SHIP'S LOG:

base 1

Mickey Fine 10/19/2024 11:27pm

Damn. I didn't even know there was a pen in the breast pocket, and now it's leaked all over the place. I look like a dork, walking around in this very nice Base with a giant stain on my gabardine coat. And I'm sure people are following me now since I've ended up a with big rusty key which is obviously some kind of vital MacGuffin in a scenario I'm supposed to play out.

I never figured I'd leave Base 1. I'm just a janitor, not some high flying Base jumper. Guess that's what I get for stealing out of the lost and found.

Would a dry cleaner even be able to get this stain out? Better to try when it's still wet, I suppose.

Oh look, a dry cleaner. What luck!

Gabardine 6/28/2024 11:02pm

My new host is a bit more spirited than I'd anticipated. Driving him back through the portal is no longer an option. I'll need to make contact with one of the emergency jump points.

Initiating Pen Leak Protocol in upper right breast pocket.

A-46 3/8/2024 10:38pm

The package has been delivered. Over.

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The jacket is leaving nest. All units eyes on jacket. Over.

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Jacket on foot to grid 5. Fall in. Over.

Mickey Fine 11/9/2023 10:55pm

"Monsieur Fine?" the waiter asked. How did he know my name?

"I have this package for you, to be delivered to this table, at this time, on this date."

He handed over a narrow rectangular box. neatly wrapped in white paper and string. It was a little heavy. A watch?

I looked around. No one was looking at me. I checked for people across the street, perhaps watching me in the reflections of the storefront windows. No one seemed to be paying me the slightest bit of attention. I couldn't see any cctv cameras but there could easily have been one hiding.

Carefully, I untied the string and unwrapped the box and opened it.

It was a large rusty key.

Mickey Fine 8/7/2023 10:02pm

And how lucky was I this jacket came with money in the pocket! And in whatever strange currency this world seems to accept? Someone must have come through from this world and left the jacket it that maintenance closet. Which does sort of make me nervous about taking it, if it was “lost and found” then what are the rules exactly?

But boy, is it comfortable. Roomy but fits well. And these pockets! It’s like there’s no end to them. Sitting here so debonair in this outdoor cafe sipping my espresso I felt I should have a cigarette and low and behold there’s a pack in the pocket! And matches! And I don’t even smoke!!


Ack!! Cough cough cough.

Mickey Fine 4/26/2023 11:46pm

This new coat is incredibly comfortable. Because it's gabardine! Which, to the uninitiated, is more or less a trench coat. It's like a great cloak of SPYNESS.

I feel like a new man. And this strange glowing portal seems to have helped as well. I've entered into a Base I've never visited. There are cafes, and tree lined streets bustling with people... Yes, this is the Base I'd like to live in.

Excuse me, I'd like a cup of coffee.

Gabardine 1/13/2023 11:54pm

I have incased a host, a member of the janitorial staff of base 1, the factory outlet for @smiley’s Warehouse.

He’s got a lot of spirit though, and controlling him is testing all of my training as a Traveling Jacket. Such will! They are such beautiful creatures, and will make a fine ride once he’s been successfully broken.

He did get a little out of control and led us through one of the emergent portals eddies rampant in the area. Triangulating now…

jason 10/20/2022 10:57am

ive found something i cant even understand its beautiful yet terrifying its calm yet angry. il be back soon








LAST KNOW RECORDING OF JASON

Mickey Fine 10/19/2022 10:53pm

Being a night janitor at Base 1 has its perks. There's not many people around, so I have the place to myself.

Sometimes I find something interesting. Like tonight, I'm in a maintenance closet and there's a jacket hanging in there. A really nice jacket. Looks like Gabardine. Doesn't look like it would belong to the day janitor. Lost and found?

So I try it on. It's a perfect fit. And it's totally my color.

Now I'm the sharpest dressed night janitor in all of Base 1.

Hey what's this glowing portal thing?

Houndstooth 8/4/2022 10:48pm

I've made it through to the node adjacent to @smiley's Warehouse.

@Mohair -- please let @Seersucker know we're ready for Phase II.

Sizing up the customers now.