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Nov. 8th, 2014

[info]rationale

WHO: Peggy Mayweather & Joan Ryley
WHAT: Educating the newbie (Backstory challenge prompt: learn)
WHERE: PEDA
WHEN: Eight years ago, when Joan became an agent.
STATUS: Complete!

The first rule of recording devices is: never leave it where you can't get it back. )

Nov. 4th, 2014

[info]rationale

WHO: Evelina DiGirolamo & Joan Ryley
WHAT: Eavesdropping. (Backstory challenge, prompt: "listen")
WHEN: Sometime in the last two years.
WHERE: In front of the Daily Herald offices
STATUS: Complete!

She spent more time listening to conversations than having them, but it was usually a lonely affair, sitting in a car or going through hours and hours of recordings of planted bugs. )

Nov. 1st, 2014

[info]rationale

you know we're out for many more miles.

WHO: Joan Ryley
WHAT: Backstory Drabble Challenge [Suspicion]
WHERE: Downtown
WHEN: One morning in 1952
STATUS: Incomplete (will be updated)
WARNINGS: None

That morning I got in the car because I woke up at the same time my alarm clock would've gone off if I'd bothered to set it and realized I have no idea what I'm supposed to do on mornings I don't need to get in the car. )

Oct. 31st, 2014


[info]goodstock

WHO: Dean Norcross & Joan Ryley
WHAT: Dean drops by to see his sister and finds Joan instead. [drabble challenge: "break"]
WHERE: PEDA
WHEN: Last Tuesday
STATUS: Closed :)


Even private eyes object to rifling through others' stuff. Especially when it's our stuff. )

Oct. 15th, 2014

[info]rationale

WHO: Mahmoud "Moody" Zoua & Joan Ryley
WHAT: An exercise in subtlety. Backstory prompt: Rain
WHERE: Rita's Diner.
WHEN: Sometime in the last year.
STATUS: Complete!

He was considering going back to bed, caffeine be damned, when something caught his eye. )

Oct. 12th, 2014


[info]laar

WHO: Raymond van de Laar & Joan Ryley
WHAT: Morning chat at work; backstory prompt: coffee
WHERE: The literary agency, Joan's workplace
WHEN: 1945.
STATUS: Complete
WARNINGS: None

Well, a few convoluted metaphors about streetlights, shining beacons of light on cities full of dark shadows, you know how it goes. )

Oct. 11th, 2014

[info]rationale

WHO: Raymond Van de Laar & Joan Ryley
WHAT: Tailing Raymond's eldest. Backstory prompt: Spy
WHERE: Somewhere in the city, there's an office-buildish-slash-workplace.
WHEN: Sometime in the last 3 years.
STATUS: Complete!

The evening was laid out like a scene out of one of Raymond's books. )

Oct. 10th, 2014


[info]dappered

WHO: Aristotle Fletcher & Joan Ryley
WHAT: Backstory Drabble Challenge [Dawn]
WHERE: Piper Pier, a cafe near the waterfront
WHEN: May 1954, the afternoon after an all-night stakeout
STATUS: Complete
WARNINGS: None

It was rare for Aristotle Fletcher to have coffee after noon... )