[December 2059] Blood and Cherry Blossoms (Solo: Bailey)
Scene ends, take +1XP.
Late in the afternoon, Ruis is having minor shoulder surgery and you are back at your apartment with a fresh bowl of microwave popcorn. Your PocSec reads through the chip while you paw through an array of hard copy.
Matsume’s report reveals some notable discrepancies:
Surveillance footage: Just as Matsume revealed during your conversation, there is a long gap in the apartment’s surveillance footage. The security over-ride passcodes are a match for Uchicha’s personal codes. Everything is just like she said, the security cameras were disabled by Uchicha and as far as Matsume knew, there was no footage from the night of Sakura’s death.
Wage mage report: The corp brought in a wage mage from home office. Iwao Hotaka arrived early in the morning, completed a cursory report then caught a sub-orb back to Nippon on the same day. The mage conducted a site visit and concluded that all wards remained in place and that there were no major disturbances. The mage’s report details a thorough physical and astral inspection of the executive’s apartment.
Wait a sec… running both sets of footage side-by-side, you notice the angles are off just a bit; the camera from the Uchicha videos seems to be just a few inches higher than the Matsume footage. There must have been another set of cameras in the apartment that Matsume didn’t know about. But Matsume is a pro, there is no way she would have missed this unless someone removed the cameras before she got to investigate the apartment.
On top of that, during the time that the wage mage was supposed to doing a physical survey of the apartment, there is no one on the surveillance video. Hotaka says he checked the apartment, but the video and the corp cop access logs say the mage was never there.
Surveillance that Uchicha didn’t know about…
Someone tampering with the scene to remove the cameras before Matsume had a chance to start her investigation…
A faked mage’s report…
Looks like someone inside Genoform is going through a lot of trouble trying to cover something up.
Oh drek! Look at the time, you’re running late to make your meeting with Soares!