un: sling shot | audio | after wedding no. 2 goes awry

[slippin]

Hey. [ The voice coming through your magical doohickey is low and maybe congested. Whatever this is doesn't sound like good news. Then the speaker clears his throat, continues in lighter tones, his cadence practiced: ] Are you somewhere private? Because that would be a good place to be right now.

[ There's a good twenty-second pause filled with ambient train noise. Time enough to close your communicator, make your excuses. ] Great. [ Again: it doesn't sound great! ] Um. So, uh, earlier this afternoon as I was leaving the movie theater, I bumped into the bride-to-be...or not-to-be...Like. [ A single solid clap. ] Bam. Well, her little attache case went flying and in the course of helping her, you know, recombobulate herself I may have glimpsed a thing or two relevant to our present circumstances.

[ A beat. Hastily: ] Not weapons. Nothing like that. [ Please don't commit unilateral or joint murder based on his intel! ] But, okay, before we go any further, I've got a few questions for you:

Do we know anyone onboard whose name starts with C? As in crazy, or camembert.

Have any of you talked to Prassenze? [ Rest assured: he mangles the pronunciation. Maybe he'll figure it out by the third wedding. ] Had a little heart-to-heart?

Uh, and last but definitely not least, what the hell?

Great. [ Great! ] Thanks. Over and out.



[ ooc: threadjack away! mod-provided deets on the suitcase's contents are here, since jimmy will share all that info but it'll be run through a jimmy-filter and he's allergic to being direct.

(also if your char would want to talk to him in person, lmk and I can do a starter for that!) ]

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un: oil change | audio

[nachocheese]

[Jimmy...]

Spit it out, man.

un: absterge

[downswing]

You may have glimpsed.

audio | un: wooden sword

[vdovy]

That is so many words for very little information.

un : dappled peals of the parted seas (voice)

[beitangmoran]

So what exactly is it that you've seen, if it is not weapons?

And unfortunately, I haven't gotten close enough to talk to her, although I've been around the rest of the wedding party.

un: Black Prince; text

[blackscales]

There is a contessa. Presumably she is partnered to another countessa or count. C could, of course, be short for a nickname instead of name.

un: wisdom

[mashiara]

What, you want a list of everyone with a C name? Or a title. Why? Where in her mysteriously flying case did this "C" appear? Embroidered on a pocket kerchief? On a letter? The way she signs her journal.

( she sounds so distinctly unimpressed. )

You want a list of all "C" passengers, talk to the conductor. Ask him about which tickets, which staff, belong to "C" and you might have an answer. Why do you think it matters on this train?

un: wei wuxian

[weifinder]

Sure, we chatted while Prassenze was trying to growl her way through everyone in the wedding party today!

( sounding so chipper! but also, a narrowing of his eyes that are not, not, not visible in this audio exchange. and then. )

She's been shy, and it wasn't anything we had reason to want to do before now. Have you spent time talking with Firo? Any of the wedding party? I'm making the guess you're looking at inspiration for why Prassenze went missing last night when you... bumped into her today. Coincidentally.

video; un: the bad guy

[yeahmagnets]

[ Jesse's just ignoring entirely this whole wedding mystery for the time being. ]

Sling shot? Seriously? That's what you're going by these days?

[ But nevermind the username--let's get to the fact that they're both here of all places. ]

This one of your 'tricks up your sleeve' you so eagerly tell us you've got?

The HELL is going on, Goodman? You owe me an explanation.