An Unhappy Announcement. [End of Week 3, start of Week 4]

[summerorange]

Everyone, I...I have an update on what was going on with Jules.

[There's a pause, as if she's steeling herself.]

He...he was attacked by someone named Matthew, though Jules thinks that he may have been in the mindset of his counterpart, Masshuu. That person, I presume is the one who was trying to hurt Jules with fire. There was another person who saved him before I could reach the area, but...

[A heavy silence for a few moments.]

Neither survived. I don't know who rescued him but...I am sorry to anyone who might've known either of those two men. Had I been there sooner...

[The implications are left hanging in the silent air on the Network.]


((OOC: Feel free to use this as a general fallout reaction to the mentioned incident.))

Comments

[leftbehindagain]

--Wait, what? When was this?

[failgoyle]

I mean, I'm reasonably sure he was Masshuu, I just...just...don't know if he went back to being Matthew when he died, and I can't find Matthew anywhere...

[summerorange]

Just a few minutes ago. It...it was why Jules was shrieking on the Network again.

[summerorange]

And their bodies were gone by the time I arrived there.

...did you...did you get any glimps at whoever tried to save you?

[leftbehindagain]

Hell of a time for me to be out of it. [Guess who was off in Overlay Land himself and missed all the shouting.]

Do you know if anything happened to them afterward?

[summerorange]

Their bodies just...disappeared. I only saw blood and burn marks by the time I arrived there.

[Besides, y'know, naked gargoyle victim]

[leftbehindagain]

...huh. Did they disappear anywhere in particular, do you know?

[Given that Jules was apparently the main witness, she may not know. It depends on how useful his screaming was.]

I've never heard of anyone dying in Liminal Space, so if it's happened before it's been quite a while. But if they go to the trouble of reviving us on jaunts, they probably will here too.

[summerorange]

I'm afraid I don't. Jules might know what happened to their bodies, but given how he was when I found him, it...it might be a while.

[leftbehindagain]

Well, it's not like they could've gone far, at least.

...I might be able to try something, but I don't think I can right away.

[summerorange]

W-Waitasecond! Are you saying that you're just expecting them to revive and walk away? Just like that? After one of them tried to kill a fellow Traveler?

[leftbehindagain]

Maybe not 'just like that,' but even the places we've been whisked off to for those private conversations are still part of Liminal Space. Whether we can get to them is another question, but I bet we can at least figure out where they are. Much beyond that would be more difficult.

[summerorange]

And how do you suggest we'd do that? It's not like we can track each other down with our minds or anything like that.

[solvethepuzzle]

Thank you, this is much more coherent than he was. [Good job on sympathy, Near.]

[itsananimalthing]

This is why I told people not to fuckin' kill anybody in liminal space. It's happened before and it wasn't pretty. Don't ask for details, I don't fuckin' got 'em right now. I know who it was and how it happened, but not the "not pretty" part.

Good news is, they'll be back. But it'll take a while, like a week.

[forcechanic]

Matthew wouldn't... but... Masshu.

What does it even mean, here?

[leftbehindagain]

You can with the right skills.

[loyalrebel]

Was there anything left at the scene besides Jules?

[loyalrebel]

What happened.

I was an overlay myself.

[failgoyle]

He was just a stabby guy...

[failgoyle]

You try staying calm when someone's trying to set you on fire and slice your throat!

[hazardlight]

Like, 'actually physically dead' neither survived? Shit.

I mean, sounds like it probably ain't gonna stick, but that's not a question I really needed answered.

[A pause.]

Where'd it happen?

[summerorange]

...you mean, that's actually possible?

[That sounds both reassuring, and get a little unsettling at the same time.]

[summerorange]

I mean, what did he look like, besides that?

[summerorange]

...you're welcome...

[Yeah, not very comforting there.]

[summerorange]

It happened before? Do you...know when it happened?