What is a lipovore?

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Vogel: So the lipvore is active again?

Mr. White: Don't be naive, Vogel. The team that took one out in the '95 put one-hundred seventy-two fifty cal rounds in the first one, then set it on fire. And that was before tying the husk of the remains to an iron ball and dumping it into the Pacific.

Vogel: You're saying this is a different one?

Mr. White: The odds are good. (Audible sigh). At least tell me we have access to a copy of the book it was carrying.

Vogel: There is an incomplete copy at Miskatonic. The Armitage people are putting up some resistance, but Dr. Schell explained the situation in a series of e-mails.

Mr. White: Good. Those colossal pricks annoy me. (Pause) So what do you think of Mr. Sanchez and Agent Campos.

Vogel: I think they're sitting on too much information. And I am a bit disturbed that their first impulse with the lipovore was to go in guns blazing.

Mr. White: Quite courageous in my opinion. They'll just need bigger guns.

Vogel: Quite so. But Sanchez seems to know something about those artifact prospectors the lipovore was working for.

Mr. White: Campos has been funneling an awful lot of cash through civil asset forfeiture. We know Sanchez's history. It seems to reason the artifact dealing was part of money laundering.

Vogel: But what did the lipovore want with it?

Mr. White: That's the real question. And what exactly do you mean by too much information?

Vogel: We know Campos destroyed most of Baughman's...souvenirs. I've gone through a list of Agent...Sackhoff's, I guess--there's too many aliases to dig through--ops lists and property he reported as lost, stolen, or destroyed. Agent Eli has been monitoring them, and there's no evidence that they've destroyed any of what they'd have access to.

Mr. White: Let them look. In all the after action reports I've read, it's rarely too much information that does agents in.

Vogel: Just so.

Mr. White: Have you been looking at the books, Vogel? I think it's time for a visit to the Dutchman. And a team with a hotshot pilot is just the thing.

Vogel: I'll put in the requests through official channels now, sir. Are you sure it's safe?

Mr. White: I know it's not. Why do you think I make grenades and a flamethrower part of the kit?