Chapter Nine [Video]

[thebestseller]

Who: Richard Castle and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: N/A
When: August 21st

Windrose crew, please don't worry too much, but I have been tossed in the pokey, so I won't be coming home tonight. Jeez, it's like the other factions don't have any sense of humor at all...

[Castle shifts uncomfortably.]

Really, no appreciation for fine artwork, these people. And they take this team business way, way, way too seriously.

Vision, please take care of the bots, and remember me fondly if I rot away in prison.

Comments

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[thebestseller]

Myself and some Moxie brethren got drunk and engaged in some crude vandalism.

I think Wrath is planning something with Tenno, so I'll be okay. Personally I think I deserve a night or two to cool my heels for letting myself get carried away, but I won't say no if someone wants to spring me.

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[passingthrough]

[Were you drawing penises on buildings?]

How long are they planning to hold you? I mean, if one of us doesn't break you out first?

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[thebestseller]

[And poo emojis.]

Just for a night or two, I think- and I'll have to clean up my mess or pay someone to do it for me.

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[passingthrough]

[Keeping it classy. A writer and an artist.]

Good thing the Atroma gave you the appropriate skill sets. [Joking. Joking...]

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[thebestseller]

Oh, the bots will be SO pleased. I can put the squeegee attachments on and let them go to town.

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[passingthrough]

Your new life of crime balances itself out so well.

And why the vandalism to a world we're just visiting?

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[thebestseller]

Is "I got drunk and carried away by team spirit" an acceptable excuse?

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[passingthrough]

That depends. Are you a teenager in this scenario?

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[thebestseller]

... not so much.

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[passingthrough]

Then we're a little south of acceptable, but since I'm not your mom or your hall monitor I guess we can let it slide.

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[thebestseller]

Well, I'll pinky swear to not do it again, too.

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[passingthrough]

You can't. You're in the slammer.

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[thebestseller]

Not for very much longer, if Wrath and Tenno can successfully bail me out.

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[passingthrough]

Okay, but if that goes sideways and all three of you end up in jail remember to call the intangible girl and teleporting guy on the crew for break outs.

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[thebestseller]

Will do. Man, I really am the almighty janitor of the crew, aren't I?

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[passingthrough]

Can't argue with the augment. But I hear clean up is very important in spy and assassin work where you don't want to get caught.

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[thebestseller]

True. It's important to not leave any evidence at the scene of the crime... otherwise the team will find you.

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[passingthrough]

Team? [It sounds general and yet kind of felt specific.]

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[thebestseller]

I help the police deparment back home, so my concept of a "team" is the people who investigate crimes.

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[passingthrough]

You help the police department..........write more creative police reports? [Come again?]

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[thebestseller]

I help them solve crimes, actually. See, years ago, a killer was going around that was basing their crimes on the ones in my books. I got hauled in as a suspect, and after I got cleared, well, I just couldn't keep my nose out of it and solved the case, so I work as a special consultant.

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[passingthrough]

What do you do? ...Something like profiling?

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[thebestseller]

A bit of everything. I look at the evidence, try and find links, look at crime scenes, interview suspects and witnesses...

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[passingthrough]

What makes you better at it than detectives? [Curious, more than challenging.]

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[thebestseller]

Eh, I wouldn't say I'm better at it than them. Originally, I wanted to hang around to do research for my books, but they kept me around because I think outside the box, wheras Kate can be... hmm. She tends to color inside the lines, as it were.