Spy School Project X

## Project X

**Agent:** Benjamin Ripley

**Mission:** Stay alive.

**Objectives:**

1. Stay alive. Your longtime nemesis, Murray Hill, has put a price on your head and accused you of being at the center of a conspiracy on the internet. You're in serious danger, and the only way out is to track down Murray before your enemies can find *you*.
2. Choose your team wisely. With such high stakes, some of your fellow agents—even Erica Hale—might not be at their best.
3. When on the run, take advantage of all modes of transportation—and be prepared to improvise. You never know when watermelons may come in handy.

## Activated Agents

* Benjamin Ripley
* Erica Hale
* Alexander Hale
* Catherine Hale
* Cyrus Hale
* Mary Hale
* Mike Brezinski
* Zoe Zibbell
* Chip Schacter
* Jawaharlal O'Shea

## Synopsis

Ben Ripley’s longtime nemesis Murray Hill has put a bounty on Ben’s head and accused him of being at the center of a conspiracy on the internet. Now Ben finds himself in his greatest danger yet and is on the run from both assassins and conspiracy theorists. With only his friends to rely on, Ben must race against time, and across state lines, to track down Murray before Ben’s enemies can find him.

## Letters

* Briefing
* Debriefing

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!!!!!

June 14

From: ███████████, Agent Emeritus

To: ███████████, Head of the CIA

Re: Operation Blazing Phoenix

The events of this week are a dark moment in the history of the CIA. My beloved alma mater—as well as yours, and that of so many of our other fellow agents—has been exposed and nearly destroyed. There is no way we can safely continue educating students there, meaning that a generation of future agents has been compromised.

But it doesn't have to be a total loss. As you requested, I am enclosing my proposal for espionage training to covertly continue for a select few students who have already proved themselves in the field: ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████, and ████████████ I volunteer to oversee the continuation of their studies, along with ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. █████████████████████████ also volunteered, but I believe he would be a detriment to our students, rather than a boon.

As this project is to proceed with utmost secrecy, I would recommend that we relocate to █████████████████████████ and then ██████████████████████████████████████████████████ while also ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ with ████████████ Plus, we should absolutely ████████████████████ or else we'll have a real mess on our hands.

Please get back to me on this immediately. My team is ready to go as soon as you give your word.

Sincerely,

██████████████████████

P.S.████████████ was wondering if she could get your husband's recipe for the potato salad he served when we visited you last month. I know it's classified, but you can trust us. We're willing to trade you our recipe for apple cobbler in return.