The Library - Tuesday

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

With all the freaky shit going on with the island today, Barry decided it would be a good idea to make sure the library was open today for any researchers to do some researching.

He was even nice enough to have coffee brought in from the perk. Normal coffee. Nothing that may have been brewed with acorns or anything.

For his part Barry was behind the main desk doing his own research by remotely accessing his lab via his tablet but would be available for anyone if they had questions.

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Re: Important news before Noon!

[bitten_notshy]

"Wait, what?" Jack was there with the important questions. "What happened? Leland Gaunt -- is he the one from the new store?"

Re: Important news before Noon!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Yep. Charming guy. Well. Not so much, I guess." Kenzi sighed and curled up into a ball, her head pounding. "He sold me a ring that could make me invisible, and inaudible. Told me not to tell anyone where I got it." She swallowed, opening one eye. "I kinda had to give him something really valuable to get it. And, well...."

Yeah, she'd kinda taken someone else's valuable thing to do so.

Re: Important news before Noon!

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

Eleanor suddenly had an odd feeling in the pit of her stomach.

"Wait," she said. "He said ... not to tell anyone? He wanted you to lie about it?"

Her very strange maybe-ex-boyfriend had a new necklace. And, at the same time, a helpful new treatment plan.

Oh, Joker .....

Re: Important news before Noon!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Yup," Kenzi sighed. "Special item and all that. I should've known better, gah." She rolled over to look at Eleanor. "I took it off, decided I need a break, you know? It wasn't even that much fun any more. And I felt better. So I got pissed and broke it. And then..." She gave a nervous little giggle. "Anyway! Did you guys see the fuck-ton of dark clouds outside? How about that crazy weather?"

Re: Important news before Noon!

[talentforlying]

Normally if a student showed up looking like they were coming off a month-long bender of some sort, John ignored 'em. If he was feeling nice, he might lob the aspirin in their direction, or throw them out so they didn't puke on the books, but mostly he ignored whatever the kids got up to.

This time, however, he was out of his office like a shot. Well, not as fast as he normally would, but still rather quickly. "Did you say Gaunt?" he demanded, leveling a finger at Kenzi. "He's been cutting deals with you kids? Bloody fucking hell!"

Look, JOHN was a fucking adult capable of making his own fucking bad decisions, thank you kindly, and KNOWING they were fucking bad decisions. It was what he did. But he'd had no idea Gaunt was dealing to the kids.

"Fucking shite-stain of an ill-begotten... look, girl, focus two seconds and I'll get you a coffee and some nice pills that probably will put you under that table the rest of the way. You broke it, it exploded, and then the weather rolled in? You sure?"

Re: Important news before Noon!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Yes," Kenzi said, very certain. "It was all sunny, I was on the back porch, playing with Zenkie. Broke the ring. Everything got darker. Fought a ... something that came outta the ring." She was nodding along as she recounted all this. "And then, soon as I burned the leftover thingie, I started to book it over here. Which. Wow. Took a lot longer than usual? I should've called," she realized. "But I wasn't thinking too straight."