On the night of the warehouse, I didn't do much after eavesdropping on the conversation. I couldn't find any solid evidence that can tie them to a specific organization and their only crime so far is the illegal gathering of alien debris. Since it was just a processing and distribution location and a small clog in a bigger system. I left them alone but I've also marked the warehouse as an other place of interest. I have to quickly build up my network of intelligence if I want a fighting chance in this world. Can't play on the street level when the master minds behind the operations are moving armies and wealth around like pawns on a chess board. I wonder if the Ten Rings have any operations here in New York. Would be an interesting day when I find them.....if they don't come looking for me first.
Well anyways, tonight is my third night of patrolling as the Mystic Spider. Yesterday I sort of took the day off from patrolling the streets to review and do some research. The cameras on the helmet allowed me to record all the faces I've encountered that night. And looking through the data base, I'm pretty surprised at what I discovered. None of the boys have been caught with anything up until that night. But even then they weren't charged with any the crimes that I saw because the victim had already flied the scene by the time the cops arrived. All that they were charged with as breaking minor curfew. The cops only saw a bunch of teenage boys laying around with some sort of bone injury to everyone of them. This probably caused a lot of confusion too because they probably came in after a report of a woman screaming and then several screams that came afterwards.... Well if the victim doesn't go to the police to report anything and the nothing else happen to the group of wannabe thugs then it's not my problem. They've already received their warning and if I catching them again it won't be another warning.
Now the rooftop arms deal was pretty interesting. The building doesn't seem to be owned by any gang I've seen before nor does the front company that owns it. Seems like the building is just another corporation that deals is vague businesses like real estate and industrial trading of some sort...but that can't be it right? There's definitely no way a legitimate business have anything to do with salvaged alien technology. All I can do is watch from a far and continue to observe the flow of the city.
The warehouse at the port is also the same story too. Just some run of the mill LLC that deals with vague shipping business. They claim to deal with foreign industrial goods and act as a distribution company to set it fit for the American market....and I guess they're not lying. It's just foreign goods from space instead of overseas or across the border. But the parent company of the business is interesting. It's a part of a large real estate corporation that owns a good portion of New York's industrial and entertainment properties. There's only a shortlist of people that can control those type of power and none of them are normal people.
Sigh. Looks like I'll have a long list of things to do to clean up this city and the world. Welp there's no point in stooping in the dumps now, I have all the powers and will in the world to make a change. If I don't make it then no one else will. I put on my helmet before climbing out of the window from my apartment. I want to try seeing how things are going in my neighborhood tonight. After a few minutes of swinging I came upon a drug dealer. I was just going to leave him alone because I feel a sense of sympathy for those who deals and who uses but what this guy is selling is quite interesting.
I land on the building across the street to observe the dealer. He must've been at this corner for a while now and he seems to get a customer every half hour or so. Busy spot but not busy enough to be a big shot in the neighborhood. I wonder where the distribution center of this product is from. Can't be from the neighborhood that's for sure but it must be from somewhere in the city. I guess I'll just have to keep watching and follow the money. Who knew doing street level hero work would be so much watching and waiting.
I continue to watch over the man for another hour or so before he finally begin to move. He must be one of the most hard working drug dealer I've ever seen because it's almost 1 in the morning and he's just not going somewhere else. I form a small compressed tracking spell in my hand before webbing it up with my other. I shot it at the sole of the man's shoe as he starts to walk away. I know I'm still new to this whole hero business but sometimes I'm impressed with the things that I can do. A tracking spell that will just feel like you stepped over some tiny barely noticeable gum.
I get up from my little corner of the rooftop to do some stretches before leaping over to the next. Oh it feels so good to final be able to stretch my legs after squating like a gargoyle for a few hours. I begin doing flips and summer saults in between buildings as I enjoy to rush of the wind on my body-SKIRTTTT! Fuck I lost the guy. Got too distracted by playing with myself I guess. I turn around to see if he's still walking on the sidewalk. Hmmm I don't see him so he could've either went into the building next to the one that I'm in front of or anything of the previous apartments.
It's a good thing I like to invade other people's privacy because WOOSH! With a swipe on my control panel I'm able to activate the tracking spell to appear on my helmet display. Goddamn just how distracted was I? He's nearly two blocks away from where I am. I jump back towards the direction of the blinking light before finally jumping on top of the apartment complex that he went into.
I walk around until I'm directly above the light on the rooftop. I walk over to the ledge of the roof and crouch down to begin crawling towards the window that's closest to the spell. Uh the spell is staying in on place without moving, he must've taken off his shoes or something. I start crawling to the closed window with it's blinds down. With a slight wave of my hand I pull the strings on the inside of the window just ever so slightly to allow me to peak inside.
Oh shit he's not just home. He's on the couch getting domed after a long night of sales on the street. Good thing hesy distracted now because I want to see what he's selling. From afar I couldn't really see just what his merchandise was. All I know was that it's a clear crystal like substance. I crawl away to a nearby window that seems like to unit's bedroom. With a simple plea from my magic the window slides up and the screen became undone. I quietly crawl in before closing everything up like nothing even happened. I observe the bedroom from the view of the ceiling and all I can find was a dirty bedroom with shit all over the floor. Well at least it's easy to see where he's priorities are.
I lift a small baggie of his merchandise towards me as I observe the substance. It's definitely a crystal like substance but unlike methamphetamine or crack. I take out two crystals and put it in my own vials from my belt before putting everything back like how I found it. I stealthily exit the window once more while the two couples were enjoying their night out in their living room and couch. With one side mission done I begin to web and swing away into the darkness of the night.