Alright Alana, lets have you make a roll. The guard is clearly in awe of your presence, you have an active discipline working on him, so i'm going to make this super easy for ya. All you need to get is one success. Go ahead and roll the Disciplines dice pool of Presence + Charisma + Persuasion vs a DV of 1. Don't forget to add your Hunger dice. You got this.
"Detective Webber?" the young man says, nodding. Then gets nervous. "Ok. No, that's fine. You're right. That makes sense. Of course." He laughs nervously, clearly thinking how stupid he sounds right now. "Nevermind about that, go on ahead. Oh! Which stiffs are you looking for? I'll tell what room they're being cooled in." He begins typing on his computer, ready to look them up.
Alana nods, satisfied about skipping sign in and identification. Her foot stops tapping as she thinks for a minute, speaking calmly. "Carl Thrush and Simon Drummer." As she waits she looks over the guy, debating on if she should give him a business card or not. For a moment she glances around the lobby, checking for security cameras, counting and taking note of any she sees.
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Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
"Ah." the employee says. "Yes. There they are. Yup. Going in the furnace tomorrow morning." He points down the hall. "They're in storage room six. Here. I'll show you down there and unlock the chambers."
The halls light up automatically as he walks down the hall, as if on some sort of motion sensor activation. He turns to face you all. "Come on. This way." he gently waves you with him.
You can see the occasional security camera mounted on the ceiling. This place definitely has some sort of CCTV system.
As Alana walks, she notes all of the cameras, counting them before speaking subtly to every. "There are security cameras around here. We'll have to walk back out."
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Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Alessandra mentally notes down the information Alana had told them, then looked to the man guiding them through. "I hope you do not mind my inquiries, but anything would help us in this investigation. Would you happen to know anything about these men?" She would question him as she matched his speed.
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Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
"Nah." I started here about two months ago. "They don't tell me anything. All I do is work the night shift, let the cops in, open the compartments, and clean up. They don't let me in on anything." Eventually, you enter Storage Room 6, and the lights flicker on. On three sides of the walls are a number of rows of closed compartments. It's nice and cold in this room. He looks at his clipboard one last time and unlocks the one containing the body of Simon Drummer. He slides out the body and unzips the bag he's in, and then stands aside by the door to give you space to work.
Looking at the body is easy, but getting clues as to what happened to him that's deeper than first impression will involve an Intelligence + Medicine roll. Only the person with the highest dice pool rolls, but you get 1 extra die for each person who helps you who has dots in Medicine. The Difficulty is 2. Depending on how many successes are earned will reveal any number of possible insight.
For reference against your guys' pools, Misha has a pool of 3. Not too good. But, she does have two dots in Medicine, so can help if someone has a higher Intelligence than her, which is probably everyone.
Aless leans over the body. Misha stands next to you, and Sorrin peers from the other side. Here is what you discover.
They're bodies, all right. They have been subjected to significant violence. That much is certain. But you see something. Over here. The body has been savaged with at least a slashing weapon of some sort. Then, Sorrin sees something else. There. Care has been taken to slash major arteries, and there is much less blood present in the body than there should be. Misha points out there is significant head traumas from a blunt object as well. Aless peers closer. Ah. Look at this. The attacker seemed an odd mix of competent and furious. There are no fang marks anywhere on the bodies, but, as you know, Kindred can close those with a lick after feeding - it doesn't rule out a vampire attack. Then Sorrin spots something else. Of course. The murderer seems to have acted out of rage, and given that crimes of passion usually involve people with knowledge of one another, you have a dread feeling these are not random victims.
Victor stood to the side with his hands in his pockets while Alessandra studied the body. He wasn't able to help her, as he knew a grand total of jack and shit about dead bodies. And being useless was not something that sat well from him. He also wanted to get out of the presence of this idiot watchman. Something about his geeky fecklessness reminded him of him, before he got turned. His humanity wasn't something he clung too, that was for more melodramatic vampires who he supposed labored under some delusion that if they held on to some strand of humanity, they could say that they hadn't fully turned into a creature of the night. On the contrary, it was something that he fully rejected. The Blood made him powerful and composed, two things that he wasn't in life. Not to mention that it gave him...qualities that made him attractive to the other sex.
So to Victor, looking at the watchman was like looking into a funhouse mirror or at a particularly embarrassing childhood photo.
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Xenophon: Topaz Dragonborn Fighter (ixi's Dragon of Icespire Peak)
Sorrin exchanges his notes and discoveries with Misha and Aless, "We'll want to keep an eye out for someone who knew both of them, or possibly some magic influence. Can't rule to much out at this point." He looks back to the others and waits for their responses.
Before they went ahead to inspect the bodies, Alessandra pulls out her purse and hands Misha and Sorrin blue medical gloves to don as a 'just in case'. "Let's get to this then."
When they had finished extracting what information they could get from the victims bodies, Alessandra leans back and listens to what Sorrin had pointed out. She nods in agreement and says "The families may still be grieving, so in the event that we cannot speak with them or gather any useful information, I suggest we ask around the neighborhood as well." Her eyes scan back up the body. "These weren't accidental, that's for sure. Person knew what they were doing, where to hit and stab and what to use." She continued to study the corpses further, primarily their heads. "What's really strange here is there the only blunt damage we see is on their heads..." She leans back a bit, a hand going to cup at her chin. "Do you think that maybe they were knocked unconscious, then stabbed?"
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Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Misha nodded. "Eet's posseeble, yes. Both bodies have zee same type of injuries. My vote would be another Kindred. The slash marks directly where the major arteries were. Ees like they were both knocked out first, then cut, then bled to death."
Misha turned to the employee, make a noise with her mouth. "You." she said. "Get out of here. This ees a police matter. We weel get you again when we are feeneeshed."
"Oh, yes! Sorry!" the young man said, and turned to leave the cooler, and back to his desk.
When the young man leaves, Alessandra pipes up again. "Now why would one of our own go through the trouble of knocking them out, stabbing them, then leave them to bleed out?" She clicks her tongue. "What a waste of good blood..."
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Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
"I agree."Misha nodded. "I have a feeling we weel find answer soon enough. Funny thought occurred to Misha -hef to admeet. Deed not theenk Misha would be detective in a thousand years."She nudges Aless, laughing loudly enough to wake up the dead.
Victor laughs as the employee scurries away. "Thanks Misha. Being around him was... unpleasant." He looks at the dead body and listens to Alessandra's question. "Perhaps they wanted to make it look like a human killed these men."
Alana watches the man go before she looks to the other. "Perhaps they were a sacrifice. It's strange how precise each mark is. If they are almost exactly the same, that means theres a system to it. Either we have an experienced killer, or it needed to be done a specific way. Blood sacrifices in cults were not that uncommon. And if we were dealing with an experienced killer, wouldnt there be more victims similar in the past? Why just now?"
Alana observes the bodies from a distance, not really moving to inspect them, only theorizing from what the others are saying.
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Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
“Serial killers have to start somewhere, my dear.” Alessandra mentions as she removes the gloves and puts them back in her purse. “Which means there may be more victims out there, either not found yet or are being targeted as we speak.” She sighs. “I believe we’ve extracted what we could here. Let’s visit the crime scenes before day break.”
Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Alana nods and studies the bodies for another moment before heading back to the door. " That may be true but this is incredibly well thought out and executed for a newer serial killer. Very clean. Clean enough for the police to call us in to help. But regardless, we need to see the crime scene.Shall I fetch our escort? Are you all done looking over the body?"
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Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Alright Alana, lets have you make a roll. The guard is clearly in awe of your presence, you have an active discipline working on him, so i'm going to make this super easy for ya. All you need to get is one success. Go ahead and roll the Disciplines dice pool of Presence + Charisma + Persuasion vs a DV of 1. Don't forget to add your Hunger dice. You got this.
"Detective Webber?" the young man says, nodding. Then gets nervous. "Ok. No, that's fine. You're right. That makes sense. Of course." He laughs nervously, clearly thinking how stupid he sounds right now. "Nevermind about that, go on ahead. Oh! Which stiffs are you looking for? I'll tell what room they're being cooled in." He begins typing on his computer, ready to look them up.
Alana nods, satisfied about skipping sign in and identification. Her foot stops tapping as she thinks for a minute, speaking calmly. "Carl Thrush and Simon Drummer." As she waits she looks over the guy, debating on if she should give him a business card or not. For a moment she glances around the lobby, checking for security cameras, counting and taking note of any she sees.
Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Willow Twilight|Swiftstride Shifter|Blood Hunter|Ebberon|Retired
Meephylia Polliwog|Grung|Dragon Sorcerer|Descent To Avernus|Retired
Ashryn Rairs|Changeling|Hexblade Warlock|Out Of The Abyss|Dead
"Ah." the employee says. "Yes. There they are. Yup. Going in the furnace tomorrow morning." He points down the hall. "They're in storage room six. Here. I'll show you down there and unlock the chambers."
The halls light up automatically as he walks down the hall, as if on some sort of motion sensor activation. He turns to face you all. "Come on. This way." he gently waves you with him.
You can see the occasional security camera mounted on the ceiling. This place definitely has some sort of CCTV system.
As Alana walks, she notes all of the cameras, counting them before speaking subtly to every. "There are security cameras around here. We'll have to walk back out."
Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Willow Twilight|Swiftstride Shifter|Blood Hunter|Ebberon|Retired
Meephylia Polliwog|Grung|Dragon Sorcerer|Descent To Avernus|Retired
Ashryn Rairs|Changeling|Hexblade Warlock|Out Of The Abyss|Dead
Victor shrugs. "Okay. Fine with me."
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Alessandra mentally notes down the information Alana had told them, then looked to the man guiding them through. "I hope you do not mind my inquiries, but anything would help us in this investigation. Would you happen to know anything about these men?" She would question him as she matched his speed.
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
"Nah." I started here about two months ago. "They don't tell me anything. All I do is work the night shift, let the cops in, open the compartments, and clean up. They don't let me in on anything." Eventually, you enter Storage Room 6, and the lights flicker on. On three sides of the walls are a number of rows of closed compartments. It's nice and cold in this room. He looks at his clipboard one last time and unlocks the one containing the body of Simon Drummer. He slides out the body and unzips the bag he's in, and then stands aside by the door to give you space to work.
Looking at the body is easy, but getting clues as to what happened to him that's deeper than first impression will involve an Intelligence + Medicine roll. Only the person with the highest dice pool rolls, but you get 1 extra die for each person who helps you who has dots in Medicine. The Difficulty is 2. Depending on how many successes are earned will reveal any number of possible insight.
For reference against your guys' pools, Misha has a pool of 3. Not too good. But, she does have two dots in Medicine, so can help if someone has a higher Intelligence than her, which is probably everyone.
Aless leans over the body. Misha stands next to you, and Sorrin peers from the other side. Here is what you discover.
They're bodies, all right. They have been subjected to significant violence. That much is certain. But you see something. Over here. The body has been savaged with at least a slashing weapon of some sort. Then, Sorrin sees something else. There. Care has been taken to slash major arteries, and there is much less blood present in the body than there should be. Misha points out there is significant head traumas from a blunt object as well. Aless peers closer. Ah. Look at this. The attacker seemed an odd mix of competent and furious. There are no fang marks anywhere on the bodies, but, as you know, Kindred can close those with a lick after feeding - it doesn't rule out a vampire attack. Then Sorrin spots something else. Of course. The murderer seems to have acted out of rage, and given that crimes of passion usually involve people with knowledge of one another, you have a dread feeling these are not random victims.
Victor stood to the side with his hands in his pockets while Alessandra studied the body. He wasn't able to help her, as he knew a grand total of jack and shit about dead bodies. And being useless was not something that sat well from him. He also wanted to get out of the presence of this idiot watchman. Something about his geeky fecklessness reminded him of him, before he got turned. His humanity wasn't something he clung too, that was for more melodramatic vampires who he supposed labored under some delusion that if they held on to some strand of humanity, they could say that they hadn't fully turned into a creature of the night. On the contrary, it was something that he fully rejected. The Blood made him powerful and composed, two things that he wasn't in life. Not to mention that it gave him...qualities that made him attractive to the other sex.
So to Victor, looking at the watchman was like looking into a funhouse mirror or at a particularly embarrassing childhood photo.
Xenophon: Topaz Dragonborn Fighter (ixi's Dragon of Icespire Peak)
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Sorrin exchanges his notes and discoveries with Misha and Aless, "We'll want to keep an eye out for someone who knew both of them, or possibly some magic influence. Can't rule to much out at this point." He looks back to the others and waits for their responses.
Before they went ahead to inspect the bodies, Alessandra pulls out her purse and hands Misha and Sorrin blue medical gloves to don as a 'just in case'. "Let's get to this then."
When they had finished extracting what information they could get from the victims bodies, Alessandra leans back and listens to what Sorrin had pointed out. She nods in agreement and says "The families may still be grieving, so in the event that we cannot speak with them or gather any useful information, I suggest we ask around the neighborhood as well." Her eyes scan back up the body. "These weren't accidental, that's for sure. Person knew what they were doing, where to hit and stab and what to use." She continued to study the corpses further, primarily their heads. "What's really strange here is there the only blunt damage we see is on their heads..." She leans back a bit, a hand going to cup at her chin. "Do you think that maybe they were knocked unconscious, then stabbed?"
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Misha nodded. "Eet's posseeble, yes. Both bodies have zee same type of injuries. My vote would be another Kindred. The slash marks directly where the major arteries were. Ees like they were both knocked out first, then cut, then bled to death."
Misha turned to the employee, make a noise with her mouth. "You." she said. "Get out of here. This ees a police matter. We weel get you again when we are feeneeshed."
"Oh, yes! Sorry!" the young man said, and turned to leave the cooler, and back to his desk.
When the young man leaves, Alessandra pipes up again. "Now why would one of our own go through the trouble of knocking them out, stabbing them, then leave them to bleed out?" She clicks her tongue. "What a waste of good blood..."
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
"I agree." Misha nodded. "I have a feeling we weel find answer soon enough. Funny thought occurred to Misha -hef to admeet. Deed not theenk Misha would be detective in a thousand years." She nudges Aless, laughing loudly enough to wake up the dead.
Victor laughs as the employee scurries away. "Thanks Misha. Being around him was... unpleasant." He looks at the dead body and listens to Alessandra's question. "Perhaps they wanted to make it look like a human killed these men."
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Alana watches the man go before she looks to the other. "Perhaps they were a sacrifice. It's strange how precise each mark is. If they are almost exactly the same, that means theres a system to it. Either we have an experienced killer, or it needed to be done a specific way. Blood sacrifices in cults were not that uncommon. And if we were dealing with an experienced killer, wouldnt there be more victims similar in the past? Why just now?"
Alana observes the bodies from a distance, not really moving to inspect them, only theorizing from what the others are saying.
Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Willow Twilight|Swiftstride Shifter|Blood Hunter|Ebberon|Retired
Meephylia Polliwog|Grung|Dragon Sorcerer|Descent To Avernus|Retired
Ashryn Rairs|Changeling|Hexblade Warlock|Out Of The Abyss|Dead
“Serial killers have to start somewhere, my dear.” Alessandra mentions as she removes the gloves and puts them back in her purse. “Which means there may be more victims out there, either not found yet or are being targeted as we speak.” She sighs. “I believe we’ve extracted what we could here. Let’s visit the crime scenes before day break.”
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Alana nods and studies the bodies for another moment before heading back to the door. " That may be true but this is incredibly well thought out and executed for a newer serial killer. Very clean. Clean enough for the police to call us in to help. But regardless, we need to see the crime scene. Shall I fetch our escort? Are you all done looking over the body?"
Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Willow Twilight|Swiftstride Shifter|Blood Hunter|Ebberon|Retired
Meephylia Polliwog|Grung|Dragon Sorcerer|Descent To Avernus|Retired
Ashryn Rairs|Changeling|Hexblade Warlock|Out Of The Abyss|Dead
Misha nods, indicating she is done theorizing. "I am feeneeshed, yes." she says.