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[Players: duke_devlin-focused, with visits from jai_bakura, Chris (played by Jessi) and Katherine.
Summary: Four short scenes centering around religion and how it affects Duke. Backdated to Friday, September 15 to Sunday, September 17, 2007.

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Sprawled out on his bed after work on Friday, Duke idly flipped through the pages of the October edition of the MUFON Journal that had arrived in the mail that day. The main feature of this particular issue was the Starchild Project, one of the many topics included in the journal that Jai might poke fun at him for reading about. But thankfully Jai wouldn’t arrive until later that evening, so he was free to indulge his interest in extraterrestrial matters until then. Anything that science just didn’t have an explanation for fascinated him, which was the case in the Starchild Project.

It wasn’t exactly something he talked about publicly, but he did find it fairly easy to entertain the idea of life on other planets. After all, if life could happen here on Earth, why not somewhere else in the universe if the conditions were right? He didn’t think anyone could be taken seriously saying that scenario was definitely impossible. Why was it so easy for him to believe in all of this? Duke’s reasoning was a mix of open-mindedness paired with his study of all the evidence to support the idea, which could be summed up simply with Fox Mulder’s explanation to why he believed:

Because all the evidence to the contrary is not entirely dissuasive.

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[Continuation of the previous log, wherein Jai and Duke discuss what happened in Part 1. Backdated to March 10, 2007.]

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[When duke_devlin decides to take matters into his own hands he works up a plan, pitches the idea, and convinces jai_bakura along. But Chris plays rough, has a few tricks up his sleeve, and isn’t alone. Questions left unanswered, lies start to tangle; and sometimes secrets are more dangerous when they’re right under a person’s nose. Backdated to March 10, 2007.
Note; some of the opinions in this log reflect religious aspects, but they are personal opinions and not meant to label the Spiritualist religion as a whole.]

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The Temple of Divine Guidance was just how Duke remembered it from the last time he'd been here. Just standing outside the white building made him uneasy, but he had a job to do here. He needed to talk to Chris again to see if he could find out more information to determine if Chris was indeed lying to him or not. Jai was here beside him, and they stood a few paces off from the front door of the church, looking inconspicuously through the circular-shaped window there to view the people inside, the Sunday morning church service almost drawing to a close.

Briefly, to distract himself from worry he had over the situation, Duke fancied himself like a spy infiltrating an enemy lair, like a star of some spy-fi thriller going after a bad guy. But then again, Duke and Jai weren't one hundred percent positive that Chris was an enemy yet, and this visit would hopefully help he and Jai start to put some of the pieces together to figure out Chris' true nature. Duke would be paying careful attention to the other man's words, would watch his body language, and anything that seemed awry, he'd report back to Jai with right after the meeting was over.

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[Players: duke_devlin and Chris, played by zombiepuppy
Summary: Short log wherein Chris visits Duke with the outward intentions of apologizing for the treachery months before - his true intentions, however, are all but innocent. This follows these two recent logs, and won't make sense unless you've read them as well. Dated Thursday, November 30th.]

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Thursday evening came as a relief to Duke, a respite from the long, tiring work day he'd just fought through. The holiday season was upon all the employees there, and advertising work for the Nintendo World Store was extensive. In-store displays, ads in magazines and local newspapers, as well as online ads were among the tasks Duke had been assigned to help work on. It certainly was the most stressful time of the year to work for a store like this, and it made him remember how much he missed his job at Atari Headquarters.

And of course, his thoughts could never be completely focused on his work all the time, not after what had happened on Thanksgiving. Thoughts of the incident were distracting to Duke, and while he tried to push them aside in favor of drowning himself in work, that wasn't always as successful as he hoped it would be.

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[Players: duke_devlin and his mother, Katherine
Summary: While visiting his mother for Thanksgiving, Duke comes to find that lies and secrets can go two ways, and that situations he'd thought were in his control had never been. Betrayal of this sort runs unexpected and deep, and Duke is left alone himself in the aftermath to sort out his emotions. Warning for offensive language in the second part of the log. Takes place from Wed., November 22nd to Thurs., November 23rd.]

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Five-forty-six PM on the day before Thanksgiving was a lazy time of day for Duke, spent at his mother's house because he'd planned on staying with her until Friday morning. The days surrounding Thanksgiving that he remained there had been a constant ever since Duke had moved out several years prior. Of course they didn't spend every moment with each other while he visited, but for the most party they spent as much time with each other as possible.

But for now, Duke's attention was pulled toward the Sci-Fi Channel on television, as it often was. An X-Files marathon had been playing all day, a veritable mish-mash of episodes, most from seasons three, four, and five, with a random episode from season one thrown in as if by mistake. That last episode was kept Duke's interest fixed now as sat with his legs curled beneath him on his mother's couch, a flower-etched, feminine sofa that juxtaposed with the nature of the program Duke watched.

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[OOC: On a social outing , Friday, June 23rd, duke_devlin runs across a stranger who proves to have some uneasy knowledge about the secrets Duke wants most to hide. Regardless of through ‘fate’ or ‘coincidence’ of his being there, jai_bakura manages to be in the right place at the right time to step right in the middle of the situation. NPCs abound in this one; both in the form of the return of Lyanna and Jerrod from Jai’s social circle, and in the introduction of Duke’s Occultist antagonist Chris.]

It wasn’t too often that Duke took the time to go out with his coworkers, not because he didn’t enjoy the social aspect of the gatherings, but simply because his interests aside from gaming tended to differ from that of his coworkers. But this evening, with nothing else on his agenda, Duke opted to go on a whim – there really was no harm to it, and besides, he did like being social.

Dinner took place at a busy restaurant blocks away from the Nintendo World Store, and Duke hadn’t bothered to drive his car to work today, simply because he knew walking home would be better than the constant back and forth between the parking garage and various locations.

The evening’s conversation was light in tone, concentrated primarily on the store in general, and Duke didn’t regret going along this time around. Someone at their table warned of a storm tonight, and Duke took little heed at the time. However, as he was about to leave, the sky did look rather ominous – and because Duke’s coworker Shelley noticed he didn’t have a ride, she offered, though he declined, insisting confidently that he’d be able to make it home before the rain came. Shelley was still uncertain, and insisted that Duke call her should he want a ride home later, that she’d be more than happy to come pick him up. And of course, who wouldn’t, Duke’s ego couldn’t help but add.

And unfortunately for Duke, not two blocks from where he’d had dinner with his coworkers, on Times Square, rain had begun sprinkling, and the sky darkened further, as if threatening that the weather would grow worse. And it was then that Duke realized that yes, he probably should have accepted that ride after all. But he did still have that offer, and he planned on taking it now; it was better that than arrive back at his apartment soaked through and through.

Without hesitation then, Duke reached for his cell phone, eager to make the call… only to discover that his cell phone’s battery had gone dead. And then he remembered that yes, he had neglected to put the damn thing in its charger the past few days.
You’ve got to be kidding me, he thought to himself, narrowing his eyes on principle at the cell phone, even though it was of course his fault for neglecting to charge it. But if he couldn’t call for a ride with his cell phone, there was really no other choice but to go inside the nearest building and find a pay phone.
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