jstewismybastardson
Lord Shitlord aka El cibernauta
At lunch I ran out to get a cup of coffee at the worlds emptiest coffee store. As I fixed my coffee up I struck up a conversation with the barista. She said she is a full time barista and brassy dame, and a part time investigator. She planned to be a police officer but had to leave the academy when the uncle that raised her went missing after a Neil Diamond concert.
She noticed my outfit and correctly surmised I was coming from fencing practice. I told her how I was an Olympic hopeful but a slow healing scrotal tear kept me out of action for the tryouts. We kind of laughed and said we should team up and solve crimes together.
A man at a nearby table lowered his newspaper and we could see he was Baltimore's chief of police!
"Its unorthodox" ,he said as he puffed on a large cheap cigar, "but what the hell?".
He deputized us on the spot and rented the office above the coffee shop for us. We work off the books and report directly to him. Not above the law, just a bit outside the law! First case just to test the waters - a mugging in Greektown.
"But what I really want to work on", she said, "is this." She slid a manila flder containing information about her uncle's disappearance. I grabbed the handle of my épée, nodded, and told her I was in.
"The Barista And The Fencer" coming to NBC fall 1984! En garde America!
*1984 person - "What the fuck is a barista?"
that sounds eerily similar to the pre-revision pilot to Hunter
