Homicide Hunting
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ShadowHaven Knight Errant | Unknown | Also, Knight Errant (Being difficult) | ||||||||
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Angel Devil Lady Argentum Zero Garuda | Killer |
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| Argentum and Garuda injured, but not killed | None | None | ||||||||
Summary
After struggling to find the answers to a case that her department deems unworthy of the Knight Errant's full attention and funds, Lt. Rebecca Montez hires out a team of runners to investigate further without much hope for their success but, at least, wanting to give it a shot.
They end up finding out that the unassuming pond leads to an ocean of secrets and danger.
Background
Starting on November 2nd of 2085, a series of gruesome murders in Downtown, Seattle began. Every 8 days, a university student from a particular friend group died. First it was Judith Schneider. Then it was Rosalyn Grovler. Then Ken Richmond. All killed by decapitation via monowire. The police are dumbfounded. Beyond some tenuous connections, there doesn't seem to be any sort of connective tissue. The case looks like it's going nowhere. Lt. Montez doesn't want things to end there, but funds for her department aren't exactly overflowing. But there is one stash she can tap into-an emergency sort of stash for paying off the less savory types of Seattle's finest. Perhaps they'd be able to find something that the detective couldn't. With that, she starts to make a few calls.
The Meet
The team meets up at a Soybucks at the Space Needle. The team is consists: Angel, the vampiric sniper angel; Devil, the social mage and support; Lady Argentum, the banshee knight with a good heart; Zero, the good ork soldier; and Garuda, hacker and former Ares changeling. The meet goes over the offer for the group, about six thousand nuyen if they get some new hint and up to ten thousand if they actually get the perp. Devil manages to sweeten the deal by letting the group access some of the "contraband" that KE have collected from over the years for...repurposing. With that, the team is given the main details that the police have gathered so far: times of death for each victim, the crime scenes, some loose details regarding the breaking and entering into two of the victims' homes. The team gets into action from there.
The Plan
The team first do some preliminary reconnaissance on the victims and their backgrounds, and when they've established some basic background after their first evening working together, they elect to go of into two different teams in order to cover more ground and follow two main possible leads: The heavenly and hellish roommates (Sure) would go ahead and attempt to get more info from the other students in the university, expecting to be able to gather a bit more information than the knights due to not being the knights attempting to speak to some more left-leaning, anti-establishment types that the victims seemed to generally fall under. The remaining three would be visiting each of the sites, doing another check on all the crime scenes to see if there's any evidence that KE missed on their own sweeps-all while not being caught and thrown to the wolves for not being allowed on a crime scene. With that established, the two teams take the next day to begin the investigation proper.