crystal.

[luaithre]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Marcus Rowntree
RECIPIENT: All
NOTES: Happening around this incident. As a note, Marcus isn't going to linger too long in threads.

Those currently in the Gallows: a member of ours has been attacked. The one responsible is secured, but stay on your guard.

Anyone of Forces listening to this, do the rounds. Check each room you go by, in case anyone else is hurt. Indicate under this message which floors are cleared or if you need assistance.

Comments

[muckspout]

[After only a few minutes]

Second floor cleared! Priority upwards or downwards, ser?

[luaithre]

Downwards.

[ In case there's someone else. In case someone's running. He doesn't think so, but— ]

[muckspout]

[Breath heavy, clearly from running.]

Basement's cleared. No one hurt in the baths.

[thereneverwas]

Courtyard looks all right, I'll make my way into the main tower.

[luaithre]

The Templar tower, [ brisk, but lacks some of that edge he might occasionally angle in Barrow's direction. ] In case anyone was harmed in their rooms.

[thereneverwas]

On it.

[tadpoled]

[This is like seeing an alternate version of his episode, where there was no warning and he ran free with a dagger. He hasn't been extra secured after the episode, so he can only assume that he didn't have another incident so shortly after the first.

He needs to ask this, if only for his own sanity.] Please tell me it wasn't me.

[luaithre]

[ This is not how you'd find out if it was, is a vindictive thing to say, and Marcus is angry enough already to know that the young man on the other end of this crystal doesn't deserve the brunt of his ill-temper.

So, after a second, ]

No, lad, it wasn't.

[tadpoled]

[A quiet sigh of relief and a shuffle of Tav as he gets to his feet to begin to look around ask well.]

Thank you.

[elegiaque]

Understood. Cleared the first floor of the Templar tower, I'm going to check the staffed bathing.

[luaithre]

If you're clear, post up at the eyrie.

[elegiaque]

Got it. On my way up.

[laruetheday]

Making my way down from the top of the mage tower now.

[luaithre]

Good. Go by the docks when [ if ] you're clear, see that the boats are held for now.

[laruetheday]

Roger that.

[armd]

(Cool, the lack of details is stressful,)

Checking templar tower now, top down. (May as well bring the dog, sends him ahead of her, barking.)

[wearyallalone]

Five is clear, I'll hold for you and we can work the rest of the way down together.

[armd]

'Kay. You might see the Mabari first.

[ipseite]

Define secured.

( things that should have been private, probably. )

[luaithre]

Unconscious.

[ He could probably stand to sound less satisfied. ]

[ipseite]

( no, that's the amount of satisfaction she wants to hear in this moment. )

...very well. Thank you, Captain.

[atonally]

[ Uggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh— ]

I'll do the tunnels and the dinghies.

[luaithre]

[ Heh. ]

Guard the docks when you're done.

[atonally]

Sure.

[ :) :) :)

:| ]

[dissolving]

[ he isn't in forces. or the gallows. but - ]

Ferry's dock-side. D'you want them to hold it?

[luaithre]

Aye. I'll have someone meet you in case there's trouble.

[ He doesn't fully recognise this person's voice, and so assumes he's not one of his. ]

[dissolving]

Thanks. We're grounded.

[ i'm not going to carry my sword around, that sends the wrong message, thought local man now wielding an oar ]

[notathreat]

Aerial perimeter secured.

[luaithre]

Alright. I'll see someone spared to guard the eyrie as a point of exit.

[elegiaque]

I'm at the eyrie now.

[bouchonne]

Maker's breath -

[ You Forces assholes are all freaks. ]

Who was attacked?

[luaithre]

[ A fact that's true about our world: Marcus has displayed less overwhelming dislike of Rutyer since the Granitefell incident, and so ordinarily, there would be no instinct to bare his teeth. If it's a setback that a second person Byerly has some attachment to has come for Marcus' own, or if he has no patience to take questions over the crystals— ]

Not now,

[ —well, snapping back could mean efficiency, or it could be either of those things. ]

[bouchonne]

[ Byerly, to his credit, takes it as efficiency. He's noticed the thawing of relations, and so he doesn't interpret it as hostility so much as brusqueness. ]

Share information soon, then. We all care about one another, and will be quite anxious till we hear.

[luaithre]

[ Cooperation has Marcus hesitate rather than drop his crystal into his coat pocket and move on. A beat, and he says; ]

Aye.