Wednesday May 19th, just after the body's appearance

[willyousee]

Travelers: if you were not at Thistle House tonight, you need to know. A face familiar to some as the Blue Illuminant has appeared at the door - unmistakably dead.

[The speaker's voice may be familiar, with its soft French lilt, but Alcuin is not precisely calm tonight. Indeed, he seems shaken and queasy.]

I can show you if you wish, but it is most unusual. And unpleasant.

Keep your wits about you and please stay in close contact with one another if you can. I would suggest not venturing out alone, and if you can manage to stay close with our infiltrator friends, so much the better.

Have any of you any expertise in unnatural deaths? We are going to need your help if we are to determine what has done this and how best to stop it happening again.

Comments

[willyousee]

Yes, thank you... that would be appreciated. Did he speak first? And did it seem as though he was acting alone?

[itsananimalthing]

He seemed pretty alone, yeah. Said he was lost, didn't remember his own name. Wouldn't go into the light, at all, either. Had go around all the streetlights.

[willyousee]

Perhaps he thought himself threatened. I'll spread the word that people should attempt to speak with him before engaging, and at a distance. With luck and diplomacy, we might be able to find out where he came from or how to help him. Even what is prompting him to attack. It is a curious thing... I wonder if he has also been attacking the townsfolk, or if he is focused on Travelers.

[itsananimalthing]

Don't know. I'd imagine he don't really notice the difference. Can't see how we're any more or less tasty than anybody else. Bet he's part of what's goin' on here, though, whatever it is. You don't come across somethin' that weird without it having to do with what we're supposed to do.

[willyousee]

The Illuminants knew. [He's quiet. Troubled. Not quite neutral in this mental space. It's an allusion to his own participation and guilt in that mess.] There was a... power. An energy. That set Travelers apart, though it was difficult to sense beneath the energy of the portals to liminal space. It's possible that as a magical creature of sorts, he might be drawn to whatever remnants of power cling to us.

Regardless, I agree. [His voice strengthens, regaining confidence.] We've heard of nothing like him here - even in this place, he is unusual. We would do well to pay attention to him, I think.

[itsananimalthing]

Fine. I'll ask him next time I find him if there's certain people he's more interested in, then.

[The curt words are said with enough patience, at least, to keep any sting from them. He doesn't mean anything malicious, just efficient.]