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OAS Offices, Ministry of War Building, Free Kingdom of Allanea
"Oh, I am very pleased. You see, whoever has taken the video, they thought that they were being smart. They showed only parts of the building, but of course what they did not consider, was the video itself. You see, they did not strip out their camera's geolocation tags."
"Jesus." – the senior officer gasped. "Not exactly the brightest tool in the toolbox, are they?"
"Perhaps." – the analyst adjusted his glasses as he continued. "Or perhaps not everybody is a trained soldier who'd listened to ten thousand data safety lectures, you know?"
"Fair enough. So what do we have?"
"Not much. We've looked at maps, and some local open-source data, and we have an image of the building, and an address."
"We've not figured out the internal layout of the building. Intelligence suggests at least twelve guards, and perhaps as many as sixty-eight hostages."
"And no internal layout. This does create a whole pile of issues. Is it even possible, under these circumstances?"
"It's incredibly hazardous. For the hostages." – Murphy said. "I do however have a few ideas. We need a team."
"Captain Lysander is available."
"And I'd like to talk to the poison lab people."
Then, of course, the teams walked towards the building. First swiftly, then slowing down as they converged on it from different direction, and then at last they moved as silently as shadows as they drew near.
It would be nearly three in the morning, local time, when the man who referred to himself as Captain Lysander raised his night-vision binoculars to his eyes and took a first look at his target.