"THE SID CASE"
AKA
"The Shroom Incident"
Status : OPEN
File No 112007-QC3-6600102
Lovingly referred to as "the Sid case".
This is lead Detective's Lieutenant Juliet's official account of affairs.
1.7.1005 0733
I've been assigned to the case for one week, and I'm nowhere. I would have imagined that after thousands of man-hours hunting this bastard down, they'd at least know something about motive. But nothing. The guy's still some no-name soldier gone berserk. But then how is it possible? A rogue trooper acting out of some shell-shock mania would have been way too reckless, he'd have been caught and dealt with within hours. This isn't some petty theft, this guy pulled the rug out from under the entire world.
But following that particular trail of stale looking breadcrumbs is not just the best I got, it's the only thing I got. So I dig around. Going to the Military Archives, see what I can find.
1.10.1325 0145
I hate these kind of cases.
Just when I thought I had something on that slippery bastard I go and hit a brick wall. Turns out he had something to do with Ned the Chainsaw Guy during the second war. Details are fuzzy but the Council made them out to be heroes. Took down some overlord on the ice cube, but Ned was the golden boy, rest of them just got fame by association. Now usually I'd be happy, got someone I can lean on for some info about this Sid character. But Ned, he's not the type to lean on.
More like the type to lean on you.
But a lead's a lead. I'll just have to do some homework about the guy first.
3.10.1344 0067
Looks like Ned is more interesting than I had given him credit for. He's definitely more than qualified for being pegged a 'Hero of the second war' and he's not just some Council go-to boy. He has just as many citations and court marshalls in his records as he does medals. Very unusual for such an obviously wild destroyer to be put into active duty with the military. They're usually so caught up with regulations and red tape. I guess the war really was an altogether different time.
It seems it's not just the citations. His records show him MIA on multiple occasions... Only to reappear as a sole survivor of his outfit. And there are plenty of those to go through, too. Seems he was the Council's golden boy off the presses just as much as on them.
Damn...
Am I digging around about the demon that won us the war?
2.5.9854 0223
Well, it would appear the Gods have decided to grant me some grace.
After coming up empty on a couple of my favorite information peddlers down at the docks, and getting a very official sounding 'screw you' from the military boys in regards to my questions about Ned's disappearances during the war, I ran into J'kl'k "Fingers" McGready. Fingers is exactly the kind of scum who would know something about this, he's got his dirty little tentacles in just about every small time game running in the greater Abyss area.
I had the good fortune to run into him outside one of the sailor traps down by the In and Out Burger. He was pulling one of his usual scams, scalping this time I think. Either way it was enough for me to push on and get some useful info. Apparently he bumped into Ned earlier that evening, said the Chainsaw Guy's taken a shine to a new joint in the neighborhood, some place called "The Drip".
It's become pretty obvious that I'm not going to get far through whatever official information there is about the guy. Time to get down to some real policing then.
Bar tenders are especially chatty... And Ned's quite the drinker.
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7.2.0002 0901
Turns out I was right on the money with the bartender. She was something else alright.
By the time I showed up the place was already squeeky clean, but a broken bay window is sort of hard to camouflage down by the docks, lava burns hot enough to burn your retina if you stare too long. Of course, burning lava ain't near as hot or retina-burning as this chick
"Tender" introduced herself to my badge. She was the only one there, moping up the edible bikinis and puke. She was scared, scared of me. Something had gone down and I bet it has Ned's name all over it.
We talk, I'm good cop. No reason to play it otherwise, I got her scared already. Says there was a brawl, Toadie and some winged lady broke the window.
Something about a mix up over contracts. I'm not buying it was the broken window that rattled her. She's doesn't strike me as the kinda gal who'd get rattled over a bar fight.
Thats when she spills it. Doesn't even mean to, just slips out.
"Heads" she says, "but they were gone, I swear I have like, no idea where they went, I was like, hello? tending bar over here...? Then Toadie split, swear he had, like, steam coming out his ears and stuff".
And Ned?
"Look mister, I was helping the boss get up, and like, when I looked over he was like, gone."
Gee. Thanks lady.
This much though, I have got.
Toadie is definately involved. The winged lady, with any luck is some cherub on acid, or pcp.
What ever she does turn out to be, doesn't matter. Both of them are looking for the same heads.
More coming soon....