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The Case File – Mice and Murder Ep 3

The Case of the Curious Clues

Before we start, a quick plea to Grant O’Brien: Please stop finding clues. I can only take notes so fast. You’re killing me Grant. Moving on...

We start off this episode with yet another flashback, this time to the final confrontation of Sly and his supposedly dead arch nemesis Fletcher Cottonbottom at Reichenbunny Falls (...Brennan please). Fletcher was using a local castle as a storage center for munitions but Sly tipped off the cops before they could be moved. They do some repartee back and forth before Fletcher, the madman, handcuffs them together and jumps off the edge. They hit the water but Sly is able to lockpick himself out and escape while Fletcher disappears beneath the waves.

You know what I got from that story? No body.

Anyway, we jump back to the present where there *is* a body, Squire Badger’s specifically. Everyone in the room who isn’t a PC thinks that this must either be the work of ghosts or Mrs. M who was the only person in the room when it happened (allegedly).

This is a crucial time for clue gathering and Brennan keeps everyone in initiative for investigative purposes. Now, *so much* stuff happens here that I’m not going to recap every single detail--just the major clues and the things that seem relevant. I’m serious, this is like the volume of info we usually get in the once per season later game lore dump ep but it’s episode THREE.

Daisy tries to find a secret door but critically fails. She clocks Gangie, a fellow criminal, and in the moment Rekha and Katie decide that they prob have worked together in the past even though they are very different kinds of criminals.

Buck, who is outside listening to what’s going on in the room notices that his ankle knife is missing which is Concerning considering a man was just knifed to death.

Sly has Lars guard the door (he opens it and Buck is discovered, whoops) and then rolls a NATURAL 20 plus NINE to investigate so Brennan just has to tell him literally everything. RIP to him and me. Anyway, here’s the rundown (along with some of the stuff other ppl got):

Mrs. M’s hands are covered in blood but she couldn’t have done it. Based on her personality for one and for other reasons we’ll get to.

The wound is much messier than it would be if a person stabbed themselves typically.

There is a note in Squire Badger’s handwriting that says “Sylvester Cross I am afraid” No indication of if that was the whole message or if he got interrupted (maybe Buck could figure it out with his handwriting checking skills). Daisy from across the room clocks that Sly’s name is written on the paper but can’t read the rest.

The knife is a hunting knife with a pronghorn handle--an animal not common in England but very common in Texas (and Buck is sweating obv).

There is a slight layer of charcoal type dust on everything on the big resolute desk in the room (which makes sense, ash from the fireplace) but there is parchment type dust on the bust of Barkus Aurelius (OK, that one’s good) on the table and that’s the only place that dust is. Ian later notices that the date on the bust is wrong.

Speaking of, the desk (which we learn later was put in and taken out of storage once Loan Hall was modernized) is bolted to the ground and a lot of stuff has been thrown off it as if by a powerful force but Sly notices that it’s just the metal stuff like things made of silver or with screws. Stone things like the bust and other non-metal things have stayed put. Plus he smells ozone. This was the work of magnets, not ghosts, he concludes. And, for the record, Grant figured this out himself!

Mrs. M’s eyes are rapidly dilating. She is questioned about what happened and she says that she was told she was fired and would receive a small pension.

(Not a part of Sly’s clue dump but Buck rolls a 24 with disadvantage to persuade everyone he didn’t do it but then 2 nat 1s in a row to see if Harding--who said he was standing outside the door--is suspect. Buck thinks he’s at most a stooge but he did roll a nat 1 so who knows?)

Anyway, back to Mrs. M. Gangie fully believes Mrs. M is innocent and scared. She doesn’t quite remember what happened for a couple of seconds in there and it’s clear this is not the first time she’s had missing time. Sly calls Longfoot (the bunny photographer) over to take a picture of Mrs. M which everyone is a little appalled at until they realize he’s making a point. When the flash goes off, she bugs out like she did in episode 1 and forgets that the picture was ever taken. Sly then has Dr. Magpie list the symptoms of epilepsy. It seems that Mrs. M had an episode triggered by the flash she mentioned seeing and then lost time. It’s possible that what she thought she saw after that she didn’t actually see.

[While Sly is monologuing this Rekha texts Brennan and gets a 17 to swipe the “I am afraid” note. Sly doesn’t notice.]

So if it wasn’t her, then who was it? There’s only one door into the study and anyone who walked in would have to have walked past Mr. Harding, Shellcrest, Calliope, and Tabitha (who is having a marvelous time being in the midst of so much drama). Ah, but who said there was only one door? Sly has Harding pull a sconce and a SECRET DOOR OPENS! Woo! Finally! It’s a classic bookshelf one that opens into the hallway and there is some extremely fine crushed glass under the door. Hmm.

Sly clocks that there is something under the desk but we don’t know what it is because Brennan texts it to him and it’s redacted. There are actually a couple of redacted texts that go around this ep so we are def missing information.

OK, that’s more or less everything.

Sly notices that the page is missing and Grant gasps while Rekha does an excellent job of pretending like she doesn’t even remember what paper is being talked about. Constance asks if it’s possible that Mrs. M totally made up the memory because of her epilepsy and between Dr. Magpie and Sly they determine that that’s uncommon but possible. Dr. Magpie says that everyone should leave so he and Sly can examine the body and Sly says that someone should watch Gangie at all times.

At this point, Harding and Gilfoyle (the butler) say they should establish where everyone was at the time of the murder. A lot of the staff and guests have solid alibis cause they were in big groups/cleaning up together. But the PCs were off alone (or with each other) and had reasons to want to guy dead so they’re prime suspects. Sly even admits that he’s one too. Also everyone dogpiles Ian because Raph makes it so fun.

Harding mentions the letter that was given to Buck (the one selling his shares in BB and giving voting writes to his rival Josiah) and asks him to read it. Buck reads it and gives a streamlined version of the truth, saying everything except for the part with the proxy vote. With a 26 he is able to allay everyone’s suspicions for now, but now he’s purposefully hidden the truth in a way that can be readily called out if anyone sees the letter or the contract which he resolves to find.

Buster distracts the group so Daisy can “check the body for a pulse” aka: check the body for the contract. She doesn’t find a it but does find a key attached to a piece of red silk--something that would be weird for him to be carrying around instead of his valet. She figures this must open whatever locked drawer the contract is in and swipes it but Sly clocks her stealing it (his perception ties her sleathiness but an earlier Bless from Ian tips him over the edge--poetic).

Calliope says that everyone is kinds suspect, including Sly, but *someone* has to solve this and Sly’s their best bet so everyone should just stay put and they can guard the exits. The butler says that, besides the front door, there are some towers that poke up above ground and a servant's exit/entrance by the elevator in the kitchen wing but they can lock down both and have someone guard the front doors.

The butler is like, lmao yeah Sly I know you didn’t do it and I’m not gonna stand guard here but you know, everyone is keeping an eye on y’all. And then he leaves the PCs, Mrs. M, Constance, and Dr. Magpie in the room with the body.

Lars is about to go watch the kitchen staff but, before he goes, Sly says to him that he saw Cottonbottom and is obviously quite scared. Gangie, who used to work for the guy, overhears and asks what’s going on. Sly assumes Gangie is playing coy but rolls high enough to know that he isn’t. He saw a starkly white Cottonbottom and one of his known conspirators doesn’t know he’s back? Perhaps it was a ghost after all.

Case Notes

My 2 fave bits of this episode were “bad to bad bad bad” (and the further riffing) and Daisy throwing increasingly bigger books at Sly.

Even with a Nat 1, Sly gets a 16 on Investigation. Wild.

I don’t think Rekha got enough props for her “Cross examination” line so I’m mentioning it here.

Brennan said the ozone question was still open--but I assumed it was like the electricity smell from an electromagnet. That would make sense, right? Maybe he meant they hadn’t found the source of it specifically yet?

Brennan says Buck’s knife is a pronghorn knife. I assume they’re made from the animal’s horns? Even if they’re the kind that fall off every season, is that weird? Or is it just like human hair wigs? Also, does this world have leather?

I love that the dice keep supporting the narrative that Daisy simply cannot get her shit together when she’s with Sly because he distracts her too much. Delicious. Their whole relationship is delicious.

OK, I am a tiny bit suspicious of Calliope. It’s partially the way she took control of the situation near the end and partially the fact that she doesn’t seem like the kind of person who would be involved in this which would make her heel turn delicious. No hard evidence and obv she couldn’t be the person who actually stabbed a guy but idk. Just spitballing. I’m very curious about whether we’ve met everyone we’re going to meet more or less or if there are still outside people/hidden inside people. Because, in real life, a murderer could be literally anyone but in a story, you can’t just introduce a new villain all of a sudden at the end. Bad storytelling. Weak payoff. We’ll see how things start to pan out.

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grugq · 7 years

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Some more useful info this time, but nothing beats his business guide.

Terrible formatting in this one, but I wanted to pull out the relevant pieces. I've ignored all the stuff where he's revealing a bunch about his personal life, because: it's boring; it might be what gets him caught (if thy give a fuck about old kingpins, but seems they do); it isn't relevant to my interests.

p> Some great points in here that I wanted to hit:

His HR and organizational work and really amazing.

There's too many ppl that know who he is, and have grudges (those ex employees, potential future hazard right there)

He has very good security, but people claim he's from Quebec and the extreme detail on the multiple accounts he ran. Seems like there's a lot of OSINT that can be pulled together.

The GPS tags inside Phil presses and then using jammers against those is very interesting. I'm curious how they discovered the first GPS bug (I assume after raids)... which is why his HR work is so great, that organizational skill of pushing risk down to other ppl and learning from errors. Very important skill.

He is smart to keep his financial status hidden from his gf, anything could go wrong there.

Interesting point raised about the legal protections that married couples have (can't be forced to testify against each other). Since she apparently doesn't know the extent of his activities that might be totally fine.

How do you find people that you trust enough to bring in as employees?

10 AlpraKing • 8h I don't, I have a small core network of people who have a lot of human ressources at their disposal. I trust their judgement on who to hire. I do not ever meet them.

7 Kaymoar • 7h So there are at least a few people that could snitch on you at any point if they felt like it right?

5 chef234 • 3h Bro this dude is from Quebec look up anything on google they own the streets out there, all crimes I'm sure they have their tentacles in

How did you start?

9 AlpraKing • 8h I pressed steroids and sold them locally, but I soon realised Xanax was much easier to manufacture, appealed to a much broader audience via the darknet, and was not much worse in term of risk, being only a schedule 4 drug in Canada.

My business really kicked off with I discovered the dark net.

What's something you regret?

5 AlpraKing • 9h Hiring some people that ended up being way more trouble than contribution to the business.

9 evGTA • 9h Thanks for replying! Would it be okay if you gave an instance?

3 AlpraKing • 8h Shared information with people who eventually used it against me after becoming competitors of mine.

How did you first discover the darknet? I imagine that you were once just a user and had just started vending? Did you ever think that you would become this big?

5 yogurtyogurtyogurt • 8h Also how much xanax did you use yourself?

6 AlpraKing • 8h I complained about distribution limitations to a friend and he introduced me to silkroad back in 2014.

7 givemeoil420 • 4h all starts with a complaint of supply or demand :)

Did you throw parties with cake and pop?

3 AlpraKing • 9h No, I flexed a lot in the online world (as I am right now), but in the real world I avoided attracting any attention to me.

Ffffqqq• 5h When his former partners broke off and formed the Dr Xanax they shortly became his strong competition, leading to price wars and increasingly overdosed bars to try the have the best product. Dr Xanax was busted relatively quickly and there are rumors that Quantik played a part in their arrest.

After that he started multiple vendor accounts and later stated that be doesnt mind competition as long as its with himself. It is known that he ran at the very least Quantik, Alpraking, XanaxBaron and LordXanax accounts. As well as Montfort who was just a drop shipper and not a xanax vendor. He also has something to do with the BenzoChems account.

Why Xans ?

4 AlpraKing • 6h Low dosage, low volume of importation, high margins, high popularity, and low risk

9 dnmthrowawayobvious • 5h Futhermore Canada is very lenient, 3 years max for getting caught when dealing with alp/xanax. He talked about it couple times as being a contributing factor to going in the bed with bars. He also caught the upward wave of alp on the DNMs and he rode that wave and eventually made it his bitch.

How was your opsec in the very beginning? It's a learning process, and you must have made mistakes.

If you made mistakes, are you afraid of it coming to light as LE becomes more competent and the technology they use to uncover you becomes better?

Where do you tumble your coins? Helix?

Have you paid taxes on what you've laundered or do you keep it hidden away?

3 AlpraKing • 6h bad, very

Thats why I'm retired. Too many doubts for the future.

Cant answer

By definition, if it is laundered, taxes are paid.

What would be your best tips to not get caught when you are doing fraudulent activities in the darknet ?

5 AlpraKing • 9h Use tails, and keep it updated. Also, your offline opsec is tenfold more important than your online opsec. You are much more likely to be busted from leaving a fingerprint on a package than by improperly tumbling your coins.

• AlpraKing• 8h We investigated large techno shows as a proper way to launder funds, actually.

4 • • rikoded • 8h I feel that would be rather easy. Book an artist.. Sell 200 tickets, claim you sold 2500? Something like that?

Thanks for your answers man. Great to see someone get out when their ahead. Have a good weekend

Does your gf know about who you are and what you've done?

5 AlpraKing • 6h No one knows the full extent.

8 SysTomBrady • 9h How you know she isn't a golddigger ?

2 AlpraKing • 9h She was my girlfriend years before I made any money.

Gooch0420• 5h does she know how much money youve made?

2 AlpraKing • 5h Not exactly

SysTomBrady• 9h ARe you going to marry her or are you a rent don't buy guy?

3 AlpraKing • 9h I'd go for the latter. Marriage simply isn't an option.

7 SysTomBrady • 8h Smart man

2 givemeoil420 • 4h in the states anyone can take the stand unless your married... could keep the final document and if arrested have a 3rd party mail it to the local government

wonderfulworldofweed• 9h Visit the sub a lot, did you press your own pills? How hard is it to get a pill press up and running?

3 AlpraKing • 9h Very easy actually. Many businesses sell them in canada. They are perfectly legal and un-monitored. Law enforcement tends to monitor them anyway by placing GPS bugs on them when they arrive in the country from china, but they are easily jammed.

#DNM #opsec

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