Day 54

[periphrasing]

[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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[Mingle and threadjack as you please!]

Comments

[chronosynthesis]

I can think of a longer list of people who shouldn't touch them. [Why does every risk have to come bite them in the ass later? As if that situation wasn't bad enough...]

[whattaprick]

Good point. Might be quicker to make a list of who is allowed to touch it.

[osteothropy]

I'll pass.

[whattaprick]

I mean, so far the only person on the list I have is the Ringmaster. Less I have to deal with anything that fae again, the better.

[soft_focus]

Ummmmh...

...can't there be a way to grab things...without touching them?

[Not that she understands a lot of this, but that seems like the Obvious Solution here.]

[whattaprick]

Sure. Probably.

[ Just don't ask him how, all right. Or... ]

Maybe 9S could just send Pod after it. That'd go well enough, wouldn't it?

[soft_focus]

Oh!

[SHE KNOWS WHO THAT IS. Both of them. She watched him fish using Pod-]

Pod is just a robot thing, so I think so! It's only if someone like a person touches it that things might happen right?

[She's trying very hard to avoid saying Machine. 9S would get Mad.]

[whattaprick]

That or all the magic could make it explode.

[ All too cheerful. ]

But at least we'll definitely know not to touch it then.

[soft_focus]

Yeah!

....You probably can't use magic to make it float then either though, I guess...

[Who knows why these two points connected in her head. But they Did. (Something something if THAT'S impossible, EVERYTHING IS, perhaps.)]

[spaghettimonster]

Of course we can!

Even if we can't turn it blue... we could always use bones to pick it up.

[soft_focus]

[!!!!!!

OH SHIT!!] OH!!!

And bones definitely aren't people when they're just bones!!

We could just put things in bone boxes until there's safe somewhere!!

[YOU'RE A GENIUS PAPYRUS]

[spaghettimonster]

And bones are less prone to exploding than robots!

I'm sure this is worth trying.

[THAT HE IS, SMALL CHILD, THAT HE IS.]

[soft_focus]

Yeah!!

[THEY'VE GOT THIS]

We should make a list of different ways we can make the mirror keep away from everything though.

That way, it'll be easier no matter who finds it first...

[kingsroads]

Syrlya, I know you're talking about me.

[ they just had this fight, gosh!!! ]

[chronosynthesis]

[Syrlya is absolutely talking about him, but like a petty bastard he's not going to acknowledge that.]

[periphrasing]

Why don't we all just agree that no one is allowed to touch any of the artifacts, with the obvious exception of the Ringmaster.

[soft_focus]

Yeah!

We can make it float instead. Or.... ...Or use the robot, like Lambert said.

[Reira please let adults handle this one.]

[sunflowerfields]

Would it be safe to touch them if you were wearing gloves?

[We have so many oven mitts in the cookhouse you guys]