It Rhymes with Lust - Ch 6

Chapter 6: The Serpent Coils

- Rust and Monk rush to the mine with some muscle to try and fix the situation which is spinning out of control
- the miners aren't receptive to Rust's demands; one of them gets shot down when he tries charging Rust
- Rust and Monk get in a large bucket and have Tiny raise them up above the crowd
- Jeffers shows up and starts the bucket moving again; Monk tries to shoot the controls but only hits Jeffers, killing him
- the bucket reaches the top and spills Rust and Monk to their deaths
- peace is restored in Copper City

- last chapter seems very Rust focused even though Hal is the main character

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It Rhymes with Lust - Ch 5

Chapter 5: The Counterplot

- Using all the information he has gathered about Rust and her underhanded business, Hal spends the night writing an expose which he gets finished in time for the next day's paper
- Jeffers tries to make the most of the expose to his own benefit
- the Times publishes an extra edition claiming that what the Express is printing is all lies

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It Rhymes with Lust - Ch 4

Chapter 4: Indecision

- Hal finally seems to wise up
- first Hal makes up with Audrey; then they go to see what Rust is up to; they suspect she is planning to kill Jeffers
- they confront Rust but this time Audrey is the one who winds up rushing off and Hal is the one who sticks around
- Hal seems to be torn between Audrey on the one hand and Rust and drinking on the other; for the moment he seems to side with Rust but maybe that's just an act
- on orders from Rust, Hal helps One of her henchmen (Tiny) to dump the unconscious Jeffers on the outskirts of town, then he heads back to his place
- there's message waiting for him from Rust telling him to come on over, he decides not to and is about to have a drink when he sees one of Audrey's gloves that she left behind when she ran off
- he holds the bottle in one hand and the glove in the other trying to decide between the two; the chapter ends with him smashing the bottle

- Rust's declaration about what Hal really wants
- Monk trying to get some from Rust and being rebuffed

It Rhymes with Lust - Ch 3

By Drake Waller, Matt Baker, and Ray Osrin
OGN

Chapter 3: Deadly Female

- Rust ruthlessly bargains with Jeffers and then with X
-At first Hal refuses to believe the evidence but then, after a little convincing from Audrey he starts to see the light: Rust is behind the bombing
- Hal gets another visit from the cabbie who has scoop for him about Rust this time, her mining company is running a very unsafe operation which is putting many lives in danger
- Hal and the cabbie go to investigate the mines themselves and almost get killed; Hal plans to do a story about the unsafe mining operation but then he gets a call from Rust
- Hal goes to visit Rust who claims that it's Jeffers fault, he is in charge of safety at the mine, she knew nothing; Hal starts to come around to her perspective when Audrey walks in just in time to catch Hal and Rust embracing
- Rust tells Hal to take a walk and then slaps Audrey around
- not great, a but formulaic
- there was one part that read kind of weird where I didn't follow Hal's logic
- it seems like Hal's heart belongs to whomever he has been with most recently

5/13

It Rhymes with Lust - Ch 2

By Drake Waller, Matt Baker, and Ray Osrin
OGN

Chapter 2: Caught in the Web

- a week has gone by and although he hasn't seen her Hal can't get Audrey out if his head; then she comes to see him at the office and takes him back to her place, for lunch
- Hal gets a call from an unknown person who has damning information about Marcus Jeffers; the mystery man turns out to be the cabbie who have him a ride from the train station when he first arrived in town
- Hal calls Rust and tells her he's got something on Jeffers; she insists on meeting at a cabin; he (unsuccessfully) tries to play it cool but quickly succumbs to Rusts charms and finds himself being unfaithful to Audrey
- Rust uses the information she gets about Jeffers to order a hit on one of his gambling dens; this is after telling Hal to investigate the club

5/11

It Rhymes with Lust - Ch 1

By Arnold Drake, Reed Waller, Matt Baker, Ray Osrin
OGN

Chapter 1

- Hal Weber rolls into Copper City on the same day that Rust Masson is burying her husband; he is there at her request
- Hal and Rust were a couple 10 years ago; she left him; she needs his help discrediting a local politician; Hal also learns that Rust owns both of the town's newspapers, the Times and the Express, the one he works for although  it's a well kept secret that she owns the Express which is critical of her
- Audrey, Rust's step-daughter, wants nothing to do with her step-mother, and seems to fall hard for Hal or does she, maybe it's all just a ploy

- so far I like it; not too sophisticated but I like the way that Hal gets himself caught between Audrey and Rust so quickly

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