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[a1enzo]

Enzo swears when he sees the security notices.

"Minus, message for Dani."

OI: Great. Just great. Want to help save Christmas?


outsideInterface is signed on.

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[ami_imperfect]

A minute later a text comes back.

Uh-oh. What happened this time?

[a1enzo]

OI: APPARENTLY someone kidnapped Santa.
OI: That's what the ransom note says, anyway.
OI: Sort of.
OI: It's the stupidest ransom note ever.

[ami_imperfect]

Someone did WHAT?!?

Oh jeez. How stupid?

[a1enzo]

OI: "We have your Santy Claws"
OI: "Bring us your most delicious Christmas things and a thousand human moneys to the big tree with a door in on Christmas Day and we won't eat him."
OI: "Merry Christmas"
OI: "The Monster"

[ami_imperfect]

Okay, you totally can't see it right now but I am facepalming. I am facepalming SO hard.

[a1enzo]

OI: Oh, and there's a drawing of Santa tied up, and some bugs and spiders.
OI: It sounds like something a little kid would make up, except all the spelling's right except for Santa's name.

[ami_imperfect]

So...its someone trying to sound like or pin the blame on a little kid? Or else has the mentality of one...

[a1enzo]

OI: Or someone who just really, really doesn't get it.
OI: Like, worse than when I first met Users.
OI: It's Milliways, they're all options.

[ami_imperfect]

This is very, very true.

So, how do you want to proceed on this? Check the woods for the tree mentioned in the note?

[herr_bookman]

heirDrosselmeyer began trolling outsideInterface

HD: Hi, Enzo
HD: Been a while since I've seen you on the T-minus system

[a1enzo]

OI: I could say the same.
OI: I'm usually connected when I'm not at work.
OI: Unless Minus is napping or I'm having dinner with the Fentons.

[herr_bookman]

HD: Ah, I see
HD: I'm rarely on, so there you go
HD: What are you up to?

[a1enzo]

OI: Security business.
OI: Saving Christmas again, apparently?

[herr_bookman]

HD: Oh, yeah, Santa was kidnapped
HD: Again
HD: You've seen the ransom note, right?
HD: I saw it dropped off by a giant black and orange snake
HD: Apparently Gene Hunt is on the case
HD: But I trust him as far as I can throw him
HD: Which is not at all

[a1enzo]

OI: An actual giant snake?
OI: Good to know, thanks.
OI: I'd call that evidence for it being real.
OI: See anything else?

[herr_bookman]

HD: No, unfortunately
HD: I saw a couple of people in the woods
HD: But people come and go in the woods all the time
HD: And have every right to be there

[a1enzo]

OI: True enough.
OI: Well, it's something, anyway.
OI: Dani's bringing some paranormal tracking equipment.
OI: If a monster put up the note, that might be a place to start.

[fry_sandhu]

littleFish is signed on.

[a1enzo]

OI: Hi, Fry!

[fry_sandhu]

LF: Hi Enzo
LF: I'm 12 meters away
LF: Does this go round the moon and back like the internet?

[a1enzo]

Enzo looks around. Ah! So he is.

OI: I don't know what it does.
OI: It's an unusual system and we're in an unusual place. he replies before heading over to speak to him in person.

[fry_sandhu]

Fry signs off and looks up.

"I'm not very quick at typing yet."

[a1enzo]

"You'll get there. Or you can dictate, but it's good to practice."

Minus waves the word littleFish at him in greeting.

[fry_sandhu]

"What's dick tate?"

[a1enzo]

"It means to say things out loud for someone or something else to write down. If you're being dictated to, you're taking dictation."

With Dot for a sister, this was a fairly early vocabulary word for him.