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[goodsoldier]

Who: Bruce and Jason
What: an evening investigation into a militia dust up
Where: Tar Wedge, Raven's Gate, around
When: after Kalinda and Tom have an adventure
Notes: [16:03] claire: also i picked tar wedge because there is no description anywhere of tar wedge
Warnings: probably nothing!

So much of his stuff has been scattered to the four winds of Baedal bartering that Jason hasn't made any effort to get another version of the helmet he'd been using months ago. In any case, he's only looking. Head protection should be unnecessary. Tar Wedge is not a particularly dangerous neighborhood, and he's just a guy in a cheap coat, glasses, and a baseball hat. The last item he picked up from the bazaar because he didn't recognize the logo — some kind of stylized snarling cat, but not any team he knows from home.

There are some rumors going around, some of which he picks up in Tar Wedge itself, and some of which have filtered in through other sources. In a lot of ways, though, he still feels three months behind. Those three months are a tangle of activities. On one side, there are the things he was there for and remembers well, such as the anonymous broadcast, and here and now, there's this, for which he feels underprepared. Not that that bothers him, exactly, but it hardly needs to be said that Baedal isn't Gotham. It's far less forgiving.

He moves on to Raven's Gate, where blending in is more difficult than it is in areas like Griss Twist or Aspic, so he doesn't try too hard. The patches of lower populated housing could be a decent place to stash some things, he notes. Hopefully once he has more winnings from fights, he'll have some actual things to stash. If the hypothetically involved Vigilante(s) from the Tar Wedge incident thought the same way, he might pick up a trace here, given the close vicinity.

Comments

[caballero]

"Sure, I know where you're staying."

H..ah. Hah? ... Except it doesn't sound like a joke. (It isn't, but he's not actually about to go show up in this guy's bedroom. But just. Putting that out there.) Bruce pushes off the low wall, and stands up properly, apparently having decided this conversation is about done.

"You'll hear from me." A beat, then, less ominous: "Your cohort is being watched closely. The network isn't private to them. Be careful who you speak to."

Not for his safety.

[goodsoldier]

His nod is only a little yes, mom, in deference to the not-joke about where he's staying (and he's staying in a lot of places, so that's annoying) but also out of the fact the conversation appears to be closing and he's moved on in his thoughts. Jason waits a beat longer for politeness, then moves toward the next roof. They both have things to do, no doubt.

[caballero]

In a few days, via the ever-tolerant Dr Bernat, Jason gets an envelope. Inside the envelope is what rounds out to what is about 10,000USD in local currency, and a sheet of paper filled with hand-written notes - mostly it's just a list of addresses, which turn out to be sympathetic suppliers, craftspeople, and armories, with one or two informants. The last couple of inches are the addresses of the civilian identities of the Militia agents residing in Raven's Gate.

(The thought occurs to Bruce that his handwriting might be recognizable to someone who knows him, so he writes it all with his left hand.)