ENDGAME GROUP 1: The Other Box (Log 2)

[yourghosthost]

[Off-screen, the groups manage to reunite themselves once more. More notable than anything else is the little black floating box, though if any of you have any information you wish to exchange, now would be an excellent time to do so.]

I know this isn’t exactly on the docket, but I intend on heading in there. You’re welcome to join if you’d like.

(ooc: this is the second and final log for group 1 - if you weren’t here for the previous log, feel free to use this as a jumping-in point!)

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[greatwidesomewhere]

[Belle nods, confirming all of this, and then figures she ought to add in her own findings.]

There was also a library— [God, she wishes she'd had more time!] with a whole lot of books on ethics and Greek myth taken down. The ethics books seemed...mostly useless, though. And there was another book on something else...ah, 'Disney Animation.' I thought it must have to do with that magic pen...

[toogoodforhim]

Walt's Pen?

[greatwidesomewhere]

As best I can understand, yes. If 'animation' refers to the giving of life...and isn't that what the pen is meant to do?

[She wishes she'd thought to bring the book, so she could get a better understanding than the title alone could offer.]

[toogoodforhim]

The way Walt described it to us was that anything he drew with the pen became real. He said he discovered its power when he was drawing bees and one stung him.

Was there any mention of a Crystal?

[greatwidesomewhere]

[Belle frowns, trying to think, and then shakes her head.]

No, I don't think there was. Of course, it's possible I'm interpreting the text wrong, that it refers to something else entirely...I've learned a lot about the modern world, but I fear some interpretations still escape me.

[toogoodforhim]

Hm... When Walt took me and Ford to show us his secret room, there was the pen but then there was also a crystal that he said had the power to sustain and extend life. The pen could... animate, in the sense that things he drew would move on their own, but the crystal has to give life to...inanimate things.

[The pause is a brief realization in which he looks at Belle and the Beast and then files it away to bring up later.]

Or, as he used it, to extend the lifespan of someone who's already living.

[greatwidesomewhere]

[Belle's interest is more than piqued, but when Lefou mentions bringing life to inanimate objects, she blinks, looks up at the prince, and returns her gaze cautiously to Lefou. She's...not sure how to broach what's probably a very tender subject, still.]

Then it is very dangerous indeed for these items to be in the hands of a wrongdoer.

[toogoodforhim]

[The look Belle gives him is enough to know that her mind at least went to the same place.]

The only hope we have is that these items must not exactly be self-explanatory.

[stenchus_rodentus]

It was dreadfully boring. Other than the book on how to concoct automatons, there was nothing else of note.

[Except his own jacket seems a bit stuffier than usual.]

[not_over_yet]

[ ...

Much as he'd like to avoid Ratigan at the moment, Basil has doubts the larger folk here will notice anything off... ]

Nothing worth carrying off and not mentioning.

[ Just. dead-eyeing. Whatcha got there, cough it up. ]

[stenchus_rodentus]

[Damnit Basil just. Go back to your break up depression.

Ratigan turns his back to the mouse.]

Oddly specific accusation, Basil. Could you imagine me being so secretive about any gems or gold?

[not_over_yet]

Given the look of your jacket, I'd wager cloth or paper. Merely something you'd rather keep, or is it going to cause you difficulties if we see it?

[ HE IS ALREADY VERY TIRED, RATIGAN ]

[stenchus_rodentus]

[Auuugh this is the worst bind. Normally he'd ENJOY teasing Basil but no this is counterproductive to what he actually wants and yet Basil may just think less of him.

After about a full minute he slowly produces a piece of paper.]

Why...not at all...

I'm most certain that you could say it's not a burden at all.

[Let this bluff work oh dear god.]

[not_over_yet]

...

[ Ratigan why would you even bother taking this.

Raises voice to inquire of the others: ] What is Club 33?

[stenchus_rodentus]

[Shriinks to the background. Why? No reason! He's just gonna hang back here!]

[hallotween]

That's where all the evil people hang out when they're not out doing evil stuff.