(Mad Frey) Stopping a Madman

[Travisc06489]

"Well... yeah. I mean, duh. I'm not asking anyone to stand around and wait for the knife. I just... I don't think he would do that." With the way she's been talking, it's hard to know how seriously to take anything she claims to know about Charlie.

"I guess. Even crazy makes sense in the right light." She frowns.

Blink can tell, on closer inspection, that the graffiti itself is a sort of print-out. Some kind of enormous polymer sheet with adhesive to hold it in place. Which would make it good for mass-production. The person responsible for them could - possibly - throw up a dozen of them in a single night. What probably took more time is Charlie's little glamour-touched signature. Which, while simple in nature, still traces the outline of the entire image. Every fingertip and section of the fruit has a silver halo. All punctuated by his initials on the bottom right.

"Yeah. And the 'F' is for Frey. That's his last name." Emily adds, rolling her eyes at Blink.

Peter isn't able to glimpse the flowering girl's soul, but he is able to make sense of the image slapped on the billboard. Like Blink, he can tell that the image is a reproduction printed onto a large, stick-on sheet. The glamour slowly evaporating off the image is clearly the work of one touched by the Fae, though it's a tad on the nose for someone who wants to avoid their attention. It isn't subtle, like the signs some Freeholders leave for signifying hospitality. It's flashy. A magical magnet to grab the attention of anyone attuned to see it. What really grabs his attention is the corner opposite to Charlie's mark. It's peeled up ever-so-slightly like so many bumper stickers applied to a dirty car. There, on the corner, perfectly preserved in in dust, is a fingerprint on the adhesive.

For Sera, the image is all-too-familiar. She and Mhairi had been the first to discover this particular tag months and months ago. And when they'd gone to the art gala, the'd discovered more of Ericsson's work. Same art style. Same giant sticker print. All of these things she knew without examining the image any further. Which is why her investigation feels like such a let-down. Nothing new jumps out at her that she didn't already know. It's a stick-on tag of a hand holding a fruit, laced with a glamour signature from Charlie. The fading image, fraying edges and bleeding glamour all line up with the fact that she's first come across it months ago. The polymer it is made from doesn't seem to have fared well transitioning from Winter to Spring to Summer. Especially not with how hot the Summer has been. Which of course means that Ericsson has been distributing for at leas that long.

Finally, Sasha's investigation brings her to similar conclusions to the others - if they could read each other's minds and know. Someone with a ladder (which she can see evidence from in the edged imprints on the billboard) had climbed up and slapped a an image on the board. From a distance, it looks a little more organic, but the art style is too digital and precise to be from a can of spray paint. Which means it could have been generated by the artist and slapped on by someone else. Charlie had then, probably, gone and added his own little charms to the tag to draw the Freehold's attention. Just outside of Funderland, it seems like a good choide of location.

[Saber Sloth]

With no activity since before the Rollback, and Travis' Interruption's Notice I am closing this out, the plot can resume when Travis returns!