60 - Phone/Action

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[Phone - Filtered away from Black Mage]

Hey.

So, you know. I could shout and scream and rant at how people got suckered in by the town again, how I got suckered in again, how everyone got suckered in again by the town, but you know what? I actually have something more important to talk about.

Look. I dunno how many of you idiots heard, but there's a little kid here named Mindy. And, being a little kid, she thought she could fix everything by asking everyone coming together under the stupid Christmas Tree this town put up. She's just a kid, like eight or something, and so she thinks like a kid. And you know? As dumb as thinking that young is...she shouldn't have had what happened.

For those of you not in the know, some psycho killed her yesterday apparently and hung her corpse on the Christmas Tree. I don't know for sure, but I have a pretty good idea who that was, and if you'd like to have a talk with him I don't mind giving you a name and address for him.

...But she shouldn't have had what happened to her happen. Not even here, where half of us are psycho in some way anyway. A lot of us deserve to be here but she...she doesn't.

I'm not going to give her address out, not to most but...I guess what I'm asking is, if there's any chance I can get people to agree to maybe, I dunno, give her something small, like even a Christmas card or something I could give to her...I'd give it to her. The kid deserves at least that much for this bullcrap. She actually deserves a Christmas.




And you know? For what it's worth, even though I said I wasn't going to do it?

It was us the entire time. We weren't fakes. The town lied.

Surprise.

[Phone - Filtered to Picky]

Where. Are. You? Are you at home? You better be, and you better be safe, because I'm coming over, got it?

[Action - Locked to 945 Beulah]

[Hey folks living at 945? There's a blue-skinned, twelve-year old boy knocking at your door, a Christmas package under his arm. He kind of has a gift for his little friend, and he's damned determined to get it to her and see how she is.]

[Action - Around Town]

[Pokey can be found slowly walking around town, a large spider-mech following him. What used to be commonplace until September has only now started up again, but whereas he used to ride on the mech with gleeful abandon, destroying and smashing anything in front of him for fun, right now the walk is....calm. Like a boy having his dog, who had been sick for a while and was just now recovering, very slowly follow him.

Pokey had been pushing Josephine to her limits the last few days. Now he felt he just needed to let her recuperate. And as she follows, he says small words of encouragement.]

That's it. Just a little more girl. That's good...

[There are few things a boy has more love for than his dog, even if his dog is a giant, monstrous mech.]

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[He's also got something for Pokey, which he'll just drop off along with it. There isn't really a name for the gift he has for Pokey but it can be best described as a homemade comic book. Pasted inside are scraps from newspapers and magazines, mostly pictures, that have drawn over and colored on to make funny.

For instance, the woman in the make-up ad now has boogers added under her nose and the man in the wig ad has been replaced with Lex Luthor. On another page is a picture of a milkman with his head torn off and pasted on a barbecue grill elsewhere on the page. Comments and speech bubbles are included for that authentic comic-book feel. It's obvious Slugger had some fun making this and he hopes Pokey can have some fun looking at it in times of boredom or whenever he just wants to see something funny.

And on one of the last pages is a picture of two boys, best friends from the looks of it, sitting around a campfire that he's decorated to look like himself and Pokey. To clarify his intentions, Slugger has added arrows pointing to each one that say "that's you" and "that's me" and an arrow pointing to the pile of logs (to which he's added some decapitated limbs, some blood and a hat) which reads "that's Black Mage".]

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[He loves it. He may not show it at first, since he puts it aside when he first gets it, but later that night he reads through it. Over and over and over again.

It's strange. To even get anything for Christmas. He keeps the comic by his bedside, for whenever he needs it.

Except for that last page. That, he tears out and keeps in his pocket with him.]

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