[Kot]

Griffin seems even more disconnected with every step he takes. You noticed his eyes widened, and his irises take most of the space. He's taking long, sharply ending breaths through his nose, smelling everything, and his movements remind you of a blind man trying to get by in an unknown territory. He began slowly moving his hands around the place in patterns that made the onlookers a little bit dizzy.
On the other plane he swiftly scoured his surroundings, to better understand the place's aura and find any traces of magic, or strong emotional echoes in the spot his employers were going to. At the same time he slowly weaved three shadowy silhouettes out of the ambient Mana, and infused them with enough power and understanding to serve him. He sent them out to look for anything out of the ordinary on the astral plane...
On the spot he did a thorough search, documenting everything, and looking though every spot he could see, and a few more... With amazing focus and professionalism.

[mdp]

Harry watched Griffin walking around the scene like a blind man, something about the man told him he knew what he was doing, while in the back of his head, he felt like Griffin was a bit lost here.
As to no break Griffins concentration Harry stood back against a wall in the parking lot, taking a sigaret from his fresh pack and lighting it, "ah well" he thought "tommorow is another day to quit this filty habbit"

[Sichr]

You close your eyes, trying to isolate every impuls comming to your brain from normal senses. When you open your world around you dive into shadows and mists. Usual impression from the astral space is corupted here, like if this place was touched by something alien.
As your little aides spread in all directions, sniffing and searching for clues, your vision become more complex and you realizes some patterns. The centre of ith is on the parking place 1158, but it has affected quite larger area.
First you recognize the presence of very powerfull spirit. Not any element, nor beast. The man, but somehow corrupted and twisted. He was here, some hours before. He used his powers of concealement and confusion...also pretty powerfull ones. You can see his traces even in the direction of the entrance road. There is also the pain and despair, the second comes later. Like a mother that realizes that her child was taken from her. You cannot assense any trace of aura of the child.
You see that mana streams in whole this place are somehow poluted, but it is a long term process, natural one, because this place is constantly beeing poluted by traffic, and the people who are going throught are not exactly full of positive life force, they are under a great influence of memetic manipulation from the shoping zone.
But you manage to recognize that there was an actual intervence that hastes the polution and corruption of the astral space right here on the spot, Unfortunattely, you are not able to see who did it.

[Sichr]

for the visual observation...nothing catches your eyes

[Kot]

Griffin finally finished whatever he was doing, turned around, and looked at the two men behind him. He had an expression of utter disgust on his face.
"You have a serious problem here... It was a Toxic spirit. This place - it's polluted, and the state of the Astral here was worsened... on purpose. And the culprit was a Toxic Spirit. One of the more cunning kind, and I can't track it from the echoes he left... This probably means someone's manipulating it, so you have a toxic shaman or mage to find... Let's see wha else we can find. Gods, Shadow, this stuff is... Damn, I'm going to need a shower. Or a lot of bleach." The last past was spoken into the air, to someone or something you can't see...
Sfterwards he obviously waits for your reaction.

[mdp]

Harry looks at Griffin, from his eyes it is clear he only understood half what was said.  "Well, this seems to be pretty serious then.  Can we count on your help or do you just want your fee for this little investigation and a shower at home?" Not really waiting for a reply, Harry starts going over the crime scene himself observing the parking spot where the Wangs car must have been in detail, looking at the surroundings as if there is anything else to see but brick wall. He takes a small box from his pocket and opens it.  In it you can see some brushes, a bit of powder and some wierd looking little devices.
He starts going over the crime scene like a trained inspector with certain determination.  Once in a while he bends over to take a close look at a spot on the floor, trying to find materials to check for fingerprints and footprints.
In his mind he goes over his forensic manual once again, it had been ages since he last needed that.
Going over manual remembering what to look for: forensics (3)+logic(4) (7d6.hits(5)=2)
looking around parkinglot: perception 3 + Intuition 4 + visual enhancement 3 + Forensics bg 1 + Griffin's assitance 1 + homeground 2 + Forensics kit 1 (15d6.hits(5)=3)

[Kot]

Griffin doesn't answer - he just joins them in looking through the parking lot, even though it costs him a lot of nerves, with the filthy feeling this place created. After a long moment, he speaks, this time more like a human being.
"I will join you in your search. You don't have any magical support, and I'm not doing anything particular at the moment. So at least I'll help you, and probably make a difference."

[deathwishjoe]

Nikolai looks around adds his eye to help find anything out of the ordinary.  Squating down next to where Mrs Wong was supposedly standing at he touches the ground and rubs some dirt between his mechanical fingers letting his tactile sensors give him a little more info about the substance. 

"Hey, do these tracks look strange to you?"

[mdp]

Harry looks up as Lynx calls out.  Slowly he moves to where Lynx is standing, carefull not to touch anything that might be used in his investigation, as if every little particle of dust might tell the whole story of what happend in the parking lot.  He bend's down neer Lynx taking a carefull look at the tracks

[Sichr]

What Lynx found are deffinitely some traces. There are traces of dust and rubble, regularly crushed by something that looks like mini tracks. Both of you are staring at that quite puzzled, you have never seen something like that before, and you simply dont recognize that.

Forensic kit has also the recognition software for identifying common traces, and with the connection to right database it would be the matter of seconds to reveal some results.

With the microscope, that is part of the forensic kit, Harry is able to take more pictures for later expertise, and he also found some alien particles in the traces, and you are also able to take samples of it. Their anaylsis, thought, is out of capabilities of this kit.

Besides those traces Lynx have found, routine examination of the closer surroundings reveal:
Lynx`s radar sensor shows, that every parking place have its own RF sensor, comunicating with the gridlink of the parked vehicle. You already know that feed from the sensor goes straight to the vehicle owner`s account as Mr. Wong gave you a few details thanx to this fact.
The place has quite good surveillance, every floor is watched by cameras from multiple angles, so you should be able to get trid view of any scene if you get feeds from them.

And..the training also tells you, that there is huge part of the crime scene missing.
The victims car

[mdp]

"Okay, now we got something to go with.  Just need some equipment to make sure we can analyse these traces.  But that's okay, I know someone who might be able to help us with that.  Any of you know a good hacker?  might be handy to get the surveilance footage, and I don't think they are just gone give it to us if we ask" Harry says to Lynx and Griffin

[Kot]

"I might help with the equipment. I still know a few people that would be - yes, I think it's a good idea, thank you - willing to let us use the lab. And maybe even help... I might try that at least..." He seemed to talk to someone - or something - else at the same moment.
Griffin sent a mental order to his Watchers, who in turn started scouring the place for resident spirits...

[deathwishjoe]

Lynx seems to pale a bit at the last one sided back and forth from Griffin.  He's more then a little disturbed at the idea of an instaine mage. 

As a private message via his subvocal micro-phone to Harry he says "This mage you found, he is talking to himself?  What have you gotten us into?  Where I am from, there was this homeless Gypsy man who talked to people who weren't there.  Mostly we paid him no mind unless something went missing. Then one day the not real people he talked to tell him to shoot the real people.  He came into the market one day waving a pistol.  I had to stop him before he hurt anyone.  A mage like this would be much more dangerious!"

[mdp]

Harry replies subvocal to Lynx "Yeah I know, we had need of a magician quickly.  But I trust the woman who gave me his number, he just went trough therapy so should be stable for now, besides all them mambo jambo guy's have issues like this one."
He then talks to both his associates again "So Griffin, you contact your friends to check the samples we got, I'll make a call and try to get us the images from the camera's"

[Kot]

Griffin peeked a look at his new co-workers and listened to Shade for a while. He nodded to himself, and broke the silence.
"I'm not crazy... I know I sometimes speak my thoughts, and mental conversations aloud. I'm still broken, but I'm not mad. Oh, madness you'd recognize in a mage from a mile. By the fires, and police calling in the big guns probably... So, don't worry. It's like an OCD. I can't do more than try to fight it, but it still slips from time to time. And I'm not talking to imaginary friends. This one is real, a spirit from a far away plane.
He stopped talking, and played with his commlink for a while, making a call to the lab.
"Hello. It's me. I took the job, and we will need to use the lab to check some samples. And take a shower, probably. Toxic background zone... We're on our way."