When we stopped for the night, the Fairest had managed to run away, the Manikin surrendered after being shot, the Hunterheart is in a coma, the Fairest managed to run away, two cops are dead and one is wounded - and my Mirrorskin is still in the back of the police car, having changed shape to a beat-up older man. I'll see if I can pull off some decent lies about "being beaten up by some punk and shoved into the back of the car" to get the hell outta there.
Oh, and did I mention? We're supposed to deal with the serial killer in the next 24 hours or we'll be kicked out into the street from the safehouse. Not gonna happen, I fear.
Here's the lie you want: When the police ask you how you got in the car, you tell them you escaped from the house of the guy your trying to deal with. He had been holding you hostage for at least a day, but you managed to escape from his basement. You then saw the police car with it's door open and ran for it, hiding in the back for safety. This should be at least enough for the cops to go to his house and ask to look around. If he denies them access, they will go to get a warrant and if he's smart he'll hightail it out of town before they come back... and if he lets them in, they will probably find something incriminating and haul him off. Even if he kills them, you still have two dead cops missing from a routine call, which will have people come looking for them. Simply put... Mission Accomplished.
Oh... and your friends are jerks.[/QUOTE]
Hm. I hadn't thought of that. Maybe I should see how well that goes. Luckily I have the XP to buy that nice Rigid Mask merit that will make it nice an' difficult for people to know when I'm lying.
We were told, however, that the serial killer hasn't gone up to humans yet. He's been killing small animals and such, and the people we work for (the freehold, aka the community of Changelings in the area) fear he might switch to humans soon. But it might give us some edge.
But how do I explain how I ended up in police handcuffs - to which they have the key?[/QUOTE]
Some (maybe even most) Police cuffs use a standardized key, which works on all the cuffs in a precinct (if not just all cuffs of that type). You could claim that the killer stole a pair of cuffs off a cop at an earlier date and just kept them to use later.
Also, I'd hardly call someone who hasn't actually killed anyone a serial killer. He may be one in the making (or he's some kind of fucked up Vampire) but he's not one yet. Thankfully, they tend to collect trophies at that stage, so it's entirely possibly that he'll have to explain a room full of animal skulls to the cops. If it's a small town, it'll be enough for the cops to try and ride him out of town on a rail.
Oh, Adam, I'm so sorry to hear that.
She'll be back with my grandfather soon. It's my siblings and my parents I'm worried about more. They weren't speaking to my grandparents when my grandfather passed on, I had to relay messages back and forth. This time they get to deal with it personally.
So I fear the rail option is impossible. I will try out your strategy, though, and see if it nets up the prize. I'm pretty sure our ST will be happy for any excuse not to see us fudge up anymore. I mean, our group's a frickin' walking catastrophe so far - and our benefactor may be slightly pissed at us, considering we accidentally trashed his car 
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