Castelum Optimus Appt 97/C

Apartment 97/C can be reached by an anti gravity chute. If the judges knock on the door, they get no reply. They can immediately bypass the door’s modified electronic lock with their override cards. As the judges enter the apartment, read the following out loud. You enter Bourgain’s apartment and discover a habitat quite unlike any you have seen before. The luxy-hab looks more like a tek-bay than a hab-unit, with metal appendages attached to every surface, each with a different function and all designed to make life as comfortable as possible for the occupant. The walls are so white they are blinding, the floor tiles so black they appear infinite. As you enter the apartment, spotlights disengage from a nearby wall and light your way, though why they should be active in late afternoon is a mystery. You notice an open door off to the far right. Multicoloured lights play about the wall beyond the doorway. As you approach, you notice a hand, palm up, on the floor just visible beyond the doorframe. They discover a corpse laying face up. An overturned hoverchair lies nearby, next to a desk brimming with data slugs and a blinking slug reader waiting for input. The corpse is overweight, bald, male and dressed in fine, designer clothing. He is also missing his head. Its remains cake the walls and ceiling. A forensics squad will identify the body as Joseph Sloppy Joe Bourgain, RIP. A search of the immediate area does not reveal a murder weapon, nor any sign of a struggle apart from Bourgain’s obvious fall from his hover chair. If they search the luxy-hab, the judges may notice a small ventilation hatch has been unscrewed underneath the desk. A Med check will reveal the head was blown off by an explosive device around the victim's neck. Metal particles are embedded in the brain matter. A Tek check reveals the explosive was a sophisticated robotic device. Custom job. Not many rogue teks are up to the challenge of something this advanced. Likely work of the modifiers of Robotown. They’re robots with excessive intuitive and technical programming designed by rogue teks to help them out. A few modifiers jumped ship, reckoning they could find a better life for themselves. Failing that, they hid in Robotown where they hire their services to anybody who can afford them.

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