[network] @Greed; Day 12, night [open]

[ossifragant]

[The feed turns on to show off the walls and floor of a building. Whoever is showing the video don't speak at first, they just awkwardly hold the camera up to show what is clearly blood on the wall and nearby floor.

It's a little while before Greed speaks up.]

Has anyone else seen something like this before? It looks like... [Like a murder happened here.]

Something happened here, beyond the residents just abandoning the town.

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[feralone]

No. We wouldn't. Not without more... [you know] ...evidence.

[He wasn't much of a detective but he remembers how it used to be working for the law. The memories make him feel a little odd. He chases them away.]

[ossifragant]

[That evidence has to be possible to find.]

There must be more information left-- there's not much in the houses I've found, but I doubt this "admin" has destroyed all traces of what happened to this place.

[feralone]

There are some. [He pauses to consider his words, humming a bit in the back of his throat.] There are photos and videos, scattered, pieces of the [puzzle, he wants to say] past. The residents here. Natives. Before us, before-- [Any others that might have been treated like 'us'.]

Many of the pieces found so far have been shared through the network. [Max even had found one and shared it to those interested.]

[ossifragant]

I haven't seen all of it, I guess.

[Not that that's a shock-- Greed has been hunting for his own things, focusing on the wrong things entirely for a while now with the intention of getting as much as possible.]

There's bound to be plenty more of this sort of thing, especially if everyone who used to live in this town died violently.

[feralone]

Hmm.

Haven't seen anything like that. Just a video.

[Kind of boring compared, really.]

[ossifragant]

[Greed's quiet for a moment.]

I'd have picked a video over this. I'm not really the kind of guy to solve murder mysteries.

[feralone]

[Max shrugged though it couldn't be seen through the audio-only conversation.]

Let someone else solve it.

[That was, quite frankly, Max's way of handling all of Norfinbury's annoying mysteries. He wasn't the type to... to care about it all.

That's what he kept telling himself anyway.]

[ossifragant]

Sounds like a good idea to me, honestly.

[It's what he'd like to do, with a name like Greed and all the self-serving that comes with it.]

But I don't think that's possible. There's too few of us for people to do nothing.

[feralone]

Hmm. [All right, then don't complain. But the way Max sees it it was shared with the rest of the class and now it's up to someone else to put it all together. To each their own though.]

Then. [Pause. Not good with words. Doesn't really have anything else to say. Eh...] Good luck.

[ossifragant]

All we can do, really, is keep each other informed.

[It's stating the obvious, and he knows it, but Greed feels better saying it aloud.]

I'm sure there's more shit like this waiting to be found.

[feralone]

Mmhm.

[Fine. He can do that much, too. He would keep it in mind if he ever found anything else of consequence anyway. Maybe.]

Probably. Scattered pieces. [Like a puzzle.]

[ossifragant]

It's like the rumors of the city that vanished in a single night.

[Well, that's an odd thing to say.]

[feralone]

[What, like Atlantis or Roanoke? Or so he would ask if he remembered the story of such an old world myth maybe.]

Maybe it did.

[In his experience things like that did actual happen.]

[ossifragant]

You know-- maybe it did.

Not literally, of course; the place is still here, but it's been walled off; separated. The outside world might not even know it's here.

[feralone]

Or it was abandoned on purpose. [Like the Green Place that had turned out to be poisonous and forced everyone to leave to survive.]

[ossifragant]

That would be our luck, wouldn't it?

[He laughs, but it's a bitter noise.]

Town abandoned, possibly because the residents all started killing each other!

[feralone]

[He made a not-quite amused sound that originates in the back of his throat.]

Possibly.