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

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[favoriteanalyst]

Thanks. Honestly, if he decides to show his face up here for any reason, I might start throwing books at him. I know why he's arguing what he's arguing, and I know why we're arguing what we're arguing, and I hate that he's got a point even if he's wrong.

[He blows out some anxious air.]

I can't vouch for the other Templars. I don't know them well enough. How fucked would that be? [big fucked is what] I don't even know what inconsequential kind of details to go on. Uh, shit, what part of the Chant did I start praying in the Crossroads? [is that?? even something barrow would have remembered through the fear??]

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[thereneverwas]

Don't-- [a sigh, but Barrow lets him speak, since it's clearly venting and not any actual declaration of violence.]

It'd be pretty fucked, [he wearily agrees,] um. ...the bit about, um, wandering the Beyond. Because that's what we were doing, right?

[An awkward pause.]

When we went to Jude's world, what did I give you?

[favoriteanalyst]

A fish. [And after a moment, mock offended:] Not even the whole fish, just a bit of the tail.

Okay. I figured--we had to be sure.

[thereneverwas]

A man's got to prepare for winter, you know. [also mock offended]

[favoriteanalyst]

Pretty sure you had enough on you to last winter and more.

[thereneverwas]

If only it were so simple.