21:16 <Crion> It's Sunday in late March, but it's uncommonly warm in the Hedge this afternoon, and a man who sounds like he's from Tennessee or Kentucky or somewhere around there is up to his waist in the water, casting a line out deeper. He's one of the Lost, no doubt about it; Beast of some kind. Dog? Wolf? Hard to say which. Could be a particularly mean fox. But he's smiling and enjoying himself and 21:16 <Crion> generally not menacing you with what big teeth he has. Stewart has already divined that he is Some Riverside King. 21:16 <Crion> "Y'all from around here, then?" 21:19 <CBN> Tony offers a friendly smile and a kind of shruggy half-nod. "Not our neighborhood, but, general around." Makes swirly all-around-encompassing gesture. "How's the fishing?" 21:20 <Crion> "Oh it seems fine, just fine. Caught two already but threw 'em back on account of they started talking to me." He looks around at the rest of the motley, eyes slightly narrowing. "You're not here to tell me I need a permit now, are ya?" 21:21 <CBN> Tony laughs. "We're actually up here looking to talk to someone about that for ourselves, among other things." 21:22 <Crion> "Mmmmmm." He looks back over the lake. "But you're the local baron, ain'tcha? I thought that was your thing. Well, who knows. Never was much one for bureaucracy." He kind of spits that last word out. 21:23 <CBN> Tony can't help but make a Baronial mental note: lax enforcement in this neighborhood. Might want to check in with the fish hobs later and bring it up with the Sheriff at some point. Keeping it under his hat for now though. 21:23 <banana> At some point we've gotta ask Tony what a baron does. Or find out and tell him. 21:23 <CBN> Tony holds his hands up. "I'm more a help-your-neighbor kinda guy myself, friend. And you said it yourself, you're tossing back anything that talks back." 21:23 <banana> To Melanie, the term sounds feudal - rights and obligations. Bureaucracy doesn't necessarily figure... 21:24 <CBN> Tony: "Truth be told...can I level with you here?" 21:24 <trenchfoot> Evidently thy handle fishing permits, which Nels was not aware was a thing. 21:24 <trenchfoot> they* 21:24 <Crion> Some Riverside King: "Well shoot, I'd like to think so." 21:26 <CBN> Tony: "Well, terrific! Anyway we're trying to get ahold of the least hostile Pigs we can find, to try to lend a hand in tracking down a guy, or set of guys worst-case-scenario, who're catching hobs and definitely not throwing them back after." 21:26 <CBN> Tony: "And I want to get a fishing permit, so it looked like there were two birds I could hit with the same stone up this-a-way." 21:27 <Crion> He sort of squints out at the water and bares his teeth with a sharp intake of breath and a sigh. "You know I was afraid you might say something like that. Why don't we head back to shore." He turns and begins wading back. 21:28 <CBN> Tony heads along, glancing at the rest of the motley. 21:29 <dammitwho> This guy seems alright, maybe. 21:29 <dammitwho> Maybe. 21:31 <Crion> As he emerges from the water, it's clear there's a big iron on his hip, that he didn't much care about getting wet and submerging. It looks like...a double barreled revolver? Like two barrels, stacked on top of each other. Rather than unholstering it, he unstraps the entire gunbelt and tosses it with the pile of stuff -- picnic basket, bait box, rucksack, fur-lined coat in case the weather 21:31 <Crion> turned -- he's got modestly set up on shore. 21:32 <VoxPVoxD> Is he wet himself? Did he come out wearing waders or anything that suggests he cares about the water at all? 21:33 <CBN> Tony, still trying to put on the neighborly face. "You know, I didn't catch your name. You already know I'm the Baron, so you've got that up on me." 21:33 <Crion> "Oh, I'm just some riverside king who lost his crown. Name got wore out a long time ago." 21:33 <trenchfoot> You have to keep your name. No matter what you lose. 21:34 <VoxPVoxD> Eh. You can just make those. 21:35 <trenchfoot> ...shouldn't have to, though. 21:35 <Crion> "What I should tell you is that you're very lucky you met me on a Sunday. I suppose I am too." 21:35 <CBN> Tony gives a friendly chuckle. "Well look at us then, a Baron and a King." 21:36 <Crion> "See, what I do, is I'm a fixer." He steps out of the waders. "Y'all know what that is?" 21:37 <Crion> He's wearing jeans underneath it; the water seems to be affecting him like Hedge-water affects everyone, which is that it seems like real water but it won't stick to you. He, and you all, are dry as soon as you come out of the lake. 21:37 <trenchfoot> There is an absolutely blank look on Nels's face. 21:37 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "You're the guy who knows a guy." 21:37 <CBN> Tony: "Oh, repairs and maintenance? Yeah I did some of that for awhile, that was two jobs ago really." 21:38 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart realizes rather abruptly that he is also, basically, the guy who knows a guy. Huh. 21:38 <trenchfoot> Nels is the girl who knows a guy who isn't answering her texts anymore. 21:39 <Crion> "Yes and not quite, respectively." He straps the gunbelt back on but leaves the big iron in its holster. "Some guys come in from out of town and need to be shown around, learn the lay of the land, get told what to poke and what not to prod, where they can set up their tents -- that's what I do. How I make my living. Such as it is." 21:40 <Crion> "Three guys from Europe, maybe. Hunting pigs, for now." 21:40 <Crion> "But it's always in my oath that I get Sundays off." 21:41 <Crion> "...Since the shooting hasn't started yet, I figure it's not gonna, and you're not here to assassinate me." 21:42 <CBN> A winter chill briefly crawls over Tony's loamy features, but he forces it back and relaxes. "Well hey, you said it yourself. You're doing a job, and it's your day off." 21:44 <CBN> Tony: "And we're not assassins! Other than...well I guess, and, and then..." He starts doing a mental tally. And then a smile. "But hey, you're not a wizard trying to kill us, so no, I think we're good today." 21:45 <Crion> The king chuckles. "Yeah, way I hear it you're a bit more direct." 21:45 <banana> Melanie.. isn't sure we aren't assassins. But we aren't fight-pickers.. even if this guy's implying he works for Them, as part of Their infrastructure. We'll just write his name- er, his title, down, for now. 21:45 <CBN> Tony: "You got a blanket in your picnic spread here? I'd love to sit down, we've been walking for a ways today." 21:46 <Crion> "Surely do." He pulls out a tarp from the rucksack, then spreads the blanket on top of that. 21:47 <CBN> Tony sits on a corner, one foot still resting on the ground. "Great, great. So, it's your day off, like you said, and I hate bugging a guy on his day off, so we'll get out of your hair quick as we can here." 21:48 <trenchfoot> We're not, like, technically assassins...? We're not getting - ah heck. 21:48 <CBN> Tony: "What can you tell us about the people who hired you to hunt the Pigs, do you know where they are now, do your services extend beyond giving them the lay of the land, and if it comes to it, what's it gonna take to buy out your contract?" Tony tips the brim of his hat. "Like you said, I like to be a bit more direct." 21:48 <trenchfoot> Nels will of course take on whatever awful title people give her. 21:53 <Crion> "Can't rightly tell you anything about the principals. Against the terms of the oath. I do know where they are right now, but I ain't gonna say. I am not obliged to fight alongside them or offer them my gun, but I ain't gotta withhold it, either. And my contract lasts until the end of the next fisherman's moon -- the night the moon is full. April 6, if I recall. Until then, my oath binds me 21:53 <Crion> unless they break it." 21:54 <CBN> Tony: "And what're their terms, if it's your place to say?" 21:54 <Crion> He pauses. "Well, I can tell you they ain't here, I suppose. They tend to do their own things on Sundays anyhow." 21:55 <Crion> "I provide to them location and facilitation. That is to say, they need something found in the local Hedge, I find it. They need to talk with the local sheriff or baron or freehold, well, they ain't really the talking sort. So I do that too." 21:55 <Crion> He looks around the motley. "Like I'm doing right now, I suppose." 21:55 <CBN> Tony tilts his head. "So's this a coincidence or part of your job?" Gesturing at our little sit-down. 21:56 <CBN> Tony: "Even with Sunday being your day off, and all." 21:57 <Crion> "You know how men of the cloth like to dodge a question with that whole 'the Lord works in mysterious ways' bit of bullshit?" 21:57 <Crion> "I'm gonna have to be priestly in my reply." 21:57 <CBN> Tony nods, chuckling. 21:59 <CBN> Tony: "Well, shit then." He looks to the rest of the motley. "Anything else you all wanna ask our new friend here, before we let him get back to his day off?" 21:59 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Where can we find you when you're on the clock?" 22:00 <Crion> Carefully: "I don't think you want to do that." 22:00 <Crion> "But if you insist, I'll be with the Parson." 22:01 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Good to know, thank you." 22:03 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart's all set here if Tony is. 22:04 <banana> Melanie's backed off a bit and is fiddling with her phone, trying to message the group in a way that wouldn't interrupt Tony. It isn't working; she has three bars, but they're silver instead of black, and the telco id reads 'WTRNT'. 22:04 <CBN> Tony nods and pushes off from the blanket, standing. "Well, all's else I can think of is, if we wanted your services at some point in the future, how could we get ahold of you? I feel like you know where to find us already, job and all." 22:05 <Crion> "Speaking of, there's one thing he wanted to have passed on, if we happened into each other. There seems to be some...confusion at the head of the table as to what he and his are supposed to be doing in this neck of the woods, confusion that wasn't there when he was dispatched. When that confusion is cleared up, one way or another, well. Either you'll be meeting him or you won't." 22:06 <Crion> The king: "I don't think he appreciated being dragged halfway across the world and then told to hurry up and wait. But perhaps that's just vulgar editorializing." 22:06 <Crion> To Tony: "Oh, I'll be about. Got a houseboat and everything. Shouldn't be too hard to find, man of your resources." 22:08 <CBN> Tony: "Oh! Well, good to know, thanks for passing that on. I guess on the other end then, when you relay back that we talked, if you do---again, day off and all, I respect that---could you pass on that I'm open to a nice, friendly, neutral chat about please not killing hobs here if he is, or they are? Just in case we can head this all off." 22:08 <Crion> The king: "I suppose it's worth a shot." 22:08 <Crion> "Y'all take care, now." 22:08 <CBN> Tony: "And, this one's personal, how did you even get started shopping for a houseboat." 22:09 <CBN> Tony: "See, that's the endgame of this whole fishing permit thing." He laughs a little. "But the start, boat part. God there's a lot that goes into that." 22:10 <Crion> "Oh, I had a guy on the Mississippi help with that one. There's some changes you have to make so it'll keep over on this side. Gotta proof it and all. But I sort of inherited mine. Though with this plague that's going around, gotta be a buyer's market out in the regular world, right?" 22:10 <CBN> Tony nods, then pauses, thinking, then nods again. "Had not even thought of half of that. Thank you very much!" He extends a hand to shake. "Pleasure meeting you on your day off, King." 22:12 <Crion> "Likewise. Don't be strangers, now. At least not on Sundays." 22:13 <CBN> Tony shakes and nods. "Absolutely." And with that, turns to the rest of the motley and starts walking. "So uhh...what now?" Probably still within earshot of the king, honestly. 22:14 <VoxPVoxD> After they're a ways away, Stewart says, "So we've put the word out that we want the violence against hobs to stop, and apparently the Parson himself is in a holding pattern. I'm guessing that the date the King's contract ends is also the date Parson expects a go- or go-home-order from the Sign." 22:15 <CBN> Tony: "Yeah, that's fair. Not like you're gonna pay somebody past when you need them, for whatever I'm sure that guy's going rate is." 22:16 <CBN> Tony: "The good news is, it sounds like this whole thing itself isn't Parson's idea. The bad news is, it sounds like this whole thing itself isn't Parson's idea." 22:16 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart asks Tony, "What do you feel like your obligation is here? Like, your due diligence as Baron. Do you have to keep going until you know the Pigs are safe? Do you kick this to someone else? The Sheriff, maybe? Killing Pigs can't be legal... do Loyalists count as Keepers, for the purpose of immunity to Hedge Laws?" 22:17 <VoxPVoxD> Helpfully answering a question with four more questions. 22:17 <CBN> Tony: "Honestly...I'm not sure? Tony rubs the side of his hat, hoping that's how the knowledge comes out. 22:18 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Kind of a ball pit scenario, I guess? Hat didn't come with a manual." 22:19 <CBN> When it doesn't, immediately: "I don't know who I'd kick it to other than the Sheriff, so that might be a good idea." 22:20 <CBN> Tony: "He does hate the shit outta Pigs though." 22:21 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "So do we, and yet here we are. In-law life's hard, ain't it?" 22:21 <CBN> Tony: "Man it is so." 22:25 <Crion> Between them, Stewart and Tony can figure this much: first, the Freehold doesn't much care what goes on out here, especially with Summer not currently on the throne. There's so much to worry about and pay attention to on the 'home' side of the Hedge in Baltimore that stuff out here generally gets ignored and left to Jackie Ordinary, and now, of course, you. And Jackie frankly doesn't give 22:25 <Crion> shit how many Pigs die. 22:27 <banana> Melanie: "To be honest, we only need to take care of this stuff to the extent that it affects you, Tone. Nobody else is going to notice, unless the pig/ram guy gets unleashed." 22:27 <Crion> Furthermore, Tony's pretty sure that The Walking Man's 'law and order' is mostly solipsistic; he certainly seems to have the ability to enforce some kind of frontier justice, but the authority and even existence of the underpinning legal code only exists so long as he does. When he's elsewhere on his lonely lawman circuit, the Hedge ecosystem doesn't seem to give much of a shit about anything 22:27 <Crion> but the law of the jungle, and Tony's pretty sure there are some extreme statutes of limitations on what the Walking Man can and cannot punish. 22:29 <Crion> Tony can further speculate that the Pigs are, in fact, are a sort of weak autoimmune-type of reaction from the Hedge to try to impose order where none was. And perhaps none was being imposed because the local Hedge lacked a Baron. Now why would that be? And why would the Sign of the Pig and Ram want to get rid of even the Pigs? Is it some kind of niche protection, or something more? 22:29 <Crion> Probably need to do more digging. 22:30 <CBN> Tony takes his hand away from his hat and looks at it, then looks upward, as if to look at the hat while still on his head. 22:30 <banana> Maybe it doesn't, and they're literally just popping them for fun while waiting to see if the bosses actually want something. 22:31 <trenchfoot> Probably because nobody likes a pig. 22:31 <CBN> Tony: "Okay so, the hat is magic, and, "he says, smiling a little, "I am pretty confident that we don't need to worry about the Pigs, as much. But we should probably get back home and at least get the word out that the hobs we like should try to stay indoors til mid-April, just in case." 22:32 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Ridiculous. You can't just ask everyone to stay inside because there's a small but significant chance they will die." 22:32 <CBN> Tony looks around the motley. "So, it's Sunday, and there's a plague going on, what else does everyone wanna do with it?" 22:32 <CBN> Tony: "We can ask! And if they don't, we asked!" 22:32 <CBN> Tony: "My parents would call that hand-on-the-stove lessons." 22:32 <trenchfoot> Nels: "No, you absolutely can ask. People just ignore it." 22:33 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "How do we get the word out? Is there a Hob TV you can go on to announce it?" 22:33 <trenchfoot> "Just don't throw any parades, please." 22:33 <banana> "There's probably Hob TV in New York or Atlanta. Places people dream of media." 22:34 <CBN> Tony: "We could probably swing by the market, I have to imagine most of the out-and-abouts pass through there." 22:34 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Which do you think is worse: the Hollywood Hedge or the Disney World Hedge?" 22:34 <CBN> Tony, definitively: "Yes." 22:34 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart laughs. 22:35 <dammitwho> Maggie: "I think it's probably for the best that there isn't any Hob TV, and-- Disney World is worse. No question, no contest." 22:35 <banana> Melanie: "But Hollywood would be harder to tell you'd left reality. More insidious." 22:35 <dammitwho> "They say that there's a broken light for every heart on Broadway, but Disney World is the happiest place on earth." 22:35 <trenchfoot> Nels: "He made good cartoons but everything I tried to look up about him was awful? So it's Disney. 22:36 <trenchfoot> : 22:36 <trenchfoot> "* 22:38 <banana> "Nels, I think you've been owned by stepping out into the age of reevaluation. Like, this is the decade where we go back over the whole last century's cultural output and realise it was problematic, whatever that is." 22:39 <banana> "If you look up anything that people loved thirty years ago, you're going to get earnest discussion of how it was awful." 22:40 <trenchfoot> Nels: "Did people love dying from a virus? Because I saw that happen already and from the history books I had to read for my GED I don't want to live through that stuff again either." 22:41 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "We've historically taken a very nuanced view on whether dying from viruses is good or bad." 22:41 <trenchfoot> Nels: "At least this time there aren't parades going on." 22:42 <CBN> Tony: "You're all giving me a really good idea." 22:42 <trenchfoot> Oh no. 22:42 <VoxPVoxD> "What's up?" 22:42 <CBN> Tony: "Why don't we just tell everyone to stay in while those big hoovertrucks do their thing? And it should be done with in a couple weeks at most." 22:42 <CBN> Tony: "Better than saying, 'hey you might get stuck like a Pig' and having everyone assume, well I'm not Pigs, so I'm fine." 22:43 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "That could work!" 22:45 <banana> "You think the trucks will go away when the virus starts dying down, then?" 22:47 <CBN> Tony: "I have no idea, but I know if someone tells me 'hey stay off the street while those come through' I'll listen before I listen to stuff about Pigs, who I probably hate and am okay with their dying, and assume rules for them don't apply to me." 22:47 <CBN> Tony shrugs. "Might not even matter, but it's something and not nothing, and I'll feel better about that, if we're not ending the day riding Parson and his out on a rail." 22:48 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Sounds good, then." 22:48 <banana> Melanie: "That.. is still something I'd like to do, if we get an opportunity." 22:48 <banana> "Not if it's a risk to us, or too far out of our way, but.. if they turn up. And we turn up." 22:49 <trenchfoot> Nels: "And for the people who don't care? Because there were a lot, last time." 22:50 <trenchfoot> "I hate to keep bringing this up. But, wow, this already happened once." 22:51 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Big disease breakouts have happened all the time throughout history. It was just hard to have a for-real pandemic until you could get on a boat or a plane and end up anywhere else in the world." 22:52 <VoxPVoxD> "We just gotta hope we learn how to handle it better. China's doing pretty good I think." 22:53 <trenchfoot> Nels: "So long as people actually listen to the parts about distancing, wearing a mask, all that stuff - we might weather it." 22:54 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Yeah, and as long as we don't start, like, evicting people who can't pay rent cause their job shut down for a plague." 22:55 <banana> Melanie's started looking from side to side, wondering whether the Hedge will just let us get out of here for once. "You're not supposed to wear a mask unless you work in a hospital. The important thing is to wash your hands, like all the time." 22:55 <trenchfoot> Nels (and Stewart, presumably) turn their eyes to the unseen camera. 22:56 <VoxPVoxD> "The whole economy's weird right now. I just bought some stock for the first time ever cause the whole market crashed." 22:56 <trenchfoot> Nels: "Stocks are just gambling for rich people." 22:56 <Crion> Moving back through the Hedge and down not-Harford Avenue towards the Wherehouse is an easier prospect this time; it seems the fumigation walkers have done their jobs for now, and therefore the street closure barricades are gone as well. But...yes, there it is. The hob hides well, but as you reach an intersection you can tell you're being watched from beneath a 'parked car.' And Stewart can 22:56 <Crion> immediately identify it: looks kinda like a more malevolent version of the spies from Spy vs Spy. The detective variant of Pig. 22:57 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Yeah, but if you're rich enough all you're gambling on is society continuing to function. Which being rich is basically already a gamble on." 22:57 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart points out the murderpolice. "Tony, see that?" 22:59 <CBN> Tony: "Oh dang!" He waves. "Hey lil' guy!" 22:59 <CBN> He holds his hands up. "Unarmed, friendly, what's up?" 23:00 <Crion> It hisses and retreats further beneath the car. It's very clearly terrified. 23:01 <VoxPVoxD> To the others: "A detective hob. Smaller type a' Pig." 23:02 <CBN> Tony points to his hat. "Baron, see?" 23:02 <CBN> He holds up a hand for the others to step back. "You all head on a few paces more, give him some space." 23:03 <Crion> It does see, but is staying put. It's been a rough week, even for these shitheads. 23:03 <trenchfoot> Nels will back up. She's done worse and dumber things. 23:04 <banana> "'Am I being detained'? Don't ask it that." Melanie doesn't back up very far, but she's not worried. 23:05 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart steps back. No need to scare the hob, but it's not like Stewart is the scary one here anyway. 23:06 <CBN> Tony hits a squat where he is and puts his hands on his knees. "We've...hm." He tries to think back to the last few detective movies he's seen, wracking his brain for terminology that might work through whatever language barrier this hideous little monsters have up. "We...may have a lead? On possible...perps? Of the...officer-involved incident? Anyway" He waves the thought away with a hand. "Try to stay out of sight until at 23:06 <CBN> least the middle of next month, past the next fisherman's moon. You're looking for three...un...subs? godthisisawful But stay out of their way and they should probably pass on by then, if they're still up to anything at that time." 23:06 <CBN> Tony: "It sounds like they're...awaiting further orders and standing by?" 23:10 <Crion> The creature sort of stares at first, but as soon as the jargon starts it whips out a notepad and begins very seriously scribbling (what is almost certainly gibberish) down onto it. It seems to be regarding Tony more as like, the captain down at the station bothering it with all these RULES AND REGULATIONS rather than a criminal. Once Tony's done, it'll wait a half-second to see if it's 23:10 <Crion> dismissed, and unless Tony stops it, give a desultory salute and scuttle off. 23:10 <CBN> Tony, standing, with a wave. "Take care of yourselves out there." And he moves to rejoin the rest of the group. 23:11 <CBN> Before he even gets surprised or skeptical looks from the motley: "I gotta look out for even the shitty ones." And touches the brim of his hat. 23:12 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart gets it. He starts wondering what the Doctor of Sciences is up to right now. Unpleasant thoughts! 23:12 <trenchfoot> That makes sense. 23:13 <CBN> Tony: "Thank you all by the way, I appreciate it, and on some level I have to imagine the hobs do too." 23:14 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "It's nice to be appreciated." 23:14 <dammitwho> Maggie: "They're just the Hedge's little guys." 23:15 <CBN> Tony, after a few moments of walking, as if struck by a bolt of revelation from a clear blue sky: "Holy shit I just realized." 23:15 <CBN> Tony: "I don't have to report this to anyone or anything, I'm my own boss. Wow. My own boss. Fuck yeah." 23:16 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Fuckin A." 23:16 <trenchfoot> Nels: "It's nice, isn't it?" 23:17 <CBN> Tony: "This should be how everyone's job is. It's so good!" 23:17 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart has either zero or an arbitrarily large number of bosses depending on how you look at it. 23:18 <trenchfoot> Nels: "It's extremely inconsistent. And. Um. Avoid certain roads." 23:19 <Crion> Steve is wearing a fez when you return to the Wherehouse. This is new. Possible cultural appropriation? 23:19 <CBN> Tony's in the freedom of self-determination reverie now. "Set my own hours, I have amazing coworkers...today's a good day. Happy Sunday everyone." 23:19 <VoxPVoxD> "Happy Sunday, Tony." 23:19 <dammitwho> Maybe Steve's joined a ganders' club. 23:19 <Crion> hon hon honk! Somehow he's honking in a French accent. 23:20 <trenchfoot> for in death I'm caressing you "Hi, Steve." 23:21 <CBN> Tony: "Steve! Not asking where you got it but nice. Can you help us get the word out? Hobs should stay indoors if they can until after the next fisherman's moon. And keep an eye out for groups of three...gotta assume Loyalists, until then, if they must go out." 23:21 <CBN> Tony: "But! We probably don't need to worry about the Pig thing otherwise, maybe! It was a big day, Steve." 23:21 <Crion> honk! Oui, mon ami! 23:21 <VoxPVoxD> It occurs to Stewart that you could name a B&B with a big arcade Casa Blanka. 23:22 <trenchfoot> I don't get it. 23:23 <Crion> Steve is interested to hear more. He also casually suggests that the Baron might be able to just, get office or desk space as Notgnixel Market, if he wanted. That would mean talking to Management, of course; but they've probably calmed down since Tony helped unionize their weird fake supply chain, right? 23:23 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Cool fez. Did you win it in a seedy card game?" 23:23 <Crion> *at Notgnixel 23:24 <Crion> honk Honk! Steve informs Stewart only that he is wearing the fez for 'secret reasons.' 23:24 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart nods respectfully. 23:25 <dammitwho> Maggie: "Is this Secret Society Business Steve? Regular Business Steve moving a step up?" 23:26 <Crion> honk. Doing Business (Deals) requires discretion! They do not even know his name is Steve. 23:27 <CBN> Tony makes a mental note to get a desk at Notgnixel and put up a Suggestion Box when he's got some free time. But right now his time is: Getting a beer. 23:27 <trenchfoot> Very wise. 23:27 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "But your name isn't Steve." 23:27 <Crion> He taps his beak with his wing. 23:27 <VoxPVoxD> Very clever... 23:28 <trenchfoot> Also, if it's a Sunday, Nels is going to seal herself away in her room unless someone has a very compelling reason not to. 23:32 <Crion> Steve -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rquJzTJz8ro ♫♪♫♫♪ 23:33 <VoxPVoxD> Ahahahahahaha fuck yes. Yes!!!!!