PIDGE-ADMIN//

open chat @10:29 PM

VLAD//

I have some good news, all.

VLAD//

Cedric, we've found a role for you to play.

You are Roy O'Shaughnessy.

KEVIN//

Say again?

VINCENT//

Roy...?

O'Shaughnessy?!

VLAD//

He is a native of Queens, so at least that part is easy.

VLAD//

but his ancestry is a bit different than that to which you are accustomed.

His father was Irish but his mother was descended from American slaves.

VLAD//

Roy had one son who married and moved to New Jersey.

He lives alone with his wife in an area of Queens not easily served by the train; he drives to work.

In your case you may get by walking.

But it would be a long walk so I suggest you get moving early.

VLAD//

He was a plumber but hopes to earn a spot on the force to support his young son and their daughter.

CEDRIC//

What was his wife like?

VLAD//

Shirley?

She's... blonde.

They met through the newspaper.

MANDARC//

Through the newspaper?

VLAD//

Yes, Mandarc.

In the era before the Internet, people used to write what they called 'personal ads'. They were short, about a paragraph or so, and they were meant to entice people to connect who had no other way to meet each other.

A sort of mating call facilitated by a word-intensive culture.

VLAD//

Roy ran a personal ad one fateful, lonely day.

Shirley was the only one who took him up on it.

CEDRIC//

Did he have any pets?

VLAD//

I can't be sure but it doesn't seem so.

His son may have a dog in tow but it's not of import.

I am almost sure his wife, who preferred a tidy house, would not have allowed a canine.

CEDRIC//

How old is he?

VLAD//

He may be in his fifties, nearing his sixtieth birthday.

MANDARC//

Isn't he a bit old for a cop?

VLAD//

He wants a desk job. All we have to do is get Cedric in the door.

His glamour will work the rest.

MANDARC//

So by the force of his personality, he's going to overcome the bureaucracy the Mortals have been developing for centuries?

VLAD//

Precisely.

MANDARC//

How exactly does the glamour work?

People are just going to think he's this Roy O'Shaughnessy??

KEVIN//

Wait... Roy?

What happened to Roy?

VLAD//

He... disappeared.

MANDARC//

Does his family know?

Will they show up looking for him?

VLAD//

No. I don't think so.

This is the one case in which we may be completely safe from external intrusion.

close chat @10:48 PM