The Case of The Golden Coprolite - Page 4

Greg Anos · 12-04-2008, 07:03 PM

Folks, I already have the bad guys lined up, and the special twist at the end plotted. Of course it's going to take quite a few posts to get there, as I like the pacing I'm writing at. I've got the next episode half-written, so it'll be up tommorrow. But if other things in life intrude, I may have to skip some days. Y'all understand.

And yes when it gets to the end, I'll post the entire story (with formatting) in to other section of MR e-books. (I'll do it as HTML, and anybody who wants to can convert it to whatever.)

All the books mentioned are real, just the characters from MR are fictional (I'm playing with the avatars and such. If anybody's offended PM me and I'll write you out. And Red is - - - (R)alph sir (ED)ward.)

zelda_pinwheel · 12-04-2008, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Folks, I already have the bad guys lined up, and the special twist at the end plotted. Of course it's going to take quite a few posts to get there, as I like the pacing I'm writing at. I've got the next episode half-written, so it'll be up tommorrow. But if other things in life intrude, I may have to skip some days. Y'all understand.

this pacing seems good to me too ! happy to hear the rest is all there just waiting to be written down. i'll try to control my impatience.

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And yes when it gets to the end, I'll post the entire story (with formatting) in to other section of MR e-books. (I'll do it as HTML, and anybody who wants to can convert it to whatever.)

yay !

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All the books mentioned are real, just the characters from MR are fictional (I'm playing with the avatars and such. If anybody's offended PM me and I'll write you out. And Red is - - - (R)alph sir (ED)ward.)

i suspect anybody who gets written into this story will consider it an honour. i know hugo and lefty would.

Greg Anos · 12-04-2008, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Squeeeeeal!! I'd LOVE to go to Europe!!

Is this undercover work?

I don't ask my ops how they get their job done. Just results.

- Red

Taylor514ce · 12-04-2008, 07:25 PM

"Lefty"

"Hugo! Where have you been?"

"Right here, watching you count shums for the last hour. How far did you get this time?"

"One. Two. Four. Yellow."

"Better! I have bad news. RSE has already picked all the bad guys."

"Oh. I was really hoping to see that doggy again. I liked his googles."

"Yeah. I liked his scarf. In fact I think I still have her number."

"So you figured out how to tell boy scarves from girl scarves?"

"Ummm... err. How many shums are out there now?"

"One... Blue..."

Greg Anos · 12-04-2008, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Mindy

Hmmm, I think Red should be relieved that cats can't be trained and it's the wrong genre for sexual harassment suits......

Right now Red just trying not to be relieved on....

zelda_pinwheel · 12-04-2008, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

"Lefty"

"Hugo! Where have you been?"

"Right here, watching you count shums for the last hour. How far did you get this time?"

"One. Two. Four. Yellow."

"Better! I have bad news. RSE has already picked all the bad guys."

"Oh. I was really hoping to see that doggy again. I liked his googles."

"Yeah. I liked his scarf. In fact I think I still have her number."

"So you figured out how to tell boy scarves from girl scarves?"

"Ummm... err. How many shums are out there now?"

"One... Blue..."

heeheehee !! :bouncingupanddown clappinghandswithglee:

Slite · 12-05-2008, 02:21 AM

Oh oh oh oh! I can't WAIT to see where this one is going! Hurry on with the writing already! Sheesh!

Greg Anos · 12-05-2008, 01:06 PM

I then called VR. His human passed him the phone.
"I need some expense money, VR."
"I'm not paying for your beer tab, Redneck."
"I need some research done in Pinwheel."
"You'll blend in like a flamethrower at the Winter Carnival."
"I want to send in a top op who'll blend in smoother that a deer with it's tail down. But that costs money, and you said I had a liberal expense account. And I don't expect her to stay at the Silverfish Inn. So wire my account 10K so I can get the ball rollin'."
"10K!!!"
"The longer you sit there scratching yourself, the longer It'll be before you get the Diamondaceaous Doody back."
A deep growl came over the phone, followed by, "One of these days, I'm going to catch you without your .22."
"I love you, too. Now send the money!" I hung up the phone, and flipped on the intercom.
"Mindy, I need you to get tickets for BadGoodDeb out of Chi-town to Pinwheel on the earliest flight, and a reservation to a nice Hotel there. And a rent car. Then call BadGoodDeb and pass the info on to her."
"Why don't I get the fancy trips?"
"Because you're too nice to go dive-crawling, arm-twisting, and knifing the occasional punk."
"Well...."
"Besides, who would keep Mrs. Slocum company?"
On that note. I flipped off the intercom and settled into some serious thinking. What do you do with something you can't sell? Well, you could look at it. There are some art nuts who'd steal The Mona Lisa to hang on the wall if they thought they could get away with it. The problem with Mona and the Coprolite was thay they were too famous and too unique. The heat was just too hot for too long for even most ardent art nuts to hijack 'em. Chop it up and sell the pieces? They did that with the McFarlin Diamond (54 carats, canary yellow, for you Bond types), but there was a market for canary yellow small diamonds. The only place that's seen gold matrix coprolite is the Pinwheel Palace and picture books. So if you cut it up and tried to sell it, people would start askin' where it came from. And one peep outta the Palace and everybody get caught for ownin' stolen property. Ransom? No ransom request, at least not yet. And a ransom request wouldn't wait this long. They'd want to get the ball rollin'. Hmmm....Quite a two-pipe problem, Sherlock. Or in my case, a two Pearl problem.
I flipped the intercom on again.
"Mindy, I'm goin' down to Bonzo's Backfire for couple of Pearls. I need to mull this case."
"Mull? You just want to guzzle expense-account beer!"
"That too. Shut up the shop after you get BadGoodDeb's trip set up."
I wandered down to the Backfire and slid into a booth. It was a high class place, no chicken wire anywhere. The jukebox was playing Robert Earl Kean's Merry Christmas from the Family.
"A Pearl." I told the barmaid.
After I got my beer, I settled down to think some more. So... No ransom. No chop and sell. If it was a big time collector, the big boys would have to take over. That class of gazillionare wouldn't let me dig flower beds for 'em, much less case their joints for stolen art work. I'd just have to pass on my pointers. What else was left. There wasn't even any fake matrix on the market, 'cause all the Rich Old Women knew that there was no Real McCoy on the market, and they wouldn't be caught dead wearing an obvious fake, that everybody knew had to be a fake. An idea was nibbling inside my head, but I couldn't quite make it pop out. I ordered another Pearl.

Something about fakes...How do you pass a fake as a Real McCoy? Well, it's gotta look like a Real McCoy, and you have to have a good story to explain why the fake's a Real McCoy. So, would it help if you had the Real McCoy to work with for making the fake? It sure would! And when you got done, you just let the Real McCoy quietly be found, and everybody's happy. You wait a year or two, and "find" your fake, palm it off as a new Real McCoy, and milk gazillions off of Rich Old Ladies, who would never buy a fake. Feed some more fakes in the market slowly, so's not to cheapen the price, and you've built a high price fake market, and nobody's in a position to figger out the swindle...You'd need an inside man for the heist, and a fall guy for the recovery, a crooked fake opal expert, and enough money to bankroll the deal, 'cause all this wouldn't come cheap. Other than Pinwheel, where in the world would you find the combo? You need gold mines, Opal mines, a bent corporation, and lots of expertise on makin' fake Opals. Some place that it would seem natural to find some more Golden Coprolite.
There was only one place in the world... Oz. Was this gonna make VR happy. Heh, heh, a liberal expense account indeed...

zelda_pinwheel · 12-05-2008, 01:11 PM

"Silverfish Inn" ! (i thought that was in germany ?) shoutout...

brilliant episode, Sir Sir.

badgoodDeb · 12-05-2008, 01:35 PM

I'm sure there's a Silverfish Inn II and III and IV ..... someplace else!

pshrynk · 12-05-2008, 01:46 PM

There's a Silverfish Inn Too right next to Rick's Cafe Americain Panama City.

DixieGal · 12-05-2008, 01:54 PM

OK, now I'm ready for more. Go!

zelda_pinwheel · 12-05-2008, 02:03 PM

so the coprolite thief is in oz. wait, don't tell me : the bad guys (already signed on) are going to be those flying interfenestral monkeys that scare the bejeezus out of pshrynk.

Greg Anos · 12-05-2008, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

so the coprolite thief is in oz. wait, don't tell me : the bad guys (already signed on) are going to be those flying interfenestral monkeys that scare the bejeezus out of pshrynk.

Hey, it's my job to look ahead...Besides, do you think Red would turn down a chance to go spine-bashing in the warmth at Bondi and chatting up the Sheilas during the winter? On an expense account??

Greg Anos · 12-05-2008, 02:42 PM

Fans, I hate to disappoint, but I've got to make 2 cheesecakes and go to a party tommorrow. I don't see how I can get back to the tale until Sunday at the earliest. If I get some time, I'll slip it in as fast as I get it done....

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12-04-2008, 07:03 PM	#46
Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,247 Karma: 35000000 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	Folks, I already have the bad guys lined up, and the special twist at the end plotted. Of course it's going to take quite a few posts to get there, as I like the pacing I'm writing at. I've got the next episode half-written, so it'll be up tommorrow. But if other things in life intrude, I may have to skip some days. Y'all understand. And yes when it gets to the end, I'll post the entire story (with formatting) in to other section of MR e-books. (I'll do it as HTML, and anybody who wants to can convert it to whatever.) All the books mentioned are real, just the characters from MR are fictional (I'm playing with the avatars and such. If anybody's offended PM me and I'll write you out. And Red is - - - (R)alph sir (ED)ward.)

12-04-2008, 07:25 PM	#49
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	"Lefty" "Hugo! Where have you been?" "Right here, watching you count shums for the last hour. How far did you get this time?" "One. Two. Four. Yellow." "Better! I have bad news. RSE has already picked all the bad guys." "Oh. I was really hoping to see that doggy again. I liked his googles." "Yeah. I liked his scarf. In fact I think I still have her number." "So you figured out how to tell boy scarves from girl scarves?" "Ummm... err. How many shums are out there now?" "One... Blue..."

12-05-2008, 02:21 AM	#52
Slite Icanhasdonuts? Posts: 2,837 Karma: 532407 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Mölnbo, Sweden Device: Kobo Aura 2nd edition, Kobo Clara HD	Oh oh oh oh! I can't WAIT to see where this one is going! Hurry on with the writing already! Sheesh!

12-05-2008, 01:06 PM	#53
Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,247 Karma: 35000000 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	I then called VR. His human passed him the phone. "I need some expense money, VR." "I'm not paying for your beer tab, Redneck." "I need some research done in Pinwheel." "You'll blend in like a flamethrower at the Winter Carnival." "I want to send in a top op who'll blend in smoother that a deer with it's tail down. But that costs money, and you said I had a liberal expense account. And I don't expect her to stay at the Silverfish Inn. So wire my account 10K so I can get the ball rollin'." "10K!!!" "The longer you sit there scratching yourself, the longer It'll be before you get the Diamondaceaous Doody back." A deep growl came over the phone, followed by, "One of these days, I'm going to catch you without your .22." "I love you, too. Now send the money!" I hung up the phone, and flipped on the intercom. "Mindy, I need you to get tickets for BadGoodDeb out of Chi-town to Pinwheel on the earliest flight, and a reservation to a nice Hotel there. And a rent car. Then call BadGoodDeb and pass the info on to her." "Why don't I get the fancy trips?" "Because you're too nice to go dive-crawling, arm-twisting, and knifing the occasional punk." "Well...." "Besides, who would keep Mrs. Slocum company?" On that note. I flipped off the intercom and settled into some serious thinking. What do you do with something you can't sell? Well, you could look at it. There are some art nuts who'd steal The Mona Lisa to hang on the wall if they thought they could get away with it. The problem with Mona and the Coprolite was thay they were too famous and too unique. The heat was just too hot for too long for even most ardent art nuts to hijack 'em. Chop it up and sell the pieces? They did that with the McFarlin Diamond (54 carats, canary yellow, for you Bond types), but there was a market for canary yellow small diamonds. The only place that's seen gold matrix coprolite is the Pinwheel Palace and picture books. So if you cut it up and tried to sell it, people would start askin' where it came from. And one peep outta the Palace and everybody get caught for ownin' stolen property. Ransom? No ransom request, at least not yet. And a ransom request wouldn't wait this long. They'd want to get the ball rollin'. Hmmm....Quite a two-pipe problem, Sherlock. Or in my case, a two Pearl problem. I flipped the intercom on again. "Mindy, I'm goin' down to Bonzo's Backfire for couple of Pearls. I need to mull this case." "Mull? You just want to guzzle expense-account beer!" "That too. Shut up the shop after you get BadGoodDeb's trip set up." I wandered down to the Backfire and slid into a booth. It was a high class place, no chicken wire anywhere. The jukebox was playing Robert Earl Kean's Merry Christmas from the Family. "A Pearl." I told the barmaid. After I got my beer, I settled down to think some more. So... No ransom. No chop and sell. If it was a big time collector, the big boys would have to take over. That class of gazillionare wouldn't let me dig flower beds for 'em, much less case their joints for stolen art work. I'd just have to pass on my pointers. What else was left. There wasn't even any fake matrix on the market, 'cause all the Rich Old Women knew that there was no Real McCoy on the market, and they wouldn't be caught dead wearing an obvious fake, that everybody knew had to be a fake. An idea was nibbling inside my head, but I couldn't quite make it pop out. I ordered another Pearl. Something about fakes...How do you pass a fake as a Real McCoy? Well, it's gotta look like a Real McCoy, and you have to have a good story to explain why the fake's a Real McCoy. So, would it help if you had the Real McCoy to work with for making the fake? It sure would! And when you got done, you just let the Real McCoy quietly be found, and everybody's happy. You wait a year or two, and "find" your fake, palm it off as a new Real McCoy, and milk gazillions off of Rich Old Ladies, who would never buy a fake. Feed some more fakes in the market slowly, so's not to cheapen the price, and you've built a high price fake market, and nobody's in a position to figger out the swindle...You'd need an inside man for the heist, and a fall guy for the recovery, a crooked fake opal expert, and enough money to bankroll the deal, 'cause all this wouldn't come cheap. Other than Pinwheel, where in the world would you find the combo? You need gold mines, Opal mines, a bent corporation, and lots of expertise on makin' fake Opals. Some place that it would seem natural to find some more Golden Coprolite. There was only one place in the world... Oz. Was this gonna make VR happy. Heh, heh, a liberal expense account indeed...

12-05-2008, 01:11 PM	#54
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	"Silverfish Inn" ! (i thought that was in germany ?) shoutout... brilliant episode, Sir Sir.

12-05-2008, 01:35 PM	#55
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,501 Karma: 64095689 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	I'm sure there's a Silverfish Inn II and III and IV ..... someplace else!

12-05-2008, 01:46 PM	#56
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	There's a Silverfish Inn Too right next to Rick's Cafe Americain Panama City.

12-05-2008, 01:54 PM	#57
DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	OK, now I'm ready for more. Go!

12-05-2008, 02:03 PM	#58
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	so the coprolite thief is in oz. wait, don't tell me : the bad guys (already signed on) are going to be those flying interfenestral monkeys that scare the bejeezus out of pshrynk.

12-05-2008, 02:42 PM	#60
Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,247 Karma: 35000000 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	Fans, I hate to disappoint, but I've got to make 2 cheesecakes and go to a party tommorrow. I don't see how I can get back to the tale until Sunday at the earliest. If I get some time, I'll slip it in as fast as I get it done....

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