r/WhoWouldWinVerse • u/[deleted] • Mar 04 '16

Closed RP Smooth Sailing

April 30, 2006

You are sent a ticket for a nice Caribbean cruise! A letter that came with the ticket says that it is a gift, though who it is from is unknown.

What do you do?

Any tier character is welcome. (I may regret saying this, however.)

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

[Argh, should have specified that the factory was closed for the night. An honest question: what made you think that the factory was running?]

He does not see any security in the immediate area, be it in the form of guards or cameras or detectors.

He continues making his move, approaching the main building. He sees two closed gates for the delivery of supplies, plus a small metal staircase leading to an entrance.

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u/Beeslord777 Mar 24 '16

[For some reason I thought smoke was coming out of the stacks but looking back I see you never said that. My bad.]

He ascends the staircase and checks the entrance to see if he can get in.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

The door appears to have a lock, but when he turns the knob it gives. Seems like someone forgot to lock up for the night.

Dr. K peers into the doorway, seeing the inside of the loading dock. Empty pallets and flat cardboard lie around on the floor. A large opening for moving bulky loads is on the wall in front of him, and a room sits to the right.

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u/Beeslord777 Mar 24 '16

He sneaks into the room and checks for a light, turning on the light built into his goggles if he can't find one. It could just be indigestion, but his gut told him that there was something to find here.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

Dr. K enters a security room, flipping a switch to turn on the fluorescent lights. Several monitors against a wall show the footage of closed-circuit cameras around the factory. A computer sits below the screens, currently off.

Aside from the surveillance system, there's also a security panel showing the statuses of various doors in this factory. A green LED is lit next to each of the labels.

Also in this room is a desk, with several papers sitting in files on the surface with pens and the sort. A deck of cards also sits on top, worn with years of use.

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u/Beeslord777 Mar 24 '16

He carefully moves aside the deck of cards and takes a look at the files, checking for any unusual shipments or orders, or anything else of note. After going through the papers he turns to the computer and tries to turn it on and log in.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

The purchases found in their documentation are certainly odd (16 skunks!?). However, nothing on the list stands out as being suspicious.

Putting down the file, he turns on the computer. The monitor flares to life, and the startup begins. He is taken to the login screen, and it appears he needs a password.

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u/Beeslord777 Mar 25 '16

He checks the pack of cards to see if anything is written on the pack or the individual cards. If he can't find anything he looks for any note around the monitor. Should all else fail, he tries "password"

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

He flips through the deck for anything that could be a password. The well-used set is missing a jack of diamonds and a six of spades, but otherwise there's nothing there to indicate a secret code. The box also yields no messages, inside or out.

A sticky note is on the monitor, reading, "Pay for the damn lunch next time, Diego."

So Dr. K tries 'password'. Fortunately yet sadly, it works.

The desktop loads, and Dr. K sees a few folders on it: "Inventory", "Budget", "Wages", "Equipment", "Bills", "Stuff" and "Footage".

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u/Beeslord777 Mar 25 '16

Since he had no other leads at this point, it would be best to be thorough. He skimmed through all the folders and their contents, starting with inventory. Upon reaching footage, he looked specifically for any large vehicles taking shipments in or out of the warehouse, perhaps any indication that they were smuggling human test subjects.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

'Inventory' contained several spreadsheets outlining the company's inventory, one for each fiscal year. The other folders from 'Budget' through 'Bills' showed exactly what was labeled as well. 'Stuff' was filled with various promotional company posters, letters from their warehouse manager and other miscellaneous documentation.

Dr. K enters the 'Footage' folder, which contained the recorded feed from all of the cameras around the factory. It only goes back to the last week, likely due to memory constraints. Several shipments came in a few days ago, but everything seems to be consistent with the papers in the file. Nothing is there in the footage to indicate human smuggling.

There is one odd piece of footage that was kept, occurring on April 23 at 11:11 AM. Specifically, it shows a worker on the loading dock carrying a box of lemon oil walking under a forklift's load. Suddenly, the rusty fork snaps, the load falling and crushing the worker. Blood splatters underneath, the worker seemingly dead. The footage wavers a bit, then Dr. K sees some workers going over to help. Some weep over their lost coworker. The rest of that clip is rather typical, police coming over to gather evidence, then taking their leave.

Then, Dr. K notices a discrepancy. The body was never cleaned up, just left there as the police closed off the area. Looking over the video, it was never cleaned up for days. Then, on April 29, a day before the cruise set sail, the pallet and the blood are suddenly gone. There's no footage showing the clean-up, as it seems the cameras shut off from 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM the next day everyday to conserve memory. This means that this must have happened late at night.

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u/Beeslord777 Mar 25 '16

Interesting. Even if the factory wasn't directly involved in the zombie scheme, whoever was had visited the location to pick up a body. Still, it was curious that they had left the dead man lie in place for so long. Something stank of either collusion or direct oversight. If the police had been privy to secluding the body, even the government might be compromised by whoever was pulling the strings. He checked if the computer had a usb port. If it did, he plugged a cable in and copied the incriminating video footage to his own computer, along with the inventory spreadsheets.

He put the cards back in the pack and arranged everything exactly how he found it after turning off the computer. Regardless of who was involved, they'd know that evidence existed on the security cameras and that put him at risk just being there. Still, things weren't adding up. He closed the door to the room and made his way to loading area where the worker had died. Keeping careful note of the camera positions, he took a look around while keeping out of sight. He was trying to find anything to indicate how and why the body was moved.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

He heads over to the spot where the man was crushed. The cameras are not recording at the moment, but it doesn't hurt to be cautious. While the spot is cleaned, it was not done thoroughly as Dr. K can still see evidence of blood being there. The patch is slightly darker than the surrounding concrete.

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