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route_292012-04-22 11:11 pm
these_balls) wrote in route_292012-04-22 11:11 pm
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I'll make you an offer you can't refuse.
Ara here! Oh goodness, I'm so excited to share this with you.
Dun dun dun...
What kind of 'deal' is Petrel trying to cut? You'll have to hold out for Tuesday for the full information and an official timeline for this plot, but I hope this whets your appetite! This is going to be much longer than the train heist and will hopefully give all our Rockets and our newly-formed PGC something to do.
Speaking of giving people something to do: I'd like to turn your attention to the new Rocket missions post! That's right, with Din as my co-plotmod/Rocketmod, we've set up a post in which Rockets can ask for and obtain missions, create their own missions, ask for advancement and plot amongst themselves. Your go-to Rocket resource, essentially. Have a Rocket idea and want to make it an official Team venture? That's the place! Not sure what your newbie Team member can occupy their time with? Go have a look! Need permission for a Rocket event? Yep! I'll be tracking the post, so if you need to get in touch with me for secret nefarious business, you can also ping me there. Some missions will be permanent (cleaning, for example, always needs doing), but some will get shuffled around every couple weeks so that they don't get stale. Of course, it won't be perfect right away, but we'll do our best to streamline it and iron out the kinks as it goes. If you have suggestions, let us know! This will hopefully help solve the ongoing problem of Rockets being left to their own devices in between events.
As you can see, there are already two special-rank missions on there, marked as '???'. They will be officially announced and become available on Tuesday, so keep your eyes peeled. If you have any questions or comments, we're listening.
"Spring Cleaning"
He's used to working late. The light in his office is dim, helped along by the glow of the moon outside. Methodically, his pen makes a soft noise as he scratches out his signature at the bottom of several documents. Again and again, loops and twists as he crosses the t's and dots the i's. With all the new programming they're trying to slot in and an influx of new employees, things have been busy these last few weeks. That's the excuse he gives, anyways. Things haven't been going too well between him and his wife lately, so he stays here. He suspects she's having an affair, and thinks that she probably suspects the same. He lets her.
Some people would find working under the moonlight eerie, especially considering the town's history, but not him. He's never been a superstitious man: he likes things neat and orderly, so his spartan office, with its mahogany furniture, hardly strikes him as a place of danger. He can't see her, but at the foot of the desk sleeps a grizzled old Furret, age and myopia wearing away at watchful instincts.
There's a knock at the door. He glances up, then down again as the vice-president enters. Another signature.
"Did you get the rest of the new contracts?" He asks, without looking up, and is rewarded with a sheaf of paper being tossed just shy of his elbow. He frowns. On top is a photograph.
His stomach twists just before he hears Furry's growl.
He snaps the photograph up between thumb and forefinger. On it: his wife, hair swept back, carrying their four-year-old with his ball cap on sideways, the sun in their faces. He doesn't remember taking this picture, and it can't be more than a few days old.
He wonders when the last time was that he told them he loved them. His eyes rise.
The man—oh, the disguise is perfect, down to the hems of the suit jacket (the same brand) and the scent of the hair gel and the leather shoes and the jowls of the face, no wonder he got past security. It's the eyes, cold and hard, that betray it—draws up to the desk, drumming his VP's neatly-manicured nails on the burnished wood. There's a brief moment of silence, before two newsroom boys shuffle into the room: his eyes track them, and almost immediately he realizes they're broad-shouldered for newsboys. Which makes him figure out they aren't. There are pokéballs on their belts.
"Ah," he says. New contracts; new employees; new programming. How long has this been going on?
The man smirks, and the movement stretches the lines where the mask meets skin. The effect is a bit grotesque. Furry's growl is cut short by a yelp as she is kicked aside. The man is suddenly flanked, the lackeys' taller shapes framing the moon. Now the scene is eerie. In the centre, the disguised man opens his suit jacket, unbuttons his dress shirt.
He thinks of the news: the attack on the Kimono Girls. It's strange, he reflects, things like this never happened before all those other people showed up.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Petrel, and boy do I have a deal for you."
Dun dun dun...
What kind of 'deal' is Petrel trying to cut? You'll have to hold out for Tuesday for the full information and an official timeline for this plot, but I hope this whets your appetite! This is going to be much longer than the train heist and will hopefully give all our Rockets and our newly-formed PGC something to do.
Speaking of giving people something to do: I'd like to turn your attention to the new Rocket missions post! That's right, with Din as my co-plotmod/Rocketmod, we've set up a post in which Rockets can ask for and obtain missions, create their own missions, ask for advancement and plot amongst themselves. Your go-to Rocket resource, essentially. Have a Rocket idea and want to make it an official Team venture? That's the place! Not sure what your newbie Team member can occupy their time with? Go have a look! Need permission for a Rocket event? Yep! I'll be tracking the post, so if you need to get in touch with me for secret nefarious business, you can also ping me there. Some missions will be permanent (cleaning, for example, always needs doing), but some will get shuffled around every couple weeks so that they don't get stale. Of course, it won't be perfect right away, but we'll do our best to streamline it and iron out the kinks as it goes. If you have suggestions, let us know! This will hopefully help solve the ongoing problem of Rockets being left to their own devices in between events.
As you can see, there are already two special-rank missions on there, marked as '???'. They will be officially announced and become available on Tuesday, so keep your eyes peeled. If you have any questions or comments, we're listening.
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