Gameplay - Bad Moon Rising Part 2

Checking through the regular department records yields nothing and there are no records of Jonny Bugatti or anyone else mentioned acting as an informant. If this is connected to a judge though, the SJS records may prove more fruitful. It will involve jumping through a lot of hoops including getting assent of Sector Chief DiMaggio.

Noss makes great headway but the SJS are notoriously secretive and it takes a lot of work and time. Di Maggio agrees to put the words in the right places and Noss's administrative skill pays off. Within a few days,you get access to the SJS records for 2106.

The SJS records show that in June os 2106, the year of the pileup that involved Johnny Bugatti, an investigation was launched into Judge Aiken Moon, following information supplied by one Anji Karter. The investigating SJS Judges were Cripps and Eckhardt, with assistance by street Judge DiMaggio - the current sector chief. Moon was arrested in July 2106, interrogated and sentenced to twenty years on Titan.

Judge Aiken Moon was taking bribes from members of the Contralto family although the money was never retrieved and Moon did not reveal under interrogation who had made the payments. Some low-level arrests resulted but nothing that would ever injure the syndicate. Video recordings of some of the interrogation sessions are available and they show Cripps and Eckhardt subjecting Moon to an incredible amount of physical punishment in a bid to make him talk.
Moon does not break once, despite the amount of brutality inflicted upon him. One memorable clip from the video shows a barely recognisable Moon, face a bloody pulp, fingers broken, spitting-out a mouthful of teeth and grinning slyly to
the camera.

Further records from the Titan Penal Archives show that Moon was amongst that rare group to survive the full term on Titan.
He was released in September 2126 with a travel permit for Earth but there the trail ends: Aiken Moon disappears.

You both know Cripps well from the academy. After being wounded in the course of duty he stepped down from the SJS and opted for a position in the Academy of Justice, becoming a tutor in Basic Applied Violence. You both remember him from as a specialist in interrogation techniques with applied violence and always seemed to enjoy his work.

He boards at the Academy, safest please he could be.

Despite all of Phaerin's best efforts, their is no trace in the system of Moon, no record of residence, no indication on cameras anywhere in the Megacity. Facial recog can run indefinately but the data pool of surveillance around the city is so huge, it could be months before you find a hit.

While looking, the Tek Judge also looks for record of Anji Karter. Records state that she left Sector 13 in 2112 to live in seclusion in the well heeled area known as Bethany Beach, one of the districts of sector 119 bordering the Black Atlantic.

Following up on this will need to wait. Shift is over.

The next day, Phaerin and Noss are summoned to the scene of a murder.

In a rancid alley in the lower levels of the city, some juves have found a body in a gruesome condition. The throat has been ripped out, the entrails torn from the abdomen and devoured and the limbs are covered in bites and scratches. When Tek and Med Division have finished with the corpse, they reach the same conclusion: definitely an animal. A big animal. A frenzied animal. Someone either has a pet klegghound or there is an awfully big, real-life dog wandering Sector 13.