LBJs
Life, Crime
2002
17/9
17/9
2002
26/9
26/9
Trenchcoat Brigade Adventures: LBJs
Agent Chameleon and Litmus meet up at Daniel's Donut Shack to sign the finalized report on the Silent Seven incident. Suddenly everyone's phones ring, including the Top Secret Super Spy phones that the Trenchcoat Brigade have! An accentless male voice says, "Hello, Metropolis. How many Marxists does it take to change a lightbulb?" and then the line goes dead.
It's never good when the Idiot King calls....
While The Shadow is occupied with other business, Agent Chameleon and Litmus meet on a quiet Friday evening. The scene is Daniel's Donut Shack, a little corner restaurant in the business district of northeastern Metropolis. This location is popular with businessmen during weekday mornings, and the patrolling police officers assigned to this precinct; but plenty of "average citizens" stop by here for coffee before hitting the interstate, so your presence should be unremarkable. The purpose of the meeting is merely to sign the finalized report on the Secret Seven incident; this document will be sealed in SAFEGUARD's top-secret vault, hidden somewhere in the United States but accessible only to an elite few.
Your phones suddenly ring. Yes, those phones.
When you answer your phones, an accentless male voice speaks. "Hello, Metropolis. How many Marxists does it take to change a lightbulb?"
The line goes dead.
That's when you notice that every other phone around you had rung at the same time -- even the doughnut shop's fax line.
How many dirt farmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
It is now Saturday evening, you've had sleep since Friday morning, you just finished investigating the funeral home.
The flower market is located in a neighborhood called Pierpoint. You can get some tourist information on the neighborhoods at Hero Games' (free) Hudson City Neighborhood Reference Guide and Hero Games' (free) Hudson City Hotel, Bar, and Restaurant Guide. Pierpoint is the last finger of land on the north side of the river, with Owl Bay on its north side and the Bankhurst business district west of it. Pierpoint is filled with docks, warehouses, and a few factories; many of the warehouses have been bought up by those who survived the bursting dotcom bubble, and converted into upscale lofts and apartments. Trendy little restaurants and boutiques have replaced several of the blue-collar dives and bars, and northwestern Pierpoint in general is now one of the most fashionable addresses in the city.
The Metropolis Flower Market is located on the waterfront, west of N. Jefferson Street and at the end of Ilderton Street. According to the news, it was abruptly closed down shortly after the lunch rush ended.
The farmers' market is in Red Hill, south of the river by several blocks and hard up against Lake Leni. This neighborhood was very insularly German and Polish until sometime after WWII. It's still basically working-class, a sometimes chaotic mix of residential and commercial zoning, with a fairly high crime rate. Several masked mystery men worked hard to fight the fifth columnists and enemy agents who tried to gain a US foothold here in the nineteen thirties; they were successful, but the neighborhood maintains an air of distrust in strangers to this day -- most people who grow up here will speak of the neighborhood fondly, but move out to raise their own families elsewhere in the city.
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