4th Howl [Private Network Messages]

[professorwolf]

[Lyall enters four numbers into the Word document he's been using as his compilation of network communications, one at a time. Banagher Links, Ryuo Bakura, Anthony Janvier, and Kenji Kobayashi, even though the latter of those hasn't actually communicated with Lyall over the network. Each of his high school students receives the same message:]

This is Mr. Lyall. We need to talk. Please come by my classroom today (Saturday) at sunset if you can. Reply to this to let me know if you can get here, need a ride, or have a prior commitment.


[He sends out anther one for former students, namely Kallie Raydan, Robb Stark, and Hajime Aikawa:]

Are you all right? Have you run into any trouble since last night? I'm having a meeting for current students today at the school, if you want to come and talk about safety tips and plans.

Comments

[Audio]

[chalicejoker]

I'll be there. You need me to bring anything?

[Not that he knows what he could possibly bring that would help.]

Mine was kind of weird...mostly unpleasant. Not at all useful.

[Audio]

[professorwolf]

Mine didn't seem particularly useful, either. I was researching a river in London in an attempt to find a missing person, and speaking with some older woman who was apparently a queen? I don't have any idea what that was about.

But anyway, I can't think of anything for you to bring except maybe any conversations you've had with people about those three... involved individuals. I can use whatever details on them I can get, to figure out how best to investigate.

[Audio]

[chalicejoker]

I saw a guy in weird bug-eyed armor wanting to...I'd say he wanted to kill me, but that wasn't quite it.

[No, there had been some very specific verbage there. Sealed. Not killed. And he'll refrain from mentioning the conviction he had that this armored man was in the right, that Hajime was a menace...and something called Joker.]

Sounds good, then. I'll be there.

[Audio]

[professorwolf]

[Yeah, that's pretty weird, all right. Lyall just lets it pass.]

None of it makes any sense. Maybe with enough of us working at it and comparing notes, we can make something of it... until tonight, Hajime. Take care.