Part Two: The Dinner

[lestercraft]

Who: Arthur & Helly Lester and anyone who actually goes for the invite
When: Evening of Jan 29th
Where: The Lester Household
Open/Closed: Open! Come one and all from Haven Street.
Applicable Warnings: Discussion of January events, mass conspiracy (it's us, we're the conspirators)


It's even odds, he thinks, whether people thought he was off his rocker in making a post like that, or if people would believe he's actually trying to contact people the only reasonable way he knew how. It was certainly much faster than trying to contact people individually, especially in this weather, and hopefully between himself and Helly that they've met enough people to get a decent turn-out.

The more they can learn about this place, the more they can trust each other, the better. Right now, trust is all they have.

The lower floor of the house is well lit, even if all the windows are curtained and shut, and there's a record playing in the lounge, audible from outside - something jazzy and dated by the standards of the time, but a bit of Hoagy Carmichael and Billie Holiday is settling his nerves, if nothing else - and the kitchen is... sparse, clearly underused but for the stack of mugs by the sink, but with some effort the blind leading the blind he and Helly have at least put together a salad for people. Theoretically they'll be bringing their own food too, make it at least ostensibly a potluck.

Comments

[workingthenumbers]

"How do you suggest we deal with him, then?" he asks Norton, somewhat bluntly. As if he hadn't just been kidnapped by Norman. As if there weren't a million other variables to consider. "I doubt it would be easy, but it'll be the fastest way to get him out of the picture."

[pharadyne]

"Oh, I don't dispute it'd be the fastest way to get him out of the picture, I'm just not yet convinced he needs to be out of the picture." He crosses one leg daintily over the other.

"There are other ways of dealing with people. Sometimes. If we can get some sort of leverage over him, he could be useful. I simply don't know enough about him at this point."

[workingthenumbers]

"Leverage, huh?" he echoes. That seems to catch his attention. He scratches his beard, mulling over the suggestion.

"Not a bad idea, actually. Especially if he's tied in with the other people in charge of this town."

[pharadyne]

"He doesn't know me. I could go in as a patient and do a bit of a reccie at his office. Meanwhile, you and Mr. Lester could follow him, maybe break into his house quietly and see if there's anything we can use against him."

[lestercraft]

"I'm a deft hand with a set of lockpicks, still," he admits with a grim sort of cheer. "And this was my bread and butter, back in the day. I'm certain we'd be able to find something on him."