Human Badge

Hold my beer, I have a badge to pin on the wall.

**Human Badge** is the 37th case in The Origins as well as the 2nd case to occur in the West Central Region.

## ***Plot***

After Duchess Sophia Bartlett escaped the team again, we allied with The Summoners as a last-ditch attempt to arrest Sophia. A member of The Summoners, Adeline Mann, said that Sophia had a headquarters in Keystone, South Dakota, near Mount Rushmore. We rush to a bar, where a recent fight broke out, and we find businessman Hazell Harmon dead. In the bar, we find Agent Muddslide, an accomplice of Sophia as well as a former CDRA agent. We ask Muddslide what he's doing at the bar, and Muddslide said "Looking at Mount Rushmore one last time before Sophia's face is put on there." We laugh while Muddslide stays serious. We then decide to go to the community center, as when we interrogated Sophia before she revealed her true colors, she said that she's all about the community, and that's what inspired her to become a duchess in the first place. In the community center, we find a familiar necklace as well as a phone. We immediately realize that the necklace belongs to Adeline Mann, and we find her immediately. She tells the team that she's glad we came to Mount Rushmore, as Shaun ordered her and another Summoner to go to Mount Rushmore to assist the team in stopping Sophia. While at the community center, Max Snowcone and the player find the victim's phone, which we send to Imogen Caulfield, the team's tech expert. Imogen says that the phone had texts about business deals between Hazell and Morris Johnson, the current Prime Minister of England. We ask Morris about why he was making deals with the victim, and he immediately questions who we are and why we are interrogating him. We tell him that we are friends of the president of the U.S.A., Tom Fisher, and he agrees to speak with us. We inform him that Hazell has recently been murdered and Morris tells us that's terrible for his country, as Hazell was an amazing and informed businessman. After talking with the Prime Minister, we hear a scream, coming from the Mount Rushmore Foothill. We head there, only to find Rostya Pushkin, a Russian spy in disguise as the late Richard Adams who we thought was dead, holding Adeline at gunpoint. Immediately, Sophia's son, Summoner Kieran Bartlett, comes to Adeline's rescue and forced Rostya to let Adeline go or else he'll shoot him. Rostya immediately let Adeline go and said "well, it's the boss's son's orders." We immediately interrogate Rostya and he thanks us for "saving" us back in Arkansas. He then said that he was working with Sophia and Muddslide, as he wasn't treated that nicely while growing up in Russia, so he worked his way up to become a spy and ultimately met Sophia, who was organizing a team of three that would mastermind a war behind the U.S. and Britain fighting Russia and winning. We later ask Kieran about Sophia, and he says that she barely revealed any of her plans to him as a child, and that if he asks her now, she'll just say no because he might tell the other Summoners. We find a paper with two signatures on it. We match one to Hazell's easily, but we send the other paragraph to Lily Hall, the team's profiler. Lily said that the autograph belonged to Morris. We ask Morris what the contract was about, and Morris said that he was done doing business deals with Hazell, as he only thought about himself. He said that he didn't care if it affected his country or not, rather if Hazell was tought a lesson. We then find a missing earpiece with Hazell's DNA and another random DNA sample. We send that sample to the team's lab chief, Sandra Davis, who told the team that the DNA from the other sample belonged to Muddslide and that it was his earpiece. Muddslide then told the team that while at the bar, Hazell got extremely drunk and randomly started to beat him up. Muddslide was able to protect himself, however, and Hazell was left badly injured. Hazell then called Muddslide by his real name "Patrick Ramsay" which infuriated him moreso. He kicked Hazell while he was on the ground and left, before apparently someone else finished him off. We then decide to ask Rostya about Sophia's location, but he refuses to give out any details. We then head back to the station, before the team's informant, Hunter Hondo, told Max and the player that Rostya had escaped the bar. We rush back to the bar and find out that Muddslide is still there. We later find another necklace with a letter saying "THIEF!" on it. We send the note to Lily, who said that the handwriting was close to Sophia's, but the necklace was more masculine. We realized that Sophia's husband, Lester Bartlett, is dead, so Lily must be referring to Kieran. When we ask him about the note, he said that Hazell wanted to steal his special and expensive necklace that he spent months working on in order to sell it, as Hazell wanted to start selling his necklace collection. We then find mole cream near the chair Hazell was stabbed with. Sandra said that the DNA on the cream has Adeline's DNA. When we talk to Adeline about it, she said she sat on a chair last to talk to us about coming to Mount Rushmore. We put her in our custody at the moment and take a look around the Mount Rushmore Foothill and find enough evidence to arrest the killer.

## ***Killer And Motives***

The killer turned out to be Muddslide/Patrick.

Upon admitting to the murder, Patrick told the duo that Hazell was a member of a secret resistance group, who knew about the plans of Sophia and Muddslide. He wanted to bring down the Summoners too. He decided to sell rigged weapons to them, so they would fail to withstand the power of the police. Muddslide found out about his actions and lured him into the bar. After a fight, Patrick pinned Hazell to the wall with a chair.

## ***Preparing For War (2/5)***

After Muddslide confessed, we were able to capture him. As Sophia was someplace else, we got some help from the CDRA. Muddslide told us that there's nothing that can stop them from fulfilling their plans, as the process has already begun. He didn't say more, so we take him to custody with high security. After some time, Adeline calls us, saying that Muddslide will eventually escape from custody, as he did before, so we need to be careful. We get a call from the Cheyenne Town Hall about a murder that happened just now. The area is also dangerous. We don't know why, but it could be Sophia's doing again, so we need to head there as fast as possible.

## ***Suspects***

***Agent Muddslide (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)Morris Johnson (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4)Adeline Mann (Traits: 2, 3)Rostya Pushkin (Traits: 1, 4, 5)Kieran Bartlett (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 5)***