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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.
chosenbylight: do not take (161)

[personal profile] chosenbylight 2023-02-16 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Sirens give to their betrothed...

[Anduin contemplates that information for a moment, before shaking his head.]

I have found a couple of the men had families around in the Ward. From what they told me, they don't recall their relatives telling them falling under the spell of any songs in the night, nor witnessing it for themselves. That... Isn't to say that it might not have happened in the end, of course.

[Anduin pauses a beat, before offering:] I could try, if you'd like? There would need to be certain parameters in place to be certain she didn't get me of course, but.

[He shrugs. If not her, he knows someone who would have Opinions on him offering himself for this, who would stand guard for him. Likely cursing him all the while...]
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[personal profile] chosenbylight 2023-02-19 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I am also in the Wards with the families every day. If there is anything else I might be able to dig up for you, please let me know.