interview with a I can't finish this terrible pun

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Who: Erik Lensherr THE SHERIFF OF MAFATON and John Allerdyce A SAMIZDAT REPORTER
What: the most awkward interview about murders and heads
Where: Mafaton
When: pretty soon after early transmissions of this event
Notes: if this messes up plot in any way you can blame TK. I am an angel this was TK's idea etc. /flies away like a lawnmower
Warnings: possible gore! Erik saying Magneto things. Newbie journalist mistakes.

When Murrough had his breakdown and retired to Chimer, the editor in chief had called in and hastily promoted their contributing editor. Samizdat is a relatively small operation in comparison to the other newspapers, both out of necessity and choice. You have to be of a certain political mindset to work there; alternately, extremely apathetic. Drinking also helps. Which is not to say that Samizdat doesn't have work ethic, that they aren't a good paper — they are, because they work together. Each and every one of them may be dysfunctional as people (well, he can't actually tell with the graphics department, which consists of one mostly humanoid xenian who doesn't talk), but as cogs of the news machine, they get shit done. He's busted his ass as intern. That isn't really why Lysandra lets him have this interview, though. He knows because she straight up told him that. It's really just a matter of convenience, slight expendability, and also by the way she knows he can control fire so he gets to go to vampiretown, have fun, don't drink on the expense account, that's a joke you don't have access to the expense account, which is a jar of coins on Lysandra's desk.

Lysandra is a witch or something, because he never told her anything and he's never slipped up at work or at the apartment. Well, whatever.

He's not giving this chance up even if the interview is with the Sheriff of Mafaton, also known as Erik Fucking Lensherr, also known as his fucking boss or some shit, jesus fucking christ this is against all the rules of journalism.

In any case, by the time he gets to Mafaton, it's about ten til seven in the morning, which honestly means nothing to him anymore. He's dressed as usual (there was no time to change), one sleeve of his hoodie pulled down over the shark face sleeve, gripping a recorder and a notepad. Eddie could not be located and so the entire graphics department, the praying mantis-like Spring Blossom #23 is with him. Her presence is what makes John send Erik a terse message in addition to the official one Lysandra, as editor in chief, had sent: It's me doing the interview so could you pretend you don't know me. Thanks. It's not clear that Spring Blossom #23 would notice or care if Erik knew John, but he's not taking any chances.

The scene is being cleaned when they arrive, but he can, as usual, spot Erik immediately amidst the bustle, and they head in that direction with only a little wrangling from someone directed to keep people out.