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Tweak says, "Our growth is like a tumor"

Jinx (Kuroba Kaito [黒羽快斗]) (amazinghattrick) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2011-12-26 16:41:00

Entry tags:

!days 300-end, akin iyapo shing kaalnikanjlo, aoi 'santa' kurashiki, apollo justice, blackstar, gokudera hayato, jace beleren, kudo shinichi, kuroba kaito, kurono kei, lotus, nakamori aoko, toyama kazuha

Who: Anyone
Where: All around
When: Day 300, afternoon
What: Wandering Vulps

[this particular Vulp isn't doing much of anything, mostly mulling over recent decisions and... things but also going around visiting his peeps.

what's going on in the rest of Sabra?]

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	blue_mind_group 2011-12-28 04:21 am UTC (link)
	does so, waiting a bit to make sure nothing else has claimed the dorm as a home I think we're going to need to start moving faster. Have you been back long enough to hear the news from Delphinus yet? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2011-12-28 04:26 am UTC (link)
	No. You caught me before I could even get home. What's happened? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2011-12-28 04:33 am UTC (link)

They found something of King's. It's not his keystone, unfortunately -- but whatever it is, he keeps an eye on it. He knows they're looking for keystones, and he gave Messenger an order to stop them. When they don't...it's likely he'll take it out on both Delphinus and Messenger.

They've got evacuation plans in place, and they're moving what they have assembled around, but we've been warned that we may have to fight any Ophiuchus who haven't defected, and that we might not be able to rely on the things we've been taking for granted so far -- food, water, that sort of thing. It's implied that most of that is aimed at Delphinus for now, but the rest of us would probably do well to start making contingency plans.

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	righthandsmoke 2011-12-28 04:39 am UTC (link)
	[Ohhhh my god] He seriously—and you all thought it'd be me who caught his attention! But—shit. If Del is first on his list then Hydra isn't going to be far behind . . . (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2011-12-28 04:48 am UTC (link)

Yeah. And that's not the only good news. Queen knows, too.

One of my team found out that someone he was close to had been influenced by her -- heavily influenced. He wasn't able to stop her from going to talk to Queen, but he managed to go with her, and triggered his failsafe before he left. He hasn't contacted me yet, so I think at this point we can assume he wasn't able to stop her.

The good news is that the person in question doesn't know much -- just the basics. The bad news is that Queen now almost certainly knows that we're collecting keystones, and probably that we're destroying them. She needs to die, and soon, before she makes a move -- probably through the people she's influencing.

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	righthandsmoke 2011-12-28 04:59 am UTC (link)
	. . . Who is this girl? We need to know so we don't tell her anything else that she might turn around and go to Queen with. Don't fucking dance around it like this. If we can force our way into her heart, we can rip the influence out too. We just took it out of one of the Ophiuchus that got her symbol in the beginning. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2011-12-28 05:03 am UTC (link)

Tifa, on Pyxis. Also called Nutcracker. As far as I can tell, she's mostly out of the loop; I've been trying to find Ikki, but no luck recently.

*hfff*

...if you can get in touch with Lacerta, you'd probably better do it to as many as you can. With Messenger's backing, I can root out the influence or soothe it into dormancy, depending on severity, but I can't count on finding him at the moment.

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	righthandsmoke 2011-12-28 05:11 am UTC (link)
	[snorts] Yeah, Queen won't notice that at all. She'll trace it right back to you, idiot. . . . We're better off just taking her out directly. Fuck going through a bunch of bullshit she's just going to trace back to someone. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-12-28 05:14 am UTC (link)
	She hasn't yet, but I agree with you; we need to take her out next. Which is going to carry its own issues, unfortunately; I assume the recent power surge was Kid? If so, I'd expect it to happen again, carrying her influence. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2011-12-28 05:20 am UTC (link)
	And we can't afford to give anyone any warning in case it gets back to her or King. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-12-28 05:24 am UTC (link)
	nods I've warned Delphinus, but told them to keep it close. Ikki should probably know for safety's sake. But those are the only ones I'd consider essential, unless you have someone to add. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2011-12-28 05:32 am UTC (link)
	No . . . the guys who have Queen can take it out during curfew. That's the best defense that can be given against the power surge. Hopefully everyone will have enough sense not to go outside that day. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-12-28 05:35 am UTC (link)
	Hopefully. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2011-12-28 05:42 am UTC (link)
	. . . I want to talk to you about some of your team too. Do you know what they've been up to lately? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-12-28 05:45 am UTC (link)
	I've been less in touch than I'd like -- out hunting, most of the time. I check in with Akin when I'm in range, but he hasn't mentioned anything that involves Hydra -- I assume I'm missing something? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2011-12-28 05:48 am UTC (link)
	I've heard that they wanted to get a hold of a keystone to give it back to a Judge. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-12-28 05:52 am UTC (link)
	...they what. There's one Judge where it might have been understandable -- we've had good relations with Waterbearer for some time, he's expressed interest in patronage, and if he dies, we're fairly well screwed without water. But I'm going to go ahead and assume that's not who you're talking about. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2011-12-28 06:03 am UTC (link)
	It was Kid. And who knows who else they had in mind. And no matter what, giving a keystone back to any Judge is fucking crazy. I wouldn't even give Messenger his own stone. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-12-28 06:05 am UTC (link)
	I said understandable, not smart. It looks like I should have checked more carefully for influence -- either that or they had a bout of sheer idiocy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2011-12-28 06:06 am UTC (link)
	I think idiocy covers it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-12-28 06:10 am UTC (link)
	I'll check anyway. Can't be too careful. And have words with them either way. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2011-12-28 06:12 am UTC (link)
	I'll appreciate it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-12-28 06:16 am UTC (link)
	hfff. nods. Sorry I wasn't around to nip it in the bud sooner. Speaking vaguely of that, though, Akin and I have a theory about King's keystone. No evidence yet, but it would explain why it wasn't in the temple Delphinus found. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2011-12-28 06:19 am UTC (link)
	. . . What's the theory? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-12-28 06:23 am UTC (link)
	We think it might be in Ophiuchus' barracks, wherever they put Queen's. He's got a barracks full of fighters he assumes he can take control of at any moment, and a god to guard it who's loyal as far as any of us know, and it's the place from which -- in theory -- authority flows. If I were a paranoid egomaniac, that's where I'd put it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)