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## Synopsis

Mallory tries and fails to seduce Dodger for free information. However, Dodger agrees to sell the map for 38cr and information for the promise taking them out shopping with the remaining 8000cr.

## Transcript

### Panel 1

* ask if she's gunna get that (point to sword)

Dodger: Oh, right I forgot.

### Panel 2

Dodger: All right... Just gimme a minute

hup hup hup hup

Mallory and Quinn: ...

### Panel 3

Dodger: If I just wiggle it a lil... whups

### Panel 4

Quinn: **AH**

Dodger: .............

### Panel 5

Dodger: Y'know, even if I could die in a fall, you'd still have to pay me.

### Panel 6

Mallory: indestructible salesman...??

* begin flirting. See if yo can get her to throw in the map for free information on the crime scene. Use that charming personality!

Mallory: Quinn, hold the bag. I got this....

### Panel 7

Mallory: Oh, I'm sorry... I didn't mean to make you fall for me *that* hard ho ho. So tell me, ... Where *is* that third D?

### Panel 8

Dodger: Oh, y'know, I **keep it in my pants**

Mallory and Dodger: OHOHOHO

### Panel 9

Dodger: Even though you helped me **ace** that joke, you don't get anything for free.

Mallory: Nothing at all?

Dodger: NOPE

* Get info about the crime scene, then ask for cool advice. Then maybe try to bargain with her to get the map with the last 38cr.

Dodger: Listen... While it isn't you lucky day for getting with this graceful gray-aro gay ace, I respect your dedication to bad jokes.

### Panel 10

Dodger: Map is yours for 38cr.

Mallory: Yay!

Dodger: About the rest... I don't have a card reader. I'd just use it to clone your card anyway!

### Panel 11

Dodger: So I'll give you the info now, and you take me out for shopping later. Buy me stuff I want, for 8000cr.

Mallory: Sounds good!

Quinn: Please. Please just give me the info already. Before I change my mind about not arresting you.

### Panel 12

Dodger: You're the man, dude!!

Quinn: Also, please don't call me "man" or "dude" or "bro" anymore.

Dodger: Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't know you didn't like it. Won't do it again. So, I've been thinking of using a new one? Can you tell me what you think of it? Here it goes:

### Panel 12

Dodger: You got it, **buddy!!**

Quinn: ...yes, I like that better. Thank you!

Dodger: Okay! So!!! Here's my info about this crime scene! Super exclusive!

### Panel 13

NO DIALOGUE - Shows a diagram of Lykoi's memorial.

### Panel 14

Dodger:

A few days ago, someone was killed here: X. I don't know the exact time, but it was at night - just before the **wolfmoon,** I heard. It was a **stabbing,** nothing really weird.

What **was** weird about it was that there are 2 witnesses: an old lady who lives across the street from here, and my associate. Anyway, the old lady saw a figure leaving the parking lot around the time of the crime. She's got nothing on the person's physical description, but stil...

Anyway!! The person heading off the scene crossed over to the residential houses and entered one (blue arrow)... But nobody who lives there noticed anybody come or go, and there's **no** evidence of tying any of the **residents** to the crime. It seems the culprit just **went up in smoke.**

My associate saw the same thing happen just earlier this morning, sometime before **5 AM.** This time, a person came out of a house on the residential side and left through the door on the BT Central building, which, as you know, leads to an empty **power room** (purple arrow).

It seems like **someone** - one or a group - has found a way to **disappear and appear** at will, through doors that would normally lead elsewhere. I mean, it'd be super cool, if they weren't using it to kill people, right??

Anyway...I'm sure the police archives have even more stuff on it, but they don't have my associate's info, I guarantee it. Still, it's worth checking out, buddy.

Hmm...Of course, you've already figured out that the victim was a member of Streetcrows, so why don't go ask them for more info, too? I marked their general location on the map I gave you. The other crossed-off areas are places I was gonna look into, but I think you need ths map more than I do...

### Panel 15

Dodger: I wrote all of that down for you. Here you go.

Mallory: Cool! Thank you!! Now drop some **cool advice** on us!

Dodger: Okay, uhh, let's see...

### Panel 16

Dodger: take this not as advice, but as a warning. In this town, we currently have curfew at 9 PM. **Stay inside** during it. Even if you have a permit as an investigator to stay out past 9PM, **don't.** Even I can't fill you in on what's going on in this town, but it gets **bad** after curfew, and it's only getting worse. Do yourself a favor and stay in. Don't die. **9PM to 5AM. Don't forget.**

### Panel 17

Mallory: That's so ominous! What happened to my hometown???

Quinn: Be strong, Mallory

Dodger: Anyway, I gotta bounce...... I'll get in touch for our shopping later this week, ok? Don't forget about me. Bye!

Mallory: I-I guess we'll check the map for leads, then.

Quinn: Y-yep.

### Panel 18

NO DIALOGUE - Shows the map of Aberration.