Sector 55 Blues is a Judge Dredd Campaign using the Savage Dredd unnofficial Savage Worlds Expansion. This is an online only game with members from Dragons Keep Roleplay Club.
The trail seems to have gone cold leaving the Judges with only a couple of leads left from yesterdays events to chase down.
- Does Victoria Nobody remember anything else from this morning's incident?
- Are the deaths of Rock Dwayneson and Brittany Little connected or just a coincidence?
- Is Synthi-Joe the most popular synthi-caf brand in Sector 55?
Thankfully the morning briefing is short but Judge Belloch informs the patrols that
"The removal of Mosh 55 leader Vicious Sid has led to a power vacuum which the other Gangs will be quick to fill. Tensions are running high and the Night Watch lost a couple of good judges last night to turf wars. Judges Gonner and Toast will be sorely missed.
Weather Control is still on the fritz and word is it's getting worse.
Black, Evans and Simpson you're off to Stallone Block. looks like Z-list Tri-D star GC Essexwood took a dive in the ratings this morning and she's made a big mess of the pedway.
Hammer, Teal and Uthred, I want you on crowd control at Sump's Ugly Parlour in JCVD Block. There's an ugly pageant going down at 13 hundred hours and I don't want it any uglier."
Back in the Saddle
The Judges decide to interview Victoria Nobody again to see if she can recall anything from yesterdays incident. As they cruise down Duke Street heading towards Bags O Style, they spot a man standing on the parapet of the skedway with a small crowd of people around him. Half the citizens are urging the man to reconsider and the other half are baiting him to jump.
Uthred pushes the crowd back, whilst Hammer tries to arrest one citizen who is clearly guilty of coercion to suicide. The perp remonstrates with the Judge "I've got 50 creds riding on this guy jumping Judge!" his friend retorts "No way Bert, I say he's gonna live". Teal tries to persuade the jumper that its not worth it and that he has a lot to live for but is unsuccessful. Hammer grows impatient and follows up Teal's Good Judge routine with some Bad Judge intimidation and lunges at the the perp trying to drag him down.
The perp instinctively doges out of the way and steps back off the parapet. Teal desperately reaches out to grab a leg as the man falls over the edge but all he can grasp is thin air. He rushes to the edge to get a better view of the unfortunate citizen falling to his death some 300 storeys below. Miraculously the flight path of a Resyk Trash Truck intersects with the man's death plunge and he lands in the back amidst the garbage of hundreds of Sector 55 residents. Teal calls it in and tells MAC to inform Trash Truck 55-157 that they have a stowaway.
Hammer returns to the coercive citizen who is brandishing 50 Creds in 5 crisp notes. He cuffs the pair of them to the pedway railing and takes the money. "You are both going down for illegal gambling"
Bags O Style
Twenty minutes later the Judges arrive at Bags O Style a ladies fashion emporium two doors down from Zooty Slutes Suits You. Victoria Nobody recounts the horrific events of yesterday morning. She does recall seeing something out of the corner of her move down the alleyway away from the victim (Rock Dwayneson) who then turned around and showered the alleyway with blood from his neck wound. She was very lucky to avoid being covered in his blood and you can never really get blood out of white synthi silk.
The Judges decide to check out the alleyway once more. The alleyway ends in the reinforced rockcrete wall of Trump Tower ascending 300ft up like a concrete and glass cliff face. Piles of trash bags litter the dead end, all of them having been ripped open by hungry vermin. A cracked manhole cover sits in the middle of the alleyway. Teal opens it up revealling a 5ft wide shaft which descends into darkness.
The Sewer
Pulling out their torches the Judges descend the slime and algae covered ladder 10ft until they enter a 5ft wide circular tunnel which runs the length of the alleyway. No-one has been down here in many months if not years. They move down the tunnel towards an intersection some 50ft away. This is clearly the larger 10ft wide sewer beneath Melania Way. There are no signs of recent activity and so head to Zooty Slutes to see if they missed any clues.
Mr Slute shows the Judges Demo Room 1, a state of the art office environment simulator where clients can road test their suits in "Real World" circumstances. The fire door which opens onto the alleyway seems to be in working order. Returning to the alleyway they question the other two vending machines (a Rola-Cola and a Burrito-bot) about yesterdays events. Teal consumes a Triple Chilli Burrito in the process. No extra information is forthcoming.
Munce Burger
They turn their attention to the Munce Burger restaurant on the other side of the alley. The manager shows them into the office at the back of the restaurant past two bots shovelling frozen munce and synthibread patties into a giant kitchen bot. They examine the CCTV and identify the 4 members of Mosh 55 who enter the restaurant about 30 minutes before they tried to rob Zooty Slute's. The restaurant fire doors are operational and only open outwards.
Back to the Sewer
The Judges engage their bleepers and bikes to track their positions and take another look at the sewer. Following the route of the flowing sewage they come out into Melania Way and then onto Meg 352.
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| Ro-Jaws - A sewer bot |
Hammer asks if they've seen anything come down the tunnel in the last 24 hours or if they have seen a wig. After a short explanation of what a wig is, Ro-Jaws triumphantly dons a bedraggled floppy hairy monstrosity upon his head and says "You mean like this!!"
It is a broken mop head.
Judge Teal asks if they have found any knives. Ro-Harry fishes about in his waste receptacle and proudly retrieves a collection of miscellaneous cutlery including a rusty stiletto. "I stick to the shiny stuff" he claims.
The Judges leave the two sewer bots and return to the surface. Checking their wrist terminals they have about an hour before they need to be at JCVD Block for the Ugly Pageant leaving just enough time to go back to the sector house, shower and change into fresh suits.
A Call from Dapper John
Uthred's comm buzzes and sector despatch relays through a call from Dapper John. He confirms that Rock Dwayneson was not a client.
Perhaps
if they have time they can call round to his apartment this evening and
go through some of the finer points of the case.
An Ugly Situation at the Ugly Pageant
The Judges arrive at the Ugly Pageant (Plaza Park Level 400 JCVD Block) just before ceremonies begin. The crowd is a mix of block citizens and wannabe contestants of all shapes and sizes. A Tri-D news crew is filming the event.
The Judges Patrol the crowds on the lookout for any suspicious activity. Judge Uthred's keen senses highlight a small croup of young juves huddled round a bench. One juve holds a small booklet and the rest seem to be utterly engrossed in its pages.
As he approaches the juves scatter in all directions leaving the booklet on the ground. It's a badly printed copy of 2000AD, a banned publication in Mega City One.
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| *** SURGEON GENERALS WARNING *** Highly addictive containing brain melting stories and thrilling action likely to cause seizures in small children, the elderly and pregnant citizens |
Judges Hammer and Teal both spot a known dunker, Pogo Patterson, at work with his hands in other peoples purses. He is surfing the crowd on his way towards the Plaza Park exit. They instinctively set up a pincer movement but Hammer struggles to make his way through the crowd unnoticed and his eyes lock on Patterson's. The dunker quickens his pace, he's obviously been made and its time to make a dash for it. As the perp gets to within feet of safety Teal jumps out brandishing his day stick "Freeze you pickpocketing Punk!!"
Patterson puts up his hands and says "Hey Judges you got it all wrong, I'm legit these days" he pulls out handfulls of Otto Sump Ugly Clinic discount vouchers from his pockets which fall to the floor. "I was hired to give out these discount vouchers, I'm in live event marketing now". Hammer, tells the creep that he's arresting him on a charge of Disorderly Conduct. This doesn't sit well with Pogo who claims that he is being brutalised by a system designed to criminalise the population. In desperation he throws a punch at Hammer who effortlessly dodges and cracks the dunker over the head with his day stick.
"Brutal but fair" he muses to himself as he radios in for a med wagon to pick up the unconcious perp.
An Unexpected Shower
Everything is peaceful as the various disgusting contestants parade their horrifying visages to the gawping crowd. Suddenly there is a crack of thunder and a blaring siren from high above the park. Weather control deluges the crowd in a short 30 second shower.
Not long after a scream errupts from one of the contestants on the stage.
"Help, Help I've been assaulted!" she cries.
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| Jocelyn Wildenstein / Mr. Blofeldt Ugly Competitor / Pet Cat |
Jocelyn is most concerned about the survival of her pet and holds an impromptu press conference with the news crew posting a 10,000 credit reward for the apprehension of the vile individual who hurt her cat.
If questioned about the wig she will say she bought it at a Wigiculous Wendy's over in Ozzy Apartments a couple of weeks ago. It was a Trend Toppers Toupee "Lady Crystal".
The Judges search the park for the missing cat and Teal discovers it unconcious near a loose manhole cover under the stage bleeding profusely from several bite wounds.
The cat has a scrap of bloody, hairy flesh in its mouth matching the colour and style of the "Lady Crystal". The Judges will need to send this scrap of flesh to the lab for further analysis.
