Strix sat by himself in a corner of the room. It wasn't that he disliked people or anything like that exactly. In fact his alter-ego was known to be quite sociable, hard-partying even! That said, it probably helped that his alter-ego happened to be a multi-billionaire and head of a huge multi-national conglomerate and was thus almost expected to mingle and socialize for all sorts of reasons. His current look on the other hand was more 'terrifying creature of the night' meant to invoke something half-man half-giant predatory owl than any sort of rich, friendly sociallte. In some ways that was the way Strix liked it.

Besides, from here he could get a good view of the room and really observe everybody else. He believed in the idea of The League, at least. In fact he was discreetly funding much of its' activities. That said, he still didn't know too many of the people here, and despite assurances from others that all of them had been carefully vetted beforehand he still couldn't let his guard down until he had confirmed whether or not they were dangerous with his own eyes. After all, any of them could be agents of The Conspiracy.

The Conspiracy was everywhere and had fingers in everything, slowly moving the world towards their inevitable goals. The increase of super-villain crime rates over the past few years, the recent rise in economic inequality and poverty, sinister rumors about water fluoridation, actual water fluoridation, the beginning of viral music videos and East Asian Synthoid Pop as musical phenomena, The Girl Scouts, they were behind it all if anyone ever bothered to look. But no one ever did bother to look, no one but him.

Naturally there were a few heroes here he'd been already able to confirm as clean in terms of involvement including Hi-Voltage, Pariah, Zenith, and a few others. But until he was sure, he would stay here and observe, ready to seek out spies wherever they were.

It was exactly this sort of attitude that generally got him labelled an insane conspiracy theorist. It was also what made him arguably the World's Greatest Detective.