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The last few weeks were busier for Abe than he expected them to be. You'd think that with the frog menace, field workers would have most of the work. In reality, they just had the dangerous part. With the countless mission reports flowing in, as well as requests for weapons and equipment, paperwork was overwhelming. Sometimes, Abe and his co-

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Henry is currently in an odd sort of position- they don't seem to want him on active field status, although they'll call him out sometimes (especially if Liz is there). Officially, though, he's been inactive ever since his little problem with their house. He's not entirely sure why- even if he is new and fairly unreliable, the Bureau didn't tend to be so picky...

So when he's not out shooting at frog creatures (which is, sadly, the part of the job he tends to actually talk about), he's doing whatever he can to help out wherever he can. Today it seems that involves playing gopher for several departments.

He knocks on Abe's door with some trepidation. "Hey, Abe...?" he asks through the door. "Sorry to bother you, but...you wouldn't happen to have the mission briefings from that thing in Billings a few weeks ago, would you?"

(( Obviously, I have no problems straying from Hellboy canon... >_> I'd be happy to roll with anything you guys might want to do, as long as you guys'd be cool with having a non-canon character in your

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And it just happens that Henry catches Abe during one of his staring sessions. The merman nearly jumps up in his chair, quickly looking around like a deer in the headlights, before he finally realizes that the voice is familiar and coming from behind the door.

"Oh...Ah...Yes! Yes, it should be somewhere around here." He quickly turns back to the table and starts looking through the heaps of papers, somewhat panicky. After about five seconds of searching, he realizes what he does wrong. He turns toward the door for a moment and speaks up. "Oh, and... Come on in. The door's not locked."

(( Yay! In that case, I'll dig up things and try to write up something interesting. Maybe get some advice from people... With all the possibilities Hellboy-verse opens, I think it'd be easy to alter almost any legend into a plot. Mignola didn't touch most of the legends yet, after all

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Henry opens the door carefully, glad that Abe doesn't appear to be sleeping. "Thanks....sorry to interrupt, I just got a call from the finance guys..." They were never very happy, but their scowls seem even deeper now that the Bureau seems to be at full-scale war. "You're still working on things...?" he asks apologetically, looking at the piles of papers on the desk.

(( Oh, I bet there's lots of stuff. They really seem to have left it open for just about everything, but like you said...Mignola hasn't touched on much.

Also, wow, I hate 13 hour shifts. Just thought I'd complain about that... >_> ))

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"Yes. In our department, work comes in waves." Abe responds, sounding a little rushed, as he digs through the pile of papers he already finished working with. Each time he comes across something that loks like a mission briefing, he stops and looks through the paper carefully. Then, it's back to digging. "For days, there are only several papers to sign, and then a big mission hits and we end up playing diggers with documents."

Another ten seconds of digging, and the merman gives out a slightly annoyed sigh.

"Make yourself at home, Henry... This may take a while. Knowing our luck, the required document will be at the bottom of the pile."

(( Yeah, Mignola made up his own Lovecraftian horror, touched on some popular fairy tales, Rasputin and Baba Yaga, and that's about it. He never went into severe detail with a lot of other things. Heck, he never touched entire pantheons.

And... 13 hours? OW. Good to know you lived through it. X_X ))

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((Hahah...the Frog Saga just gives me something to say Liz is doing while I'm doing school stuff. It's nice because it can technically go on indefinitely and I can fall back on it whenever i'm really busy, which is...honestly probably going to be the next five weeks or so. However! That does not mean other stuff can't be happening while it does! And once the semester is over I'll have a lot more time. Theoretically.))

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(( Hahaha, yes. Frog Saga is a perfect excuse for when you're busy with something IRL. You can always use 'was out killing frogs' as an excuse, as ridiculous as it sounds. XD

I think I'm just tired of how the Frog Saga keeps going and going in the comic book. It just feels that Mignola is out of ideas, himself, so he keeps munching on the same plot. It lacks the diversity of the old Hellboy books, where there was a new background and villain in every story.

Creative team : So, Mike, what're we doing in this series?
Mignola : *snores on the couch*
Creative team : ... *SIGH* I guess that means we're drawing more frogs.))