IC - 7 - The House - Everyone

[Mephistophilis]

Kris is a pretty good Hindi speaker and he can tell the woman is talking in Urdu. Usually it would be fairly easy for a Hindi speaker to talk to an Urdu speaker as the languages are largely the same but Kris finds her accent and level of agitation make it more difficult than he was expecting.

Kris,Roll Hindi with advantage

[Philulhu]

Kris pushed past Burke and sat down opposite the woman so he was at the same eye level. ”कृपया धीमें बोलें।,” he said.

OOC,“कृपया धीमें बोलें।” = “Please, speak slowly” (according to internet translation, anyway!) Hindi (40%) - [dice]0[/dice] Bonus dice - [dice]1[/dice]

[Mephistophilis]

Kris,The woman explains that her name is [b]Samira Sindhu[/b], she has been a neighbour of [b]George Lewiston[/b] for many years and despite the language difficulties she feels she knows him well. She knows that he is a retired police officer but no details of his professional work. He has been divorced for a number of years and has an adult daughter, [b]Nicole[/b], she has a number for her. He keeps himself to himself and apart from his daughter she is not aware of any friends and she cannot recall any visitors. He plays the guitar badly and she sometimes hears that through the wall, otherwise he is a good neighbour. He asked her to take care of his cat for him and left some food and she has a key to the house. He said he'd be away for a few days. She is quite shocked by the state of the cat and says it must have only happened in the last few days as he normally looks well cared for. About the only thing of any interest about [b]George Lewiston[/b] and his routine is that he eats breakfast every day, religiously, at the café down the road called [i]'The Happy Cafe'[/i].

[Philulhu]

Kris thanked Samira for her help, and recounted what she had told to everyone else.

”We need to contact his daughter and check out the cafe,” he said, looking for directions on his phone. “According to Mrs Sindhu, Lewiston ate there every morning, so there’s a chance he might have used that as a meeting place.”

[Mephistophilis]

Kris,The cafe is a few minutes walk from Lewiston's house but it's the middle of the night so will be closed

Simon,Sorry, forgot to say above, nothing is marked or underlined in the book

[Silver Priest]

"It seems like the only lead worth pursuing now is contacting his daughter and determining if she knows anything," Simon says. "Given the circumstances I see no reason to wait until morning; she would probably appreciate knowing her father was dead, if nothing else."

[Philulhu]

”Not something we would normally do over the phone,” said Kris, although he dreaded having to tell relatives about the loss of a loved one.

He looked back over to Mrs Sindhu. ” क्या आपके पास उनकी बेटी का पता है?”

OOC,”Do you have an address for his daughter?”

[Mephistophilis]

Kris,She says she only has a mobile phone number. She overhears some of your discussions and asks if George is okay.

[Mr. Handy]

"No, we definitely need to go see her in person as soon as possible," says Jocelyn, "and not just for that reason. Remember, there's a female accomplice. Who else would he have trusted to help him? See if you can get a description of the daughter. There must be pictures of her around her somewhere, too."

[Philulhu]

”See if you can find a picture of the daughter,” said Kris, before turning back to Mrs Sindhu. “ मुझे डर है कि कोई घटना हुई थी।. George मारा हुआ।,” he said, before leaning forward and awkwardly patting her hand.

“ हमें उनकी बेटी को जल्दी खोजने की जरूरत है। क्या आप उसका वर्णन मुझसे कर सकते हैं?”

OOC,“ I am afraid there was an incident. George is dead.” “We need to find his daughter quickly. Can you describe her to me?”

[Mephistophilis]

Mrs Sindhu looks shocked but is able to pull herself together enough to say that George Lewiston's daughter Nicole lives somewhere in Wycombe, she isn't sure where. She says she is pretty, fairly petite, and has brown or black hair, aged in her late twenties or early thirties.

Simon and Jocelyn look through the rest of the house. Towards the back there is a small dining area opening onto the kitchen with a bathroom at the rear of the property.

The dining area has a rustic kitchen table, four wooden chairs, and a battered looking black leather sofa. There are a couple of abstract paintings on the walls.

The kitchen is modern and clean. However, there are some small flies buzzing around the worktops like there is something on the turn in the bin. In the little area between the kitchen and the bathroom there is a glazed white PVC door looking onto the garden with a cat flap. There is an empty cat bowl and a half full water bowl.

The bathroom is a standard extension into the original Victorian outhouse. There is a bath with a shower head over the top and a glass shower screen to the side, a sink, and a toilet, with a small stand for toiletries. Some black dye staining is visible around the sink.

What they don't see is any photographs, although there is some evidence that there may have been some on display in the past with shading on the walls and nails or nail holes.

[Philulhu]

”’Twenties or thirties’?” said Kris. “That could be the driver of the getaway car!” He keyed his radio to speak to the station. “Control - the female IC1 driver of the getaway car could be Nicole Lewiston. Can you check her details against the partial licence plate on the PNC?”

While he is waiting for a response, he calls out, ”Can someone get that back door open and check the bins to see if the photos have been dumped in there?”

[Mephistophilis]

There are no local hits for a Nicole Lewiston on the PNC, not even as registered keeper for a car. The control room confirm that the partial number plate ended up matching a registration from a scrapped vehicle so was probably a fake. There's still no more hits for it on ANPR so it has either stopped somewhere or the plates have changed again.

PC Holmes returns from the garden, 'Bins are empty DC Sapru, but there is a garage out the back, it's locked, maybe his neighbour has the key like she does for the back door?'

[Mr. Handy]

"Good thinking," says Jocelyn. "I'd wager he dyed his hair in the bathroom sink. I wasn't expecting him to leave any pictures in the rubbish since he went to so much trouble to get rid of them. He probably shredded them too. There must be some sort of public record of Nicole Lewiston with a photograph. Once we get that, we can run it through facial recognition. Wouldn't NHS have records? We need her address too. We could do an online search on her, and check the telephone directory."

[Silver Priest]

"Unusual," says Simon. "And looking more like she's involved. Or her father drilled an unhealthy sense of paranoia into her."

"Still, I can check to see if she has any social media accounts." He pulls out his phone and looks up Nicole Lewiston, specifically any that may be within an hour or so radius from where they are.

Library Use 80%,[dice]0[/dice]

[Mephistophilis]

OOC,Some Idea rolls please

[Philulhu]

OOC,Kris - Idea roll (70%) - [dice]0[/dice]

[Mephistophilis]

Kris,Kris realises that [b]Nicole[/b] might not use the surname [b]Lewiston[/b], perhaps because she married and changed her name, perhaps because her parents separated and her mother remarried. Do you want to spend Luck or push the roll (risk of jumping to wrong conclusions) to make it a hard success? Or you could just let someone else roll and see how they do

[Philulhu]

OOC,Let’s see how the others do, first. If that fails, then we can consider spending luck.

[Silver Priest]

Idea roll 85%,[dice]0[/dice] Pretty sure Idea is INT, but let me know if I'm wrong.