Jon had decided to go for a nice relaxing walk along the coast, he waved to
Kapp'n as he kept his jolly pace, he noticed a few fish in the water and
sighed, they were probably all sea bass, which were worth less than nothing
at the Nookway. He saw a clump of something being washed ashore and headed
in that direction. As he got closer he noticed it was a body.
"Oh fuck, oh fucking shit." He ran toward the body and grabbed it out of the water; he dragged it up to the ground and felt for a pulse. He was still alive. "Help! Help there's a seagull here and he needs help!" A bear walked out of her house, "What all the commotion Jon?"
"Olive! It's this seagull, he washed up on the shore, oh god he's bleeding, he's barely alive!"
"I'll call the police, don't worry Jon." She ran back inside her house. Soon Copper and Booker arrived; they grabbed the seagull and placed it on a stretcher.
"Do you think he'll be alright?" asked Jon
"No telling, come on down to the station, we'll have to question you."
"Why?"
"It's a hit."
"No. No I don't know anything about any underground meth labs, yeah sure I was asked to collect beehives when I saw them, but that's it." Jon told the police in the station.
"Alright, nice job, listen Jon, you used to be an employee of Nook right?"
"Yeah, I still am in a way, I sell him most of his stuff."
"So now you're an independent business?"
"That's correct."
"Are you still in dept to him?"
"I've got about two-hundred thousand bells to pay off."
"Alright, do you know where his stock is kept?"
"No, you don't think Nook killed him do you? He's got a family."
"I don't think so, but recently we've recovered evidence of a scandal. Actually a few scandals, but we searched his shop, we searched his house, he's clean."
Booker entered the room, "I got an ID on the seagull, his name's Gulliver, he's a crew member for a merchant ship, and we believe someone hit the ship. Right now we're bringing in a Kappa turtle and a lion like character that goes by the name of Bud.
"I know them, Kapp'n is my transport where I trade with Bud, and he's so rich he bought the Island, luckily he also gave me a little cabin there."
"Alright Jon, I'm deputizing you, you need to go undercover for us, get some shit on anyone you can, your free to go."
"Thank you."
"Hey Tom, I've got the catch of the day for you."
"Great, what'd you get?"
"Nothing spectacular, just about five rainbow trout and one angelfish."
"Well that's great, and uh, you got any-"
"Hives? No sorry. Speaking of which, hey Tom what do you do when you buy a hive, I mean that's a lot of money for some honey."
"Um, well I've got to reward your courage Jon, not everyone can-"
"Cut the crap Tom, seriously you can trust me, what do you do with the crap?"
"Now you listen Jon, what I do with my merchandise is none of your god damn business, so stay off it. You shouldn't muddle in other's affairs; it can get you into trouble."
"Tom, you have two boys, you have a wife, what are you doing? You can trust me, I made you rich, I put this town on the map, since me this has become one of the best trading shops there is. You're a regular merchant."
"I know, and if word got out where I make most my money, why I'd be ruined."
"I won't tell anyone."
"Well what are you a priest?"
"No, but trust me, if you got arrested my business would be ruined too."
"Alright Jon you talked me down, first off, remember the Joan scandal last month?"
"That insider trading thing?"
"Yeah, well, it was my fault. You see I told Rio how my prices were planned out, but no one else, so she benefited and got rich, and in return Joan got her business, I had the most to lose when someone took advantage of this right?"
"Yeah, so why'd you do it?"
"Rio came to me because she knew I'd be the least likely culprit, so then I set up a framing for Joan, and they both got hauled to jail."
"Damn."
"About the honey, you see there is a type of honey, found only here in Locus Bay, and if you add some certain key ingredients, you get honey meth."
"Honey meth?"
"That's right, now listen Jon I had nothin' to do with Gulliver, it was Redd, he set it up, he paid off Kapp'n to keep transportation out of Locus closed, he's got Porter working for him, too, but I have allies as well."
"Who works for you?"
"Well, Bud's job is to make sure the merchant ships carrying the honey meth leave the bay safely."
"Why does Redd want to stop them?"
"He wants a piece of the pie, right now he's a traveling merchant who's best scam is passing cheap shit for really rare things, by mixing them up. Totakeke is the town dealer. His dealer name is KK Slider, he acts like a roaming guitarist, but he's rolling. Town ain't big enough, not enough honey heads, so I recently expanded it by buying Gulliver's ship and using it to smuggle the honey meth out."
"The cops don't know this? How do you hide it?"
"It's easy, I keep it in the train, Totakeke picks it up and walks out."
"Aren't you afraid Redd'll jump him?"
"He's armed, but Red has the Resetti brothers working as hit men, so I gotta watch out."
"Do you have any soldiers?"
"Yeah, no hit men though, just guards."
"Who?"
"Well, they others in this town that are working for me are Blathers, Chip and Jack, but Jack only comes once a year, he's still the best we have, ever Halloween he helps us smuggle the methamphetamine from the lab into the train. Blather's is our storage for the ships, the cops think they're just dropping off artifacts and getting fossils and stuff, not at all, by the way, thanks kid, the cops got a little suspicious with that empty museum, you helped fill it."
"Where's the mare in all of this?"
"He doesn't know jack shit, he helps us out though, accidentally. Actually, I'm not sure if he knows or not, all that matters to him is no one died and our economy has never been higher."
"Well, I thought it was because of my harvest for foreign fruit."
"That's what the public thinks, 'Jon's famous fruit jelly, every single fruit there is, and he has it'."
"What does your family think?"
"I don't want my family involved, hell all that I said has changed because of Gulliver, they don't know my ship was hijacked, all they think is that I'm doing something illegal."
"You want me to help?"
"Your rich enough, why do you want to help?"
"My business survives on your business, I don't have a shop or a ship or my own crate in the train, you do, and I rely on you."
"Well, what I would like you to do is keep the front, listen to Totakeke so it sounds like a normal guitarist. Oh yeah and Rover is the employee of Katrina, he finds out about anyone who's headed for a town where Katrina is, and then he tells one of the town affiliates that contact her, I just need you to keep that on the low down, too. Katrina brings in tourists."
"So Jon, you find out anything?" asked Copper
"Tom had nothing to do with it, he's just your average middle man."
"Well what did you find out?"
"Nothing, Gulliver fell off his ship, he was drunk."
"That's not what he told us."
"Damn it Copper don't interrogate a guy who nearly died earlier."
"You mind telling us the truth?"
"Fuck off!"
"I'll have you arrested as an accomplice, now we still need some more evidence to put Tom away, he's checked out spotless and the only lead we have is some drunken seagull."
"Alright, this is what I'll say, and that's all, got it?"
"Shoot."
"Crazy Redd hired someone to hijack the ship, some pirate I guess."
"Why?"
"It was full of ancient artifacts and the works. That shit's expensive."
"Alright, the story checks out with Bud's, but Kapp'n was a little more honest."
"Ah fucking Christ."
"What does Nook have to do with the honey meth."
"Look you said yourself he's spotless."
"I know he's not spotless, at least give me one of his accomplices, then you can leave."
"Damn it he has no fucking accomplices, he's just a solitary merchant."
"We can stay here as long as you want." Copper said while Booker entered the room, he shut the lights off and turned on a lamp.
"You better tell me, we have enough on you for accomplice which can give you an easy two months, tell me." Copper grew agitated.
"You better tell him man, you know, Copper can get pretty rough." said Booker.
"Ah Christ you aren't trying this shit on me now, what you think I'm an amateur? Is that it?"
"Tell us now!"
"Fuck you, I hate Kapp'n, I hate you two, I hate everyone, you have Kapp'n's story why can't you use that?"
"Your one of the most well favored merchants in the state, with your word he's as good as gone."
"Alright, our economy relies on Tom you got that? He's doing something, and Redd wants a slice, so he jacked the ship. That's all I'll say, can I go now?"
Copper though it over, "Yeah. Yeah you're free to go."
Jon stood up and walked out the door, "Oh fuck what did I just get him into."
"Oh fuck, oh fucking shit." He ran toward the body and grabbed it out of the water; he dragged it up to the ground and felt for a pulse. He was still alive. "Help! Help there's a seagull here and he needs help!" A bear walked out of her house, "What all the commotion Jon?"
"Olive! It's this seagull, he washed up on the shore, oh god he's bleeding, he's barely alive!"
"I'll call the police, don't worry Jon." She ran back inside her house. Soon Copper and Booker arrived; they grabbed the seagull and placed it on a stretcher.
"Do you think he'll be alright?" asked Jon
"No telling, come on down to the station, we'll have to question you."
"Why?"
"It's a hit."
"No. No I don't know anything about any underground meth labs, yeah sure I was asked to collect beehives when I saw them, but that's it." Jon told the police in the station.
"Alright, nice job, listen Jon, you used to be an employee of Nook right?"
"Yeah, I still am in a way, I sell him most of his stuff."
"So now you're an independent business?"
"That's correct."
"Are you still in dept to him?"
"I've got about two-hundred thousand bells to pay off."
"Alright, do you know where his stock is kept?"
"No, you don't think Nook killed him do you? He's got a family."
"I don't think so, but recently we've recovered evidence of a scandal. Actually a few scandals, but we searched his shop, we searched his house, he's clean."
Booker entered the room, "I got an ID on the seagull, his name's Gulliver, he's a crew member for a merchant ship, and we believe someone hit the ship. Right now we're bringing in a Kappa turtle and a lion like character that goes by the name of Bud.
"I know them, Kapp'n is my transport where I trade with Bud, and he's so rich he bought the Island, luckily he also gave me a little cabin there."
"Alright Jon, I'm deputizing you, you need to go undercover for us, get some shit on anyone you can, your free to go."
"Thank you."
"Hey Tom, I've got the catch of the day for you."
"Great, what'd you get?"
"Nothing spectacular, just about five rainbow trout and one angelfish."
"Well that's great, and uh, you got any-"
"Hives? No sorry. Speaking of which, hey Tom what do you do when you buy a hive, I mean that's a lot of money for some honey."
"Um, well I've got to reward your courage Jon, not everyone can-"
"Cut the crap Tom, seriously you can trust me, what do you do with the crap?"
"Now you listen Jon, what I do with my merchandise is none of your god damn business, so stay off it. You shouldn't muddle in other's affairs; it can get you into trouble."
"Tom, you have two boys, you have a wife, what are you doing? You can trust me, I made you rich, I put this town on the map, since me this has become one of the best trading shops there is. You're a regular merchant."
"I know, and if word got out where I make most my money, why I'd be ruined."
"I won't tell anyone."
"Well what are you a priest?"
"No, but trust me, if you got arrested my business would be ruined too."
"Alright Jon you talked me down, first off, remember the Joan scandal last month?"
"That insider trading thing?"
"Yeah, well, it was my fault. You see I told Rio how my prices were planned out, but no one else, so she benefited and got rich, and in return Joan got her business, I had the most to lose when someone took advantage of this right?"
"Yeah, so why'd you do it?"
"Rio came to me because she knew I'd be the least likely culprit, so then I set up a framing for Joan, and they both got hauled to jail."
"Damn."
"About the honey, you see there is a type of honey, found only here in Locus Bay, and if you add some certain key ingredients, you get honey meth."
"Honey meth?"
"That's right, now listen Jon I had nothin' to do with Gulliver, it was Redd, he set it up, he paid off Kapp'n to keep transportation out of Locus closed, he's got Porter working for him, too, but I have allies as well."
"Who works for you?"
"Well, Bud's job is to make sure the merchant ships carrying the honey meth leave the bay safely."
"Why does Redd want to stop them?"
"He wants a piece of the pie, right now he's a traveling merchant who's best scam is passing cheap shit for really rare things, by mixing them up. Totakeke is the town dealer. His dealer name is KK Slider, he acts like a roaming guitarist, but he's rolling. Town ain't big enough, not enough honey heads, so I recently expanded it by buying Gulliver's ship and using it to smuggle the honey meth out."
"The cops don't know this? How do you hide it?"
"It's easy, I keep it in the train, Totakeke picks it up and walks out."
"Aren't you afraid Redd'll jump him?"
"He's armed, but Red has the Resetti brothers working as hit men, so I gotta watch out."
"Do you have any soldiers?"
"Yeah, no hit men though, just guards."
"Who?"
"Well, they others in this town that are working for me are Blathers, Chip and Jack, but Jack only comes once a year, he's still the best we have, ever Halloween he helps us smuggle the methamphetamine from the lab into the train. Blather's is our storage for the ships, the cops think they're just dropping off artifacts and getting fossils and stuff, not at all, by the way, thanks kid, the cops got a little suspicious with that empty museum, you helped fill it."
"Where's the mare in all of this?"
"He doesn't know jack shit, he helps us out though, accidentally. Actually, I'm not sure if he knows or not, all that matters to him is no one died and our economy has never been higher."
"Well, I thought it was because of my harvest for foreign fruit."
"That's what the public thinks, 'Jon's famous fruit jelly, every single fruit there is, and he has it'."
"What does your family think?"
"I don't want my family involved, hell all that I said has changed because of Gulliver, they don't know my ship was hijacked, all they think is that I'm doing something illegal."
"You want me to help?"
"Your rich enough, why do you want to help?"
"My business survives on your business, I don't have a shop or a ship or my own crate in the train, you do, and I rely on you."
"Well, what I would like you to do is keep the front, listen to Totakeke so it sounds like a normal guitarist. Oh yeah and Rover is the employee of Katrina, he finds out about anyone who's headed for a town where Katrina is, and then he tells one of the town affiliates that contact her, I just need you to keep that on the low down, too. Katrina brings in tourists."
"So Jon, you find out anything?" asked Copper
"Tom had nothing to do with it, he's just your average middle man."
"Well what did you find out?"
"Nothing, Gulliver fell off his ship, he was drunk."
"That's not what he told us."
"Damn it Copper don't interrogate a guy who nearly died earlier."
"You mind telling us the truth?"
"Fuck off!"
"I'll have you arrested as an accomplice, now we still need some more evidence to put Tom away, he's checked out spotless and the only lead we have is some drunken seagull."
"Alright, this is what I'll say, and that's all, got it?"
"Shoot."
"Crazy Redd hired someone to hijack the ship, some pirate I guess."
"Why?"
"It was full of ancient artifacts and the works. That shit's expensive."
"Alright, the story checks out with Bud's, but Kapp'n was a little more honest."
"Ah fucking Christ."
"What does Nook have to do with the honey meth."
"Look you said yourself he's spotless."
"I know he's not spotless, at least give me one of his accomplices, then you can leave."
"Damn it he has no fucking accomplices, he's just a solitary merchant."
"We can stay here as long as you want." Copper said while Booker entered the room, he shut the lights off and turned on a lamp.
"You better tell me, we have enough on you for accomplice which can give you an easy two months, tell me." Copper grew agitated.
"You better tell him man, you know, Copper can get pretty rough." said Booker.
"Ah Christ you aren't trying this shit on me now, what you think I'm an amateur? Is that it?"
"Tell us now!"
"Fuck you, I hate Kapp'n, I hate you two, I hate everyone, you have Kapp'n's story why can't you use that?"
"Your one of the most well favored merchants in the state, with your word he's as good as gone."
"Alright, our economy relies on Tom you got that? He's doing something, and Redd wants a slice, so he jacked the ship. That's all I'll say, can I go now?"
Copper though it over, "Yeah. Yeah you're free to go."
Jon stood up and walked out the door, "Oh fuck what did I just get him into."