"Alright, so, here's basically what we know so far," Pepper begins, reaching for one of the pages she's set out on the table. "A bunch of evidence from totally separate cases was stolen and the lock-up area was sort of trashed. It took a while to hunt everything down, and it's worth checking to see if there's anything else missing from the records, just in case."
She reads out the list of known items that were stolen: a padlock broken by bolt cutters and a confiscated journal containing family trees with a history of native magic, taken from the safe the padlock belonged to; a set of weighted dice and a bag of several hundred rhinn; and a set of forged documents that faked an official watermark.
"Now, inside the secured area, locks and seals were broken to get through them, but the keypad and lock at the entrance are completely fine. Which means whoever this was probably had the access code and maybe stole some keys," she relates, tapping a set of printed photos of the scene and the undamaged door. "On top of that, the security cams were tampered with and one of the night shift guards looks like they were drugged." Pepper lowers her voice and glances to the hallway. "And two junior officers have been out sick since the break-in. This is why my boss's boss's boss thinks it might have been an inside job. I think it's possible, but I'm not 100% convinced yet. It fits almost too well."
The redhead glances around at each of them. "We've got a couple different leads to pursue, but we don't all have to go together to follow each of them. Do you guys feel up to splitting into two groups? I'd like to go talk to the officers - they might be responsive to someone at the same paygrade as them - and taking another pass at the evidence lockup might turn up something other people missed. We can swap yimo numbers to keep in touch."
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She reads out the list of known items that were stolen: a padlock broken by bolt cutters and a confiscated journal containing family trees with a history of native magic, taken from the safe the padlock belonged to; a set of weighted dice and a bag of several hundred rhinn; and a set of forged documents that faked an official watermark.
"Now, inside the secured area, locks and seals were broken to get through them, but the keypad and lock at the entrance are completely fine. Which means whoever this was probably had the access code and maybe stole some keys," she relates, tapping a set of printed photos of the scene and the undamaged door. "On top of that, the security cams were tampered with and one of the night shift guards looks like they were drugged." Pepper lowers her voice and glances to the hallway. "And two junior officers have been out sick since the break-in. This is why my boss's boss's boss thinks it might have been an inside job. I think it's possible, but I'm not 100% convinced yet. It fits almost too well."
The redhead glances around at each of them. "We've got a couple different leads to pursue, but we don't all have to go together to follow each of them. Do you guys feel up to splitting into two groups? I'd like to go talk to the officers - they might be responsive to someone at the same paygrade as them - and taking another pass at the evidence lockup might turn up something other people missed. We can swap yimo numbers to keep in touch."