crystal.

[exequy]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: idk your bff Kostos
RECIPIENT: Everyone, unfortunately
NOTES: :)

[ It would be wiser to limit this complaint to those it's relevant to—the handful of mages who might have been informed of this bargaining after the fact, specifically.

But Kostos isn't in Scouting anymore. Or Diplomacy. Or even Research. And so he's released from any expectation or obligation to be subtle and exercise discretion when he's spitting mad. Right? That's how that works?

Anyway. ]

The fucking pirates took our fucking shit.

[ Important specification: ]

Not Riftwatch's.

[ Also, ]

Shit.

Comments

[ipseite]

( this is concrete. they can work with this. )

Then we must surveil our options. Not all of them are thusly tainted, even if that limits us— this is salvageable. We will salvage it.

( she's still pissed, but now she's pissed and purposeful. )

[exequy]

[ His nod is not audible, but he's too distracted to notice and verbalize it.

There's a distant thud, a creak. His raider cousin is not one he trusted so much as to send them off to check on the island without him present. ]

Some of it is dangerous. [ Half the impetus for storing it on an island to begin with. Harder for (relatively) innocent looters to stumble on. In theory. ] Some of it is—I don't know if one of you should warn the Provost that I am bringing a few crates back to the Gallows.

[ Or ask her permission. Whatever. ]

[ipseite]

We had better, though we may wish to discuss exactly how we wish to present that.

( the storage of dangerous items not actually being handed over to riftwatch's purview,

obviously, they don't solve this by just handing them over to riftwatch's purview. which complicates matters. )

[overharrowed]

It may not matter, but can I ask how you discovered the loss?

[Presumably to Kostos. It COULD matter, for how much moping up they'll have to do outside the initial org-wide message and the mess with Cedric already catalogued.]

[exequy]

I had been worried since they left. But I thought...

[ Paranoia, he thought. And he'd have felt so stupid, if he'd gone rushing off and called in an emergency favor and gave away the location to these different pirates (relatives or no) for nothing. ]

I had the opportunity to check, so I did.

[overharrowed]

Best you did, it turns out. But alright. Petrana is right, we should discuss how we're going to approach the Provost. I imagine she's not in much of a mood for people making unilateral moves.