Something Spooky Starts

Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:44 am

Missions:

Mac sat in his desolate office, waiting for a case to come up, drinking as always, allowing his boredom to get the better of him. He got comfy in his chair, a practice he usually avoided in order. Too often on late nights like this one he would find himself falling asleep and behind on his work should he even take the lightest lean back. As he put both of his hands on the back of his neck, leaning back as he stretched out, he would feel a heavy blink before his infantile relaxation was furiously interrupted by the slapping down of a file on his desk by his wonderfully helpful secretary Vera, who ever so gently raised him from his not quite slumber with a thunderous yell of “Hey Mac, those bills ain’t gonna pay themselves, you need to work and I got just the job for ya!”[/size]

“Just please tell me I ain’t chasing kitties up trees again,” Mac would reply, pushing his fingers into his temples trying to dull out the headache.

“Nah, got you an escort job and some real investigatory work, they’re both in this document. Oh and Mac, remember to wear a costume, it’s Halloween.” Vera would respond, “Anyway, they’re all in that document, when you’re done come back to me and I may have more.”

“Oh, can’t you tell, I’m already in a costume, dressed up like I’m still a detective,” Mac would reply sharply, before picking up the packet and beginning to thumb through the files left on his desk. The first job for the night was to track down a cloaked figure stalking the night. An easy task for someone like Mac. He would start with looking at the map for sightings of this figure, and finding them to all be located in a dispersed area around the market square, he had his first lead.

Entering the Market Square, Mac began to look around for this figure, described as wearing a dark cloak with a white center, stained by blood. Mac checked his usual street corners where thugs like this would be to show off their work, but turned up nothing but the stale air of the night. Keeping moving, he began to check out the alleys, and that's when he found something interesting. Along the stone walls of the alley, a massive mural was painted in a brownish red, simple investigation told Mac this was blood, all elaborate faces and dancing figures forming a circle with an inscribed upside down triangle. Further investigation and a consultation on the missing persons reports revealed all these were faces of those gone missing or found dead under mysterious circumstances. Looking around to find the culprit, Mac spotted a pair of eyes looking from the sewer and sprung in to chase the murderer, following them through an elaborate series of tunnels and traps before eventually believing he had cornered him. A dead end with the only exit going through mac, or through a series of thin grating no human could normally pass. Seeing that they were out of options, the cloaked figure raised their hand, and out launched a body, flying from seemingly a pocket in space and time surrounding the hand of the cloaked figure, colliding with the body of Mac.

By the time Mac managed to get the body off of himself, the fugitive had already fled the scene, not a trace of em, but this body was evidence, and he had completed his job in assisting the investigation on this cloaked figure, he could report they are much more malicious than just some street peeper, but instead a full blown murderer, and now he had a body he could return to a family that hopefully came to realize the truth a long time ago. Mac always hated telling people those they loved are dead.

Turning in the body to the family of the deceased and leaving without a word, he would write up his mission report later in the night, for now he had to go to his escort mission. Reading through the file for the first time, Mac was surprised to find out he would be escorting children through the village, not exactly a task he was happy about especially considering the lethal end to his last case didn’t exactly have him in a pleasant enough mood to deal with the little demons, but it was a job and he needed the money, so who was he to deny it.

Meeting up at the mission’s rendezvous point, he met the children he would be escorting, orphans of the village’s past wars that the shinobi as a whole were now in charge of taking care of, a sort of “sorry we killed your parents but hey, now look at us give you candy!” approach to preventing the seeds of dissent and discord in the populous. Honestly, it felt grimey to Mac, like some kind of lie they were too busy trying to cover up when they could just admit it, but who was he to judge, not like he wouldn’t do the same thing if the price was right, after all he was serving as a cog in that machine now, even as he thought the very thing was potentially gross.

Swallowing his internal conflict and the previous mortal hour of his life, Mac gathered the kids and started their walk around the village to pick up candy from each of the previously agreed upon points. They picked up the candy and, seeing the smiles on the faces of the kids as they realized one spot was full sized, the pointless bickering about who gets the butterflange and who gets the crimson vines, Mac began to lighten up and enjoy the time in face of how the practice might not be the most morally honest. Bringing them to the final place and handing them off to their caretaker, Mac began his journey back to his office, hoping to get more work from Vera.

WC: 1002
Missions Complete
2,000 Ryo
4 Tickets
10 AP
+10 Stats
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Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:49 am

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