Final Investigation

[airlockedmods]

[It's been about 24 hours since CT was killed. Blaze has made no other moves, and his robots are mysteriously absent.

In fact, it's almost too quiet.

But then there's a note in Pyrrha's PIP that...she didn't write.]

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[power_of_dominance]

[Dammit. So much for sending out a distress call. So is there anything else of interest in here, since Fukawa covered the other terminals?]

[airlockedmods]

[Fukawa has the only other terminal of interest, but there's a datapad sitting out on one of the navigation consoles.]

[power_of_dominance]

[Something he can handle, since they probably have similar tech in his time. He'll pick that up and see if he can find anything interesting on it.]

[airlockedmods]

[There's a list of names accompanied by brief notes:]

Narcoleptic - No. Put up the license plates without anyone around. Too selfless.
Huntress - Probably not but not willing to rule her out. Tough girl, polite. Can see why Scrags left his spare with her.
Butterfly - Unlikely.
Price - No. It ain’t dumb enough to put itself in a position of authority.
Farmer - Hope not, took food from her. Made her some, too. Like old times.
Empathy - Not rulin’ it out.
Stalker - Maybe not. Not sure it'd bother doing two pers

[It's unfinished.]

[power_of_dominance]

[Well, Soma definitely understands what this is. The fact that his title isn't on there bothers him a bit. Could he have ended up in CT's place?

There's a good chance that if he was mortally wounded, he'd revert completely. Even Dudely doesn't deserve to have the king of vampires ripping him to shreds.

Anything else on the datapad before he pockets it for later?]

[airlockedmods]

[Not too much on it right now.

But it does seem to be registered as a valid device on the ship's internal network. You could transfer all the information you've found in these terminals to it - you know, if you needed to share it with people at some kind of final trial or something.]

[power_of_dominance]

[Yeah he's gonna sync this iPad ver. 502 so he has all the data from the terminals. Handy reference material for discussions with the others... hooray for finally being useful!

Of course, he hears the log Toko plays, followed by Toko and Price's conversation. The word Airlocked jumps out at him.]

Price, you're saying someone lured Dudely to us so he'd take over the prison?

[thecounselor]

The coordinates he was given match our exact location when he found us. Which means, not only was it someone who knew our heading, but it was someone who knew how long it would take him to find us.

[He looks. Very quietly, simmeringly, fucking pissed.]

[power_of_dominance]

So they wanted this to happen. The takeover, the killing game... it was all planned. They used Dudely like a weapon to kill us.

[Someone's eyes are glowing red. You're not the only one who's super pissed, Price.]