{ 6 } - The Adventure of the Sudden Multitude

[bakerstregular]

A remarkable sea of humanity is down below in the streets today. There is no better metaphor for it: it is a teeming sea of humanity--and perhaps inhumanity

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[chibidl]

♥

[bakerstregular]

Yes?

[chibidl]

Um! Nothing.

... I don't really know how to answer the whole 'who are you and where did you come from' bit, though.

[bakerstregular]

And yet that is precisely the question I meant to put to you.

[bakerstwidow]

Mn, yes. I believe that's a good idea...

[bakerstregular]

Have they been pestering you as yet?

[bakerstwidow]

Only a few on my way to pick up some supplies.

[bakerstregular]

Likewise for myself. I am sorry.

If I must, I could disguise myself again. They'd not find me then.

[warped_inside]

I'd think if anyone could figure out what's happening today, it would be you.

[bakerstregular]

I think the matter may already be quite clear, if other messages on the network are to be believed: this has happened before, by virtue of the 'deities' and their games.

[warped_inside]

Well that does make a lot of sense. Although it's a sort of general explanation, isn't it? I mean a lot of things fall into the category of 'deities and their games', but it doesn't really tell us what sort of game.

[bakerstregular]

The greater game, if there is one at all, will be a source for my ongoing entertainment and stimulation, I think.

idk, i just like harassing him >_>

[admirablewoman]

Tch, cemeteries? Don't tell me such a handsome and intelligent man is caught up in such dreary thoughts. Where's your sense of fun?

Do I look like I mind :D :D :D

[bakerstregular]

My sense of fun, madam, lies in untangling the peculiarities of the cemeteries here.

Well GOOD cos I'm ttly not stopping >D

[admirablewoman]

How disappointing. I don't find dead people particularly interesting, myself.

Sweet >:3

[bakerstregular]

So say most people when confronted with the idea.

[pearlessence]

Dear Mr. Holmes. Were it possible, I would sit and listen to any and every thing you would chance to say. As it is, I'm delighted you're writing, especially since your biographer isn't here.

Ah - as for the cemetery? No connection, I'm sure.

[bakerstregular]

I do still feel rather at a loss without my Boswell, but so our situations dictate we must be, and so they were even before my entrance into the City, my unceremonious abandonment here. Perhaps now I might record my doings as they ought to be: as a series of scientific lectures, and not a collection of sensational stories.

No, no connection whatsoever.

[pearlessence]

Precisely! You could arrange them as scientifically as you'd like. Although Dr. Watson's stories, sensational as they are, still are quite magical. And it still is possible to learn your methods - I know many people have benefited from reading the stories.

So, curiosity compels me: what do you miss the most about your world? And what do you like about the City?

[bakerstregular]

So others have told me, both before my arrival here and in the City. At least some good has come out of those tales. And he was certainly very fond of them. I was quite nearly moved by the last one he wrote.

That is hardly a fair question to ask of me. I was taken while in the midst of traveling, so I need not say that familiar places or things are missed. I suppose, as I said, I do miss my biographer the most. He was, at times, indispensable. If not him, then decent music. There is a dearth of it here. Need I say more? Meanwhile, since coming here, I have found this place and its people to be quite stimulating for the mind. The tangled details, both great and small, are of quite some interest to me.