he hasn't posted in like 3 months, he's got a lot to say

[frostythehitman]

hey so
this is james barnes
i'm not dead anymore
so if anyone was still freaking out about that, well
don't, i guess

[ this is not a thing he thought he had to state but, well, apparently word does not travel through the grapevine as well as he thought, so. he might as well state it to the whole app at large. ]

anyway, first off,
if anyone needs help shoveling sidewalks or cleaning driveways or whatever after that snowstorm, let me know
or if you need anything else done even if it isn't snow-related
i'll do whatever you need for some cash and/or some clothes

second off,
does anyone know where i can get a fake id
i just need to replace the id stuff i lost when i died
message me privately if you don't want to talk openly on here

third off,
i got some new stuff about the founders i think
[ insert a link to a video here. ]
this is from that cavendish house last month
there was an empty book in there and i wrote down everything i knew about them and then this reenactment thing started happening
not sure how much of this is new vs old but apparently this is how it went down forever ago at the start of all this
i'm not sure how this fits into everything else we have so far

Comments

[godcards]

Oh? Now that's interesting.

I guess the next question I should ask is: what kind of identity do you want? You have a clean slate, you can be anybody... That's a lot of responsibility.

[frostythehitman]

[ ....yeah he should've really expected for Malik to be the type of guy to know how to make fake IDs. ]

i don't want anything too different
just enough to work
how much do you even need to know
isn't it just name/age/date of birth

[godcards]

It's no fun without a story behind it. If someone suspects you and you don't have any details of this made up person, they're going to know it's a fake right away.

That aside, yes, you need those things, but I'm also not picking them for you.

[frostythehitman]

alright fine
michael barnes, dob 11/15/1982, age 36

[ then there's a delay in the rest of the response as he mulls over the details--and how much of said details he should divulge to Malik. Even if it's a fake life, it still has to hedge close enough to reality for him to be able to remember and sell it, so it still feels personal. ]

army vet, lost an arm to an ied, now living in recolle and looking for work in the civilian world
that enough detail for you?

[godcards]

I’m not the one you have to convince, but sure. It sounds reasonable enough to me.

Although... If I do this for you, what do I get in return?

[frostythehitman]

[ oooof course. ]

depends
what do you want

[godcards]

What can you offer? Maybe I’ll need a favor... Or maybe you can just bring me something nice and I’ll decide if I like it then. You really can’t expect something for nothing.

[frostythehitman]

[ It's not like he has anything he can possibly give Malik right now, so favors it is. ]

like i said in the post
i'll do whatever needs getting done
so long as it's not illegal anyway
i just got out of prison i'm not exactly looking for reasons to go back

[godcards]

[ A lengthy pause before the next text - ]

Can you drive?

[frostythehitman]

i can try

[godcards]

Not good enough. I can’t get licensed if you don’t know what you’re doing

[frostythehitman]

then no i can't
pick something else

[godcards]

You’re bad at this. I guess I’ll have to trade for a favor... That means you can’t say no when I need one!

[frostythehitman]

[ this is such a bad idea. this is the worst idea of all time.

...but like, how bad can it be, really? If Malik demands he do something he really doesn't want to do, he could just beat the guy up. It's not like he can fight back, he's so twiggy. Unless he has to deal with the weird, other version of Malik, in which case he might get tortured in a warehouse again.

...yeah he's willing to take that bet. ]

fine
whatever

[godcards]

[ :) ]

Alright. Give me a couple days.

1/2

[frostythehitman]

fine

[frostythehitman]

[ then, a few minutes later ]

wait
you need a photo to put on the id right

[godcards]

Yes. That is an important component if you want it to look like you.

[frostythehitman]

[ alright, smartass!!!! ]

fine let me send you a photo then
because my retrospec pic isn't gonna cut it

[ He attaches a plain looking photo of himself, where "himself" looks more like "could be James's deadbeat dad." It looks drastically different to the aforementioned Retrospec profile picture, where he still looks like a teenager. ]

[godcards]

Wow. You look terrible.

[ And old!!! The placeholder he was going to use would have been more flattering, albeit less... accurate. ]

[frostythehitman]

yeah i know
thanks for the reminder

[godcards]

No need to get all snippy, it’s not MY fault.

[frostythehitman]

not mine either

you know what
change the name to james banfield

[ He knows it probably isn't causing any inconvenience to Malik, to change his name before he's even started working on the ID, but. He can pretend. He can pretend to be a nuisance to this asshole he has to rely on right now. ]

[godcards]

No.

I’m going to pick a different name. Hope you can keep your story straight.

[ This is what you get, James. ]

[frostythehitman]

[ oh is this how we're gonna play it???? ]

then i'm calling it off
either use the name i give you or you don't get to use me for that IOU favor