[Delta Green] Operas and Avatars: Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays

[Gomez]

ooc: How through was our helicopter search yesterday? i.e., is there a resonable expectation that another search would be more fruitful without first gaining more information?

OOC: You think you did a pretty through search but there is alot of land to cover.

PS: Make sure to check the post before this one.

 

[taitzu52]

A few cigarettes later, Andrews is still milling over the file while Brown is reading his email. During the conversation with the coroner, Andrews asks, "So tell me about these bodies. How would a perp or group of perps go about drawing the blood from the bodies? Can we assume that these puncture marks are where it was done? Are we talking about a number of needles hooked up to a pressurized line, and how long would that take?" Numbed from the previous day, Andrews has a splitting headache, and starts taking Advil.

 

[Maerdwyn]

Brown looks at the email with more interest that he might if his previous day had not been quite so grim. It drives the image of Braverman's intestines out of his mind for a few minutes, anyway. Don't know what the hell this has to do with State Road 70, though, he thinks in his morning fog. Halfway through the article, the morning coffee kicks in, though, and another relevent question pops into his head. Who sent this? There aren't too many people who know this address and know I'm on this case, and none who have mentioned anything outside of Texas and Arizona as relating to it, he thinks. He looks again at the "from" line of the email, half listening to Andrew's side of the conversation with the coroner.

 

[Gomez]

The from line of the email reads.

p#Ds3RTDty5oSEhE&34525*$W@hotmail.com

 

[Gomez]

A few cigarettes later, Andrews is still milling over the file while Brown is reading his email. During the conversation with the coroner, Andrews asks, "So tell me about these bodies. How would a perp or group of perps go about drawing the blood from the bodies? Can we assume that these puncture marks are where it was done? Are we talking about a number of needles hooked up to a pressurized line, and how long would that take?" Numbed from the previous day, Andrews has a splitting headache, and starts taking Advil.

The coroner says that the blood must have been drawn out from the needle-like wounds but it would have taken alot of time to draw the blood out with just a syringe and a large bore needle.

 

[taitzu52]

The coroner says that the blood must have been drawn out from the needle-like wounds but it would have taken alot of time to draw the blood out with just a syringe and a large bore needle.

Andrews replies, "Im thinking more along the lines of an automotive air compresser on the back of a pickup, but anything's game at this point. So....were the lungs found? And why would these needle marks pierce the lungs on all of the victims if draining blood were the purpose" Andrews looks up to see what Brown is doing.

 

[Gomez]

Andrews replies, "Im thinking more along the lines of an automotive air compresser on the back of a pickup, but anything's game at this point. So....were the lungs found? And why would these needle marks pierce the lungs on all of the victims if draining blood were the purpose" Andrews looks up to see what Brown is doing.

"No, the lungs where not found. Lungs are packed with blood vessels so if someone wanted to drain blood from a body it would be a logical place to do so." says the coroner. "Oh there was one more thing, the man's liver was partially eaten. The bite marks on the liver are consistent with human teeth."

 

[taitzu52]

"Oh there was one more thing, the man's liver was partial eaten. The bite marks on the liver are consistent with human teeth."

A long, uncombortable silence silence goes by before Andrews thanks the coroner and hangs up. While relaying the information to Brown, Andrews smokes 3 cigarettes, lighting one off of the other.

 

[Maerdwyn]

Seeing Andrews turn a little green, Brown asks him what happened, and when told, feels a little sick himself. "Who we dealing with here, Hannibal Lechter? Jesus." He pauses for a moment, then says, almost apoogetically, "We should get the coroner to cast the bite marks, so we can compare them to our suspect. When we get one, anyway. Ugh." He sits there another moment before showing Andrews the stange email, as much to get his partner's mind off the liver as anything else. "Not sure why someone bothered to send me this. I would have ignored it, but look at the subject line: aren't too many people who coulda sent it to me, right? Just our surperiors, the Sherriff and the Major. I haven't given this address to anyone else who knows I'm on this case."

 

[Gomez]

OOC: Please note that the date on the article in the email should be Feb. 2004 not 1997.