Backdated to early 8 Feb | Text | Unseelie locked

[gordianknots]

By now I think everyone knows that the monarchs are asking us to run after the Jabberwock to try and return it back to them. We know that it responds to touch, that it likes puzzles, and that lavender will help soothe it.

But there are problems with what we’ve been told that need to be solved now.

1. It’s the middle of winter. We need sources of lavender, and I do not imagine that this will be easy. If anyone knows where to begin, and can say so on an open post here, you’d be doing everyone a great favour.
2. The Jabberwock isn’t small. Making puzzles that will be the right sie will be a struggle. Thoughts on how to go about that are welcome. I’m not imagining that it is going to be possible to walk up to this thing and ask it why did the chicken cross the road?
3. Touch. If this thing’s aura of rot is as true as old accounts have presented it, we need to find ways to deal with that. Quickly.

I’m encouraging brainstorming on this network post because anything that can be thought up together will have a greater chance of working.

Chime in if you can and for the love of whatever is dearest to you, stay safe.

Comments

[gordianknots]

In so many words.

Someone better find a way to kill it for once and for all.

[getinthechariot]

Then the riddles are only to slow it down. And no one can get close enough to it to use touch without dying themselves. How does it respond to lavender?

[gordianknots]

Apparently it just calms it down. If anyone's trying to kill it, it'd need all that flower power.

[getinthechariot]

Indeed.

We will still need someone who can strike from a distance once it's stopped.

A Lancer, or Archer, for instance.

[In fact, if what he'd seen was in any way representative of the man's true skill, the Fifth War's Lancer might have the ability to kill it from a distance. Whether he'd help them or not, however, was somewhat debatable]

[gordianknots]

[Waver pauses. He shouldn't tell this to too many people. But Rider needs to know.]

Someone's told me that the other side might have a way. But they don't have details.

[getinthechariot]

Do we know which Seelie they intend to call upon?

[gordianknots]

No, and I can't risk even acquiring that information. If it goes to shit, or if it's successful? The potential results of me being implicated would cost my life.

[getinthechariot]

Plausible deniability, then. I see. The monarchs seem to have a way of knowing what we do without being told, so that is probably for the best.

Do they simply want to keep the beast alive for strategic purposes? Or is there another reason?

[gordianknots]

The thing can kill the Seelie equivalent of itself - dragons. And it can just...destroy. Tear shards out and leave them to be harvested.

[getinthechariot]

What the devil ever made them think it would be that easy? Once released, why should it do their bidding?

It seems that would only end in two rampaging beasts, not two rampaging beast hellbent on destroying one another.

[gordianknots]

In theory, it should be fine. I think that the Seelie destroying Caer Scima released it too early, and it isn't under anyone's command yet.

[He sighs, rubbing the bridge of his nose.]

They maybe want two rampaging beasts. See it as strategy. I don't know, they're idiots!