Murder at Tundra Trek

*Murder at Tundra Trek* is the title of the eleventh episode of the second season of Blood in the North and the twenty third session of the entire game.

This session was played on September 6th, 2020

## Murder at Tundra Trek

### Writer

Jonny Christie, Anthony Hotchkiss, Kyle Muller, Antoine SinClaire

## Plot

a death in the walls leads to an investigation.

## Synopsis

Wild Bill returns to the base and finds Doctor Olaf. The man is visibly shocked by the damage he sees and gets to work. Roger is feeds Taabi and Mr. Hopper before grabbing August, Travis, and Hanez to observe the growing horde outside. They decide it might be best to build a watchtower just inside the walls so they don’t risk anyone falling from the wall and give a bit more defense to the lookout from exterior humans. They go to gather materials and build before the snow gets uncontrollable. Bill wakes up to see Tree who tells him Drake has not returned yet. He gets on the radio and gets static so he heads back over to the truck to go find him. He finds Drake’s bike in the road and attempts to radio him again. This time he gets a response but Drake is not in eyesight. A few Phadez are around so Bill picks them off before giving Drake the all clear but the outlaw is responds that he’s not worried about the Zeds.

Bill goes into the nearby brush and finds Drake in a field making snow angels, shirtless. He tells him to get up and leave with him but it is clear that Drake is on drugs and is spewing nonsense. Bill grabs him by the ankle and drags him back to the truck, feeling his time has been wasted. Roger is called over by Lexi who wants to go into the crypts to look for Taabi. He offers her a job cleaning up while down there but she asks if Matteau can help. Roger tells her he’s recovering but she tells him that she just saw him at the café. Roger radios Doctor Archer who is freaked out that Matteau is missing. August is convinced he’s dead so they go to find him and see him pacing in Tundra Trek. He turns to them and breaks into a sprint. August fires on him and he DODGES THE BULLET so they get noticeably scared and all begin firing on him until he is dropped. Bill returns with Drake and leaves him with Olaf and Tree. He heads to go rest but is stopped by an unknown woman. He asks her who she is and she introduces herself as Minh before scribbling down a note and handing it to him. He reads it and when he looks back up, she is gone.

August and Roger begin an investigation into what happened to Matteau. Detective Lexi is also on the job, though no one asked her to be. Roger and Karen get into a brief argument over August starting to take charge again before Roger goes to the Infirmary to speak with the Doc about what happened. She informs him that the surgery was a success but when Matteau left to go to the bathroom he never returned. Her only theory is it is a combination of Hypothermia and the body just not recovering. Lexi thinks its murder. August is more worried about the fact that he DODGED A BULLET and would like to know why and how this new breed of Zed exists. Roger’s theory is his former military training is a factor but they cannot confirm anything. They head to Security to see if the cameras caught anything but there was a moment when Matteau was walking out, the camera cuts. They have a new theory that Karen may have tampered with the feed but it’s all still speculation. Lexi is still in her own world but is coming to similar conclusions with her own investigation. They spot Travis and Hanez moving the box of remains up onto the wall so they head there next.

Roger confronts the henchmen who tell them that they don’t trust Matteau’s belongings around anyone else, particularly Lexi. This is sketchy enough for Roger to check the box. He doesn’t find anything suspicious but warns them to not tamper with anymore “evidence” until the investigation is done. Meanwhile, August is in the bathroom where he finds an empty bottle of acetaminophen. They return to the Infirmary to gather bloodwork and see if there was any in Matteau’s system. They do not find any but they do find a high trace of methamphetamine. He was an addict that Oded. They run into Lexi who gives them one final bit of information. She dug through his stuff before the henchmen took it and found two things. One was what August determined as a scrambler, explaining the camera malfunctions. The other was a beeping chip she found in the seem of his jacket. He was being tracked. They worry the other henchmen may be involved but they actually leave it to Lexi. She is finally useful. Case closed.

## Cast

### Main

* August Fallon-Nox
* Sabra "Scarab" Nazari
* Roger
* Robin Santos
* William "Wild Bill" Imes

### Supporting

* Karen Rosenthal
* Enrique
* Taabi
* Lexi Watson
* Elizabeth Archer
* Jasmine Archer
* Travis
* Hanez
* Tree
* Mr. Hopper

### Guest

* Mr. Q
* Olaf
* Drake
* Minh

## Trivia

* Players this session: Anthony Hotchkiss (Roger), Kyle Muller (Wild Bill), & Antoine SinClaire (August)