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Ledger of Oblivion
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It's the ledger you found in the trash: a cabbage of papers hanging from the board, barely held together by the clip -- and made complete by the faint smell of urinal cleaner.
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It's the ledger you found in the trash: a cabbage of papers hanging from the board, with the permeables' drawer inside. It's barely held together by a clip -- then made complete by the faint smell of urinal cleaner.
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- Browse the case files again.
- Browse the white papers.
- Smell the ledger.
- Open the hidden compartment in the clipboard.
- [Put the ledger away.]
- Read a case file.
- Browse the yellow papers.
- Look at the clipboard.
- Inspect the toilet paper.
- Inspect the clip.
- Slide the hidden drawer open.
- Can I read the case files now?
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- Below the pathetics -- terror. Do not look into its blue heart.
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- A bunch of sodden papers sag from the clipboard in your hand. It's a sorry sight.
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- The Ledger of (Oblivion Induced) Mental Health is just as shabby as the Damaged Ledger was: a bunch of sodden papers sags from the clipboard in your hand.
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Arson. Petty theft. Spousal abuse -- handwritten logs on investigations dating back to January, ´51 -- stamped CASE FILES, COMMIT TO PAPER. These are the last couple of months of your life.
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Arson. Petty theft. Spousal abuse -- handwritten logs on dozens of investigations date back to January, '51 -- stamped CASE FILES; COMMIT TO PAPER. These are your last couple of months in Revachol, Precinct 41, Jamrock Quarter.
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- Inspect the handwriting in the files.
- "Kim, I have a name for this case."
- How much is that -- two new cases a week?
- (Count the pages.) I have to open an official case. Is there room?
- "Kim, my cases appear to employ some kind of... naming convention."
- That's it?
- I'm done inspecting these. (Close the case files.)
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- "Is two cases a week a good case load, lieutenant?"Remembered · 1
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- Arson. Petty theft. Spousal abuse -- handwritten logs on investigations dating back to January, ´51 -- stamped CASE FILES, COMMIT TO PAPER. These are the last couple of months of your life.
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- What do you mean? Is that all?
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- Like a fan of gills the chequered papers dry in your hand. The handwriting is extremely dense, if mostly illegible.
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Pedagogical somehow. Brash. It must be yours for you to be able to read it. These are the lines of someone who has written by hand a lot and has developed a style only they themselves -- or you yourself -- can decipher.
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Written in a rush. In pain. A race to beat your own heart's pulse to some dark finish line.
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Your hand cramps up merely looking at the scribbles, drawn -- as by some magnet -- to the red chequered margins. Fast, but always straight...
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Wearing out. Nearly gone. Sometimes he forgets to keep the pen on the paper as he moves his hand and the lines vanish from underneath...
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"Kim, I'm sorry. Let's name this case again, okay?"
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"Fine." He concedes. "For inter-district cooperation -- let's try one more time. What do you want to name it?"
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- "THE HANGED MAN."
- "THE SETTING SUN."Remembered · 1
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- "Actually, I don't have one."
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"Great! That's great. That's actually what I was thinking too -- THE HANGED MAN. Good, strong name. We have a very good name for the case now."
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He flips the pages of his notebook. "I'm going to start calling it THE HANGED MAN. It's good we sorted this out."
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"Okay. Okay." He nods. "It's a good name, but it has one problem -- this case has nothing to do with the setting sun. At all. It has nothing to do with that. So..."
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"Ha! Yes." He isn't actually laughing. "I have to tell you officer, I don't appreciate ironic titles. Other officers will have to use this as reference. If it's 'IDIOT', or 'COCK FINGER'..."
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"They're not going to get it. They're going to think: an idiot and a cock finger were on this case. So -- do you have something less funny?"
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"Furies. Yes. Well." It's obvious he doesn't like it. "I don't know. I have to be honest -- I'm not experiencing the internal strife that refers to. And also..." He furrows his brow.
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"Could we make it less poetic somehow? Just a normal case name, you know? Think -- what would that be? A good normal name?"
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Yes-yes, you know what that normal name is -- but it's so plain... anything else, please.
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"I don't have another name."
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"Okay then." He returns to his notes, abruptly. "The case doesn't need to have a name."
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"Oh! That's actually what I was thinking -- THE HANGED MAN." He nods. "I like that. A good, strong name. We have a very good name for the case now."
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Does it? It feels like a lot. Or maybe even more than a lot. It feels like too much.
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There is -- for precisely one more. Fifteen pages near the end remain untouched by the damage. The chequered grid forms a structure of passages, breaking the case into sub-tasks to accomplish.
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COMMIT TO PAPER -- using the pen Lena gave you.
COMMIT TO PAPER -- using the pen lieutenant gave you.
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The tasks you've completed flow out of the pen in a brash freehand similar to the rest of the letters. The wording comes easily, it's almost robotically simple; a language developed for mental rigour and simplicity:
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The tasks you've completed flow out of the Kind Green Ape pen in a brash freehand similar to the rest of the letters. The wording comes easily, it's almost robotically simple; a language developed for mental rigour and simplicity:
The tasks you've completed flow out of the Blue Oblong pen in a brash freehand uncannily similar to the rest of the letters. The wording comes easily, it's almost robotically simple; a language developed for mental rigour and simplicity:
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A satisfying slash sounds across the paper. You're done it seems to say. And you! -- and you!
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AND A FUCK YOU TO YOU TOO! That last one cuts a slash right through the paper.
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