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Tobal Copper

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tire-company-chemistThe Bilming City Records dossier on Tobal Copper fills him in: aged fifty-three, a chemist specialising in rubber and manufacturing, employed by Basin Tires until he was fired five years ago for *erratic behaviour*. He sued the company afterwards, claiming they had refused to listen to his vital discoveries about the impending end of the world. The suit was dismissed before trial. His one police-blotter entry is for banging on doors in his apartment building shouting that *they've almost split harmonium, and when they do, it's going to destroy us all.* Two weeks ago he vanished.MB2:TLM:Ch 29
shot-at-his-deskSearching the apartment, Wayne taps loose putty out of the wall behind the writing desk and finds a plugged bullet hole; Marasi brushes out flakes of blood and what looks like a sliver of bone. The Set shot Copper from behind while he sat working, dug their bullet out, cleaned the blood from the wood, and rebuilt the place into a tidy shell rigged with grenades.MB2:TLM:Ch 30
chemist-on-rocket-propellantWas hired to research chemical propellants for the Set's rocket project — a self-propelled shell capable of flying miles or hundreds of miles before detonating — and only realised what the project was actually for some time after he had started. He stopped reporting to Maraga Dulcet two weeks before this chapter and is presumed killed; their target detonation date had been the day after he vanished.MB2:TLM:Ch 33