limacharlie | Day 54

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Day 54

[Usually when Peridot speaks up on the network, she's pretty perky and authoritative. NOT THIS TIME. HAHA.]

Ssssso... I don't want to cause a panic or anything, but there's not exactly an easy way for me to break this news to everyone, so I'm just going to come right out and say it:

I may have kind of, sort of... absolutely found proof in the Scribe's collections that the Summer Court is tracking us. And by the Summer Court, I mean specifically the Rose Queen and Ignatius and all their cronies from Portland are tracking us. And they know we have the Blue Rose.

....

Sorry.

...This is Peridot, by the way.

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That sounds bad.

[long pause]

Any idea how good they are at tracking us?

Not good enough to get into the Carnival, apparently. Summer doesn't exactly seem like the 'wait for the opportune moment' type, so if they could have gotten in they would have tried by now.

Haven't figured out if running into Nightshade in Wismuth was a coincidence or if she knew we were there to start with. Either way, I wouldn't recommend anyone else get stuck with weird faerie tracking seeds. Wasn't much fun.

It'd be easier to get out if you didn't have all that skin on you.

[That's the joking part. Now, more serious:]

Stuff in the carnival is usually under the RM's jurisdiction. The times we have been attacked on our home turf, it's 'cause we did something to invite them in.

The vampires followed our Nightrunner team in the first time and left a curse mark in the forest. Which weakened the wards enough that those computer guys could slip in from computer world, through the people they'd infected.

Other than that, we've mostly just been attacked on away missions.

You got in when the Prince made you to, didn't you? Are the wards going to protect against something like that?

[Oh right. He was trying not to think about that Lambert. Sans obviously sounds a little bit more uncomfortable.]

Uh. Well.

Yeah. I guess the RM didn't realize she needed to ward against me in particular.

Can't she make that ward more ... general? Something like 'don't let in people who want to screw us over.'

Huh.

Think about it this way. What's gunna be harder to get through? A sheer wall, or a wall with a door in it? Magic powers aside.

Depends on how thick the wall is, doesn't it?

But a "no" would've been enough. Still, if they get that far, it'll probably be more your problem than mine.

Edited 2018-05-10 13:43 (UTC)

Eh. You're just lucky my explanation wasn't even longer.

I'd just tune you out a quarter of the way through, but I appreciate it.

[A snort, offhandedly commenting to both Lambert and Sans.]

If any fae lodges anything, especially tracking seeds, under someone's skin... Just send them to me for easy removal with little to no pain.

Well, look at that. That's one problem solved.

Thanks for the hand, pal.

Right, right. Anytime.

[Cause this affects him now so he may as well be a team player.]

Do I even want to know?

Do you? I'm less conserved about showing off my power within the carnival but I don't really like talking about it over the radio.

In short, I can take things out of other things without having to open, cut, or move anything out of the way. So if there were seeds within someone's skin, I could remove it without having to damage the skin further. Same goes for glass, a bullet, a knife. Wires from machinery. So on and so forth.

[Bones from a body. A spine from a skeleton of a person. Brains and organs from a body. The possibilities are endless.] If I can touch it, I can take it.

[A gem from her physical form, perhaps?

She sounds unsettled when she replies:] I see. Noted.

[Deadly and effective.

He has a hard time gauging tone over the radio but...] Right, right. If you need a demonstration later, I can provide...

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Is it something you have to know is there? Or can you just stick your hand in and have a feel around?

Edited 2018-05-11 15:10 (UTC)

A bit of both circumstances. I can just reach in and have a feel around if I just choose to touch anything. For example, if I choose only to touch things that don't belong then I can pull it maybe. Poison from blood, bullets from flesh. Shrapnel from gunfire I wouldn't know what was there in its completion but I could remove all of it if I do a thorough sweep of it.

The text mentioned something about the "familiar scent of magic" in relation to the Ringmaster. It could be possible they're tracking her specifically, I guess? Apparently they were able to deduce that it was the Ringmaster that had bested the Prince and taken the artifact for herself, simply by investigating the remains of his realm.

Uh... look, no offense, but I think it might be good to have the specific wording. Any chance of giving us the whole thing?

Ugh. The whole thing is long.

[And her radio is blowing up with all these people.]

Give me one second, I'll find the relevant passage...

[There's a pause, and the sound of turning pages, and then she recites impatiently:]

"And so, the Rose Queen was sent to find the reminents of the Blue Rose’s presence with an entourage of the Summer Court’s greatest warriors. It was then that they found the treacherous beast has been slain, his realm torn asunder, and the Blue Rose taken. The realm would soon collapse, and little remained - all except a familiar smell of magic, left by the touch of daylight."

That's what it says.

Not liking the part about the "Summer Court's greatest warriors" but... wasn't it always twilight in the Prince's realm?

[He genuinely isn't sure - his memories of the whole thing are a bit confused.]

Are we screwed?

[Sans you know this stuff better than she does please say no]

...No?

[It doesn't sound like something he's entirely sure of, but he's just going to put that out there.]

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