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Pokey Minch ([personal profile] ceasetoexist) wrote2011-03-28 10:28 pm

I wanna take you for granted, yeah, yeah well I will - Phone

[Phone]
[There's a small, throat-clearing sound on the other end of the phone before Pokey finally begins to speak.]

I found something in the ghost town that opened up during the fight with that stupid robot. You jerks have fifteen seconds to get a pen and paper, because when I start reading? I'm not stopping.

Alright. Hope you're ready, cause here we go.

[And Pokey will proceed to recite what's written on this note. He goes at a moderate pace, not super fast but not particularly slow or meticulous either. He doesn't stop, aside from one time. He pauses a bit before the last paragraph, and that one he reads noticeably slower then the others. And then a short pause after he finishes.]

I hope you losers caught all that, or at least one of you did, cause I don't want you bugging me to repeat.

[Filtered to Legion of Doom Members]

Alright listen up. The Riddler's droned, probably not for good, but we should probably elect someone to act as an impromptu leader with him gone if he hasn't done so already.

That being said, I'd actually like to do something now that we're settled down after all the bullcrap of the last few weeks. We were supposed to have a meeting last week but, uh, oops, understandably that didn't happen. So I suggest we have one this week, or try to. If no one else can host it, we can use my place because there's only drones here aside from myself, so if you have family members you don't want finding out about this, you don't have to.

I also want to suggest that everyone brings some kind of list of what they saw, what happened, and who they met during this mess. It's going to be best to try and understand this crap from all angles and, because of the mess it was, if any of us have info on the other people in this town we're stuck with, it'd be a good idea to get it out now so we can compile it in case we have to go against these jerkoffs sometime.

[Filtered to Mindy]

Hey squirt. I just...wanna make sure you're alright, after all that went down last week. That's all. Just making sure you didn't go and somehow get hurt.

[A pause. And then, he asks, slowly.]

...You wanna do something today? Like play a game?

[And after these phone calls, Pokey prepares to put the phone up. And stops. And for a long moment, he hesitates between putting it up and dialing one last number.

In the end? He chooses to dial that number.]


[Filtered to Lucas]

[When Pokey starts speaking, his voice is low. Trying to force calm. Struggling to say what he's trying to say.]

Stup-

Pig's bu-

Lucas.

[It was a struggle just to get your actual name out. THink that was hard? It's even more strained when he says the next part. Strained, and somewhat angry, but oddly enough? There's an odd sincerity in his tone. He means it.]

What you said about other people. About needing them. About some of them actually being good.

You were right.

I was wrong.

[And he just stops. He'll stay on the phone for a moment or two, waiting for a reply. And if none comes, he puts the receiver down.]

Re: [Filtered]

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? Like what?

[identity profile] noneed-2worry.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
Aaaaaaahhh, hang on, hang on!

[Dawn fumbles for a pencil and paper as Pokey's reading the note, and tries to scribble as much of it down as possible. And once he's done...]

Actually, I found one of those too.

[identity profile] evers-hacker.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Annnnnd just writing all that down.]

Ah, thanks for the information.

[identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[After scribbling down the message and rereading it, he'll get right down to "analyzing" the data.]

Mayfield ended before. [And horribly, according to their source.]

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah?

What'd yours say?

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sure. No problem.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pokey taps his fingers on the counter he's sitting next to, hmmmming a little bit at that.]

I don't think they mean end as in "came to an end", but as in the end result of the project. So they tried to flee, got to Westport, only to have Olney betray them back to Mayfield.

[identity profile] noneed-2worry.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It was written by someone who got out of Mayfield and went to the western town. The note mentions someone named Olney. That was the name Grady used to use before, right? I think I heard someone say that at some point...

[But she hasn't really been paying much attention to the plot, so derp derp.]

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it was. Before he betrayed them to work with Mayfield.

You still got the note?

[identity profile] noneed-2worry.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I had Buneary hold onto it in her Pokeball just in case. I thought it would be safer that way.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
....It's not going to eat it, is it?

[identity profile] noneed-2worry.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Buneary knows the difference between paper and food.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Just making sure.

Think you can get it so I can copy it down myself?

[identity profile] noneed-2worry.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you want to just come over and copy it down? It'd be easier than reading it over the phone, probably.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess. I'll be there in a few moments then.

[identity profile] noneed-2worry.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
All right. See you in a few minutes, then.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Seeya.

[And, a few moments later, he'll be over to copy the note you have done.]
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-03-29 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rin jots it down. This detective crap was boring to her at first, but... well, after the freaking giant robot fight, she was willing to change her mind. After re-reading it though, she blinks and exclaims loudly]

Huh?! ♪

[oh. Right, the other person on the phone just heard that. Better explain herself.]

Uh - say, this third paragraph... it says "without him and Mr. Olney, we'd all be drones." Does that mean those two know how to save people from getting droned?

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
....Possibly.

I had read it as meaning that they knew how to survive out "there", on the highway or whatever roads there might have been, and kept from getting caught by whatever Mayfield was sending to look for them.

But since Grady can turn people into drones, he can probably reverse it too.
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-03-29 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Umm...

[she's not sure she follows what he means, since she doesn't know Grady = Olney]

If he's the one who drones people in the first place, I don't think he'll be much help though. ♪ Not unless we can beat it out of him.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[If Pokey cares about Rin's confusion, he doesn't show it.]

Probably, yeah.

I'm fine with that.
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-03-29 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too. The Postman died, and the Milkman ... well, his robot's broken, someone must have gotten him too, right? ♪ That means it's not an impossible feat!

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
...Do we really know that either of them are dead for good? I mean we come back, why can't they?
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-03-29 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
That doesn't matter. ♪ Killing Grady wouldn't do us any good if he knows how to reverse droning. The point is that you can beat them up!

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-29 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know, that isn't what I was saying. I'm just saying the Postman may not actually be dead.

And no, it's not impossible, but I think that Grady probably fights dirtier then either the Milkman or Postman did.

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