Editing Paradise City:Dave Kline Got Murdered (section)

==A Time Line of Events==

Each event on the list details as much as the team has been able to discover about it and about things related to it (such as Stone's purported employer New Horizons Investments).

'''Date: 29th October 2105''': A man, pronounced dead on arrival, was rushed to Yardley-West-Templeton Hospital. The man had olive skin and brown eyes. Records showed he was 32 years old and was Richard K. Stone a junior supplies manager with New Horizon Investments who had had his spine snapped in an automobile accident. His address was listed as Apartment B, Floor 28, 200 Mead Street in the Church Hill area. The body was marked for cremation but, in accordance with NHI's healthy policy, organs were removed for donation. The organs went to nine people: Captain Philip Abu-Assad (skin), Anna Alexandrovna (lungs), Sarah Freeland (nerves from spine and other places), Del Kim, David Kline (heart), Victor Lebedev, William Price, Angela Starsky, John Uesagi (spleen).

''The Donor'': The donor's address turned out to a fake: The building on that site only went up to floor 26 and no higher structure had ever existed at the site. The accident turned out to be a fake: no report was found for around the time of Stone's death. A search for Richard K. Stone revealed the fact that, of the several who lived in Paradise City, none had died within the last 12 months and none of those men had ever worked for NHI.

''New Horizon Investments'' is an investment firm founded in Paradise City in 2091 by Maria Sommers, Toni Conway and Amadu Starke. Research into New Horizon Investments revealed that it was an investment firm that had gotten itself into legal trouble on several occasions due to a penchant for industrial espionage activities, including sabotage, extortion and kidnapping. Founded in 2091, it was acquired by Angelus Europa a well known megacorporation in 2097. The present CEO is Kumba Madabuike, elected to the board after the acrimonious dismissal of former CEO Adriana Wellesley. A person posting on a website (Buck Wrangler” on the site “Inside Raider) claimed that Wellesley was let go because of her dictatorial behaviour. Other members of the board at the time of her dismissal were Francois Blake, John Clausewitz, Toni Conway, James Phillip Edwards, River Kaveesha, Kumba Madabuike, Ling Maria Wallace, and Kazumi Yoshimura. It might be worthwhile to do a check of a few of these people (the male ones) to see if any match the description of Stone.

''Yardley-West-Templeton Hospital'' is also owned by Angelus Europa, and its current CEO is Adriana Wellesley, New Horizons Investments' former CEO. A search for information on Wellesley in the administration section of the hospital revealed only bland corporate information. A search on the Net for records of this woman might still be useful.

A working hypothesis is that Wellesley killed off someone and is now trying to hide the evidence, such evidence including the organs that were mistakenly removed from the body before it was cremated.

'''Date: 22 March 2106''' (approx. week before the next murder): Anna Alexandrovna was murdered and her lungs removed. The assassin had climbed up the wall of her building and sawed through the bars. Alexandrovna lived at Armistice Road, in the Church Hill area.

'''Date: 29th March 2106''' (approx. week before next murder): John Uesagi was murdered and his spleen removed. The assassin climbed the wall using pitons and then killed Uesagi and all his warriors. One warrior had had his head bashed in with something blunt and heavy. Speculation from one of his fellow warriors was that it might have been a store-bought leg. Uesagi lived in Baker Street, The Crypts.

'''Date: 5th April 2106''' (night, before 1.30 am). 4. David (Dave) Kline was murdered and his heart removed. The assassin left behind marks of a "special tool" used to bore holes in the wall: he climbed up to the 90th floor where Kline's apartment was and in broke in the glass to gain entry. Kline lived in  Cypress Heights apartment complex on Dell Street in the Towers (90th floor). The assassin then left, presumably via the front door, killing a security guard who was in the lobby at the time. The guard's cervical vertebra was shattered by a "broad blunt object" (a foot or fist) and he was in the process of drawing his shotgun when he was killed.

'''Date: 7th April 2106''' (morning): After a successful visit to Yardley-West-Templeton Hospital to (illegally) obtain a list of the people who had received Stone's organs, the team were attacked by gangers who wore long trenchcoats, mirrorshades, and had buzzcut hair (the Hudson Kings)?

'''Date: 7th April 2106''': Officer Sarah Freeland, along with her partner Officer Sanji Damien Vonnegut were murdered in Netflixe Parade in The Towers. Freeland's spine was removed. A ganger or gangers were apparently seen in the area, dressed in long trenchcoats, mirrorshades, and with buzzcut hair. A police contact of Allen revealed that the Hudson Kings were being sought by the police (they wore a uniform involving trenchcoats), and they were also after one "Billy Dancer" who had known the cops and who had also gone to ground.

'''Date: 7th April 2106 (late)''': Two gangers with long trenchcoats, mirrorshades, and with buzzcut hair (the Hudson Kings?) were found, dead, in a wrecked cheap new four-wheel Rendolant opposite the building of Angela Starsky, one of the (still living) donor recipients, on the evening of 7th April 2106. They were warm and so had only been killed a short while before. A search of the bodies revealed that one is (or has ID for) Carl Dayvid Andrews and the other has ID with a few names, those being Rob Springer, Rob Catch, and Rob Baggins. Doubts were raised as to whether the punks (high on some substance) had killed them, while team members wondered whether they were casing Starsky's building.

'''Date: 7th April 2106 (even later)''': The team, casing the next place to put cameras, The Last Grenadier, run into the Hudson Kings again. After Allen bluffs the Kings into believing that the team are cops, his prisoner reveals that the Kings have been hired by the psycho, the "metalman"; the "metalman" told them that the team were assassins/bounty hunters working for the corpse. The team members inside the bar actually spot this "metalman", who appears to be 99% cybered up.  wears a battered brown trenchcoat and a wide-brimmed hat and is more or less in the shape of a human being, but the proportions and angles are wrong. The "metalman' is likely 99% machinery, with the chest being too cylindrical and the limbs too thick, like telephone poles. The "hands" are metallic, slablike, and fingerless, covered with thin stick-like silver manipulators. The "head" is hidden by the hat, but is too small for a human head, barely big enough for a face, and certainly too small for a human brain. The 'things' voice is obviously artificial, sounding like a "cross between an electric organ, a razor and an old combustion engine", and accompanied by static. He is obviously there to kill Del Kim and take his kidney for he says, turning to look at Kim, "How can he live without his kidney?" The team members later speculate that maybe the "metalman" or "thing" (as the team members dub it) is the original owner of the organs its been "repossessing". However, if that is so, than a high ranking member of Yardley-West-Templeton Hospital's administration, such as its CEO, would have had to have sanitised the autopsy which would have revealed the fact that the body had no brain.