[catchall] Cloud

[sixillusions]

sword to sword communication

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[sixillusions]

[I desperately hope someone just misses every single person who went on investigation and shows up at trial tomorrow like "haha did you guys see those weird posters? anyway where's aventurine"

With his usual straightforwardness:]

What's wrong with you?

[residentmerc]

[ i hope so too!!! ]

Nothing. [ well. shakes his head to correct; ] There was a fire in the swamp. It... put itself out.

[sixillusions]

[He frowns.]

A fire? [What the fck. He doesn't ask if Cloud found the source because I feel like seemingly spontaneous fires were pretty common in the late-1800s tbh] How bad was the damage?

[residentmerc]

Not as bad as it could've been. [ everything here. is wood. ] Mostly some trees, but we found a hand in there.

[sixillusions]

[Oh. Hm. Don't like that.]

Just a hand?

[residentmerc]

No other body parts anywhere around. Signs of a fight, but that's not too surprising.

[sixillusions]

[Damn.]

Then they really are dead. [Either that or someone extremely unlucky is walking around VERY crispy and handless, but he doubts it.]

[residentmerc]

... Yeah, they are. Some of the others found the bodies, but they're gone now.

[sixillusions]

[He sighs.]

Damn it.

[residentmerc]

Yeah. Sounds like those cultists are more proactive than we thought.

[ yes, but also, no, ]

[sixillusions]

[YES BUT ALSO NO!!! But they don't know that. They also don't know that the hand will haunt us for fucking ever. Jesus.]

Have you seen those other three around?

[residentmerc]

No. If they're still alive, they'd be stupid to hang around too close. Probably we won't see them for a few days minimum.

[ wrong ]

[sixillusions]

If they've already got the bodies, we'll need to be prepared for a fight.

[The way this is true but not in the way he thinks but also somehow exactly in the way he thinks all at the same time]

[residentmerc]

You think so?

[sixillusions]

Well, they won't do anything good with them.