DPSS10
RECEIPT #010
FILED UNDER: DINER-DPSS
DATE: 2/29/96
THE OWNER
Another month comes and goes. Well, as usual, excellent work, everyone. Truly. I know we’ve had more downs than ups, but that is how it goes sometimes. But all of those half-successes have added up to a full success and then some, just as I predicted. It is almost like a horrible fog has lifted over Long Beach. Enough time has passed since Mrs. Umbra was parted from her stone that her influence over the youth has all but waned. And, after #53’s clever ruse on Catalina, the Satan S.U.C.K.S.S. committee has been reduced to a laughingstock of a would-be death cult.
Of course… Abigail Hawthorne, the former leader of Satan S.U.C.K.S.S., is still very much around. As we uncovered this month, she has particularly close ties to Padre Santos. Even with her little sect of parents, cheerleaders, and youth authority figures disbanded, I suspect she’ll remain a threat. And we will still need to contend with Padre’s usual cohorts, the Dark Triad of Mrs. Pleasant, Mrs. Umbra, and Mrs. Aka. And somewhere along the way, a tourist turned coffee seller entered the mix, Augustine Sarcophim. And we perhaps have some more direct rivals with the arrival of the “Cafe No Diner” organization.
If it was easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing. As for our future plans… well, all that I know for certain is that we’ll have a very special customer coming in next month or so. And what this customer brings could change the very course of our feud with the Open Doors church for the better… or for, the worse. We also need to figure out what exactly Mrs. Aka is planning with Augustine. It could be another plot of Padre, or it could be something Aka and Umbra have been working on in the shadows. Either way, it can’t be good, can it?
Eager for the unknown,
Two short of ten.