Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-5999656-20180122052038/@comment-25389303-20180209203100

"Well, that implies that I know," Raiden replied with a smirk as he surveyed the room's contents. "Let's first see what we've got here..."

Setting down his suitcase for a moment, he moved from table to table, briefly examining each piece of evidence before moving onto the next. Whoever had set the room up had done a good job, as its tidy organisation meant it only took a few minutes of silent working for Raiden to get a good idea of the variety of evidence available.

"Got some fingerprints from the early burglaries - good for connecting crimes, not so much for identifying the perpetrator in this case," he began, setting aside several files of paper. "Now this does interest me..."

He held up a small glass vial holding a greyish-white powder. "Displaced ash, found at several of the crime scenes. Their dates don't seem to have a particular pattern, but," he looked at the corresponding police reports, "each of the incidences where this type of ash was found involved a potential witness being assaulted."

He set the vial down, placing his hand on his chin in a pondering gesture. After a moment of thought, he reached into the insides of his suit and pulled out his old-fashioned pistol. He tapped the side of the pan with his hand, nodding to himself as it came away speckled in white.

"As I thought. The shade of ash seems to match that produced by the combustion of Burn Dust, the same type used in my bullets," he deduced as he held the vial up to his hand in comparison. "That might gives us an idea of what kind of weapon our thief might have used while committing their robberies."

He wiped his hands clean and took a step back. "Two things are bothering me, though. Firstly, how our thief managed to commit so many crimes without being caught. And secondly, this."

He held up two pieces of confusing evidence. In his left hand was a plastic wallet containing a variety of broken door locks of varying complexities, each bearing a distinct hole in the middle, as if something had burrowed into the metal. In his right was a larger case containing a piece of bulletproof glass with a hand-sized circle removed from the pane.

"For their earliest burglaries it looks like our thief broke in by forcing open pin locks using some kind of breaching device. But this one indicates that they later used a...laser cutter, or something...to access their target building. And the later crime scenes don't have an obvious method of entry whatsoever. I expected them to have a particular style, but our thief appears capable of switching tactics seemingly at the drop of a hat."

Raiden set the locks and section of glass back down and ran a hand down his weary face. A few moments later he grimaced. "Argh...just thinking about it makes my head hurt. This detective work really isn't my strong suit."