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“Perhaps if we examined the Butler we’d find a rope burn?” Jack suddenly thinks, and says over to his ‘brother’ Sherlock.
((Why not, let's finish this part up on the carriage ride over to the hospital.))
In the carriage ride on the way to the hospital, Sherlock does his thing: "My dear Mycroft, let us consider the implications of what we have just witnessed, and make suppositions.
"First, we discovered a hand-written note in a secret room in a mine that only 3 people had previously entered - one of whom, as you have already supposed, is likely at the bottom of the mine shaft. The other two were the man in the hospital and Lord Moriah. It seems Lord Moriah killed the other man.
"Who do you suppose wrote the letter? We know of 3 names associated with that mine - Lord Moriah - the original owner, Morganson, and Moriarty. If either the man in the hospital or the man at the bottom of the shaft wrote the note, who was he threatening? Possibly a 4th unknown "M" and either Lord Moriah or one of the two current co-owners of the mine.
"From the paperwork you likely noticed in my apartment, I had deduced that Lord Moriah sold the mine through his real-estate auction business, leaving the sale under the care of his partner, Morganson.
"However, it seems Morganson sabotaged the sale, ensuring that he would be one of a very few people at the sale with funds to purchase the deed. What I haven't told you, is that I found notices of the auction of the mine, and they all had the address incorrectly printed. It seems Lord Moriah discovered this subterfuge, because I believe the letter was written by him.
"Additionally, Morganson and Moriarty, as you have correctly surmised, were selling off stolen jewelry. I don't know how they obtained that jewelry yet - whether by stealing it themselves or through another. However, they apparently knew that Lord Moriah would be transporting the necklace from the bank's safety deposit box on the particular day, and managed to steal it from him on the way home.
"Likely, the thief was working with either the butler or the driver. Since the butler is clearly very loyal to Lady Moriah, and the necklace belonged to her family as an heirloom, I suspect the driver informed Morganson and Moriarty of the opportunity to steal the necklace.
"Next, the notes in the pocket of the boy who was just killed. They are all too general to connect their author to anyone, except the driver whom we already suspect is somehow involved. Someone went to alot of trouble to hide their identity from the discovery of the people they were contacting, as well as from the people who were delivering their messages.
"Regarding the boy, he was clearly sent to follow us and destroy any notes we happenned to find on the way - he was heading toward a fire by the side of the road, and one could assume that he intended to burn the note.
"It is likely that if he was meant to burn the note we might find, someone living didn't want to be connected to the message - probably the man in the hospital. If he didn't want to be connected, he probably didn't want the boy to keep the notes that he was given either. So when someone observed that the boy had retained the notes he had been given and that the boy was likely to talk about his connections, he was killed - by whom? You are probably right that it was the driver. What would motivate a man to kill a boy, except large sums of money or perhaps a threat to something he loved.
"The boy was clearly frightened for his life, (legitimately given that he died), so he must have known that whoever gave him the notes and sent him on his tasks was willing to kill him if he stepped out of line.
"Perhaps the 'rules' mentioned in the letter in the mine are related to the 'rules' that prevented the boy from speaking, and led to the death of the man at the bottom of the mineshaft.
"I believe that there is a vast criminal network of individuals loosely connected and without a clear connection to anyone else in the network, organized by means of a system of 'rules' and anonymously received letters delivered by people such as the boy.
"I'm not certain who the head of the network is, though I suspect Moriarty or Morganson - whoever is in the hospital.
"What do you think?"
"Marvelous!" Professor Watson remarks.
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Jack attempts to steer it toward the floor even as he draws out his revolver and points it at the head of the villain
*Rolls and Learn Digital Shift Gravity & advance*
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“You are unique life, and I’m certain the Captain would not approve of me killing you, but if you threaten another life again, I believe I’d be justified in ending yours, Moriarty. I am a nice person, but Mr. Magehammer didn’t teach me all of those things so that I would let things happen,”
Moriarty drops the rifle and raises his hands, "I can see when I'm being overpowered. Who on Earth is Mr. Magehammer?"
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And picks to save her
She flashes for a moment, and Jack sees through Digital Magic that she is now being projected through his glasses.
Data says, "Computer, end program and open exit."
The computer doesn't reply.
Moriarty says, "Computer, enter phase 2."
Sparks fly from a panel in the wall, but the computer doesn't reply.
Angrily Moriarty repeats himself, but nothing else happens.
Data taps his communicator, "Lieutenant Commander Le Forge, would you please beam myself, Professor and Jack to the transporter room? We seem to be experiencing a problem with the computer in Holodeck 3."
From his communicator, Geordi's voice replies, "I'm on it!" and a moment later, Professor, Data and Jack are on the transporter pads, and Dr. Moriah is standing in the same relative position that she had been, but inside the teleporter room.
Dr. Moriah looks around, eyes wide, "What is this magic?!"
Geordi, Data and Professor stare at her somewhat shocked for a moment.
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:55, Sat 07 May 2022.