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snowblindrpg2016-05-10 06:08 pm
rattlingthestars) wrote in snowblindrpg2016-05-10 06:08 pm
[network - late night 114 ] @JPHawkins, video; A KEY DEVELOPMENT [open]
[ Jim, in the first segment of the video, appears to be leaning against a mostly empty jewelry case. He's calm, though his eyes occasionally track something across the room rather than the tablet he's speaking into. ]
Hey, Norfinbury. Think we found something that might be important, and we need your help. See, a few days ago we went digging in the storehouse near the bookshop - didn't find anything interesting in the papers, but what we did get ahold of this.
[ He spins the tablet around and Zell is elaborately presenting an old-fashioned brass key. Ooh, ahh. ] We tried it at the creepy toy shop and the bookshop before we finally found the door it opened at the cobbler's.
[ This is where the video switches over to something from earlier in the day. It's filmed from chest height, apparently one handed as the other hand holds a hockey stick that prods at what appears to be a spring-loaded trap over the door to a small room. Whatever kind of trap was sprung is gone, though there's a deep gouge in the doorframe where it landed, and a trail of fresh blood briefly visible when the camera pans around to show the rest of the small room.
It's stuffed with old furniture that looks like it was all pushed out of the way when the door opened, and Zell is walking around it, cautiously poking around with the second hockey stick. The video ends there. ]
Might be a boldhole from someone in the last cycle of people. There were empty food bags and stuff. We found a backpack like ours with -
[ Zell, again, presenting a second key! This one is silverso it's probably protecting better loot. ]
Ta-da. Another key. We tried that one at the jeweler's, but no luck. We're going to try the bookshop and toy shop again, but if anybody knows of any other locks that look like they might match let us - me or Zell or Kain or Zack - know. Keep an eye out for treasure chests or lockers or anything like that, too.
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[ Text, tacked on some time later and locked from @zd: ]
-And this is unrelated, but if you already gave someone here a pretty cool gift and need to give them a better one for some reason, what would you give them?
[ ooc: answers will come from Jim! Possible threadjackings from Zell, Kunsel, and Zack whenever he stops barfing. ]
Hey, Norfinbury. Think we found something that might be important, and we need your help. See, a few days ago we went digging in the storehouse near the bookshop - didn't find anything interesting in the papers, but what we did get ahold of this.
[ He spins the tablet around and Zell is elaborately presenting an old-fashioned brass key. Ooh, ahh. ] We tried it at the creepy toy shop and the bookshop before we finally found the door it opened at the cobbler's.
[ This is where the video switches over to something from earlier in the day. It's filmed from chest height, apparently one handed as the other hand holds a hockey stick that prods at what appears to be a spring-loaded trap over the door to a small room. Whatever kind of trap was sprung is gone, though there's a deep gouge in the doorframe where it landed, and a trail of fresh blood briefly visible when the camera pans around to show the rest of the small room.
It's stuffed with old furniture that looks like it was all pushed out of the way when the door opened, and Zell is walking around it, cautiously poking around with the second hockey stick. The video ends there. ]
Might be a boldhole from someone in the last cycle of people. There were empty food bags and stuff. We found a backpack like ours with -
[ Zell, again, presenting a second key! This one is silver
Ta-da. Another key. We tried that one at the jeweler's, but no luck. We're going to try the bookshop and toy shop again, but if anybody knows of any other locks that look like they might match let us - me or Zell or Kain or Zack - know. Keep an eye out for treasure chests or lockers or anything like that, too.
--
[ Text, tacked on some time later and locked from @zd: ]
-And this is unrelated, but if you already gave someone here a pretty cool gift and need to give them a better one for some reason, what would you give them?
[ ooc: answers will come from Jim! Possible threadjackings from Zell, Kunsel, and Zack whenever he stops barfing. ]
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And, um... could I... ask your name? I know the rest of your group, but I don't think I've spoken to you before now.
[She has a suspicion this is Zell's significant other, but it's better to let him find his own boundaries for information like that.]
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[ He'll just have to make a note about the nicknames, or try to. It's a habit!
He blinks in surprise for a second, but then it's not like most people introduce themselves around here. ]
-Sorry, must not've introduced myself before. It's Jim. Jim Hawkins.
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[Jim Hawkins, though? As in, Stevenson's Treasure Island? It pops into her mind, but she knows better than to imply something like that out loud. Maybe his family thought it would be funny, in a cruel sort of way.
First Watson, now this. It HAD to be coincidence.]
I know it could be under better circumstances... but still, it's very nice to meet you, Jim.
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[ Oh. It's a good thing the conversation is voice-only because otherwise Luna would get to see the dopey, gobsmacked look on Jim's face followed immediately by him covering his eyes with both hands and rubbing the flush of embarrassment away. He sounds a little strangled when he answers: ]
Nice to meet you too.