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Characters: Solomon Wreath, Raine Sage, Erskine Ravel, Skulduggery Pleasant, Bakura, Pepper Potts, Sheena Fujibayashi, potentially you?
Date: 16th June 2016 (2017 in game).
Location: Sky Sector ceremony boutique, near a particularly nicely cultivated part of the gardens
Situation: A WEDDING.
Warnings/Rating: Solomon is still an idiot.

( It's a party in Agrabah! )

Characters: Solomon Wreath, Tonks, Bakura
Date: Tonks thread is early November, Bakura's thread is later November
Location: Various sectors
Situation: A: One of Solomon’s cases is proving to be slightly less than standard. Tonks has noticed some weird happenings going on. Goals collide. B: Solomon's training is progressing. Bakura has tells.
Warnings/Rating: None so far, will update as necessary.

A: THE INVESTIGATIONS

Usually, Solomon’s cases were fairly straight-forward. They were either missing-persons or more rarely murders, and in both cases were usually brought to him by relatives or friends. He had taken to refusing murders brought to him by gang-members just wanting a name to seek for revenge, but other than that the occasional murder usually came with a body and were the simplest. The hard part was convincing the client that, no, they really didn’t need to see the body sit up.

Missing-persons required more legwork. They were more interesting and more challenging, and he could circumvent the part where he lacked the sight to look for visual cues. It was like a more challenging puzzle.

Except this time finding the person he was sent after had been laughably easy. That would have caught his attention, if not the fact that the subject was also still alive. His cases were usually easy precisely because someone had been killed.

Also strange was that he had tracked said person into Earth Sector, which was not usually the site of extracurricular unlawful activities; its people were just too damned honest. This would have been a very good time to have been able to see the clothes of the people meeting two tables away. He suspected, if he could have, that they would be wearing clothes more suited to the style of another sector.

Since he couldn’t, all he could really do was sit in the café, trying to eavesdrop from a distance. At least Earth Sector was his home these days, and most people at least peripherally knew ‘the shadow man’; he had justifiable cause for being there. Unfortunately, everyone also knew he did investigative work on the side. Hopefully, the people he was following would chalk his presence up to the former instead of the latter.


B: CATCHING OUT A THIEF

Fighting Bakura and Enjolras were, individually, more physically taxing than anything Solomon had to do during his cases. Granted, during his cases he defaulted to talking his way through any problems. Or intimidating people. Shadows were a great intimidator.

At least on both counts Solomon was in better shape than he had been, and he was getting better at defending himself blind. In Bakura's case, it was helped greatly by the fact that Bakura now had a metaphysical tell. Or perhaps Solomon should say once more had a metaphysical tell.

Which meant that, on some occasions, Solomon was now able to get one up on him unexpectedly.

"You're slowing down," Solomon teased after one such time during no particular bout, not long after Bakura had requested copies of Solomon's research. (Said copies were in Solomon's bag on this particular day, and he didn't doubt that Bakura had already noticed. If the thief didn't make an idle habit of seeing what Solomon carried with him, he'd be surprised.)

Characters: Solomon Wreath, Raine Sage, Bakura.
Date: Mid August, 2015 (2016 in-game).
Location: Raine and Sol's apartment.
Situation: Adopted famry gets together for its first famry dinner, because why not.
Warnings/Rating: Nothing thus far.

( I know that in my weakness I am strong, but it's your love that brings me home. )

Characters: Solomon Wreath and all the people!
Date: First two weeks of May, ‘2016’.
Location: Courtyards, marketplaces and squares all over the city.
Situation: Solomon has an urgent need for some extra money before mid-month, so he’s swallowing his pride and maybe having a bit of fun.
Warnings/Rating: None thus far.

( Darkness stirs and awakes imagination )

Characters: Solomon Wreath and Tony Stark, later Raine Sage and Skulduggery Pleasant
Date: 27 March ‘2016’
Location: Solomon’s Dreaming laboratory, Healer’s Guild, possibly Midnight Hotel
Situation: It’s Solomon’s birthday! Here, be in a crippling magical accident.
Warnings/Rating: Trauma and permanent injury (blindness).

( but your soul you must keep totally free )

Characters: Solomon September catch-all!
Date: Bakura's thread is same day as this post, early September. Otherwise, September catch-all.
Location: Marble and obsidian mines around the edges of the shell, Solomon's suite, other places as needed.
Situation: Solomon needs some materials for his Dreaming experiments. Bakura warned him to be careful. Obviously the solution is to partner. Also, Raine needs to talk to him about heavy shit.
Warnings/Rating: Raine's thread will have MAJOR SPOILERS for Skulduggery Pleasant book six.

( but the river is wide and it's too hard to cross )

Characters: Solomon Wreath, Hayley Stark, Skulduggery Pleasant, Akito Wanijima
Date: Just after the jubilee
Location: Some ... cafe somewhere.
Situation: Solomon and Hayley meet for lunch to talk business, stories ensue, and Skul and Akito gatecrash.
Warnings/Rating: Nothing as yet.

After the jubilee Solomon was feeling somewhat ... out of sorts. He couldn't even tell what it was precisely, or if he was truly feeling anything at all, except that he knew something had changed. The problem was that the sensation wasn't acute enough to actually prove anything had changed. Yet. Maybe it would be come clearer in time.

Either way, when Hayley Stark had called to ask if they were still up for lunch, Solomon couldn't afford to refuse. If Asti's boon hadn't worked, he would still need an item; and if it had, then Hayley wanted one. It was worth looking into.

They had arranged to meet at a cafe, a public one if only for the veneer of safety. Solomon shadow-walked to the corner and then walked the rest of the way, keeping an eye out for a young lady waiting at one of the outside tables.

Characters: Solomon Wreath and OPEN
Date: Anywhere between 6 May to 14 May.
Location: Various locations around the city. Specifically, places where people have died--anyone from PCs to kedan. The only place I know specifically will be the fountain where Bakura was killed, but if anyone has other specific areas in mind, you may assume Sol has been there.
Situation: Solomon needs to practice his control of his magic, since his control item was broken before he entered the game. This means using hotspots where people died to help him out. People are welcome to interrupt him at any stage of his practice, though his manifesting the echoes of people who died is only something that will happen later in the week.
Warnings/Rating: Death and after-death. Skulduggery's thread contains graphic details of a death (specifically, drowning).

( won't have my life turned upside-down )