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???, Belvoir Commonwealth - November 29, roughly after sunrise

"Snow's fallen. We have about five and a half feet, shouldn't be long before they clear the road and we can get moving."

"Good. The sooner we get away from here the better. I assume our friends have the guillotine set up?"

"Last I heard from them, yeah."

The two men then turned towards the closet door and jerked it open to grab the Governor. Dragging him out of the room, they strapped him to another chair and gagged him.

Governor's Cabin, Prats Outskirts - November 29, 10:00 AM

The Governor's cabin was surrounded by several police sedans as investigators and regular-duty officers milled about the compound, a steady stream of officers entering the Cabin while another group left. A slew of Department of Transportation workers were laboring to clear snow around the house to make sure nothing was buried in the snow. Inside of the cabin, several police officers were vigorously grabbing knocked over items to try to lift fingerprints off of them while others marked objects of interest and put some of them into evidence bags. Some footprints coming from the broken-in window were also noted, though it hardly seemed like knowing the intruders wore boots would help much.

After roughly an hour, the vast majority of the police detail around the Governor's Cabin had departed with their evidence bags and fingerprints. And while they could eventually track down the intruder's identities, it unfortunately seemed like there was no way of knowing whether the intruders left through road or into the wilderness, as everything was blanketed in snow.

Prats Police Department, Downtown Prats - November 29, 11:53 AM

At the police station, the lifted fingerprints were transferred onto sheets of paper, where they would be compared to fingerprints already recovered in the system. Soon, the police found that one of the fingerprint sheets matched the recorded prints of a convicted felon named Bruno Robiquet, whose recorded address was located in the remote village of Gare de Larcher, a majority indigenous settlement located roughly 30 miles north of Prats just along the Prats-Fort Buire Highway. However, it would be several more days before the roads connecting Gare de Larcher to the rest Belvoir would be cleared of snow. However, due to the urgent nature of the Governor's kidnapping, the police department and arriving RIS agents agreed to send a helicopter to the remote village to search Robiquet's home. As the helicopter departed, the police station looked into Mr. Robiquet's records and discovered that he had purchased several rifles in the last few months.

Gare de Larcher, Belvoir Commonwealth - November 29, 12:22 PM

Several locals had gathered at the remote town's heliport, which had been cleared earlier in the day as soon as the snowstorm subsided. The Prats Police Department's helicopter was spotted in the distance not a minute after they gathered, spitting up snow at the spectators as it came down. The helicopter touched down on the concrete pad and four police officers disembarked as its blades whirled down. After a short conversation, two of the natives agreed to guide the officers to the suspect's house. Walking along a recently-cleared pathway, the officers took the time to admire the Northern Gagian wilderness.

Within five minutes, the group had reached the house. The officers knocked on the door, and unsurprisingly received no response. After forcing their entry into the house, the officers began looking around, noticing several bullet casings on the floor along with a knocked over lamp. Moving into what they guessed was Mr. Robiquet's bedroom, they noticed a personal computer laying on the bed and grabbed it. As the four officers prepared to leave, however, ten gunshots rang out from behind them, instantly killing three of the officers while sending the other to the floor. The two men standing behind the officers' bodies moved quickly to search them and take their weapons before fleeing.

???, Belvoir Commonwealth - November 29, sometime after 1:00 PM

"...What the hell do you mean you killed them and stole their helicopter...? I mean. Gotcha."

Bruno Robiquet hung up the phone and put on a ski mask. "Boys, we're leaving. Get what you can out of the truck and prepare to relocate the Governor. We're moving ahead of schedule with our plans."

"..I don't understand. There's still five feet of snow outside."

"The police sent up a helicopter to our place and fell into our trap like pawns on a chess board. We've only got half an hour before our comrades'll be here, and then we have a short window to load up everyone before we head down to Moques."

"Mkay. Understood."

The three men began hastily loading what they could out of the pickup truck and untied the Governor from his chair, handcuffing him to a pipe in the meantime while they waited for their means of escape to arrive.

(Part 3/TBD)

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