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[gordianknots]

Unseelie Locket Network, voice

In light of the decree given by the Black Shuck, I am seeking to try and create a database of banshee sightings, to try and help get teams of people or individuals out to the exact location and to give them a hand. To that extent, if anyone is willing to volunteer where they’re interested in heading, so that a note of it might be made and more ground can be be covered by others checking to see if an area has been seen to, please let me know. The goal is to organize something useful, so that this can be done as completely as plausible.

Thank you in advance for your help, and I wish you luck in your endevours.

To Hermione-Net, voice

Hi all. To make a long story short, with the temporary lax standards the Shuck has forced our monarchs to to take, I’m temporarily allowing Unseelie and Seelie alike into the Barrel to try and get this banshee task attended to in the most concise manner possible. I’m trying to collect all possible sightings, and I’ll be happy to pass on spots to check out for anyone who’s interested in restoring their voices.

Obviously for everyone’s safety I’m going to ask that those of you making use of the Barrel try and not go too far astray from the task before us. However, if you need a place for final farewells, I’m not exactly going to stop you either.

Please let me know if you have questions, otherwise I do look forward to seeing a number of you for a final round of cooperation before we have to get back to killing each other.

[ooc: Please let me know what network you're replying on. Also Barrel link for all your cooperation needs!]

Comments

[arla]

It's a good proposal. I'll see what I can do and let you know. If it's successful for at least a few people and their families, word will spread quickly and others might take the chance.

[ Lavellan pauses, uncertain how much more to say. He understands what she's saying, can weigh the dangers it presents. ]

Mages like me can enter that place when we dream but we were never meant to be there physically. I've been there twice now and have come back alive. I do not wish to return there a third time unless there is no other option. [ A pause. ] But you can see why mages like me would be hated and feared in my world. We can tap into power others cannot and leave ourselves open to terrible dangers in the process.

It is when we refuse to understand the unknown that it becomes dangerous.

[ And that is true in any world and under any circumstances, including the predicament they're all in now. ]

If I see the Shuck or if I have the opportunity, I will ask. At Samhain, I asked him about the fighting between the elves and the vampires. Perhaps he will extend more help now that it is one of his own...or perhaps this is a sign that he can't do anything more.

[gordianknots]

Do let me know, and I'll try an help further from there. [He can only pray it'll work.]

It sounds like walking through a swirl of power, but I think I'm simplifying. [He knows it.] And I can understand the logic, unfortunately, but condemn the impulse to hate. It sounds like your magic acts a potential door between worlds but-- all the more reason to study and understand.

That was kind of him to explain. [It seems a fair few folks Waver knows have had positive encounters with the Shuck.] What he can't do, maybe we can help with. More than just restoring voices - getting to the root cause. This feels like treating symptoms, truth be told.

[arla]

It's...a little like that, yes. We reach out and harness that power to exemplify our own power. Our connection to that place - the Fade - is what allows our magic to take root. You're right to say that we're catalysts, in a sense, or conductors of something much more powerful.

[ She lets out a breathy sigh that turns into a quiet rumble of sardonic laughter. ]

I wish I could say I'm a healer. Chasing symptoms isn't something I'm too good at. Finding their voices will help, surely, but you're right; we need to find the reason. If the Shuck can't tell us, perhaps the path we take towards finding their voices will illuminate the reason why they lost them in the first place.

[gordianknots]

[Amplification, Waver thinks. That sounds about right.]

And to redirect all of that into the world. I feel like I'm about to go off and start asking about the discipline of learning magic, and that's for a very different time.

[So he'll withhold, for now.]

Even if the Shuck can offer a hint, then we'd be better off. It could help understand this godswar, and what else to expect. But all of that rests in his paws.

[arla]

We can talk about it over a drink when this is all over. My treat.

[ Assuming they don't screw it all up, but that's par for the course these days. ]

We're chasing a chasm of nothingness and now striving to halt gods in their tracks. Still, the sooner we can understand the godswar and take better steps to stop it in some way, then all the better.

[ A pause. ]

...Did you just make a dog pun?

[gordianknots]

I'll bring something to eat from the bakery in town then. They've been making honey-poppyseed cakes that are fantastic.

[Screwing it up is just more reason to drink.]

I'll settle for understanding at this point. Somehow I think the wheels are already churning and making it impossible to stop.

[Oh. Someone caught that!]

--Maybe.

[The opportunity was there.]