Realgar/Falco info approved by Ryu~
Backdated to Sep. 28, 2014
Word count: 629


Alkahest hugged her herself as they walked down the hall to her little apartment. It was obvious that she was still nervous of having any attention, but Titan was also nervous himself of trying to explain the whole situation to some other agent and had opted to keep with her as his partner on this mission.

They both powered down as they got to the door. "We can...we can use the couch. You should fit on that. "

Titan gave an affirmative noise, ducking in through the door and offering over the preowned tablet PC and it's peripherals for her to use with her small, deft fingers. "We should start with simple things that anyone can access. We have his name. Get all known phone numbers from the phone companies. Check local tax registries to see if there was any address changes and when they were paid. Then social networks- we need to see if he has a person book thing, tweet or others. What the last entries were, what photos there are, family and friends. If there are recent pictures of places, we should check those next to see if we can find anything. After that is the hard stuff. Can you hack?"

She nodded mutely at first, then expanded, "I was recruited for computers. Reddit and white hat stuff. ".

White...hat? He had no idea what hats had to do with anything, but the tone was one of an affirmative. Plan of attack somewhat established, they sat hip to hip on her small pink sofa. "Alright. What can we find. "

He took the notes - there was a landline, but no listed cellphones to Falco Marks for at least their searchable time limit. He had a social page with photos of races and gear from long, long before his Negaverse inception date. The smiles on the pictures looked reckless, genuine, young. The vehicles looked dangerous and fast, a line from amateur pieces building up towards professional. Then there was a bunch of posts of condolences, inspirational messages and hopes from a small fanbase. Something about an accident. Well wishes for a comeback that petered off until there was nothing at all on the wall for too long for the page to have been in use or relevant to Falco's life any time as recent as his service. There were some photos with a tiny little redhead tagged 'Cat'. They stood close in the photos, arms wrapped genially. She was possibly a friend girl or girlfriend. From the look of her media page, she lived somewhere else too far.

The apartment was still unrented, and there were no corroborating seizures of property to indicate anything but that the place was still furnished as it had been abandoned. Or the landlord had just shifted all the personals into storage. No next of kin had shown to make any claim.

There was an outstanding missing persons report, old enough to be generalized and without obvious leads. It probably was considered as cold as most of the cases that came up in Destiny City. No bills, taxes, or other points of contact had been touched in months and months. Not since January. The last purchase made was on plastic on New year's eve at a Taco King. There was a steady pattern of bills and purchases expected prior- food and gas at places near the apartment.

Except having knowledge of his Mars existence, there wasn't much to point to purification from digital peripheral. " He doesn't look to have much of a life. Nothing showing meeting someone new, special, or with any habit. "

Alkahest frowned. "So what's next?"

"We go to the place. Maybe there's something that isn't digital. Lots of life isn't about online."

She looked highly dubious of that, but nodded.