VOX Box: Secrets of the Grave 1
Characters[]
Location[]
- The Question's Bomb Shelter, Cape Carmine Lighthouse, Gotham City, NJ
- August 10th 2017, 2337 Local Time
VOX Archive[]
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] So where's this tunnel go?
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] Under the Cape Carmine Lighthouse...
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] What's under the Cape Carmine Lighthouse?
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] It's not what, but who that's important.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Okay... Uh... who is under the Cape Carmine Lighthouse.
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] The Question.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] ...and the answer?
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] [sigh] The detective known as the Question has a lair under the Lighthouse.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Ah, okay... Why are we going to see the Question? Is he a ghost?
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] The Question is a she now... and no, she's quite alive.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Yeah, I just figured the first one, the dude... didn't he die? I thought I saw some tribute to him on one of those League specials.
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] Yeah, the first Question is supposedly dead.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Supposedly?
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] I tried to summon him a while back. It didn't work. He was a real paranoid sort. Must have found a way to ward his grave...
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Why did you try to summon him?
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] I wanted to know how he died... The official claim of 'lung cancer' seemed too simplistic for him.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] How could he help you with that? I thought you told me most ghosts don't even realize they're dead.
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] I figured he'd be an exception to the rule. Okay, here we are... end of the tunnel. The door's shut. We'll need to walk through it.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Darn...
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] You up for it, Charles?
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] I... I think so... You know, it's weird. We're ghosts, you'd think walking through things would be the easiest thing... but-
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] It's not. We still have substance, just a different sort. It is fortunate though, otherwise we'd fall through the ground all the time.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Good point... Okay, let's do this. [silence: 3.4 seconds]
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] Charles, are you alright?
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Yeah. It's getting easier...
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] Like I told you, the hardest part is coming to the realization you're a ghost and accepting it. After that, everything is-
- Bette Kane: Can I go to the bathroom?
- Tot Rodor: No. [soddering sizzle]
- Bette Kane: Why not?
- Tot Rodor: Don't have one... [soddering sizzle]
- Bette Kane: You don't have a bathroom? [scoff, chuckle] Seriously?
- Tot Rodor: Seriously... [soddering sizzle]
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Wait, that jacket... That's the-
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] Sons of Batman? Yeah... That's Mary Elizabeth Kane, daughter of Phillip Kane. She's one of the gang.
- Bette Kane: Are you a robot?
- Tot Rodor: No... [soddering sizzle]
- Bette Kane: An alien?
- Tot Rodor: Not that I am aware of... [soddering sizzle] But that's a whole thing. [soddering sizzle]
- Bette Kane: Uh-huh... You're crazy, you know that, right?
- Tot Rodor: Such a distinction has been brought to my attention before... [soddering sizzle]
- Bette Kane: Well, if you're not a robot or an alien that you're aware of, then you have the need to urinate on occasion? Yeah?
- Tot Rodor: [groan, limping footsteps, wheeled stool idly rolling, limping footsteps, metallic clank, clank, clank, metal bucket rolling] Happy?
- Bette Kane: What's that?
- Tot Rodor: A bucket...
- Bette Kane: You can't be serious...
- Tot Rodor: Suit yourself... [limping footsteps, wheeled stool rolling, soddering sizzle]
- Bette Kane: Could you at least go somewhere else? [silence: 9.4 seconds, soddering sizzle, scoff] Pervert.
- Tot Rodor: You think I care what you think of me? [soddering sizzle] Think again.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] You know, now that I think about it, I kinda miss using the bathroom... How about you?
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] Heavens no... Such a waste of time. Anyway, this man here is Aristotle Rodor, or "Tot". He's who we are actually here to see...
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Okay, why?
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] Tot happens to be a master detective. He might have a case for us.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Is he a psychic detective?
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] No... He's not.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] So, we can see him, but how does he see us?
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] He's got some parapsychology tools to help with that problem, we just got to find the right time to tell him we're here. You might as well get comfortable, this could be a while...
- Batwoman: [door opens, footsteps: 2 instances, armored fabric stretched] Thank goodness we're back in the shelter. My cheeks need to breathe.
- The Question: You think you have it rough? Try psuedoderm sometime... Oh, [expletive] we have company.
- Bette Kane: Kate?!
- Batwoman: [expletive]! [armored fabric stretched]
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Wow, Batwoman's a babe...
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] Too bad for you, she's into girls.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Yeah? That's fine. So am I.
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] You're also dead...
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Oh, yeah...
- Bette Kane: Kate... You're Batwoman? Oh my god... It makes sense! You and Uncle Jake's sudden isolation and-
- The Question: The secret's out...
- Batwoman: [sigh, armored fabric stretched] Tot, you want to explain why my cousin is in the shelter?
- Bette Kane: Oh, yeah... just ignore me...
- Tot Rodor: The S.O.B.s kidnapped a kid. She surrendered at the scene.
- Charles Rowland: [Kirlian filter:] Kidnapped kid? Edwin... You thinking what I'm thinking?
- Edwin Paine: [Kirlian filter:] Sounds like a perfect case for the Dead Boy Detectives!
Trivia and Notes[]
- Part of the Who Killed Vic Sage? Storyline.
- Debut of Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland.
- Story happens simultaneously with ObMod: Family Secrets 1.
- Story continues from ObMod: Improvised Interrogation.
- Story continues in ObMod: Family Secrets 2.