Calgary march 1st construction site…
The day seemed to be going at a snail's pace, it didn't help that for some reason the safety personnel always seemed to keep coming and watching him from a distance. Technically there was no reason for this unwanted attention, but deep down he knew it was because of Bob hanging out in the corner, it wasn't a big problem as he was usually pretty safe, it only urked him when he occasionally wanted to cheat a bit and do something a little unsafe…but in that I guess it was just Bob looking out for him and keeping him to a higher standard than he would normally keep himself.
Seb sighed looking into the little hand mirror he strapped to a beam in front of him so he could look behind him without actually turning, and sure enough there those two were standing by the stairwell watching him and Bob. Well might as well turn in their direction to make them scramble a bit and make them look stupid as they pretended to not be scrutinizing him.
"Could these d!ck heads be anymore obvious Bob?", Seb asked looking up to the metal globe as he got to the bottom rungs of his ladder, "I mean seriously they had one of you chasing their @ss around at one point, it's not my fault they aren't as interesting as I am right?", at that last remark he struck a pose with a goofy look causing Bob to inch a bit closer.
He laughed and waved a hand towards Bob before turning fast on the spot to look at the two safety guys causing them to pretend to look interested in the completely blank wall next to them before they shuffled down the stairs with their heads down realizing they had been caught.
"Hmmmf, d!ck heads.", Seb stated before walking over to his apprentice so he could harass him a little bit, but before he could get a snide remark in Josie beat him to the punch.
"You know they're just curious like all of us right? You don't have to be so negative about it.", Josiah said this without looking down from what he was working on making Seb frown a bit without saying what he had planned too, "Bob and it's kind are a huge mystery that a lot of people think are tied to misfortune.", finally he looked down at Seb with a look that that spoke to how many times he tried to get through to his hard headed journeyman, "Most people's are gone, shoot even mine left just after about three months like most peoples.".
He started to make his way down his ladder carefully making sure that his tools were all in place, "Plus there's all of those disappearances over the last three months that everyone has attributed to those things.", he said this while side eying and throwing a thumb at Bob.
Seb stood there frowning at Josiah who was sitting there waiting for a comment to his observation, Seb sat there for a few moments before looking up, turning around and stating as he walked away, "You f*cked up two of those pipes, cut and redo them, and Bobs a she not an it.".
"What?", Josiah looked up and could see that he did in fact make a small mistake with two pipes getting mixed up, which Seb had used to skurt what he had just said, "Ugh I might have been able to get him with that, now he's gonna think up something for next time I say it.", Josiah couldn't help but grumble at his bad luck, well his luck wasn't as bad as his bosses he thought as he watched Seb trip over an almost nonexistent lip in the floor and come close to falling.
To be honest it wasn't nice making fun of someone who was disabled for the way they walk, but he thought that maybe god would forgive him when it came to this specific heathen. He chuckled a little but it wasn't malicious, more just entertained. He really liked his boss, he was definitely a flawed human, but he was decent to him and didn't bother him about his faith even though other people had over the years, the swearing thing was what he focused on oddly? Well whatever as heathens go he was a pretty good one, kinda clumsy at odd times, and then agile as a cat later though. He looked back at Seb who was busy kicking the ground while berating it for things it obviously had no control over, definitely an odd person.
*****
During lunch with Josiah, and bob sitting apart from everyone else as usual Seb was sitting with his favorite pipe wrench across his lap acting as a ledge for his bowl while listening to the news over the radio, and more to be exact he was listening to the new numbers of known recorded missing persons across the world. It seems that it had reached around three millionish or probably more.
Looking askance at Bob while taking a bite out of his spaghetti he couldn't help but wonder if this thing was going to abduct his @ss just like all of those other unlucky people, if that does end up happening he really hoped he wouldn't get dissected like all of those dumb stories said would happen, unlikely as it is because it's stupid and absurd, but having a floating metal ball follow you is pretty absurd too.
Pondering this as he was staring straight at Bob he was extremely surprised when Bob flashed and disappeared in front of everybody, this sudden occurrence caused everyone close by to fall into a hush and look in his direction. But as he was still trying to process this new development a bright light flared up towards the center of the city bringing everyone's attention towards the windows, and as the light flared down there in the sky was a giant depiction of a man in old Shakespeare esq attire coloured bright orange with a harlequin domino mask that had two horns protruding outwards in a reverse curl from the forehead, well one and a half as one was broken, covering his upper face, which was blue tinted...
There was also something just kind of...off about the way the figure looked some dimension or just something you couldn't quite grasp at first? Looking closely there were many versions all looking out in a three hundred and sixty degree area making it look like copies of all the same person were lined up fanning out, and in his hand he had a skull topped silver cane.
Everyone stood still in that moment staring at that giant figure in the sky that held everyone enraptured as it panned its head back and forth mimed dozens of times by its many doppelgangers beside it as if it was individually looking at everything before it, and with a rise of its hands it brought its cane down forcing a sharp noise to rock everyone and causing a small bow wave of pressure to ring out from his central position.
With everyone's attention fully grabbed the figure finally spoke, "Greetings gamers, who's ready to become famous?".