We took the data gathered about the victims, the only ones the police know about anyway, and tried to make some kind of connection between them. The only one we could come up with was that at the center of all of the crime scenes was an urban reclamation area. A baseball diamond, trees planted, etc. Light industrial area.
After getting nowhere and nothing from the area, we decided to go investigate the death of Father Nguynen. We headed to his church and spoke with the pianist about Father Nguynen and his death. Finally, the new Father arrived and asked us to stay until after the service and that we could discuss things with him then.
Father Nguynen's replacement is a man named Father Tom Burns. He has only been at the church for a month. He appears to be caucasian and lives in Father Nguynen's old house, which is owned by the church. He is REALLY HOT and runs Father Nguynen's old basketball league at 9pm on M/W/Th.
We decided to split up after talking with him. Tim and I went to the basketball league and the others went to search Father Burn's house for clues about what could've taken him down inside of his locked house. They found a cross on the wall and filched it for observation, but that was really all. After analysis by Jae and Hina, it appears the cross's supernatural powers are what one would expect from a cross, and nothing that probably contributed to Father Nguynen's death.
I had Jake look up the obits for the people in order to get their next-of-kin, so that we could go talk to them. Over the next couple of days we each went to visit the friends/work/family of the other of the victims. Tim went to talk to the hippy girl and I went to speak with the workplace of the mechanic guy. Not really much information there. Later we went to talk to the family of the mother of two and found out that she'd just come back from the Vietnamese Market before her car crashed as she was beheaded, etc.
The Vietnamese Market. The hippy girl had died there, giving her a link with all the other Vietnamese victims. And so we went to check it out.
We each searched for supernatural things. I found some fruit, Holden found some spices, and Tim found a person. The person seemed to be looking for someone. Holden followed her around until she finally found whoever it was that she was looking for. She followed him to his car, made a note in her notebook and then headed back into the market.
Holden and I orchestrated a distraction so that he could filch her notebook and wallet. So I rounded the corner and plowed into her while Holden picked her pocket.
Tina Ngo was her name and the person she was trailing was Bradley Vu, is a registered sex offender and pedophile. Jake apparently called her later and said something cryptic over the phone to her. I'm not sure but seems she might be more likely to stay away from something so creepy than try to figure out who he is and go meet up with him.
After this we all sat down and compared notes at Glamour Shots and pondered our next move. This is the night of Thursday, July 28th, 2005. Honestly, we still have no idea how to piece all of this information together into a picture that makes sense for the victims of the vine-decapitation. Where to go from here will be as much a matter of luck as anything else it seems.
The only obvious avenue we really have left to us is this Tina chick. She may know something, or she may not. To me, she seems like a red herring. I think that the supernatural fruit I purchased form the market has a more likely chance of being our answer. I can use my Dream powers to look at it next game, which will definitely tell me if it's goblin fruit and additionally tell me what it does.
The way I see it, that this fruit is goblin fruit that all of the victims found at one point or another is, of the three supernatural things we found at the market, likely to be consumed at any time during the day, whereby a few minutes after injested the vine-tentacles rip the head off and consume the face. Ahn Pham's death seems very telling in this respect – hungry on the way home? No problem, have a goblin banana to tide you over until dinner… whoops! Hallucinations and then face gets ripped off.
This is my current theory. I need to look at that fruit at the beginning of the next game.