Comic Con and Mercado de Agua Oscura

Comic con video: recorded via a mounted display 7-20-2013
Morning light protester: The media is poisoning your minds! Television and movies infect your mind with unrealistic standards of beauty and success, while comic books and video games turn your children into uncontrollable killing machines. So called experts tell you you’re sick when you’re not, using their unnatural sciences to prevent you from ascending to a new level of consciousness, your true self! Embrace the light and cleanse your mind of the corruption of this world, only by embracing the light can you transcend this world and join the stars!
Kenzie: I have never seen this many morning light followers before…why are they protesting again?
Connar: It’s difficult to say, every last one of them has a different reason, but overall they seem to be upset with the content of the media on display. Personally I think the higher ups have another reason for sending their minions here. I’m just not sure what that reason is.
 Kenzie: Are they looking for the same books as you?
Connar: Could be, but they usually have access to these kinds of books via Marquard’s personal library. If there looking for these books it's either because one the books got away from them or they want to keep someone from getting their hands on the books.
Kenzie: Is it possible they are just here for attention from the media?
Connar: always a possibility with morning light
Kenzie: So how do we get around them without causing a riot?
Connar: We can’t, they have got a person on every entrance to the convention center. See that guy in the iron man costume arguing with that protester
Kenzie: Which Iron man?
Connar: The cardboard one with the chef’s hat
Kenzie: I see him
Connar: In about 10 minutes their going to get into a fight, then security is going to haul him off and he’ll be given a choice. He can either sit through their presentation or be charged with assault. If you or I try and start a fight or are recognized as agents, security will also take us into custody but, instead of being given a choice to sit through a presentation or go to jail, we will simply be taken to the edge of the city and killed.
Kenzie: So how do we get in?
Connar: Follow my lead, I have got an idea
Morning light protester: Sir, are you ready for the truth, for change, to become who YOU always wanted to be.
Connar: I have already started down the path friend, in fact I just ordered a new batch of Morninglight dietary supplements
Morning light protester: Aren’t they grate, Philip Marquard’s designed them himself to promote optimum physical and mental health, they cure all kinds of diseases and…
Connar: I know and that is why I was so upset that I had to return them
Morning light protester: (looks confused) why would you do that?
Connar: Because they are not vegan
Morning light protester: What do mean? Of course they are! Philip Marquard loves animals and would never hurt any of them.
Connar: I know he wouldn’t but the manufacture of the supplements use red dye 14 which is made from beetles. Which is why I returned them and complained to the Morninglight wellness center and as a result they recalled most of the tainted supplements. However some local leaders who are trying to move up in the organization have kept the tainted supplements to distribute to their followers.
Morning light protester: But why would anyone do that?
Connar: Well every time you advance a rank you move from one congregation to another, right.
Morning light protester: Right
Connar: Well the Monring light HQ offers a stipend to leaders based on the number of followers they have, therefore it’s in their interest to keep you from advancing and the easiest way to do that is to keep you from becoming physically pure. Don’t worry though I'm sure your leader would never do that to you and that’s why your supplements are brown instead of red.
Morning light protester: (looks at a pack of red pills before pulling out a walki talki) I need to speak with Tom…NOW!
Connar: (motions to Kenzie)
Kenzie: Nicely done Dr. Green
Connar: Thank you, shale we start our search
Kenzie: Lets
Record time: 1:00:55
On the convention floor
Kenzie: Hay Connar?
Connar: (looking through a box of comics) Yes?
Kenzie: Can I ask you a question?
Connar: (still looking through a box of comics) sure, what do you need?
Kenzie: What’s up with your accent?
Connar: What about my accent?
Kenzie: Well you don’t sound vary Irish, in fact you sound kind of American
Connar: I guess that’s because I lived here for about 50 years, I didn’t leave until WWII when I went to help the red hand
Kenzie: That brings up another question, exactly how old are you?
Connar: 204 on august 10th
Kenzie: Now that I think about it, I don’t know a lot about you at all. All I know is that trouble seems to follow you around and that you apparently like comic books
Connar: and that I’m a rather unremarkable Irish physicist and mathematician and somewhat obscure harbinger of the paranormal, you have read my twitter. What about you, I don’t know a lot about you either
Kenzie: What do you want to know?
Connar: Where were you born?
Kenzie:  Syracuse, New York
Connar: How old are you?
Kenzie: 26
Connar: Where did you go to school?
Kenzie: Miskatonic University
Connar: Really I use to teach there, of course that was in 1910…never mind, so what do you read?
Kenzie: Sam Krieg, Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs and J.K. Rowling and lots of other things
Kenzie: What about you, you must read more than just comics
Connar: I do, I have out lived most of my favorite authors by about a century but I keep finding new ones. HG wells and Jules Verne are still my favorites though. I'm currently rereading a lot of Alan Moore’s work though
Kenzie: Do you have any family…I mean who are still alive
Connar: I supposedly have a grate to the 7th grand niece out there somewhere, but I don’t really feel comfortable talking about my immediate family.
Kenzie: Ok…
Record time: 1:55:37
Kenzie: So what’s the last comic on the list?
Connar: katana guy 37, Prison of the mind, the uncensored version
Kenzie: according to the list its almost $2,500, what makes this one so special?
 Connar: this issue was recalled in the west over a couple of pages that were deemed inappropriate, only a few hundred issues made it to the shelves in the US.
Kenzie: What exactly made it inappropriate?
Connar: there was a dream sequence in which a character named Hibiki Miyazaki was raped by a tentacle monster
 Kenzie: (glares at Connar) and why are we looking for this…charming peace of… “Art” again?
Connar: Because the friend the requested it will only sell me the books if I can find everything on his list plus $10,000 cash and he has a…fascination with the female form.
Kenzie: Is this guy some kind of creepy sex offender or is he just some pimply teen
Connar: He’s a local cryptid who works with the Phoenicians, Atsushi
Kenzie: If he wants this stuff so bad why isn’t he here?
Connar: He couldn’t get any time off this year for the convention, which is how I got him down to 10,000 for all three books (starts to look through another box of comics)
Kenzie: So is he dangerous, can he be trusted
Connar: is he dangerous? No, he is easily frightened and if you so much as touch your weapon he’ll probably die of a heart attack. Can he be trusted? Absolutely not, he has double crossed me on several occasions which is why we are meeting him armed and only giving him the money and comics as soon as I have confirmed that we have the books.
Kenzie: Are you going to give him the money in a brief case, like in the movies?
Connar: (Stops looking for a second) now that you mention it, I was, why do you ask?
Kenzie: Can I show him the money in the case before putting it in the center of the room; I have always wanted to do that
Connar: sure that’s sounds fine…. (Looks up from the box) found it!
 Kenzie: So what do we do now that we have everything?
Connar: We wait for night fall and then head for mercado de agua oscura, until then we enjoy the show. Ever play cryptid or cosplay?
Kenzie: No, how do you play
Connar: just pick a convention goer and guess whether they are cosplyer or a cryptid hiding in plain sight
Kenzie: and where is the best place to do this
Connar: food court
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mercado de agua oscura: recorded via a mounted display 7-21-2013
Kenzie: First the sewers and now the docks at 3:00 am, what is it with you and dark places
Connar: I would have preferred to do this deal during the day but Atsushi has a fear of crowds, so this had to be done after the market closed for the night
Kenzie: What kind of cryptid has social anxiety?
Connar: Once you meet him it will all make sense…for better or worse
(Heavy breathing coming from the water)
Connar: (clicks on a flash light, a pair of yellow eyes are visible just below the surface) you can come out now Atsushi it’s just me and my friend
(A turtle like humanoid with a duck bill climbs the dock with a black metal box)
Atsushi: (wheezing) long time no see Connar, how was the convention this year?
Connar: pretty good overall, Gravity and the new Godzilla where the highlights of the show, also the predator booth.
Atsushi: (raises an eye brow) and who is your friend?
Connar: You can just call her Vermello
Atsushi: why don’t you want to introduce me Xencraft
Kenzie: (steps forward) I’m Kenzie it’s a pleasure to meet you
Atsushi: (trying to appear suave) hay Kenzie, you ever have your salad tossed by a duck bill
Kenzie: (picks Atsushi up by the neck)
Atsushi: (Choking)
Kenzie: say that to me again and I will burn off the first 3 layers of your skin, understand?
Atsushi: (nods)
Kenzie: (drops Atsushi)
Atsushi: (coughing)… did you get everything
Connar: katana guy 37: Prison of the mind, the uncensored version, Unbelievable Tales: Tokyo, The Horror at Red Hook 2013 by Mark Miller, K-ON omnibus, and my little pony: equestria girls. You’re sick you know that
Atsushi: if you’re going to insult me I’ll take the books and…
Connar: alright, alright, I'm sorry, do you have the books I asked for
Atsushi: (opens the black metal box) Nikola Tesla’s properties of the Bee field, Niall Ó Glacáin on golden humors and on the repulsive nature of higher dimensional space in the presence of exotically charged particles by Albert Einstein. What about my money
Connar: Kenzie if you would be so kind
Kenzie: (puts on a pair of sun glasses before opening the case to show the money)
Connar: $10,000 in cash just as you requested
Kenzie: (closes the brief case before placing it at the center the dock and next to the comics)
Atsushi: (waddles out to the center of the dock and places the books next the money before putting the comics and money in the black box and waddling back to the edge of the dock)
Connar: a pleasure doing business with you Atsushi
Atsushi: any time Connar…oh and Kenzie you never did answer my question
(A lightning bolt knocks Atsushi back into the water)
Connar: my apologies about Atsushi, he never did have any manners
Kenzie: (sighs) what’s a Kappa doing in California anyway
Connar: The Japanese brought them over when they immigrated to the US. He actually lives in Orange County and works as a network specialist for the Phoenicians
Record time: 1:45:22
Kenzie: Well that was creepy
Connar:  Try and think of it this way, at least you got in some target practice and we got the books without much trouble
Kenzie: agreed, what exactly do you need these books for anyway?
Connar:  I have developed several hypotheses about anima’s augmentative capabilities based on Dr. Schreber's research and I’m hoping….
Kenzie: what is it?
Connar: (hides behind a shipping container) get down
Kenzie: (whispering) what is it?
Connar: (whispering) my “friend” from the last few nights, the mystery agent that has been following me
Kenzie: (whispering) any idea who he is working for?
Connar: (whispering) No but I think it’s time we found out. Circle around to the right and be ready to throw up a fire wall when you see him running towards you, ready?
Kenzie: (static) I’m on it
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