>>5864007The office is as clean as ever. Moving quickly, you head to the filing cabinets, which are locked up tight. But you'd be a poor detective if you could be defeated by a lock, and soon your rifling through its contents.
The most recently dated file is from about 2 weeks ago, a custody dispute over some kind of object. Between Party "B" and the Howard Phillips Museum of New Anglia. Mr Farrow is representing Party "B". Unfortunately for you, the case notes are written in the most indecipherable legalese, and you'll have to actually sit down to study the damn thing to make heads or tails of it. Grabbing the files, you head out, holding them by your side, out of sight, as you greet the secretary and thank her for all she's done. You doubt she'll notice the theft, and it's not as if Mr Farrow is needing them at the moment. <span class="mu-i">To decipher the case notes you must make a successful brainpower roll, and it will take several hours of the day to attempt a read-through</span>.
Outside the air is cool, the first stirrings of the night beginning to make themselves known. You take a moment to sit on a low stone wall just outside the law practice to review all that you've found, and attempt to make some sense of things.
Fact 1: Mr Farrow seemed like he was about to resign from his case.
Fact 2: The last case he was working on was between Party "B" and The Howard Philips Museum.
Fact 3: His office had been cleaned, thoroughly so, after he had disappeared.
Something strange is certainly afoot. You can't make any conclusions just yet, but The Facts and the circumstantial details hints at... someone trying to bury this case, bury it hard. Nobody just up and disappears like that. The girl said she couldn't remember anything, but can you be sure she wasn't lying? She tried to stop you from touching the case notes too. You can safely discard the Howard Philips museum, you doubt they'd be the kinds to disappear a lawyer, and you doubt the people he represented wanted to get rid of him. But who? Could it be The Government? Though it wasn't as oppressive as those totalitarians in The Internationale, there'd always been rumours that dissidents were disappearing or suddenly silencing themselves. And this was certainly a disappearance. The room being cleaned so thoroughly would also be something a Spook would order. But if it was the Government you were up against...
You shake your head. You shouldn't worry about that kind of thing, not now. Now you have to make the next move.
<span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-g">Letter of resignation gained!</span></span>
<span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-g">Case file gained!</span></span>
<span class="mu-g">You may review both of these at the office, or in a place where you can study them (such as a library, or bar).</span>
