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[Sarah Dead-Wolf]

IC Chat Log, 26 May 2009

(20:00:32) (Jess_OOC): ***WoD:A IC Chat in session***

(20:00:43) ChatBot: (Jess_OOC) is now known as (Sarah).

(20:00:50) (Sarah) logs into CalNet

(20:01:13) (Crescent_Sun): Hey Sarah

(20:01:29) (Sarah): Hey

(20:01:48) (Crescent_Sun): I feel like I've been through the ringer. YOu?

(20:02:48) ChatBot: (Moss) logs into the Chat.

(20:03:04) ChatBot: (Queen_of_Spades) logs into the Chat.

(20:03:09) (Moss): Hi guys

(20:03:16) (Moss): and gals

(20:03:17) (Crescent_Sun): Hey Moss.

(20:03:33) (Sarah): Hey

(20:03:35) (Queen_of_Spades): hello

(20:03:45) (Sarah): And yeah, CS: shitty night.

(20:03:52) (Sarah): In a long string of shitty nights.

(20:03:59) (Sarah): Hey QoS.

(20:04:07) (Crescent_Sun): Things have to change, right?

(20:04:28) (Crescent_Sun): Hey QoS. Long time listener, first time caller?

(20:04:31) (Sarah): That's a great theory. I'll let you know if I see any evidence of it.

(20:04:32) (Queen_of_Spades): meh, the more they change the more they stay the same

(20:05:22) (Sarah): @Moss: that little problem we discussed? It's still a problem. A big, ugly, hairy, brutal and quite insane problem.

(20:05:56) (Queen_of_Spades): big ugly hairy brutal insane problem?

(20:06:12) (Queen_of_Spades): Sarah, somebody really ought to teach you how to speak in code

(20:06:31) (Queen_of_Spades): Sounds like you have a bear loose in your pool or something

(20:06:58) (Sarah): At the moment, I'm not sure I can bring myself to care. And yeah, that's pretty much the sum of it. If the bear was rabid. And in the public park system.

(20:07:19) (Sarah): Care about the code, that is. Not the problem.

(20:07:48) (Queen_of_Spades): lovely ... which one? I'd like to avoid Yogi on those days I didn't pack a picnic basket

(20:08:05) (Sarah): In short: the trails aren't safe. And the streets aren't much safer.

(20:08:46) (Sarah): Some truly horrific and final maulings happening.

(20:08:47) (Queen_of_Spades): Well this is LA

(20:09:04) (Crescent_Sun): Sarah, you are not alone. Well, I hope you aren't alone. Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

(20:09:08) (Queen_of_Spades): When is a mauling _not_ final?

(20:09:16) (Sarah): When you survive.

(20:09:24) (Sarah): Folks ain't surviving this one.

(20:09:55) (Sarah): CS, that's just the thing. The little task force assigned to this thing got distracted, remember?

(20:10:06) (Sarah): It's in my lap now. Yay me.

(20:10:22) (Crescent_Sun): By the pricking of my thumbs ...

(20:11:43) (Sarah): And no, it's not going to get into the papers. Can't exactly let people know this thing is running around, for all the obvious reasons.

(20:11:51) (Sarah): *sigh*

(20:12:21) (Sarah): Awful quiet over there, Moss.

(20:12:24) (Crescent_Sun): At least my guvernmint can get cover-ups right.

(20:12:32) (Sarah): Feh.

(20:12:55) (Queen_of_Spades): The public has the right to know if there is some rabid animal or something

(20:13:03) (Sarah): Well, think about it. If folks knew this was running around, they'd freak right the hell out. Panic.

(20:13:04) (Queen_of_Spades): what gives you the right to hide that?

(20:13:38) (Sarah): "Rabid" was more a euphemism on this one, QoS. It's not rabid. Just fucking mad as all hell.

(20:14:07) (Queen_of_Spades): regardless

(20:14:17) (Queen_of_Spades): people have a right to know about this stuff

(20:14:44) (Sarah): I know. Believe me, I know. But you know how the system is.

(20:14:52) (Crescent_Sun): I don't think most people want to know. Democracy of the Heads in the Sand kind of thing.

(20:15:22) (Queen_of_Spades): fine, but there are some of us who DO care and want to know

(20:15:24) (Sarah): In any event, now you know. Try and stay safe, OK>

(20:15:27) (Sarah): ?

(20:16:16) (Queen_of_Spades): I know what? You haven't _said_ anything

(20:16:58) (Sarah): Sure I have. I said something bad and deadly and wild is in the parks. I said it's mauling people to death. I said it's best to avoid remote areas.

(20:16:59) (Moss): Sorry was putting the laundry in the dryer

(20:17:05) (Sarah): Ah.

(20:17:26) (Moss): @Sarah - big hairy problem, understood, let me know where and when

(20:17:26) (Crescent_Sun): Moss, that is what the domestics are for!

(20:17:33) (Sarah): ...

(20:17:38) (Queen_of_Spades): you know how many square miles of parks there are in LA county?

(20:17:45) (Sarah): Yes, yes I do.

(20:17:58) (Sarah): And I know that this thing can move at speed.

(20:18:19) (Queen_of_Spades): what is this "thing"?

(20:18:40) (Moss): CS trust you to have domestics

(20:19:33) (Sarah): Animal. Big. Strong as all fuck. Claws about on par with a brown bear. Has a habit of rearing up on hind legs. We're working from the theory that it's a very much deranged and pissed off bear.

(20:20:30) (Sarah): And before you ask: there's a huge number of places for something of even that size to hide in this county.

(20:20:54) (Sarah): Hell, remember when the big cat got out of the zoo a while back? Took forever for them to track it down.

(20:20:57) (Queen_of_Spades): this is why this kind of information shoud be public

(20:21:18) (Crescent_Sun):

(20:21:21) (Queen_of_Spades): I'm sure there are people who have seen something that was relevant

(20:21:38) (Queen_of_Spades): but they don't know it and don't know who to call

(20:21:40) (Sarah): Think about it, though. "Deranged Bear On The Loose. Location Unknown. Don't Leave Home."

(20:21:57) (Moss): Heh, if they saw it, they are probably dead

(20:22:00) (Sarah): That's pretty much what the media would do with it.

(20:22:12) (Sarah): And honestly, Moss nailed it. This thing is deadly.

(20:22:25) (Queen_of_Spades): you think that is better than "Alls well, nothing to be afraid of!" when you know damn well the case is very much the opposite!?

(20:22:33) (Sarah): I've been tracking it for the past couple of weeks.

(20:22:34) (Crescent_Sun): And who gets the blame for not catching it yesterday?

(20:23:18) (Sarah): But we're understaffed as all hell. And believe it or not, the human dangers take priority in the system.

(20:23:32) (Sarah): The animal dangers? They get short shrift.

(20:24:44) (Sarah): Welcome to the world of insufficient budgets, personnel cuts, hiring freezes, and all the other fun that goes along with a crumbling economy and crumbling infrastructure.

(20:24:51) (Queen_of_Spades): So instead you let people go out and go on thinking everything is fine, you ALLOW the victims to go on ignorant of the danger? My god, that's sick.

(20:25:16) (Sarah): I don't have much say in it, QoS. I don't make the rules, and I'm not the PR Dept.

(20:25:52) (Queen_of_Spades): leaks happen, the press gets information that was supposed to be suppressed

(20:25:58) (Sarah): I go to the papers, and (1) I'll be out on my ass and (2) they'll have even less of a chance of getting it.

(20:26:05) (Queen_of_Spades): you could be part of the solution

(20:26:14) (Moss): Have you actually seen what happens in a panic? More people are likely to die that way than in the time it takes to track this thing down.

(20:26:31) (Sarah): Now that said... if *you* go to the papers... you know, as one of those "unofficial leaks"... that's different.

(20:26:48) (Sarah): Though you may want to listen to Moss.

(20:27:25) (Sarah): I've seen panics. They aren't good. You'll have people shooting other people because they heard a noise and "thought it was the mad bear".

(20:27:43) (Sarah): Hell, that's how hunters die by the dozens every year.

(20:27:58) (Sarah): People, by and large, aren't all that bright.

(20:28:12) (Queen_of_Spades): clearly

(20:28:23) (Queen_of_Spades): I'm seeing evidence in heaps tonight

(20:28:25) (Sarah): There's a reason I generally prefer the animals.

(20:28:29) (Sarah): (though not this one)

(20:30:16) (Sarah): And believe me, I wish there was a good way to let people know that this thing is out there, without winding up with a whole bunch of armed idiots running around blazing away at shadows and ghosts. But there isn't one.

(20:31:14) (Moss): You KNOW the local NRA are going to be vieing for it

(20:32:01) (Crescent_Sun): I imagine somewhere someone looked into how this should be handled.

(20:32:14) (Sarah): NRA, hell. Little Grandma Weisselman and her 12-gauge will open up on the paper-boy when he tries to put the paper in the screen door.

(20:32:44) (Sarah): We have that kind of thing happening enough *without* a dangerous animal panic.

(20:33:10) (Queen_of_Spades) shakes her head

(20:33:47) (Sarah): @CS: Glad you have that much faith in the system. I work for it and don't. Someone somewhere looked at how to shuffle schedules around and squeeze a few more dollars thinner than human hair, and this is the resul.t

(20:34:37) (Sarah): In a better world, two or three full teams would be after this thing, and it would have been dealt with fast.

(20:34:46) (Sarah): Be nice if we had that better world.

(20:35:05) (Queen_of_Spades): so do something about it

(20:35:24) (Crescent_Sun): Sarah, you have a bitter world outlook. I should try to put aside my rose-colored glasses.

(20:36:12) (Moss): Test

(20:36:20) (Crescent_Sun): Pass

(20:36:27) (Sarah): I *AM* doing something about it, QoS! I'm doing the only fucking thing I *CAN* do! Try to catch and kill this thing before it takes someone else apart at the seams! I've been at this without break or rest or day off from the start.

(20:36:28) (Moss): sorry lost the connection for a bit

(20:37:38) (Crescent_Sun): ON the subway?

(20:37:43) (Crescent_Sun): Moss

(20:38:18) (Sarah): Sorry QoS. I'm just a bit frazzled.

(20:38:24) (Moss): nah, just out in the garden using the mobile, atmospheric variation?

(20:38:29) (Sarah): No need to take it out on you.

(20:42:30) (Sarah): Test

(20:42:33) (Sarah): Hmm

(20:42:43) (Moss): still here I think

(20:42:48) (Moss): yep

(20:42:48) (Sarah): k

(20:43:10) (Crescent_Sun): test

(20:43:15) (Moss): Anyway as I said if you want a hand give me a call

(20:43:18) (Crescent_Sun): Had a lag.

(20:44:49) (Moss): hows the cases CS?

(20:46:11) (Crescent_Sun): Still waiting to hear back from J. Got to make a call on the other. Then there is the Sarah thing.

(20:46:12) (Sarah): Consider yourself called, Moss.

(20:48:37) (Moss): No prob, give details of where/when offline? Or I could come by your place?

(20:50:42) (Sarah): @Moss: Swing on by Holmby Park sometime after midnight. I'll be tied up until then.

(20:54:49) (Moss): Sure thing Sarah, I'll bring my binoculars and see about spotting that comet

(20:55:24) (Moss): you gotta have a better view from there than my place

(20:55:32) (Queen_of_Spades): feh, your cleverness is wasted at this point

(20:59:28) (Moss): feh? Well hey nonny nonny to you too if you're going to get renaissance sterotypical on us

(20:59:39) (Moss):

(21:00:24) (Sarah): In QoS's defense, Moss, I tossed out the first "feh" tonight. And I think I'm about as goddamned far from "renaissance stereotypical" as one can get.

(21:00:55) (Queen_of_Spades): fine, Bah, or perhaps if you prefer vulgarity bullshit!

(21:01:44) (Moss): true, and to be accurate I'm not sure if it would be renaissance or medieval?

(21:02:23) (Sarah): OK. I'll accept medieval. Fair cop.

(21:02:38) (Moss):

(21:19:54) (Crescent_Sun): sorry. PHone call.

(21:25:43) (Sarah): ...and the board goes silent.

(21:25:53) (Crescent_Sun):

(21:26:54) ChatBot: (Lady_Luna) logs into the Chat.

(21:26:59) (Sarah): Hey LL

(21:27:02) (Crescent_Sun): Hey LL.

(21:27:34) (Lady_Luna): Yo

(21:28:58) (Crescent_Sun): How's work?

(21:29:20) (Queen_of_Spades): hello

(21:29:24) (Lady_Luna): Work's good.

(21:31:03) (Lady_Luna): How's everyone?

(21:31:35) (Crescent_Sun): Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Kind of eating at my mind.

(21:32:04) (Queen_of_Spades): meh

(21:33:05) (Lady_Luna): (Crescent_Sun) What was the first shoe?

(21:33:26) (Queen_of_Spades): the left

(21:34:02) (Lady_Luna): (Queen_of_Spades) Wow, you're Literal Woman.

(21:34:21) (Crescent_Sun): Yeah, you would expect the right, but who knew.

(21:35:28) (Queen_of_Spades): as opposed to being a figurative woman but actually a fat hairy guy ...I'll take that as a compliment

(21:42:42) (Queen_of_Spades): getting late I should go

(21:42:59) (Crescent_Sun): Hey QoS, take care now.

(21:43:12) (Sarah): Night, QoS.

(21:43:19) ChatBot: (Queen_of_Spades) logs out of the Chat.

(22:23:42) (Sarah) logs out of CalNet

(22:23:50) ChatBot: (Sarah) is now known as (Jess_OOC).

(22:59:35) ChatBot: (Ariel) logs into the Chat.

(22:59:44) (Lady_Luna): Hey

(23:00:02) (Ariel): Well hey. Haven't seen you much lately. How've you been?

(23:00:40) (Lady_Luna): Busy with work.

(23:00:49) (Ariel): I hear that.

(23:38:18) (Lady_Luna): I need to head out. Meeting friends at midnight.

(23:38:23) (Lady_Luna): Check you later, Ariel.

(23:38:26) (Ariel): Seeya.

(23:38:46) ChatBot: (Lady_Luna) logs out of the Chat.

(23:39:01) (Jess_OOC): ***WoD:A IC Chat is concluded***

[Sarah Dead-Wolf]