Early-mid Week 2/3

[memoryandtheft]

It might be time to start considering working on the buddy system.

I've been looking into the disappearing locals, and a few things stand out: they all vanished suddenly, they all vanished from near the shore, and the last time any of them were seen was just before our nightly monster serenade.

I don't know whether it's driving something out of the water to snatch people or luring people in, but either way, wandering around alone seems like a damn good way to wind up on the missing persons list.

Comments

[dino_zarf]

Do I need to come up with an underwater baby leash?

[Because he'll do it, he definitely will]

[memoryandtheft]

I don't know if there's actually much difference between an underwater baby leash and the regular kind, but that might not be a bad idea.

[dino_zarf]

I think she's actually faster underwater than on land.

[ANd she's already pretty fast]

ANd has a hard time with the concept of dangerous.

[memoryandtheft]

I'm pretty sure the concept of danger doesn't actually grow in for another few years. Just in time for it to take a break again around puberty.

[dino_zarf]

I really need to find something she can't liminal away.

[If she's not learning danger any time soon]

[fruitknife]

...Think I'm just gonna keep staying in Liminal overnight.

[memoryandtheft]

That works as long as the think keeps its singing strictly to after dark. And as long as whatever effects it has don't start lingering past sunrise.

[fruitknife]

True. Never said it was a perfect answer.

[memoryandtheft]

Yeah, well.

Sing out if you need help.

[Private, Psychic Protection I]

[comebewe]

...We might be able to help you look for them.

[Private]

[memoryandtheft]

If you have some creative methods of searching, I won't turn you down. I've exhausted most of the mundane ones, and the picture they paint isn't hopeful.

[And the absence of any signs of struggle make her particular breed of magic less useful than it might normally be.]

[Private, PP 1 for the rest of this thread]

[comebewe]

If you can get your hands on some objects that belonged to them, I might be able to use that to track them down.

Well. If they're still alive, that is.

[Perma-private]

[memoryandtheft]

That won't be a problem.

[The benefits of a misspent youth.]

Is there any particular kind of objects that'd work best?

[comebewe]

Anything that they owned for a long time.

[naturaltwohands]

Thank you for the warning. I will be happy to accompany anyone that needs protection.

We must have been sent here to find what is causing this....

[memoryandtheft]

I'm pretty sure our trouble only starts with finding the cause.

[naturaltwohands]

The defeating part of the task is also an obvious part of it, of course.

[memoryandtheft]

And a part we might be seriously underequipped for.

[theflyingone]

One of the Pulao sailors was killed.

I found the body buried in the wet sand. He was stabbed in the back of the neck and weighed down with two cannonballs. The other missing people are... the trails lead out to sea.

[ He neglects to mention that it's blood, and also that he can sense it even as the tide washes it away from sight and smell. However, this too will vanish eventually. ]

Now I ask: Should we tell the Captain?

[memoryandtheft]

Of course we tell her. She deserves to know someone's murdered one of her people.

[There's a hint of incredulity there. Hiding the information would be of little benefit - and that's being generous.]

What trails?

[theflyingone]

There is the possibility that she will place the blame on us. I would like to avoid bringing harm to us, so I ask a question others would not. Perhaps sharing your information with her will help gain her trust. It does seem as though this is the result of that Song, but she will have to be convinced with no evidence of the real killer.

The trails are likely blood, but the tide has washed them away. That is all I have on those. Professor Lyall has seen the body as well, and he has the benefit of being a man of science.

[memoryandtheft]

Even if we ignore the fact that not telling her will definitely make her suspect us if she finds out any other way, being afraid of potential consequences isn't an excuse to hide the death of someone's friend and subordinate from them.

And if the trails were washed away, how did you find them?

[claudiometer]

If you don't tell her, I will. She'll want to know at least one of her people is accounted for.

[theflyingone]

Do you have a rapport with her?

[ He knows they as themselves are good friends, but he cannot speak for Helena's Infiltrator. ]

[claudiometer]

Enough of one to get this job done, at least.