4th Sacrifice - Preparations

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[Phone | Everyone}

Hello again.

It may be bad time with what Mayfield has done. But I wish for some help.

I am not much of baker, and wish to make large batch of cookies for upcoming holidays and winter solstice. Something for the children to get minds off of what has happened.

Anyone willing to help with this?

[Action | Around town]

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Around Town

[pluckyreporter]

[Coming home from the store -- not for a grocery errand, but a simpler one that involves all the periodicals she could find for a research project.]

[The smile she flashes at the man on the sidewalk is friendly, but tinged with wariness.]

Re: Around Town

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[He returns the smile. Letting the dog stop to sniff a fence.]

You have pretty smile, though your eyes do join with it.

You should smile more, it warms old blood.

Around Town

[pluckyreporter]

[She stopped as well, and looked down at the dog and tried to parse the words through the accent.]

Thank you. Been a bit-- difficult recently, that's all.

[She knelt, and offered her fingres to the dog first, to let him get a sniff, and then looked up at the old god who she does not know, and smiles again, little warmer now.]

I'm Roxanne. Can't say I've seen you before.

Re: Around Town

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[The drone dog licks her fingers.]

That is understandable.

I am somewhat new. You may call me Mr. Czernobog.

I am getting to know town and taking dog for walk.

[pluckyreporter]

It's good to know the lay of the town. Never know when needing to navigate it may abruptly become a priority.

[She straightens now that the dog is greeted, and brushed her hands on her jeans.]

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I thought so too.

Have you been here long?

[pluckyreporter]

Not too long. A couple of weeks now.

[Talk about a freaky welcome to the town.]

It's-- been interesting, to say the least.

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Yes, interesting is good word for it.

Where did you come from?

[pluckyreporter]

Metro City, Michigan. You?

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Chicago, Illinois.

[pluckyreporter]

Oh, you're not too far from us, then.

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I am sorry but I have not heard of it.

I only travel for specific reasons, though, it is not strange.

Now, I heard things are very strange here. What year are you from?

[pluckyreporter]

I don't travel much either, but Chicago's hard to miss.

[At least, if you're not a shut in.]

It's 2010 where I'm at.

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Chicago is big place, many immigrants go there and work hard. Now they settle and live in shitty apartments and live off pensions.

[Czernobog might have been a shut in if others allowed it.]

It is 2001 for me.

[pluckyreporter]

Oh, really? Almost ten years in the future for you. 2001? I was just out of college.

[And getting into that mess with Megamind and Metro Man...]

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Ten years. A lot can change in America in 10 years.

Did they ruin cigarettes more by 2010?