SEVEN // Sleuthing AND pirating

[wavewalker]

A: PHONE: AFTERNOON

Grady- Olney- whoever he was- is dead. I know some of you won't be surprised by the news. It was broadcast to the town at large, after all. Others have likely mentioned it as well.

He was found floating in the pool at the recreation center- which some of likely already know as well. Half of his face had been blown off, but he was still alive- for all intents and purposes. I gather he wasn't allowed to die. I wasn't the first person to run across him, and I doubt I was the last.

He wouldn't tell me anything, but did he share anything with anyone else? Anything at all.

B: ACTION: 754 PARTRIDGE DRIVE

[ Anyone in the vicinity of 754 Partridge Drive will notice something a little strange in the backyard. Ian got a regain in the mail, you see, and when he opened the package he got, this suddenly sprouted from the top of the doghouse.

Ian can be seen traveling up and down the mast all day, for various reasons. At one point he travels up there with a large wad of black cloth. A little tinkering, and soon there's a flag flying proud, peeking over the top of the house. ]

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[inthenertz.livejournal.com]

[Look! It's your neighbor at 753 Patridge Drive.

The strange man has a paper bag over his head and is putting a flag on his roof in response to his neighbor being a pirate.

Standing proudly under this flag (http://i51.tinypic.com/2943r0y.png). Black Mage just watches his neighbor from the eye holes in the bag.]

[wavewalker]

[ Ian stared right back, arching his eyebrows ]

Can I help you?

[inthenertz.livejournal.com]

If I pointed to a house, could you pillage and burn it?

I don't really care what order you do it in.

[wavewalker]

I could. That doesn't mean I would.

Permission to lightning bolt your pirate flag?

[inthenertz.livejournal.com]

How about if I gave you incentive?

[wavewalker]

... What kind of incentive?

[inthenertz.livejournal.com]

BOLT 2!

[Lightning launches from his hands and incinerates a good half of that pirate flag his neighbor put up.

The edges of what is left are now on fire.]

You do some pillaging of other houses on our street or I do that to your face.

And your family.

Your friends.

Your dog. You may have noticed that mine spends half it's time cooked with it's legs in the air.

[action]

[notlikethemovie.livejournal.com]

[Mika got lost, a sadly common occurrence without her sense of smell.]

Ian, what the blazes are you doing up there?

[action]

[wavewalker]

[ she caught him in the middle of trying to hang his flag. He looks down and waves ]

What does it look like I'm doing?

[action]

[notlikethemovie.livejournal.com]

Hanging a flag on a mast that popped out of your dog house?

[action]

[wavewalker]

That's what I'm doing. Care to join me?

[action]

[notlikethemovie.livejournal.com]

[Her tail would be wagging if she had it.]

Sure, but I dunno what I could do.

[action]

[wavewalker]

You can just come up and enjoy the view. I'm almost done here, anyway.

[action]

[notlikethemovie.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[She trots on over, then hesitates, looking incredibly anxious. Shifting her weight from one foot to the other, she makes a quiet sound of distress.]

Um, Ian? I have a problem with heights.

[She wants to come up and look, what do!]

[ phone ]

[dutying.livejournal.com]

Wasn't.. allowed to die? What exactly do you mean by that?

[ phone ]

[wavewalker]

Something was keeping him alive. There was no way he'd be able to survive on his own in the state I saw him.

[ phone ]

[dutying.livejournal.com]

But that's strange, isn't it? If it was trying to keep him alive in a place that we could access, it's almost as if they wanted some of us to talk to him.

[ phone ]

[wavewalker]

Yes, well, he didn't want to talk to us. Believe me, I tried.

[ phone ]

[dutying.livejournal.com]

Maybe they were keeping him alive then until he would spill certain things to us.. Although it makes no sense from their side.

[ phone ]

[wavewalker]

I'm really not sure. I don't know when he finally died, or how. He was just hanging on the fence with some strange writing carved into his back.

Phone

[forgottenshiki.livejournal.com]

That Grady? Since the town is still the same as ever, he mustn't have been that integral to how the town works.

Phone

[wavewalker]

I suppose only time will tell.

Phone

[forgottenshiki.livejournal.com]

So you got nothing from him? Even from the way he acts?

Phone

[wavewalker]

Only that he hates us just as much as the people who killed him.

Horrid backtagging, ignore if you don't feel like it.

[forgottenshiki.livejournal.com]

Che, so he was useless in the end. At least it looks like something is messing up behind the scenes.