New Avalon

[CalamityJade]

He had his own place in the more middling part of town, but near the 'dregs' that were Copper Alley and Persistence St. Makes sense if he was a PI, since you don't want to be too far in the costly parts of town and if you were Welcomed for investigations, you'd be getting paid enough to not NEED the location.

[accalia]

Interesting. Sam makes a note of the locations and promises himself that he'll check them out as soon as he can. And that happens sooner than Sam would like as he notes the appearance of.... yeah, that's one of his father's clerks. Time to make himself scarce. Father hasn't really accepted Sam's world view and occasionally tries to drag Sam back home. Sam for his part will have nothing to do with that.

Time to go poking around Rob's office and home...

[CalamityJade]

Well, at least Sam had gotten SOME answers upon getting to the address. The police were already around the area, a couple of cruisers. The interesting thing was that it wasn't the normal cruisers. They had the distinct crest of the Welcoming Committee. Their official title was the New Avalon Special Investigations, but due to a lot of their duties stemming from crimes that involve the Welcome... Still, the fact that they were here meant either the information on Rob was wrong about his status, or he had been looking into something that dealt with the Welcomed.

[accalia]

Well..... nothing for it.... time to brown nose the blue bottoms. "Good afternoon officers."

[CalamityJade]

The officer made something of a face before answering. "Good afternoon. Something I can help you with?"

[accalia]

"I'm not sure, I was looking for Rob McCarthey's office. One of my clients mentioned working with him before and i was hoping to talk to him and maybe get his old case notes. It seems you're mighty interested in his office, any chance you'd be willing to share the why of that with me?" Sam says, flashing his best 'just doing my job, no hard feelings' smile.

[CalamityJade]

"Well, too bad for your client. Doubt he'll be making any time for talk." The officer shook his head, seemingly only slightly softened by the smile. "Less your one of those types that believes in ghosts." There was another officer that was coming out of the office with a box that looked to be filled with random junk and things. "And yer not gonna have much better luck with his notes. "

[accalia]

Sam makes a note on his sketchpad. "Find a medium. Got it. Would you care to offer an opinion on what might have happened here? Off the record of course, it might be relevant to my client's case."

[CalamityJade]

The first officer looked to be about to answer before the one carrying things cut him off. "Can't do that. Entire thing is being handled and the citizens of New Avalon have nothing to worry about at this time." Well, if THAT didn't sound rehearsed. The first officer sighed. "Sorry, but he's right. Strict orders, you understand." And he tried to give the same "just doing my job" sort of smile.

[accalia]

Sam figured that would be the reaction, but.... well he had to try. "Well, can't blame a gumshoe for trying. So officially there's no statement. Well I'll just have to work with that i guess. Good day officers." Sam says jovially as he turns to walk away, time to think of a different way to approach this one... Sam will get a coffee and see if he can wait out the welcoming committee. They'll eventually leave and Sam can sneak in and have his own poke around then. he might even get lucky and they'll miss something important.

[CalamityJade]

They were there for a good hour and a half before they seemed done clearing things out and headed away. Sam had also watched them take out at least four boxes of things before they packed up and headed out. It's...interesting that they were clearing out a PI's place at all, actually. It's not like the NAPD were clearing out the places of anyone that might have died, let alone the Welcoming Committee.

[accalia]

Not really expecting to find anything but not willing to admit defeat yet either  Sam approaches the building once more, fingering the set of lock picks in his pocket. If they missed anything Sam will try and find it.

[CalamityJade]

Well, it didn't look like they missed a lot. The apartment had a main room with half of it converted into what seemed like an office and and a bedroom. The office had been completely cleared out to the last scrap of paper, unfortunately. The bedroom didn't fare much better as anything visibly paper-like was gone through. There WAS, however, a few coats up in the closet, one of which had a scrap of paper in it with only a few words on it.

"Sam. Have faith."

[accalia]

Okay, that was surprising. His name? and Faith? "What the bleep?" Yes, Sam actually said bleep instead of swearing, but through much practice he managed to give the word the right inflection so it was plain that a swear was meant, if not said...

Same makes a note to visit a church soo, just in case as he does a nother sweep, just to make sure he didn't miss anything.

[CalamityJade]

Other than some dust bunnies and the fact no one's taken out the garbage, looks like the place is clean.