Puzzle 032

[hintcoinplz]

[726 Anderson Lane.]

[Ever since he came back from that strange carnival world, Luke's been unable to shake his depression. For a while he was fully prepared to give up, let the town do whatever it wants, and try to deal with the consequences the best he could. It was the easiest option after all, to just accept that one day the town will take away the people you care about.

But...

But he didn't want to give up. Not yet. People have been trying to help him the day he came back from the carnival world, and he'd been too sad to realize it. And even though some days it all came rushing back to him, all that sadness, today he felt a little stronger. He had to do something. Anything.

And after he pays a visit to the memorial he made for Edward Nigma, in the yard of 726 Anderson Lane, an idea comes to him. He knew what he needed to try next.]

...I think I've got it! 

[Phone.]

Has anyone thought about making a self-published newspaper before? Not like the one that gets delivered in the mornings, I mean a paper that's made and delivered by all of us. We could use it for um, important news that we happen to come across in town.

[Which is Luke's way of saying that it'd be a good idea to use it to get Mayfield clues out there to other people.]

And it doesn't have to be strictly news either! The papers we get already have cartoons, advice columns, puzzles - we could have those too! I'll be in charge of the puzzle section of course. I know for a fact that I could come up with better puzzles then the ones they put in the paper already. I mean, a five-year-old could solve some of...

[Wait he's getting off-topic.]

So um, what do you all think? I'd rather read a newspaper that's made by us, to be honest. I don't have the tools to publish one myself, but I think if we work together we can put together something worth reading! 

[ooc: This is the IC post for the self-published newspaper idea. I'd still love to hear some input!]

Comments

[inthebones]

Excellent. Now if you could get the groceries for me whenever you're done getting whatever it is you've got, I'd appreciate it.

[Susan sticks her head out the door before retreating back inside.]

[hintcoinplz]

[Luke sighs in exasperation before following behind her. Susan why do you not take him seriously.]

No, I mean I think I have an idea of how to get all those clues we found in Mayfield out there!

Phone

[crazyclownwoman]

Oh! I wanna do an advice column!

Phone

[hintcoinplz]

You want to do the advice column? That'd be great!

phone

[werejew]

I'm doing the advice column and if you say no I'm giving you a fucking Indian burn.

[AND SO THE CONFLICT BEGINS...]

phone

[hintcoinplz]

B-but we already have one person doing the-

[And Luke pauses. Somehow he imagines Annie would be the type to go through with that threat.]

...Er, I mean. I suppose having another person doing the advice column wouldn't be a bad idea.

Phone

[equinamity]

Hello, Luke!

[Riza sounds happy to hear Luke sounding happy...well, happier, anyway.]

A small publication might be a good idea. We may well even release something at the start of the month, when newcomers first arrive, with information about the town? I would imagine that if we hide it between other information inside of the paper, it wouldn't be caught by the drones and would be monumentally helpful.

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[hintcoinplz]

Hello, miss Riza!

Oh, that's a good idea! We should publish it at the start of the month so the newcomers can read it too! And it'd be delivered only by non-drones, so no drones should be able to read it.

[phone]

[allwehad]

I think it's a wonderful idea!

I'm not a writer myself, but I'd be happy to help distribute the paper once you figure out how to get it printed. I'm tired of reading the drone crap, anyway.

[phone]

[hintcoinplz]

I could use all the help I could get! It's definitely a project that's going to require all of us helping out.

[roadroller]

I have a printer you could make copies with, if you don't find anything better to use... but I'll have to be the editor in that case! ♪

[Gotta make sure no one tarnishes her good name in this paper.

Miku's, on the other hand... ]

[hintcoinplz]

We'll definitely need an editor! And no one's offered up a printer press yet, so if you could make copies that'd be great!

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[cursedtolive]

[Well, if it's going to suck being here one way or another...]

I'm not very good at writing for papers -- actually, I've never done that before -- but I can help distributing, if you need a hand for that. I can try to gather information, too.

[Not looking forward to talking to his "dad," but people gather good information from working at bars, right?]

phone

[hintcoinplz]

If you could gather information, that'd be fantastic - just try to be careful about it, all right? I don't want people getting hurt over this thing.

Phone

[logic_and_magic]

[Well Luke, you've just solved the problem he was going over with Olivier.]

Really now? Would I be able to put up an ad for a certain Bingo night? We are looking for members...

Phone

[hintcoinplz]

Of course! I thought perhaps it could be used for things like uh, Bingo night.

Phone

[afterthesky]

It's an idea that's been brought up before, and I still think there's a great deal of merit to it. I'm a journalist, at home.

Phone

[hintcoinplz]

You're a journalist? I don't have any experience with this kind of thing. I think it'd be great idea if we had our very own newspaper.

[selematpagi]

... you said something about cartoons. Having cartoons in your newspaper I mean. Right?

[ ... oh boy. ]

[hintcoinplz]

Well, sure! I mean the newspapers we get have them too.

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[mydear]

Why, that sounds like a marvellous idea. I'm not sure I'd be much of a writer, but reading something written by people akin to myself would be wonderful.

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[hintcoinplz]

Well, as much as I'd like more writers I could use any help I could get! But I do hope you'll read it when it comes out.

Phone

[theboytwin]

That sounds interesting.

[He can write advice...I'm kidding.]

I'd read something like that.

Phone

[hintcoinplz]

I hope you would read it! Especially since I'm planning on putting some really, really important information in there!

...When we find it of course.

[Phone.]

[genkibot]

[Tachikoma sounds super-excited. Like even more than it usually does.]

Wow, that sounds like a great idea and a wonderful way to share data here!

Back where I'm from, most news is relayed electronically, but with this environment we're stuck in, a paper news source would be much more possible!

Can I help?

[Phone.]

[hintcoinplz]

Share electronically? Like on a telly, you mean?

Um, well what can you do? Can you collect information about what's going on around town?

[noluckduck]

... Hold on, who's gonna be doin' the advice columns?

[hintcoinplz]

I've got two people doing the advice columns: Annie and miss Harley.

[snacklist]

Wow, that sounds like a really good idea! We could have a section about defence and safe places to stay, and people offering to teach different things!

[hintcoinplz]

We should definitely list all those, especially since we'll be handing it out to newcomers as well!

phone

[cutesy]

I can totally give out the best advice anyone has ever heard! [ And she really means this! Her upbeat personality allows her to give everyone the most unrealistic best suggestions possible. ]

phone

[hintcoinplz]

There's already two people doing the advice columns, but we could really use all the writers we can get...