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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Golden Bee" data-source="post: 9554652" data-attributes="member: 7041055">Paraguay is for Leavers/A Cut Below!Diamond’s latest dance partner was bigger, meaner, and was holding a butcher knife.A two-in-one session today. The group (Tacito, Captain Ivanova, Aldous Bingen and JP Diamond) were hired by the other General Franco (Rafael) to help overthrow the government of his native Paraguay.Of course, border control was a bit of an issue.The country seemed to be a relatively functional democracy, so the players dug a little deeper… And found a conspiracy. General Moringo was the handpicked replacement for the president, and the opposition were fielding a weak candidate in exchange for concessions. The interview was going OK, until someone broke out the captain’s vodka and made it a drinking contest. The General’s spymaster was both highly competitive and a lightweight, so after a few rounds of shots, the group was able to record a confession from the general and pass it around to the newspapers. Then, they told the lesser General Franco that semi-popular, mild agricultural reform was no reason to launch a civil war.***Josiah P Diamond was in a circle of hell. His sister-in-law, Alice, was hosting a soirée right out of Redbook. One of those magazines with a paragraph of recipe and a full page illustration of the result.Over at the snack table, Tacito was going wild on the only edible offering, beignets. It took Aldous’s prompting to notice his court rival was also at the party, Edwina Sharpe. The Jaguar believed that everyone deserved justice, but Edwina was a Harvard-trained expert at pointing out flaws in ZSS evidentiary technique. And somehow, that kept setting free agents of New Orlean’s biggest crime boss, the Sinister Skull.One of those crooks was Frankie “the Butcher” Bertinello who had been stalking Alice to get JP to back off the Skull. A little digging and a back-alley confrontation revealed something interesting: some experiment had made Frankie much tougher, but would soon make him much deader.JP arrived at the party just in time to interrupt Edwina and Tacito's flirting. He wasn't one to ask for favors, but he admitted that he needed help solving the case and saving his annoying relative.JP knew his city, and any Louisiana detective would tell you there’s no better place to find fixers than late night in the French Quarter. He cornered “Jinx” Jensen, but Josiah's tough guy act failed when the flat foot accidentally stepped into a rainy gutter. Tacito had the last laugh though. He had recently gotten Jinx parole instead of jail time on a weapons charge, so the crook was willing to give him a lead: the Butcher had been seen, unexpectedly, on the LSU campus. Mafia leg breakers don't usually take night classes, so that was worth digging into.On campus, the duo (formerly dead PI, sensible ex-con lawyer) were outfoxed by Miss Sharpe. She had sworn Dr. Hwang and Dr. Frakes (formerly of Misskatonic University)to secrecy. Unfortunately for her, their fear of the law was less than their scientific curiosity. They would certainly help devise an antidote if the pair could return their test subject!Soon, they brought the Butcher into the lab… Where he attacked his malefactors, slashing Dr. Hwang badly! And although the Jade Jaguar was often an honorable fighter, it was his prison time that helped him get the syringe past Frankie's bulletproof skin to his vulnerable tongue. Luckily, there’s no downside to the first attending doctor training with Herbert West…A week later, the Skull had yet to replace the invulnerable lug. JP was celebrating a party where the theme was "booze." All the party guests were delighted, Alice was furious.</blockquote>

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