Celestial Spear Disappearances

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## Details

### Investigators

Jancy True
Drawtectives
Eugene Finch

### Victim

Anne Daction
Ed Roseson
Humby Bonegot
Laura Backstab
Harvey Hornswoggle
Checkers
Abayomi
Don Jovi
Anna Log
Kingston Munch
Jack Pott
Arty Fichel
Aeris
Sharron Lutz
Jancy True
Joebeans
Person Whose Ticket Was Taken
Gyorik Rogdul
Grendan Highforge
Rosé
Eugene Finch

### Location

Gareville, Noosphere

The **Celestial Spear Disappearances** were a series of disappearances, with each of the missing persons ending up aboard the Celestial Spear Express in the Noosphere. It was the second major case investigated by the Drawtectives after the Murder at Crescent Hill.

## History

### Background

For a long time, world famous hypnotists Eugene Finch and Leland Bore were in frequent competition with each other. At some point, after Eugene had heard countless people voicing their fears of death and anxieties about the afterlife, he came up with an idea. He wanted to create a way for people to transfer their spirits to another plane of existence to experience and ease their concerns about the afterlife, without the permanence of death.

So, Eugene and a close acquaintance, Sharron Lutz, began to explore the field of necromancy and seances. They experimented with contacting spirits and transferring them to and from bodies, using Eugene's recently deceased cat Felix as a test subject. Felix's spirit was successfully transferred to an animatronic body, in which he was able to communicate via speaking and help Eugene by using his new humanoid body.

Eugene soon began the creation of the Celestial Spear Express and had his scout Tallon Tscoutt search for talents to hire for the program. Tallon gave their business card to multiple talents, though it seems they did not speak face-to-face with any of them.

### Memory Erasures

Eugene's rival Leland Bore discovered Eugene's project and saw the potential for monetary exploitation and became frustrated that Eugene did not see it himself. He could charge passengers a large sum of money to board, erase their memories, and then have their spirit dissolved by Felix, the ticket taker, for fuel for the train. He figured that the talents could sign a contract allowing their memories to be erased and their names to be changed, so as to be manipulated easier. As a result, all of the talents and passengers aboard the train were completely unaware of how and when they boarded.

### Jancy's Investigation

After the spirits of the talents began disappearing, Jancy True started to receive numerous clients who were searching for their missing friends or family. One such client included Albert's family, who gave Jancy a baby photo of his for reference. Jancy somehow ended up on the Celestial Spear as a regular passenger, where she was likely greeted by Leland Bore, who was under the guise of "Conrad Uctor". Her memory was mostly erased and she was given the name "Fancy Brew". Her pin also fell off in the corridor, where Felix would later find it. It is likely that Jancy was attempting to investigate the train as she was then positioned at *Joe Beans* to work as a barista, rather than treated like an average passenger.

### The Drawtectives' Investigation

Some time later, York Rogdul, Rosé, and Grendan Highforge found themselves on the train as well, waking up next to Eugene Finch. The four of them, all of whom had had their memories erased, were greeted by "Conrad Uctor" and shown to the first door of the cabin. The Drawtectives discovered a movie set and met Anne Daction, one of the missing persons. While they were occupied in the room, "Conrad" switched himself out for an animatronic decoy of himself, who would go on to introduce the Drawtectives to the next door once they were done. By the time they had exited the second experience, Felix, who had gotten fed up with "Conrad", knocked him out and dragged his body away, unaware that it was actually an animatronic. Eugene and the Drawtectives saw this happen but believed Felix to be malevolent, so they hurried into the next door afraid.

The team went from door to door, speaking to the talent in each experience and gathering clues about what could be going on. During their time in each room, Felix followed behind them, as he believed Eugene's memory loss was simply a lighthearted game. He played along, hanging up clues on the doors of the experiences, which ultimately helped the Drawtectives piece together the mystery.

At the Joust Houst, the detectives received a *Joe Beans* cup from Kingston Munch with Jancy True's pin inside. The cup helped them locate Jancy at *Joe Beans* only to find her completely unaware of who they all were. The Drawtectives recalled some of their favorite memories with Jancy until she regained enough of her memory to explain what she had discovered.

Eugene, Jancy, and the Drawtectives used the documents Felix had left for them, which had a constellation-like pattern on the back, to locate a hidden cabin on the river walk of Gareville. Once they entered the cabin, they finally realized that Felix had been following them the entire time. Felix revealed who he was and explained that the cabin was his office, quickly enamoring the Drawtectives with his personality. Eugene and Felix then led Jancy and the Drawtectives to Eugene's office. There, one of the walls was covered in Eugene's original plans for Gareville and the Celestial Spear program, as well as posters of the talents he had hired. The group began to speculate on who could have been responsible for erasing their memories and taking control of the Celestial Spear, and concluded that it was most likely "Conrad Uctor".

They made their way to the Celestial Spear Engine Room, where Conrad stood to greet them a final time. He revealed his true name to be Leland Bore, and explained his reasoning for the crimes he had committed. York put him in arm jail, while Felix retrieved a cauldron of hot gazpacho soup from the Joust Houst to dunk Leland into. Using a teleporter in the office to return back to the physical world, Jancy brought Leland to prison, and the Drawtectives returned to the agency. Eugene gathered all the spirits of the talents and passengers still aboard the train and returned them to their physical bodies.

As they did with their previous major case, the Drawtectives and all the witnesses involved visited Huck E. Heese to celebrate the solving of the case.