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]

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

[godcards]

You technically never really promised me anything. I'm essentially working for free here, out of the goodness of my heart. You don't get to call the shots.

[frostythehitman]

maybe not
but i do get to call what i agree to
so it's your pick malik
do you want the chance of me doing you a favor
or knowing for sure that i won't
it all depends on how badly you want me to be your errand boy

[godcards]

I don't, really. I would have preferred cash. I'm simply making the best of the opportunity given to me. You can threaten me all you want, but it's more of a loss for you than it is for me. You've never really proven yourself reliable when it comes to our little... relationship... as it were, but unlike you I'm trying to get better. I was being nice and offering some help, and here you are trying to threaten me into submission.

You have nothing to offer and no means to follow through on any sort of threat, so I'm not sure what your angle is here or why you're even trying. If you don't want the ID, just say so... that would have been much easier, now wouldn't it?

[ You can just FEEL the shitty smug aura radiating off this message. ]

[frostythehitman]

[ He wants to thrash Malik through this stupid post. That comment about him not trying to get better really gets to him. And even more, the fact that he wants to smash Malik's face in makes him feel even worse. You asshole. ]

i'm not even making any threats!
all i did was tell you what i would or wouldn't do an errand for
the worst case scenario is nothing happens at all and the best case scenario is you get something you want
how is that a threat??

[godcards]

[ :) ]

You were threatening to go back on our deal to get me to do what you want. It was still a means to get me to comply, even if you didn't bring any sort of... violent intentions into it.

[frostythehitman]

if that's what you count as a threat, then you saying you wouldn't make the ID unless i did something for you also counts as one