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[ Kylo Ren has been watching recent developments on Tu Vishan with growing unease. He had started out thinking Valdis an annoyance, then a danger, but with the new guild structure, the KPD's power is only being consolidated - and thus, her power. It's not a good development for an enemy of hers.

He might have been willing to let it rest, if he hadn't overheard a drugged-out-of-his-mind KPD member mention that he is on the watch list. It had been the last push to take action.

But what to do? It took more listening and more than a little bit of luck, but now Kylo is ready to send a message which will hopefully sow seeds of discontent – and isn’t that one of the strategies of the Dark Side? Not one he had bothered with before or is particularly skilled in… but before, he didn’t need to bother with subterfuge. ]

I have learned that Valdis of the KPD knew the water supply would be targeted. If you don’t believe me, ask the officers she used to aide her.

The KPD has been hunting the Cultists for months, but for all its powerful Foreigner detectives it has nothing to show.

I demand she explain why she did not prevent the attack when she knew it was coming. I demand she explain why she protects Cultists instead of our citizens. And I dare her to explain why she calls herself a protector, but carries a dangerous sword.

How can we be certain that the shapeshifter we put our trust in is who she claims to be?

All Foreigners have secrets, but I want to know if hers are dangerous to us before I can trust her again.

[OOC: He will respond, though he might keep it short and vague to prevent giving himself away. Feel free to also talk among yourselves!]

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[ Sherlock rolls his eyes at the post and watches the comments expectantly to see if anyone is idiotic enough to believe any of this bile and pleased to see that it looks like most of them are sticking up for Valdis. ]

[ He wasn't going to even give the post the time of day but he feels compelled to send one word. ]

Wrong!

[ After all, Sherlock liked to think he had plenty to show for the progress in this case. It just wasn't public knowledge and he'd like to keep it that way. ]

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Alas, Kylo is also keen to keep his identity secret, so there's only so much he can do to argue, no matter how much he wants to.


Says you.

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Um no, says logic and reason. Shall I take you over your points and destroy them one by one? I may as well, I don't have anything better to do for the next few hours.

You said that Valdis knew that the cultists would would attack the water supply. Okay, that bit of information is true but you're leaving out some very pertinent information-such as when she discovered this fact, the fact she did place a guard over the water supply and nothing happened while the guard was present. This suggests that the cultists knew she guarding the water and if she had no real interest in protecting the citizens it would have been all too easy from her position to provide a distraction or simply give the guard a different task to allow the cultists to carry out their nefarious plans.

No, They waited patiently for the opportunity to strike. Opportunity came in the form of a hurricane-Because of the after shocks of that storm, Valdis did what she had to-assigned her officers to help the citizens with clean up-no doubt hoping that the cultists would have to deal with the after math as well.

Based on the timing of the attack alone, I'd say she was right-they just recovered faster than she was prepared for. It's unfortunate that it worked out that way but in no way does it implicate her as the mastermind.

Let's move on.

You're concerned about the progress the detectives have made on the case but I'm betting you've never been part of an organised crime case so I'm going to give you a bit of information that maybe you should have been aware of before you made the accusation-This kind of case takes time. In fact, it's not unprecedented for a case dealing with organised crime to take years. Another thing you should probably know about investigations is that the police don't usually announce their findings piece by piece as their evidence is collected, so how can you say they haven't made much progress?

Now, you're concerned about her dangerous weapon. Let me put it simply for you so you can understand:

Her job is dangerous.

It makes sense that she'd have a weapon for self defense and questioning that proves one of two things to me-one you're either an idiot or you're an idiot and trying to cast doubt on to Valdis due to some personal vendetta against her.

Lastly, you're concerned about her being a shapeshifter and trying to call her out for that, but I think you're forgetting something-The Kedan just so happen to be shapshifters too. Now how do you think they're going to feel when you're implying that they're all liars and can't be trusted?

Now, if you have any evidence that might disprove my points then go ahead-if not then stop trying to distract from the real problems by making up your own.

Oh and, just so you're properly informed of my investigative techniques since you seem to think you need to know them-I will solve the mystery of your identity and then publicly expose you as a liar. So, you'll have that to look forward to.

-Sherlock Holmes

I'm sorry for the short reply to your long tag!

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[ He might have been tempted to let himself get dragged into an argument just by the infuriating length of the reply, but that last paragraph kills any and all interest in that. Having his identity discovered wouldn't be catastrophic, but it would defeat the purpose of planting seeds of doubt.

Thus, it will have to go unchallenged, lest he does give something away he doesn't mean to. ]

I look forward to it, Sherlock Holmes.

no worries, I'm sorry for the long one

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As do I. After all, you've already given me so much to work with.
SH

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[ Not happy news. So there will just be icy silence now. ]