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a rich unhinged mongoose ([personal profile] clavesregni) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2023-01-30 01:38 pm

video; un: hopscotch

[Caitlyn has found a small corner somewhere in the Wards that she's turned into a personal headquarters. Several sheets of paper, covered in incomprehensibly messy scribbles, are stuck to the walls, and there's plenty of room for more to come. She's even found some colored string somewhere and has started to make connections between the papers with the strings.

She speaks very enthusiastically. Nothing makes Caitlyn's whole being light up like detective work.]


I've begun working on solving the series of murders that have occurred here over the last eleven weeks.

The victims were all male, between the ages of twenty-two and thirty-five. There are no other obvious connections between the victims, no common physical characteristics, profession, or origin. We'll need to dig if we want to find any commonalities apart from sex and a rough age range. And, with only five victims, we can't entirely rule out the idea that the commonalities we do know of may be coincidental.

There are rumors circulating of someone referred to as the 'Reaper,' who is punishing the people here for abandoning their duty. I don't know if that's the killer's true motivation; why kill only young men? There's something more going on here.

There are two clear points of interest:

First, none of the victims have an obvious cause of death. Some have wounds, but nothing that would be fatal under normal circumstances, and none appear to have been ill. How is the Reaper killing the victims?

Second, all have a white string tied around their wrists. This must be some sort of calling card, though what it means is not yet clear. If we can determine the meaning of the string, it could give us an insight into the killer's motivations and perhaps their identity.

I suggest we collaborate in our work to find the killer.
downswing: (brokerage)

[personal profile] downswing 2023-02-05 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Curse, haunting. Droves of men do not perish with tokens bound and no mark.
valeas: (☾ 3 0 4)

[personal profile] valeas 2023-02-06 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
I still don't know what to make of that token. In my world, the use of specific colors and materials are ritual based.
downswing: (flux / fluid)

[personal profile] downswing 2023-02-06 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
A question: if the token induces death or commemorates it.
valeas: (☾ p e n s i e r o)

[personal profile] valeas 2023-02-08 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
I was able to study one of them, the tokens. It was once touched by something magical or possessed of the ability, though the string itself was only string.

It was all I could sense.

Then again, Serthica taught us how well something can be concealed.
downswing: (extend)

[personal profile] downswing 2023-02-08 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
A siege is no subtle work.