[Open Broadcast for Investigators]

[reachforthekey]

Who: Any and all investigators.
When: 130 AM, after everyone’s been booked and tossed in the drunk tank.
What: The start of the investigation.

I’ll give it just eight hours, then I’m breaking us out of here.

[If it’s possible for a mental voice to sound as if it’s being pressed through gritted teeth, Eren’s does, a mixture of frustration and determination that comes through loud and clear even disembodied.]

We should do a roll call. Who still remembers who they are? And… is an ace of spades just a guy who’s really good with a shovel?

Anyway, I’ll start. Eren Jaeger, Investigator. Armin Arlert, Infiltrator.

Comments

[nicerear]

We may not know it, but someone in here probably does. We just have to figure out how to get them to tell us.

[reachforthekey]

I'm no good at that kind of thing. And I already made a scene with Armin.

I'll just be ready to break everyone out.

[nicerear]

Never liked the commando stuff as much, myself, but just because you'd rather have a problem you can just fly in and shoot at a lot doesn't mean you get one.

Blending in's the first part of doing this stuff right, but it helps to know something about what you're trying to blend in with, first, and we're not in a great place to figure that out, unless someone here has an idea already.

[reachforthekey]

That's the first thing to find out, then. If anyone's from a place somewhere like this.

[nicerear]

Seems like we can scratch both of ourselves off that list, right?

[reachforthekey]

The jail cell's not that different from home... but everything else is.

/le threadjack

[moredakka]

Uh, it's maybe a bit like my world. Except judging by the guns they have it's maybe... ninety years in the past?

[nicerear]

Looks like it's all slugthrowers here. Some people swear by them, but they're not too common anymore where I'm from.

You recognize the models?

[moredakka]

[Oh shit now you got her started.]

Yeah! Smith & Wesson .38/44 Heavy Duty and Colt Official Police. I've never seen ones this new. Ooohh, they're so nice... no wonder the Colt Official was so popular, they used it for a whole sixty years and even in World War II! I want to touch theeeeeeeeeeeem...

[nicerear]

[Gunner senses tingling.]

If we get out of this in one piece, remind me to tell you about what we use back home.

[moredakka]

[KINDRED SOULS??]

Do you use laser guns?

[nicerear]

We call them blasters. They swiped mine when they tossed us in here, but if we get out of here and get our stuff back, remind me later.

[moredakka]

Wuh- wait, the police took it? The police have your laser gun??

[nicerear]

Pretty standard when you get arrested anywhere, isn't it?

[reachforthekey]

What do you know about history? Maybe between you and Lila we can figure this place out...

[moredakka]

I, uhh... I mostly know about the guns, but...

This is America. And it's got to be maybe, 1920-something? Um, I know they had a lot of gangs and organized crime then. So maybe we're supposed to help with that. You know, clean up the streets. [There may be a hint of the Dirty Harry theme playing at the background of her thoughts.]

[reachforthekey]

Compared to most jaunts, that could be pretty easy... and I've heard of America before! This isn't how I pictured it, though... they're the strong ones, always at war... a country full of rich guys, right?

[moredakka]

Well I've actually never been, so... but yeah, their military is super strong! And they are pretty rich. They have really big cars and they eat a lot of hamburgers...

[reachforthekey]

I don't know if any of that helps us, though...

[moredakka]

Sorry, sorry... ughh, I don't know anything about investigating. If we were supposed to fight something that'd be really easy! But crime and stuff, that's really not my thing. I just know that there's a lot of crime? If this is the 20s, then this is when Al Capone and Dick Tracy were around...

[nicerear]

Wait, what are hamburgers?

[moredakka]

Ehh? It's this food, it's like ground beef with pieces of bread, and you put in mayo and ketchup and barbecue sauce and pickles... you really are from another world.

[nicerear]

Jail's probably the thing that's changed the least between all the planets I've been to.

[reachforthekey]

Locking people up in cages is always going to look the same.

[nicerear]

I've seen worse ones, at least! They just sent that one guy to a doctor instead of leaving him to cough all over the rest of us. That almost counts as hospitality, in some parts of the galaxy.