Strangetown: chapter 26.5 (Truth)

[strangetomato]

Warnings: None.



Chapter 26.5

Truth



Detective Jack Luxel lifted a book from the shelf.




After his meeting with their client that morning, he had poured through the files again, leading him to what appeared to be another dead end. It was frustrating, but he was not content to give up.

There was one detail that had caught his attention: a reference to alien abduction in the genealogy of one of the suspects. It was something that he was already quite familiar with, but one could never be too well read on the subject.




The records on alien abductions told an interesting story. The increased frequency of these occurances pointed to a growing urgency on the part of the aliens.

It was as if they were racing against time.

The records mentioned his own grandfather's abduction, in Riverblossom Hills. He had moved to Sim City shortly after it had happened, and Jack had been born there too. Jack's own family tree revealed just how linked he was to this story. He was a part of that whole thing, as much as it weighed on him at times. He was marked by it.

There had been very few abductions in Pleasantview in recent memory, but there had been a number of them, and that was significant. There had been some sightings, here and there, but not nearly as many as in that little town on the Road to Nowhere. West of there, through the desert.

Strangetown... was that where his answer lay hidden?




As he worked, he was joined by his partner, Zelda. Knowing that Jack did not like to be disturbed while he was in the middle of something, she quietly selected a volume of her own, and joined him in his research.

Hours passed.




"C'mon, Jack. That's enough for now, don't you think?" Zelda rose to her feet.

"But I'm so close to a breakthrough. I can feel it."

"Suit yourself, then. I'm going to make us a lunch."

"Okay."

When he didn't move, she sighed, but smiled. That was how he was. When Jack put his mind to something, there was no way to pull him from it until he achieved his goal.




He would not rest until he discovered the truth about Bella Goth.








A/N: Thank you to pixelcurious and jessicus for the wonderful sims.

 

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I won't say too much more about it, but the Calientes might be suspects. There are a number of suspects in Pleasantview, but the whole incident involves people outside the town too.

They do resemble vintage advertising prints. I think they're really cool. The connection is just a superficial resemblance to some of the people involved. ;)

Have you ever noticed how many of the artworks in the game pay homage to various famous artists? It's like an Art History lesson. I was working on a sim thing about that at one point, which pointed out all the references, but I didn't finish it. Perhaps I'll dust it off and post it one day.

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

I have noticed that about the art, though I don't recognize/can't place a lot of it. My art history is weak. ;)

The prints *are* cool. I love when people take images like that and use simlish creatively on them. I wish there were more simlish fonts, though. (Maybe that's something I should work on for a project, when I get back into sims... it would teach me a new skill, too. I've never created a typeface.)