Last time on no latency. I suppose if if you think it's
safe. I think you should choose that.
Did somebody say cocaine? Happy Halloween, The Collector
got you a present. I haven't even thought about my
costume yet. But we have to see it at the
Hillview. Well, it's just a hop, jump and
a sniff away. Let's go.
I think I know who I'm going to ask.
Wow, is it going? Oh, that's can't come back.
People dress up as doctors all the time for Halloween.
I was hoping to figure out how to get to the room.
Maybe. I guess that means you and I
just get to hang out inside until the fireworks go off.
Wait, hit the button. Now that.
One looks like a UFO. Look at that one, fireworks you.
Think they're pumping in those spooky sounds or?
What? Well, shit.
Phoebe.
I'm going to go check on the body.
There's a body, there's a dead body.
I'm a doctor. I'm actually a doctor.
I'm not just dressed up as a doctor, I am actually a doctor.
They are actually a doctor. You could step back, ma'am.
You could step back. This is a crime scene.
A crime scene I They're dead, so there's not much I can.
Tell. Officer, do you not know who
this is? This is Doctor Vivi training
training training exclusively from Knight City University, as
well as did a lot of their postgraduate work at the morgue,
so they have a pretty good idea of being able to.
Forensic. Out for the forensics.
I I I have a degree in forensics.
That's what I went to school for, please.
All right. Well, but before you go, before
you go inside, I need to ask you some questions.
Were you in here during? Did you go in the bathroom at
any point during the event? No, I have not had to use the
restroom. I've been out here at the party
and I went to go watch the fireworks and I had a cigarette
outside. And you had a cigarette outside,
All right. And can I see some kind of
credential or ID? I won't say so.
God damn it. You have to roll VB helps
people. Yeah, good all.
Right. Well, you do help people,
apparently. You're welcome.
Inside, Jane is is standing there next to the officer, kind
of in shock, still dressed as a monkey with a ripped costume.
OK, I'm going to go take a look at the body you.
Got more sets at Centco, no? No, I only, I only brought a
bump darling. Also there's other shit going on
retro. The drugs can go, can deal, you
can later. No, I this is this is how I
deal. This is how I deal.
I need, I need some more. You need some more.
No, they're not paying attention to us.
Inside the bathroom Bebe you walk inside.
As you walk in, it's empty. On your left, a few stools down,
there's some blood spattered on the walls.
The leg sticks out from under the stool.
As you step closer, the door eerily creaks open, and there on
the ground is a massacred human. Does this?
What do the wounds look like? Like someone tore him to shreds
and took a bite out of him in several places.
Just as I suspected another victim of this ravenous wolf
attack. Raw perception.
This is another victim to this serial killer, whoever it is,
this wolf serial killer. You rolled A-15.
You can see scrapes that lead to a vent hatch on the wall.
Vent hatch. Oh, dear.
OK. They were they were here
recently. They went through the vent.
Hey, guys, there. Be careful up there.
There might be a wolf on the loose.
A wolf. On the.
Roof, OH, on the loose. Yes, unclear, but.
Well, that you saw that wolf man, he was out front.
You saw the wolf man. I mean, you did.
You did. Yes, he.
Was dressed up, he had the whole thing.
Oh, right, I should look out for him.
No, I think this is this is something more deadly and
fierce. It might be somebody fully
decked out in some sort of strange.
Oh man, possibly, yes, Jeb I it, it could be some sort of hybrid
there. Out in the bad lamps.
Yes, just be careful because they killed somebody in the
bathroom and now they're in the vents.
I don't know where the vents go to, but if you see any vent
areas up there, just be careful, that's all.
I mean I'm counting 12345. There are several.
Okay, be careful.
Well, they got grates on them, so I think we're all we're all
right. Just another quick examine of
this body, the the the, the tears and the slashes, Do they
look mechanical or do they look like, is there any way I could
tell if it's like straight up this was like a claw or
something else? It's definitely cyberware.
OK, that's what I assumed. Your little device does a little
scan and it's definitely cyberware serrated.
A cop walks into the bathroom behind you.
Doctor. Yes.
I don't mean to impose, but it is like a big party night, you
know, October 1st. So it just do you have time to
look at some more bodies? Are there more just?
Yeah, just, you know, to. Where?
Where are they? They're outside the front.
We could, like, avoid panic. Just.
Be great. Stop this party if there's all
these people, yeah. But if they come outside, then
they'll see all the blood. OK, let me take a look.
That would be excellent. I'm going to entertain everybody
on the inside. I've got like a good 10 minutes
of stand up that I've been preparing.
Typed in. It's really good.
It's it's like the underground, right?
Anyway, it's not important. There's there were dead people
here. So the captain's outside and
just because the doctor Dave didn't didn't pick up.
And it's it's on party nights, he's usually drunk.
So if you could just take that spot, you'd be saving us a lot
of money that we don't want to spend on anybody else.
OK, that was a lot of explanation.
I'm going to just go look at the bodies.
Bebe you walk through the the building as people are
questioned by the police. Hey.
Bebe, how's that dead going? Bendel hits retro.
Hi, Yeah, we're doing the Thriller dance for later, right?
And we're all going to pretend we're dead zombies.
That's that's right, there's only one dead body.
And as Vivi makes their way out, Iona and Jeb, you're on the roof
for a perception. Jeb, while you're leaning over
the roof to have a look, you roll a crit fail and fall off
the roof. It is only one story.
You are not really going to get that hurt, but you have fallen
off the roof. Oh, hurt my tailbone.
Oh, that was. Round you are now on top of the
roof on your own and Jeb is now on the ground.
Jeb, Jeb, well, on the on the brat side, now I can move my,
my, my joking around so that. Right.
Like I don't know what you're talking about.
Did you, did you hit your head on the way down?
Are you OK? Hey my butt.
You know, I really I should have spread.
I should I should have spread you.
Lose. One HP I should have spread my
arm around wings you. Do you do got wings, Jeff?
Do do I still need to be up here then?
Is it turned on? Are we done?
And as as you do that, a police officer and VV come round the
corner and they're standing near a dead body looking at you in
this dead end alley near a body. I'm a bird.
I'm a I'm a vulture. Happy Halloween.
Y'all all right? Yeah.
And I've walked past them. You walked past Phoebe.
Yeah. I'm, I'm, I don't say anything.
I was like, you know what? No.
Sir. If you could just.
You're in a crime scene. I need to now talk to you.
Oh, no, Yeah, yeah, I I saw it. I I just came.
I just came up here. I'm a little late to the party
here. You want to see my I got?
I got my invitation right here. Jeff, did you know that there
were bodies up here? No.
OK. I just got here I think.
It's been OK for me to beep my head out.
Honestly, I thought this was decoration for the party.
I, I thought, I thought this was all, you know, Oh, spooky dead
body. No, this is a real dead body.
Oh, that's bad. People are dying.
There's a killer on the loose. There's a wolf killer on the
loose. You.
Hear that, Officer Wolf? Killer on the loose?
There's a bigger, bigger face to fry.
We're. Trying to reduce panic so if you
could just move the body into the alley so nobody would see
it. Hit the wrong person but.
Wait. OK, Yeah, Jeb, Iona, just don't,
don't say anything to the rest of the party for now.
Although this is very concerning.
Just keep keep your eyes peeled. I'm going to examine these
bodies. All right, you examine the body.
I assume it's a similar a similar Yeah MO.
Very. Yeah.
The neck has been bitten and a large chunk of it has been
pulled out. A large part of the right arm
has been chewed up and the body has been torn apart by what
seems to be metal claws. Officer, this is this is all the
same. There's somebody who is serially
killing people like this and they may very well be these
bodies are not that long dead. They, the people of this party
are in danger. We need to do something right.
Well, just I have one more body to show you.
Oh my God. Mean.
Are you kidding me? No, I I don't care about dead
bodies. Also, Sir, I believe you are too
dumb. Too dumb.
This. So if you could just come with
us. I mean, I don't know about too
dumb, I I mean. If he doesn't have any the cyber
cyberwear that would even allow him to do this, this is you.
Know maybe I got some sort of claw or something I could get
and and and or maybe maybe you. Trying to incriminate yourself,
is that help? Me just and I, I wanted to do
what I could do it. I don't really.
Anyway, so here's the other body, and by far it's the most
gruesome quad. When you look over to the other
side of the Hillview as he walks you across Jeb.
Raw perception. I'm hanging out with them.
And as you, you were talking to them and they're walking.
He's cut. He he's very difficult
questioning. Yeah.
Well, see, I'm just saying that you see this.
I got, I got this. And also roll resist torture
drugs because you're around a lot of blood.
Oh. Oh yo.
And in front of you, in front of you, Vivi, while Jeb is sniffing
the air and looking around. Jeb, you are really hungry.
You failed that, Jack. Oh God.
BB you notice Jeb start to walk towards the large pool of blood
in front of you. The thing about this bullet
though is it's a little different than the other one
because they're on the ground. Written like finger paint.
Are the words so hungry? So hungry.
Oh no. I could just I make.
Jeb. Jeb Frick.
I'm just, I'm just going to lean over real quick.
Just get. I.
Just just fucking punch him. Punch.
Him in the face. I'm going to sleep dart, sleep
dart. Fuck it, I'm just gonna.
Sleep dart. Excuse me, Sir, I just need to
do this really quick. I'm a doctor and he has a
condition that I need to take care of immediately.
I take out I pull out my stun gun and put a sleep dart in it
and shoot it at Jeb. All right, roll for it. 19 Jeb,
do you want to watch this? Oh, I guess not.
What, what, what the hell was in?
And Jeb falls to the ground and will be asleep for the next 5
minutes. He is now just fainted on the
ground. Oh.
Oh, my blood, huh? It's it's yeah, yeah, I and it's
for for the his own good. He'll be up in a one the.
Craziest reactions when they see blood.
If you wouldn't mind, Sir, would you mind just taking him, the
sleeping man and bringing him toward the door?
Sure, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll drag him over onto a bench over
here. Thank you.
Your forensics thing.
OK, OK, so this body is mauled, I assume?
Yep. And so hungry.
So hungry. What the what does this mean?
Yeah, I'm going to. I'm going to just keep an eye
out around this. Does this body look like it's
the oh, I see it up there. I see.
Ah, Oh my gosh. It's sprawled out everywhere.
My gosh. OK, Yeah, OK.
Well, this is bad. Is that your medical opinion?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is we need to find who this
is because the the amount that they've killed in just this one
area is alarming. 6 bodies so far, shut the fuck up. 6 bodies.
OK, that's extremely alarming. We need to, we need to find
them. They're probably we need to
check all the vents. All right, you got to check the
vents. There's one on the side of the
building. Oh boy.
Hey guys, this killer has killed 6 people in this vicinity.
We need to, we need to do, we need to get this shit done and
like get everybody the fuck out of here because people are going
to die. Just saying.
Jeb slowly starts to wake up and just the the his tongue kind of
just lapse at the blood that he's laying in.
No, no, you wake up on a bench. Oh yeah, Jeb, you wake up on a
bench and in front of you is a man in a trophy hat.
Oh, oh, are you? Oh, you must be dressed as a
Sherlock Holmes or something. No, Happy Halloween, Right?
So I'm a little. You're jabbed the racer, right?
Huh. You jabbed the racer.
Right jab. That's got a good ring to it.
Yeah, I suppose I am, but I know I'm not.
No, I'm not. I'm, I'm.
I'm Sloan. See.
And he springs his, he spreads his arms out.
See, I got wings and and the bike, the paper, my shape.
I mean like the bike puts. His hand out.
We should chat. Sure.
What are we doing now? Well, I'm going to check the
door to the roof to see if I can get down, yeah.
There's a hatch above the bathroom.
The. Hatch was about I would like to
jump down. Cool.
Yeah, there's no one around you. Look at the Hatch.
Drop into the bathroom. Roll Athletics.
No. 15 Good enough? Yes, you land and you do not
break your costume. All right, Vendel Retro, where
are you? We're in the, we're in the main
area with, with the collector. Yep, Yep, Yep.
We're in here. It's really, really boring.
Can we just get the fuck out of here?
This is like, this sucks. I I want to go and do something.
This, this is really, really boring.
Now we're just sitting here not doing anything.
This. I've I've I've asked for our
car. Where are you?
Can you speed up with this?
I'm in the main room, I'm looking for you.
But what a load of fun costumes this was.
This probably was a very fun party.
Did you 2 have very much fun? It was loads of fun before the
dead bodies. Yeah.
Yeah, I can imagine. Well, should we just should we
just leave? Should we leave?
I suppose the mass hysteria really isn't our problem.
Well, we didn't do it, so we're we're good.
Well, we just don't say anything about the bodies and just
meander our way out. Right.
It's not like any of us would have, you know, gone and said
they were going to help the cops out or something like that.
We can just get the hell out of here.
Sure. All right.
Let's go. Go outside, go outside.
Well, I'll, I'll, I'll see you later.
I'll, I'll stay here and report back.
Anything else? Happens.
Thank you, darling. Well before we go, can can you
give me a hook up before we go? That's all I have, darling,
That's all I got. Oh come on man, you made it seem
like it. Was happy Halloween.
And you walk out of the hill view.
Leaving leaving the area in a tiny bit of hysteria.
As you walk outside, Jeb is standing next to a man wearing a
trophy hat. Oh yeah, the one that has the
queen energy. And I, I told you I I came up
and the dead body was already there.
And I mean, I will admit it smelled great, but I didn't do
nothing. Well, here's the thing.
I saw a man run that way during the fireworks.
Which way? That way, huh?
West, yeah. And I mean, was he maybe scared
of the fireworks? No, my sources say.
I'm sorry to say this might be your fault.
My my fault. Oh no.
Fuck. Night City.
If you look at a map of North America, somewhere on the
western edge you'd see an inky black dot with fingers pressing
into the side of the continent. That's where you find Night
City. And somewhere in the middle of
that inky black dot is a giant smoking hole, like the universe
itself drew iron and shot straight through the city.
Radiation turned the sky red, but our story starts a little
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later tunes. I know exactly what this.
Is. God damn it.
You're now in the van. You're in Vanna White with this
guy. Are all of us in the van with
the gun? You're all in the van.
You've all you've left the Hillview behind.
The police continue their reports.
They've taken a report from you VV.
They may call you later. OK.
And you're in Vanna White with this guy.
So you said this may be our fault, Detective?
Yeah. Care to elaborate?
Well, I'm Detective Rothko. My sources are desperate.
However, I was hired by a a family member of a hot dog
vendor because he went missing a few months ago and the only two
things I've really been able to find are one, that he may have
rented an apartment in South Nite City, 2 they may have got a
lot of augmentations, and three, that no latency keeps on coming
up. Come coming up hell, like he
just loves us and he keeps talking about us and how cool we
are and how handsome that that one guy.
Is nothing linked, nothing firm, but my the last gang that one of
the main maelstroms came up against were you guys.
What I don't know what to talk about.
Chop shop, bunch of other stuff. I can't think of any time I was
in a chop shop. And the only lead I have on this
guy is that he owed a lot of money to those guys.
Word on the street is you guys took them out.
So to who out? Sorry.
The maelstrom. Maelstrom.
All of them, huh. A.
Large chunk, maybe not. All, not all.
That. Damn it specific gang the they
were owed a lot of money by this hot dog vendor called Arthur.
Does ring a bell, Sorry. I mean, to be honest, if our
name keeps coming up, that doesn't necessarily mean that
it's us. You know, sometimes some people
just like to say stuff. I mean, you're just hearing the
name, you don't have any proof. And at the same point, like even
if it was potentially us, we if we were to potentially have done
that, it could have just been a complete coincidence that maybe
it was something other that had to do with him.
And he just kind of was, you know, got the the benefit of us
checking out his eyes. So that doesn't necessarily want
to do with it. Is we don't have anything to do
with it? Yes.
Right. So it's just a coincidence.
I'm sure. OK, well unless you have
anything else to tell me, I'll be on my way.
Yeah. Did they did, did they say
anything about anybody in particular or just kind of no
latency as like a as a group? You know, there was a one in
particular that they were there is.
Some footage of your van being nearby, St. cams stuff that took
me a few months to get hold of but.
Yeah, so, so not exactly. There, but it's weird that I've
seen this van more than once. I see it almost every day.
That's funny. We'll be in touch.
And he opens the side of the van and closes it.
Hold on. Wait.
Can you wait You? See him walk away towards the
West. God damn it, did anyone get his
badge number? Damn name badge number,
douchebag. Am I right guys?
No, I mean like, did anybody, did he ever show anybody a
badge? No.
He actually part of NCPD? Is he just a private detective?
He could be. And at least had a license, but
nobody. We should have got us
credentials. You're right.
Yeah, we could. We could, we could, we could
search him. We could look him up in the
garden. You know what, Yeah, I'm pulling
out my tile. I'm trying to go ahead and do a
search and I'll connect it to my face so that way whatever
displays can pop up. Great.
I'm seared. What would be a good one?
Just because I think it'd be funny, yes.
Detective Roscoe Private. Investigator or PIXNCPD?
Current employer unknown. See folks, Library search does
come in handy. So you can do at your local
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No, please run an ad for the local library Dad, please.
There's a lie you can do at your local library.
Check out books, check out movies.
Get this, you can even check out media using the Internet.
All you got to do is roll. Roll on down to your favorite
local Public Library and they'll hook you up with one of them
magical library cards. It's free.
Some of them have video games. Yeah, it's true.
And you can even print things. Some of them even have 3D
printers. It may be the first time you see
a printer in your entire life. I'd be the last.
Jim, how much would this cost to?
Get this, it's totally free, paid for work by you, the
taxpayers. Oh fuck, I should pay my taxes
anyway. Hey, So what do we think's going
on? I mean seems to me pretty clear
as a guy I went cyber psycho mod modified his entire body to look
like some sort of wolf thing. Maybe he was inspired by the the
terrifying and probably true stories of the the man, the men,
wolves that are out in the Badlands.
Do you all think this has something to do with, oh, I
don't know. Yes, Uh huh.
Go ahead. Because it does.
Well, absolutely. Oh, we can just say it because
we all know what it is, but maybe we'll all say it on three.
It all has to do with 123. Body feel.
By Jeb. Body feel by it.
Oh, sorry, hold on a second. Retro where?
Wait, why did you get out of the van?
Why did you get out of the van? Retro.
Where are you going? Rocher's just walking down the
street. He's been dramatic.
So a body feel bite, OK, we this is yes, this is definitely a
consequence of that, a reaction. No.
Oh no. Is this the consequences of our
actions? The consequences of our actions,
unfortunately. Where are you saying body feel
bite turned this person into a some sort of man?
Wolf, he may already have had some sort of level of cyber
psychosis or that was already there and the body feel bite
might have enhanced that or just made that a made make that come
out more basically. And we gave him a bunch of money
to change his face. Who knows if he spent it all on
just his face? And the more cyberware you have,
the worse it is. You get more and more lose
yourself. And he may have totally lost
himself. Lost in the sauce, as they say.
But how do we know? But how do we know which part,
if you'll buy it, That's that's making him Sacco?
Did you take scans of the blood? Oh, I did.
I did scan. Well, I I I scanned at least one
of them. So yes, I can take a set, take
the sample and see. You open up your little Med
scanner and roll a medical check to see if you can detect it.
Multiple blood samples detected. Trace trace amounts of custom
compound body body fuel. Bite, bite, bite, bite detected.
Yep, that confirms it. It is in fact tainted with body
fuel bite. Shit.
This is yeah, he he has the thirst for blood and has some
sort of cyber psychosis. That plus that equals bad combo.
He turned into a wolf man, wolf cyber man that's killing people.
We need to, we need to find this and stop him and rectify and do
we do some damage. Clean up that we tried to save.
That feels unfortunate. The hot dog guy.
Retro did warn us.
What cool thing did you find inside of the vending machine?
Railroad, Railroad, railroad. Go ahead and roll for for what's
in the vending machine then. I was trying to find something
good but all they have is this seasonal candy corn kibble.
I'll take it, I'm sure. So I'll appreciate that I'm
here. I'm retro, I think.
I think it's important for us to point out that while you were
outside of the van, we worked out that you were right.
I mean, I know I typically am, but about what this time?
Hey, you remember the hot dog guy?
God fucking damn it. What the fuck?
I I said it. I said it.
What did I say? Fucking covenant vampires.
This is what we're fucking starting around here.
God fucking damn it. No.
No, it's not a vampire, it's a wolf man.
All right, well look, see I fine I guess then that shows that I
am human and I'm not a God because I was wrong for the
cryptic creature, but still it I what the fuck?
I know, I know. We we have to do damage control.
Also, if we didn't recognize him when we saw him, that means that
he changed his face, so that's harder.
But we told him to because he looked like the fucking the the
doctor dude. Right, but now he's a monster
and we don't know what he looks like.
Wait, hold on. We did.
I gave him money. You did a lot.
So that means I know where his bank is.
Yes. I, I, I'm going to go into my
banking, my banking app and see where I sent that money to.
You see an account number. Make out what bank?
That is OK. You see an account.
Number. All right.
I would like to try to see if I can.
Can I determine what the bank is from that account number?
Yeah, the code is, is like a fingerprint.
So it's it's Knight City Bank, it's one of the regular bank.
Banks I'd like to try to hack it and see if I can get into his
account to see what his recent purchases have been.
Go for it. Sure. 31 Yes, you get an
itemized bank statement and you see a few things.
One, a large payment to a facial reconstruction, literally
labeled facial reconstruction, but the cheap option, and then a
few more payments for cyberwear quote UN quote and installation.
And then third, a rent payment for a building called Flow
Apartments 13. All right, everybody.
So I was able to double back, figure out his bank, and then I
hacked his account also. Well, since I'm in that account,
I'd like to go ahead and just put it on hold.
Freeze it for right now. Sure.
You roll 31. I'll let you do that.
Yeah, he can't get no money out. Sure.
So I I found out where he got his face changed, I found out
where he got cyberwear, and I think I figured out his address
because I have rent. Do we want to check all three or
do we just want to go to the place where the fuck is living?
I vote for where the fuck is living?
I mean, I guess we can take the spooky season to him.
Ayona. I think that that's fantastic.
That's probably the best place to find him, unless he's just
prowling the streets. So let's go Jeff roller driving
him. 28 yes, you managed to leave without any of the cops
noticing noticing you. You did actually have to roll
pretty high for that. None of them stop you, and you
also don't get a ticket for standing in a loading Bay for
like 20 minutes. You drive to flow apartments. 13
roll. 20 added a party feature. It's very cool.
Party feature. So you can now select all of the
dual players in one group, right click, select them as a party
and then on any map you can say place party and it will move
everyone to that page and focus on that location.
It's really cool. Well.
That's nice. And you're outside of Flow
Apartments 13? I checked the venue missions.
This place looks like shit. It also smells like shit.
Role sanitization. Thank you and.
One of the vending machines you find a single skill chip for 500
days oh very good sanitizer Alayana, you are very clean
you're. Very clean a.
Single skilled chip of any skill.
Yes, and not at times too skilled because those are more.
I mean, yeah, I'll buy that, sure.
What skill do you want? I would like the skill of what
am I? You know what I would like?
No, I was, I was going to say resist torture drugs, but I'm
still high, so that's not going to work.
I would like contortion. You got it.
You have a contortion chip. It'll give you +2 to that, sorry
+4 to that skill if it is 0 all. Right before I do go it, was
that the only thing in there or was there like any random bobs
and? Roaming AD 6.
I'd like to see if there's just any kind of electronics in there
whatsoever. I see nothing One.
No, the only thing you find is the sculpture.
OK shit. Well, it's still good fine
though. Yeah, very.
And you're outside one of the doors to this building.
As you drove around it, you saw at least three.
All right, well, what do we know?
What apartment he's in? Do we just go in?
Can you trace the, I mean they probably maybe access their bank
account from their towel well in their in their apartment and
maybe, maybe we can track them via Wi-Fi.
That's really smart. Thanks.
I saw. I just noticed that it says.
It says right here, free Wi-Fi in every room on the on the
side. Oh, Jeb, lead the way.
Oh God. We have to track the Wi-Fi which
is which is you retro. Oh yeah, that's right.
Me. Jeb can't smell Wi-Fi.
He can smell blood. Yeah, and sometimes.
You might be able to smell the blood on on him.
Take a whiff. Raw.
Perception, now that you mention it, there is kind of this
interesting, almost like a, like a, like a.
Raw perception. 32 You do smell blood to the east through the
building. Through the building.
Hold on, hold on. I'm a foul man.
What do you smell? What is?
It boy, that's a window. You go up to a window, it's a
one way window and you it's not there.
It's it's, it's definitely in the building more.
It jumped. The doors over here open.
Come on, Toucan Sam, let's go. This way over here.
I just sorry, sorry. I it's got this fascinating
aroma. It's almost like a it smells
like you would think wet dog tastes.
Oh. That doesn't seem at all
appetizing. Well, that's where you're wrong.
You just. Stepped into this dank, messy
one story apartment building and inside you can see dirt and
grime on the ground. All of these apartments seem
like they're almost exactly the same.
There are three vending machines in this corridor and at the very
end, Jeb, you can smell blood coming from the east kind.
Of looks like your apartment retro, it's coming from down the
hallway. It's definitely getting getting
a little bit strong, stronger. Oh man, I'm getting hungry.
I'm right behind you, Jeb. Roll, resist, torture drugs.
Yeah, I can see that one coming. In fact, I did.
I set you up perfectly. As you turn around the corner on
the final intersection of this building, you're all A12 on
resist torture drugs, and although you're able to resist
most of it, you do. Put your hand down to the ground
where you see a little dried blood in the shape of a
footprint. Pick it up.
Lick it. This is this now I imagine that
I can taste slash smell the difference between the smell
that I've been him our our our our perp yes, and maybe a victim
is this is this perp blood or victim blood?
It's it doesn't taste like a victim.
It has that distinctive twang of your own.
And by that I mean it has body feel bite in it.
That's what you point out. Wait a minute.
This this blood. This ain't this ain't the
victim's blood. This is his blood.
Yeah. It's got that kind of sour taste
that Body Fuel bag gives you. As you ingest the blood because
it's body fuel bite, you do heal to HP I'm.
Going to lift my fingers. The cut on your hand finally
seals up right before your eyes. Well, that's convenient.
Yeah, it's not like someone that has body fuel bite, if they were
to bite someone else that passes on, right.
No, no, they have to drink it will consume it first.
Yeah, see, that's why I went with the vampire thing.
Why would you? You know, it's not like
werewolf. We just have to get bit.
You have to like literally ingest the blood.
I think we're more referring to the way that they were killed,
but yeah. OK, let's keep.
Let's keep going. Well, I is this it?
This door? That's where the blood trail
leads. It could very well be.
Is that the apartment that the rent is paid that I noticed the
rent was paid to? You check the little barcode on
the door and scan it and it matches the barcode in the bank
statement. This is this is supposedly is
his place. Do we knock?
You rattle the door. It is locked.
I mean are we going to breach and clear this song bitch or?
We might as well. We might as well.
Well, maybe let's kind. Of breach and clear in some
time. Well, let's take a more measured
approach if reaching clear, how about that, OK.
All right, I'm listening. Because we don't know if there's
other like, you know, this apartment building.
And as much as I remember about apartment buildings, sound
carries like a motherfucker around here because all the
concrete. So how about we pick the lock
and then Jeb, you just be there with the guns ready if
something's there when I open the door?
All right, I like that. Jeb.
You take a step back from the door as Retro steps in front of
you, still dressed like a pirate.
Yeah, I'm still dressed like slow.
Retro pick lock. I haven't met the chest I
couldn't crack. Oh, like a pirate.
That's very funny. Oh, they were talking about
never mind. Bad joke.
Bad joke. 23 You unlock the door.
Silent. It clicks open.
All right. You ready, Jeb?
I'm ready. On the count of R12R.
Oh, that's not OK. The door bursts open and you
barrel inside to an empty room. I'm doing the classic like, you
know, 22 my my 2 revolvers on either side like sweep in the
area, chicken left, chicken right. 24 All right, Yeah,
Pulling a good Mark Wahlberg. Gotcha.
Is it is, is the is the coast clear?
BB I think the coast is clear. Seems clear.
OK. I'm going to keep your GAR.
Work my latex gloves onto my hands.
Thank you. Excellent.
Yes, and I'm going to open this door.
You open up the bedroom door. It's clean.
The bed hasn't been slept in recently.
It's a little dusty in here. The room you left, though,
smells faintly of blood. Do I see anything outside of the
bedroom window? You see a dumpster in the alley?
Anyone can roll perception. Who's in the main room?
Oh good. Quick question, what is the box
that says NC? That is a manhole cover.
Thank you. Welcome.
Perception 19 VB You see a trail of blood leading towards the
bathroom. You're old, high enough that you
almost but have not stepped in it.
Well, I'm going to check the bathroom.
Oops. I'm going to, oh, shoot, we need
to get in there, Will. Did I see anything?
You're old perception 31 You see that the vending machine has
been emptied of any kind of meat product, that the fridge was
left open, and that there is blood on the ground and
handprints on the door. Oh.
Shit. It's gruesome in here.
Yeah, they don't look good. Vivi, have you tried knocking?
I don't think knocking is the move here, I think we need to
break in. It's a it's a bathroom like that
is a very private area. There's blood coming from below.
If somebody was in there, if it was occupied, I don't think
it's, I don't think it's occupied anymore.
OK, fine, I will. I'll help you open the door.
But if there's somebody in there that's using it, you owe a big
damn apology. Fine.
You know I'm usually right. You have been these last couple
of times, I will admit. As you step next to the bathroom
door, you notice that not only has the vending machine been
opened, it's been smashed open and it's broken.
Oh boy. Oh.
OK. That doesn't make me feel any
better, but yeah, Phoebe, Are you ready?
I'm ready. I hold my gun on my side and I
pull it out just in case. The fucker's in there.
Don't want to bite me. I'll.
Try my best. 19 Yes. You unlock the door again,
silently. It clicks softly.
Do you open the door? I don't.
Yes, I I open it slowly, Phoebe. As you open the bathroom door
slowly, before you is a very bloody sight.
A man wearing AT shirt with a hot dog on it has a big metal
jaw and he's lying at the very back of this bathroom, his body
limp, gaunt like he's been drained, his face stuck in a
forever screaming expression of pain in a pool of what you
assume is his own blood. The man you were looking for is
dead. Was there somebody in there
peeing or not? He's, he's the one we're looking
for. The wolf.
He's he's dead. He's dead.
Oh, that's good. If he's dead, then who is doing
all of the killing? Oh yeah, I can see where you
were eating carpet. I don't want the fiber Jeb.
Are you so hungry right now? Wait you guys gave body fuel bad
to domino? He's munching carpet right now.
What are you? What are you saying?
I don't see anything wrong with that.
It's not hurting anyone. There probably is some level of
cyber psychosis as well in this. You're going to call Fred?
Well, I was thinking you first. You're here unavailable, are you
not? Given the nature of all of his
installments. Did we check to see how he died?
So he was well, vampires don't exist.
Oh God. Strange rogue Ripper dock.
Somebody knocking turn off the lights.
Well, that settles that. He can't know where in here.
I can't believe I did it. Damn.
Oh, I feel like that was the sneakiest I've ever been in my
entire life. I shall deduce.
Yeah, I'm just, I'm just thinking about all of this and I
feel like I might be responsible for some of this.
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