Is the collective noun of fae a Blessing or a Curse

[breakaleginhalf]

Okay, can we do like- a fucking stocktake of how many fucking Gentry there are? Because I'm pinging as so similar to them But Not that they keep fucking investigating me.

It's hard to tell when half of them don't have standardised bloody faces but so far I know Phillip, Altaïr, Naoya, uh- Q'uila? And goddamn Jules are all the real deal. Whoever runs some coffee shop around campus is another Traveller but I don't know her name.

Also-- fucking Shiro is a goddamn fucking Fetch. Or-- Changeling, or whatever the fuck it's called here I don't care he's not the real Shiro, the real one's on the Other Side.

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[faerielights]

The real one, or the real...whoever he's possessing for the duration? 'Cause if we can Infiltrate as fae, we can probably Infiltrate as their infiltrators.

Just some food for thought before people decide to rush in swinging.

[breakaleginhalf]

I think whether he's infiltrating or not ignores the bigger point where he's still fucking trapped over there.

[faerielights]

See question one. Is your buddy actually trapped anywhere, or is he possessing the guy wandering around campus pretending to be someone else? 'Cause that seems like a pretty damned important distinction.

[breakaleginhalf]

...you know what, I really wish I could say the Arcana wouldn't do that double infiltrating bullshit but that was literally the last jaunt, so.

All of the Fair Folk I've seen so far, they at least kind of resemble the Traveller. Like their smell or their energy or something, I don't know. This thing just felt wrong on every level.

[faerielights]

Isn't magic fun.

There might be a way to tell for certain if your princess is in another castle. In the interest of knowing exactly why we're possibly about to cause an interdimensional incident.

[breakaleginhalf]

There's some psychic shit we can get here for learning where the fuck people are at, but I don't know it yet. Or if it'd even work if the Hedge here counts as another universe or not.

And I'm not going into there to check. [Not when he barely escaped the first time.]

[faerielights]

I have a few tricks up my sleeve that might work.

If he has been kidnapped off to the Nevernever, what are you planning to do about it?

[breakaleginhalf]

[There's a few moment's silence on his end.]

... besides try and fuck up his replacement? Cos that won't end well for anyone concerned. I dunno.

[runs]

Stone and that werewolf are Gentry, too.

[...]

They're weird here.

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I'll try to pull Jules out.

[breakaleginhalf]

Probably don't, actually. I know it sucks but it's probably better for his sanity that he doesn't get stuck in one of them while he's himself, you know?

[faerielights]

Especially not if the replacement has a boss.

Does he know you suspect he isn't who he's supposed to be?

[breakaleginhalf]

So where I'm from, those things are nine times out of ten murderous fucking bastards. I was not subtle about me knowing what it was, because I thought it was gonna try and kill me.

[runs]

[.........

Why does that have to make sense.]

They'd learn what we are through that, too.

[Because she doubts that Jules could contain his panic.]

[breakaleginhalf]

Right.

[He loves you Jules but he does not trust you with not panicking.]

The fewer people are half-infiltrated, probably the better.

[runs]

....Yeah.

[Her tail lashes, not that that can be seen or the attached emotion felt through the network right now.]

They'll find out about us anyway. Everyone is too bad at being sneaky about Travellers existing. [It's been proven a number of times now.

It's been bad enough so far. But all those fae beings knowing about Liminal...]

[breakaleginhalf]

I think we're just bad at being sneaky in general. Except for the people that are like, literally trained to be sneaky before they got here.

[Subtlety: a Traveller's one true nemesis.]

[runs]

At this point we could only really stay undercover if almost everyone was infiltrated.

[And even then... too many people know how to not fully infiltrate, and that almost leaves more glaring traces.]

[faerielights]

Did he try to kill you?