Nightbeat
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Eternal Foe of Kitsch
"Truth is revealed in the smallest detail."
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 14, 2012 15:22:13 GMT -5
"Right, fine, I'll buy," Nightbeat agrees, talking as he walks. "So the beat cops on the scene say that the tenant you've been talking to, let's call him Crosswire, has a long-standing grudge against Screwloose from a time when they both shared a holding cell after a minor offense. When you check his records it shows a few such offenses. Overcharged in public, loitering, a petty theft charge, stuff like that. 'Owning a slum isn't a crime but living in one is', kinds of things."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 15, 2012 21:04:36 GMT -5
Pee-Dee reviews what all Nightbeat has been telling her. "What do they know about Crosswire's neighbor?"
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Nightbeat
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Eternal Foe of Kitsch
"Truth is revealed in the smallest detail."
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 16, 2012 10:00:59 GMT -5
"The guy next door who claims to have seen a purple mech fleeing the scene? His name is Rimshot. Struggling comedy writer. Keeps submitting his stuff to late-night shows and getting rejected. Keeps his nose clean. Never been arrested," Nightbeat expounds.
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 16, 2012 12:58:44 GMT -5
Pee-Dee nods. "Did the building record anything?"
Because clearly, if the building is on Cybertron, it can record things.
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Nightbeat
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Eternal Foe of Kitsch
"Truth is revealed in the smallest detail."
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 16, 2012 15:03:36 GMT -5
"There's a 'bot breaking into Crosswire's apartment holding a briefcase and coming back out a short time later carrying the same briefcase. Said briefcase is too small to hold a statuette. The bot is dark-colored, but it's impossible to tell if he's purple or not because the footage is in black and white."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 16, 2012 15:33:10 GMT -5
Pee-Dee scowls. "I thought you said we weren't doing a 1920s Prohibition case."
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Nightbeat
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 16, 2012 21:59:27 GMT -5
Nightbeat scowls back. "Monochrome is cheap and security cameras are on all the time." He pauses a moment. "Actually, come to think of it, I have no idea why security cameras always give grainy black and white footage. It's not very useful when you actually need it."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 17, 2012 19:51:23 GMT -5
"Genre conventions," Pee-Dee says brightly. "What's our bot on the screen look like?"
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Nightbeat
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 18, 2012 18:36:24 GMT -5
"Like a professional. In and out quickly, though of course there's no camera in the actual apartment. It's not Screwloose, though. This guy has a different headcrest and no shoulder-fins," Nightbeat states, shrugging his own shoulders for emphasis. "Smaller, sleeker design."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 19, 2012 21:25:39 GMT -5
"Does the building only record the one hallway?" It wouldn't surprise her if it did, but Pee-Dee figures she ought to ask.
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Nightbeat
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 21, 2012 0:09:34 GMT -5
Nightbeat shakes his head as he presses the button to open the door to the lounge. "Security cameras in all the hallways, the elevators, and the emergency stairwells. And since it's the next thing you're going to ask, there's footage of the perp entering the building, coming up the elevator, and going down the stairs and out a side door."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 21, 2012 9:06:04 GMT -5
"Let's go look at that side door then." She paces into the lounge, pulling out a chair and turning it around so she can sit without her wheels pressed against the back.
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Nightbeat
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Eternal Foe of Kitsch
"Truth is revealed in the smallest detail."
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 21, 2012 20:24:17 GMT -5
"There's nothing immediately obvious that jumps out at you at the side door," Nightbeat responds, taking a seat on a sofa across from Pee-Dee. (He finds it quirky and endearing when she turns chairs around to sit on them, but he would never tell her that.)
"Now, if you wanted to call in the forensics team, you can do that."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 22, 2012 12:25:39 GMT -5
"Awww. But it's always entertaining when something jumps out at me." She grins, flashing sawblade-teeth.
She falls silent, going over everything Nightbeat has already told her. "How long has it been since the robbery? And did the street record anything?"
Look, Nightbeat, you gave her cameras, she is going to use them.
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Nightbeat
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Eternal Foe of Kitsch
"Truth is revealed in the smallest detail."
Posts: 453
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 22, 2012 14:44:16 GMT -5
"It's been [units of time equivalent to about about an hour and a half.] There's no security cameras on the street. They keep getting vandalized in this neighborhood."
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