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[b][i]Date:[/i][/b] Sunday May 21th, 2017[/h3][/center][center][hr] [@Sigil] [@Morose] [@Dragoknighte] [@Charnobylisk] [@Scallop] [@Nallore] [@Pundii][/center][hr][hr]
	Breathe, just please breathe with me. What conclusions I have drawn of Justice have been confirmed. Words of the innocent fall into the shadows and my pride is broken. Send me a sign, a light to break through the darkness. Heal the broken for there are many, we need Salvation; we yearn for peace. Each day that ticked by seemed to draw by slowly and the days have grown darker and darker. The light of the stars are fading away with each heart that stops beating. What have we done to deserve this? Each night we are dining in hell. Hungry for Justice that never seems to come and yet nothing of which to sate that growing starvation.

	Seven... Seven there were that are now silenced. Seven, the number that is said to be the perfect number, a number that is said to denote completion. But is that really true? Could these be the last seven to shuffle away the mortal coil? It took God six days to create the earth and on the seventh he rested. There are seven deadly sins... Were these victims of those seven? There are seven heavenly virtues; where these seven so pure that they were removed by the hand of god to be free from the Hell on Earth that is Justice? Seven days in a week, seven colors of the rainbow, seven heavens, seven wonders of the world, the seventh son of the seventh son, a seven year itch, 007.... Seven, it is always seven. And so seven now is forever embedded in our souls.... The Lost Seven...

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	How do we begin? Where do we start to tell of what has happened? I guess we do only what we can do. We start at the beginning and at the end... we stop. And so we shall begin. Twenty-three characters were up and placed before Lady Luck, twenty-souls up for her judgement. And so we shall take each soul, one by one, and explain their fate... Some lasted until nearly the end, some were gone quickly, some escaped without physical harm but no matter who you are, you will feel the toll and it will weigh heavily on you...

	[color=ed1c24][b]J.D. Mason[/b][/color] - The girl who started everything with a single investigation of her lost lover. It was a rough week for her. Everything seemed well and good until the end of the week drew near. Then she became stalked, followed and she nearly fell to the same fate as Danica. Yet somehow she survived. What happened, no one knows exactly but currently she can be found in the Mental Ward of Justice Memorial under 72 hour observation. Is she mad? I don't believe so but they say she tried to kill herself with an over dose. She claims otherwise. She was placed under observation on Saturday. 

	[color=ed1c24][b]Alicia Gonzalez & Lorna Dunn[/b][/color] - Two peas in a proverbial pod. Alicia returned home early on Monday morning looking rather ragged. She had not messaged since the text she sent to her father after the Rollar Derby. Quietly she cleaned herself up before sitting down and having a talk with Lorna. She knew she needed to explain things, that there were going to be questions. What could she tell Lorna? What still needed to be kept close to the vest? It was obvious that Alicia was having trouble speaking about it. She spoke in babble, more to herself than anyone else. She was shaken up and obviously didn't want to be in the apartment. Perhaps it was time for some fresh air? And so the two left for a more private area. What happened after they left? No one knows exactly. Both their bodies were found washed up on shore on Tuesday near the airport. Their bodies have yet to be released from the morgue. [b]Case file 7354-DW-592[/b]

	[color=ed1c24][b]Jezebel Wintergerald[/b][/color] - Her week went much like she had planned. She kept dealing, she tried to keep going. On Tuesday a deal went down horribly, a run in with the same deviants that attacked Relic the week before. She did not escape unscathed and spent the evening in the Emergency room of Justice Memorial getting two ribs set and various smaller injuries tended to. She has since moved out of Boston Heights; rather quickly she cleaned out her apartment. She is still in Justice but no one knows where. 

	[color=ed1c24][b]Svetlana Volkov[/b][/color] - The poor girl had a rough time. She was arrested as a person of interest with Lyle's murder. The cops did not take kindly to her and before she was released after her 48 hour hold she was beaten badly. The bruises shown through any make up meant to hide them as she attended her roommates funeral on Tuesday. Since then she had laid low and out of the light, trying to get a grip on things and heal. The compound fracture of her right forearm is cast up and will remain for at least the next 6 weeks. The doctors hope there are not complications otherwise she will be back at Justice Memorial for surgery to place steel pins into the bones. 

	[color=ed1c24][b]Riley Ridgeway[/b][/color] - Sunday was not a day of rest for Riley. After Ronni managed to get her to safety after the Rollar Derby he stayed with her for the evening, on the couch! He didn't want to leave her without protection and was afraid if he left her with his gun she would end up shooting herself in the foot. He left Sunday to take care of a few things and while he was gone and Riley was headed to the studio to record some there was a massive pile up on the interstate. Her car was totaled and she ended up with injuries. Three days in the hospital before she was released. She is healing, luckily nothing was broken. Just bruises and some stitches on her side where some of the cars metal cut through the skin. The stitches will be removed within the next fourteen days. 

	[color=ed1c24][b]Jeremy Bennet[/b][/color] - During his research he was able to find a name for the objects. While they did not look exactly like what the professor had drawn, it was close and the professor was never known for his skills in the arts. Their name? Lunillud Aleae. But things then took a turn... Jeremy, you poor dear. While trying to break into Danica's apartment he was mistaken for a burglar by the police Sunday night. With everything that had been happening he was shot by them. Rushed to the hospital he went into surgery, his heart filling with blood from the chest wound. Dr. Chang was no where to be found, still with Secretary of Defense at the time. She arrived all too late as they pulled the sheet over his head. He passed away at 4:23 A.M. Monday Morning. [b]Case file 3634-ST-263[/b]

	[color=ed1c24][b]Roy Gregory[/b][/color] - A tough week for the detective to say the least. After rushing out of the hospital with Risa and Lucas he takes them to a safe house; location unknown and tells Lucas to hunker down with Risa there. The place is stocked with food, changings for Risa's dressings, a burner phone, and weapons. He tells Lucas not to leave and that he will be back by the end of the week. He puts Cecily up at his apartment and keeps working the case with her, more and more files coming in. Apparently this got the attention of some and while out grabbing him and Cecily some food he is shot. It is only a muscle wound, one he refuses to go to the hospital over. He explains to Cecily as he pulls the bullet out that he covered up Peytons murder. He hasn't said why but he know that Danica's and Peyton's death have to be connected by more than just their parental blood. The bullet wound is minor considering all things but on the next day he attacked again. He manages to call Cecily; telling her to find Caesar and stay close to him for protection until he can contact her again. He makes it to the safe house where Lucas and Risa are on Friday morning looking rough. 

	[color=ed1c24][b]Relic[/b][/color] - He sits Mali down and explains that while he can't prove anything that he knows everything in Justice is connected by some odd reason. The fall out at the Derby is just another one of those things that makes him believe that. He pulls out hacked files on Peyton's death. Gregory's name on them. This is not the file that the police have. DNA was found at the scene and it clearly pointed to Mr. White but now Mr. White is dead. He doesn't believe that he offed himself just out of guilt. He believes there is more to it. He tells Mali he will stay in touch but come Tuesday he isn't returning calls. The warehouse, if revisited, is empty now. He sent her home, promising that it was clean but to still be careful. On one of the news broadcasts about Alicia's and Lorna's death he can be seen standing with the crowd of onlookers. He looks like had been beaten yet again. 

	[color=ed1c24][b]Stephanie Gretchen[/b][/color] - The Russian lady seems to be getting into more and more trouble. It is shown by the news that on Tuesday her office building was broken into while she was working late that evening and she was assaulted. She was rushed to Justice Memorial, but over the days developed an infection and died of blood poisoning on Thursday. Her buildings are now locked up tight and before the woman is even in the ground a new face is making itself known around Boston Heights and all the other leases that were once under Stephanie's hold; [url=http://66.media.tumblr.com/5c05839f5a4151b476ea1749bfd75a70/tumblr_mj0nizGJdW1qdojzho1_r1_500.gif]Valerie Pye[/url] - the owner and live in resident of the Justice Diamond Hotel. [b]Case file 7353-JQ-889[/b]

	[color=ed1c24][b]Risa Couri[/b][/color] - Once she is settled, things seem to be going alright but over the course from Tuesday to Thursday it seems like she is barely holding on by a thread. There is no fever and her wounds look like that are healing but her breath is shallow. If there is any talk of moving her back to the hospital she refuse to go. She just wants to sleep and she does as much as she possibly can. Come Friday when Roy comes back she looks better but she still is in and out of it. She is finally well enough to thank Roy to getting her out of there and explains to Lucas that when she was young her and her parents had come on vacation to the U.S. Risa ended up being arrested for petty theft but that Roy saw more in her. He was the one that put in the recommendation for Risa to bring her to where Lucas and her met. He was responsible for picking the fill in for the call sign Athena. 

	[color=ed1c24][b]Lucas Walsh[/b][/color] - Despite everything going on, Lucas physically has no issues over the course of the week. Emotionally though he is most likely a wreck. Risa is healing and is good to go home on Sunday morning from the safe house but Roy has advised against it with everything going on. Saturday Roy disappears for a while, only to bring news back that their roommate was shot to death by the cops. He is looking into it but in the mean while has brought a suit case full of clothing for the two. Risa immediately changes into some of Lucas's boxers and one of his under shirts. 

	[color=ed1c24][b]Mali Anson[/b][/color] - Before Relic sends Mali home he gives her a clean burner phone to use to contact him. He shows her two symbols - ♂ and ♀ - he tells her that if she sees this emblem on anyone to stay away from them. That they are mixed up in this whole conspiracy. Come Wednesday things seem calm but on the way to the gym Mali is jumped by a gang and despite everything is roughed up rather badly. She isn't able to see who any of her assailants are, a bag going over her head as they grab her but as the bag slowly slips up during the tussle she sees ♂ branded on one of the people's hand before the bag is pulled back down. Mali now as several broken bones in her hand and the bruises are healing. Whether she sought medical attention or not is up to you.

	[color=ed1c24][b]Ally Cranks[/b][/color] - It seems the local music scene was hit hard this week, Ally was part of the pile up that Riley was injured in but she did not have the luck that Riley had and died in the crash. The scene says it was Ally's car that started the entire thing when it hit the read end of Riley's car before starting the spin out that caused the pile up. Ally was crush by a semi that T-Boned the scene. Riley was lucky, even though her car was totaled it spun off the side of the road and out of the way of the majority of the pile up. Few walked away. [b]Case file 3533-FW-577[/b]

	[color=ed1c24][b]Ronnie[/b][/color] - Coming back to Riley's to find she was gone he started searching for her. When he spotted on the news about the pile up he snuck into the hospital and stayed with her. He wasn't going anywhere. He had already lost Danica, he wasn't going to lose another friend. He only ends up leaving for a little while to check on another friend - Tuesday. He hadn't even put two and two together that they were sisters until he is speaking about Riley in the wreck. He assures Tuesday that her sister is alright and he will do everything he can to keep her safe. Ronnie, is still the same pot head as ever but he is now clean of the harder core stuff. Saying he doesn't want to screw his head up anymore than it is, not until what really happened to Danica comes to light. 

	[color=ed1c24][b]Proserpine[/b][/color] - Nothing can be found on this damn woman. Search and search but nothing is showing up. That is until a story shows up about the pile up. She was part of it but she walked away with minor injuries and her car was barely phased by the incident. Ally's body was never taken to the city morgue. Instead, whoever this woman is, she claimed the body at the hospital and the only name left on the signatures is Jane Doe. 

	[color=ed1c24][b]Cecily Ashworth[/b][/color] - Cecily as had a busy week. Working with Caesar, working with Roy, Riley's car wreck, the bodies piling up. Case file after case file is piling up and it is becoming overwhelming. While each area has a different police department, all bodies, save one so far, are going through Cecily's office. She has been appointed County Coroner until another one can be voted in. While examining bodies she finds something odd on some of them. Both Alicia and Stephanie had ♀ branded onto their bodies. Stephanie's was just behind her left ear and seemed old and healed. Alicia's though was still new, it was still healing and was behind her right knee. Alicia, Gretchen, and Lorna - all three of them have been beaten horribly. Lorna's and Alicia even more so and the water that is found in their lungs is fresh with hints of a naphtha-kerosene blend in it. 

	[color=ed1c24][b]Amy Chang[/b][/color] - She is running the hospital after returning. She is at the car pile up scene and then gone again before reappearing at the hospital hours later. The Secretary of Defense shows up on Saturday to speak with her and the two take to Amy's office for roughly three hours before the Secretary leaves again and catches a flight out of the city. Amy comes out of her office licking off a trickle of blood from the corner of her mouth before getting back to work.  

	[color=ed1c24][b]David Lawson & Lance Clemins[/b][/color] - Friday afternoon the news breaks through all stations about a gun fight being had out down at the docks. Helicopters are in the air trying to film the thing. Not many clear images can be seen but what suddenly is caught live on tape is David Lawson holding a gun out and shooting out Lance Clemins knee, causing the man to spill out onto the ground. Lawson looks like he is barely holding on as he drags his feet slowly over to Clemins. He pulls the man up by one hand, placing the gun to his head with the other before blowing Clemins brains out on live tv before they can cut frame. Lawson is later found dead at the scene having bled out. [b]Case file 5461-LX-115[/b]

	[color=ed1c24][b]Felix Hausten & Mr. March?[/b][/color] - Snooping snoopy Felix. Most of the week goes on well enough. He is able to get some research done and with all the new deaths happening around him the cops are getting a little louder and more open with their speech. He finds out about the two girls from his apartment that were found on the shore by the airport. Something about fresh water in their lungs, not the salt water of the ocean. He also finds out that it is rumored that the power cut on the city was an attempt to kill the Secretary of Defense. There is also rumor that [url=https://media.giphy.com/media/BYBOCakwecMQE/giphy.gif]Elizabeth Queensguard[/url] has been seen at the Justice Diamond Hotel - the owner of Queensguard Industries, which has their hand in almost everything world wide - including the RnD complex where Alicia and Lorna worked at. On Friday however it seems he has gotten a little too nosey and is rushed that evening after dinner. Beaten until nearly unconscious by a [url=https://bkhemphill.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/tumblr_mszs7nwwsa1qcgj4mo2_500.gif]man[/url] and warned to keep his nose out of matters that do not concern him

	[color=ed1c24][b]Caesar Gonzalez[/b][/color] - Poor Papi, Tuesday morning, in the middle of going over tapes and information with Cecily, he receives a call and told to come to Coroners office. He is forced to identify the bodies of both his daughter Alicia and the woman who might as well been his other daughter Lorna. It is clear by their faces that they were beaten horribly but the marks on their arms and on their hands show they put up a hell of a fight against whoever ended up killing them. He is still there in the coroners office as Jeremy's body is rolled in. Three in the building dead in one day. Whether or not Cecily shares the mark finding on Alicia is up to her. If Caesar is able to focus at all while he waits for the release of the dead's bodies into his custody he will get word from M.S.S. Seattle division that they found the body of an old informat - [url=http://www.newnownext.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/8125797497_56ec68fca6_o.gif]Kelley Breeden[/url] - Kelley had been missing the last 8 months after a slew of murders happened in Seattle. It seems she had been dead for some time, her body burned horribly. They want to know should they turn the body over to the locals or ship it down to Caesar because of the possible connection with Alicia's And Lorna's deaths? Three in M.S.S. down in a year? Two together? It was unheard of. 

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	[b]Case file 7354-DW-592 - Alicia Gonzalez and Lorna Dunn:[/b] Case Open - Homicide - Assigned to Detective Johnson

	[b]Case file 3634-ST-263 - Jeremy Bennet:[/b] Case Closed - Manslaughter - Accidental - No Internal Investigation

	[b]Case file 7353-JQ-889 - Stephanie Gretchen:[/b] Case Open - Assault - Death from infection - Assigned for some beat cop in the 23rd precinct

	[b]Case file 3533-FW-577 - Ally Cranks:[/b] Case Closed - Car Wreck

	[b]Case file 5461-LX-115 - David Lawson & Lance Clemins:[/b] Case Closed - Murder/Manslaughter - Case Reopened by FBI Agent [url=https://49.media.tumblr.com/be995af6e921adc7c93abe58e00c0514/tumblr_nzu1cc62Ye1ui3097o1_500.gif]Marc Tinder[/url] - Feds have jurisdiction granted by Supreme Court Justice [url=http://www.spletnik.ru/img/2015/06/nastya/tumblr_ms0ebqxMFY1r9sql1o1_500.gif]Zatara Lyo[/url]

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	And so the death toll rises... Are we done or is this just the beginning? Only time will tell. It is now Sunday morning, [i]mourning[/i].... The news is covering the deaths but they are fickle creatures. The only thing seeming to stay in the news is what happened at the U.N. - No one has claimed responsibility as of yet but it is being treated as a terrorist attack. Once the majority of the rubble was cleaned out there were fragments of a bomb found. This was no common I.E.D., this was high tech and of top military grade. Evidence is slowly being gathered but it is hard to shuffle out what is what. They are still pulling bodies from the debris and the site is on lock down. 

	What will happen now? Who knows, the clouds are rolling in and it looks like there is a storm on the horizon as the temperatures rise. The city however is no more on edge than it normally is. People are pretty used to such turmoil now but it isn't hitting them, it is hitting you and your loved ones, your friends, and people who live near you. Can you cope? I know I am having trouble, anyone else need a drink? It is around 11 A.M. in the morning and the city is quiet. 

	[@Morose] - Cecily has received a call that the bodies that had been recently brought in over the week are now all completed with the collection of evidence and that they just need her signature so they can be released. Ronnie is resting at home today, he said he would be by this afternoon. He got up a little early and went and grabbed some food for him and Tuesday, knocking at her door as he returns and waiting for her to answer. 

	[@Sigil] - I am not even going to try to figure out what Caesar is up to. That is all you. Keystone will have been assigned to take over for Alicia and Lorna at Queensguard RnD, if only on the temporary because I am assuming that Caesar is in no frame of mind for such work other than to use the place to snoop around if he can. Caesar and Keystone though both have a meeting with Elizabeth shortly at the complex to discuss some matters. She is awaiting in the conference room for the two of them. 

	[@Dragoknighte] - Relic is calling, finally. He is calling to check in and see if Mali is alright. He said he heard about the fight but there is nothing on the news about it. He asks if she will be willing to meet up with him again, the location choice is hers this time because he has had to go underground. He tells her to text him the location and time on her burner phone when she is ready and he will meet her there. 

	[@Charnobylisk] - Lana is slowly healing and looking less and less like she went ten rounds with Ali. Laying low is paying off though, she isn't being bothered. She has had an interesting call though, the Supreme Court Justice that has reopened Lawson's and Clemin's deaths for Marc Tinder is trying to get her to meet up with her. She says she has something to discuss with her concerning her former roommates will. It seems that she was left something in the will. Says she will be at the cafe outside of the Justice Court House at 3p.m.

	[@Scallop] - Felix is another that is healing. A package is delivered at his door this morning, there is no return address but he must sign for it. Within the box is a little trinket - a [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Schwarzenacker_Pentagondodekaeder1.jpg/170px-Schwarzenacker_Pentagondodekaeder1.jpg]ten sided object[/url] that looks similar to one Felix can see in some of the research he completed - the image of Peyton and Danica at the dig site. 

	[@Nallore] - Riley will be feeling better today - so how did that date go? lol - Her skin itches under the cast but it is nothing a coat hanger hand get to. Her producer has called off her recording for the next three weeks so she can get some rest and is suggesting that Riley get a personal body guard if she insists on remaining in Justice. 

	[@Pundii] - Risa has been resting most of this time and is just now starting to wake up. She is still obviously in pain but she is tired of being in bed. Pulling out the IV's she tosses them to the side before putting her feet on the ground. The safe house is quiet but Roy is making something to eat right now for everyone. He still looks pretty banged up but he is healing. Risa tries to walk but her knees buckle under her before she regains herself and starts shuffling around the place. Leaning over she kisses Lucas' softly before wandering off to the bathroom - mumbling something about needing a shower. Roy just nods at her words before looking over towards Lucas. "Eggs and coffee work for you? Fucking things were going to be over easy but we ended up with scrambled."