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Grimmie wrote:Did they root around your bins too? I'm sure Deej' can have a good rummage in them for extra clues.

Dirk wrote:We'll see. Let's head over to mine and I'll call Haynes en route.

Haynes wrote:Haynes

Dirk wrote:Ah Mr. Haynes, delighted to speak to you again. It seems like suchh a long time since we last spoke - how are you?

Anyway, wondering if you might be able to advise us on a situation. My apartment has been broken into and turned over. Several possessions are missing including some of my SLA gear - mainly surveillance equipment. This could just be a normal break in, but I've got a hunch telling me otherwise. Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Haha, Haynes, a man of many words.

If they took your surveillance equipment, picks and your smash-fist, does that mean you still have your super speshul forensics kit laying around?

Grimmie, under breath wrote:We could really use a car of our own, or a helicopter or summat'
I don't see why the damn cat-lizard gets wheels all to himself.

Grim' follows Dirk onto the metro system, and presumably waves goodbye to Deej' on his fancy bike.

Probably, bastards. I paid...well, the cost wasn't important, it's the principal of the thing.

Fancy bike. It's not much more than a moped.

Haynes wrote:Well, if Cloak are investigating you then it doesn't really matter whether your hunch is right or wrong. All that's important is that you've nothing to hide, which I hope is true. You're not likely to piss anyone off more by looking into it, so I'd treat it as a bona-fide burglary. I've got some contacts in Cloak, so I'll ask around. I might not be able to tell you what I find out, but I can put in a good word.

EDIT: Yep, that went too.

Right, assuming we've all turned up at the apartment:

Dirk wrote:Deej, has your computer trickery brought up anything on burglaries yet?

Grim and Spindle, do you mind speaking to the neighbours - may get a better response if I'm not there. Maybe.

I assume there will be a suitable window for us to introduce the new chaps?

A passive chack of Deject's Computer Use (4) reveals that there have been another half or dozen similar burglaries in the area. They seem to all be fairly low SCL Ops.

Don't worry about introductions, that's sorted.

Oh, and when you get back to the flat you find the door still open, as you left it, and absolutely everything gone. Furniture, bed, fridge, even the lighbulbs.

Grimmie tries desperately to stifle a laugh.

Grimmie to Dirk wrote:Nice, uh.. Nice bachelor pad, Dirk.
I'll go and check on the next neighbour along..

I'll rata-tat-tat on the door.

I'll generalise the reactions of the various neighbours in order to save time.

While nobody reported anything to the Shivers, a few nearby residents heard the break-in. They're all civilians (SLA employed), so none took it upon themselves to try to get any more information. However, it seems that they heard some banging (not unusual), the voices of a group of children (quite unusual), and the apartment being ransacked (fairly unusual).

Later there were adult voices heard and the sounds of moving furniture.

Grimmie wrote:Hey, Dirk. Sounds like your place was bumrushed by a bunch of kids, and while we were indulging in facon, a bunch of older people.

You been hanging around schools talking to mothers again, enraging local schoolchildren and husbands?
The only kids that I can think may hate us, is that biker gang a couple of months back, but I don't see why they'd come after you. It was Deej' and me who perferated them.

Dirk wrote:Well now that I'm slightly less paranoid about it being Cloak, I reckon we bring those new guys in on it. Haynes says they're trustworthy and I tend to believe him. Shame that one of them is a Brain Waster though. Oh well, I'm sure we'll get along just famously. I think the other one is a Stormer, so he should be able to fill our Gerald sized hole (not that one).

Reckon we're probably looking at some sort of street gang or something. From my knowledge of the local area I can tell you...

Streetwise 2 = 2,10,+2 = 14

You don't know about any new guys Haynes has in line for the squad, nor are there any. Stop pre-empting me

All you know about the area is that no local gang of kids would have the knowhow or the balls to carry this off. However, you're not far from the wall.

Roman does a 'second guess' roll and scores 11, but has a -2 modifier for 'sneaky dog pants'.
Roll failed

Don't worry, we'll get there soon enough.

You said introductions were sorted! I assumed that meant we'd all been made aware of them.

Roman Totale wrote:You said introductions were sorted! I assumed that meant we'd all been made aware of them.

I think he just means he's got it planed out.

Making some SLA usericons.
Dirk, Deej and Grim.

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... .png"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... .png"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... laicon.png">

Not that I'm trying to suggest Dirk's a sexual pest or anything..

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