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[buildstherobots]

[Phone call! To the whole town! Except the drones and the usual meddling authority figures. The call is in a moderately hushed tone, but he's easily understandable.]

So, I see that there are many new people, and you may count yourselves as lucky as you can in this place because Dist the Rose is here to take care of you all. I'm sure you've been informed as to the basics of Mayfield, but I've put together a lovely little primer for just this kind of occasion, giving you all of the details you need to bring you fully up to speed, including the most important things that have been inflicted upon us since the first of us can remember arriving here. If you would like to be informed, then come to the library to pick up a copy. If you can't find it, ask any drone where it is, they'll be able to tell you. Look for a gorgeous man with pale hair; someone as extraordinary as myself will stand out.

[And, just a little louder but no so much so that he's quite up to normal talking level.]

And be sure to pick up your free library card! Knowledge is power and all that.

[action]

[And there Dist will be, flitting about, stacking things and shelving things and generally keeping himself busy. He'll also be available to assist anyone who just so happens to be in the library themselves, though every so often he'll have to stop and sit to rest a bit, possibly get down a granola bar outside the view of the head librarian. He can't fit his chair through the door, let alone down the aisles of books, so he's walking everywhere and carrying things and with his condition this tires him out quickly.]

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[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

[Well, that sours his mood a little. He gestures to his face a little impatiently.]

What, are you blind? Come on.

[Hey, have to get the word out to as many people as possible, right? Plus, he wants to sit for a moment. Over to the front desk!]

Did you just get here?

[hispalette.livejournal.com]

[he just...stares. and blinks. Dist looks kiiiinda handsome if he squints really, really hard, but mostly the white hair and pale complexion makes him look kind of sickly. definitely not the Fabio model looking guy he was expecting.]

No. I've been here for a while. [he follows behind, obediently.] No one's bothered to give me the entire story about the -

[he stops short, looking over in the direction of the head librarian, a pensive expression playing on his face.]

...You know.

[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

[Hey Dist is totally a Fabio-style model. He should be gracing the covers of dime-store bodice rippers. ...Well, in his own mind, anyway.]

It's not something people talk much about unless someone asks.

[When he notices that Red has stopped, he pauses himself, following his line of sight.]

Know what?

[hispalette.livejournal.com]

[when he's sure the woman isn't looking his way, his voice drops and he leans in a few inches closer.]

The Smiths.

[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

[Dist glances, then nods. His voice is similarly low.]

What do you need to know?

[hispalette.livejournal.com]

Anything you can tell me. How they operate, what's been done to find out more about them - anything.

[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

[Dist glances over his shoulder one more time.]

They're... mysterious. They don't function like other drones. Jack Smith was brought in to replace the old father, John, several months ago; using my superior detective skills, I found out that he's directly in league with the mayor and Grady. Lucy, the little girl... we think she's the true power behind Mayfield.

[hispalette.livejournal.com]

You "think"? What's your reasoning?

[not to say he doesn't believe him, however. he's heard pretty much the same thing from everyone with different details tacked on every now and then: "she's commanding an army of minions", "the Mayor and Grady are afraid of her", etc. where did it all begin?]

[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

I've heard accounts that she's killed people on a whim, even with supernatural means. She's made threatening calls to the town more than once, and Jack seems to be afraid of her; at least, he seemed so when I listened in on him talking to the mayor. We only started realizing these things recently.