August 30, 2014
With Enemies Like That

This week the O.S.I.R raided Melvin's home. A couple weeks ago during all of the excitement Mr. Peterson lent Melvin a surveillance drone. A friend of Melvin's operated the drone for him while he coordinated things using it, and hacking systems at the same time. The drone came with a second gift. There's a bit of backstory to it.

Mr. Peterson gave Melvin information to make it easier to gain access to O.S.I.R. data files. Word of that information passing hands got back to the O.S.I.R. and by all accounts got Mr. Peterson in hot water with the Minnesota O.S.I.R. lead agent, Tommy Dearing. Mr. Peterson would not stand idle for the dress down and informed Tommy that he would also be lending Melvin a spy drone. Said drone would come with one additional perk, a tracking device. The one catch was that no one could make a move on Melvin until after the current operation that Mr. Peterson was on had ended. Well that deadline came up this week.

Melvin and the rest of us had no idea any of this was going on. He had picked up the drone from Mr. Peterson at a safe location and then threw off any tails and returned home with the unit. Melvin knows all about the inner workings of these drones so he didn't bother checking it out. He certainly didn't expect any surprises given the stakes of what we were doing.

Tuesday the 26th at 8 a.m. a group of O.S.I.R. agents knocked down Melvin's door and threw in tear gas cannisters. They proceeded to enter his apartment and turn the place upside down and confiscate anything computer related. They did not find Melvin though. Taped to one of the many monitor screens in the apartment was a series of internal messages--email essentially--containing agent chatter about the mission. The messages were unsecured on the system.

Melvin lost a number of his antique computer pieces, a host of books on varied non-technical subject, and his favourite chair. The agents also left with a little something more. On the way out, using hidden cameras Melvin triggered several ceiling mounted traps splattering the agents with the same kind of dye that banks use on robbers. Then police showed up following a 911 call. It must have been quite the mess, in several senses.

Afterward, at a safe house, Melvin discovered video taken from the O.S.I.R.'s own internal camera systems. In the video Mr. Peterson was giving Tommy Dearing all kinds of flak for letting Melvin get away and running a sloppy operation. Mr. Peterson said that Tommy should have expected more from the psychic hacker responsible for taking out their own best hacker, Hierophant1100011. Mr. Peterson washed his hands of it all and said that his report would indicated that the failure was entirely due to Tommy. He didn't say it, but Mr. Peterson had skated on the info he gave Melvin because of the drone plan. Tommy of course had nothing to fall back on. All in all it was a bad day for Tommy.

Tags: blame, drones, hackers, Hierophant1100011, Melvin Klein, Minnesota, O.S.I.R., Mr. Peterson, OSIR, surveillance, Tommy Dearing, OSIR.