Murder He Wrote Plotting

[ukase]

 So, as it might seem obvious, Rumlow has killed again, as seen here here. From his end, he did this to investigate the notion that death is not permanent in this place, since he has been told by two people now but unwilling to believe it until he verifies it himself. He, of course, has been bored the last month skulking around the hotel and the network since there was an internal cast call for his head or at least to keep him contained.

Now that he has made a killing public for the entire hotel to see, I figured it was time for a plotting post so that everyone can get involved with the possibility of catching him or killing him, whichever people actually want or what their character would do if encountering him. Some notes on Rumlow himself that may be important to players: he's a professional, highly dangerous, and he basically sets up scenes or hides bodies for a living. He's an excellent actor, military background trained and is a potentially high-ranked member of HYDRA, which is one of the main villainous organizations in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If he feels it is to his benefit or amusement, he will kill a character without hesitation. His morality is generally faced towards advancing his cause and survival.

That aside, there are some points about the body and the situation in which he worked that will hopefully lead characters after him if they choose to get involved.

• Coraline screamed at the bottom of the stairs at approximately 10-11 pm. The killing took about 2-5 minutes and the body immediately removed. No evidence at the bottom of the stairs aside from maybe scuffing on the carpet.
• The body was posed in the breakfast area around 4-5 am. He would not be seen doing this, and he picked this time because it was the one least likely to have people moving around.
• From the video post, it would be obvious that she was strangled with some kind of thin rope, and it was a struggle.
• Also from the post, she was strangled by someone much, much stronger than she was as evidence by the fact that her eyes are bloodshot.
• The note was still present at the breakfast table where she was posted and it was hand written and not hurried. It can be assumed it was either pre-written or the person had time afterwards (which is true).
• Someone is free to have seen a guy matching Rumlow's description briefly with what looked like a white sheet tucked into a back pocket before he slipped off to skulk more in the hotel. This sheet was actually a pillow case to blind Coraline.
• Coraline's room key was taken and her room was sifted through but nothing apparent was taken. Those who knew her well or knew what she had in her room well would notice that her candy is missing. Nothing else. The room key was left on the floor just inside of it (and no it wasn't closed).

People are free to plot and discuss things between themselves. The MCU cast is free to suspect Rumlow, given his history already in the game, and it's up to them if they would let others know about these suspicions. I have no problem with Rumlow getting caught and no problem him being punished for this. I am hoping that this kind of event would bring casts together and working together, especially with the added fun that death is not eternal in this place, so how does a group of people deal with someone who can and will kill them as it suits him as he moves to try to convert them to his cause.

Anyway, any questions or plotting, let's get it in the comments! I will answer what I can, but responses to that will be slow today as I'm travelling.

Comments

[avengeme]

I'll likely just be handwaving Coulson trying to coordinate a better search effort through the network. Handwaving because this month is looking a bit hectic for me. He definitely won't be on the front lines of the search and take down.

[ukase]

That's all good! Take care of yourself, and we'll handle things here!

[hacker]

skye would try to kill rumlow in a heartbeat if she saw him, but chances are, she could not go toe-to-toe with him on her own. her powers are wonky and limited, and she still can't beat may, so.

since you mentioned handwaving coulson gathering the team in a plan, he could reasonably anticipate skye being stupid and let her get ahead of herself to be some kind of distraction piece and just silently plot for the big team-up to get the jump on rumlow when she does make a stupid move. i don't believe skye is considered mission-ready yet otherwise, but if she finds out rumlow killed a kid, she won't care.

IDK THROWS THIS OUT IN A PLACE WHERE YOU'LL BOTH GET THE NOTIF

[avengeme]

That works for me. Having the team as back up when she inevitably does something rash

[ukase]

Wow Skye, calm your shivers, okay? No that's perfectly cool, and I'm just trying to think of Rumlow would take the bait and show up when she's being silly. He is very curious of her, since he's guessed that she's Ward's & Coulson's favourites based on various conversations.

It might be interesting if people wanted to talk to Rumlow with strong suspicions he did this, and then she does this silly thing, and that involves him getting caught. I still need to organize which team actually catches him.

[hacker]

SHE'S AN INTENSE PERSON OK SHE DOES INTENSE RECKLESS THINGS so she wouldn't be consciously being bait, she'd just go after him and he'd be busy focusing on that while coulson sends other people to basically be back-up/take advantage of what he knows skye is gonna do anyway.

[ukase]

WHICH IS GREAT!!! I'm trying to make up a team of people who are on a hunting party against him right now. I have a few people that want to. I say that Skye could be the unwitting distraction or something?

Not sure if you want him to attack her or just possibly mock her if they meet?

[hacker]

yep for sure! skye definitely would instigate an altercation with VERY LITTLE NECESSARY ANTAGONIZING at this point tbh because

coulson

and child

so honestly all they have to do is meet and mocking is just an extra bonus. /baddecisionsmobile

[ukase]

Oh man, this would be wonderful. I hope he's put into a position to laugh. Mmm, mocking. I suspect he will; he likes to needle people and right now he has no reason to kill someone just yet.