Difference between revisions of "Stephen Leeds"

Stephen met with an old friend, [[Yol Chay]]. Yol asked Stephen to find a dead body and gives him a 10% share in [[Innovation Information Incorporated]], the biotech company owned by Yol, as a consultation fee.{{book ref|legion2|3}} Since Stephen was then a stockholder in I3, he felt compelled to help investigate.{{book ref|legion2|7}} Stephen first met with the I3 scientist team to learn that [[Panos Maheras|Panos]], the dead person whose body was missing, had encrypted data written into his body,{{book ref|legion2|5}} then he investigated by poking around Panos' desk and office.{{book ref|legion2|6}} Yol informed him that he had to leave I3 headquarters, as it would soon be put under quarantine by the feds.{{book ref|legion2|7}}

Stephen met with his aspects in the White Room to go over the information he had.{{book ref|legion2|8}} He decided the first step was a trip to the coroner's office, but unfortunately, he was tailed on the way there.{{book ref|legion2|9}} Suspecting an assassin, [[Zen Rigby]], he confronted the tail, but it turned out to be [[Dion Maheras]], Panos' younger brother. Zen was tailing him as well, just not as obviously.{{book ref|legion2|11}} Leaving Dion in the car, Stephen met with the coroner, [[Liza]]. She allowed him entry to the morgue and he deduced that a visitor had left tape on the door to obstruct it from locking.{{book ref|legion2|12}} He left with a flash drive containing the security tapes. Zen confronted him, demanding to see the drive, assuming it had the key for decrypting the informtioninformation in Panos' body. Once Stephen altertedalerted the security gaurdguard, however, Zen was forced to leave. After realizing he was being tailed by an assassin, Stephen set in to motion a plan that he hoped would save his life.{{book ref|legion2|13}} Stephen next went to the Maheras household and spoke to [[Mrs. Maheras|Panos' mother]]. She refused to give him any information.{{book ref|legion2|15}}

After stating that he would break into [[Exeltec]], the company that had hired Zen, he realized that Zen had bugged him durngduring the confrontation outside the morgue. Because of this, he decides against breaking in.{{book ref|legion2|16}} He takes Dion to [[wikipedia: Denny's|Denny's]] for a quick break.{{book ref|legion2|17}} When they return to the car, Zen is waiting for them. Zen seperatesseparates him from all his aspects but [[Audrey]] and takes him to a cellar, to awaitawaiting orders from her superiors at Exeltec.{{book ref|legion2|18}} Zen is about to kill Stephen when Wilson buys 60% of Exeltec in his behalf, allowing him to vote himself owner and call Zen off.{{book ref|legion2|20}} He returns to Mrs. Maheras' house, where he finds the one-time-padencryption key behind Panos' portrait and gives Panos' body (which Mrs. Maheras had) to the feds for cyrogeniccryogenic freezing.{{book ref|legion2|21}}