A soft rain pours over the city, the patter of droplets on the diner window muffling the sound of the city outside. It's a low quality place, you're not quite certain that the posted cleanliness grade is right. But its cheap, the owners know to keep quiet, and its open this late in the night.
In the opposite booth, a quite portly woman just finished tearing into the burger she got and was licking off her fingers. “We have some trouble,” the out-of-uniform officer says, finally getting to the reason she called you here. “Four days ago, there was a robbery of a shipment on I-73. Believe you've heard of them, Alabaster Tech? Yeah, that Alabaster Tech, the largest nanotech corp on the planet.”
“Yeah, its inevitable in this city. But this one was special,” she said pulling out a flask of something, probably alcoholic and taking a drink. “See, this one was a prototype of something they were working on. An advancement of those beauty solutions they got.”
There's a sound, that might, and probably are, gunshots, that manages to pierce the quiet of the diner. No one inside takes more than a few seconds glance to make sure it wasn't happening on this street.
“Everyone knows the profit margins they get on those things, we almost tossed it on lower priority. Then they started talking about it,” she said, shaking her head. “High level of ability, able to transform someone completely. You can use it to look like anyone, alter fingerprints, your voice, apparently even your sex. Only thing that can catch a person is their genetic code.”
“But that's not the worst of it,” she says, taking another drink. “It's unstable. Revisiting the machine can have you keep the results you want, but if you don't, you keep transforming. At least that's what they say. I got a feeling, might have been deliberate feature, revert the people to their original appearance if you don't keep up. But that seems to be the unfinished part. See, whoever has it now...they're doing some back alley injections. And it...”
A car shoots on by, a large wave of water kicked up and showering the windows. It takes a sharp turn to the left at the end of the street, barely slowing down. The sound of the possible gunfire dies soon after.
She was quiet for a bit. “Got a gal we picked up, apparently wanted to get some 'wolfgirl' traits, apparently wanting just ears and tail. Bit of a touch-up with the breasts and ass. When we found her, her ass was the size of couch cushions and she looked like a werewolf under the full moon. By the time we got her to Alabaster, she'd lost all the wolf traits and had turned into a centaur. Might have gone into something else. We've found others. We have no idea how many there are.”
“We might be able to find it. But...” she said with a sigh. “Even I can admit the North City PD can be pretty slow. We want as many eyes we can trust on this as possible. Planning on paying a premium. You in?”
(original idea proposed here was between heros and noir)
(combined them for costumed private investigators)
[Name]
[Appearance]
[costume]
[Brief backstory]
[changes/kinks you would really want to play out]
[above but things you're neutral/OK with that you can think of]
[absolute no-no's]
(mostly borrowed from here)