by_the_pricking | [Dual Post]

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Hrm, might I be able to request the assistance of some here? I have a few jobs both on world and off world that I'd need some help with.

Please inquire to know more.

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::It's a rather nice spring and the shop has updated for the spring season. Though in the center aisle as usual is that large, creepy mirror that reflects weird stuff. Though perhaps you need some spring clothes, or perhaps spring Haiku, or prepare for graduation ceremonies at normal schools.

There is also of course the green house manned by my lovely assistant.::

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Of course, Labrinto is probably the best and brightest curiosity shop in Domino. But considering the state of the department, I'm getting a lot of 'not good enough's from my superiors. We've been run ragged by the Dark Mist case, and now with incidents falling off the map, we're getting a lot of threats of uselessness lobbed our way.

Don't get me wrong, I really wish they hadn't forced me to do this, but they want to see me work on something besides chasing ghosts. They're short-sided idiots who don't understand half the basics of this stuff, but at the end of the day they still hold the executioner's axe over SpecInv. Know what I mean, sir?

[He scratches his head sheepishly.]

So you wish for there to be an 'enemy' or 'threat' for you to have the appearance of work?

E-eh? That's... I mean. We always get better publicity while there's an enemy we can deal with, sure, but...

The Dark Mist case is still holding up most of our available resources... plus, we just don't have the manpower these days. One's going to be with child soon, one's currently a teenager on leave due to needing some mental recuperation, one's working on her own goals...

And then there's that business of the fact we need to be hunting down leads on... what was it, those strange mystical draws that people seem to be able to pull off.

Frankly, I'm surprised you don't have robots. Though, "Strange Mystical Draws"?

I've been working on getting clearance for some hand-built robot staff, but the officers are afraid of... what was it... "me turning into a tyrannical machine overlord convinced with bringing us into the revolution." Plus, the Machine Emperor shenanigans a while back really hurt the viability of mechanized officers, due to their potential to hijack.

Yeah. Based off a record about "when dark and light intersect", I think is how the saying goes? People who have been pawns of Dark Mist have made this draw before. I had to duel Moeko through a gate, and used a "Chaos Draw".

The Illusion Witches also used this fact, based on miss Mira's research into said record and their own powers. If Dark Mist is after anything, it's likely that.

And the card drawn is almost always something that makes things worse for their opponent, something I've never heard of before.

I remember those fellows. Those are actually what I would recommend... ... ... though "When darkness intersects light"? I think I've heard of a legend about that.

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I have some basic models based on the pursuit prototypes that got wrecked in the Machine Emperor misfortunes that I've been working on in my spare time. They've been running some fairly standard decks, and have some routine programming and personality functions. The problem is getting the department to let me use them without them thinking I'm going to stage a takeover or something silly.

Yeah, the rest of the record has been lost to antiquity, but from what little we know, the research stemming from it comes with pieces like that. And the end result is always something that allows for someone to... I guess to put it in a simple way, "create the cards they draw". If Dark Mist had something like that, they'd likely be unstoppable.

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That would require an intense enough threat. ... I could show you those ruins. I know where they are. And I'm very familiar with that legend, officer.

...Wait, you could? I thought most of the legend had been completely lost?

Still, if that's possible... well, it'd give us a leg up, certainly.

I am as old as aeons. Would you like to go now, or later, officer?

Whenever you'd be willing to show me, sir. I can always make time for a breakthrough lead, as you may expect.

*she nods, smiling. which must be so weird when you think of Suguru.*

Yes, we're doing fine. The winter went well enough, though I'm thankful personally that it's over.

*it's some big plant in the middle-- it sorta looks like it might be a Duel Monster hybrid plant of some sort, with very brightly colored large flowerings on it. It gives off a bit of a heady scent.*

I guess I can. Deal with falling, in this case.

I just need an estimated time of departure, and how long you'd expect this to take.

Again. Now or later, officer?

...Now is fine, if you're willing. You've got my curiosity piqued now.

Follow me to my room, in the back and above the store.

::Motions to follow him.::

[It terrifies me beyond the capacity for rational thought.]

I don't blame you at all, to be honest. This winter was pretty brutal. I huddled up in electric blankets for months.

[Does so, moving to turn off his phone and other devices as he walks. This is important after all.]

At least you're more or less made to tolerate the cold. *she sighs a bit*

But now I have spring to look forward to. So it's not all bad.

Yeah, true, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. [He laughs.] I much prefer Spring to Winter, trust me.

I imagine you'll be getting out and about a lot more once the weather gets nice and warm, eh?

::After climbing a flight of stairs, you come to a small but modest, Victorian seeming room. Very old furniture, very brown, and a collection of scrolls and books.::

Tell me when you are ready, officer.

As soon as possible.

A few hours.

::... Takes a deeeeep sniff.::

Okay, that works for me. I think I can afford to vanish for a few hours.

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