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Planning (456 words)
Exposition:
Vigilantes Ghost and Executor are stopped by a girl named Candy, who works corners often enough that Executor gets invited for family dinners every other week or so. She explains to them that some of her friends/co-workers have recently been going missing. This was something Ghost and Executor knew but since they work on a case by case basis and you can never be too sure with a job like theirs if they’ve gone missing or just quit. Candy is able to given them the basics of the information that allows them to finally start investigating, a confirmation that she think it’s a kidnapping but isn’t sure if murder is also one of the motives.

Rising Action:
Ghost starts to follow through the shadows and trail after people he thinks might be at risks, in hoping of catching one instant of a kidnapping and then finding the location (but also if there’s anything that links the victims together.) while Executor attempts to trace down by witness testimonies where the girls were before they went missing and if there’s any evidence at the scene of the crime (such as hair from where it could have been potentially ripped out, something increasingly common since Capillam entered the scene without her eye.)

The Climax:
Using a stray piece of hair, Ghost, Executor and Capillam are able to trace down who the kidnappers are and through Ghost’s limited information, when and where their most likely to strike next. They go as a team to try and take down the villains with the power of trauma and spite, take them down with relative ease and begin to help everyone kidnapped out.

Falling Action:
WHAT DO YOU KNOW! These kind of crimes don’t put all their eggs on one shift, obviously. And there is an unexplained shift change mid way through. Is there another fight scene? Yes because I love fight scenes and you can’t argue with me, I’m the author. But this time they have to also stop a car? MAN IDK???

Resolution:
On a clean up roll, they discover that there were victims they were too late to rescue. Capillam wrecks herself over such information, Ghost promises to try and find out information while Executor starts to rip the place apart to find any leads on what’s happened to them now. They slowly begin to go back to their ordinary life but they all change. Capillam becoming more self-destructive to win fights that could lead to such later horrors. Ghost taking time to properly get a look on every girl he saves face to make sure she wasn’t one of them. Executor gets violent towards anyone who pays for the girls services, even if nothing illegal is actually happening.

Clues and Red Herrings! (359 words)
Candy’s Account: Candy was a good friend of several of the victims and comfortable sharing information with Ghost and Executor. She works in the same sector and can offer information to dispel over possibilities for the other girls appearances such as moving away or quitting their jobs. However, she was deeply afraid of what could happen to her, fitting the basic criteria for the missing girls, and parts of her account such as when she last saw some of the missing girls is unusable due to her making assumptions and not being fully remembering what was happening. Her account features many contradictions. No one else will offer Ghost and Executor an account.
Ghost’s not stalking: Ghost, our brilliant Ghost finds out WHO the criminals are but due to his stalking power only working in the dark and the main operation of the crime taking place in a well let are, with the purpose of serving as a ward against Ghost. SO. Obviously the best thing he can find is a vague sense of their identity. He is also unable to actually prevent the kidnapping of the latest victim in exchange for this info,
The scene of (one of) the crimes: One of the crime scenes, found through Candy’s account of the last known location of one of the victims, helps with evidence. Theres a stray hair, which brings Capillam into the case and with that their able to trace down who the kidnappers are. Alongside this, is confirmation that the kidnapper gets close to the kidnapped while she’s working.
The V’s reaction: V, despite by all means besides actually making sure the victims are actually okay being the boss of the gig these girls run, has been acting incredibly suspiciously. He's been removing the victims from his timetable but hasn’t been throwing a fit. He gets incredibly antsty when he suspects Executor is nearby and following him and has gotten rid of far more paperwork than reasonable. He’s also just generally antsty. However, his money doesn’t seem to be running out? Wonder why that would be. It’s because of his day job Executor. V has a day job Executor. You think his family thinks his job is respectable Executor

Interview (246 words on my end as interrogator) done with xXFierroOrFalafelXx
Hey! Wait! Gem! Gemmmyyyy! I heard about what happened to Fiona and if you have a few minutes before you have to leave for your next shift can you answer a few questions for me? Consider it a little break! I'll pay your boss if I make you run late.

Sure, I mean, the police clearly can barely figure it out, so why not get help from a teenager? better than nothing i suppose

Okay, okay, cool! I actually thought you'd say no but we're here now. I was curious when you last heard from Fiona. I mean, someone else told me that she always offered some of you guys a lift but she lived to far and was never offered. Did she take you home two nights ago? I'm trying to figure out a rough time estimate. Actually, do you know what would be great! When did she last go to work?

two nights ago? no, she offered though, but I declined. I needed that time alone. She gave a few other people rides. Let's see…oh maybe Vicent, Kira, Leslie J…I don't really remember. Wait, wait no. wait yes she did give me a ride but just to the pet shelter. I volinteer there occasionally. It was a short ride, so I guess that's why i didn't remember, but yes, I was in the car with them for just a few minutes

Right. Okay. I saw Kira on my way here but she was working and didn't want to disturb her. I'll need to make sure I ask her then. That probably means Fiona got nabbed after work. So, they must have been targetting her rather than grabbing anyone. Probabably. I mean, it's pretty weird that they'd get her when she drives right to her door rather than some poor guy who wandered down the wrong alley. Do you guys have a groupchat? Like, for the lifts? Was she active on there at all? God, this would
be easier if I could just ask the police what they already know. OR get her phone but nooooooo, that's important evidence.

oh no no sorry, this was after work. vincent kira and leslie j all usually take the bus and they live near each other, but fiona offered to take them home since it was on the way for her. sorry. um but yes we have a group chat. there;s really nothing interesting on it though. you know, it seems so obvious that it's one of them, but everybody is always just like oh that's just a gut feeling. But I mean…I think Vincent was having money troubles and he was about to have a baby."

I gotcha! No worries about the group chat and I'll go check out Vincent now! That's all I need but I'll come back if anything else comes up

The MYSTERY!! (637 words)
Executor watched V from the corner of the street where Roxie used to work. He’d planned to jump the man while he was making sure his employees were all at their stations but it had become evident that he had switched his route up to account for the missing people’s doing his dirty work.
“The most damning piece of evidence.” Ghost said through his ear, “Will be if he turns up to Roxie’s station at all. He shouldn’t know she’s missing yet unless one of the others snitched.”
That was the exact reason why Executor had chosen Roxie’s stop instead of Candy’s. He clicked his tongue and could practically hear Ghost rolling his eyes down the line. “Unlike you, I’m certain that Roxie wasn’t the most persistent of co-workers. They’ll think nothing of her silence.”
The one downside to waiting for V to check on Roxie was that she was always the last person he picked up. Executor checked his watch. V was running late.
Ten minutes of watching cars with busted headlights drive past and Ghost’s constant nattering in his ear about the current criminal he was dealing with, V’s car pulled up. V was a tall man, having several inches over Executor even in the vigilante’s heels. He was lean and perhaps if he had less pride, he’d make a penny doing his own work for once.
“I wasn’t expecting you here.” V said.
Executor walked up. V flinched, hard, stepping back multiple blocks. Executor grinned viciously. “Well, you should have. With Roxie being gone, did you think I wouldn’t notice eventually?”
“W-well, I know that you don’t re-really bump routes with Good Ol’ Rox.”
“Is that why Candy is still there? Because you know she’s on my patrol route, like, right by the start point and that checking in on her is basically part of my day.” Executor scowled, “That’s low and not smart enough.”
V stood incredibly still. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Executor walked until he was right in V’s face. He jabbed a finger at the man’s chest and snarled.
“You know exactly what I’m talking about.”
V took another step back. He was getting awfully close to his car, which would give him the opportunity to jump in the backseat. The driver would be ready for such an order. Executor wouldn’t stand a chance and he’d lose his only possible lead in this case.
“I know what you’re thinking and it’s not that! What do I earn from making my own girls disappear Executor. I’m a team leader. Surely you wouldn’t sell out your own partners?”
“Our working relationship is different, you see, we’re co-workers not boss and employee.”
V grinned. “Well then, what would you know about how I manage my work here? I’m a bit stressed because I’ve lost a large sum of my potential money and I can hardly make the shifts longer before they make use of their threat to unionize.”
“Maybe they should unionize anyways, to stop you trying to make immediate profit at the first sign that certain employee’s weren’t doing as well freelancing as you’d like. There’s just so many desperate people who’d take up your offer here. Who cares about the collateral.”
V sneered. He turned his back on Executor and started to walk away. Executor demanded to know who he thought he was for daring to leave, despite how V could get such a boy stepped on like a bug with a snap of his fingers. “Since you refuse to listen to my answers. I will not listen to your questions. Now, I need to go and check none of my other employee’s have gone missing.” V slipped into the car, slammed the door.
The car drove away. “That could have gone better.” Ghost piped up in Executor’s ear.