Spy School At Sea

## Operation Deadly Manatee

**Agents:** Benjamin Ripley

**Mission:** Deadly Manatee

**Objectives:**

1. Evil agent Murray Hill is rumored to be plotting something extremely dangerous aboard the world's biggest cruise ship. Go undercover with fellow spies Alexander, Catherine, and Erica Hale, posing as a family on vacation, and find out what Murray is up to.
2. Try to keep Erica from discovering that you've accidentally endangered a member of her family because she's gonna be angry if she finds out.
3. Don't trust anyone! On a mission at sea, if you go overboard, you'll end up in hot water.

## Activated Agents

* Benjamin Ripley
* Erica Hale
* Alexander Hale
* Catherine Hale
* Mike Brezinski

## Synopsis

Thanks to the evidence Ben uncovered in his investigation of the Croatoan, the CIA has tracked his nemesis, Murray Hill, to the country of Nicaragua, located in Central America, where they believe he is boarding the world’s biggest cruise ship, Emperor of the Seas, on its maiden voyage around the world.

The CIA and MI6 want to find out what Murray is plotting, but to do that, they need to send in the person who knows Murray Hill the best: Benjamin Ripley. Only Ben can’t be sent in alone. So, he’ll be posing as part of a fake family, with Alexander and Catherine Hale as his parents, Erica Hale as his sister, and his best friend Mike Brezinski as his brother. At first, it sounds exciting to have a mission on the most glamorous ocean liner on earth, but as usual, nothing goes according to plan. There is action, danger, and plenty of surprises as Ben and his team quickly find themselves in hot water.

## Letters

* Briefing
* End Letter

May 14

To: Principal ████████████████████

From: ████████████████████, CIA Deputy Director of Operations

Re: Operation Deadly Manatee

Dear ███████████████████,

As you are aware, in the course of defeating the evil consortium ███████████████████ last month, agent-in-training ██████████████████ uncovered evidence that your former student ██████████████████ may have recently visited Nicaragua. Our field agents have now confirmed this to be true and have a lead as to his whereabouts. Since we suspect that ███████████████████ is up to no good, as usual, tracking him down is a priority for the Agency. Therefore, we are immediately launching Operation Deadly Manatee.

However, there are elements of this mission that will necessitate activating some of your agents-in-training yet again: ███████████████████████████████████, and ████████████████████. I would like to meet with them in your office, along with Agents ███████████████████████ and ███████████████████████ at your earliest convenience tomorrow.

I know that this is a busy time at the academy and that it is generally frowned upon to release students for active missions. But this order comes straight from the top. Director ███████████████████████ has been very impressed with the performance of these agents-in-training, which is certainly a testament to your institution. (And letting them participate in this mission might help Director ███████████████████████ forget that you've had a few students defect to work for the bad guys lately.)

I will see you in your office promptly at 1500 hours.

Sincerely,

████████████████████

P.S. If you do feel obligated to provide an assortment of cheeses again, please make sure that they have all ben properly refrigerated this time. The last time I came to your office, I consumed a bit of rancid Brie, which made me terribly ill and ultimately compromised Operation Feisty Gerbil.

To: My Evil Friends around the World

From: Murray Hill

If you are receiving this email, then things have gone horribly wrong with my most recent evil plan. I set up my account to automatically send this message to all of you today unless I stopped it from transmitting. And since I haven't stopped it, that means we have a problem.

Yes, I said "we" there. Not just me. *All of us* have a problem.

His name is Benjamin Ripley.

I know Ripley is only a teenager, but he has already helped thwart many of your brilliant evil plans-and if he hasn't thwarted yours, then you certainly know someone whose plans he has thwarted. Frankly, I'm sick of it.

If it wasn't for Ripley, a lot of us would be very, very rich. But now, we're not. And to make matters worse, other bad things have befallen us. Some of us have been captured. Some have lost body parts. Some have nearly died multiple times.

This has to stop. I have talked to all of you about Project X before. The time has come to initiate it.

If you are reading this email, consider yourselves activated.

May the best person win.

Your friend,

Murray Hill

P.S. Ben Ripley sucks!!!!!