Babylon 5: Outrageous Fortune

[Dr Simon]

"I don't know... let's see...." The abbai calls up some plans on the computer screen. "Nothing that a humanoid could get through," she says. Looking at the screen you see she's right. There are some climate control ducts and a utility riser, but all are about 30cms wide at most.

 

[Leif]

Kirth Warren

"Well, yeah, Kirth says, "but who says that it has to be a full-sized person? Or even a person at all for that matter. Why, I can think of any number of tools and devices that could easily fit in there and allow a person a mile away do the dirty work." Kirth ponders more, "Or perhaps we're over-thinking this thing now. The simplest possible solution is ordinarily the best choice."

 

[Shayuri]

"Except at a magician's show, and sometimes at a crime scene," rebutted Ashley. "Either way, you're dealing with someone who has something to hide. Anyway, it'll only take a second to go inside and look at those vents and see if any of them show signs of being used. Kirth, you can do that right now. I'll arrange for transit to our missing scientist's house."

 

[Leif]

Kirth Warren

Kirth hastens to obey with a mock salute. "Yes, sir, Ma'am!" Kirth looks all around both sides of the opening for any signs of use, and then does the same for any other similar openings.

 

[Dr Simon]

Kirth finds no evidence of tampering - if there was another thief, they didn't get into the lab via the ducts. Which leaves only the main door as a means of entrance and exit.

*****

The city of Burisa is well served with transport tubes that run the length of its three spiralling arms. Catching one of these, Ashley, Kirth and Kevin travel first to Mriva's residence. As with the rest of the city, this cluster of spherical modules is made from the same pearlescent material as the rest of the city, that the abbai call "shell".

You follow gleaming corridors, well furnished with natural light, past many identical doors. The door to Mriva's apartment is closed, and locked (with a standard keycard style lock), and there is no answer.

 

[Leif]

Kirth Warren

Kirth pulls out his handy-dandy electronics toolkit and goes to work on the lock, hoping against hope that he can fool it into springing (electronics skill check). Having no luck with such a plan, he pulls out a screwdriver to pry back the housing of the card-reader to send false computational signals to the lock mechanism (computer use skill check).

OOC: ???

 

[Dr Simon]

The lock is a simple one, and Kirth bypasses it easily. The door slides open to reveal a round-walled apartment. It is basically one large room, with a living/study area furnished simply but comfortably with soft furniture in the red/green/blue palette typical to abbai clothing. A kitchenette area is partitioned off to one side, at the other an opening leads to a spiral staircase leading down. The room has a large scenic window overlooking the sea, opposite the door.

There is no-one in the room.

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For the record, you can also use Subterfuge skill to bypass locks.
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[Leif]

Kirth Warren

Kirth wants to look out the window, but he will approach the window from the side, obliquely, so that his form is never obviously visible to anyone who may be watching the other side of the window*, and he can peek around the edge of the window's frame from the left side of the window. Kirth idly and softly says to himself, "Let's see what our good Mriva was accustomed to gazing upon."

*"Silhouetted" yeah, that's the word. Now a correct spelling may be a shadow of another color...

 

[Shayuri]

Ashley leaves Kirth to it and steps into the room cautiously, watching where she steps to avoid messing up any evidence. She looks around for any signs of foul play or struggle...then makes her way over to the downward stairs.

 

[Dr Simon]

The window of the room looks out over onto the sea, only slightly above sea level so it is, on closer inspection, salt-encrusted on the outside. There is a large lagoon encompassed by the arms of the city, busy with surface-borne vessels.

The room shows no signs of struggle; the furniture, such as there is, is orderly. There is little else beyond a data terminal, a rack of crystals and some hardcopy books, mostly academic works on Xenoarchaeology (including the seminal work by Hendricks, V.).

Ashley moves down the stairs. The lower floor is a bedroom, with an en-suite bathroom area. Another large window dominates the wall, this one looking out under the water, giving a rippling light to the room. Again, there is not a lot to the room and no signs of foul play. Ashley does notice some literature near the bed bearing the same symbol that was daubed at the starport, that related to the "terrorists" known as the Daughters of the New Ocean.