Pinball Lizard

Wow thanks for the ingot man let me just inspect the quality real quick

Dude come on

restored his saw trap partner

fell in love with him.

DATE :: XX/XX/199X (Sun.) @ 09.01p FROM :: ReverendMoonlighter [Moony] SUBJ :: Before you do anything

> You are near to Lake Gelid.

> > I am going to assume you know enough for that sentence to be heavier than it looks. > > There is some trouble there.  Well, more than some, but I mean fresh trouble.  Public shape: a van in the water, Dane County boy, likely narcotics, sheriff’s office doing shiny badge arithmetic.  Inner shape: not settled.  Do not let anyone else settle it for you, and don’t settle it for yourself just because you have inherited shelves full of mysterion. > > My sister may be inside the matter.  I suspect that she is. > > Violet. > > Scarlet, if things have gone sideways for her. > > I am not giving you more than that because you are exactly the sort of man who could make too much out of it.  That is neither praise nor insult.  It is a risk assessment. > > If you go to the lake, and I suspect that you won't be able to resist, go as a witness, not as an operator.  Not as an acolyte. > > No rites.  No old calls.  No opening formulae.  No “just checking” a correspondence table or Goetia.  No testing the Goddamned air with a name to see whether the room answers.  It may answer.  That is not the same as your hunch being right.

> > Do the dull work first.  Dull work is underrated and underappreciated.  Dull work has saved more lives than revelation has. > > Establish sequence.  Who found what.  What was moved, where.  What has been sitting there since before Nixon got all sweaty on television.  Who avoided which nouns.  Who corrected themselves when they realized they overshared.  Who used a name they should not have known. > > Keep your attention low and lateral.  Ground, hands, pockets, labels, soles of boots, ashtrays, tape cases, page edges.  Do not stare into the sun and congratulate yourself for seeing fire. > > I suspect you are familiar with a specific arrangement of colors being present around town from time to time.  RED + BLACK + YELLLOW + WHITE .  There with intention.  Balanced against itself.  I suspect you have also learned to block them out by now, as best as you can.  Continue doing that.  If you see instances of it going forward, register the placement and then leave the Humors hungry.  Treat them as a warning sign with very sharp edges. > > If you find a song, do not hum along. > > If you find a tape, do not play it alone. > > If you find drugs, do not touch them bare-handed.  Don’t let anyone make a little joke about the provenance, or try to pocket them casually.  Do not let them out of your care until you are sure you can dispose of them where nobody else will find it. > > If you find little constructions // effigies, icons, idols, wards, totems // note what it is standing in for, what other thing it is proxying.  Leave them be, as a rule.  Such things tend to be passive observers waiting for stimulus, and there’s no sense in drawing undue attention to yourself. > > Preserve contradictions how you found them.  Do not harmonize accounts, improve descriptions, or give a bad drawing better anatomy.  If a matter becomes clearer just because you are looking at it closely, stop helping.  Some things use comprehension the way mold uses damp.  > > Now, because I suspect you are already thinking of the old woman’s materials: > > Do not introduce this to her archive yet. > > Not tonight.  Not first.

> > You know enough about contact to know why.  Two unrelated stains become a treasure map the moment a clever man lays one atop the other.  Your grandmother, whatever she was, had an instinct for collecting stains.  Some of them may still be wet. > > Likewise, do not ask after her people.  If there are barnacles still stuck to the hull, leave them below the waterline.  They will want to be helpful, and that is just their least harmful quality. > > (And God help me for my metaphors.) > > Bring me facts before meanings. > > If the facts are ordinary, I will tell you so and you can resent my tone in the quiet comfort of your own home. > > If the facts are not so ordinary, I may have things worth trading: names I do not post, old arguments I have deleted from the board, bad scans, worse translations, and a few cautions I trust more than the men who wrote them. > > Do not mistake this for recruitment.  I am not interested in founding another lodge in your pantry.