4 VOICES ON RECORD
BADGE FUSE IS NOT IN THE SMOKE. PROBABLY.
KNOWN AS · Badge Fuse
“GLOWS. DOESN'T BEHAVE.”
Everyone in the Smoke has a story about Badge Fuse. Most of them are even true.
THE ACCOUNTS
The Lab took statements about Badge Fuse in the Smoke. They do not agree on much.
“We have a whole drawer for him.”
“Nobody's ever been hurt. That's the weird part.”
ACCOUNT #02 · a nurse at the Undercroft infirmary
“Ask anyone: being blamed for things he did and, more often, things he didn't. That's Badge Fuse. Anything more, you'd have to ask him.”
EVIDENCE
STATEMENTS · TAKEN SEPARATELY
TAKEN SEPARATELY · FILED TOGETHER
HE ARRIVED IN THE SMOKE WITH THE KEY ALREADY ON ITS STRING.
HE ARRIVED IN THE SMOKE WITH THE KEY ALREADY ON ITS STRING. ALLEGEDLY.
HE ARRIVED IN THE SMOKE WITH THE KEY ALREADY ON ITS STRING.
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ACCOUNT #03 · a dock worker
“The statements have the beginning right. Nobody wrote down the rest.” On the first evening he tried it in every door on one street, politely, one after the other, until someone called the night watch.
THE LAB'S VERSION
He has been thrown out of every faction in Sealevel at least once, including two that don't exist. He glows faintly in the dark, which has ruined every attempt at a quiet exit. He is currently banned from three districts and wanted in a fourth for questions that are mostly admiring.
HE WOULD NOT TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING.
HE CARRIES A KEY TO NOTHING.
ONE WITNESS CHANGED THEIR STORY.
THE LAB TRIED THE KEY.
WITNESSES ON FILE2
PULL THE SEAL ALONG THE TAPE — OR BREAK IT.
PERSONAL ACCESS · CHANGES NOTHING IN THE ARCHIVE
“I saw him on the corner.”
“He was nowhere near the corner. He never is.”
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