M.A.G.I. System wide email 3/27/2007:
It's loose again. I'm going to requisition tighter security regulations for the vault. I'm sick and tired of tracking down two bit hoodlums for a fistful of enchanted stone, but the existence of the shade crystal in the wrong hands has the potential for real trouble in our fair city.
I've attached the last known correspondence regarding its whereabouts. I'm aware that the use of an extraplanar assassin by parties unknown to knock over gas stations and coffee bars has raised scarcely an eyebrow within this organization in the past. However if this document is accurate, the crystal's latest owner is not likely to be some lucky street tough.
This entity is dangerous. Find the crystal and return it to our custody before it can be used for starting some real trouble.
Literati@magi.org
[color= yellow]((Infinity server, I'm back. No, that's not a REAL email address))[/color]
M.A.G.I. System wide email - Subject: Final message regarding the Shadestorm
I've had it with you people. You've allowed this crystal to remain in uncertain hands for years despite my warnings. You've done nothing while parties unknown have utilized that Shadestorm entity for progressively larger and more vile acts of crime.
By this point it has become obvious that this organization is either not willing or not capable of addressing this threat, and by way of inaction has allowed it to develop from a small nuisance in to a rather large problem.
Thus, I'm tendering my resignation. My intelligence indicates that the entity has turned up in the Rogue Isles again recently. I'm going to put this thing down once and for all before it can send more of our city's heroes to an early grave.
Do not get in my way.
-Literati
((This regards events concerning the Infinity server.))
To whom it may concern,
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a Shadestorm, last of my kind. The strictures of my creation state that I am bound to the beck and call of whosoever posesses my crystal. I belive you people have contemporary myths about djinn or other such similar entities, yes? I'm afraid that the previous owner of my crystal, a man by the name "The Duke of Dark" has died of... err... uhm...
Well, the specfics of his untimely demise aren't all that relevant to this message anyway.
The point is that he's no longer among the living, and I'm in posession of said crystal at the moment. Recently it has come to my attention that if this crystal is not given of my own free will to a mortal being before the next alignment of a few specific astral bodies I will implode in a rather unpleasant manner. I consider this unacceptable. I will freely offer said crystal, and by way of ownership my services to whomever is willing to take it. Help preserve an endangered species of soulless killing machines, won't you?
Regards,
The Last Shadestorm
((Translation: Current villain group went bye-bye, getting lonely, looking for RP villain group on Infinity))