questionauthority: (Don't let me keep you in the dark)
Edward Nigma | The Riddler ([personal profile] questionauthority) wrote in [community profile] mayfield_rpg2012-02-15 11:08 pm

Riddle 040: A Little Less Conversation...

[At some point on this seemingly ordinary Thursday afternoon, a conversation between two older men can be heard over Mayfield’s phone lines. No, it isn’t Jack Smith or the Mayor. But who could these men possibly be...?]

-- I do NOT have cobwebs--

Well, from the sound of it, you certainly don’t anymore.

I have no idea where you’re getting such horrible lies from, Nigma, if you haven’t just thought them up yourself, but they’re just that. Lies.

He actually defended you, you know. Do you mean to tell me that all those lovely things he had to say about you were lies?

And you’re just going to automatically believe-- No, of course, of course you’re going to trust the word of a textbook narcissist over mine; it’s like talking at a mirror for you two, isn’t it?

What’s the matter, Jonathan? Can’t handle it when I rustle your feathers? You had no problem rustling his.

... I am hanging up the phone, Edward. I will never be picking it up again.

I’m sure you won’t. Wait. Hang on a second. [A dramatic pause.] ...Oh dear.

... [Why is he letting his curiosity get the better of him?] What?

Well, it appears as though---in my haste to check up on you, of course---I neglected to filter the call. Must have slipped my mind.

[As good an actor as Eddie may be, there’s no hiding that shit-eating grin that’s just crept onto his face.]


... I am going to fill your veins with so much fear toxin you will never have a coherent thought ever again.
phobophobia: (graduation afternoon)

[personal profile] phobophobia 2012-02-17 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Unless there are others wandering around, which I doubt.

[personal profile] sturmbahnfuhrer 2012-02-17 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
It would be quite the coincidence.

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Friend, I'm wondering, perhaps, if I could interest you in an...experiment opportunity, of sorts.
phobophobia: (all that you love will be carried away)

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[personal profile] phobophobia 2012-02-17 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
... I'm listening.

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[personal profile] sturmbahnfuhrer 2012-02-17 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
It would be best, I suppose, if I were to preface this by saying I have often wondered what would happen to a man if he lost everything important to him. His pride, his family, all the things that he held meaning to in his life. I would quite like to say I would be fascinated to see what a man reduced to nothing would be like.

But to say I would find such fascinating would be a lie. I've seen it over, and over, and over again. But I'd like to see it once more. Really, I'd like to see what the effect would be on such an overbearing, sniveling, loathsome prat such as Edward Nashton if we tore him down, inch by inch, and forced him to face his own reflection.
phobophobia: (the sun dog)

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[personal profile] phobophobia 2012-02-17 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
... [You can practically hear his face creak into a smile.]

Breaking people down is something of a specialty of mine. And I would be more than happy to offer my services in whatever it is you plan to do.

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[personal profile] sturmbahnfuhrer 2012-02-17 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
It seems to me, my friend, you are a man with far more academic ambitions than I. And I am a man who, at the moment, has a very clean, very sterile operating room and laboratory at my disposal. I'm sure you've seen the zeppelin around town, have you not? I had a comrade with similar talents to your own who used to inhabit it but, unfortunately, the town has not seen fit to have him join us.

Considering I have a room that's of no use to me, and could spare it...I believe it would be suitable for your intention of "pumping him full of fear toxin", would it not?
phobophobia: (lunch at the gotham cafe)

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[personal profile] phobophobia 2012-02-17 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
This sounds like a reasonable set-up to me. [the fact that it is with an insane Nazi is of completely no consequence]

It's a deal.

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[personal profile] sturmbahnfuhrer 2012-02-17 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Then it's set, my friend!

Ah, one last detail. How skilled would you say you are at abduction?
phobophobia: (autopsy room four)

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[personal profile] phobophobia 2012-02-17 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
It's an essential part of my research, so I've gotten rather good at it over the years.

Edward, however, is a little bit... Slippery. [Like a snake. Or a greased pig.] I should be able to handle it, though.

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[personal profile] sturmbahnfuhrer 2012-02-17 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
I can imagine he is.

If you should need any help with it, do tell me. I'm sure I could find one of the others who will be partaking in this experiment with us that might prove useful in nabbing him.
phobophobia: (in the key chords of dawn)

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[personal profile] phobophobia 2012-02-17 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
How many people are involved in this "experiment," exactly?

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[personal profile] sturmbahnfuhrer 2012-02-19 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
At least three others, perhaps four or five depending on how the cards lay at the end of it all.