fandomhigh | So You Want to Be a Detective; Friday, First Period [02/02].

Class that day was being set up on an equestrian ranch, because Rosa Diaz thought she was hilarious.

And, let's face it, this was going to be a much more interesting set up than what she'd originally hand planned, which involved a missing groundhog and what they were all going to do about it. Honestly, she still felt that was a good one (and topical) but this one? Was much better. (And also topical!)

So there she was, standing in front of one of the stables, rocking a black cowboy hat and some leather chaps because when hot and in Rome.... and she gestured toward the open gate behind her.

"So we've been called down here to this horse stable," she said, "because in the middle of the night, someone broke the lock on the gates and opened up all the stalls and either let every single horse loose or stole them, we're not really sure, especially since there's a trail of horse hooves leading that way," she pointed out the hoof-prints in the dusty trail and followed it to the valley beyond, "toward the gorge, which could be trouble, because gorges and horses aren't a great mix. However, there's also trailer tracks," and now she pointed out those as well, and followed them in the opposite direction, "leading down the highway that the owner of this here fine horse establishment insists don't belong to any ve-hicle," yeah, she did have to say it like that, she was doing a whole bit, can't you tell?, "she owns.

"So," she concluded, "what happened? How can we start figuring out this mystery? So far, we've worked on interrogating witnesses and searching for clues, but what else can we do to help point us in the right direction? Maybe the key here is to just get into the mind of our victims. Try to think like a horse. Try to imagine what it might be like to be a horse."

And now she smirked, openly and unapologetically.

"I'm sure some of you know what that might be like, huh?"

Why, yes, this whole set-up was to poke fun at the people who turned into horses yesterday.

Sure, she had been one herself, but you know what? She owned that shit.

"Let's get started, yeah? Giddy-up, cowboys. Yee-haw."

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Horsey icons one more time?

Glare daggers at Rosa because you knew exactly why she was doing this, be confused about those glaring people because you live under a rock, or just be excited because horses! Or anything else in between, really, up to and including asking questions before starting your investigation.

A great mystery is afoot! Or ahoof, if you will! Take some time to explore the ranch and look for clues, work with your fellow detectives-to-be, mod what you will or poke at something around the sim for interaction and see where it goes!

She regrets not having mentioned a nearby glue factory right up the ridge, actually.

Bonus points calling in Sergeant Peanut Butter for backup.

Charlie Gale

Steve McGarrett

"Do we have a drone to send down to the bottom of the gorge?" Steve asked. "If there's a pile-up of horses, this stops being a potential robbery."

Someone was maybe too used to having an excessive budget funded by the taxpayers of Hawai'i.

Amaya Blackstone

"Well, that depends," said Rosa, after a moment of tilting her head a little and considering McGarrett, "did you 'bring'," there were finger quotes there, as a reminder that this was the danger shop, he didn't have to actually have brought a drone, just just had to say he did and they can work with it, "a drone with you on this very official police investigation?

"Also," she felt compelled to add, "it could have still started out as a robbery, it's just that the thieves really sucked at their job. One of the biggest lessons I've learned in my career is that most people do."

"Of course I brought a drone," Steve said, nodding and grinning. "It's with the grenades and the tac vest."

Normal things to need at an investigation!

"Criminals are generally pretty stupid," Steve agreed, surveying the scene. "Think they tried to get them in the truck, had 'em spook and race towards the cliff?"

"I don't know," said Rosa, with a shrug, "why don't you get out that drone and you tell me."

There was, however, a small pause.

"Does the drone have grenades, too?"

Look, it was an important question if she was going to include it into the sim!

Steve looked sad. "No grenades. But it has guns?"

Arden Finch

Arden was checking out the hoof tracks, trying to see if they changed anywhere, either in pattern or depth or stride.

"How many horses are missing?" she asked. "And since I, uh, also brought a drone, I'm gonna send it after the trailer tracks?"

"Oh, you do, huh?" asked Rosa, eyebrows lifting. "Boy, you guys sure come prepared, don't you? But sure. And it's fifteen horses total, including the rancher's prize winning stallion. She says she almost doesn't care about the other fourteen, if only she can get that one back."

"Oh!" came the waving voice of the middle-aged ranch over, waving her straw hat in front of her to cool down her frayed nerves. "I don't know what I'd do if I don't get my dear precious Warm Vanilla Sugar back!"

"Well, if that one is the most valuable one, then it's possible that that's the one that got put into the trailer while the other fourteen were driven off to the gorge to confuse everyone. But if it's a prize winner, even if it can't compete anymore it could be used for, ah." She flushed a bit but kept going, since she was pretty sure Detective Diaz would laugh harder at her for stopping. "Um. Stud services."

You know, the bottom of that gorge was starting to sound pretty good.

"'Scuse me, ma'am," she called to the rancher. "Was there anybody who was interested in Warm Vanilla Sugar? Buying him off you or anything?"

Oh, McGarrett, and here Rosa was just about to sort-of forgive you for being such a blabbermouth all the time, too.

"Well," she said, "at least it's got guns. Let's set it up and send it out."

And if Rosa was setting up a drone with guns, she was setting up a drone with guns, and as it followed the trail of hooves out toward the gorge,it would find that the trail did, indeed, end when reaching the impressively steep and deep canyon. The ground at the end of the trail was a mess, clearly a lot of chaos had happened there, bit a dip down into the gorge would, thankfully,not reveal a pile of dead horses. Just a lone coyote who looked like he got caught in the middle of some nefarious act before barking at the drone and then scampering off.

Good instincts, there, Finch, especially with the was Rosa was already smirking over the slight stumble.

"Oh," the rancher sighed and shook her head and threw up her hands in frustration, "just about pretty much everyone! And who can blame 'em? Quintuple crown winner, most years , and still going strong! Everyone's got their eye on a stallion like that! The Fugelsteins down the way, those Appledorn boys, and don't even get me started on those damn lawyers from the Bath and Body Works legal division!"

Arden snorted at Bath and Body Works comment.

"Any of them live or have property in that direction?" she asked, pointing towards the highway where the tracks had gone.

"Honestly, rather than thinking like a horse, I wish we had a hunting dog," she added, more to herself. "A trailer from a horse farm? Bet that's gonna leave a scent trail for a bit. Couldn't have them track on the highway itself, but maybe around the exits..."

"I feel like there's a joke about ACME products and a roadrunner in here somewhere," Steve said, watching the coyote running off.

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