A Modern Murder Mystery

Monroe doesn't know but being sent a vial of unicorn hairs might give him a reason to figure it out.  But Monroe's main interest is werewolves, so that might also send him off on a wild goose chase.

Shylock does know.  He's the one who killed the unicorn.  Also Robert Lupin knows that Shylock's magical system is contaminated with dark magic.  So maybe one of his cronies has motive to help out?

Ooh, I like that. Like I said, I don't want this to get too wrapped up in the politics, because then it gets either too easy or too convoluted (there seems to be no in between with politics) to actually go places, but if it has more to do with Robert's personal knowledge, that could give him reason to at least keep tabs on the situation.

@Khaat Lupin Any thoughts??

I'm with you on the politics thing, because I'd like to have a chance to play around with Phillip before he gets in too deep with that sort of stuff. But certainly getting Monroe and Robert involved would just give him further incentive to keep his hands clean and keep Sloane off his tracks. I can also tentatively offer Sim if you'd like someone to keep an eye on Sloane- he's not a fighter by any means but he's a good'un to have watching her back however distantly. If he's in the Order by then, maybe. Or maybe not!

Well Monroe is Sim's boss, so it would be convenient for him to have someone else do that.

And I'm less interested in Robert being involved from a politic view than from a finally getting him to figure out what's up with Shylock view *pushes own plot*

Well! What if Sim is at first sent to help, say that Skyler just knew Sim to be a good guy that would be helpful, and Monroe tells him not to get involved. Sim mentions to Sloane this and now she has reason to investigate Monroe. Sees his name on the will, realizes there's something there.

And by all means, push your own plot. The best plots are the ones where everyone's personal plotting drives it.

In that scenario, Sim would totally do the above. Would be interesting to see him have some friction in the workplace, actually, if Monroe had to intervene (Plot-pushing? Whaaat? XP)

@Selwyn Thorfinn--question. is there someone that might be interested in keeping Robert preoccupied enough to not uncover why/how Shylock's magic got contaminated? My thought was that since this is heading a potions direction, Robert already has someone trying to duplicate Robert's style of formulating potions and marketing them as Robert's--which has Robert seriously miffed. He'd like them stopped. Does that do anything to add Robert in a non-political way? It was just a thought.

I would certainly be interested in getting Robert involved for his own personal reasons. Its a dimension I haven't explored much with him. He's usually about his sense of the greater good--family or ministry or some such. Might be interesting to let him go on some sort of a different tangent. Not sure how he'd respond, really. Could be fun.

I want Robert to find out what Shylock did.

I think Selwyn would be your best bet. Shylock would just let him believe it has something to do with his horrible childhood so Selwyn would probably go along with whatever Shylock asks but secretly hope Robert will find out anyway.

okay. whatever works best is fine.

Soooo, so far.

Skyler begins working for Philip.
Philip and Destrey broker a deal re: unicorn blood.
Something about this upsets Skyler.
He attempts to contact someone to blow the lid on the whole operation.
Someone whistle blows.
Phil hires Destrey (or someone else since she's in on the unicorn blood bit) to kill Skyler.
Someone warns Skyler.
He sets up his will, implicated Philip, Destrey, Monroe, other allies of Phil, and whoever might have sold him out.
Enter Sloane.

How's this working so far?

Part of me doesn't want to put myself too much in the know about the tangled web, but I also need to know what clues would have been left.