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Aug-25-2004 12:46

Elsey walks into the local bar, The Tricky Mister, and asks her old buddy Cyrus to pour her a drink.
"Something girly," she asks him. "Something the boys will laugh at."
She smiles and looks around the room. She thinks about who else might walk into the room tonight. She turns back to her girly drink and waits for Sir James to arrive, as he undoubtedly will at some point.
Just then, the front door opens and in walks....

Aug-25-2004 20:26

Everyone in the bar stopped talking at once. Next to the dartboard, a table was overturned and surrounded by shards of broken beer bottles.

Suddenly, Adelard, the town's notorious insane opium dealer struggled to his feet from behind the table. He had a long gash on his left check and he was mumbling incoherently.

Cyrus grabbed his baseball bat from behind the bar and raced to the table. Adelard had finally made it to his feet and was standing in a pool of beer and blood.

Just as Adelard said, "It was an accident, " Cyrus looked behind the table and saw ...

Aug-25-2004 21:08

...the slumped over body of Adelphe, one of Adelard's five lovers. Her skull had been cracked clean open, though there was little blood on the body.

"Yep," I remarked to the crowd, "that's the work of an experienced killer."

Aug-25-2004 22:21

Just then ctown walked up to the bar and yelled at Cyrus to give him usual Budweiser. As he was enjoying his beer and watching the ball game on the television the Shady Character came up to him and said....

Aug-25-2004 22:48

"Hey, CTown. Are you here to see me? Ya know I could use your business. My fourth wife is hounding me for a new fur coat," the shady character said with a shake of his head. "I keep telling her it will make her ass look big."

CTown rolled his eyes and was about to tell the Shady Character to take a hike when he remembered that Lucretia had forgottened his birthday .... again!

CTown turned back to the bar and began making a contemplating his next move. He decided he would ...

Aug-25-2004 22:56

sit back and see the way things transpired. He was enjoying the ball game since the Indians took a 3-2 lead but then all of the sudden....

Aug-26-2004 06:08

The door opens again. Sihouetted by the dim streetlights a strange figure dressed in a sealskin coat with matching hat and armed with a bottle of very expensive perfume and a cane stands in the doorway.

Elsey jumps up
"Sir James! What took you so long?"
"Pressing business at the agency. Hi Cyrus I'll have a bottle of champagne please."

Sir James sits down with Elsey.

"Wow, what a turn-up, busy night for Cyrus, ah thank you. Would you also like a swig?"
"Uhm, maybe a glass would be a better idea?"
"Don't be such a sissy!"

Esley burst out laughing

"Sissy?! Look who's talking, in your colour-coordinated outfit with matching accesories! Oh well, if you insist I drink form the bottle, so be it."

She takes the bottle from Sir James, takes a drink and glances at the label at the back. She chokes, drenching Sir James in champagne.

"Look! She is missing!"

Sure enough, on the back of the champagne bottle there is a picture of D.L. Williams. Under it in curly golden letters: Have you seen this person, contact the local police department. And under that, in slightly less curly and slightly less golden ones: DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT CONTACT ANY OF THE LOCAL DETECTIVE AGENCIES!!!!!
Elsey and Sir James look at eachother,
"We need to do something!"
"Oh boy, another adventure!"

Aug-26-2004 10:48

"D.L. Williams, huh? That name sounds familiar, but I can't quite put a face to that name," I mumbled, stroking my beard. "I'd be glad to help you find her, though!"

Aug-26-2004 15:04

Elsey laughs at Orbitrux stroking his non-existent beard.
"Di is missing, and I HAVE to find her. She was a Great member of Chicago. Where could she have gone? School? Work? Family problems?" Elsey sighed and looked around the room again. "It could be ANYONE in here!"

Aug-26-2004 18:49

Huffy at the fact that Elsey has not yet merited my scruff to be a full-fledged beard, I stand up before the crowd. "Has anyone heard or seen anything about the disappearance of D.L. Williams?"

Aug-26-2004 23:46

Marni had been listening as usual, slightly curious to not have seen jojo at the bar yet.
"Yeah" says Marni "I do know something about that..."

"I know that Sir James hasn't seen or heard anything."

Marni finishes her whisky, and gets up from the bar. "You pave paradise.." she adds and then leaves.