Of murder, most fine & foul...(A story setting/Casting Call)

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The assassin parked the car, took a look in the mirror, and liked the reflection.

The mark was in the frat house, and they had a party going on. It was perfect. Lots of people, lots of noise, everyone off in a secluded room…and drugs. Lots of drugs. Nobody was going to be able to have a really clear memory of the assassin even if they got a good look, and nobody was really going to call the cops all that fast with the amount of blow, weed and speed around.

The walk up the frat house was loud. The music was playing, the freshmen girls were acting crazy and the senior guys were loving it.

The assassin thought “Ah…to be young again…” but those days were in the past. Not that far, but still, in the past.

Entry into the house was easy with the universal key, 2 12 packs of Bud Light & a bottle of Patron Silver, half of it splashed on the Track Team jacket the assassin lifted yesterday from the gym. A baseball cap pulled low over the face, the smell of tequila and 24 cans of beer was all that was necessary for acceptance.

Pats on the back for bringing in the booze, a few thank & an ass grab from someone later, and the assassin was in like Flynn…

The target was present. The target was also lit nicely, and was toking on a bong with friends. It looked like the target & it’s significant other were getting close, and people were watching appreciatively as they got hot and heavy…then someone sprayed them with a beer.

They laughed it off, then whispered to each other, presumably about leaving for a private place to fuck. The woman was licking her lips, chewing on them fetchingly and the guy was playing with her nipple as he whispered in her ear. She got a pissed expression on her face, then leaned in and bit him on the ear, rose up and began walking across the room to the stairs.

Upstairs she went, and her guy followed.

The assassin hoped they would leave so the hit could be when the target was alone…but going upstairs was within the plan. Sipping on the beer, the assassin waited a few minutes, then began making toward the stairs. Small talk ensued with a few people, and a few more ass grabs occurred, but progress toward upstairs stairs was made.

Upon arriving, knowing the room that was in use was easy. It was the only one with the Victoria’s Secret thong on the door knob.

This was it.

The door was locked, but that didn’t matter. It was a piece of shit lock, more for privacy than security. A wire & 10 seconds, and it was open.

Slowly the assassin made into the room. The couple was on the bed having sex.

Hell, with that, they were fucking. Hard. He was on top of her pounding her hard and she was obviously loving the shit out of it. They weren’t speaking, they were grunting and grabbing and thrusting and thrashing…and they didn’t notice the interloper or the PPK .32ACP with the suppressor in the assassin’s hand.

Looking around for a moment, the assassin saw the target’s laptop. Jackpot. Time to close it out.

Pity, but thems the breaks.

The assassin walked over to the bed and shot the young man in the head with a contact shot. The suppressor muffled the sound, and his scalp took the volume down even further. The young woman, disturbed from her most excellent fuck, opened her eyes to see a black shape above her face and then saw nothing ever again after the brief flash.

It sucked to do this job, but the money was right, the risk was minimal…and people should be more careful about who they cross.

After all, if you cross the wrong person, things could happen. Bad things. Like…a suppressed .32ACP round induced brain hemorrhage.

Working quickly, the laptop was accessed and a spare hard drive plugged into it’s port. The files were transferred and then, the laptop was commanded to reformat itself.

The couple on the bed was covered, and a dark pillow was put over their heads.

For a brief glance, it would serve. If someone came in to shake them they would know in an instant…but even then, nobody’s calling the cops in this frat all that fast.

Blow, weed & speed abounded in this place, and that would need to be addressed before anyone went to the cops.

Leaving the room and closing the door, the thong remained. The assassin went downstairs and drifted around the room for a bit more, then left alone, leaving behind a few hits of ecstasy with a 5’10” brunette with grey eyes, shorts, tight t-shirt and cowgirl boots for her to share with friends.

Sewing confusion in the form of drugs & sex, the assassin left, the mission complete.

The client would be pleased…


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And thus, the setting for an online RPG.

What was on the laptop...maybe you aught to investigate.

Why was the couple killed? Which of them was the mark, and which was just collateral damage? Were they both a message?

Was it organized crime?
Was it a corporation looking to keep secrets?
Was it deeper than that?

Who's looking into it? Campus Police - surely, you jest!
But who?
Local Police?
State Police?
A Federal Law Enforcement Agency?
Someone in inteligence?
Corporate security?

Or a combination of them...

Is the person or people who ordered the hit the same as the ones looking into the killing?

Maybe some teachers or students would like to know what happened?

Modern universities have many people on them who could uncover the truth.
A-stan/Iraq war vets who spent time in SF/Intel units...cops taking or teaching classes...Teachers who long ago served their country in the dark days of the cold war as spies in Europe (Well, not officially, as the Resume says "State Department")...

And let us not forget the wealthy, well connected and smart students who may simply apply the formidable talents they posess to asking "What Happened & Why?" and ask Mon & Dad to help...

If you'd like to jump in, please post who your character is...

And who they appear to be.
 
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Name: Adara Jimenez

Age: 20

Relation to victims: The freshman female victim's resident advisor at the dorm.

Major: Psychology with a minor in Forensic Psychology

Physical features: 5'6", hourglass figure, with athletically toned legs, oval face with light hazel eyes fringed with thick dark eyelashes, a snubbed, slightly upturned nose, and pouty, pomegranate lips. Her hair is a lustrous espresso-colored cascade of curls down to just below her shoulders, and she has three piercings in her right ear, and two in her left.

Distinguishing marks: A beauty mark at her left temple, just past the corner of her eye, a red rose tattoo on the inside of her right wrist with the name "Rafa" in calligraphy written under it and a date set mid-last year, a faint scar cutting across her left eyebrow.
 
Name: Adara Jimenez

Age: 20

Relation to victims: The freshman female victim's resident advisor at the dorm.

Major: Psychology with a minor in Forensic Psychology

Physical features: 5'6", hourglass figure, with athletically toned legs, oval face with light hazel eyes fringed with thick dark eyelashes, a snubbed, slightly upturned nose, and pouty, pomegranate lips. Her hair is a lustrous espresso-colored cascade of curls down to just below her shoulders, and she has three piercings in her right ear, and two in her left.

Distinguishing marks: A beauty mark at her left temple, just past the corner of her eye, a red rose tattoo on the inside of her right wrist with the name "Rafa" in calligraphy written under it and a date set mid-last year, a faint scar cutting across her left eyebrow.

Is Adara someone who's going to poke around, wanting to know why someone got popped at a frat party?
 
Is Adara someone who's going to poke around, wanting to know why someone got popped at a frat party?

Yeah, especially since it's her resident that got popped, so she is going to feel a sense of responsibility to look into it. And she's curious, too.
 
I'll throw in a character I may play, or if someone else wants it, they can have him.

Name: Carl Johnson, PhD.
Currently department head of the Political Science & Criminal Justice department.
Age 66
Formerly State Department Law Enforcement Attache to various easter european countries & the former Soviet Union. (Actually, he was a CIA case officer...but one doesn't go about saying things like that...)

Carl had a long and interesting life, but you wouldn't know it by looking at him.
He served in the Army doing military inteligence after West Point for 12 years, then joined the..."State Department" and spent a lot of time in Europe.

Then, it happened. The double cross. Actually, he found out about the double cross.

His source was actually planted on him by the KGB, and he found out his best source had been feeding him bad intel for years. He passed the information on to HQ, and they didn't believe him.

Carl questioned why they kept acting on the bad intel, but his inquiries were rebuffed, and he realized he had stepped in something he wasn't cleared for.

Unfortunatly, so did the Agency, and they shut him down. That was the begining of the end.

He wasn't burned...but he didn't like the way things were going. He retired on September 4th, 2001.

That didn't last long, and at 3pm on 9/11/01 he was back at CIA...and by 6PM he was on a flight to Germany to start shaking trees to see what he could come up with in terms of future plots.

After 2 more years though, it was time to call it quits. The tempo of the operations was too much for him, and he couldn't keep it up.

Besides, he really wasn't an Islamic Terror specialist, so after 23 years serving the US government, it was enough. He went out on a high note and went into a nice slot at a University he was qualified for.

Since retiring, he's been a teacher dealing with political science and lately has taken over the criminal justice department. He's enjoying the young ladies very much, thank you.

Hey, he's old, but he can still close a deal without resorting to anything crude like grades for sex.

And the '57 Mustang he built over the years helps.

He heard about the murder and asked some questions to the right people. He's not impressed with the answers, and he's still got questions.

And he doesn't like questions with a suppressor in the mix...
 
Special Agent Nicole Mason
Age: 33

The school was her old alma mater. It was rough times back then but they seem to have gotten rough now. She's called back because she knows the school, still knows some of the professors, most importantly, this could be mafia related...

There are a lot of questions and Nicole wants answers.

Physical stats: 5'7", 124 lbs, red hair, brown eyes. She has a splash of freckles over her nose.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/09/20/arts/20UNFORGETTABLE/20UNFORGETTABLE-articleLarge.jpg

((more coming as I think of it :) ))
 
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The funeral was lovely...
Carl attended, and watched the crowd. He didn't believe the killer would attend. This wasn't a crime of passion, it was a hit. None the less, he knew better than to cut corners in an investigation...and that's how he thought of the matter.

He'd read the police report the night before. Dam, that was some cold shit. It read just like the old days. Wet-Work, pure and simple. 2 shots, 2 kills, suppressed weapon, public venue, no witnesses, computer…accessed? Wiped as a false trail? He didn’t know.

In spite of himself, it got the blood pumping. Just like the old days.
He tuned back into the ceremony...listening to the droning of the mass, consigning the souls of the departed to the eternal...

And he watched. He looked for faces he had not seen in classes or on campus...

This place was rapidly turning into a spook convention. He'd seen at least two people he knew from the Agency who'd gone into corporate security, and several who looked like they were Feds who were alumni coming back to the Alma Mater to have a look-see.

“No shit!” he muttered to himself.

He thought back to the basic motives for action:
MICES
Money. Ideology. Conscience. Ego. Silence/Security.

Money, …who’s? How? Why?

Ideology…possible. Alice Fletcher, they young woman, was active in a lot of hippy bullshit…and with her being a computer science major, who the fuck knows what she got into. Government, banks…organized crime.

Conscience. Well…who’s? Assuming something pricked it, what? Why scratch the itch like this if it did?

Ego… If someone was sending a message, they sure as hell did it. What the message was…Jason Aaron’s father was a pharmaceutical company’s CFO. Fletcher’s mother was a journalist for MSNBC, and by all accounts a cunt…but a smart one with access to the White House.

Silence/Security. Well. They got that. At least for these two. Who else?

Fletcher & Aaron...all sorts of possibilities for a lot of people to get angry at them, and send a message to their parents.

The professionalism of the hit bothered him. Not to be cold, but it bothered him more than two freshmen getting their brains blown out as they got it on. The targets weren't all that hard, but this was done smoothly.

Smooth in this public of a venue meant training, experience or both...It just wasn't a good feeling to this.

The Father concluded the Mass, and with that the pall-bearers escorted the coffins to the hearses. The students would be interred on the campus in a lovely green with black marble headstones…

Hours later at the reception, the mood was subdued.

Students, more accustomed to jeans and T-shirts, who’s only fancy attire was clubbing gear looked uncomfortable. Faculty, unnerved by the murders, looked shaken and were hitting the bar pretty heavy. Come to think of it, the bartenders weren’t really checking ID’s…and some of the students had started getting acquainted with Senior Faculty – Professor J. Walker Black, and Dr. Daniels, Ph.D.

And the spooks were still around. Good.

Overall, his prospects were good for getting laid or finding out more info. Or both.
He got himself a cognac and set course into the crowd…
 
We can do either...I was throwing this out as a beginning to get it moving.

I'm good doing it here.
 
Adara dabbed at her eyes as she listened to the mass, walking outside with the parents. She offered her condolences to Alice's mother, expressing her sorrow for her loss, as Alice had been one of her students in the dorm. Her room had been two down from Adara's own, and she saw the young woman frequently passing by on the way to class or showers. The woman had glared balefully at her. After all, mom needed someone to blame, and blaming the RA for "irresponsibility" seemed just as good as any other person. Adara let her be angry. Alice's dad seemed to understand she had nothing to do with their daughter's death so he apologized and led his wife away.

'Well that's one networking connection I won't have,' she thought glumly as she made her way to the reception.

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Holding a glass of wine, as she had no stomach for anything harder at the moment, Adara moved her way to the windows, her little black dress was a backless mid-thigh length affair, which she "subdued" with a dark gray pashmina shawl scarf and black sandals. Her hair fell down in soft waves to her shoulders and she wore her expression in a proper mask of mourning while her eyes moved around the crowd. Who had hurt her student? Who here was responsible for this? It pricked her 'spidey sense' to seek out the killer, if only to know what went on through his mind. Call it morbid curiosity, a desire for justice, or just plain nosiness... she wanted to find things out.
 
Adara dabbed at her eyes as she listened to the mass, walking outside with the parents. She offered her condolences to Alice's mother, expressing her sorrow for her loss, as Alice had been one of her students in the dorm. Her room had been two down from Adara's own, and she saw the young woman frequently passing by on the way to class or showers. The woman had glared balefully at her. After all, mom needed someone to blame, and blaming the RA for "irresponsibility" seemed just as good as any other person. Adara let her be angry. Alice's dad seemed to understand she had nothing to do with their daughter's death so he apologized and led his wife away.

'Well that's one networking connection I won't have,' she thought glumly as she made her way to the reception.

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Holding a glass of wine, as she had no stomach for anything harder at the moment, Adara moved her way to the windows, her little black dress was a backless mid-thigh length affair, which she "subdued" with a dark gray pashmina shawl scarf and black sandals. Her hair fell down in soft waves to her shoulders and she wore her expression in a proper mask of mourning while her eyes moved around the crowd. Who had hurt her student? Who here was responsible for this? It pricked her 'spidey sense' to seek out the killer, if only to know what went on through his mind. Call it morbid curiosity, a desire for justice, or just plain nosiness... she wanted to find things out.

Carl watched the glare from the student's mother toward the RA.

If looks could kill, she'd be dead.

Then again, maybe it was the dress. Backless, black with sandals? OK...maybe she's trolling at a funeral.

Well. So was he...ah, well.

The funeral looked like a Who's Who of, well...everyone.

Among the others he saw earlier, he saw a money launderer for the Cartel, a Gambino button man, someone who had an IRS Criminal Investigation Division look to him, and a very lovely spanish woman in her mid-50's who bore a striking resemblance to someone who may have shot him in 1992.

In Berlin.

He downed his drink, then got another.

May as well talk to the RA.

He watched her in the reflection of the glasses of the law school dean he was talking to. She had a very focused expression on her face, and seemed like she was trying to take in faces, and snippets of conversation.

She's going to make a fine asset, he thought.

He stopped himself. Was he thinking of a recruitment?

She's a baby, he thought...then thought, No...she's not. She's old enough to want to get involved, and young enough to not know when she's in too deep.

She'll get killed, he thought. It would bother him if that happened.

On the other hand...

He didn't like questions, and sometimes, well. Omlette. Eggs.

He saw the lovely spanish lady talking to the RA, then realized that they had a resemblance.

Oh...shit.

This was gonna get interesting.

He broke off from the professor and made his way over the RA and her...Mother?

He made eye contact with the older one, and she reacted. Not for more than an instant, or very hard...but she reacted.

"Tragedy, wasn't it?" he said.

The older lady said "Quite. They were so young."

"I wonder if I was ever that young...maybe in the 90's..." he responded.

She looked at him.

"Germany. I was young once. Did a lot of stupid things overseas...Never ended up like them...guess I was lucky" He said, casually.

Her eyes went from soft and motherly to serpent flat in less than a heartbeat, then back to motherly. She said "Maybe you were."

He smiled softly, then said "Yeah...maybe I was. That's over now. All that stupid stuff I left behind. I'm just happy to be done with it." He paused, then looked at his drink. Then up at her. "Completely done with it"

Momma's eyes relaxed a bit, then she said "Well, professor. Congradualtions on surviving your youth."

He nodded, smiling, then said "Looks like we both did well?"

"Quite. I've moved on from my misspent youth. I'm content to let it lie." she mused.

Well. That's one threat down.

Nodding, he said "I take it this is your sister?"

She laughed, and the serpent's eyes flashed again, "My Daughter. She was Alice's RA. You were one of their teachers?"

"They are all our students..." He said, looking her in the eyes.

She nodded. "Yes...Adara. You know professor?"

"Johnson" he completed the question.
 
Adara watched her mother and the professor... did she have him for a class for her minor? They talked and her mom got that look about her. The one from her youth, the viper read to strike look. It had been the quelling look for most of her and Rafa's childhoods.

She smiled up at the professor politely. "Of course, Professor Johnson... I think I took one of your classes last semester for my minor." She looked at her mom with a raised eyebrow. "Do you two know each other?"

Her mother never had been clear on what she did before she became a consultant, but Adara wasn't as bugged by it as she had been when she was in high school. Somethings she just didn't need to know.
 
"I think we may have crossed paths before, but we were never introduced formally." He said.

He looked at the young woman closely for the first time. The spitting image of her mother...

"No. We never recieved a formal introduction. Would you do the honors?" he asked.
 
"Professor Johnson, Lucinda Duran, Mom, Professor Johnson." She gestured between them suring the introductions watching their reactions. Her mother sniled pleasantly enough, though her eyes were wary as she held a hand out, nodding as she took it. "A pleasure, Professor." She gave him a cordial smile and then glanced at her daughter. "How are you holding up?"

Adara shrugged. "I don't know why anyone would kill her. She hadn't given me any problems. We talked about her plans after graduation. She wanted to work for Apple or Google."
 
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