ceasetoexist: (Deriding)
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.]

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-30 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Well he slightly untenses at that.]

Yeah? How'd you hear that?

[Because he'd like to know who might have been keeping tabs on him.]

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-30 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
I was exploring with someone else. She mentioned she might have saw you dead.

I was sort of distracted at the time so I didn't see if that was true...

[[Distracted is a good word for being sad and being murdered right?]]

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-30 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
And you don't know her name?

[Sorry Aaron, he isn't noticing your own possible discomfort at this. He just wants to know who the hell this could be.]

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-30 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[[Not really thinking enough to know to be wary.]]

Shana, we went out there together. She's a bit better at being in control of bad situations it seems.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-30 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[...Huh.]

Never heard of her. How'd she know about, well, me? Or did she just describe my-what she thought I looked like?

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-30 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Seems she knows you by name.

Maybe someone told her around that time.

You didn't run into Kyrie and the man with the rifle did you?

[[Thinking of everything that happened, if Pokey was around there...]]

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-30 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Like I said, never met her. Must of heard of me somewhere else.

...You know Kyrie?

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Probably.

Yeah, she's a teacher who saved me once in Westport. I didn't think she'd go crazy like that on the highway...

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
....She hurt you?

[Because shit, she hurt him. Not that Pokey honestly thinks she's to blame for that.]

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, she got me. I really didn't know what to do.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Don't-

[Blame her, is what he was going to say, but Pokey stops himself before he can get that out. Yeah. That wouldn't exactly sound too good to anyone other then himself.]

Don't....worry about it. I....they got me too.

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that. I'm glad you're doing okay now though.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
It happens.

Heh. Still standing now, at least.

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
That's good. What were you doing on the highway anyways?

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Trying to investigate, what else?

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Well, at least you found something so it wasn't all for nothing right?

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It....I actually made progress, this time.

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Good.

I'm glad I wasn't wrong about you.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Wasn't wrong about what?

...That I'm amazing? Cause I am that.

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[[He'll go with amazing then, when did Aaron not go for the easy compliment?]]

Yeah, you've done a lot.

I didn't think this was more than you could handle.

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
No, thank you for the note.

[[Making sure it looked about right before closing his note book.]]

I'll make sure this information keeps circulating as best I can.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Best thing, honestly. If we only have one copy and that gets destroyed, we're screwed.

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-04-01 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Also I just think the more people who have it the more likely it will click with someone.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-04-01 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

I think there's some people it could really click with, you know?

[His voice is softer then normal when he says that, but he quickly snaps back to normal.]

Anything else you need?