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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 22, 2012 15:06:04 GMT -5
"What kind of street is this? And what did our friend look like he transformed into?"
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 22, 2012 21:50:03 GMT -5
"The kind without regular trash pick-up or upward social mobility. Judging from his robot mode, he transforms into a hovercraft of some sort." You know, some kind of blobby amorphous Cybertronian vehicle with no distinguishing characteristics.
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 24, 2012 20:57:17 GMT -5
"Ugh. Hovercraft." Pee-Dee rocks her chair forward on two legs, then lets it come down hard. "Okay, walls. New scratches, new dents, things knocked out of place on the street or against the wall. Clean spots where there shouldn't be ones."
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 25, 2012 16:17:14 GMT -5
"You mean on the wall of the tenement around the door? None of that that meets the eye."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 25, 2012 16:40:41 GMT -5
"I mean on the walls all around. Also, are we talking alley or just a street?" She considers things. "I used my head, Mardonne. Not soon enough, but I used it.1 The point of this exercise is to play with the modern tools. I'm supposed to use a forensics team, aren't I?"
1. Blackmailers Don't Shoot
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 25, 2012 21:04:43 GMT -5
Nightbeat shrugs, and gets up from the sofa to dispense an energon cube, turning around to ask Pee-Dee if she wants one over his shoulder.
He sits back down carrying a cube for himself and possibly the Junkion. "The point of the exercise is to solve the crime, catch the bad guy or guys, and serve and protect the civvies. It's more efficient to call in the specialists."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 25, 2012 21:26:37 GMT -5
"That's why they get paid the big bucks," she says agreeably. "Look at me still talking when there's Science to do.1"
1. "Still Alive", Portal
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 26, 2012 20:28:16 GMT -5
"Right, so the lab bots from the precinct show up. Their names are Cold Case, Blacklight, and, uh . . . Perceptor." Nightbeat gives Pee-Dee a 'yes, I know, shut up' look before she has a chance to comment on his choice of names.
"They do their thing," he says, waving a hand, because he is not, himself, a nerd, "and after they've done it they tell you that they found purple paint of a particular shade that they can match exactly with whoever or whatever it came from if you find them, and traces of Decepticon fuel additives."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 29, 2012 18:24:06 GMT -5
"That just means they drink at Decepticon bars." Pee-Dee rests her chin on her crossed elbows. "So two things: what does the video show happened between our perp leaving and the police arriving, and where are the Decepticon bars around here?"
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Post by Nightbeat on Jan 30, 2012 19:43:54 GMT -5
"There are no Decepticon bars around here. For the purposes of this scenario, the two factions aren't actively at war," which as far as Nightbeat is concerned requires the single greatest act of suspension of disbelief of this entire exercise, "but Decepticons definitely aren't welcome in Autobot cities and certainly do not establish bars." Which is a shame, because some of the best bars he ever got thrown out of/beaten in an alley behind were in Tarn and Kaon before the war. It was a simpler, idyllic time.
"Anyway," he continues, snapping out of his reverie, "between the perp leaving and the police arriving, various people come and go out the door, two 'bots makes out in the stairwell, and a third 'bot does some syk in the stairwell."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 31, 2012 20:50:49 GMT -5
"No, the door of the victim's apartment--- Wait, what?? Can you guys even do that?" Pee-Dee couldn't look more boggled if Nightbeat had told her he was actually a mecha with Muzzle as his pilot.
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Post by Nightbeat on Feb 1, 2012 18:17:06 GMT -5
"For the purposes of this scenario!" Nightbeat snaps back, sloshing his energon cube a bit as leans forward violently in his seat. The Autobots are totally a peace-loving race where he comes from. They all just have their own unique built-in weapons of mass destruction for self-defense.
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Post by Pee-Dee on Feb 2, 2012 21:03:53 GMT -5
"But... Wow." Pee-Dee shakes her head. Junkions don't even pretend to be a peaceful species. It weirds her out when Autobots do.
"Stay on target...1 The victim's door, did anyone go through that between the thief and the cops? - And what's syk, anyway?"
1. Star Wars
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Post by Nightbeat on Feb 3, 2012 22:52:26 GMT -5
"The victim's door? No, nobody between the thief and the cops. Syk is an illegal circuit booster. Really nasty stuff. Even the 'Cons outlaw it."
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Post by Pee-Dee on Feb 4, 2012 21:04:52 GMT -5
"Wow," Pee-Dee says again, looking mildly impressed. "So, our perp stills drinks at Decepticon bars, just they're not local."
She frowns, sawblade teeth adding little nicks around her mouth as she thinks things over. "They're someone who'll travel to a Decepticon city," she says carefully, "so they think they're tough or they think they won't be picked out. They aren't a professional, but they aren't a novice at this breaking-and-entering."
"They've got an hour and a half headstart, they're landcraft, and credits can spend anywhere. The statuette may or may not exist - it's probably Screwloose's - but it wasn't visibly removed from the apartment. And I'm missing something because all of the current options sound equally dead-ending, but talking to Rimshot is closest."
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