[handwritten]

[detectivetroll]

[After investigating the Candy thing, Nick's... having difficulty. Kotetsu's reaction had been to get drunk, but Nick's had been to think. He still doesn't know exactly where he stands, so he'll leave explaining the missing woman situation to Kotetsu, but as far as he knows, no one's mentioned the connection between the water and what the police are looking for.

He can at least do that much.]

I'm sure no one needs to be told again, but be careful about the water thing.

I saw two police officers arrest a girl just for laughing too hard. They said they've be warned about an illegal drug going around, and the signs of it are hysterical laughing and hallucinations. They were taking her in to do a special drug test.

Comments

[Written]

[shiromadoushi]

[[His handwriting is a bit messier than normal. It's morning.]]

Shit, they can do that? Doesn't that violate some law or something?!

[Written]

[detectivetroll]

I don't think it does. They can arrest people who appear intoxicated, so this is probably similar.

[Written]

[shiromadoushi]

Sounds like bullshit. They're arresting people for laughing.

[ Handwritten ]

[selfassured]

They've been warned?

That doesn't sound suspicious at all.

[ Handwritten ]

[detectivetroll]

Oh, no, not at all.

Whoever issued the order is most likely trying to find us.

[ Handwritten ]

[selfassured]

Whoever contaminated the water in the first place is likely trying to find us.

Why has the police force only just started to target water-victims though? People have been suffering from the affects for a while now.

audio

[truthandlogic]

Do you have any information besides that about the illegal drug that they are claiming to be responsible for it?

[handwritten]

[detectivetroll]

No, just that it's a new designer drug. They didn't seem to want to talk about it more, and I couldn't really press without being suspicious.

[handwritten]

[truthandlogic]

[With the written response, Miles will go ahead and also switch to written. His handwriting is very neat and precise.]

That will indeed make things difficult if someone on here is arrested. Would I also be correct that these people are not going to be let out on bail all that easily as well?

[ text / iphone ]

[allinvein]

Christ, seriously? I've been pretty careful, but that's just getting ridiculous.

Do you know what happened to the girl?

[ handwritten ]

[detectivetroll]

Yeah, I saw her a few days later, she's fine. She wasn't one of us.

[A few minutes later, he writes another message, this one just to John's number.]

Look, if you run into trouble, call me, okay?

[His cell number is written at the bottom.]

[allinvein]

[John ends up sort of staring at that number for a while before adding it to his contact list because holy shit, Nick just gave him some personal contact information. Nick! The paranoid cop!]

It's kind of hard sounding genuine when writing something, but thank you for this. Really. I hope I never need it though.

[And seeing as it's only fair, he replies with his own personal cell number as well.]

Not sure that'd ever come in handy to you, but there it is.

[Text, laptop]

[dominateartimus]

Are the cops in this city usually this paranoid?

[handwritten]

[detectivetroll]

They are in any city when told there's a new illegal designer drug making its way around. Pretty sure that's like instant paranoia to them.

[Text, laptop]

[dominateartimus]

Of course. Thanks for confirming the whole situation about 'not drinking the tap water' a bit more.

( audio )

[argents]

So it's true. [ He sounds unnerved, and a bit shaky, but not surprised. ] They really are trying to find ways to flush us out.

[handwritten]

[detectivetroll]

Unfortunately, yeah. And I hate to say it, but it's a pretty good one.

voice {iphone}

[ursoreckless]

So anyone laughing hard is gonna get arrested? Don't they think that's a bit weird?

[handwritten]

[detectivetroll]

Don't ask me, man, I don't know what they think. They're probably the overzealous type that try to take someone in for being drunk in public just because they can't walk straight.

[text]

[goldenclothes]

That would explain the strange looks today.

[ it doesn't explain the sudden ability to smell everything but the spiked cup of tea her coworkers pranked her with this afternoon had been innocently, if not irritatedly, brushed off.

it's probably a good thing she got sent home before it became a big deal.]

To a degree. How many people know the problem is with the water?... it seems widespread knowledge here...?

[handwritten]

[detectivetroll]

It happened to you in public? Are you all right?

Almost everyone in the numbers club knows about it, I think. It's been posted quite a bit on the network.

[depolarized]

Arrested... Not one of us? Looks like they're starting to bring in the nets.

Getting it bottled lately, but something needs to be done about the supply. [Bottled water ain't cheap in the long run.]

[detectivetroll]

Yeah, that was my thought, too.

We know who's behind it. The tanker that was dumping the shit into the reservoir belongs to Thunder Corp. Now it's just figuring out how to stop them, on a more long term basis than tanker by tanker.

[iustitia]

shiiiiiiit

[detectivetroll]

That about sums it up, yeah.