Police tape snaps across the city street while officers seal off three separate spots. Three teenage girls lie beneath pale blankets near a bus shelter, a parked car, and an alley mouth.
The Broad-Shouldered Officer
Keep moving. Do not stop here. Officers are speaking to witnesses farther up the block.
Pedestrians funnel between patrol cars, faces turned away from the covered bodies. A woman officer photographs the tape while another radios that the victims match the earlier cases.
The Broad-Shouldered Officer
You there. Stop a moment and come behind the line. You may have seen something.
His attention fixes on 7. Before he reaches her, a hooded passerby eases out of the crowd, changing direction with deliberate calm and disappearing behind a delivery truck.
The Woman Officer with the Camera
Hurst, the alley camera is down. The same description again. Teen girls, alone, three locations in one week.
✓ Quest Accepted
Find the killer targeting teenage girls
✓ Quest Accepted
Search for the killer
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SUCCESS (Great Perception, rolled +1)
7 leaves the police line without drawing attention, tracking the hooded passerby through the delivery truck's blind side and into a narrow service lane.
7
The lane ends at a locked loading door, but fresh shoe prints continue around the corner.
A second alley opens behind the warehouses. The hooded passerby stands beside a dark sedan, one hand resting on its roof, watching the police lights fade.
The Hooded Passerby
You are much more observant than the others.
His hood shifts enough to show a lean adult man with close-cropped dark hair and a pale scar crossing his left eyebrow. The sedan's rear window holds photographs of girls matching 7's description.
The Hooded Passerby
Now you know where to look.
7 has found the killer: the man in the hood, beside the sedan and within reach of the evidence connecting him to the murders.
Quest Complete
Find the killer targeting teenage girls
Quest Complete
Search for the killer