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[hassaran]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Yseult
RECIPIENT: All members of Riftwatch
NOTES: Branching off of this scene. Note that despite the IC call for assistance we OOCly don't actually need to add any more people to that thread, the three of them will deal with the demon themselves before anybody else can get there. We just needed an excuse to make an all hands post asap.

Riftwatch, there is a demon in the Gallows masquerading as Benedict Artemaeus. He has been cornered in the fifth floor workroom. Assistance would be appreciated.

[ Yseult almost always sounds brisk on the crystals; today her speech is quicker and more clipped than ever. ]

Until we know more and can confirm there are no other imposters among the company, be on your guard. Report any unusual activity immediately.

Comments

[notathreat]

Nah, he's never been into that.

... he had to have been himself back in the Wastes. I hope. He got super upset with me for talking about how wine should be served hot.

I was fucking with him. Just to be clear.

[dissolving]

[ it's the wastes, all wine is hot eventually - not the point -

(the point is that the march these past few months would be a great place to run afoul of a demon or more,) ]

You're pretty good friends?

[notathreat]

Sort of.

Abby knows him better than I do. We save a dance for each other when events happen. I give him shit at every opportunity. You know how it is.

[dissolving]

I'm sorry.

[ sucks when your people die. but they don't need the past tense distraction right now: ]

He's lucky to have friends. The others you've got here - anyone trying to make nicer with you than usual? Since the Wastes.

[notathreat]

I'm thinking about it. But I don't wanna throw any names out there yet, just in case.

[dissolving]

Reckon that's wise. Hope we're all wrong, and it's just the one.

[notathreat]

I sure hope so.

[bouchonne]

[ Distantly: ] That is a bit of a relief.

[notathreat]

It would make sense if some spirits or demons hitched a ride back with us from the Wastes.

[bouchonne]

We had uneasy dreams, didn't we? Mages, I know, are vulnerable to what comes in dreams.

[notathreat]

... you think he's possessed?

[bouchonne]

[ A hesitation. ]

Rowntree, apparently, has said that possession is unlikely.

[ But that's one man's word, and heard only indirectly from Yseult. ]

[notathreat]

If Marcus says so, then it's worth hoping.

[Marcus is an experienced mage. The only person she'd probably take the word of over him is Vanya's.]

It could also just be making itself look like him.

[bouchonne]

[ Distantly, clinically: ]

Which then begs the question of where he himself is.

[notathreat]

Yseult's on it. We'll figure it out.