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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

[quaestionespatris]

Octavius V--Rutyer.

[haha oopsie doodle he almost said the other thing!! fortunately he's too much of a downer to care enough to sound anxious about it.]

I'm new.

[thereneverwas]

...Rutyer?

[uhhh]

Any relation to Byerly Rutyer?

[quaestionespatris]

He's my cousin.

[he should lie more often when he's depressed, this is actually so easy.]

[thereneverwas]

Byerly? Is he your cousin?

[quaestionespatris]

[did he stutter, what's with the twenty--oh. well.]

Yes? [then, because misery makes him a pissy little bitch,] What, is he your cousin, too? I think people can have more than one cousin, can't they?

[a beat. then, gloomy but sincere,] Sorry.

[thereneverwas]

[patiently,]

I'm asking Byerly.

[quaestionespatris]

...oh. right.

[bouchonne]

[ Sorry, Byerly was too busy moping. For a minute, at least. ]

He is. Uncle went up north to marry into a merchant clan.

[ Lying is easy for By whether he's depressed or not. ]

[thereneverwas]

Righto.

I'll be up soon, then.

[quaestionespatris]

Thanks.

[to Byerly or to Barrow? who knows, maybe both.]