Holly's Journal

## Summary

Holly's Journal is written in Inky Extras as a side story to Inky Mystery following Holly May's point of view. Includes plenty of information and spoilers.

## Detailed Information

### August

Holly May, after encountering and giving the B-Bros Dr. Oddswell's address, finds herself approached by a reporter from the Toon Town Times named Jeremy Fairfax. While he at first seems nice Holly doesn't like how he seems to be trying to lead her to speak negatively about the B-Bros while interviewing her and asks him to leave her out of his article. Fairfax then begins harassing Holly, constantly popping up to badger her with questions and spreading nasty rumors about her around the university campus. After spotting her writing in her journal Fairfax even goes so far as to steal it from inside her home. To make matters worse Fairfax then publishes an article labelling her as an ally of the B-Bros and implying she has mob ties which causes her to get kicked out of her university and fired from her job. In retaliation, Holly begins stalking Fairfax which leads to her finding his residence where she believes he has hidden her journal. While she is balancing a job hunt with plans to break into his apartment her purse gets stolen, causing her to head to the police station to make a report. While there she overhears Fairfax and the commissioner discussing shady dealings, including a botched assassination attempt on Dr. Oddswell and a shared connection to the Sykes brothers. The new information revitalizes Holly's efforts to get into Fairfax's apartment and she eventually ends up mailing herself in a large box to his home. While in his apartment she finds her journal as well as a number of other interesting items, one of which seems to tie him to the mysterious disappearance of Wilson Wiseton. With her journal back in her possession Holly continues her surveillance, though her continued lack of a job starts to worry her roommate Shelly. Holly also begins researching the Sykes brothers, a shady pair of brothers in Toon Town. Bill Sykes runs a shipping business and has been accused of a number of crimes while his brother Robert is the editor-in-chief of Toon Town Times who seems to be scrubbing his brother's name from the news. However, with her rent due date quickly approaching Holly has to put her investigation on hold to focus on her so far unsuccessful job hunt.

### September

Holly continues to job hunt but is still unsuccessful in finding work. She's scared of what will happen when rent day arrives but is shocked when Shelly ends up completely covering the rent for that month since she started taking extra shifts when Holly lost her job. Holly then continues her investigation of Fairfax and his associates, applying to jobs as she goes. She notices some odd irregularities with the Sykes brothers, specifically the fact that they were almost entirely out of business before their luck seemed to take an unexplainable turn for the better. Still, her research and stalking don't turn up much new information for a while until the day of Fairfax's shady meeting down at the docks.

The morning starts out well for Holly since, as she was waiting outside of Fairfax's apartment, Holly notices a diner she previously applied at and heads inside to ask once more about a job. There she finds the manager at one of the tables working on the books who tells her that they can't hire her since they don't have enough money to do so. Luckily, after looking at the paperwork while talking to him Holly notices that the person doing the ledger is actually stealing from the business and, after helping the manager correct the books, walks out of the diner with a job. Later that evening Holly follows Fairfax down to his meeting at the docks with the Sykes brothers, Fairfax, Ratigan and the commissioner. She listens to their conversation by standing under a side window on a stack of crates. The men discuss the issues they've been having killing Oddswell so they are going to hire a police officer to do it. They also discuss Wilson, the Cupbros, the B-Bros, and the obstacles the female detectives and the police chief are causing. Wanting to get a look inside, Holly tries to lift herself higher using a rope tied to a heavy crate. Unfortunately. the mechanism yanks her up fast, allowing only a glimpse inside before she falls back down into a loud heap outside. The men, now aware that someone was outside, start to come outside so Holly takes off with the help of a speed rune. She races all the way back to the diner and, after assuring the manager that she is fine, hides in a tree outside of Robert Sykes's house to wait for him to come home since if he's home that means he's not out looking for her. After spending the night and the next morning in the tree Holly eventually climbs down in order to run to the diner for her first shift. Things begin to look up for Holly afterwards- Shelly is thrilled at the news that she has a job again, Holly gives the police detectives an anonymous tip about the future attempt on Dr. Oddswell and she's decided to hand over all the information she has to the mayor for him to handle.

The next week Holly walks into the mayor's office with all her research and information with her, ready to tell Mayor Medusa about the whole conspiracy. Unfortunately, as she begins talking to the mayor she notices an envelope identical to one that Fairfax had previously received under his desk. This leads her to realize that the mayor is in on the conspiracy as well. With telling the mayor the truth no longer being an option she pulls out the article Fairfax wrote about her and claims the reason she is there is because the police treated her poorly due to the lies he wrote about her. Mayor Medusa seems very interested in the fact that Holly met the B-Bros yet wasn't questioned by the police, promising to make sure they do their job properly in the future. Soon the meeting ends and Holly has to physically stop herself from running out of the building. After the ordeal at the mayor's office, Holly steels her nerves and decides that whatever happens from here on out she will face it with determination. This is just in time for Fairfax to accidentally discover the knowledge of her new job at the diner. He insinuates that he knows Holly broke into his apartment and that she will be seeing more of him in the future. Now extra cautious about the future ahead but still determined Holly resolves to make a new plan.

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