[QUOTE=Vincent, Thunder God;3719372](main subplot, whatever's happening with ginger at the bar etc, but main story seems to be jim trying to uncover corruption - but actually he has no real knowledge - he's trying to stay alive in the town, or at least just hang out at the motel and get enough food/beer to last whatever)

Jim's Tale/Ginger's Revenge

Part 1:Jim

Jim walked into like the town square and thought on his night after whatever had happened at the dance hall. Realizing he needed another drink, he headed to the bar, ordered a whiskney neat. In those days, daytime drinking was the norm. Furthermore -

Ginger was absent because it wasn't her day, and the bar was kind of empty, except for like a janitor in the corner sweepingd up some dust and stuff from the previous day. Jim looked over, said hello. Janitor looked up with a big smile on his face.

"Hey young lad! Good to see you here again! I am glad that you are doing well enough to at least spend time in herre routinely."

Jim thought on this a moment. Once again it felt like one of those situations where people seemed to imply something they had no real way of knowing, and indeed maybe a scenario that had not only never happened -

But in those days, reflected Jim - no hospitals to speak of.

In any case.

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Meanwhile, part 1 of Ginger's tale, we will return to Jim's story very soon!

Ginger in her apartment prepared for the following day's shift. Being smart, she didn't get to dirnking herself like some of the other dancers. but she knew that A. With this strange newcomer, things were getting dangerous in town - even though there was NO REAL REASON OR EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS and so nevertheless FEELING DANGER for ANOTHER REASON! OR just SOME REASON THAT WAS EQUALLY VALID she got out of the apartment immediately and decided to walk around town to "scope" out the "situation"

Ginger, realizing that the previous scene was irrelevant to HER own personal story, decided to revise it and start again.

She went to the dance hall - where else was there to go here anyway? But then figured, hey, day off, could go to like the fields and take a stroll around, maybe shoot the trout with somer of the other locals.

She decided she was going to play it SMT style - but from within the limited paradigm of an oldtimey western movie.

She realized she needed to see Jim right wway

Jim was still at the bar drinking endlessly. The janitor, for some reason the only other person originally there, had disappeared. being drunk as he was, he didn't at first notice Ginger approaching.

"Jim I think this story is really important to somebody but I don't think to VTG."