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Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 9:05 am
The ivory-billed woodpecker is believed to be the largest woodpecker in the world. It is also feared to be recently extinct. However, a DCU photography student believes she saw one in a wooded area two days ago. That wooded area is slated to be cleared for the construction of a refrigerator assembly plant. This is what brought Emry Farwood to Destiny City Hall today. He showed up early with reports printed up to hand to any city officials who walk by him. He also had one-page pamphlets, a stapler and a roll of tape for hanging in visible locations. He happened to be hanging one right now. It had a simple, concise message in large letters; a website where one could read more information and was illustrated with a few simple block prints Emry had cut out in a couple hours.
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Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 2:51 pm
Haley Jones, too, was at the Destiny City Hall, also to protest the clearing of a local wooded area for a refrigerator assembly plant. She had stormed into the office of a member of the zoning committee to scream at him, but was at once laughed out of the office and escorted out by his security team. After finally being let go by the exit, she spotted a white-haired boy putting up protest flyers of his own. Intrigued, she got closer for a read to find that he was protesting the same cause. "Don't bother, they're not going to listen," she said nearly defeated. "I was just thrown out of the office of the zoning committee for quote-unquote belligerent behavior. It was bullshit, I wasn't belligerent at all, I just told them they need to get their tiny little s**t for brain heads out of their goddamn asses. Apparently that's belligerent these days. Total bull." She leaned against the wall beside where he was hanging up the poster. "Name's Haley, by the way."
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Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 6:03 pm
"I'm Emry," he sighed and looked at the poster, thinking what to do. "So what's next? Should we make signs and protest in front of city hall or maybe by the road at the site? Or maybe...." That last sentence was uttered with the intent to leave it unfinished. He didn't want to suggest outright that they should maybe ransack the the architect's office or disassemble the construction (or "destruction") vehicles when they arrived, but he wanted to leave the thought out there to see how Haley might fill in the blank.
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Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 1:48 pm
"Or maybe what?" she asked, arching a brow. Her imagination was getting the best of her. "We could tie each other up to the trees. They won't chop us down with a person attached to it!" The rest of the logistics of this didn't add up in her mind. "I just can't believe they are doing this, man," she started, upset. "That wooded area is the ******** best. It's so discreet, the best parties go down there, a great place to get high. I mean, I lost my virginity there! Now what, its going to be a fridge factory? Like, goodbye to having fun, right? And then there's also like, the nature part of it all. That's so sad too, man."
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Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 2:28 pm
That was not the direction he was hoping for, but he went with it. "We would probably need to get more of us tied to trees to keep them from thinking they can just off us and hide the bodies," Emry, apparently, had slightly less faith in humanity. Emry watched Haley speaking to him. "Watched" because he wasn't quite sure he was listening. No. Scratch that. He knew he was listening, but he wasn't quite sure why he was being told that the woman in front of him gets high and where she lost her virginity. Only seconds ago she was just a stranger. Now he knew her name, a snippet of her sexual history, the fact that she does drugs of some sort and that she yells at politicians. It wasn't that he particularly cared about the sex or the drugs or the yelling at the politicians. It was just awkward (and potentially incriminating) information to be introduced to someone with. How does one even respond to that? "I guess I should have included that the proposed refrigerator factory would endanger sexual milestones and the best parties in my pamphlet." Oh. That's how.
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Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 2:58 pm
"Yeah, you should have. It probably wouldn't have been much use though, I mean that's what I yelled to the politicians but they didn't seem to care at all," Haley groaned. Sullen for a moment, she got lost into thinking of other courses of action. Emry had a point - they wouldn't stop cutting down the trees for just two people. However... "You know what we should do? We should tie down the politicians to the trees! They won't cut down them!" she beamed. She wasn't sure how she would lure the politicians to get tied up to the trees in any peaceful way. Perhaps she could bake her infamous mushroom-based vegan cake. Although that wasn't such a hit at her last party.
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Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 3:35 pm
" There's an idea." Emry looked around. It probably would be best to not discuss kidnapping politicians and tying them to trees right at city hall. Someone might overhear and not realize they were joking. Which they weren't. At least Emry wasn't. "We probably should talk about this somewhere else. I know a cheap restaurant nearby which is usually loud enough that you can't hear the table next to you." He pointed the way. "I can pay."
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Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 6:09 pm
"Oh, like a date?" Haley said with a reddened face, both delighted and caught off guard. She wasn't expecting that! All her causes and motivations for protest were lost at the prospect of a date. A small chant in her head started to sing, I'm gonna get some, I'm gonna get some and the entire idea of losing the minutes-ago-highly-valued wooded area was nothing but an after thought. Who cared? She had a date, because clearly that is what was happening in this situation. "That'd be nice, thanks man!"
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Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 10:57 am
"No." The word was out of his mouth before he had a chance to fully comprehend all that a date could possibly entail. If he were to be honest with himself, a date would be nice. He didn't quite know with whom he would like a nice date. He hadn't really dissected many of his own thoughts on the matter of dating or sex. In truth, Emry's own sexual identity was repressed beyond his recognition. But Haley had accepted the "date" and that gave him a moment of pause. "That was not my intent, anyway. I did say the restaurant was cheap." It wasn't much of a concession toward the possibility of treating this as a date, but he thought it was. Provided he hadn't utterly destroyed the mood (which mood that was, he wasn't entirely certain anymore), he would lead the way to a small place; brightly-coloured on the outside, advertising fusion cuisine but not indicating which cuisines were being fused. Jolie Coquine's "Caravan Palace" could be heard blaring from the open front door.
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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:50 pm
"Ooh," Haley said with a bit of disappointment. Not one to let her mood drop or ever feel much embarrassment, she gave a light to shrug to the misunderstanding. "Well, still, not going to turn down free food." Stil entirely oblivious to what Emry had in mind to plan over the lunch, she followed him into the cheap restaurant. She wasn't exactly sure what kind of place this was, but all she could hope for were some vegan options. "So, do you come here a lot?" she questioned.
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Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:29 pm
"Not really. I hate the noise." The menu's only vegan items were a tempeh 'buffalo wing' appetizer, an injera wrap and one of the salads. "So, did you have any ideas for how we could grab some of the politicians and tie them to the trees?"
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