Chapter 1 - Scene 1 - Office Escape

We are starting in media res. You have gained access to her office in a debatably il-legal-ish manner. Regardless of "legality", you are definitely not supposed to be in there.

Depending on how this scene goes, we may do a flashback scene to fill in some details.

Don't forget to describe your character's appearance for everyone

Off the rack suit, and moderately priced shoes. Dressed to impress as much as his paygrade will allow, which isn't much. Still, he presents himself as professionally as he's able. If he doesn't take himself seriously, who will?

[Baxter Inc. Status 3]

What does Serenity know about this guy, his work ethic, trustworthiness, and what sort of arguments he'd be receptive to?

In your experience, Samuels has been a dedicated Baxter employee. From his tone of voice, you're get more anxiety and fear than hostility.

For as much as this is the office of the CEO, we are in a relatively small town. There has never been any credible threat to Eugenia's safety. Physical security is limited to the security badges required for entry to the building and certain areas like the labs and executive offices. As part of the corporate policy regarding Active Shooter precautions, each office is equipped with a door jam that can be used to bar the door from the inside.

I'm thinking Serenity often had arguments with Eugenia regarding the security of this place.

Gabe spends one Willpower to increase his dice pool by 3.

alright, how about a little team work here? I need you to identify a main person who will we give me a wits + investigation roll. Anyone who wants to assist said person tell me what you want to do to assist (does not have to be investigation) i will have you roll that. Any success will be added to the main rollers dice pool. A critical failure at this point will give the main roller a dice penalty.

@charles.c.cowley: you have the option to downgrade your failure to a critical fail in exchange for a beat.

Con has wits + investigation 4. I could try and wrangle Empathy as her understanding where I grandmother likes to order/keep stuff?

Wits 2 and Investigation 1 for Olivier. He could certainly assist someone.

The short answer is that the family probably could have gotten more information. The reality is that you don't. You are all kind of in the dark and no one seems to be talking. @charles.c.cowley is right. This is a mystery game and you will learn more as you go. For now, it is just important for you to take action and move forward. If I'm doing my job right, you will not have all the information you need. You will need to make educated guesses and the occasional leap of faith. I can guarantee that doing nothing will not move the story forward and won't be very fun for the group.

For the purpose of this scene, worry less about why you are in this room. You are in it. At some point in the past, your character made the choice to enter this room for a reason that made sense to him/her at the time. This cannot be undone. React and move. We'll explore later what brought you to that room if it's relevant to the story.

I am very much aware that I haven't given you much to go on yet. This is entirely on purpose. I'm expecting you to be creative and dig something up. If it makes you feel any better, there is no predefined solution here. I encourage you to do what you think makes sense and you think will move the plot forward and I will reward that with results that move the plot forward.

As of right now, it appears that Serenity is the top contender for being the main actor and rolling Wits + Investigation.

Here's my understanding of what the others are doing to assist (Feel free to correct me)
Constance: Composure + Empathy to try to connect what she knows about her grandmother to assist with the roll.
Victor: Intelligence + Computer; searching on Eugenia's computer
Olivier: Not sure what action you are planning to take here.
Gabe: Crit Fail (Wits + Investigation)

Constance & Victor go ahead and roll

Rolling Int+Computers (7) +1 die from specialization (discard the last die if it is not applicable)

two 10s and a 9 (as per merit), one of the 10 is the specialization die, so if it is not applicable discard the last die.

Those rolls aren't too bad M.Fly. Should I go ahead and roll to assist you?

Or should I say, may I hinder you? Woof! Those are some putrid rolls.