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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tmart" data-source="post: 3001177" data-attributes="member: 11198">Day 44We’ve met up with Jack and he’s done well.  He knows the layout of the Sandoval farm, and probably most of the people there.  Apparently he cut his arm to look like a mutant attack, and pretended to be a deaf-mute.  We’ve decided to try to con them into giving up the briefcase.  I have my disguise all ready: Moomba the Mystic.  No shirt, hankie tied around the head, Caribbean accent.  This should be great.I don’t know if Jack came to my rescue out of sheer luck, or if I was able to reach out to him with my mind.  It felt that way... but I can’t be sure.  I can’t ask him either, because if it was luck he’ll think I’m crazy.Day 45Dexter made crop circles in their fields!  This should spook them out.  Jack took a potshot at one of the Sandovals – injured him pretty bad too.  Nice shot.  I’ll wait an hour until going in so they don’t kill me on sight.  I’ll play it up like he’s a ghost of someone General Sandoval betrayed.Day 47Goddamn.  I’ll start at the beginning.I approach the gate and a voice calls out to me.  They’re really spooked after the gunshot wound and then tell me to leave, but I say “Ah will if ya want, but it be on little Melanie’s head” – she’s their 10 year old daughter.  So they tell me to lay down my weapons (rapier for effect) and I go in.I tell them there be some dark energies surroundin’ Melanie.  They bring her in and I put my fingertips to her head all psychic-like.  The old man seems to be buying it and I really feel a connection with him, so I go out on a limb and reach out to his mind – and I speak to him.  In his mind.  I really did it.  And I know I did because he freaked out.  I’m not crazy.  I want to jump up and hug him, I feel so happy.  But I say to him, “There be a dark secret in your family” and I draw the sign of the suitcase on the table.  They want to know more, but I tell them I need to touch the object to channel its energies, or something.  I don't know.  When I get on a roll I can barely follow myself.  About a half hour goes by before they bring it to me, and they make sure I stay there.  So we can’t sneak in because we still don’t know where it’s kept.But they put it in front of me on the table.  There it finally is, exactly what we’ve been looking for.  It seems legit so I lay hands on it and close my eyes.  I start mumbling about how General Sandoval betrayed a man for this suitcase.  I tell them the ghost came in the guise of a mute, stayed in their home, and hurt their daughter.  I break off and tell them I can exorcise this ghost.  I tell them to light three fires in a triangle in the largest crop circle (conveniently the one furthest from their farm, and next to the hills) and wait for me at midnight.  I go to leave and they say I can stay the night there.  I speak in Henry’s mind and say, “You don’t want that” and act all disturbed.  It’s not hard when you have nightmares like I do.  They’re a curse – but I’m starting to be blessed.  I’m telepathic.  It’s unbelievable.  I have to start developing this power... the possibilities are incredible.  Anyway, they buy it – who wouldn’t under those circumstances? – and I take my weapons back and meet up with the group.  We make a plan, strap my 2-way to my thigh, and develop code words for certain circumstances.  I had a good feeling about it.  Jack would distract them by shooting Adam again, and I would take off with the briefcase.  Damon would back me up because he’s much tougher than me, then we run off into the night never to be heard from again.  Incredible plan.  We always have the best plans.  Then they go horribly wrong.</blockquote>

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