tea time

[bouchonne]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Byerly
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: By is actually trying to be helpful and is not just here for the drama. No comment on my own priorities.

It seems prudent, given the current situation, for us to publicly identify those who have been acting out of character. I can understand a desire for secrecy, to take any imposters by surprise, but the risk of one of our own being caught unawares seems much greater.

Who has been strange of late? And when did this change in behavior start?

Comments

[biggame]

Herb seems like he's figuring out how people behave as he goes. No idea when that started.

[tadpoled]

I know how to deal with people.

I’m also just weird.

[tadpoled]

I have.

[thereneverwas]

Not quite the time for that, mate, unless you're admitting to being a demon.

[favoriteanalyst]

Yeah, you want everyone to open air start pointing fingers at each other for everyone to hear? I don't envision a scenario where that ends well.

[extortionate]

Demon would say that.

[bouchonne]

[ Acridly: ]

M'sieur, I'd love to hear all about any scenario you've envisioned where things do go well.

[extortionate]

Seen Abby doing these - stretches? Weird poses. Unnatural.

[armd]

What?? Oh, that's —

Yoga. I was doing yoga, demons don't do yoga.

from antiva,

[exequy]

There were not any demons in the Gallows before I left just after First Day.

[ Slightly narrowing the timeline will be his ONLY contribution to this plot, thank you. ]

[bouchonne]

Is that an actual assertion? Would you have actually known if there were demons in disguise?

[ some sort of wispy magic bullshit? ]

private ∞

[notathreat]

The first time you and I played instruments together, who all was with us?

[bouchonne]

Hm.

[ Yes. Smart girl. ]

You, myself, Bastien, Provost Stark. What instrument did I say I detest?

[ He hates the oboe. ]

[elegiaque]

( reluctantly, not sure if it's genuinely unusual or just uncomfortably vulnerable, )

Orlov asked me if I thought no one liked him. And he has said, under compulsion to be truthful, that that's not something he cares about.

And if you're listening and not a demon I'm very sorry for mentioning it.

[hassaran]

When was this?

-> private

[dissolving]

I've been suspicious. Haven't had enough to push.

Keen pulled the templars together - information pool. Orlov started numbering the demons. Said there'd probably be no more'n two.

[ ok third demon dot jpg ]

[luaithre]

It's strong.

[ Not directly speaking to the prompt, no, but providing some information nonetheless. ]

It will try to isolate those it considers a mark. None should be alone with anyone they suspect. Don't accept drink or food you can't be certain hasn't been tampered with. It might still have magical ability, susceptible to magebane, but it won't reveal itself so obviously if it can help it. Even when cornered, hurt, captured.

This one only revealed itself when it decided it needed to defend itself or die. In its true form, it's exceptionally dangerous. I don't recommend pressing the point without being prepared.

[atonally]

[ Nice try kid but you're still not invited to Templar Club. ]

[bouchonne]

Can these creatures be controlled by mages?

[ Translation: Was this a Venatori attack? ]

private

[laruetheday]

What about baiting one? You know, if it considers us a mark. Leading it into a trap or something.

private.

[elegiaque]

Orlov's in a secret Templar conversation telling them all he thinks there must only be two demons.

( so if he's a demon there's definitely more than that, right. )

[favoriteanalyst]

[So he ignored Byerly's heated comment before, but later, later when he's got books aplenty spread out around him:]

While people are clearing each other, try to make sure the questions are smaller ones. Not the big, obvious details; more inconsequential ones. Nothing overtly important in someone's life, even if it seems like a demon might not have reason to know. It's a little bit more than just observation these things do.

Feel like it doesn't need said, but Maker's breath, nobody go trying to fight one of these things without a good lot of backup.

[bouchonne]

[ By's still angry with the world. So, bluntly: ]

Shouldn't you people be able to tell? Who's a demon and who isn't? What are Templars even for, if not that?

[muckspout]

'd be worried about a new recruit if it were me.

[bouchonne]

Do you have a specific one in mind, or just new recruits in general?

[portalling]

( is this a bad time to make a pun )

Myself, I’m always Strange,

( —oh no it’s a bad time )

But I can’t say as I’ve noticed anything in particular. It’s still a good idea for people to remain in groups of three, however. I hate to say it, but for the time being, perhaps more of us in solo rooms should stay in group quarters.

[bouchonne]

[ A suspicious frown. ]

Are you typically prone to making jokes in circumstances like these, ser?