7.13: Keyboard work

In the local library, pTravis, Masongill and Bill are working rapidly on the public computers. Bill could have been doing his task at the headquarters of the Westmorland Gazette but it seemed safer and to offer more deniability to do it elsewhere. After all, he knows the remote log-ins. 

Quickly, they set up chatter, across a number of celebrity-watching internet sites, about the sad story of the second death of Nick Drake. When enough of these have been uploaded, Bill starts adding linked comments ‘below-the-line’ to the previous Westmorland Gazette articles about the rediscovery of Nick Drake in the scullery of the Swan Hotel. Little by little they see that that efforts are being read and then repeated by other keyboard warriors with nothing better to do. 

And then Bill leaves an innocent-looking brief on the editorial to-do list of the Gazette: check out new Nick Drake story. He does not sign this, however. 

Of course, all this depends on some crucial details of the conversation they’d had with the Minkey previously which continued something like this: 

The Minkey: “I don’t want to die” 

pTravis: “No but you might need to seem to die.” 

Alcock: “But how can we make it seem that way?” 

pTravis: “Well the Minkey always wears an apron. That is how we can do it. What will look like a poor lost soul hanging from a fruit tree will actually be a brave soul trusting my knots to hold his weight via his apron strings!”