I'm trying to find out whether he can, or has the connections to be able to hire someone to track me here.
Specifically this symbol. -points again to the fountain-
I remember this symbol being described in the memoirs of a few vigilantes from the turn of the 20th century at least.
And I'm wondering what it means.
Sherlock Holmes and Richard Hatteras. Two different people, they never worked on a case together, yet they both saw this symbol in their line of work at least once.
And now, I have seen it a hundred years later.
It's- a bit of a hefty snack, don't you think?
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this postJust saying...
-sips her cup of tea-
Only Hatteras died, but that was an accident on-board a steamer heading to New Zealand.
Sherlock Holmes died of old age.
His nemesis, Moriarty, had this symbol made in silver and it was a pin- one you could put in a jacket. They found it after his death.
No-one knows what it means.
But- Hatteras describes something very similar in his accounts of Dr Nikola... a man who has never been confirmed dead, much like The First Invisible Man, and Jack The Ripper.
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this post-she even has white hair, just like Purr, and the eyes are the same color-
-however, she does not wear glasses, her tail's also much thinner- Mm? Never seen a catgirl before?
Well, of course.
But it's the fact that these individuals... appear disconnected.
Yet here they are.
Three men- confirmed to have used this symbol somewhere. -points to the fountain again-
And I'm just sat here, on a landmine of what this could possibly mean.
Are the men who wear this part of a cabal of some kind? Is it a conspiracy?
Or do they all happen to be referencing the same thing by coincidence...
After all, there has to be some reason that Vigilantism died after WW 1, and only started coming back during WW 2.
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this post's not often that I'm recognized like that around here, but I am, yeah.
You met Purr, right?
Well- that and...
-clears his throat- A little thing called fascism was on the rise...
Suddenly no-one wanted to step up to what was seen back then as chaotic foolish eccentricity of a few concerned citizens, disrupting order and society whilst making police officers look bad, or outright disrupting their work.
In a way... it was a time that the villains seemed to have won.
Adventurous spirit was shot in the leg from the horrors of that war.
Some people say it died with Raffles Holmes. Sherlock's son.
What kind of a hero dies so pointlessly in war, just like anyone else, after all.
Can't aspire to it... The greats had also died off, save for an aging and retired Sherlock Holmes- no-one could really fill the shoes of the Concerned Citizens' Bureau.
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this post-chokes on her tea a little and spends a little bit of time clearing her throat- Hahh- ahh. Hot, hot hot.
You what?
Of course they were being suppressed in some countries.
It's not like people didn't try.
They did.
Only what happened to the few that tried in Germany and Italy- served to increase the fear in those people who'd try anything.
There were five different vigilantes that co-existed with the rise of the Nazi party. They were all dead by the time Mr Hitler took power.
A lot of the time it was "mysterious circumstances" or an angry mob.
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Um...he can't find you here, right...?