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8/4/08 Night Switch 04.04

By Flak | Comments: 4

Bonus chapter offerings apply only to the latest chapter. Friday’s installment had comments only from Alar, so no bonus chapter there. Here’s another chance to get one, though. Let’s comment this!

At eight o’clock in the morning, Jason stepped up into the LAW1 van and removed his sunglasses.

“Hey, Jason,” said Frog, his eyes, as usual, fixed to his screen.

Jason stood just inside the door.

“Where is she?”

“Who are you talking about?” asked Frog. The rest of the crew, all present in the van, remained silent.

“The girl,” replied Jason. “The target. Where is she?”

“In the hands of LAW3,” Frog said mildly. “Why?”

“What’s going to happen to her next?”

“I can’t answer that.”

“Why not?”

“Why do you want to know so badly?” Frog frowned at his screen. Jason fell silent. “I told you, right, Jason? Some things are secret. Some things some people can’t discuss. Some things you simply can’t know.”

“I just want information.”

“Information is a dangerous thing, Jason.”

Jason bit his lip in frustration. He was curious. He wanted to know. He had received an e-mail the evening before from the administrator of Blue Sky. The amateur photographer had somehow linked the girl’s disappearance to Jason’s posts around the time of the demon sightings, and he wanted to know where Jason had spirited her away to. Jason hadn’t responded and had no intention to, but the question bugged him—where was Marin?

To further confuse matters, Jason’s IRC channel operator Meg-Sho had reported that Meow Meow Anim enemy number one—a terrible spammer who called himself “king_j”—had come back, demanding that “dhsfags,” Jason included, return his girlfriend to him.

Jason stood there for a few minutes, mulling it all over. A couple of the Oakland team threw him quizzical glances.

“Are you going to get back to spying or are you going home?” asked Frog.

That was when it struck him.

“Frog, what was the e-mail address of the guy to whom she sent that cryptic e-mail, right before she summoned the demon?”

“Drop it, Jason.”

“Where can I access the logs?”

“Drop it, Meowmeow,” joked Pablo.

“So I need to pierce the obfuscation with my Macbook Air, eh, Frog?” muttered Jason, turning his back to his colleagues and examining the spring foliage outside the van.

“You know what you doing,” replied the man.

“Call me if you see anymore demons.”

With that, Jason stepped down out of the van and began the two-block-long trek back to his apartment, laptop in hand. There was no way of knowing for sure, but he had the feeling that before long he’d awaken to an e-mail from Frog, sent once more via the contact form on Meow Meow Anim, demanding that he get outside and rock.

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NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and addresses are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and have no relation to any actual persons, organizations, or locales.

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  1. Jason is definitely going to get himself into trouble. Well, more trouble than he already has gotten himself into.

    Alar — 8/4/08 @ 2:02 pm | #Link | Reply

  2. What makes you think that he has gotten himself into trouble? :o
     
    /me scans comments
    Bonus Points
    KCG: 21
    Alar: 3

    Flak — 8/5/08 @ 9:10 am | #Link | Reply

  3. when did it become spring? how many past episodes did flak edit to destroy the evidence of this temporal inconsistency?
    when did his name become pablo? how many past episodes did flak edit to destroy the evidence of this nomenclatural inconsistency?
    when did jason start trying to look cool irl? how many past episodes did flak edit to fabricate evidence in support of these 8am sunglasses?
    how did jason fall silent when not talking? how many edits will flak make to this episode to destroy the evidence of this conversation flow inconsistency?

    jason’s lack of insight will continue to protect him from actually being hurt: he’s just too uninteresting a target for any real reprisal.

    spambot — 8/6/08 @ 9:39 pm | #Link | Reply

  4. I don’t believe I ever mentioned a time of year before. So it’s new info, not an inconsistency (maybe). I’ll go back and double-check.
     
    The guy on the Oakland team who first taunted Jason is named Pablo; see Night Switch 03.10.
     
    There has been no previous mention of sunglasses, but I actually DO think I might want to go back and edit such a thing in. Sunglasses are important to Jason.
     
    Err, falling silent = mistake on my part. Will fix. (Evidence will still exist in the form of these comments ;) )
     
    hahahahah
     
    Bonus chapter GET!

    Flak — 8/7/08 @ 5:19 am | #Link | Reply

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