Chapter Six: My Christmas List Turns Naughty

[olympicswimmer]

[ The thing is, talking about spies had gotten me thinking about the spy in our army last summer, and now I had an idea to scoop up some badly needed information. If I could get a bug - or four - in the Smith house, we might be able to stay ahead in the game. My plan was pretty simple: get everyone in the family a present, stick some sort of

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[coolbowtie]

I could probably whip up something decently electronic.

[olympicswimmer]

You want to work with the other guy? [ a thumb in Dist's direction ]

I'm looking for bugs small enough to fit in Christmas presents to the Smiths. It would be nice if they could transmit back to something, but if I have to break in and steal the recorders later, well, I can handle that too.

[coolbowtie]

Depends on his methods.

A radio transmitter should be pretty simple, even with the limited technology there, very nice and basic things they are. I haven't been able to get radio signals to transmit outside this town, but inside should be a much easier task.

[olympicswimmer]

Okay, I know nothing about radios besides "I don't like NPR," so I don't know how to answer that.

[coolbowtie]

Well, thankfully, you don't need to understand how they work to use one.

[olympicswimmer]

On a scale of one to ten, are you awesome or awful as a team player?

[coolbowtie]

Oh, I don't know, that's really simplifying things. It depends on the situation at hand, really, though I'm used to calling the shots. Though that's more difficult here.

What do you have in mind?

[olympicswimmer]

Look, the first guy I talked to doesn't want to work with anyone else. I figure, you can each work on two, and then if the town figures out how to stop one of them from broadcasting, the other'll still work.

[coolbowtie]

Two transmitters should be quite simple to make, even here. Though the question is, who's going to put them in there when we're finished?

[olympicswimmer]

The other guy'll put one of his transmitters in a watch for Mr. Smith. If you can put one of yours in a music box, that's Mrs. Smith's. If you can get the boy's into a ball and he gets the girl's into a stuffed animal, I'll deliver them as Christmas presents. 'Tis the season and stuff.