#ptolemy pryce

[disco-elysium-via-polls]

🎵 Precinct 41 Major Crimes Unit

"*SIX* years?"

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Yeah... Or seven? You're not doing too good there. It's an old-man thing. Two *old-years* equals one normal year. That -- and Dora Ingerlund really tore you a new one. A big one."

"Who was she?"

"*Now* I've heard enough."

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Incredibly bangable?"

"Are you *seriously* using this moment to assert male privilege!?!"

"Huh?"

"Figures."

"No, I meant -- what did she do?"

KIM KITSURAGI - "He is very passionate about this."

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Okay, you're right. She was extremely fuckable, Harry. Gorgeous. A gorgeous bourgeois woman. Waifish. Like a *welkin* basically."

CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - Snow Welkin. Blonde Welkin...

INLAND EMPIRE [Easy: Success] - Heartbreak Welkin.

PAIN THRESHOLD [Medium: Success] - Pain Welkin.

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "I've only seen a picture -- but it's obvious you formed a real spiritual connection with how *pretty* she was. One you never recuperated from."

JUDIT MINOT - "Look..." She turns to face the sea. "The sun is going down. It's time to go home."

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "I think she taught in the Académie des Arts, east of the river. Way east. Hard to say which came first -- the middle class chick or the drink? Egg and the chicken kinda thing..."

"My point is, you need to see a *psychiatrist* about this shit. Not a psychologist -- several degrees harder. Is there's something harder than a psychiatrist?" He pauses to think. "A forensic psychiatrist. Go talk to that."

RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - In other words -- he's heard *enough* about this.

3. "Okay. Am I a dirty cop working for La Puta Madre?"

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "No."

"No? Because a suspect seemed to think..."

"Okay then."

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "You're too unstable to work for a mob boss. You're suicidal, Harry. No mob boss would take you."

+5 XP

TRANT HEIDELSTAM - "I assure you -- I wouldn't consult for a corrupt unit."

LOGIC [Medium: Success] - He would immediately backpedal out of it.

VOLITION [Easy: Success] - I told you it's not that bad.

4. "Precinct 41… what kind of station is it?"

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Us? We're the *Bloody Murder Station*, haven't you heard? We're the bad guys. No one likes us."

KIM KITSURAGI - "That's not true. Jamrock is too big for one precinct. You're just understaffed. And everyone respects the 41st -- you have Captain Pryce."

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Thank you, lieutenant. You're being kind. It *is* an understaffed station and the district *is* too big -- which is why we need to..." He tilts his head northward...

JUDIT MINOT - "... get back to it. We left Torson and McLaine to run the C-Wing. It's not good."

"Torson and McLaine?"

"And the C-Wing is…"

"And Pryce is..."

"Did we recently shoot up a church by any chance?" (Point to the church.)

"So I work in the Bloody Murder Station?" (Conclude.)

JUDIT MINOT - "Mack 'The Torso' Torson and Chester McLaine --" She arches an eyebrow. "They're not fit to run a wing. Believe me. Things are shaky as it is."

CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - They *are* damn iconic though -- Torson and McLaine!

"An iconic duo I take it?"

Not now.

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Yeah -- not like *us*. Two clinically depressed old men. Where's the contrast here? We're garbage."

2. "And the C-Wing is…"

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "God..." He sighs. "There are four wings, Harry: A, B, C, and D. We're in C. It's made of losers and clock-punchers. You and I *re-conceptualized* it as a task force. It was a mistake."

TRANT HEIDELSTAM - "There's also a lot of outside help involved. Not only me." He smiles. "Other losers too."

SUGGESTION [Easy: Success] - He's anything but a loser. Although he would like to be seen as one. It's cooler that way.

3. "And Pryce is..."

JUDIT MINOT - "Ptolemy Pryce? He's the son of the old Pryce -- one of the founders of the RCM."

KIM KITSURAGI - "He's one of the most highly regarded men in the force. You're lucky."

ESPRIT DE CORPS [Easy: Success] - Somewhere under the curved roof of a former silk factory, shaped like a ladybird with two chimneys, Police Captain Ptolemy Pryce sits behind a heavy wooden desk. Resident medic Nix Gottlieb pours him coffee. It's silent in the captain's office...

They speak of change. The city. The tension on the streets. They speak of the events of April and the blood on the streets in May.

4. "Did we recently shoot up a church by any chance?" (Point to the church.)

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "So he remembers *that*... Yes, there may have been a raid on *some* churches. It wasn't good press."

TRANT HEIDELSTAM - "Shooting up churches never is. I was out of town, to be clear...."

"What happened? Why did we need to go there?"

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Our *enemies* were hiding in *a* church -- to the best of our information. That's it. I'm not talking about this anymore. Your security clearance is *shit-tier* right now. You have to wait for it to go up."

+5 XP

AUTHORITY [Easy: Success] - He means it. The RCM and its enemies will not be discussed on this coast.

PERCEPTION (HEARING) [Challenging: Success] - Your clearance will not go up while you're within earshot of the Union headquarters.

5. "So I work in the Bloody Murder Station?" (Conclude.)

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Okay -- it's not the Bloody Murder Station. It's an old converted silk mill with green desk lamps and a coffee corner. A lot of good people work there. Hard. Every day."

JUDIT MINOT - "Jamrock is the largest ghetto in Revachol. Faubourg, technically... but it's divided into *eleven* districts. Jamrock only has us."

KIM KITSURAGI - "The press will blow over," he says in a reassuring tone. "Jamrock is lucky to have you. And it's often considered to be the greatest of the districts -- you're lucky to have it."

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Thank you again, lieutenant."

5. "The phasmid -- I need to tell Lena about this ASAP."

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Who is Lena?"

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Easy: Success] - She lives at 1113 Tabernacle Road, in Jamrock. Remember?

"A cryptozoologist. She lives in Jamrock, on Tabernacle road. She told me about this phasmid."

"No one. Forget it."

JUDIT MINOT - "Tabernacle? It's on the way over. Near where you live, on Perdition..." She looks at Vicquemare.

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Fine. If we're gonna drop you off anyway."

KIM KITSURAGI - "She and her husband were conducting the search for the phasmid. It's their discovery -- in part."

"They should know as soon as possible. It would do you good to deliver some positive news for a change."

SUGGESTION [Easy: Success] - She is going to be over the moon.

ENDURANCE [Medium: Success] - Watch out or she'll faint.

6. "Lieutenant Kitsuragi -- what will you do now?"

KIM KITSURAGI - "Well -- first I will go back to my station and write the most detailed report anyone has ever seen. It will have to be good to cover all this. Then I will have a serious talk with my captain."

"About what?"

KIM KITSURAGI - "Detective, we just stopped a small-scale war. Something is happening to Revachol." He takes a look around -- into the deepening shadows of the streets -- then pulls up his collar.

"I don't know what, yet -- but it's going to be a hard spring for the RCM. We need to get ready. Infiltrate. Investigate."

SHIVERS [Challenging: Success] - Distant traffic. A scrap of newspaper drifts by, carried by the wind.

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Legendary: Success] - It says: "Tensions rise in Terminal YC In light of the Débardeurs' strike in Terminal B, among representatives of heavy industry in Coal City..." you read.

INLAND EMPIRE [Easy: Success] - Le Retour...

"Wait, you mean The Return?"

"Want to do that at Station 41?"

"Good luck with your report."

KIM KITSURAGI - "Perhaps..." He watches the scrap of newspaper hit the ground. "There are people who say the Zone of Control will not hold up long. They're not on the radio -- yet. But there are parties out there..."

TRANT HEIDELSTAM - "Yes." His face darkens. "I hear worries -- from systems analysts in Vesper and Messina. International risks departments in banks. People like that."

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "We've been hearing whispers in Jamrock too. Ever since fall. I agree that something is happening. People are tense. I hear a fan spinning. Fast. Something is about to hit it."

2. "Want to do that at Station 41?"

KIM KITSURAGI - "Talk to Captain Pryce? I'd rather not ruffle the feathers of *two* captains with my doom-mongering."

"No, I meant *investigate*. Come work in Precinct 41."

"Yeah. Sure."

KIM KITSURAGI - "Work *with* Pryce?" A crooked smile quivers on his lips. "I'm flattered, but I don't know if I..."

ESPRIT DE CORPS [Easy: Success] - Would fit in? Am crazy enough? Can take the stress? He doesn't know how to finish the sentence.

RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - This truly came as a surprise to him. Not a bad one. But he's at a loss.

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Flattered? You're Lieutenant Kitsuragi. *We* would be flattered if you even considered..."

KIM KITSURAGI - "I would have to tie things up in GRIH first. But... I mean, whatever is coming -- Jamrock *will* be more central to it than the harbour." The lieutenant turns very serious all of a sudden.

+5 XP

JUDIT MINOT - "And we also have a huge case load, lieutenant," she says with a smile. "Piles that we need to get back to. Mountains, even."

KIM KITSURAGI - "I do like the sound of that..." He returns her smile.

RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - He's *really* considering it.

7. "I'm ready." (End.)

JUDIT MINOT - "Good." She looks at you, then Vicquemare...

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Fuck it, let's go." The man points down the street. "Trant brought his motor carriage. It's a 20 minute drive to Jamrock."

SHIVERS [Medium: Success] - Under the night sky the great district sleeps: A black chessboard of old wooden houses, 80,000 living souls inside. Firetraps as far as the eye can see -- from Main Street to Precinct 41 atop the motorway, to Boogie Street forking into the darkened horizon...

You close your eyes and hear the dogs bark. A lone woman sits by a factory window, dreaming of meteorite strikes. On Rue Saint-Gérôme a square bullet slides into a square-shaped chamber. In Old South a man without eyelids smiles. Spring has come. It's time.

ESPRIT DE CORPS [Easy: Success] - "Torson?" "Yes." "McLaine?" "Yes." "Heidelstam?" "No." "Vicquemare?" "Yes." "Du Bois?" "Of course."

"Really?" Nix Gottlieb looks up from the list. "I hear he's unstable." "You say that like it's a *bad* thing," Captain Ptolemy Pryce gestures with a ball point pen. It's dim in the office and the curtains are drawn. "Harry's our man, he'll pull through. When he does, he'll side with the people." "Understood." Gottlieb returns to the list. "Minot?" "Of course."

JUDIT MINOT - "Wonderful," the woman looks north. "Then can we please just go back to Jamrock now?"

[sygneth]

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Yay, more controversial decisions! And yay, this comic is turning into a book!

[flhoarder]

Blink-41

[revacholsidetournament]

DE SIDE CHARACTER TOURNAMENT - MATCH 13, PRELIMINARY ROUND

Marianne "The Pigs" LePlante is a local woman of Martinaise who, after her children moved away and left her alone with no one but the radio police procedurals, is obsessed with and believes herself to be a member of the RCM.

Captain Ptolemaios "Ptolemy" Pryce is the head of Precinct 41. His father was a founding member of the RCM and he is both well-known and highly-respected, even as he secretly plots an uprising against the Coalition.

[disco-archetypes]

ESPRIT DE CORPS - "Torson?"

"Yes."

"McLaine?"

"Yes."

"Heidelstam?"

"No."

"Vicquemare?"

"Yes."

"Du Bois?"

"Of course."

ESPRIT DE CORPS - "Really?" Nix Gottlieb looks up from the list. "I hear he's quite unstable."

"You say that like it's a *bad* thing," Captain Ptolemy Pryce points his pen at the doctor. It's dim in his office and the curtains are drawn. "Harry's our man, he'll pull through -- and when he does he'll side with Revachol."

"Understood." Gottlieb returns to the list.

"Minot?"

"Of course."

[linisiane]

Judit Posting: A Guide to Revolutionary Spy Judit

Okay so this is a meme AU that has a fun connection to Revolutionary Girl Utena, Death Note, and could potentially be an interesting way to explore Judit’s gender and communist leanings.

Now this crack theory places a LOT of importance on names, as many crack theories do. In this case, it’s an interpretation of Judit as inspired by the Biblical Judith, who was “the widow who charmed her way into an enemy general's tent and decapitated them, saving her country.”

@jeanbinary riffed on this concept and landed on the meme idea of Judit infiltrating the RCM for the express purpose of killing Ptolemy Pryce for the side of the revolutionary communards aka for Revachol. I mean, she’s pretty squarely on the Communists’ side, and she even says as much to Harry.

"Harry's our man, he'll pull through -- and when he does, he'll side with Revachol." "Understood." Gottlieb returns to the list. "Minot?" "Of course."

YOU - "Are you by any chance..." (Lean in real close.) "*working class*?" HORSE-FACED WOMAN - "Well... raising two children and half a husband on a patrol officer's wage. Yes, I guess I am working class." YOU - "Do you want to rise up and tear down the entire fucking system with me?" HORSE-FACED WOMAN - "No." She sighs. "Okay. Sort of. But not with you. Like you are now. Don't take this the wrong way..."

Now, we of course know that Pryce is planning for his own revolution, aka Le Retour, but the RCM is considered under the thumb/authority/whims of the Moralintern. So although it may seem like Pryce and Judit should be on the same side, it makes sense that there could be some disconnect or mistrust between Pryce and the other revolutionaries, hence a spy. (Though I’m not quite clear what demographic this separate cell of revolutionaries Judit is working for could be made up of).

Now the fun/hook of this AU would be the Death Note-esque political mind games of 4D chess between Revolutionary Spy Judit and (another crack theory) Moralintern Spy Trant Heidelstam. Imagine them duking it out over the heart of the RCM and the meaning of Justice in the break room while Jean and Harry are too busy bickering to care or notice. (There’s more here if you want to laugh).

She’s winning, in my heart. She’s got the whole precinct wrapped around her finger with her mediating and level headed manner, fooling even the player about her true intentions.

With Death Note out of the way, what about Revolutionary Girl Utena? Well this connection is another tenuous name connection, where Revolutionary Spy Judit sounds like Revolutionary Girl Utena. And Girl Child Communism and Girl Child Revolution.

But I also think the themes and narratives of Utena grafts beautifully onto Disco Elysium and Judit Minot.

For one, Utena as a character is all about a woman subverting her role as a “Princess” (powerless woman, needs protection, but giving power to who owns her through marriage) in favor of becoming a “Prince” (Heroic man who saves princesses). She’s a tomboy fighting amongst men.

Utena intentionally highlights the dissonance between being a woman and trying to act like a prince — namely that, even though you yourself are subverting the system by gaining power as a woman, you’re still doing so by being complicit to a system that defines women as powerless. It’s a double whammy: You can never be a “true” prince because he is defined as a man. And “Prince” itself as a concept is fundamentally oppressive and should not be striven towards.

Replace Utena with Judit and “Prince” with “Cop,” and the parallels jump out.

Does Judit struggle with the dissonance between her gender and her role as a cop the way Utena does with her role as a prince? Embodying the roles of masculine heroes that don't actually protect women? Why did she choose to become one? Was it girlboss feminism (becoming a prince)? A yearning to uphold the ideals cops represent in spite of the ways they fail (becoming heroic)? Or does she never struggle with that baggage due to her nature as a spy disloyal to the RCM? In that case, her baggage could then lie in the question: Does the end justify the means?

Which brings me to another parallel: The Pale and the concept of “revolution” in Utena.

Now in Utena’s English speaking analysis circles, many have fully taken advantage of the second definition of “revolution” — a return to the beginning position! A cycle.

In the world of Utena, Ohtori Academy is repeating endlessly in a time loop, trapping the future of the students in the past, with many of the ‘students’ actually being the echoes of past students long gone (as in dead). Never to grow up.

Much like the way the Pale is an apocalyptic blending of the past and future. Or “After the world, the pale -- after the pale, the world again.”

Thus, we must connect Judit to the Pale! Does Judit view the world with the nihilism that dooms it to destruction and repetition? To the Pale? If she is not torn up about gender and cophood, maybe then her true struggle will be imagining the world after the Revolution and how'd she'd fit into it, aka the nihilism of the Pale.

But it’s more than that, it’s wondering if the ends of successfully implementing a Revolution will justify the means? Of infiltrating and decapitating Pryce and Harry and Jean or the others?

Which brings me to another piece of Judit Lore: Joseph Mills.

Joseph Mills was Judit’s old partner, who you can discover by reading the MURDER IN THE HOOKAH PARLOR case. And he was an idiot and a misogynist.

“No, he was awful. Awful sense of humour too. The worst jokes you've ever heard. Really rapey.”

The case file is even a misnomer—there was no murder being investigated! Mills spent months investigating a ‘murder’ that PreAmnesia!Harry identifies as a dumb accident in less than a minute.

However, it’s what happened to Mills that’s relevant to Revolutionary Spy Judit.

“Beaten to death by a throng of Villalobos gang-members when him and his partner J. M. (only initials mentioned) answered a call one night. It's a sad story and it isn't really represented in *your* case files. Stop stalling and get to the MURDER AT THE HOOKAH PARLOUR.”

So, in canon, it’s implied that Judit was forced to watch her partner get beaten to death by gangsters, with @geeneelee (who I grabbed this backstory from) speculating that the reason she joined the shitty 41st Precinct 2 months ago is because past Harry actually helped her with the fallout of the case. Highlighted by her quiet support of Harry after his disastrous call to the precinct:

"We must help him. Minot looks down at her neatly polished black shoes. There is a quiet firmness to her voice when she speaks.”

"I just know we can't give up on him when he's at his weakest. He wouldn't..."

Imagine if, however, the death of her partner was not something poor Judit witnessed, but rather something she helped orchestrate as a revolutionary spy? Hence her leaving her precinct for her savior’s precinct — it shakes the trail of suspicion if she's murdering too many partners by moving across precincts with a plausible move. The RCM is not especially well known for communicating or cooperating across precincts.

Just imagine it — the sick pleasure/relief she must have felt at seeing her misogynist coworker get what was coming to him. Mixed with the shame/horror of feeling pleasure at seeing a man get beaten to death.

Do the ends justify these means? Maybe it doesn’t, for Judit.

Maybe all it does is worsen her self-destructiveness, worsen the doomed nihilism she feels, contributing contributing to the Pale. Even as she fights for the girl child communism, she will struggle to see herself in the 'after' of the revolution she's fighting for because the revolution is asking her to bloody her hands in its name. Would she deserve salvation?

I mean she's literally forced to be a cop for the good of the cause. ACAB. The hypocrisy of killing cops while being one. Do the ends justify the means?

I think it would complicate things for Judit even more if old Harry really did manage to successfully comfort her after her murder setup (which to Harry looked like grief over a partner, but to her was the inner turmoil of an assassin). It wasn’t just a good excuse to transfer to the 41st, she genuinely was touched by Double Yefreitor Harry Du Bois.

Imagine doing it all over again to the 41st Precinct, stabbing the person who comforted you in your time of need in the back.

Anyways, this AU has a happy ending. Pryce is genuinely working towards Le Retour and is NOT loyal to the Moralintern, so as long as Harry can convince her/the revolutionaries that they’re on the same side, she won’t have to bring out the “mysterious accident” card. This also recontextualizes all of Judit’s more supportive comments about Harry.

"I just know we can't give up on him when he's at his weakest. He wouldn't…”

“You haven't been drinking, she thinks. So maybe this time...”

YOU - "Do you want to rise up and tear down the entire fucking system with me?" HORSE-FACED WOMAN - "No." She sighs. "Okay. Sort of. But not with you. Like you are now. Don't take this the wrong way..."

She’s giving him the benefit of the doubt. She’s trying to look for proof, any proof, that Harry’s on their side, that he’s good or getting better, so she won’t have to justify his murder to herself.

…

Anyways, I think Judit meeting Ulixes in this AU would be hilarious.

[earlofbats]

My Idea for a Disco Elysium “mechanic”. Post game, during a new case, If the player completed the “heraldic parrot” quest and chose either the Bang Bang, Funeral or Major Majestic parrot, They will meet one of the three Parrots. (I dont have anything for the Fuckupatoo) You can convince Jean Vicquemare and Ptolemy Pryce to Allow you to keep the parrot and have it join you during your field work If you claim it as your “emotional support Heraldic soulmate“, much to the displeasure and bafflement of Kim. (Despite his objections he does find your love for the parrot very sweet and isn’t actually that upset about it and, with some convincing, willing to even introduce and refer to the parrot as “detective {parrots name}”) Each parrot has it’s own personality and assist abilities that help with checks, unlock unique dialogue options and provide information and insight. Each parrot also allows you to read back any previous conversation you’ve had. Bang Bang Cockatoo (Gang-Gang Cockatoo) at the far back Is named Raphael Ambrosius Costeau. He speaks with a pleasant, posh British accent and has a polite, inquisitive "Watson"-esque personality. He casually refers to the player as "Sir," but uses "Mr. Du Bois" when being stern and "Harrier" when concerned. His main encouragement to the player is to engage in detective work, solve the case, and act responsibly. He offers interesting perspectives on clues and directs the player towards possible new leads. Funeral Cockatoo (Zanda funerea or Yellow Tailed-black Cockatoo) Second to back is named Tequila Sunset. He has a dour and melancholy demeanor and speaks with a soft, monotone "emo or goth" style that sounds generally bored and disinterested. He casually refers to the player as "Mister," but uses "Bro" when being stern or upset, and "Dude" when concerned. His main encouragements are centered around accepting oblivion, informing or speculating on the inevitability of death, and sharing secrets about the pale. He warns the player against taking unnecessary risks and offers insight into the potential outcome of certain actions, informing them if something might lead to harm. Major Majestic Cockatoo (Major Mitchell Cockatoo) In front is named Joopson. He has a flashy and schmoozy personality and speaks like a classic, sleazy "movie star manager." He casually refers to the player as "Harry Baby," but uses "Du Bois Baby" when being stern or manipulative, and "Harry darling" when concerned or upset. His main encouragement is to network, make social connections, boost the player's ego, act flashy, and really take on their role as a superstar. He offers interesting insights into characters' thoughts and actions and gives fashion tips, directing the player to take time and do silly things for the sake of "boosting the ratings."

[palin-tropos]

idea: steban and ulixes skrunkly little idealistic creachures full of love and hope and a need to commit some violence experiencing good old fashioned revolutionary backstabbing firsthand with “I have absorbed every ideology like a black hole” ptolemy pryce 

[dashboard-elysium]

The Case of the Missing Swordsman / Post 12 / Previously

YOU – “I know you said you really wanted to see Pryce, which is why we’re going there right now. You might be a man but you should know I respect you just as much as I would respect any woman!”

KIM – The lieutenant sighs heavily. “I’m not too sure I agree with about your ideas about feminism, detective. But at least we aren’t going on another detour to a drug bathroom. You can show me the rest of the station after I see Pryce, alright?”

YOU – “You got it, Kim!” You shoot him double finger guns, pow-pow! You lead Kim past the desks with their green desk lamps. Past the officers who look up in recognition at the Lieutenant who will soon be joining them. You arrive at a dark wooden door with a frosted window. CAPTAIN PTOLEMY PRYCE is printed on it in square gold letters. You knock on the door. “Come!” you hear Pryce call out. Inside, two figures sit wreathed in thick blue smoke that billows out as you open the door. Pryce, bald and serious as always, behind his large wooden desk. In one of the two chairs in front of him, Nix Gottlieb.

PRYCE – “Ah, welcome, Lieutenant Kitsuragi.” He stands and leans over his desk to shake Kim’s hand and accept the manilla folder of paperwork. “Please, take a seat.”

KIM – The lieutenant glances briefly between you and Nix Gottlieb, who takes another drag on his cigarette and remains seated, seeming wholly uninterested in moving from his chair. Kim sits. You stay standing behind him, just to the right.

AUTHORITY - Like an honor guard. Like his righthand man.

PRYCE – “I’m very pleased you’re joining us here, Lieutenant Kitsuragi. I’ve heard only good things about your work at the 57th and what you did in Martinaise. And I think you’ll really help to raise the professionalism of this station.” His eyes flick to you for a moment before returning to the lieutenant.

RHETORIC – Almost as if he thinks your carefully chosen FALN track pants and mesh tank top outfit isn’t professional!

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT – Pay no attention, chief. Very manly look today. Really shows off the upper body development.

REACTION SPEED – Mack was wearing his mesh tank today too. This is solidarity! This is team spirit. This is the 41st.

KIM – “Thank you, captain. I’m very pleased to be joining the 41st. This is a legendary precinct.”

ELECTROCHEMISTRY – Now how can we convince Kim to get a mesh tank top too?

VOLITION – Simple. You can’t.

YOU – Pryce continues to speak, complimenting Kim’s past case record and outlining the types of cases he’d like him to work on in the future. Normal stuff for a first meeting. Boring stuff. Your mind drifts back to the thing that’s been bothering you all morning. Who on earth took your coffee mug?

[klaasje]

unrelated to the current ask game but the words "kimharry x-files au" are now burned into my consciousness. no pressure to write it though!! i'm just grateful for you introducing the concept to my brain, i will be thinking about it continuously for at least the next month

PTOLEMY PRYCE: Lieutenant Kitsuragi, thank you for coming on such short notice. We see you've been with us just over two years.

KIM: Yes, sir.

PRYCE: You went to medical school but you chose not to practice. How'd you come to work for the R.C.M.?

KIM: Well, sir, I was recruited out of medical school. I saw the R.C.M as a place where I could distinguish myself.

PRYCE: Are you familiar with an officer named Harrier Du Bois?

KIM: Yes, I am.

GOTTLIEB: How so?

KIM: By reputation. He's a Koenigstein-educated psychologist who wrote a monograph on serial killers and the supra-natural that helped to catch Monty Props in ‘31. Generally thought of as the best analyst in the violent crimes section. He had a nickname at the academy... Spooky Harrier.

PRYCE: What I'll also tell you is that Yefreitor Du Bois has developed a consuming devotion to an unassigned project outside the bureau mainstream. Are you familiar with the so-called "X-Files?"

KIM: I believe they have to do with unexplained phenomena.

PRYCE: More or less. The reason you're here, Lieutenant Kitsuragi, is we want you to assist Du Bois on these X-Files. You will write field reports on your activities, along with your observations on the validity of the work.

KIM: …Am I to understand that you want me to debunk the X-Files project, sir?

GOTTLIEB: Lieutenant, we trust you'll make the proper scientific analysis. You'll want to contact Lieutenant-Yefreitor Du Bois shortly. We look forward to seeing your reports.

———

(The elevator rings and the door slides open. Kim steps out into the basement and comes to an office secluded in the back. He knocks on the door.)

HARRY: Sorry, nobody down here but the R.C.M.’s most unwanted.

(Kim opens the door to see Lieutenant-Yefreitor Du Bois sitting at his desk wearing glasses, going over some slides, as The O.O.’s ‘35 hit We Go On blasts from the radio. Walking slowly to him, Kim sees various pictures of cryptids and a poster that reads "I Want to Believe" with a phasmid on it. Harry looks up at Kim.)

KIM: Detective Du Bois. I'm Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi, I've been assigned to work with you.

(Harry shakes Kim’s hand.)

HARRY: Oh, isn't it nice to be suddenly so highly regarded? So, who did you tick off to get stuck with this detail, Kim?

KIM: Actually, I'm looking forward to working with you. I've heard a lot about you.

HARRY: Oh, really? I was under the impression...

(He smiles.)

That you were sent to spy on me.

KIM: If you have any doubt about my qualifications or credentials, th...

(Harry stands and takes out a paper from a pile, using his telephone as a paperweight.)

HARRY: You're a medical doctor, you teach at the academy. You did your undergraduate degree in entroponetics.

(He takes off his glasses and looks at the paper.)

Nilsen’s Helix Paradox, A New Interpretation. Kim Kitsuragi, Senior Thesis. Now that's a credential, rewriting Nilsen.

KIM: Did you bother to read it?

HARRY: I did. I liked it.

(He takes a slide canister and puts it into the slide projector.)

It's just that in most of my work, the laws of physics rarely seem to apply.

[suresne]

not to be a tinhat, but the kim as innocence au is making me think about how few characters there are with alliterative names in the game. the only ones i can think of are kim kitsuragi, dolores dei, and ptolemy pryce, which seems important somehow

[disco-elysium-via-polls]

2. "I've spoken to him. For now the soul is fastened inside his corpse."

JOYCE MESSIER - She remains unfazed. "That is precisely what the sailors feared when they drew these maps. A fear of drowning -- within one's own corpse."

2. "What travels did the dead man make?"

JOYCE MESSIER - "Quite a few. Vredefort -- the Oranjese capital -- traditionally stands on the right shoulder." She points to it on the photo. "He started somewhere near here, I think."

KIM KITSURAGI - "What next?"

JOYCE MESSIER - "Then he made his way to the Preto Grande, through what I think must be Staadskanaal -- an artificial channel through the Occident. From the Preto he sailed to the Insulindic ocean. First the Semenese islands, then this..." She points to his heart.

"What is that?"

JOYCE MESSIER - "Revachol," she says. "Those are the two constants: Vredefort on the shoulder and Revachol in the heart. They started the tradition of these maps right after the discovery of Insulinde, at the dawn of the Interisolary Age."

CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - The Old Old World passing by and the New New World already here.

KIM KITSURAGI - "You said you can't read it."

JOYCE MESSIER - "I can't. This man was no sailor -- and these are no ports. I can understand geographic fragments, but not their meaning."

ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - Somewhere in an office lit by a single green desk lamp captain Ptolemaios Pryce -- 58, bald and bespectacled -- is writing in a ledger on his desk. Rows and rows of days and weeks, laconic remarks in a single column: *patrol*, *case*, *vacation*, *injured*...

*IN MARTINAISE, LOOKING INTO KRENEL*, he writes in one. Then the man puts down his pen and rubs his temples with both hands. Outside there is a siren, distant gunshots on the streets of the Jamrock Quarter.

"This man is no brother of mine, but this is his service history."

Leave it be.

JOYCE MESSIER - "That makes sense to me. We have no more use for a Map of the Waterways. Just like we don't need sailors the way we used to. This is what the custom would morph into on the Occident -- mercenary tattoos."

CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - For all the boys looking for adventure -- a blood spatter on the seas.

3. "Who could tell me more?"

JOYCE MESSIER - "His platoon members? The other contractors -- though I do *not* suggest you go and show them that picture. This man was their friend and comrade."

EMPATHY [Medium: Success] - It could go this or the other way. Maybe if you're tactful, it could be beneficial?

[sygneth]

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EoE is now on ComicFury, so if you prefer your webcomic neatly in order or you'd like to have a notification for new pages but don't want my shitpost too, it's an option!

(It's not over yet, but I didn't want this to be too long, it took me more time than I wanted nevertheless...)

[flhoarder]

Do we have actual knowledge on whether 41 has more than 1 horse

Because at the end bit Jean tells Harry he’s gonna be assigned a bike and the implication is Jean will get his horse back. Now there’s a horse being mentioned by esprit that Ptolemy Pryce is riding at the time. Do we know if that’s definitely not the same horse that Jean gave back to the station because otherwise then

Do they just have 1 horse for the whole precinct

[blackcatanna]

Another police officer resigned from the RCM following a nervous breakdown. He now lives under a bridge, drinking and occasionally throwing excrement at passers-by, shouting, "I never loved that woman!"

When asked to comment, former colleagues objected to the theory that his psychological disintegration was precipitated by his wife leaving him. "It's because The Furrows lost that match," said Captain Ptolemy Pryce, once the man's superior officer. "It's because he couldn't get a big gun from acquisitions, and, anyway, police work really burns you out after a while," Satellite-Officer Jean Vicquemare, the deranged former cop's partner, commented. Sergeant Mack Torson, another former colleague, did not propose any theories, merely saying, "Whatever happened to him wasn't about birds. He got f****d, that's all."

help brnfbffbbd dbd, i think i just failed disco elysium bc i tried to jump off a roof for my coat

[circumstellart]

[ID: A digital oil painting of Captain Ptolemy done in the style of the Disco Elysium portraits. He is a bald white man looking sideways, and he stands out against a blue background.]

I needed a portrait for Captain Pryce for...reasons...and there wasn’t one, so...