An hour later, Will, Cal, and Logan were all standing just outside the door to the ship's security.
"Okay guys, I have a plan. Let me do all the talking. Will, I know this will be hard for you." Logan said,
prompting a snicker from Cal.
"Hey, being the smartass is my job. Just get us in." Will said, opening the door. Behind it were two
cybernetically enhanced guards.
"What are you three doing here?" One of them asked.
"Checking the security tapes. If there's a murderer around, I want to make sure the people I'm being paid to
keep safe stay safe." Logan said.
"Those are highly classified." The guard said.
"It's not like I'm asking to walk out the door with them. I just need to see the tapes." Logan said. The guard
shrugged, tapping a button on the large computer next to him. Instantly, a video started playing on the large
monitor screen.
The video showed the pool at around midnight the previous night. The captain was chatting with the lifeguard
as she got off duty. Suddenly, the lifeguard's body flickered, showing a tall thin person. The captain jumped
back, but was shot by the tall thing. It then kicked the captain's body into the pool, and appeared to vanish
into the air.
"Can you enhance the image of the murderer?" Cal asked.
"We've tried miss. Every shot of him is blurred. Like the cameras just won't focus on him." The guard said.
Cal noticeably grimaced at being called miss, but everyone else was too busy looking at the monitor as the
guard showed every camera on the deck's shot of the murderer. Each of them could show you a single hair on the
captain's head, but couldn't even tell what skin color the murderer had.
"Freaky." Will said.
"You said it. We heard there was a data savant onboard. We were going to see if he could sort through all
this." The guard said. Instantly, Cal, Will, and Logan's eyes lit up.
"Thank you sirs. I'll contact you if I come across anything in my own investigations." Logan said.
"Hang on." The guard said, handing Logan a business card, "Here's the security office's number. If you want to
work on this, we need to know everything you have as soon as you have it."
"Understood." Logan said as he and his companions walked out, shutting the door behind them.
"Burn the card, it's probably bugged." Will said.
"With this shit tech? Not a chance." Cal said.
"Will has a point." Logan said, tossing the card into the nearest trash.
"Now, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Logan asked.
"Gabe used his tech in some way we don't understand, then had his savant hook into the system to obscure
everything." Will said.
"But why would his character kill the captain?" Cal said.
"You don't seem the roleplaying type. Why bother asking? Maybe he just had to." Logan said.
"I got into roleplaying real fast when I actually became the role. What I'm saying is, this whole mission is
about being 100% sure about who killed the guy. We need to know more about Gabe's character if we're going to
kill him for it." Cal said.
"Cal has a point. If we just kill Gabe now, and we're wrong, the murderer wins." Will said.
"But his savant is probably monitoring every frequency under the sun." Logan said.
"I'm military, and Cal is religious. We have access to frequency's away from the sun's light." Will said.
"I'll look into just what this suit can do. It might give us an advantage we don't know about." Cal said,
tapping his bulky, metal suit.
"And I'll see if the lifeguard knows anything. She might be involved." Logan said.
"We'll meet in the casino tomorrow during breakfast." Will said.
"Why the casino?" Cal asked.
"It's illegal to have cameras anywhere but the doors so no tech savvy person can hack in and cheat. Plus,
Colonel Musted is a compulsive gambler. I have the most NPCs to get off my tail, so I need something
believable." Will said.
"I'll tell my crew I'm trying to convince you of the evils of gambling or something." Cal said.
"Alright. See you tomorrow morning then." Logan nodded as he walked off.