Death by Jazz

It’s been far too long since I posted anything, but really the last couple of months have been both very busy and very dull. Aerin and I have moved into a new house, partly because the stigma of the garden fairy massacre just wasn’t going to go away, and partly because I realized it isn’t good for me to live quite so close to the Corp. So between packing moving and unpacking (which, sadly seems to be a progression of halves), I haven’t written anything except bad poetry.

I have just realized, however, that I neglected to record anything about Arrow Lake. As near as I can tell, Somebody is covertly testing Jazz based weaponry on the fish. I know that sounds a little far fetched, but allow me to explain.
I learned from the Aden sisters that the fish population was changing. Not terribly exciting, but strange. What kills salmon, but not carp? After a little bit of research, I came up with a very strange correlation between the population shifts and the nearby Jazz festivals.

I’ve wanted to visit, to investigate, for months, but between the packing and the unpacking I only recently managed to schedule an afternoon with the Aden sisters at the lake. Which is where I saw the very strangest saxophone I have ever seen in my life. It was in a photo on a poster for the next jazz concert. It was undoubtedly a saxophone, but it looked… well to be honest it looked like some of the equipment the Corp. uses to do translocation work. Extra dials and knobs that don’t belong on a saxophone at all. I do like Pink Floyd, or malicious impersonators thereof, but the concert was sold out, so there was no chance I’d be able to see the device in action. We all sat and talked about it over ice cream, trying to decide whether it had anything to do with the fish, and never really got anything resolved. I think even Qu was completely baffled, but since the answer turned out to be so strange, I really cant blame her.

So, I stole the poster, and eventually showed it to the Engineer over dinner. It bored him. He pointed to the symbols on the dials (which I could barely even see, really) and said that it was a obviously a picture of a sonic based genetic targeting device. He pointed to another instrument in the background of another picture on the poster (a drumset, it looked like to me) and told me that it was a harmonic convergence pinpoint detonator. Between the two of them, something that kills salmon and not carp. With Jazz. Of course, the Engineer then proceeded to try to get me to explain what exactly Jazz was, and that didn’t go nearly as well.

So, I don’t know who they are, or how close they are to having something that could work on humans, but genetic targeting sounds like a very bad thing to me, and I intend to find out as much as possible about these musicians and their severe hatred of fish.

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