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

[extortionate]

We should get another Rifter to verify.

[armd]

(Loudly,) Another rifter, get in here.

[heirring]

It's true. They do it with goats.

[armd]

I don't — do it with goats. (Phrasing, please,)

But there, it's true.

[extortionate]

Abby, I like you, but if you been putting goats in those positions -

[armd]

I don't think goats can even go in those positions. When did goats get involved?

[bouchonne]

Oh, they sit on your back, I think.

[ He did his time in Tony Stark's rifter world. ]

[armd]

Huh.

(That's soooo weird.




But kinda cute...)

[extortionate]

In some kinda sacrifice, I figure. Any rate - there's more -

Healer's always talking on washing, but hardly spends any time in the baths.

[elegiaque]

He's fine.

[notathreat]

It's true. The goats are for morale.

[armd]

(Admittedly,) They are cute.

[notathreat]

They're either cute, or their weird goaty eyes stare deep into your soul and scare you into finishing your reps.

[armd]

We had goats at the stadium. Have you had goat cheese before?

[notathreat]

Yeah. It's not bad. Better than sheep's... everything.

private

[armd]

(But forreal, checking:)

What's the Fireflies' motto?

private

[notathreat]

When you're lost in the darkness, look for the light.

The last time we had a fistfight here in the Gallows, how'd you get to me to stop?

private forever

[armd]

Broke your collarbone.

(She releases a breath. Okay.) Clarisse is Clarisse? I haven't asked her anything yet.

[notathreat]

Yeah, that was part of it.

[Enough of it. Ellie exhales, shaky.]

Clarisse is Clarisse. Yseult's clear. Notice anything weird about Gela lately?

[youwonscience]

[Not angry, but firm:]

The goats do sit on your back, yoga is real and not demonic, and maybe let's not set the precedent of all this rifter stuff is inherently suspicious, OK? Not to rain on the parade, I know this was kind of a joke, but "the rifters are probably demons" had a lot of currency for a long time and we've got a lot on our hands right now without flirting with that.

[extortionate]

Got it, boss. Goats are real.

[ well, wait. can't for the life of him remember: ]

The kid, Benedict. He got a shard?

[bouchonne]

[ Overhearing this - ] He does.

[extortionate]

Those respond fucky to magic at all? Some way a demon couldn't fake?

[bouchonne]

That, I don't know.

[youwonscience]

It's a good point, though. [Certainly a more helpful one.] I don't know offhand of a lot of work on demons and shards interacting, but it's not something that's never come up. I'll comb the notes, have a couple Research people assist me for safety's sake. I don't know if it'll yield anything, but I'll keep the organization posted.