day 30 part 4: how macbeth did it (topic 9/27)

marksmongoose is such a good word


how macbeth did it
The shot had been so precise, done with minimal setup time and maximum impact. Like the shooting style of a certain little mongoose they all knew...

MacBeth did it. The bomb, the gunshot. The murder of the Secretary, putting MacBeth, not into a place of power like it had with Gef, but in a place where he could influence power, be even stronger but without public eye on him...

Maybe framing on Gef wasn't deliberate at all. Maybe Moone had been too hasty, jumping to the idea that because Gef was such a crack shot, he would have been the one to pull the trigger, that because Gef had happened to be standing near where the shot came at the time... 

Maybe, maybe, maybe. Maybe you're just like my mother, she is never satisfied...

The gunshot had come from Gef's general area, yes. There was a distinct aura signature of Gef in the gunshot... but it wasn't really Gef's aura signature, it was just a twinned aura. Allowing, say, a gunshot, to be shot into one direction but to come out at another place.

There was a distinct aura signature of Gef regarding the bombs, but not really Gef's aura signature, it was just a poltergeist aura. Moone wasn't sure if MacBeth had access to poltergeists directly, but it wasn't even near to being far from the realms of possibility.

Moone had pieced that idea together from the bombings, from the witch jars embedded into the walls. Witch jars filled with urine... like how Gef had peed all over... all over MacBeth. What Moone had thought to be the nail in Gef's coffin was actually the smoking gun that MacBeth had held. Though Gef probably peed on a lot of things, so it wouldn't be very easy to prove...

Moone thought Gef, everyone else had thought Moone; everyone else but MacBeth who knew the truth. He had then gone on to separate Moone from his entire team, and Cloud died, and there was no way to prove anything. Why frame Moone though? Because he knew he'd be able to escape, and thus be able to enact a manhunt to put himself into power?

Did MacBeth see it coming, Moone's enlisting of the Pontifex? Or maybe that was playing into MacBeth's hands all along, knowing that Moone would survive through the means available, specifically the means of the Pontifex.

Moone's head swam. There was nothing that he hadn't already been suspecting. He reconsidered Pontifex's loyalties again. Were his emotions getting the better of him? Best to drop the Pontifex now, right, now that he knew the true culprit, and there was no use hiding anymore. But a small part inside Moone said not yet, you can always do that later, hold onto this asset just a little longer...

Asset. The Pontifex had been recruited by Moone, in the hopes that he would be able to debrief on subjects regarding the Kabbalah groups, in return for a peaceful life in America. But the Tetragrammaton had held Pontifex, not even questioned him on the subjects they'd been meant to, and detained him behind a thin door with an easy to spell lock...

But if the Pontifex and MacBeth had been colluding, that was a very deep game they were playing. It would have had to go back from before Pontifex had approached Moone over Usenet. MacBeth contacting the Pontifex to contact Moone? MacBeth was a solid strategist, but would he have been able to come up with something so deep?

No. It really was Gef MacBeth had meant to frame, but he had just run with it when people suspected Moone. The gunshot had come from nearby Gef, the expert marksmongoose; that had to be deliberate. Gef just happened to be near Moone at the time as well. Just happened...

Maybe it was both of them. MacBeth and Gef. And maybe Moone couldn't trust Pontifex either. Moone was too tired to care though; it was too too out of his hands. From what Moone had seen of MacBeth, Gef was innocent, and could be trusted. Roll with that. Pontifex, if he'd wanted to destroy Moone, he could have done it at any time. Roll with that. MacBeth was working alone, in his collusion with the alien conspiracy. Roll with that.

And hope that your rolls come out well.