[Icelander]

Originally Posted by RogerBW

Police response is likely to be low-key for an isolated incident. Assuming there aren't any stressors in the victim's background, they'll look for blood chemistry and perhaps find something odd; two cups used recently is a pointer, and there might be trace left in them and/or fingerprints on them.

She washed the cups, dried them and put them in the cupboard. How would police there maybe an hour later know which cups, if any, might have been used recently?

Originally Posted by RogerBW

Fingerprints found elsewhere in the office won't be significant unless there are other incidents where they show up. The message might also point to Sr. María Teresa and party, so the police might like to have a chat with them, but it would probably be of a "did you actually turn up, and if so did you notice anything odd about him" nature.

The Houston Party Bus Rental Service seems to work like a centralized clearing house. They have contracts with various smaller car rental places and even sole proprietors that rent out some of the exotic vehicles.

So the email was answered by someone in the HPBRS headquarters, suggesting several possible vehicles. When Sister María Teresa landed, she first had her teenage companion try booking one of the suggested cars. When that didn't work, at least not for the two days she wanted, she called the number next to the hearse she liked and then she reached the clerk who worked at that specific small sublocation.

Sister María Teresa asked where they were so she could look at the car. The clerk told her. At this time, Sister María Teresa was hoping to be able to convince the clerk somehow. When that didn't work, she removed what evidence she could of their presence, but can't do anything about the email. She doesn't even know where it is stored.

But, because the camera footage will not show them arrive and, in fact, will appear as if the clerk was alone when he died, Sister María Teresa doesn't really foresee an investigation. At least not one where she becomes wanted by the police before the New Year's.

Like a crazy person, the usually careful Sister María Teresa is utterly ignoring any consequences that wouldn't manifest in the next two days, but would take longer to become a problem. It's as if she literally doesn't care what happens after New Year's Eve.

Originally Posted by RogerBW

Is the recording compromised as well as the cameras themselves?

Yes. It was a metaphysical 'drain memory' ritual, where all traces of Sister María Teresa and her friends were removed from the recording.

It also degrades the quality of the recording and makes for spots where something should be visible, but isn't, but unless investigators make a roll against the Facade, they'll assume that the recording is simply always poor quality (God knows that neither me, police nor prosecutors are surprised when real-life recordings in investigations are so low quality as to be almost worthless and I've yet to hear anyone even suggest that they might have been tampered with).