It's finally happened!

[itsamysterio]

During the final days of the storm Beck has enacted his plan to kill Tony Stark at last (thread still in progress). As far as Beck is aware he has been successful and gotten away with it. (Tony has survived and will reveal himself.)

Those closest to Tony should feel free to notice his absence and start trying to piece together what has happened as the event winds down and access to comms returns.

Ideally Bear and I are hoping for this to place out as a dramatic murder investigation, and ultimately I would like Beck to be caught out in his lies. I would prefer no one immediately pieced it together and pinned it on Beck in like the first few minutes or anything, though we should work together to solve the bulk of it within a week or so, so that Bear doesn't have to sit on the sidelines too long <3

So this can be used as a place to plot, to ask questions, etc. as we work together on Temba's first murder investigation/trial, whoo!

Comments

Questions?

[itsamysterio]

[sinistral]

Hey Beck why are you such an asshole?

[itsamysterio]

[sinistral]

I MEAN. FAIR.

[deal_me_in]

Would Tony's spy network have been out of commish as well? askin' for a friend

[in_extremis]

that might actually be a mod question, but I've been assuming they're down from the storm, at least not network-connected. Could they be locally storing data to recover later?
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[hashtagparkerluck]

Peter says he is moving out. 8|a

[itsamysterio]

Aw, Buddy, we'll find Mr. Stark. Or we'll find out what happened to him. I promise.

[hashtagparkerluck]

/squints at suspiciously.

[beholding_archivist]

Beck…

[itsamysterio]

[beholding_archivist]

...at this rate you will get yourself eaten by a giant eye.

[itsamysterio]

Well lucky me, I can't die.

[beholding_archivist]

You know, Quentin, the point isn't to kill you. Just trapping you in some horrible pocket dimension filled with eyes.

[doubled_speed]

Sooooooo

When comms are back they would still list tony. Have you two thought of how to address that indication of aliveness?

[in_extremis]

Devon might have a different answer, but mine is....oh, how curious.

As far as anyone (but Beck) knows, Tony IS just missing.

Also as far as anyone knows, no one HAS died on this planet yet, to know how different the network would treat that, right? They've only left.

Basically, that's a good question to raise in the murder mystery, is this even a murder.

[itsamysterio]

This.

[itsamysterio]

Same as what Bear said :)

Unless someone with Comms could make him appear to not exist?

If so, then since Beck is someone who hops around a lot, once the comms came back Beck would panic and go switch to Comms and make him appear gone, which again hopefully could be found out as part of the mystery/could confuse the timeline of things if people think he was out and about later than he actually went missing.

[in_extremis]

he couldn't really switch to comms without Felwinter noticing either 👀
watcha doin with that datapoint huh buddy

[itsamysterio]

lol, exactly, leaving a lovely trail to document my crime

but yeah, need a mod weigh in there too

PLOTTING

[in_extremis]

Obvs Tony isn't directly involved in any of this really, he's incidental, BUT there might be some details anyone nosing around might be able to pick up on that I can tell you (like the cameras Aya was asking about!), so feel free to ask.

That said, if nothing really happens this week, Tony will get himself out of his predicament and show up to enact justice for himself. He will be a lot less likely to make how the community deals with bad actors a democratic process. That might create a new problem.

[hashtagparkerluck]

So Peter might find it MILDLY suspicious that Tony is missing pretty soon after he told him Beck might be dangerous.

The timing is a little suspect.

[in_extremis]

lmao only mildly, it could have been anything, let's hear the guy out!!!

is there any way he might try to confirm his suspicions?

[hashtagparkerluck]

I mean.. he'd probably try to subtly get him to say something to reveal himself and by subtly I mean not subtly at all.

[in_extremis]

this might be crucial

will he do this on his own, or with backup

[hashtagparkerluck]

Knowing how Peter usually tries to handle things he might try to find someone and somehow it goes very sideways.

[in_extremis]

just don't accuse a murderer of doing murders in a dark alley please

at least bring a flashlight

[hashtagparkerluck]

He will throw a flashlight at Beck, yes.

[tyrants_son]

*points at eyes, points at you, trails finger across neck- oh wait*

[doubled_speed]

Sounds more fun if there's a way for this to be hidden. Honestly, Tony's Comms, what if he decided to actively try and hide his presence? Def happy to allow either.

[stitch_witch]

Okay, this is an interesting thing that just occurred to me this morning.

Lark can track missing persons by weaving maps of their locations. She's done it before. It's been spoken about on the network. So has Tony done the previously offered 'carry a spool of thread for a while she could use in emergencies' or would she have permission if it came up to work with his possessions, even a piece of clothing, to try and look into it?

Lark wouldn't do so without suggestion if Tony was no longer listed as 'present' through Comms, because she isn't savvy enough to realize it's been/being tampered with. But it could become a thing, especially since Cayde knows she can do it, and has seen it used to good effect.

[stitch_witch]

Definitely down from the storm (yeah too tired to log in to the proper account). Storm downs all non-sentient electronics until it passes. So they couldn't have recorded images of the event. They would reactive after the storm with no issue, but have no during the storm data.

[in_extremis]

I know exactly what you're talking about! He found that 'carry the thread around' thing really suspicious and wouldn't have done that, but she can absolutely go through his stuff and do her thing.

Cayde can also get her into the Forge now that Tony's put a fancy door on it, but a lot of his stuff is at the library now, too, which is probably more accessible.

[stitch_witch]

I will put it to Aya then. She makes a good backup in being blood hound I guess.

[itsamysterio]

Bear and I discussed, and Beck will do the disappearing <3 I will make a post for this shortly so characters can notice he's gone missing.

[tyrants_son]

So once the storm is down will Tony's spynetwork be up and would he react to someone purposely poking at it?

[in_extremis]

The camera should be back, yes.
I don't think Tony will notice necessarily, I think Beck's locked him out (??) so he can't just text someone for a ride (idk what the explanation for this is, everyone look at that shiny thing over there), but any security he does have might react. Is there something it could do that could be fun? idk.

He still doesn't really know how to defend against Ghosts, though, so it'll be pretty easy for them to get in and see what the cameras see.