Missing Persons
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Poe Miut Meltdown Fading of the Dawn |
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Summary
Background
"Hey I got me a job that crossed my desk. Seems like onna them bleeding heart gigs - coupla missing teenagers. Client ain't got much scratch but they put some together. Don't expect a big payday and guns blazing run. Pawns have given them the runaround about being too overloaded with cases so they came to our neck of the woods. If this is up your alley, toss me the deets. We'll meet at a soy-noodle place. You're buying.
Silas."
The Meet
The team meets with Silas, the Johnson, at a noddle stand in an open air market in Tacoma where he explains that some local Tacoma parents have tried to go to KE for some of their missing teenagers, only to be turned away. He explains that they put some scratch together to hire some "out of the box" help to find their kids. He shares the parental contact information, noting that it's unusual for things but this kind of case warrants it.
The missing kids are:
- David Casey, 14, male ork
- Jordan Yates, 15, male Elf
- Veronica Bowers, 15, female human
- Rosa Bass, 15, female dwarf
- Ben Black, 16, male human
The Plan
Kick in the door, gas the bystanders, and tackle the ghouls in the clinic.
The Run
Legwork
Miut does a deep matrix search, looking for information on the parents and digging some stuff up over an hour. Dawn sleeps off another novacoke crash and Meltdown chats up Poe's raven. The orc and the raven share some deep thoughts. She finds that the kids are more or less on their own for most of their life, their parents being overwhelmed with work and the life issues of having low lifestyles.
The runners consider what might be praying on the kids:
- Miut considers that gangs often recruit kids like this into gangs
- Fading of the Dawn considers that there are -so many- things which pray on people, infected being among them.
- Meltdown considers that Wild Spirits might be responsible, given it's Seattle in October.
- Poe considers that there are plenty of conspiracy theories which cover abduction for everything from the Deep State to Dragons, though based on the "almost E" section of Tacoma the kids are from it seems unlikely to be any kind of police sweep.
The team goes to interview the parents, trying to get information on the kids. While the parents are nervous, the non-ork families are clearly distrustful of the Giant and the Ork in their living room, making Poe's job a touch harder. They learn:
- Miut and Poe gets a shirt in order to have a 'smell' from the rooms to try and track the kids.
- Poe manages to steal a hairbrush for an materiel link while Dawn distracts the parents.
- One of the kids had Push. Some of them had various interests in music, video games, etc.
- The parents are able to give the team the kids commcodes and commlink info
- The team learns that the parents are not super checked into their kids, entirely unaware of if their kids are acting strange.
While the parent montage is occurring, Miut does some more matrix searching, heading to the Tacoma GridGuide host (R4) to check traffic cameras.
- Each of the kids got grabbed by a white panel van / bulldog
- Miut loses the van on cameras in a "near E" set of neighborhoods in the very south of Tacoma.
Poe uses a Detect Individual spell using the material link. Having the area narrowed down by Miut helps the spirit narrow their search. The team learns:
- The kids appear to be at a local medical clinic, the type that focuses on cheap and affordable "healthcare" and "skincare" - often milking poor and desperate people for a "brand new you".