[Video] [Locked to New Hires only] [TW for Punishment in the linked log.]

[bringinghopewithme]

Stacia, Armstrong, I need to see both of you in person. On the double. Five minutes ago. Anyone else with a real good sense of smell, you come see me too.

[On the camera, underneath his oak tree in the garden, Bunny has a little bit of that dead-eyed stare that comes from being reminded how thoroughly shackled they all are to the most banal form of evil. Mostly, this is just businesslike, direct. Calmly urgent, after his furious meltdown in the Executive wing got him nowhere good.]

Everyone else: Sam and Dan and I tracked what attacked Tenten and Setsuna into the Executive wing. I smelled it there recently before the suits caught us and kicked us out.

[There's no real reason to bring up their Punishment. It happened, it hurt, he hates that he dragged Dan and Sam into it, but they all knew it was likely to happen. And if anything they learned can help prevent any further damage to the kids, it'll have absolutely been worth it.]

I couldn't identify the species, but it's supernatural, and old. Older than me. Some variety of predator. Given we tracked it into areas we're not allowed to go, and it spent a lot of time wandering around there all leisurely, it either looks enough like a suit that they gave it a pass, or it can walk through walls. If I had money, I'd put it on walking through walls. I'm not ruling out both, though.

But don't worry. Jorgmund's bringing in - [he scoffs, and rolls his eyes hugely] dogs to finish tracking it.

I'm still racking my brains to see if any memory of what it could be falls out, but if any of that rings any bells for all you, I'm all ears.

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[hot_dad]

[He lets out a slow breath, incredulous. Goddamn. Well then...]

Damn. I'd happily break some rules to deal with this, but unfortunately all my best tricks depend on tools Jorgmund has locked away. Unless we can get at those somehow, I'm pretty limited in what I can do.

[He's used to having to work with the bare minimum and it's made him resourceful, but this is frankly excessive.]

[bringinghopewithme]

What kind of tools? I stole some handtools a while back.

[That reminds him. He should make a post about it for the new people.]

[hot_dad]

[Sigh.]

Magic tools. Unless someone made a sigil in the form of a screwdriver, I don't think I'll get much out of those.

[bringinghopewithme]

More's the pity.

Might be we should talk shop around sigils sometime though. They took a lot of my memories when I got here, but they keep poppin' back since we all got caught up in each others'.

[hot_dad]

And there's something in those memories that's relevant?

[bringinghopewithme]

Maybe. I learned a lot of tricks over the ages.

If nothing else, I'd rather know what you can do than not know. Since we're all in this together.

[hot_dad]

We'll put that on the backburner for now.

[He's not too optimistic, given the art of sigil-making has been lost for centuries where he came from, and he doubts anyone happens to have potent magical objects worth upwards of tens of thousands of dollars just lying around. But he's talking to the goddamn Easter Bunny so at this point, he's open to anything.]

[xrater]

Have you considered seeing if there's anything in Collections that you can use?

[hot_dad]

Haven't checked. Do they let us just take anything we want out of there?

[He's not looking to get shocked to death for trying.]

[xrater]

Some can, some can't. You can see the tags on the ones they don't want taken out. Returning them is, obviously preferable.

You ought to give Collections a look. Even if it's useless for this crisis, there are interesting things in there.

[hot_dad]

Maybe once this crisis is over. I've seen too many horror movies to go wandering alone poking through mysterious objects. That sounds like a good way to get your heart ripped out.