>>753726
Good idea, late night illness works aces.

If the loveseat isn't against the wall, we could hide behind that.

Start faking illness Chuck!

Charlemagne 2016/10/18(Tue)18:19 No. 753737 ID: d163e3
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Sophie lets Lisa into the apartment. You quietly and expertly pull your boxers on underneath your blanket, then start coughing.

You: “Oooh”

You: “Ooh-woaaah…”

Lisa: “Chuck!!”

Lisa: “Are you ok?”

You: “I came down with something bad!”

You: “Sophie was just giving me a check-up to… to”

You: “Make sure it’s nothing serious.”

Charlemagne 2016/10/18(Tue)18:19 No. 753738 ID: d163e3
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Sophie:

Sophie: “Yyyyesss”

Sophie: “Full body check-up”

You: “Heh, damn right”

Sophie shoots you a glare and you shut up.

Sophie: “Chuck would you be nice and give sofa to Lisa to lie down?”

You nod and stand, pulling the blanket up over your shoulders.

Charlemagne 2016/10/18(Tue)18:19 No. 753739 ID: d163e3
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Lisa: “Huh… smells weird in here. Thanks Sophie. I’m sorry to intrude…”

Lisa looks very concerned.

Lisa: “So… what’s the diagnosis?”

Sophie: “Uh”

Sophie: “Benign… general… felinosis.”

Lisa: “Oh!!”

Lisa: “That sounds serious!”

Lisa: “Chuck, you shouldn’t be out delivering pastries to everyone if you are ill!!”

>>753739
It's cool, Sophie was just saying it's non-transmissible once symptoms set in. Boy, it's lucky nobody else got sick! It must be the rural fresh air, Coxwetters are made of sterner stuff, huh?

>>753739
Yeah maybe. (Hey we can get some sick leave out of this)

>>753739
Nah, it's benign! Means it's not gonna kill me or spread like the cold, just gonna suck for a few hours.

>>753739
It occurs to me we now have an excuse, with a witness, for missing our date. You got sick! Yeah, that was totally it, you feel terrible.

>Lisa: “Chuck, you shouldn’t be out delivering pastries to everyone if you are ill!!”
It wasn't that bad this morning, I promise.

>>753739
You DO know some dieseases aren't contagious, right?
Plus, I haven't had any symptoms showing until around... what five? It was after work. That's why we're here so late. And you have too-much-workitis. Get someone to split the work, seriously. If you're pulling all nighters, that means your doing work for two people, and that's inefficient. That's not doin' Susan no favors.

If Susanna ain't gonna pull up the cash for no 2nd assistant, she's gonna kill you eventually, you know? I know people who've died from working too hard, no foolin'.

>>753746
That would work except for the other phone call, a certain someone already knows we basically banged the spider. So no sick leave unless you wanna try and roll some epic d20's on your persuasion skill.

>>753746
What date?

Also we should probably leave the medical talk to the doctor.

>>753747
This

From what I remember, Lisa likes it when we're heroic.

So show off your scars, and say that even though you were rugged enough to fight off the beast, you may have been injured more than you let on.

But keep that in the strictest confidence, you wouldn't want anyone to worry.

You could go with: "Sophie was saying it's actually just like a vitamin and mineral deficiency, not a virus."

>>753751
The date with Marcie.

alright so the mayor employs her as a cockblock. Alright let's get her to break her own rules. Let's ask Lisa to teach us some French when we are feeling better. That will be our first step to stuffing this beaver and fucking the mayor over (puns 100% intended)!

I Know I know... *Hack* But from what Sophie tells me it's not contagious, at least.

>>753758
That was an internal idea, not an agreed upon date.

>>753760
Good idea. We can start by asking her what "réveillé" means.

Charlemagne 2016/10/18(Tue)20:58 No. 753773 ID: d163e3
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You: “Oh, it’s n-”

You: “Probably not contagious. Right Sophie?”

Sophie: “Right.”

You: “It just… makes you tired and dizzy, and… make weird phone calls in the late evening.”

Charlemagne 2016/10/18(Tue)20:58 No. 753774 ID: d163e3
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Lisa takes off her glasses and lays down on the couch with her clipboard on her belly.

Lisa: “Hm… ok, I see.”

Lisa: “Well just… don’t…”

Lisa yawns.

Lisa: “work yourself too hard…”

Lisa: “if you’re not feeling…”

Charlemagne 2016/10/18(Tue)20:59 No. 753775 ID: d163e3
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Lisa: [beaver snoring]

The clipboard slides down onto the floor, and you take this time to stow the gin away in one of the kitchen cabinets.

You: “That condom’s been on my dick this whole time.”

Sophie: “Ew…”

You take it off and dispose of it in the restroom before washing up.

You: “I take it you’re alright with Lisa staying here?”

Sophie: “It looks like… she needs a quiet place to sleep.”

Now's the chance, Look at her clipboard!

>>753775
Well good work Doc, you got a night off and where there to help someone who needed it. The snayor's running the poor thing ragged.

>>753777
Yeah, at some point a serious talk with the mayor and her habit of forcing overtime might be in order.
Also, peek at her clipboard when you pick it up to set it on the table for her.

>>753775
I guess this means you can't sleep over. Tell Sophie you'd have loved to cuddle a bit more but hugs will have to do. Tell her you'd love to hook up again sometime, and you're even better sober fyi.

Also tell her that the mayor is obviously up to some weirdness and if she wants some protection against that weirdness she can talk to Ramona about it. Tell her to specifically ask for réveillé, but warn her it'll taste awful. (it's okay to say this since we basically said that in front of the mayor already)

AND PEEK AT THE CLIPBOARD.

Does she do this every night, Sophie? The neighborhood checkup, I mean.

Oh, does Sophie need help getting into her hammock while inebriated? Or has that worn off enough that she's steady on her feet?

Peak the the clipboard, because Miss Mayor is obviously up to no good, and the clipboard might shed some light on that

>>753775
the clipboard! reeaadd!!!

tell her she should let the poor minion sleep till morning. you should also kiss sophie's neck some more.

Charlemagne 2016/10/18(Tue)22:02 No. 753791 ID: d163e3
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You: “Guess that means I’m not spending the night, huh?”

Sophie: “…another time.”

You: “Does she do this ‘neighborhood checkup’ thing every night?”

Sophie: “Hm… no. This is the first time.”

You: “You know, that mayor of yours is up to some weird shit. I’m gonna take a peek at her notes to see what I can find out.”

The first page has a few hand-written notes. Normal daily tasks around City Hall… make coffee, organize records, call library. There’s a crudely drawn map of the town in the corner.

Charlemagne 2016/10/18(Tue)22:02 No. 753792 ID: d163e3
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You lift up to the next page. It’s…

distant

You feel a buzzing in the back of your head.

dark…

it’s moving parallax like a mirror facing a mirror

it’s…

Charlemagne 2016/10/18(Tue)22:03 No. 753793 ID: d163e3
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Moving, changing it’s shape, and pulsing with beautiful light. Dentritic tendrils materialize before you, extending forth from a breathtaking and profound darkness.

There is a sound in your ears, louder than anything you have ever heard before and yet it does not hurt. The sound of a crackling fire, of someone crumpling an empty bag of chips, or rain on the roof. Suddenly, it is a flock of birds taking flight inside a parking garage. The tendrils move slowly and peacefully, swaying like fibrous kelp in an endless ocean. You cannot feel yourself breathing, and yet your lungs fill with the most invigorating air. Someone has just given you good news on a good day.

There is no form to these things that you see, and before you know it, there is no form to you. You are standing on a trampoline, a friendly soft ground that gives way to your weight while the warm uterine waters keep you balanced. The sound subsides, and you are sorry to hear it go. Now the silence is unsettling, such that you can hear the blood crawling in your veins.

Well?

Charlemagne 2016/10/18(Tue)22:03 No. 753794 ID: d163e3
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You’ve been gone an awfully long time.

You answer, but you have no mouth so the words simply convey to this figure before you. You don’t know where you were supposed to be.

What do you mean? I told you to be back before midnight.

You are a bit dumbfounded.

Lisa?

Who is this?!

Is this… CHUCK?!

Charlemagne 2016/10/18(Tue)22:04 No. 753795 ID: d163e3
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Sophie: “Chuck…?”

Charlemagne 2016/10/18(Tue)22:04 No. 753796 ID: d163e3
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You:

You: “Hm?”

You: “What?”

END CHAPTER VI

Fuck me, now Chuck's doing it.
This can only end in good.

>>753796
Wow. Does this mean Lisa is completely aware that the mayor has spooky magic powers? I mean, if she's been communicating through the clipboard all this time...

Is it possible she's unaware that the clipboard works this way? Shit, if it's always been there under the first page, then... she was repeatedly using it during Naz's party. That's how the mayor knew about Truth or Dare. Plus, if she's aware of the clipboard, then maybe she's cooperating fully with the mayor, which explains the necklace and her super friendly conversation. However, it also means she was likely truly tempted by Chuck and the kissing etc. The necklace wasn't an idea planted in her head or a precaution, it was something she specifically requested.

tl,dr: Lisa is more than just a stooge, she's a co-conspirator. Probably. Which means either the mayor has some kind of explanation for her spooky mind control powers that REALLY isn't mind control, or Lisa is buying into the whole idyllic sinless community thing.

Speaking of sinless I'm starting to wonder if the mayor is discouraging it in order to keep the monsters from harassing the citizens.

I wonder if this is the source of Lisa's strain. We certainly have been stretching the snayor's resources thin lately.

>>753796
what indeed.

'What? Don't give me that look. Your eyes do this all the time.'

>>753798
She has to be aware of the mayors' capabilities - there's no way that the layout would keep her around if she couldn't use her in some some fashion. A better question is why Linda is bending to her will without question? Almost every time we've asked her about the mayors' background or the clipboard she gets real defensive about it like she'd be in some serious trouble if she let anything slip out. I also think it's a time to beat feet and get out of Sophie's place now that we've been located, which might bring the heat down on spider babe unintentionally.

>>753815
>the layout

*the mayor

thanks auto-correct

>>753815
This

There be demons in that there clipboard

Ramona needs to see this. The Race Begins.

>>753794
This hole! It was meant for me!

FUCKING VOODOO DEMON MAGIC!

Snap out of it Chuck! Then steal that page and try folding it over, or keeping it covered. We should take it back to Ramona. The snake will obviously replace it but we need Ramona to identify it (and maybe neutralize it as well).

Keep in mind that Lisa might not actually know what she is doing when she looks at it. It is very hypnotizing, as we now knoww, and the mayor could just be using further control our cute beaver.

Guys I think "end of chapter" means the thread is done and a new one is gonna start. I would assume this means input to chuck right now is less on the side of useful and more on the side of spam