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Hey Lolita! Watch where you're blasting that thing! Get behind me ...
<opens his mouth, unleashing his 'Shark Bite' [trademark pending] - a flurry of razor-sharp projectile teeth>
<a booming "ROWR!!!" fills the darkened Tobacconihilist>
Well, I hit something ... anybody got a light?
<feels something brush against his legs>
Whoa! Something is still moving in here!
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Something was here, just a short time ago. We thought it was a person, but now I'm not so sure. Something was crawling all over us...either a monster, or someone with a very disgusting power.
<blaster still out>
Still, one can't be too careful. Shark Lad and I were questioning Tomahawk here.
<turning to Sharky>
Sharky, I don't believe Tomahawk did anything. It was a good lead, but no luck--if anything, he's in danger too.
<back to Exnihil>
If anything Ex, I'd like to talk to you a little. Let me say up front, I am not here on behalf of the Office of Security. I'm not here as part of the LMB either. I'm here because Cobie was shot and lies on his death bed, and I'm going to catch that killer.
I don't think you did it...and I have no intentions of incriminating you or anything of the sort. But please...please help me. Can you tell me your story again, about the Second Shooter...Justin Thyme.
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<mind wanders as Jailbait Lass questions Exnihil>
(This has just gotten crazy ... I feel like a dogfish chasing its tail ... been looking to haul off on Tomahawk ever since he sucker punched me back at the OK Corral ... now he's on our side? Sprock! I'm used to thinking with my teeth, not my head ... maybe I should just get out of here ... )
<sees something slithering on the ground in the corner of the Tobacconihilist>
Lolita! Ex! Behind you! It's back!
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Sorry, T-hawk, no whiskey in this smoke shop... oh wait... I do have some cognac!
<pulls out a bottle and four snifters>
Have at it guys. Now... Jailbait Lass, I believe I owe you an explanation...
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It all started a year ago, on, as many things do, an island.
Having made my fortune by partnering with Big Tobacco, this place that we're sitting in was paying for itself. I decided to venture that profit by branching out into a long-standing passion of mine: holo-vids. We planned this thing for months. Every last detail was accounted for...
...every detail, but one.
Him.
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Among those 12 people out on that island, there was one who stood out by virtue of his raw charisma. One who, without speaking a word, could win the whole place over.
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Keep going, Exnihil...I do hope of course this is leading somewhere to do with all the recent attacks...?
<eyes Sharky>
(Sharky won't make it through this long monologue; Tomahawk is already too busy smoking his cigar and sewing up his boots or something to be paying attention)
<back to Ex>
When did you first meet and become aware of Cobalt Kid, whom you reportedly tried to assassinate under the control of the Second Shooter?
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Easy does it, JB... like a fine cigar, a fine tale must be taken in slowly...
It was then, however that I began to lose it.
Money, I had... thanks to The Tobacconihilist.
Fame, check... thanks to the success of Survivor:Marzal.
But, Political Power? This was the golden ring. With Lardy in as my puppet candidate I knew that I would soon be on the road to easy street. But what if he didn't win? I had to ensure that didn't happen.
[cliche]I fear I went quite mad for a time.[/cliche]
It was then... at my most vunerable when I began hearing things. It wasn't my imagination... it was real... but inside my head. I can help... he said. He gave me the idea. He said the one person that might stand in the way of a sweep was a person who over time had been sometimes friend, sometimes enemy to Lard Lad... Cobalt Kid.
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No one would get hurt, this mysterious stranger said... it was just a harmless "Penetra-Ventriloquism" dart. I was to stand in the crowd as Cobie was making his announcement and, at the key moment, fire the dart. Then he would be ours. We would control the content of rest of Cobie's speech, I intended on having him issue an endorsement of Lardy's campaign.
But just as I fired... that's when I saw him. On the grassy knoll... the same one who had approached me...
The Second Shooter!
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What did he look like, Ex? I need details! Height? Weight? Hair color? Race--as in Native planet?
[aside to Shark Lad]By the way, it does seem like several crimes were in progress almost voluntarily, but I'll forget about those for the moment so long as we get some more information...[/aside]
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