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[hardtoignore]

So. Anyone else get "pranked" by a history buff friend of theirs? That's how one of my guardians described it when I showed him.

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[darkforcerising]

Ya, a history lesson is a good way to put it.

[neverjedi]

Yeah, except I don't have history buff friends.

network text;

[traceofeffort]

It's quite a prank, yes. I've never seen anything like it. Granted, music buff here, so if it'd been coded sheet music or something, I could help you. This... I'm not sure what to make of it.

[hardtoignore]

I mean, what else could it be? But a prank from a "friend."

[hardtoignore]

Have any history buff enemies, then?

Re: network text;

[hardtoignore]

I'm guessing its a scavenger hunt. Extra homework, right after summer vacation starts. Yey.

[darkforcerising]

I don't know her that friend's name.

[hardtoignore]

I mean, penpals aren't necessarily people you know.

[darkforcerising]

THAT is an important point!

[temptationaccomplished]

It feels like something out of a spy novel.

[hardtoignore]

As it is, I'm not looking forward to doing this particular scavenger hunt. Unless we're actually just going to hang out in a haunted house for a night.

[hardtoignore]

I was thinking it was like a scavenger hunt. Or maybe a haunted house raid.

[temptationaccomplished]

Isn't a spy story basically a scavenger hunt, too? The stakes are just higher.

Why would you raid a haunted house? Don't you just pay admission and go in?

[traceofeffort]

I didn't like doing homework during the school year as it was, and working on music was fun but took forever. This doesn't sound fun AND will take forever.

[hardtoignore]

I dunno. Has there been any spy movies out that weren't lame James Bond sequels of sequels of sequels?

I mean, if you're going to an actually HAUNTED HOUSE then you usually break in because they tend to not be, like, inhabited.

[hardtoignore]

Yeah. I think we should appoint someone to do the leg work. The rest of us can enjoy the break.

[traceofeffort]

Yeah, but whoever we appoint needs to be someone who'll get the job done, AND do it well. I don't think I know anyone like that. Not for something like this.

[hardtoignore]

I have an idea. They're kind of reckless anyway, so I doubt they'll need much prompting.

[traceofeffort]

I'm not sure I like what you're proposing. I only have a few ideas for who that might be and all of them sound dangerous.

[hardtoignore]

Oh come on, you know he'd be all about it. He's been investigating since basically day one.

[traceofeffort]

Yeah, but still. And besides, I'm worried about fallout. This month has been... really, really weird.

[temptationaccomplished]

[Aziraphale doesn't know it, but part of him is offended on behalf of Crowley, the Bentley, and the Bentley's James Bond bullet hole decals.]

Spies aren't exclusive to movies.
There are NOVELS. But LeCarre has a few that have been made into a film: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, among others.

But that's illegal!

[hardtoignore]

It was weird earlier this month, yeah. But I don't even think he's even going to think about it; he's probably already researching now.

Or are you saying you're worried enough that you don't want to be involved at all? I get that.

[hardtoignore]

I think the last spy anything I saw was Cars 2.

I mean, yeah. That's part of the thrill of it, so I've heard.

[temptationaccomplished]

What in God's name is Cars 2?
Is that a sequel of that Furiously Fast series?

In terms of legal offenses, trespassing or breaking into a supposedly haunted house is not the hill I choose to be arrested on.