london ♔ ask me why i have all this blood on my hands

[likedillinger]

♬ blood on my hands - danielle parente

WHO || Dean, Helen, Will, Francesca, Sam
WHAT || The Knights investigate several deaths downtown
WHERE || London, England
WHEN || Feb 20th, 2015
HOW || Actionspam

Two bodies have been found in downtown London, likely the victims of attacks by some sort of Shadow creature. To prevent a panic, the police are investigating the matter as a dog attack and a potential robbery, while slipping the case under the table to Wynn and his Knights to look into further. Whatever did this is big, nasty, and seems to have taken down the victims without their even struggling. For now, the team is splitting up to look into the crime scenes more closely.

Comments

[daredtobelieve]

[Helen isn't focused on the graffiti until Dean speaks up. Once she does glance at it, she raises both eyebrows in recognition (knowledge local 19).]

Best for us to have our look and be on our way then.

[Search check 20 total? She's having a look around the scene.]

[likedillinger]

They might be able to tell us somethin'. [ maybe now he's trollin'. the thought of making helen interrogate gang members is hilarious ok.

with a 19 search check, dean's about matched with helen for checking out the site. there are still a few patches of fur on the ground, and a blood stain where the body must have been. as indicated, the blood doesn't trail in any direction, indicating that there was little to no struggle - and that the creature didn't try to drag the person away either. ]

[daredtobelieve]

Hmm... [She muses as she notices the bloodtrail... or lack of one, really.] Anything from your past experiences with Shadow creatures tell you more about just what we're dealing with? Or where it went?

[Since he hunts and all]

[likedillinger]

[ he shakes his head, checking the ground as he courses up the alley. ] Thing didn't really leave any tracks. That's the problem with monsters in the city. This much foot traffic, it's hard to cover up. [ he nods towards the condemned building beside them ] Think it's worth takin' a look-see?

[daredtobelieve]

[She gives a single nod of agreement before heading towards the nearest entry point. Condemned can mean boarded up, so not sure if there's easy access to the interior.]

[likedillinger]

[ there's a back door here, and it does open when dean elbows it hard once. he opens it slowly, reaching down to pull the gun from his holster. ] C'mon.

[daredtobelieve]

[With the door open, Helen also reaches for her gun, holding it low but at the ready. She's only a step behind him, trying to take a look around the space but not doing too great (spot 14).]

[likedillinger]

[ whatever the building used to be, there's not much left to it. it seems to have been gutted by a fire at some point in time, and overrun with plants and graffiti ever since.

dean steps in the middle of the room, running a distracted glance over the artwork, when abruptly there's the sound of a gun cocking from the steps above them.

a hispanic teenager who doesn't look more than sixteen stares down at them, aiming a gun at helen. his eyes are wide, and he's struggling hard to grow a mustache and failing at it.

"Don't move!" he shouts.

dean slowly turns his head to give helen an exasperated look, but lowers his gun to his side and lifts the other hand to show that he's not about to shoot. ] We're just here to talk.

[daredtobelieve]

[Glancing up at the young man, Helen reacts similarly to Dean, letting her right arm drop to her side while she left lifts to try to seem less threatening.]

That's right. We just have a few questions about what's happened here. Why don't you come down here and we can just have a quick chat?

[diplomacy 31]

[likedillinger]

[ the kid hesitates a second but looks down at helen's earnest expression and seems to think twice about it, lowering the gun slowly.

"... About Emilio?" he asks, and he looks suddenly miserable at the subject, not to mention nervous. ]

You knew him, then?

[ he nods, scrubbing a hand over his face.

"He was like my brother, man." ]

[daredtobelieve]

We're looking to find out as much as we can about what happened to him. Were you with him that night?

[likedillinger]

[ he shakes his head. "No, I was with my crew. I'm the one who found him." ]

And he doesn't run with that crew? You know which one he does run with? [ "None of them. Nobody around here, at least." ]

[daredtobelieve]

Do you know of anyone who might have wanted to hurt him?

[likedillinger]

[ please to roll a gather info check because dean's was abysmal. "I-- I dunno. Around here, plenty of guys want to hurt you for looking at them the wrong way, you know?" ]

[daredtobelieve]

[Gather info: 26]

Any information you can give us might be useful. Even if it might seem insignificant.

[likedillinger]

[ he looks around nervously as if he expects someone else to pop out at any moment, hand rubbing against the side of his leg.

"He was mixed up with some weird people. Some kind of religious group. I never really understood why." ]

[daredtobelieve]

[A cult maybe? Helen nods, encouraging the young man to continue.]

Did he tell you much about them? Even a name would be helpful. Or a place he went to see them.

[likedillinger]

[ "He... he talked about someone called the -- the High Priest."

dean rolls his eyes. ] 'High Priest', that's always good news.

[ "It was some kind of movement, he called them -- called them the Children." ]

[daredtobelieve]

[Not sure if Knowledge Religion would do her any good here? She doesn't have ranks in it, so it's basically just an int check for her. But she gets a 20 total??]

I take it you never saw this High Priest?

[likedillinger]

[ well, there are a lot of religions who use the term High Priest, especially in Shadow religions???

"No, I don't think he ever did either. Which is why it was strange that he talked about him as he did. Sometimes he even called him Father." ]

Some kind of cult, probably.

[daredtobelieve]

[She gives the smallest nod in Dean's direction, agreeing with him but trying not to draw attention to it and possibly freak out the boy.]

Do you have any idea where this group is located? Even just a general area?

[likedillinger]

[ he shakes his head, scratching at the side of it. "N-no, I don't think there's even... a place for it, I don't know. It was like he said he knew a guy who knew a guy, but he never went to meetings or anything." ]

[daredtobelieve]

Is there anything else about them you can remember? [also sense motive 36 unless her terrible wis check was last night makes that not a thing I can do right now.]

[likedillinger]

[ he seems to be totally honest, and it's clear that he was worried about the guy, but also didn't want to get mixed up in his business when he was still alive.

"That's all I know, I swear." dean is unsatisfied with that, and adds: ] Nobody saw or heard anything weird that night? Any kind of big animal?

[ the guy squints, surprised he brought that up. "I heard rumors that some neighbors complained about wild animals growling in the streets. Didn't think anything of it." ]

[daredtobelieve]

We think the two events may be connected. Did anyone mention seeing an animal?