The Last Equation - Scene 1 - NJ - The Crime Scene

[christopher knowles]

Sam, Clive and Bennett:

You arrive at the crime scene, just off New Jersey Highway 6, and step out of the rented car. It's now around 7pm and the light is starting to fade. The air is cool, though slightly humid.

As you step out of the car, a bright light blinds you, and feel something shoved into your faces. Clive, you realise that it's a boom mic, of the kind used by TV reporters.

You are confronted with a tall man with dark hair and tanned skin, wearing a dark blue suit. He's handsome in a sort of 50's TV actor kind of way. He seems to be backed up by a camera man and a mic operator.

"Enrico Save, Channel 6 News! What really happened here? Do the authorities have any leads? Why has nothing been disclosed to the press? Do you have any comment?"

[OOC: En-route, I will assume you all looked at your fake documents: Adam - you are Agent Michaels, Ash you are Agent Marcus and Bert you are Agent Marvin for the duration of the operation - DG operates on a cell system and you are M-Cell.]

[ridinghood]

"We are currently assessing the situation and i am sure information will be disclosed as the situation is fully analysed. Now if you will excuse me I would like to actually have a look at the scene, if you are looking for more information I suggest you enquire with the local police press officer who I am sure is briefed with the relevant information for disclosure"

I walk on to look for the local police officer.

[wiggles]

I drop back and talk to the reporter quietly before heading in. 'Meet me at whatever dive they call a bar at the university in a few hours. I may have some more details for you.'

[willthewolfmantew]

if at some point I am with the "guys" i will disclose all of the contents of the stashed locker and suggest the nazi bullets could be used to implicate the nerd in some sort of neo computer nazi organisation and also use this as the love scene for the two we are trying to set as romantics or make it seem like a drug related incedent (he was cracked out of his face.)


stashed locker is as follows..
* 3.5g of cocaine in a small baggie (i.e. an eightball), stored in a small clear evidence bag.
* two .45 semi-automatic handguns, with the serial numbers filed off.
* One box of German made 9mm rounds. The box looks pretty old and dated. For some reason, they seem to have swastikas engraved on the nose of each round.
* 4 rubber Richard Nixon masks. One has what appears to be blood spattered on it.
* One set of surgical tools, inside a clear evidence bag. They are splattered in a thick, black liquid. You aren't sure what this is. There is a bone saw, a rib spreader, and a scalpel.
* $2000 in used, non-sequential bills.
* A jar with a human sized webbed, clawed, hand, preserved in formaldehyde.

[christopher knowles]

The reporter gives Sam a nod, and passes him a business card. It's slightly off-white with an eggshell texture, with his name, phone number and email address in embossed Times New Roman [OOC: yes I am doing the horrendously detailed business card description purely as a homage to American Psycho] and slopes off back to the van. By now the crime scene has largely been mined for decent shots for the evening news in any case.

The Ridgeway House itself is 3 stories, with a basement level. It looks like it was built in the inter-war period, around the 1920's.

The first trooper you run into is a Trooper Thomas Blanet, a NJ State Trooper. He has big muscular arms, and a pretty big chest, but also a big beer belly. He has close cropped, black hair, starting to get some grey. He needs to see some ID to let you on to the scene, and to get you up to speed, but then would be happy to catch you up. The lead FBI investigator, Agent Canor, is back at the office right now, but Sheriff Weeks might still be around. For the most part the officers working the scene, along with the techs, appear to have have rolled out for the evening, leaving a pair of feds and a few state troopers guarding the scene.

[willthewolfmantew]

(ooc am i there yet? if so) hmm trooper Blanet, has the place been sweeped yet, has any evidence been removed or contaminated? (ooc are the bodies still there or are they at the coroners? )

[Yes you arrive at this point]

[wiggles]

I flash my ID at the trooper quickly. 'Agent Marcus, My partners and I are going to need acces to all electronic items and methods of communication owned by the family and the n...suspect.'

[christopher knowles]

Blanet:

"The place has been swept, and the homicide guys have bagged and tagged the murder weapon and sent that down to evidence control. Wei's personal effects should be there too. The shooter and the victims bodies are now all at the morgue at the edge of town. Anything else should be inside the crime scene."

[wiggles]

'And I assume the victims things are here? I need to look at both, and seeing as we only get issued a single vehicle between us you're going to have to take me to the station to look ar Weis things, I'm assuming this won't be a problem?'

[willthewolfmantew]

(ooc right i think we need some crime scene descriptions starting with the room with the numbers and then the murder rooms assuming they all weren't in the same room)

[christopher knowles]

The living room is largely unremarkable. It's a simple room, with walls carefully wallpapered in a warm brown evocative of cocoa and a floor that's plush white carpet.

Upon entering the kitchen, however, the smell of blood and cordite hits you. The floor is tiled linoleum, and the walls are an off-white colour. On the floor you can see five outlines drawn in indelible marker, with blood smatters moving outwards from each outline, covering the floor and walls. Dried blood covers the floor under each outline. Shell cases litter the floor. Upon examination there are fourteen shell casings on the floor. The walls and door are damaged, having been sprayed with buckshot and slugs during the shooting, and you manage to recover several of each kind of ammunition.

There also seems to be one shot which was aimed away from the victims, and hit the old cooker in the kitchen. It's big, and tan coloured, with an LCD clock on it, which now seems to have stopped since the stove was shot.

[OOC you'll have to let me know whether you want to keep searching the kitchen, move on to the rest of the ground floor, the basement, upstairs etc. At the moment I've stopped you in the first location where there is anything of interest.]

[willthewolfmantew]

officer exactly how many firearms were used? (to the others not the officer) looks like someone was shooting at something else. (ooc is there any way we can determine which gun shot the cooker in the kitchen using a roll of some kind?) and after all this im going to find out whats in the kitchen and backdoor if there is one (basically following my theory that someone ran out through the kitchen and avoided being shot) checking for blood on any surface.

[bigberty]

flash my id. agent marvin wheres the can?

[wiggles]

'If it's only one bullet I'd say its not the shotgun. But the thing is, did he miss? Or was he aiming for someone else?' I also kneel down to look at stopped clock to see the time on it. 'What time was the incident reported?'

[christopher knowles]

Will:

Examining the cooker, you can see that it was shot with buckshot, from a shotgun. The officer at the scene, Blanet, confirms that as far as they know only a single gun, a shotgun was used in the massacre.

The back door, leading out from the kitchen is closed. There's blood on the inside of the back door but not the outside, and a bloody hand print, but it does not seem to have been opened as far as you can tell.

[OOC, since you passed the idea roll I just did - you could ask if all the family are accounted for and how many shooters the police think there were. Or for a copy of the file with this information in]


Ash:

The victims bodies were found towards the back wall of the kitchen, towards the back door. It looks like they were trying to escape and were gunned down. The cooker sits at 90 degrees to that wall so the lay out is:



This leaves two possible conclusions:

a) The shooter shot at someone and they dived right, and then he got them after missing the first time.

b) The shooter was shooting at something other than a person.

The clock is stopped at 2:28:13 P.M.

Bert:

Upstairs, down the hall and first on the left.