Needle in a Haystack
| Needle in a Haystack | |||||||||
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| ShadowHaven | Vengeful Murderer | ||||||||
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Aishar Ophidia Exodus The Librarian | Kiana Yel'nai | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| None | Being Investigated now | ||||||||
Summary
A plot of jealousy, superiority, manipulation, and vengeance leads to many losing their lives. An officer of the law finds her office insufficient, and must put aside her grievances with her prey to bring about justice for her flesh and blood.
Background
Hammerhead Industries: An Ares Subsidiary that has its own pocket of engineering teams to handle smaller, but highly profitable projects. Low risk, high reward crapshoots and an easy place to hide money in by putting it towards a pet project and out of the hands of any courts looking too closely. Their latest project was production of a new line of surveillance drones for military operation, and it was going to be headed by a growing team of awakened and mundane engineers. Unfortunately, in-fighting between the team's leading figures for the position of project manager lead to a string of unfortunate accidents.
Kiana Yel'nai knew she was better than Yulia Prekhov. She knew she was the better speaker. The better engineer. The better leader. The better person. But Yulia was the more shameless of the two. That was the only reason she could see for not getting the position. She knew Yulia would fire her over the spats they kept having over the position. So she quit first. She was going to get her back for it one way or another. 6 months of hard work later and...hah, well, no one was the wiser when this reckless, shameless bitch was too much of an idiot and OD'd with a new friend over. Her neighbor Vance wouldn't be seeing it anytime soon either. And no one knew that creep well anyways. It was perfect.
Maria, the lil worthless brownnoser, was supposed to be next. But something lit a fire in Kiana's heart: They got some two-bit fresh blood right out of university to replace her.
They thought this fucking worthless mundane bitch could replace her?
No.
No she couldn't. She could never compete with her.
She was so easy to fool. So easy to lure away, to trick. To kill. She couldn't have been too smart.
...Lt. Gabriella Monroe heard the news the day after. She wanted to lead a case against it but...this was an awful look for the force. Someone breaks into a high security corporate building, then gets a girl alone and kills her, and there's nothing they can find to identify her? No. best keep it under wraps. Better for PR that way.
She wouldn't stand for it. She'd rather make a deal with the Devil.
...after a fashion, that's exactly what she did.
The Meet
The meet took place in an old, run down, hole-in-the-wall bar that Regina used to love. It was quiet. Comfortable. Good for exchanging secrets. The runners trickled in one by one, and when everyone was settled in the Lt. put down a white noise generator and got to work. She gave them the situation, and the mission: find evidence of who killed her sister so she could make a case over it and force the higher ups to press charges against someone. No one was to die here tonight, she still had her morals. it was 10k a head for the info. Ophidia and Exodus were fine with it, but The Librarian urged Aishar to press for some kind of escrow or materials just in case. And, due to his genuine sympathy, Monroe agreed. She gave a list of her suspects, and The Librarian immediately got to work as she gave her contact info and the vow to bring them an autopsy report so they could handle the investigation. With no desire to associate with them further and not wanting to linger with the pain, Monroe made her way out.
The Plan
The Run
Aftermath
Rewards
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Ophidia: It's a pleasure to work with a solid, well rounded team. I suspect we'll be meeting one another in the future. I hope so anyway. I need to check out Arcane Eye PI.