As Autrox asked his questions Aya clenched her hands as tight as she could “Netami is…” Aya stuttered before taking a deep breath “I believe I already showed you the picture of the box I received correct Autrox? It was filled with Netami’s ears and tail and a picture of her corpse without her fox parts… as for your other questions, I got injured like this after I patrolled at night to find anything suspicious. A very risky move indeed but as you can see it was effective. The killer itself did not even show himself until I managed to find his hiding spot, but his group of… I guess dead people? It was just too strong for me to handle alone. The killer escaped after making one of those corpses choke me until I lost consciousness but… I have no idea where he went after or how I got here” she would look around at the group next to her, she may have received a lot of injuries and almost died, but it proved to be worth it with the amount of information she managed to gather “it seems like he mostly operates at night, he was attacking a couple that was nearby that I couldn’t save, by the time I tried to see what was going on, one of them was eaten and the other smashed on the wall. As for motive… I wish I knew” she shook her head, by just the smallest glance at her it was obvious she was frustrated by the situation, if only she was stronger, she may have been able to be more effective. tabOOC — ❄tabtab new format!!! tabICY SHIELD — ❄tabtab not activated tabCOOLDOWN — ❄tabtab Available tabOUTFIT — ❄tabtabhttps://imgur.com/0ufU0xP tabPOST COUNTS — ❄tabtab # 2 3 2
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Ottis Odin Oklei Oakleigh Oakley Oaklee O'donnel Ottoman “Ocho” Team OLST “Pick a hand and Imma slap you with it.”
“This is preposterous!” Ocho spat. The two lowest hands slapped against his thighs to emphasize his frustration. “All this talk about the dead rising and attacking people? Stories to scare children. There has to be another explanation! So said the man what sported four sets of arms living in a world with people wielding supernatural abilities and fighting monsters attracted to negative emotions. But he wouldn't have any of this. Perchance this was simply a matter of taxidermy, machinery, and a bit too much free time?
Two more hands covered Odin's mouth while a third lifted a finger to request a moment for him to collect himself. Following a deep breath, he addressed the group in a far more composed demeanor, first addressing Azura's comment and following to the group, “Netami and I had very little interaction. Kuro is on my team and, as his Leader, he is my responsibility. As for Aya...” He turned his head to meet her eyes, his own softening slightly. “Why not simply kill you like the others? You were strangled until you blacked out, and now you're here. Someone is trying to send a message. Or a warning.”
Something else Aya said stuck out to him, however. She was tracking someone and found their hiding spot. Then she was attacked. Was the killer trying to use her as bait to lure in more prey? Oaklee had been itching for a fight over these past few days, so consider him hooked. “You said you found him? Shall we go pay him another visit? It's probably a long shot he'd still be there, but these hands haven't been able to do much slapping lately.” As though summoned, six of his hands began snapping fingers randomly while his top set of arms remained folded across his chest.
Miya merely nodded to his acknowledgement of some people being safe before Ichi spoke. Her icy-blue eyes observed him quietly for now. I guess it makes sense that Mr. Blackwood would send a proxy, She thought after a bit when he spoke of Akuryo trusting them before saying who he was. Her eyes widened more than a little at the name before she calmed herself. "Take your time, Mr. Breakheart," Miya said calmly as he seemed to gather his thoughts. While he did so, she would take out a small notebook like before to take notes. "Golems? Semblance-based?" Miya asked, curious but continued to take notes as well of what he told them. Five culprits...Golems of the deceased... the tigress shivered at the thought. Hey... the tigress pondered but didn't say anything in seeing familiar eyes.
The name was more than familiar, and intrigued him but, would not address it for now. Ichirou listened with calm seriousness while his sister took notes from Mr. Breakheart's information."Five deceased as puppets, that's pretty powerful,"The tiger faunus said, pondering this concerning news.That is sounding like a semblance but...Who's,He pondered before meeting the man's gaze respectfully."This information is most helpful. Please be sure to give our regards to Mr. Blackwood...In truth, I wish he were here to assist in the search for the culprit,"The tiger faunus replied, decision made as Miya nodded slightly.
Miya looked between the two men before frowning slightly, something not sitting right with her. And, going with her instinct she spoke up. "Mr. Breakheart, if you don't have anywhere to stay...We have an studio apartment above the restaurant, and the bookshop that you are welcome to recoup in for now." The young tigress looked to her brother who nodded in agreement after a bit of a surprised expression. The hope was to give him a safe place as well as one to come and go with little chance of interruption since the apartment had a back window that faced the alley as well. It would also make it easier for us to commune if he's closer. Miya waited for his response with kind patience.
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Aurtrox nodded along to Azura's summary. She was straight to the critical points. Something he appreciated. He would definitely contemplate offering her a job once she graduated. He was in the process of building up mercenary teams for some special missions and he could see that she'd be of great use. Though, he doubted she would ever part from her team and usually he did not employ whole teams. Neither did he like to break them up. He shook that thought from his head.
"Akuryo is a name that has popped up on my radar at increasing rates over the past few years. Our file isn't very big on him, but he's a dangerous, and mad. He's not from Vale originally." He rapped his fingers against his shield methodically. "Jarlan, I can't say I am anymore familiar with... I would have to look into his file."
When Azura couldn't finish about Netami, Aya took over. Aurtrox looked down. He was mad. Enough of his students were being killed in action, the fact that Vale criminals were picking them off just infuriated him. The Vale police and military were just so damn ineffective at keeping the city in check. It made it hard for him to focus outward on the more important goals.
"Tch!" Aurtrox slammed a fist against his chair's arm. Permanently bending the flimsy chair's arm. He took a moment to regain his composure. He was losing it more as of lately, but for understandable reasons. He stood up and looked out the window. Staring off into the sky for a long moment. This was a cruel killer. "The mutilation suggests either they are mad or they are anti-faunus. That much is obvious."
Aurtrox would ignore Ocho's outburst, it wasn't witchcraft, it was a semblance. That much was obvious to him. But He wouldn't remark on it. He did nod in agreement though that it was odd the killer didn't finish Aya. But she had just found his hiding spot out and very possibly was playing it on the safe side. If that was true, then this killer would be hard to locate. They wanted to keep killing as they have been and are smart enough to abstain from an easy kill when they know it could put their pleasure of killing in danger.
"This is clearly a killer who wants to continue killing. They won't be far. They will stay in the city, but that doesn't mean they will be easy to find again. They won't return to the place they were before because I will make sure the police patrol it." He would turn around and look at Aya. "How did you find them in the first place? And are there any clues as to where they may have gone? We need to act before the trail goes cold. And if it had gone cold new measures will need to be made." He would then look to Azura to see if any ideas popped into her head. He was curious what she thought. [OOC: ] "..."
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'One, two, Becky's coming for you. Three, four, your luck is so poor. Five, six, we sail the river styx. Seven, eight, the vultures haven't ate. Nine, ten, you'll never see again.'
Victor nodded as she told him to take his time, with which he did calmly before nodding his head at Miya. "Unless we're dealing with a rogue Maiden who is using this power with magic, it would be safe to assume it is someone's semblance at work." He told them both while he took a drink of his tea until the cup was empty while nodding his head at Ichirou's observation. "Managing one Golem on it's own would be powerful enough... but 5 of them were there, and with no one in range of vision, chances are they were at a distance making it seem as though their reach is insane." He told Ichirou calmly before he set the cup down while he listened to the man's words as he followed it up. "I will give him your regards as soon as I can. But with current circumstances, it would be unwise for him to show up and assist especially since those golems seemed to have targetted him. The explosion only 2 days since he was arrested alluded that it must've been a planned break in for Akuryo." Victor surmised, it was indeed too convenient that Akuryo would be arrested and broken out within the same week.
He looked to Miya as she spoke about offering him a place to stay, causing him to sigh softly. "That would be delightful Miss Tora. I don't have many safe havens here left considering all that's been going on so I would appreciate the night's rest." He told her softly as he began to get up and onto his feet. "Mind if I ask for a small escort up there?" He asked of them calmly.
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File? Azura raised a metaphorical eyebrow as the headmasterbrought up having a file on Akuryo…and Jarlan. She got the impression that Aurtroxhad a file on her as well, that wasn’t strictly related to her school work at Beacon. “What has he done in the past to make him dangerous?” She asked, carefully stepping around the mention of a file. While she would never condone torture or beating a locked up man who can’t defend himself, it might give more insight into why the police treated him so poorly. One she could get behind logically rather than Akuryo’s reasoning that they wanted a false confession to close the case. Her fellow classmates had taught her people often weren’t logical, but surely if Akuryo was innocent, the murders would continue even if he confessed. Such as the couple Aya tried to save while he was locked up. The Police Chief had to know this….right?
It was difficult for Azura to listen to Aya talk about Netami. People killing people when humanity was on the brink of extinction, and people were dying to Grimm every day was something Azura couldn’t comprehend. She found a bit of floor to be especially interested in while Aya spoke about Netami. So when Aurtrox suddenly slammed his fist down on the chair, bending the arm, she jumped and looked at him wide eyed. She had never seen the Headmaster angry, not that she saw him a lot, but he always seemed so…flamboyant. Silence filled the room as he got up to look out the window.
“I don’t think they are anti-Faunus…” Azura said timidly. Correcting the Headmaster was more frightening than facing a Nevermore. “Tostada Elegant was human. The Atlas connection seems stronger, and they keep referencing team VLTR at the crime scenes. All the members of that team are reported dead though. Perhaps you would ..er…be able to find out more information on them. Cecil wasn’t ableto find very much.” She could feel her cheeks burning red as she suggested the Headmaster look into his ‘files’
“There is likely a semblance involved, or perhaps multiple semblances. We can’t rule out that more than one person might be involved. I once had a classmate who could heal and transform her body by eating raw meat. Puppetting corpses isn’t too far from that….and we don’t really know what the limits of possibility are with semblances.” Azura avoided mentioning said classmate had been cannibalizing a dead student when Azura first met her. Her stomach turned at the memory. She was glad wen the conversation to turned to why Aya was left alive, and she could banish the memory.
“Or perhaps they were interrupted by whoever brought Aya here. They were already interrupted by Aya. Maybe a second person showing made them think there was too much activity in the area and it was better to cut their losses." Azura mused after Ocho brought up the killer leaving her alive. “We should speak to the intake nurse before we leave and find out what we can about how you were brought here. What about the couple you saw? Has anything been reported about them?”
“It would still be worth going back to the hide out and looking for clues.” Azura spoke up, when Aurtrox seemingly shot down Ocho’s idea of going back to the hiding place. “They likely cleared out in a rush and may have left some evidence behind for us.” She paused as the VLTR popped into her mind then added. “Or may have left us a message.” She hoped that message wouldn’t be Kuro’scorpse.
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Ottis Odin Oklei Oakleigh Oakley Oaklee O'donnel Ottoman “Ocho” Team OLST “Pick a hand and Imma slap you with it.”
“Years?” Ocho's head tilted slightly, his green mohawk swayed thanks to gravity and an inefficient amount of hair product. Their headmaster had just suggested something what touched a rather large nerve thanks to the previous scolding he'd received from Aurtrox. Without thinking, the boy rose to his feet and glared down at his superior. Even if the headmaster were to stand, Ottis doubted his neck would arc much differently. “So you knew of this danger for years but we were meant to watch over the fox because something happened over a matter of hours?!”
For any number of reasons, the sound of Azura's voice soothed him vaguely. When she spoke of semblance(s) he felt slightly more inclined to listen. Not consider, because this was clearly witchy shenanigans, but listen. To even attempt to puppeteer a corpse should certainly take a horrendous amount of concentration. Was there not a way to track such a transfer of energy?
Odin should have sat back down, but he refused. Someone needed to be fought. Anyone. Literally anyone at this point. All four of his right hands pointed to Aya, but his eyes remained locked on the Swan, “We have a lead.” Oakley suggested, completely missing the actual lead Azura mentioned mere seconds ago. “Or we have bait.”
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Aurtrox chuckled at his mistake. Of course Azura didn't deal with files. The world of students was different from that of adults. He had been in the council for too long and lost his youthful edge. One of the reasons he was so good at his position is he understood the minds of the young students at Beacon, but now that he was losing that he wondered how it would affect the future results. He made a mental note to engage in some youth building exercises when he got back.
He sat still, totally unaffected by Ocho's stand-up burst of anger. "It was not my domain. He had never killed a student before and the police and military were the ones in charge of taking care of domestic criminals. Not the headmaster of a school. I know my place, just as you should know yours... Ocho." The boy needed to learn that the world of adults had roles. And you couldn't be everywhere at once. Even Aurtrox, with his advanced network of spies and mercenaries, couldn't be everywhere.
"Akuryo isn't known very well, but I surmise he is the type who likes to cut things for fun. His file lacks any pattern that suggests he had some grand motive or plan for his actions. Though we may just discover that later..." He didn't like being blind when it came to information. Knowledge was power afterall. "I don't know who it is, but that part we will discover..." His mind was racing with ideas. Azura would challenge the idea of the killer being anti-faunus. He thought her timid demeanor was sweet. The girl came from such brazen parents, it was hard to imagine this was their daughter in this moment. But her skills and track record showed she truly was. He would turn a softer expression towards her when he finally faced them.
"Great points. They may not be anti faunus, which does seem to suggest a mad killer. Akuryo is the top pick if I had to place money on someone." Aurtrox opened his scroll and typed in a request to the Tower to search files and report back on team VLTR. He would promptly receive a message with a short file that had very little worth noting. "Cecil and the records don't seem to have much information... We're in the dark."
Aurtrox got another beep on his scroll. He would open and read it. He seemed disturbed by whatever it was but closed his phone and started to pace around the room. Azura then started asking several great questions to Aya. She did seem like to key piece to all of this as far as information went, but even Aya didn't seem to know too much more then them all.
Azura seemed to think Ocho's idea of going back was a good idea. So he would allow it. Maybe they would find something useful. "Then, since we have nothing else to lead us, you can go and investigate, but I have some business matters I need to attend to. tap this..." He offered his scroll to bump with theirs. It would turn on a secret setting built into Beacon scrolls to contact him directly. He gave this only rarely to students he worked with. "Let me know if you find anything, or are in danger. My two guards will stay with Aya, and I'll be off attending to some damned paperwork." He would begin to make his leave, but of course await anything else they wanted to say before taking his official leave. [OOC: ] "..."
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Miya pondered quietly and shook her head at the notion of a rogue Maiden; as far as anyone knew, a Maiden that specialized in necromancy (even Winter Maiden) was never recorded in history. Her expression softened when Victor agreed to give Mr. Blackwood their regards. "Thank you...And agreed," Miya replied, agreeing that the mortician should lie low for now. She would then look to Ichirou. "Of course, just let me clean up first. Mind picking up the little ones, then I'll meet you at Page Turner?" Miya replied then asked a request of her brother. I'll be safe, the tigress said wordlessly with a hand on her brother's temporarily.
Ichirou would agree with his sister's expression on the Maiden theory as was seen in his expression. When asked to pick up their siblings he understood and nodded."Very well,"The tiger faunus said.I trust you,His eyes met hers and squeezed her hand in return before he would stand and bow respectfully."We shall meet again in the morning, Mr. Breakheart,"The tiger faunus said and with that, left the tea shop.
Meanwhile at Page Turner, Haruko had business running as usual, almost ready to close up and go home."Are you two almost ready?"She inquired of the younger tigers and earned a multiple of yeses from the back of the bookshop.Such good girls,Haruko thought fondly...The siblings would go home after saying goodbye to Tsuki.
With her brother gone, Miya would begin to collect the dishes and head to the kitchen. "Here," Miya said, reaching into her apron pocket and holding out an electric key-card to him when she came back. "You'll need it before we go up," Miya replied explained before waving for him to follow her. Past the employees only area, there was a closed door. Taking out her scroll, she held it over the scanner. Once it was unlocked, she opened the door and walked up to the second floor apartment. This should be interesting, She thought before opening the door at the top then stepped to the side to let him explore. Once he seemed satisfied, she would leave him for the eve. But, she would be staying in the apartment above the bookshop like last night to keep watch...
KnightsRoyal
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 2:02 am
[Time is up!] The night had been a blur... for Aya and Azura's team they were at a hospital with Aya having a first close-contact encounter with the creatures, detailing an earthen scent with a Soil body. For the Tora Siblings, they meet a self-proclaimed ally who knows Akuryo. The information the two groups had gathered would not prepare them enough for the night as the dark fun began for the murderous group. At the outskirts of Vale, nearby in the night as a shop is closing down... a rather calm fox man who went by the name of Tatsuda was in the process of closing his shop, a simple turn of the keys and a nice turn on his heels as he begins to make his steps away from his humble if ever scamming, home away from home. However, he took two steps when he ended up bumping into something... a wall? He opened his eyes to look up as he backed up one step and he could see a tall, muscular man without a shirt before him. "You see the sign?" Tatsuda asked of him, annoyed that this p***k was in his way. Tatsuda began to take a step to the side to walk around the man only to be caught by the shirt.
Tatsuda could sense the bloodlust coming from this playboy but he wasn't having any of it as he looked at the man. "Oi, if you want this body it'll cost you 4000 lien per minute. The tail isn't cheap to maintain." He told the muscular being with a knowing smirk before he was thrown back into the door, knocking it off its hinges as he grunts and falls down onto his back. He scrambled to his feet and went to grab one of his more legitimate weapons while the Wall he ran into walked on in. Inside the shop, the wall of a man looked from side to side as he rolled his shoulders and began to walk in. Tatsuda meanwhile snuck around to get behind his counter and grabbed a pickax, a brutal weapon to be sure as he slipped out from behind the counter while his opponent had his back turned. A grinning and cunning man, he silently moved close, the pickax held up high before he swung hard! He managed to get a clean hit into the back of the Wall as it seemed to grunt and move forward, the pickax getting in nicely but not deep enough as Tatsuda could feel his hands vibrating. He grunted as he dropped the pickax and shook his hands. "The hell are you made of?! Some sort of granite infused rats?!" He asked while shaking his hands. The man meanwhile turned around and swung a bare handed swipe at Tatsuda's head.
Tatsuda, if you didn't know, was one slippery sonovagun as he dodges back and evades the attack. He stuck his tongue out at him as he lunged down to grab the pickax again before the wall man could prevent him from doing so. With the weapon in hand once more, he reeled it back up and swung as Tostada was turning around to face him, catching the pickax in his collarbone and falling to a knee, this time grabbing the pickax with his left hand to keep it lodged in as Tatsuda glared at him. "HEY! You didn't even pay for it so let the hell go!" He shouted at him, raising a leg and attempting to kick the man off, only to get his leg caught next by the man's right hand. The grip was firm... much firmer than Tatsuda's as he looked concerned and began to use his other foot to try and kick the man off, letting go of the pickax was not an option for him as Tostada began to slowly rise. He lifted the fox faunus up slowly, a fear began to settle in as Tatsuda began to kick ferverously with his right leg. "LET ME GO! LET ME GO!" He shouted as the man he was fighting began to charge with him towards one of Tatsuda's stands. One that held a few spears up and Tatsuda was freaking out as he wiggled and tried to get off, soon letting his hands go of the pickax as he ducked out of the way, with Tostada throwing him forward and slamming him into the spears! His aura protected him definitely but... his fear of being skewered was very over-played as the spears were obviously treated to break upon any sort of hard force that wasn't just flesh.
Smoke filled the air as Tatsuda cough up a bit and spoke. "Man, you're gonna pay for that. But maybe it's a good idea I didn't sell them." He chuckled a bit as he slowly got up, only to be knocked back down as a Pickax slammed into his leg, breaking his aura instantly as it got caught right between the tibia and fibula. Tatsuda screamed as he fell, holding onto his leg as he was harshly dragged back towards Tostada who looked him in the eyes. "--t wants revenge." It seemed Tostada said something but his voice wasn't working properly before he reached a hand down and struck Tatsuda in the Larnyx... crushing it effortlessly as Tatsuda started to try and gasp for air... choking instead. His body was dragged away by Tostada to never be seen again.
Meanwhile in another location during the evening, a strange female could be seen stalking the rooftops, following two people. The beings at the bottom were a male and female, one with ashen white hair and the other wearing a strange headdress. Being hired to assassinate two people for 15,000,000 Lien would set her up for almost life with how young she is, so she took up the offer and tailed her prey. With them entering a dark alleyway, she leaped down into the darkness, throwing a knife first while aiming to kick the female down. The knife didn't find purchase as it bounced off the male's chest, but he seemed to reel back while she managed to plant her feet into the chest of the female. But as she was using her light frame and gravity to try and knock the female over... her legs would be grabbed and her attempt failed as Rain looked more at what she was hired to kill. The female she could see clearly, younger than her, with long flowing locks, and a gaze that asked 'You what mate?'. She tried to kick away but to no avail as she slowly began to fall with gravity when the Male jumped up and punched down, landing a clean shot against her aura-covered abdomen and making Rain cough up air and spit. She was brought to the ground as the arm of the male started to glow and he began to repeatedly punch her. Each strike that hit home made her aura flash more as she could feel the pain. Each time it flashed, she could get a clearer look... cracks in the skin, their soulless eyes, and... something watching her. She screamed as she began to slash at them, her aura shattering as the man raised his fist one last time. Shouts could be heard and at this time, avian scouts and some ground troops arrived to catch them this time. Yet, they were too late to save Rain as the ashen-haired man with a clawed hand punctured through her chest, causing her to cough out blood once more while he broke through her ribcage. Still alive, and in incredible pain, she slowly reached with her left hand, grabbing onto his arm as she stabbed in vain at his face. Her dagger went clean into the eye... yet it did not deter the man from ripping out her beating heart before her. She fell limp as the police started to open fire. Their bullets hit the bodies, yet they bounced off while the two started to run, throwing the deceased corpse of Rain at the officers in disrespect to the dead, and to cover their trail.
In another location, a petite feminine Jellyfish Faunus was in the process of trying to get back to Beacon to beat the curfew hours but as she was working on her way... a soft voice caught her attention. Like a siren's entrancing melody, she began to follow... listening to the soft voice of a male Opera singer. It seemed there was a bit of a small gathering near an alleyway, strangely obscured but keeping people entranced. She managed to make her way to the front of the audience while a group of policemen moved to try and make their way towards the sound's source next. However... one keen-eared wolf faunus heard something and he shouted. "GET DOWN!" But in a matter of moments... bullets flew, in several lines going straight and the Jellyfish faunus was too busy listening to the beautiful music that her aura... never came up. She was caught dead vulnerable and gunned down, riddled with bullet holes as not one could be determined to be the fatal shot but with how many she was filled with, maybe they were all fatal. The crowd couldn't escape either as a few of the 7 attendees were shot down as well but as Police moved in to try and intercept, the sounds had stopped and the murderers were nowhere to be found. Frustration settled into the night as many officers were getting tired of this cat and mouse chase... the ones who almost caught the Ashen-haired ones had lost sight of them going into a house and upon breaking in, found it abandoned and no body to be found.
Victor, meanwhile, finished his small discussion with the siblings as Tsuki dismissed the initial thoughts of a rogue maiden. He noticed the ease in her expression while he promised to give Akuryo her regards. He took a sip of his drink when Miya asked for him to wait till she was done cleaning up. "I can be patient." He told her with an eased smile before he heard her request to Ichirou. He closed his eyes when Ichirou told him they would meet in the morning before Victor nodded his head to the brother. With him gone, Victor noticed Tsuki getting back to work, finishing up down here as he got up with his empty cup being collected by her. He listened to her as she handed him a keycard before being told how it would be needed for when they went up. "Thank you very much." He told her with a soft chuckle as he looked at the keycard. Once he saw her waving at him, he followed her past and into the back with them both going through the Employee's area and into a back door that she opened. He was a bit surprised at the appearance of the apartment inside. Everything seemed so small but so nice as he was shown about inside the area. "This is... a bit much but I think I can work with what I have here. Thank you Miss Tora." He told her while he bowed his head and watched as she left. The tour she had given him was rather quick but with the rest of the afternoon and evening ahead of him... he needed to plan and so, with a watchful eye over the balcony into the city, he started to think.
When the morning came, there was a public outcry and outrage, questioning the Police on their failure to protect the citizens despite the Director working with students to help capture the criminals that had escaped yesterday. Now people were questioning who was really going to defend them? If not the military or the police, maybe Beacon and its plethora of students? But didn't two of their students die? Didn't they have that bombing so many months ago? Could they really protect the populace after what happened last night?! Public unrest was certainly growing at a fast rate.
[You may try and Rp or try and investigate. Team AAAOK can converse with Cecil via Phone for new info regarding what happened yesterday evening. Tora Family can work with Victor.]
The investigation team had been hard at work, but so too had the murdered. Three this time. Were they taking out their frustration on failing to kill Aya, accelerating their plans because they felt the investigation was getting close, or celebrating how many successful kills they had accomplished. Whatever the reason for the killer(s) unusually high activity last night, Azura knew they would be soon facing another threat. Negative emotions were spreading through the city like wildfire, and if they didn't stop the murderer soon they would be facing a hoard of Grimm.
Daenerys Valwynn had attended Beacon briefly. Very briefly. She was a Faunus, but from Vale. Rain Murasaki was also a Beacon drop out. Human and from Vale. Tatsuda Katsuke however wasn't from Beacon. An older male from Atlas and part of Aya's Arctic Fox Tribe. Azura frowned at the ever increasing list of names, unable to make a connection between the targets.
Rena Kiyoko: female faunus who had survived the attack like Aya. Beacon student Tostada Elegant: Human Male chef Kati Katswell: Female news anchor and Faunus Julius Crawn - Kati's boyfriend, a jobless human Xandira Aystolis: Female Faunus from Vale and a Beacon drop out Fefnir Siegfried Red-Claw: Male Human from Vale and a Beacon drop out Netami Mikaelson: Female Faunus from Atlas, a Beacon student and an arctic fox Oswald Star: Male human from Vale and a Beacon drop out Scylla Tempest: Female human from an independent group of islands just off of mainland Vale. Beacon Drop out
The person who had dropped Aya off had heterochromatic eyes. A pretty rare trait, but it wasn't as if Vale had a database of peoples eye colours. Azura texted Cecil. "Can you look into Tatsuda Katsuke, Kati Katswell, Julius Crawn and Tostada Elegant and see if any of them had attended Beacon or any other combat school?" It was a leap, but it was the only kind of pattern she could see. With that, Azura headed to the location Aya had said the killers hideout was, praying they would find something there to bust this case wide open. They had to stop these murders soon.
Profile Semblance: 0/(4/3) Cooldown: 0/5 Backpack: First Aid kit, sample collection kit, rope, note pad, pencil, water Dust Bullets: 0 Raw Dust: small: 2 gravity, 2 fire Large: Earth
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KnightsRoyal
Frostlin
narxfang
KevBo2099
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2022 12:42 pm
Widget, true to form, wouldn't have displayed much in the way of a reaction when she received the image and message about Oswald Star. However, she did respond in her own way by backtracing it. The shut-in remained on campus grounds and used her own skills in coding to trace the signal back and start researching the areas she found. She was able to pinpoint where the image was taken and very roughly estimate how recent after death it had been based on information from the image and some passing knowledge and further research into rate of decay. However, annoyingly, his scroll seemed to be damaged as the firewall reacted erratically and prevented her from pinpointing the time his aura failed and vitals flatlined so, she was unable to discern time of death exactly.
Interestingly though, she was able to trace it's last usage when it sent the message to a district that was pretty isolated at night as well as the last signal before it went completely dark, which was actually outside the city outskirts. That was pretty significant. It seemed the killer had taken his scroll after killing him and removing his hand for the gruesome message. After discovering that, she went about looking at potential points of interest around the two signals and started marking them. She also tried to find a way to access other reported victims' scrolls, to see if she could ping them, though, without hacking into government systems, that was proving too difficult. And with how things were currently, she wasn't dumb enough to try that. Officials would be on high alert and if detected, it would cause an even bigger alarm than usual.
With what she managed to gather, she loaded up some maps of the relevant areas where she'd traced his signal to and overlay where the image was taken, the last location his scroll sent a signal from, and a half dozen or so points of interest she deemed potentially suspect or relevant based on distance, isolation, and traffic at night. With all these in place, she saved them in a file and sent it to Aurtrox."Headmaster, I received the following message from Oswald Star's Scroll and traced back the signal. I've included what I could find and marked it's last operational signal and where the image was taken as well as likely suspect areas around based on what information I had. I believe him dead. But, the last signal from his scroll is from outside the city. There was not much I could find beyond that. If you want, I can attempt to continue with other victims, find out what I can, but, I will need contact information and serial numbers for their scrolls to do so."
TEAM: RWRP
PC: 51
GEAR:
♦ Exosuit with gun arm and blade arm ♦ Standard Pistol ♦ Stun Baton ♦ Ballistic and Dust munitions ♦ Heavily Tinted Goggles
►►►VS Average or below skill Personal or Basic commercial (The average Joe dabbling in setting up their own systems without advanced formal education or individual shop tier business systems) Result of above 5 = Success
►►►VS Educated individual to Mid-Tier Business (Someone who is trained and educated in the design of the system or a local non-corporate significant office/warehouse) Result of above 10 = Success
►►►VS Higher-tier Business or non-critical government grade systems (Regional, District, or Headquarters sites or immediate Access Government systems such as Police, Mail, or other Public Services, this also extends to Private Security systems for individuals in government, such as one's personal laptop, but not something that would be kept secure on site in a government facility) Result of above 15 = Success
╔════════════RENA KIYOKO════════════╗ Rena had just been discharged and was headed back to the Academy. She'd messaged her brother, letting him know as well as telling him their mother was being picked up by their father. The rabbit girl looked exhausted and out of it, doped up on painkillers and smoking a joint , an arm still in a sling for the time being as she periodically updated Ren on where she was, knowing he'd been concerned. As she did, she nearly ran into a girl who was texting someone. "s**t...sorry...I'm a bit out of it...uh...Right...Wender Street..."She went ahead and let her brother know where she was and was about to start walking again." ╚═════════════TEAM: RGR═════════════╝ PC: 78 OOC:
