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Lou breaks out into a massive grin:
-You- you're cosplayers, right? The grenade launcher, the body armour... (QM: Lou looks you up and down) I don't know what you did, a goddamn homemade miracle, them cereal packets and tape, real inventive, ha ha! Yeah that bruising around the chest too, that's a nice touch, real nasty. Yeah we get a lot of cosplayers, they like to stalk around the streets and hills by the Sign, playing pretend like in the videogames. And you are a lucky one, to be datin' this fine lady here (Lou whistles appreciatively at Annabel, who blushes - is this feigned actress modesty? - since she seems to really enjoy the attention, as Lou winks suggestively at her) you know what they say, miss, about why white women need the Black Power... same reason why the Black Power victory salute is a fist, you see- (Lou makes a proud upraised fist-pumping gesture)
>Er... you should thank these friendly neighbourhood gentlemen for showing you the way to the Sacred Wood Sign, or at least how to use the mystical phone internet to find it, and hastily escort Annabel away before she learns anything more intriguing about the meaning of these Black Power fisting gestures
>Reply to Lou: you know, if I wanted to subvert the Black Power, I might make, like, this ridiculous sci-fi film about the movement, call it - Black Panther or something, just this completely unrelated fictionalised phrase, so that whenever people search on the phone internet, or even just say or think the phrase, they get this alternative version of it, instead of what the original black militant people themselves said and wrote and did and thought. Maybe that is what the Sign does?
>Reply: I thought the Black Power was about taking a knee or something? (Look at Annabel) hmmm, slavery, kneeling... white women, and the Black Power... what could this posture mean, hmmm
>Reply: I just realised the Sign of The Sacred Wood is really white. Like it is painted in the dazzling, blinding whiteness of oppression. Could you come and help me burn it down?
>(Try and persuade Lou) I don't think you should deal with Pedro and Donnie anymore. Neither of them seem to be very stable individuals...
>(Try and goad Lou) Instead of Pedro ordering you around on hits, you should take him out - take his turf for your own. Black Power!
>Something else...? (write in)
