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[If you didn't spot it the last Technocracy post summarised the most of the plot up until now in as brief a manner as possible.]



"Peace Through Superior Firepower"

Volyova floated naked in a white void, the disembodied voice of Dr Yankovich beside her. Yankovich offered to refrain from erasing and conditioning Volyovas mind, but in return she must do something for him, she must help in the assassination and clone replacement of agent Markel. Volyova agrees to help Yankovich by firstly acquiring a suitable genetic sample from which to create the clone. The white void fades and reality returns to Volyova the white clinical walls of the medical bay greeting her. She reports to Conrad in his office, finding Markel also present, Conrad brings her up to speed with the current operation against Sultan engineering and sends her out into the field to join the rest of the amalgam. As she is leaving Markel stops her in the corridor, offering to reschedule the missed date for later the next evening, Volyova seeing the opportunity agrees to be picked up about 7pm.

At a farmstead somewhere just outside the city, agents Hurst and Zukov investigate the abandoned car of Andrew Whilstler (CEO of Sultan Engineering) finding a disk lying in the dirt by the open door Zukov quickly scans it with his wrist device. The disk contains surveillance images of the amalgam, as well as several others including an unidentifiable middle age man in a trench coat and carrying a briefcase, a tall woman stood outside the UMC in a suit dress, her face is in the UMC employee database with high security clearance but her file is locked, and the final series of images are of a man in his late 20's watering plants in a rooftop green house, again no matching records for his face. At that moment Krenyenkos voice cuts in over the comms, still back at Sultan engineering he has picked up a anomolous email which has seemingly cut off all communications into or out of the offices. The message is from an unknown source but simply says "Compromised" "Prepare Extraction Team for the Museum" "A". Krenyenko is already leaving the building to head to the National Museum even as several white unmarked vans pull up at the offices and start taking away equipment and furniture.

The amalgam assembles at the Museum and after a few hours of watching it appears all is quiet and so leaving a small amalgam of surveillance specialists they return to the UMC for some rest but not before Zukov sneaks into the museum finding several artefacts in the Egyptian display with primium signatures he creates duplicate fakes with trackers before stealing the originals and taking them back to the UMC. On arrival Markel takes the artefacts away for study. Krenyenko is the first one awake and after receiving communication from his contacts decides to head out of the city to the northern forest and look over the lands that are being fought over. Arriving in the early afternoon the site is a hive of activity, the agent in charge a short fat balding middle aged man chats with Krenyenko awhile about the operation to unearth an old monastery on Markels orders. After hanging out there for awhile Krenyenkos begins the drive back to Moscow, but out of no where a , pick up truck pulls out of a side road and runs him off the road. Krenyenko tries to escape the wreckage even as someone doses him with a tranquilliser.

One by one the rest of the amalgam awakes, Volyova gets ready and dresses up. At 7pm Markel looking very "007" in his classic Austin Martin and thousand dollar dinner suit picks her up and takes her too probably the most exclusive restaurant in Russia "The Central House of Writers", the two have a wonderful meal and the talk ranges from polite small talk, to sexy innuendo, to just plain awkward moments. During the meal Volyova takes samples from his hand and eating implements. At the end of the meal Mikheil offers to take Volyova back to his for "Coffee" but she refuses saying she has work to do, disappointedly he takes her back to the UMC. Volyova heads straight to Yankovich bursting into his lab with out knocking. Yankovich is very quick to cover up a body laid out on his operating table but to Volyova it looked like Krenyenko (confirmed by a quick scan). Yankovich takes the sample and begins preparing it for cloning, reminding volyova that that was the easy part not she will have to capture him alone to do the mind imprint.

At about the same time Zukov awakens from his sleep with a splitting headache, his memories returned as promised by the machine device, with his memories returned he goes to do further analysis of the recovered museum pieces find that the urn/canoptic jar has by far the strongest primium signature. Hurst also awake beings to wonder what has happened to Krenyenko he should have been back by now.

Krenyenko awakens sat in a comfortable chair in a nondescript apartment, surrounded by several gentlemen one of them introduces himself as Vladimir Mitrofanovich and talks of how the union has medalled with Krenyenkos brain and memories and that he is here to restore them, Krenyenko resists but the group are stronger and memories slowly come flooding back of a time before the union a time when he was training in the occult and time when he was learning the ways of the hermetics under the tutelage of Vladimir. They ask only that Krenyenko return to the union for the time being as a spy and collect information on a certain artefact. Krenyenko leaves bewildered and no longer knowing what the truth is and what is real any more.

At about 3am in the morning the amalgam members receive a message from the surveillance team announcing that something is happening at the museum, several men have entered the building from the roof but something seems to have ambushed them. The amalgam arrives on the scene to find several dead bodies of what look to be professional thieves killed by heamavores. Zukov takes off in the van Mikheil driving following the tracer on the fake artefacts. The others follow at a slower pace. They follow the stolen jar to the national bolshoi ballet theatre, wasting no time and not waiting for the others Zukov and Mikheil enter the theatre taking out anyone who questions them and arriving in an opulently decorated saloon with a throne like dias at the one end, at which is a a very beautiful and striking man. Before Zukov and Mikheil can attack they are over come by the majesty of the figure before them and prostrate themselves on the floor. The man introduces himself as Alexander Vedernikov of Clan Toreador remarking that they must be here for the urn, and if they want it they will have to make a bid like everyone else. As the conversation progresses the machine slowly frees Zukov from the majestic spell and with hesitation raises his plasma cannon and starts firing, only to find himself buried in a pile of hungry vampires, as their fangs and claws tear into his flesh Zukov manages to create a flaming chain reaction in the air around himself throwing or destroying the attackers.....

With the rest of the amalgam still a few minuets away, the room on fire the vampires in frenzy of running for their lives....will Zukov survive?