Case 3.10: …Ask Questions Later

The officer took a few days to recover. Fingle was diagnosed with Lycanthropy at the hospital, but he took a private payment to get it removed quickly. Back at the station, they separated the human man and woman so they could interrogate each of them. The bugbear had been moved to a magical monster’s pound. Jericho and Eddie spoke to the Were-Boar, Rezar, who initially didn’t give up much until the officers started accusing him of kidnapping and stealing blood. He revealed that all the blood they took belonged to Madalyne, the female, and that the entire operation was her idea.

Jericho, as per usual, got his interviewee riled up, but instead of accidentally confessing like they usually do, he accused the officers of excessive brutality and attacking an unarmed woman. Mackey, who was watching from the observation room, called out the officers to discuss what he was accusing them of. The Captain decided he wouldn’t proceed with disciplinary action this time, but he would send everyone out for some additional training.

Back in the room, they questioned Rezar more about selling Conduit blood, but as far as he knew, Madalyne was just a normal human, with normal low-cost blood.

Fingle and Blaine spoke to Madalyne in the next room, she also said that the whole thing was her idea, Rezar was fired from his job after he contracted Lycanthropy, and she recalled hearing on the news about the blood trade, so she tried to contact the Dark Order to sell her blood, and she found a buyer.

When the officers asked her about Conduit’s blood, they too just thought they were a regular human, although they wish they were a Conduit as they could have gotten so much more Gold than she was.

The pair shared the same pattern of emotion when told that Madylen was a conduit; confusion, denial, anger, annoyance. Jericho thought they could get them on the side by claiming that the buyer must have known that it was Conduit blood and was intentionally screwing them over. Mackey added that if they assisted the investigation, they could speak with the other departments and get some of the other charges dropped.

They agreed to help, but they would also need their Bugbear friend to be released, as he was their delivery guy. Mackey made some more calls, and the next morning, Thetunk was in the interrogation room with the other two.