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[perfectsymmetry]

[Phone call filtered from drones:]

A lot of people have come into town recently. This is pretty odd, considering they usually trickle in instead of coming in so close together... it makes me wonder what are captors are up to.

At any rate, ah, to all the new people out there? My name is Crowe, and if you need any help, let me know. I've been here a long time now, so I can fill you in on any details if you like. There's also a pamphlet available if you haven't seen it. I know some others have been handing them out, and I've been leaving them in mailboxes as well. If you need anything, don't hesitate to ask. It's fair that everyone who comes into this town knows what they've been brought into. Valentine's Day is coming up next month, and ah, things tend to get a bit ugly around holidays here. Don't trust anything the town just drops off in your house overnight, alright?



Ah, Mr. Holmes? I've finished up that copy of the journal I was talking about. If you want, I can just leave it in your mailbox as well. Whatever is convenient for you.





Ah. Um. I-I was wondering if you'd like to do something this weekend. It's my birthday this weekend, you see, and... well I don't want to make a big deal out of it, but it would be nice to, um, maybe do dinner or the movies or something?



[Action! Crowe will be found at the park today, despite the snow and cold, as he hates being inside so much. He'll be out today practicing the tae kwon do he's been learning from Taiwan in a clearing he's made in the snow. He's still new at it, but he's in good shape and a dedicated student, so he's doing pretty well. Care to interrupt/say hi/challenge?]

Comments

[ohlookboobs.livejournal.com]

Valentine's Day?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the next holiday here. It's, ah, a romantic holiday I suppose you could say.

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[badend-replay.livejournal.com]

mi-! That is very impressive! You look like you could be in the movies! ☆

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[He didn't think anyone would be watching. He looks a bit embarrassed at such a claim.]

Ah, no, I'm just starting out, really. Thanks, though.

[ohlookboobs.livejournal.com]

Wow - a romantic holiday? [Likes the idea of this]

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[He chuckles. He figured you would.]

Yeah. You're supposed to buy gifts for your loved ones, or give cards to your friends... Ah, I was still in the US for it last year, it's pretty popular there. Stores were selling candy and gifts for it pretty early, and our high school had a dance.

[ohlookboobs.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my kind of holiday.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

I figured you'd like it. But like Halloween, it involves giving out candy, so I'm sure we'll find ourselves inundated with suspicious chocolates in a few weeks. Valentine's Day is in February fourteen.

[sturmbahnfurher.livejournal.com]

I see.

So the holidays are the time our captors most like to strike, then?

[seriousbigtime.livejournal.com]

Wait. A pamphlet? This place seriously has a pamphlet?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Ha, yeah, we do now. A good idea, really. So many new people come in, it's a good thing to have. Would you like one?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Usually, but not always. But something as popular as Valentine's Day is definitely one they won't pass up.

[sturmbahnfurher.livejournal.com]

I see.

[So there is a pattern to the way the people that ran this place moved. Or at least a vague form of one. So that was something to consider in trying to find some way to fight back if these were the new opponents he was to go to war with.]

Could you tell me, perhaps, how long this has been going on?

[ohlookboobs.livejournal.com]

Yeah - they really don't hold back in trying to ruin our fun.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Mayfield itself? I don't know, really. I've been here for nearly 11 months, so as long as I've been here, it's happened this way.

[sturmbahnfurher.livejournal.com]

Mmm.

Do they have any preferred tactics in how they act? What do they seem to be striving for, mainly? Installing fear, or do they go more for flat out propaganda?

I heard they took to burning houses, at one point, so I'd assume they move towards fear more then anything else.

[And he says that way too casually. He almost sounds fond of the idea.]

[seriousbigtime.livejournal.com]

Sure, I guess.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Naturally. Though I figure I'll do the same as I did for Christmas, and hand out cards before the actual holiday.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Alright. I can drop it off now, if you like. Do you want to meet somewhere? Ah, can I ask your name?

[russefeiring.livejournal.com]

Your birthday?

_{[There's a thoughtful pause on his end of the line. Recently he found a notebook in his handwriting with recipes in it that he had been paging through the past day or so. Hmm...]}

Anything you'd want to do I'd be happy to join you.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, trying to reinforce how "perfect" the town is, you know? But at the same time, it pretty much boils down to torturing and scaring us. There's several people working behind the scenes here - Lucy Smith, the Mayor, Grady, the Milkman, the Postman... and they're not all on the same side.

Um. They did do that a few weeks ago, yes.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[Hurray!]

Great! Ah, I'm still trying to figure that out, honestly. Not too many places to go around here. Ah, there's the movies, and the drive-in, and the bowling alley... Mayfield sadly doesn't give many options. Anything thoughts?

[seriousbigtime.livejournal.com]

It's Peter Parker. I'm at, uh... 946 Beulah?

[russefeiring.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of 'bowling' before. ...What do you do?

[notsaul.livejournal.com]

What if they drop off jellybeans, though?

Fucking love jellybeans.