Missing in Modesto - One Shot story area

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Sep 16, 2018 12:37 am
Addressing Julio, Hubert asks
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I understand that this is a very troubling situation, but we're going to have to get as much information as we can. What ages are your children? Do you recall having another sibling?
Sep 17, 2018 1:18 pm
Jack suppresses a chuckle at seeing Julio's reaction shift from anger towards him. About to make a disparaging comment about superstitious claptrap Jack opens his mouth but closes it abruptly Well they certainly seem to believe this curse stuff. Might be best to try and play nice he thinks to himself before coughing again as changing tack "So when was the last time they were seen? Location would be good to know as well. We would also need to see where they were staying, their rooms if here or accommodations if they were away immediately before they disappeared so we can start a more thorough investigation."

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Sep 17, 2018 1:29 pm
Molly adds, "And regardless of the amount of digital surveillance, I’d like a copy so I can see if we can find any clues. Who has that footage?"
Sep 17, 2018 3:48 pm
The brothers explain their children are both 8 and they don't recall having another sibling to their knowledge. The last known location was the garden behind the estate, you're given free range to check out their rooms and the playhouse. They usher in someone that seems to be in charge of security who also doesn't look to happy about this situation for Jackson to get surveillance from the house.
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Are we splitting the party? It seems so to me.
Sep 17, 2018 4:32 pm
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It does seem so. Jack is clearly looking for physical evidence, and Molly will be looking for surveillance clues and/or any evidence of tampering. It may be just Molly separating from everyone else.
Sep 19, 2018 1:04 pm
Jackson is horrified and surprised at the security system running on actual tapes for surveillance. Fortunately on request several VCRs and monitors are set up for her to review from a central location.
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Lets get a Average Computer check with a setback die due to the speed of playing, forwarding, and rewinding tapes. I think you have a talent that negates the setback though.
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For the rest of the people snooping lets get some rolls as well. Lets get some average perception checks. FYI Average checks are two purple die plus your ranks in the skill and attributes (ie melee rank 1 and brawn 2 would be gg with a g upgraded to y because of the rank in the melee skill.
Sep 19, 2018 1:20 pm
Molly settles in to see what she can spot.

Rolls

Reviewing surveillance tapes

1 Success, 5 Advantage, 4 Threat

Total: 1 Success, 1 Advantage

Sep 19, 2018 2:40 pm
Jackson takes the majority of the time while the others search to review the tapes. Fortunately she's able to watch multiple tapes playing on various TVs at once but it's mostly boring. A few things that stand out is the fact two areas seem to be decorated differently in the hallways from one another, you realize the brothers have annexed themselves off into opposing wings from one another. They do seem to be more friendly to the other siblings children than their own sibling since you rarely see them talking. You also pick up on the two of them meeting with people with a briefcases and several tubes late at night in their respective wings.
Sep 19, 2018 6:22 pm
Calvin walks out back to look at the place the kids were last seen. trying to find anything that seems out of the ordinary.

Rolls

average perception check

2 Success, 2 Advantage

Total: 2 Success, 2 Advantage

Perception Average Check

2 Threat

Total: 2 Threat

Sep 19, 2018 6:30 pm
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I'll post when I get another roll or two for the physical lookie loo crew's perception checks.
Sep 20, 2018 7:07 am
Jack wanders outside, pausing for a second to light a cigarette he turns to Calvin. "You seen anything odd let me take a photo before shifting it yeah?" he says as he pulls a very battered looking camera out of his bag and starts wandering about, seemingly taking photo's at random.
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If there's nothing else in mind for the Advantage could I bank a Boost Die for later if we're doing something where we can refer to Jack's photos of this scene to help out?"
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Rolls

Perception

5 Success, 1 Advantage, 1 Failure

Total: 4 Success, 1 Advantage

Sep 20, 2018 1:18 pm
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Sorry for the late arrival, things have been busy for me lately.
For the most of the goings on, so far, Klein has kept to himself. Watching the others, watching the brothers and just listening to the conversations. As the others begin to move about, he decides it might behoove him to actually do something since he's here. It's clear to him that he's not getting out of this anytime soon.

"I'm not really the best person to be searching rooms, but I'll lend a hand and see what turn up. I'll check out the play room."

With that, he heads to the indicated area to give the room a brief once over.

Rolls

Perception

1 Success, 2 Failure, 1 Threat

Total: 1 Failure, 1 Threat

Sep 20, 2018 2:44 pm
Denton is quite through starting at the kids rooms on opposite sides of the estate before making his way outside to the play house.

The three of you check out the 'playhouse' but with flat screen TVs, working appliances, and a screened in patio room and deck it's more of a small cottage with all the amenities one would want. Calvin finds eventually where the kids were last at since there are a setting for two with bowls of cereal, pastries, juice and coffee cups filled with chocolate milk. Denton finding out about this expands his search area around noticing the tablet under an unfolded napkin which seems to be talking about the new series of My Little Pony toys coming out. He looks for a similar one for the boy put can't seem to find one. His expanded search reveals the set of two people probably a man and a woman by the impressions of their feet coming from the forest towards the cottage. Its odd for someone to be coming from this direction not be seen but considering the forests density that would involve a lot of walking to get to just the perimeter outside from any major road.
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Noted on Denton's photo album as a boost for reference.
Sep 21, 2018 11:54 pm
Hubert is lost in thought as he attempts to catch up with the group.
Could this really be some kind of grudge from the gypsies family? If you have the resources to pull this off, why waste it on a 3rd generation grudge.
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It looks like in character creation that I didn't quite clean up correctly, i have two perception slots. I was going to clean this up but didn't want to make changes without first notifying

Rolls

Perception

4 Success, 2 Threat

Total: 4 Success, 2 Threat

Sep 23, 2018 8:27 am
"The girl had a iPad, no sign of one for the boy but given that the family seem to have more cash than sense I can’t see that they’d share one. Maybe we can track the other with it, job for Molly I think" he says to the others as he heads to take the tablet to her
Sep 24, 2018 2:35 am
Addressing Jack, as he seems to have some kind of feel for a 'crime scene'. "Do you think one of us should follow the footsteps?
Should we tell Molly where to focus her surveillance scan?"
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Sep 24, 2018 12:27 pm
Jack thinks for a minute "Let's see if Molly has eyes on this spot on any of the footage first. Footsteps might be from someone searching the area after they realised the kids were missing"
Sep 24, 2018 2:15 pm
Farnsworth can verify everything stated so far to be accurate although he doesn't find anything new. You all realize it's been a few hours of looking around outside now and Ms Jackson hasn't come out of the estate yet to check on the rest of you it seems. You make your way back into the house to see her looking between several monitors all with still images now.
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The party is back together you figure you have an hour or two of daylight left.
Sep 26, 2018 9:39 pm
Molly shows the others the late-night visitors carrying the tubes. "I think we should ask the brothers about them to see if they could have anything to do with this."

After hearing about the missing tablet, Molly asks, "Do the nannies have the account information so we can track it?"
Sep 27, 2018 9:42 am
Jack shrugs "Not asked em, can't you do your 'thing' and get into it?" as he emphasizes the word 'thing' he makes a kind of typing gesture clearly a bit out of his depth with more modern tech
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