<> <> <> <> <> (A question was pending: 'What did Four teach you?' from Tomas.) (Too bad I'm not an interrogationy person. :() (You're all we've got tonight!) (Who does number two work for?) (WHO does number TWO work FOR?) (I AM NOT A NUMBER) (I wish that show had ended so I could actually watch it) <> "He taught us how to work Bugs right! How to make them our friends! Also taught us about cameras and spaceports and credchips and better food than pastes!" (Ooookay then.) Work bugs right? That could be taken such a wrong way. * Tomas eyes the blue pigmentation and nods, "I know." (... what?) (I don't know, but Tomas certainly does!) * Zeke speaks up, to say, "I doubt the ability would involve nothing but a certain level of colloidal SI. What was to be your next step with the acquired Bug?" <> "Take 'em out, away frem Mars." To... what location? <> "The *stars*, duh! What else's out thar?" * Tomas holds back a snort, "Any star in particular?" <> Would any of your other friends know where the bugs are taken? "Four." Right. Four. You said he was lotsa people. What'd you mean by that? * Kyle eyes him suspiciously. "Do you really not know, or do you just not want to tell us?" "Four knows most stuff! He's smarter'n y'all! He's MORE PEOPLES than y'all!" <> Hey Tomas, can you hold'em down? I think he's getting too agitated. * Tomas crosses his arms and examines the bluebilly, "I don't know. He's looking awfully bitey." Then turns to the bluebilly, "Is Four a group of people? Some sort of society?" Just do it. * Tomas shrugs and moves to hold down and de-agitate the bluebilly. * Kyle goes to work re-tightening the knots. <> * Tomas smirks at the loosened knots, "Good catch. Kyle." Tell us more about Four, Gene. <> "Four's. Lotsa. People." <> "All inna box." "... a lotta boxes." A box? How do multiple people fit in a box? "But all th' people're in all th' boxes." * Tomas eases off his headlock and steps back as Kyle finishes retying the last of the knots. Where are these boxes? <> "Red Guadalejara." <> <> <> But you do... not take your... new friends to the boxes in Red Guadalejara? "They stay with me." * Kyle mmms. So Four... is not paying you to get chainjumpers to perform this task? "I get food. He pays y'all." Where in Red Guadalejara do they keep their boxes? "Dunno, only been once." Did somebody escort you? <> "Don't know. Was sleepin'." * Tomas hmms, "ok. If you don't take your new friends to RG, where do you take them?" "Where I stay!" And then from there somebody picks him up to take him out to the stars? "They're goin' later. Right now both of 'em are with me." When are your two friends supposed to leave? "Dunno, Four doesn't tell me." When was the last time that friends of yours left? <> (Holy crap I have a thought lash.) (so there's a lead squashe) (... what?) (Did Don Goatee not result in a bug?) (.. We're the weird piece. Goatee is Black Lotus.) (Wait no. That is the black lotus.) (The third bug he did not acquire: we stopped he.) (So he's not counting the third ship. ok.) * Tomas nods to himself, "How many bugs did Four ask you to gather? Were you planning to hire other jumpers?" <> (Thank you.) * Tomas steps back and turns to Kyle, "So what do we do with him? We don't want him running back and letting Four know we're onto him, but at the same time I don't feel like childproofing the ship." (It's a good question. Maybe we should just rely on him being bad at memory.) <> (I mean, I'm ok with letting him wander around licking outlets. Kyle's the one who's going to have to replace the fuses every other hour.) (Yeah, actually, I'd meant to ask him how.) (About recognizing you, you mean?) (Yeah.) <> <> (You're talking about basically kicking him back to the Solar Flare or whatever they're called and letting them deal?) (Galreg is probably out. Team 'Owned By Hestia' seems out.) (I believe that's who he's alluding to. (Solar Flare)) <> (hmm. I suppose.) (... oh. Oh!) (Took me a second to remember who the jackass was.) (I'm... not sure Hestia would support that.) <> (It's not a bad idea.) (Not really, although the prof probably would object.) < (+>>) (Infos on boxes in RG.) <> (This name 'Four' seems fairly unique as a handle.) (We also don't know who else is using these Max HEadroom aliases,but their linkage to Four seems strong.) (I don't have anymore specifics than "boxes" in RG.) <> <> (Any hits on the aliases in RG?) <> <> (Other reports of Colloidal Si/blue people? Possibly crossed with those Max Headroom nameds?) (Hmmm.) (I really don't know, we're kinda at a point where we're heading to Red Mexico, right?) (We could try to beat feet in Red Mexico, but that city's basically a maze.) <> <> (But there are Colloidal Si sightings?) <> (Any crosslinking with the Slyethin periods?) (This is when the random detail generation engine is useful!) (Sleythin periods?) (When someone was retconning all of the stuff with relation to planetary results: renorming them, all that?) (Coiled sleythin periods as a signature.) <> (Sadness.) <> (I've got nothin', if my silence has ment anything. ^^;) (Hrm. Well, now we're kinda boned. He's gonna realize the gig's up before too long, I'm sure. Where the hell is Jerkface's house?) (The only lead we seem to have is "somehwere in RG") (We're gonna need to set us up a communications cutout.) (Says the Hestia in me.) (No past pickups, so no checking security cams. We don't have any idea when the pickup will be, so staking the place out could be months.) (Hence the communications cutout.) <> <> (Aha! A contact number!) (and a cam to check (and see nothing on)) <> (Right, but he has to have a contact for this round, right?) (Confusion.) (He has to call a payphone somehwere for this pickup.) (Right.) (If Gene needs to call Four for this mission, he cannot have done it yet: we were watching.) <> (Yeah, that's beyond me. That's Hestia level work, if it can even be done!) <> (Then I guess we'll have to swing by there at some point.) (But yeah, it sounds like we're done.) <>