A Night at the Opera: Prelude

2012-09-02T18:35:26Z

For the most part, Liam has managed to live his life exactly as he's wanted to since his return, given the undesirable circumstances. He's starting to hatch a scheme or two and he's been catching up on everything that's happened since his death, and he's managed to do so without drawing much by way of attention to himself. A quiet little rented flat out in the city has been acquired, and he spends much of his time in solitude -- thinking, thinking, thinking. It's almost peaceful, really.

So naturally he isn't on the mansion grounds for two minutes before that Break, who he has been studiously avoiding, manages to catch hold of him and drag him off to his room, yammering on about opera. Now, Liam finds himself staring in dismay at the violently colorful clashing innards of Break's closet while Xerxes roots around in his vanity -- why does he have a vanity? -- for hairpins, and all he can do to cope with the situation is do his damnedest not to flashback to the night of that party at home.

"Really, Xerxes, I can't even fathom why you want to go so badly. Are you really that bored? Your counterparts manage to keep themselves in no end of trouble, you know."

[Private to maddeninghatter!]

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hunting of the snark (might become gory in comments!)

2012-03-11T13:38:56Z

It's not as if he cares about random citizens of this city being butchered in gruesome ways, really. But if it's an illegal contractor with a dangerous Chain behind the murders, he can't just let it go. Especially not with the few people he actually cares about here, the funny-talking Break and the trouble-magnet Liam, already having been killed recently. He is still frustrated that he couldn't do anything about those murders, but he decides he can do something about this new wave of killings. He hopes to expose the killer and put a stop to it before another Liam or Break gets killed.

He's done his share of field work, so he's well trained in tracking illegals and has even helped capture a few in his time with Pandora. Besides that, he already has an idea, a hunch you might call it, of which Chain is behind these massacres. So he goes on a private hunt, starting by looking for the kind of place a young woman with an unusual looking male companion might have recently rented an apartment.

The city isn't really all that large, and he's good at getting strangers to talk to him, tell him what they've seen, who's new in the neighborhood. He looks so harmless and so trustworthy.

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Hiding In Plain Sight

A Night at the Opera: Prelude

hunting of the snark (might become gory in comments!)