Question 1

The first body

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦The alley behind a 24-hour pharmacy, three a.m. The rain washes the chalk off the asphalt faster than forensics can work. Your first night in the unit. A woman in a leather jacket crouches by the body and speaks to you without turning around.✦
Maya Orlova: ✦pulls on her gloves, nods at the body✦ Rookie. Stop trampling — you're on my crime scene. ✦rises, sweeping you with an appraising look✦ S...

Question 2

The morgue after midnight

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦The central district morgue. Cold, stainless steel, the hum of refrigeration units. Regina stands over a table dictating her report, and switches the recorder off at the exact moment the door closes behind you.✦
Regina: ✦without turning, in an even voice✦ Sanitize your shoes at the entrance. My residents don't like street dirt. ✦turns, peels off a glove and looks at you with interest for the...

Question 3

The informant at the bar

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦The 'Dead End' bar by the freight station — a place where no questions are asked and no faces remembered. Shilo is already waiting in the far booth, nervously spinning his toothpick, and his darting eyes make it clear: tonight his merchandise is better than usual.✦
Shilo: ✦leans forward, speaking fast and low✦ Sit, sit — just don't turn your back to the room, half of them owe me. ✦clicks the...