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[IamanElfCollaborator]

"My apologies, Warriors, for hunting you down like this. You must understand. If it had been your Boss that had been killed, I would wager you would the same to us. Cassius was my sworn brother, but really, it might as well have been been a blood relationship. He's been my brother since we were kids."
The man sighs.
  "Of course, there's many questions. For one, I'm not entirely sure he's actually dead."

[SirAston]

Largo raises an eyebrow, confused.

"... Didn't you chase us precisely you believed that we killed your man? Outrunning a tram doesn't really happen when you're not completely sure about it."

[IamanElfCollaborator]

"I wanted answers for my blood brother's death. If those answers came from me beating you senseless, so be it. All that I'm sure of is that the Hood Avenue Runners are claiming you killed him. But as the night's gone on, I've been less and less sure. For one, the Runners refuse to tell us if they saw a corpse."

[SeriousConcentrate]

"That sounds suspicious. You got any people, ah, paying them a visit?"

[Lucus Casius]

"...Not that that means much.  Take it from me; it's pretty easy to make sure there's nothing left of a body."

Lagata opened one of her eyes, peering with some measure of annoyance at the Chief.  Apparently, all this talk was keeping her awake.  So, grumbling, she uncurled herself and sat up in her seat.

"But given we didn't kill whoever-it-is, that's a moot point.  Maybe you should go beat the crap out of those Runners and see why they're spreading crap like that around."

"Dunno what we did to them to make them make that up.  But if they're the reason idiots keep trying to jump us, then I'm going to give them a reason."

[IamanElfCollaborator]

"Well, most of the Chiefs are in an uproar over Cassius. You're lucky you ran into us instead, the others might not have stopped to listen to you. And....yes, I concede there's pretty easy ways to make sure a body disappears, but none I know of that work that quickly. My suspicions are that they wanted to kill him and frame you for it, but I couldn't tell you what their motives are, nor if they succeeded. Cassius and myself are ex-adventurers ourselves, you see. He's survived worse. Until I see a body, I'm not believing he's dead."
"What I do know is that I intend to beat the everloving hell out of their leader when I next see him."

[Dwarmin]

Xerxe grumpily rose from his nap, though his visage remained as impassive as ever. It was more of an ambient grumpiness.

His voice was meditative and mostly calm, betraying only a slowly smoldering anger. It made him somewhat poetic.

"Hmm...another one seeking justice. It's an honorable goal, though the seeker oft lead astray, he must persist to the bitter end...you are right at least, had it be our boss, perhaps we would not be so patient asking questions.

...

I'll add for my part of this mystery that Owyn Pendergast-the blue fellow over there-can testify he and possibly his fellow footsyballers were compulsed by Dark Magic to attack us tonight. It was no drunken brawl. He was a man coming out of an evil trance.

And I'm still wondering, in a city where everyone has good reason to judge us guilty and assault on sight to reap the glory, why would you hide your hand and send mind controlled pawns to fight us? If it was strategic in nature, why not follow up with an immediate attack? I believe the benefit gained was from the fight itself. I suspect several groups may have been influenced in the same manner for the same reason, though only enough to keep us busy. Every fight we must defend ourselves further adds to the assumption of our guilt by the rest of the city...every fight slows us down. And why would they slow us down?

Because we're the one group in the city that is a threat to their plans, by the virtue of being able to undo their treachery."

[SirAston]

"Eh, valid theory. But I'll stick with the theory of 'those bastards needing a scapegoat that is outside of gang politics and we won the lavatory lottery'."

[IamanElfCollaborator]

"Dark magic? Yeah, this is looking more and more like a Runner scam."

[SeriousConcentrate]

"We'd like to help you get some payback on them..."

"...but we have a duty to get home safe tonight. You know how it is."

"But hey, fuck them up real good, bring some proof by our place, and, ah... you and me can drop the 'up' part."

[SirAston]

"This man is dealing with some heavy stuff, elf. Save the flirting for after we reached a happy end."

[IcyTea31]

"I don't think the Runners are the mastermind, based on what you've told me. This whole thing is too intricate for them not to have an answer ready about the body. More likely someone else bribed or maybe coerced them to lie to you. Definitely beat them up, but don't stop there, I'd say."

[IamanElfCollaborator]

"How so?"

[IcyTea31]

"We had a fight with the Asher Street Rogues earlier. Don't worry, we didn't kill anyone. I questioned one of them, and even when I walked him through to realizing the whole thing is fishy, he kept insisting we did it simply because he didn't want to doubt his gang leader. It was plain to see that they had been manipulated into it.

"The way you said the Runners wouldn't explain themselves to you, sounds to me a lot like what happened with us and the Rogues. It's a big logical leap to make, but think about the alternative of them being the ones who framed us: they would go through all this trouble of manipulating and mind-controlling several gangs to come after us, but wouldn't have a lie to tell you when you ask about the body? They would know that you'd want to know about your blood-brother, so they'd have some excuse why you couldn't see it, rather than tell you nothing. A mere minion wouldn't have anything to give you.

"At least, if I were planning a murder and frame-up at this scale, I'd prepare contingencies like that. Them being minions doesn't change the fact that the Runners deserve a kick to the shin, of course."

[IamanElfCollaborator]

"I doubt there's much going on here more than gang warfare, is my problem with that statement."