-call trial, Judge Adaku sentenced him to 25 years in jail.

Post-trial, the MGB claimed that Nikita's communist brothers were smuggling more than diamonds. The team interrogated Nikita, who pointed them to the ice cave as the last package he was supposed to deliver was there. In the cave, the team found a circuit board with COSMORUS' logo. Natasha Romanova revealed the board was the motherboard of a COSMORUS' satellite.

After the train moved again, the team found a tablet which (per Elliot) belonged to SOMBRA. The tablet contained a file called "Darkness Descends", which would allow SOMBRA's satellite to hijack every satellite orbiting the Earth, compromising the entire global communications. The team informed Natasha about their findings, but when the head of COSMORUS heard the hypothesis of a mole still operating within the organization, she grew angry and refused to keep helping the Bureau.

After Chief Ripley decided to take Marina off any investigation involving her mother, the Bureau prepared to arrive in Mongolia.

Horseback Mountain (done)
After the Trans-Siberian incident, the Bureau finally arrived in Mongolia. Carmen and the player looked for clues about SOMBRA's satellite in Mount Khan, where they found the partially sliced body of satellite engineer Andrei Beloglazov.

During the investigation, Elliot found SOMBRA's satellite factory below a statue in Mount Khan. Later on, Asal and Anya Ivanova threatened to shoot each other inside the factory. Despite the tensions, the team gathered enough evidence to arrest horse breeder Tsetseg for the murder.

Tsetseg initially denied killing Andrei but soon admitted to the crime. She also revealed herself as a hitwoman, and said that SOMBRA paid him to kill Andrei. She fulfilled their orders by partially slicing Andrei with a saber. As she refused to keep talking about SOMBRA, Judge Adaku sentenced her to 30 years in jail.

After the trial, Carmen and the player looked for clues about the satellite's whereabouts at the factory, where they found COSMORUS swipe cards. Per Elliot, the cards were counterfeit, and SOMBRA would use them to access one of the launch sites disguised as COSMORUS employees. Yelena Tereshkova, a frustrated cosmonaut, revealed that Andrei had had an argument about shipments in Mount Khan, where they found a delivery slip which showed that the satellite was finished and shipped to Kazakhstan.

Meanwhile, Asal told Jack and the player to investigate Anya, whom she suspected of. In a Mongolian restaurant, they found a microfilm which (per Elliot) contained a message in which the MGB told Anya that her investigation in Mongolia was unauthorized. Anya revealed she had been investigating to take SOMBRA down.

As Natasha made clear she would not help the Bureau any longer, Elliot hacked into COSMORUS' security systems and got them high-level clearance to the launch site in Kazakhstan, where they headed to stop the satellite launch.

Countdown to Murder (done)
After Elliot hacked COSMORUS' security systems, the Bureau headed to a launch site in Kazakhstan to prevent SOMBRA's satellite from being launched. After convincing Natasha to let them in, Jack and the player investigated the launch control room to find the body of Senator Vitaly Borodin with his throat slashed.

During the investigation, Natasha placed the launch site on lockdown, restricting the Bureau's investigation. Later on, one of Nikolai Sharapov's experiments caused an explosion and the lockdown was lifted, allowing the team to gather enough evidence to arrest Yelena Tereshkova for the murder.

Yelena insisted that she was not the killer but soon admitted to the crime. Yelena killed Vitaly after Natasha told her that the Senator was responsible of denying her applications to go to space. Wanting to fulfill her biggest wish, Yelena slashed Vitaly's throat with a modified laser torch in anger. As the team interrogated her about the satellite, about which she knew nothing, a loud noise was heard from the control room, where they headed to discover that Natasha already launched the satellite. Natasha then ran away.

After the trial, Chief Ripley interrogated Yelena about SOMBRA. Although she did not know about them, she claimed to have listened Nikolai talking about them in his tablet. In the training pool, Jonah and the player found Nikolai's tablet, which (per Elliot) contained part of a code that would override the satellite. Pressed by Jonah, Nikolai agreed to provide the missing part and help Elliot override the satellite.

Meanwhile, Marina and the player investigated the control room and found Natasha's phone with a message implying (per Dupont) that she was hiding in the Bayterek tower. There, the team found Jack and Anya Ivanova, who said that she had spotted Natasha stirring the trash in panic before hiding in the tower. In the vicinity, Marina and the player found a note in which SOMBRA considered Natasha a loose end. The team finally found Natasha, who revealed that SOMBRA promised her power in exchange of launching the satellite. Marina told her mother about SOMBRA's note before arresting her. Judge Adaku then sentenced Natasha to 75 years in a maximum security facility for launching the satellite and ordering the hit on Vitaly. Yelena was sentenced to 50 years in jail for the murder.

Elliot then managed to override the satellite, giving the Bureau control over it. Shortly after, Ingrid reported that the satellite detected a major earthquake in New Delhi, prompting the team to head to India to provide aid.

Codes for profile countdowns
This user will be inactive in: December 27 3000 16:13:00 UTC

The inactiveness will last: December 27 3000 16:14:00 UTC

Pre-countdown case observations

 * Case #3 of Mysteries of the Past: On time; no major delay.
 * Case #4 of Mysteries of the Past: 3 hours delay.
 * Case #5 of Mysteries of the Past: On time; no major delay.
 * Case #6 of Mysteries of the Past: On time; no major delay.