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[Drizzt's human hands are holding up some paper, his eyes focused on a note in neat Imperial Calligraphy:

I have your charts. If you want a chance of ever leaving this benighted island, bring me the Bando rebels’ box and give me safe passage back to the Empire.

K

Drizzt's gaze continues to linger on it as he speaks out loud, voice even but laced with anger. Yes, he's got a young teenager's voice. And yes, it doesn't do anger very well. Also yes, shut up.]

As the note says, our sea charts have been stolen. [You know, the ones Drizzt found after they didn't need them anymore?] I found this ransom note on the back of our charter.

Does anyone possess clues that might lead to the identity of the traitor? What course of action should we take? And where exactly would we meet this individual? They've neglected to mention a location with which to meet.

fruitknife

Anyone seen Shirogane lately?

whydoyoushine

Oi, just a heads-up, if you see Kotei, he's not me anymore.

Some of the others got kind of suspicious, and they held an exorcism. Kind of a drag...

papacerberus

As many of you already know, I retained the ability to discern the will of other creatures, and I have been employing that ability to gain knowledge of the Singer of the corrupted Song. It is a draining process, so I had to split it into two forays, and I reported the first a few days ago. I just finished the second one.

Just for the ease of listeners, this was what I discovered the first time: There were two wills, and one was dominating the other. The dominated will was bitter and anguished.

This time I focused my efforts more deeply on the dominated will. These are the results. The Singer has been...programed by that other will. There is room for disobedience to that programming, but the Singer shies away from contemplating it because of the painful consequences. The Singer also wills for an end, either for healing and freedom from the demands of the other will, or for death and the rest that brings, but does not strive towards those because the Singer believes both options to be impossible.

We can give the Singer hope for an end, and I believe we must. That anguish must be stopped, one way or another. Who is with me, and does anyone have ideas on how to undo programming of that kind?

triggerhappytraitor

As many of you may be aware, Lyall and I have been working on analyzing the Stricken disease to find a cure and possible way of vaccination against it. Thanks to the cooperation of many and much time and effort, we have managed to isolate it and can officially report on our findings.

The Stricken disease is a form of bacterial infection, likely transmitted through biologic contamination -- that is to say through the shedding of dead cells, saliva and other bodily fluids. Samples have responded to treatments of two types of antibiotics, penicillin and doxycycline, and should be able to be overcome in the body with administration of a proper course of those drugs.

Work on a vaccine to prevent the infection from being able to gain hold in the body has begun, as has production of a large quantities of the antibiotics in both pill and liquid form.

Anyone who has shown any sign of infection or believes they have been exposed to it should report to Liminal Space where a clinic has been set up to administer the antibiotics. Anyone who has concern over possible allergic reaction or a DNA structure that may be incompatible to standard human medications should plan on spending a bit more time to have a blood sample drawn and tested to insure there will be no harmful reactions.

Thank you.

[[Clinic and "traveling sawbones" log]]

mytearsaremine

[There's a new voice piping up on the psychic network, a nervous and stressed-sounding voice. One who has spoken up on the network before, though at least this time she isn't screaming.]

I'm stuck. I'm stuck in liminal space. I-- I don't know how to get out and there's this awful music and I keep sinking in the water or whatever it is and can someone come and get me? Please?

[Guess what. Jolie is back from being torn apart by a Stricken, and she still doesn't know how to make portals. She may also kind of sound like she might be trying not to cry. Oops.]

professorwolf

Does anyone else have any background in biology or chemistry? I thought I might investigate this Stricken thing from a more scientific perspective, and I wouldn't mind some help. It's the only thing I can think of to do that might actually be useful. It might all be for naught, if it's an entirely magical sort of thing, but at least I can try.

And before anyone worries, I'm about ninety-nine percent certain I'm immune. The whole undead werewolf thing, you know. I don't really get sick, and I already have a particularly restricted diet and desire to eat things I shouldn't, so I doubt this will do anything to me.

Thorne, I don't suppose you could convince the local leaders here to let me near their afflicted? I'll wear a medical mask, and everything, but you've spoken with them already and I think it might go over well if I had a spokesperson, rather than going about asking for cheek swabs and blood draws willy-nilly.

loyalrebel

I... will need a rundown of what the story is about what happened on the ship, and who is in charge. I would also appreciate some assistance in putting together some sort of disguise, I may have my legs again but it would likely raise questions if I showed up around the island.

[Malik is... back. In other words.]

I am... I will warn you all now. If you sneak up on me, I am very likely to strike first and worry about who I have hit later.

[Because there's really only one way to stop infiltrating mid-jaunt without someone using a Skill to do it.]

thornsofmalkav

Hokay. So. Me and Claudia have been talking and we've noticed we aren't being affected by the weird Song thing or even many of the side effects and one thing we both have in common is we're both pretty good at psychic protection--that is, shielding our thoughts and stuff--so we're pretty sure there's at least somewhat a psychic component to it.

I was thinking that maybe, even with the other precautions happening, it might be a good idea to teach anyone who doesn't know it yet how to do that psychic protection. At least the beginners version of it, if not the extra-strength version we both know.

Also...

[And here she hesitates, guilt warring with guilt. An entire year of not telling people something they really should have known, versus the desire to protect someone dear to her. But if she didn't name names, maybe that would be protection enough. And people should know. She was tired of covering for him, especially since as far as she could tell he'd never stopped doing it.

She wonders if he'll be mad at her after this. Fine. Let him be mad. She'll remind him that she could have used his name.]

Also, I kind of really think that everyone who can learn psychic protection should, for the simple fact that there are people among the Travelers who will listen in to your private conversations. Some of them will listen into every unprotected private conversation that passes through the network. Because they think they have a right or a need to listen to them.

I know. It's happened to me.

So. Yeah. I can't force any of you to learn this, but I think it's a really good idea. And I'm here to walk you through it over the network or I can go find you if you'd rather have an in-person lesson.

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.

claudiometer

So, two things.

Thing one: I found Raidou, and it turns out his overlay can't talk. Anyone know a form of sign language we can pass on so the poor guy can at least make himself heard? [So to speak.]

Thing two: Who all's got some Grid-fu at their disposal? We might be able to use that to find out something about our creepy nightly serenade, but I don't have any tricks that'd be halpful by themselves.

professorwolf

Hello, sorry, Lyall here. Do all of you recall that vision I had of the dividing wall between us during the last month or so of liminal space? How it was a very literal sign of what was to come?

It's happened again. I had another one. And it's being about as persistent as the first one, so I'm guessing it's important. I can share it directly if anyone would like me to, but in summary, I believe there's something out there beyond the reefs. I saw dark water, well below the level of the reefs, and a large, pale, diseased something. All I saw was a wall of flesh, that was then obscured by bubbles, and then it went even darker. Like it dove away.

I don't know if we need to find it to stop it, or find it to help it. But I do think we need to find it, if just to keep it from coming here.

... also, I am still making earplugs, for those who are finding the noise difficult to bear. I'm not sure if it will help entirely, but it can't hurt. If anyone wants to try and distribute them to people who trust them and might need them, please let me know, I'll get you a few pairs.

chalicejoker

Look, being back in the Bando...it's not good for Matthew or for me. Not after the last Jaunt. Matthew thinks he can open a portal to the Walkabout, and if any of the missing people aren't hiding around somewhere else here, they'll be there.

So we're leaving. I won't wreck anything, he won't get recognized...it's for the best. Don't worry about us.

[There's a very short pause, and then...]

Shit. Shit! That didn't...

thornsofmalkav

All right. In the interest of keeping everyone on the same page, here's the story we're going with, at least on the finny side of things. Those of you with legs should work your story to fit with this.

We're calling ourselves the Cornu school currently, although that's not our original name. We had territory invaded by the Thalassans and during the invasion we lost all our sirens and the bulk of our warriors. We're running away to regroup and figure out where we're going next, so we're only asking if they'll let us stay on the island for a month or two. Like we discussed, I'm currently de facto Leader, but I'm very new at this.

There was a storm. We found the Cornu, which had its crew swept overboard. No one knew the Song of Breath, so we couldn't do anything. Because we felt responsible, we said we'd help the passengers and the cabin boy find their way to shore, but because they got blown off course it made more sense to try to find the legendary island hidden in the Labyrinthine Shoals than to get them to a human port. They're here to hunt and fish and replenish their supplies so we can take them to the human port.

We're probably going to only need to stay for a month or two. That covers how long the Jaunt should last.

I'm going to be vague as to where you humans come from originally, but you should probably get the story together. I think Lyall knows where you're going to claim to be from?

Lupa, you should really try not to Sing in front of people, but if you get caught... you were raised by mermaids--not our school--and you lost them and booked passage on the Cornu to find them. We are completely confused as to why you can Sing at all, but we're keeping you alive so we can find out. And also because it would upset the other humans.

All we know about the Pulao school is that they're just as confused about the weird Song as we are.

triggerhappytraitor

I've spoken with Kinji's infiltration -- Teruo. He's lieutenant to the Pulao mermaid leader. And while, as Hajime has said, he can be dangerous, we were able to talk for quite a while, civilly.

He said that the strange Song at night was not something he or any of his group have had any experience with. It is affecting the sirens who hear it much like hypnotism, and he expressed concern to what the long term effect could be, and warned to keep a close eye on any sirens in our group because of it.

I've also arranged for a possible alliance between his school and ours. Do we have someone who's willing to take the role of our group's leader to speak with theirs?

chalicejoker

Heads up--if you run into Teruo, Kinji's infiltration, some kind of yellow sea snake mermaid--be really damn careful. He's a menace.

Asshole goaded me into what I thought was a spar, but then he started singing, and it...

[Hajime's mental voice trails off in embarassment here before picking up again.]

Look, I'm not proud of it, but it's hard to get me to back down from a fight. And what he did, it...I just stopped fighting. Didn't even think to defend myself. He kept it up long enough to hit me with a cheap sucker punch.

[The irritation is just coming off his mental voice here.]

He also said several times that if I was a warrior, I should be sticking closer to the boat and protecting my school--I'm still not sure if that was a threat or not. I wouldn't put anything past him.

...and if you do end up talking to him and he mentions someone named Chalice, that's me--I'm not about to go by my real name in the same world as the Bando, even if I'm a fish this time around.

claudiometer

Okay so I'm thinking this is another of those points where we could use someone who's been here and not just to Ninjaville before, but:

What the fuck was that noise last night, odds it's something we're here to deal with, and how do we make it stop?

naturaltwohands

Thorne is seeing to who is still themselves, but there is a pressing matter for those of us aboard the Cornu since we have enough food and water to last for some time as well as some amount of weaponry.

Who here besides myself has experience sailing, and who will be at the helm? And to where should we go?

((OOC: you can see the details of what the ship holds here))

thornsofmalkav

Okay. Uh. Wow. I did not expect to be Investigating as a mermaid. Selkie. Finvestigating. You know.

I also did not expect to get all kinds of shiny mermaid knowledge dumped in my head the moment I ended up in the water, but that seems to have happened anyway. So if anyone wants to know anything about that shit, please do ask me. The most important thing is that the Thalassian Mermaid Queen, the Dread Empress or whatever, is as scary as fuck and our cover story should probably be that we ran away from her empire because we didn’t want to become cannibal berserkers. Which are a thing. Oh my god.

Anyway, it looks like we’re in the world with the Labyrinthine Shoals? Like, that’s evidently where we are. We’re in the Shoals. And I guess we’re mermaids? Some of us? Can anyone chime in to tell me if there’s anyone around who’s not a mermaid.

Actually, maybe we should make this a general check-in with, like, name and species. I’ll go first: this is Thorne and it looks like I’m a California sea lion selkie.

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[Audio/Visual] Dude where's our map? [Date TBD?]

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Backdated to the very end of week 3

Backdated to 2 days into the second week of the month of the goat

A far too formal presentation to say "We have a cure"

When the horrible undersea creatures cry...

[Three days into the mingle]

[Second afternoon of the new mingle]

Early week 3

near the end of the week

Early-mid Week 2/3

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[Second day of Week Two/Three Mingle]

Early in the Week 1.5 Mingle

On her way to the first leader meeting...

Backdated to not too long after Hajime's warning post

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

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Who's Steering this Boat?

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