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[bossyboiler]

Who: Kate Cordello
Username: cupkate
Warnings:N/A

Anyone else think it's a bad idea to eat bread that's been baked on a gravestone? I don't care if it's a tradition or not. It's creepy.

I haven't been able to to investigate it properly, however. The line for Better Loaf Than Never is RIDICULES! It wraps around the building every time that I've been by. Which begs the question, should it be investigated? What do we know?

They're selling baked sourdough bread that they are claiming is baked on a gravestone. It's in the spirit of Halloween. It's probably just a decoration. But haven't we seen enough businesses that sell creepy things, claim it's all in harmless fun, and then turn around to be so not legit?

You're right. We should investigate the bakery. Who wants to come with me?

I'm still not going to eat the bread though.

Comments

[bossyboiler]

Maybe. I didn't ask how much of the bread Cortana fed the rats. It would be helpful to know the concentration. I mean science could tell us the ratio amount needed for humans to succumb or something. If they are sharing the bread, they may not be getting enough to feel any effects.

[ Kate sighs. She needs to be a better detective. ]

We need a way of questioning the customers.

[easilyamused]

Or just eating it over the course of several days.

[Does magic build up in human tissues the way some toxins will? He doesn't know and that makes it impossible to gauge if they're looking at a ticking time bomb.]

If we knew the other effects, we could play it off as a health survey.

[bossyboiler]

But we don't know them because I didn't think to ask what other symptoms appeared in the rats.

[ She's going to beat herself up a little bit. ]

Okay so maybe one of us can ask a member of the staff if anyone has reported getting sick after eating the bread?

[easilyamused]

Even if you had, the rats can't talk.

[Which regrettably limits how well symptoms can be judged with so small a sample size.]

That might put their backs up. But staff in this sort of place tend to take some food home as a perk - we might ask if any of them have had any inexplicable illness, play it off as something circulating in the city.