5639/The Pater Familias pt II

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The Pater Familias pt II
Date of Scene: 24 October 2018
Location: Starling City, Dominion of Canada
Synopsis: Tim Continues his Investigation into who attacked Batman (GMed by Bruce Wayne)
Cast of Characters: Red Robin, Batman




Batman has posed:
    The lead in Gotham led Red Robin across the country and up into Canada to the neigbourhood of Pennytown in Starling City. The old post office is right where the mercenary said it would be, and the block with the white chalk marking is not hard to find on an oddly graffiti-lite section of wall. All the signs point here. Whoever attacked Wayne Tower had no apparent interest in Batman, instead intent on taking out Bruce Wayne - and even then, not so intent enough that they made sure they would succeed.

Red Robin has posed:
Wearing all black, a Hoodie, t-shirt, black beanie top, and cargo pants and boots, Tim walks over to the brick to check it, probably figureing that it looks like any other mercenary is checking it, if the brick in question is watched. He had made the trip with little fuss, and even decided to get a hotel under the name Alvin Draper, simply to avoid someone looking for him. Though, there was also a games expo in town, and that would explain why tim left for starling, at least, to those outside the family.

Batman has posed:
    There are no apparent eyes on the brick or the alley in general. It seems to be truly a dead drop just as the mercenary described. The brick itself looks fairly loose, and the chalk mark on it has been re-applied recently enough to suggest it was used in the last week or so. Perhaps by the mercenaries who took the contract on Bruce Wayne, perhaps by someone else entirely.

Red Robin has posed:
Tim takes out a utility knife and removes the brick to see what's inside. working to make it look like it was just another routine check instead of someone being where they shouldent be. Of course he checks to his left and right as he pulls out the brick.

Batman has posed:
    The brick props loose easily, falling into Tim's hand. As it does, it becomes clear that only half of it is there and the space the rest of the brick might occupy instead serves as the aforementioned dead drop. At present, a grubby envelope has been forced into there with not quite enough space causing the edges to bend and scrunch. It comes out with a fairly easy tug.

Red Robin has posed:
Tim slips the envelope into his bag, as well as lifts his watch to take pictures and scans of the inside of the brick, mostly for fingerprints. Once the brick is back in it's propper place, Tim turns and walks off non chalantly, even stopping for a pretzel before he makes his way back to the hotel he rented a room at. It's not a high class hotel, just some stop over place.

Getting into the room, tim qorks quickly to take out his mini server, laptop and extra phone, loading his gathered fingerprint data into the computer and getting the good wifi (because wayne tech's satalite is tim's secret baby.) Before placing a breathermask over his face and opening the envelope.

Batman has posed:
    The fingerprints picked up from the dead drop provide little in the way of useful information. A mix of varying age and degradation that belong to mercenaries operating all throughout Canada and the United States - including the two currently recovering in Gotham. The envelope itself, however, provides something a bit more useful. In it is what looks to be a smart phone from about ten to fifteen years ago. It seems a bit worn, the screen cracked in places, and when it is turned on it raises a prompt for a key code.

Red Robin has posed:
How cute... a key code. He takes a picture with his other phone and sends it to Oracle with the caption. 'They think they can keep me out, It's so cuuuuute.' Tim then takes the USB converter cable and plugs it into his computer, then he goes to work, bypassing the keycode and trying to pull EVERYTHING from that phone onto his mini server. "This is why thumb print and retna detection became the norm fellas, because freeware for getting past this childish crap is a click away."

Batman has posed:
    The key code breaks like sugar class under the scrutiny of Tim Drake's white hatted might. When it's open, there is relatively little inside. No numbers have been stored. The browswer histories have all been scrubbed clean (if, indeed, anything was ever there). The only thing taking up any real data on the device is the photo gallery. A cursory inspection reveals a number of photographs of Bruce Wayne, taken by someone who was obviously a little closer than the average paparazzo.
    The first is Bruce in what looks like a board meeting at Wayne Tower. A number of more interested men are clustered around one end of the table, while Bruce is napping at the other end with his feet up.
    The second is Bruce leaving Wayne Tower in a photograph timestamped 2:59 PM. He's wearing a pair of reflective sunglasses and talking on his cell with a dour expression.
    The third is what looks to be the same crashed helicopter from the crime scene in an undestroyed state.
    A fourth shows Wayne Tower I highlighted against the Gotham skyline.
    A fifth is Bruce Wayne's personal schedule for the last month, with notable large gaps between 3:00 PM in the afternoon and 11:00 AM the folowing morning - his 'personal time' as Tim would no doubt be aware.
    All in all, the photographs seem to be a roadmap on how and where to find Bruce Wayne. Someone has been watching him closely.

Red Robin has posed:
Tim's main focus is on the Picture with the timestamp, leading him to hack into wayne tower's security video footage, getting the angle of the camera, he then pulls up the vid feed from that time, to try and get a look at the person who was taking the photos. Since not only is wayne tower the most survalled buuilding in gotham, but almost every robin has to be able to get in to retrive somthing for batman as a test, well, now Tim administers the test, whch reminds him that he has to give Damian a crash course in hacking and cyber recon.

Batman has posed:
    The surveillance cameras at Wayne Tower pick up a number of people, all carrying what look to be either smartphones or cameras. All potential candidates for the mystery photographer. One appears to be a young woman with a shock of violet hair, calling out and waving as Bruce passes her. Another is a man in dark clothes and glasses, holding his phone up in a pose that may be taking a selfie or taking a photograph of Bruce. A third is an overweight, fifty-something man in an "I Heart Gotham" t-shirt standing along a similarly aged woman who might be his wife. They both look down at the screen of a camera strapped about the man's neck, the lens pointed at Bruce.

Red Robin has posed:
Tim chuckles and scans the phone for fingerprints, having his scanner weed out any prints that were longer than two weeks ago, then he also runs a facian scan on all four people, cross referencing them to any data base that his DrakeOS could find. While that data compiles, he sits back and takes out a handheld gaming device and decides to grind out a few battles in a war sim.

Batman has posed:
    The phone is devoid of fingerprints. Some very small, trace amounts of residue that Tim is able to notice on the screen suggest it was operated with a stylus - most likely for this very reason. The face scan on the people in the security footage brings up information on all four people. None appear to be mysteries or even involved with any sort of shady dealings.
    The young woman is a student at Gotham University and operator of a Bruce Wayne-centric blog named Kelly Sewell. The man in the dark clothes is an office worker and fitness fanatic in Wayne Tower named Paul Taylor. The older man and woman are Gary and Phyllis Verner of Shelfridge, Nebraska. Gary is a retired Air Force sergeant and Phyllis is a teacher at Shelfridge's William Howard Taft Memorial High School.

Red Robin has posed:
Tim set's his game down and frowns. He looks back at the survalence photo and determines that the picture on the phone was not, in fact, taken wit hthe phone, so he brings up the file into, when was it loaded onto the phone, and from what device, a serieal number, or even a company name. "I have a feeling Mr. Taylor's phone was hacked, if I can prove that, then it would save alot of drama, I do hope it wasn't him that set this up." Tim says, since he would be the only one to actualy get into the board metting.

Batman has posed:
    The cursory investigation shows no such evidence of tampering with Taylor's phone. However, one correlation of numbers does catch Tim's eye. That of Gary Verner's personal cell phone and the phone number for the smartphone Tim currently holds in his hand. It appears Gary made a call to it the same day shortly after the photograph of Bruce was taken. Digging deeper, the Verners were apparently taken on a walking tour of Wayne Tower earlier the same day. Security footage shows them walking by the glass door of the boardroom along with a crowd of other tourists who suppress giggles and are quickly moved along by the tour guide. Gary Verner pauses to take a photograph before hustling to catch up.

Red Robin has posed:
"Taylor.. you are safe. Now, let's pull Mr. Verner's information from the airforce records." Tim says, as he also does a small background, tsa, and fbi check. Just for goood mesure, he checks the same background info on his wife. "I have a feeling someone went for an easy payoff. I might have to track them down as well." he says, since he now has the phone number for mr. Verner, he can easily track the man.

Batman has posed:
    Gary Verner's records are easily traced. He entered the Air Force at age 24 and served without much distinction but also with no specific dismerit or disciplinary hearings until his mandatory retirement five years ago. Other records indicate that since then he's been dutifuly collection his pension and attempting to visit each of the United States alongside his wife. His list, according to the joint social media account he shares with his wife, only has Hawaii, Alaska and Montana left on it after seeing New Jersey this week. No criminal records for Gary Verner, either. The only real abnormality - if it can even eb called that - is he abruptly cancelled his credit card earlier in the year and has been slow to pay it off.

Red Robin has posed:
Tim checks the man;s bank information, to see if there was a payoff, someone posing as a 'news person' could have offered Verner money for the pictures, since he does have a credit card to pay off, maybe he decided 'harmless' picutres were not so bad, tim also disconnects the phone from one outlet, and puts it in another outlet. "Still missing the middle man." he says as he actualy brings up a map of the us and canada, and then set's the phone to 'ping' where it's been, starting from just outside the post office, and going further back. "Experimental tech, don;t fail me now."

Batman has posed:
    No unusual wire transfers of cash, although Verner has been depositing sums of cash in varying sizes over the counter at his local branch for the last month. One in the morning and one in the afternoon before close for three weeks. Could easily be depositing any payoff he was receiving, as elementary bat-training would easily identify.
    The phone itself has not gone very far. Whenever it was brought to the alleyway, it was a long time ago and it hasn't traveled far since. Pinpoint accuracy shows that it occasionally goes up and down the alley and even as far as around the block but it always returns to the spot Tim found it.

Red Robin has posed:
Almost, so the phone stays in the allley, that means tim should put it back, though he adds abit of hidden code to that phone so it will ping him when the phone is used, with that, he then checks the survalence cameras at the post office and other places of business, checking for times that the phone was moved. A car, a person, anything out of the ordinary.

Batman has posed:
    Whoever uses the phone, they're extraordinarily careful. Their car is never caught on a surveillance camera and any footage of them is always from the very edges of the security feed - as though they're doing their best to keep off film. Their face never gets caught, and they seem to be wearing mundane if not reasonably up-market clothing. There does appear to be one repeating theme, however. A man who facial recognition identifies as Kastriot Umer, a Slovenian-Canadian electronics merchant, can be seen entering the local coffee shop and ordering three coffees at the same time the phone appears to be moving around in the alley.

Red Robin has posed:
With the current information gathered, Tim compiles what he has into a set of notes in a file. Then he leaves to find some lunch before heading to that tech expo he wanted to go to, putting the phone (now batbugged) back in it's 'home' and heading off.