It gets harder to believe, but be honest

[Filtered from the usual crowd... but also his own house, if possible. He'll have to catch up with Ash and possibly Hol later.]

I hear a lot of people talking about seeing Smirnov all over town. I saw him too, but he disappeared before I could reach him. But when have people seen him? It sounds like everyone saw him on Thursday... but what about after that? And I'm also curious if anyone managed to get some info from him, or if he just kept vanishing....

... you know, Grady can do that too. The teleporting thing. I'd seen him do it not long after I got here. But he obviously has control over it.


Ah, so, Halloween is approaching! I went to a Halloween party last year with my friend Minnie's house.... It was a lot of fun. It would be great if we could have one here. Is anyone out there throwing a costume party? It doesn't have to be a big deal, just something for fun... I'd offer, but, ah, I-I don't think my house here would be good for it. I also wonder if the theaters will play some horror films... if the 1950s were good for anything, it was good for ridiculous monster flicks!

[Well, let's try to ignore traumatic date night, shall we? Crowe has other news to report to you all.

Call filtered from Rue:]

Um. I said I would let people know if I found out anything about what happened to those of us who were... victimized last week. Those of us who were infected with whatever it was. Mr. Hughes and I spoke with Rue, but it, ah, predictably didn't go very well. But, what we could gather from it was that it was due to something she slipped into drinks, that the town gave back to her. I think she knew it would do something strange to us, but not specifically what. And that once it started she had no way of stopping it. I figure that mostly from the fact that she herself was not affected by it.

But... I encourage you all to not do anything drastic. Please. She... I think she realizes how bad this all was, and is guilty enough about it. I don't think it'll happen again.

[A pause, and a quite sigh.] At least I hope not.

Anyway, I hope everyone is alright after, ah... a-all these recent events.

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[Later, Crowe can be found back at the park per usual, with trees and ropes and the whatnot. Today he's got a rope tied in a high tree branch straight up vertically, trying his best to climb up it using only his arms. Woo upper body strength training! It's pretty tough, but he's going at a slow but steady pace. Surely there's no ulterior motives behind all this training lately...]

_{[[OOC: Chrona-mun, feel free to keep backtagging the date if you want~]]}

[Filtered to: Vince & England. You boys are popular lately.]

Ah. I-I know neither of you know really know me, but I've heard about certain, ah, plans lately, and if you want, I can be of great help. If you'd like to discuss it not over the phone lines, please meet me at the park tonight at 8 o'clock. I'll be there practicing soccer myself, I should be easy to spot. Thanks.


[Crowe will be waiting at the park as promised, even quite a few minutes before the given time, if either care to meet up.]