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[agonybolt]

This is Detective Sebastian Castellanos. Most of you, I haven't met yet. But that's part of the problem...

So, let me get this straight. The literal sun is missing, there's half a foot of snow on the ground, but somehow no one's frozen to death yet. We have no real direction, no real idea who we're taking orders from, but we still have time to stop and celebrate the holidays.

Do we even know how many people we have here? According to what I've been told, recruits come and go all the time with no real records being kept.

What the fuck are we even doing here?

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text (username: olivia)

[winces]

[ so olivia still hasn't gotten used to this thought-to-text thing... which might explain why a lot of her response now seems more stream-of-consciousness than an actual ready reply. ]

Detective...? Oh gosh, that sounds important...
He doesn't sound very happy though, but—!
For good reason, right? He brings up a lot of good points... Oh my gosh, what are we doing?!
Um. Hello, Mr. Castellanos! Ms.?!
Unfortunately, I can't answer most of your questions. I've only just arrived a few weeks ago, myself, and I'm still a little... unsure about a lot of things.
But! The holiday thing seems to be a goblin custom, and since many of us are a bit out of sorts with the goblins and the humans, it made a little bit of sense at the time to do what we could to get back in their good graces?
At least. That's what I think it was for...

[agonybolt]

Out of sorts? Did something happen here?

... Other than the sun disappearing, I mean.

[winces]

Oh, um. You know, the um...
The jail thing.

[ why, yes, she totally just tried to thought-whisper that to you. ]

[agonybolt]

[baww olivia. it's ok seb knows what you were going for.]

... The jail thing?

username: michaelis

[cutlery]

It is quite suspicious. I have been both interested and concerned all at once at our state of affairs here. Though admittedly, I also do not take kindly to being "recruited" without consultation, so perhaps this colors my opinion.

As for the sun, the explanation would seem to be "magic," but that is entirely dependent on just what you believe of such a concept. It is reality here to some extent, though still, for the sun to be stolen without destroying all life is a bit beyond magic, I would imagine.

So, in short, I must wonder the same thing myself, detective. I am interested in hearing more in time, but for now, the circumstances are quite strange to say the very least.

[agonybolt]

Waiting to hear things "in time" might just be what gets us all killed. I doubt the answers will just come to us.

... But I'm with you, though. Recruiting an army through kidnapping isn't exactly the best way to get a job done. It's almost like they want us to fail.

[cutlery]

Well, I cannot say I disagree in the slightest. Though unfortunately, I would also personally not risk making our employers upset by taking action on my own either. Since they hold the keys to return, it is quite the difficult position to be in.

So I do not know if they want us to fail, necessarily! But it does not seem that they will make things easy. Perhaps we are both a bit paranoid, and it is a mystery to them as well. But who knows but them? That does make things worrying.

[agonybolt]

I'd rather not assume that these people have no idea what the hell they're doing. But even if the only way back is through them, that doesn't always mean that there's only one way to go about getting there.

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[bougy]

Really, and here I would've hoped you could shed some light on all of these mysteries, Detective.

It seems like the local flora are at least wilting, but that could be entirely seasonal. Where I'm from, the people not freezing to death would be more of a red flag, though here I think it just means that we're actually taking care of each other. At least we're being good colleagues? Shitty peacekeepers, sure, but then I don't think that that's every one of my associates' true calling. Can't say that surprises me, however, considering how grossly incompetent ALASTAIR is as an employer. Horrible hiring practises aren't shocking from such people. Honestly, we didn't even get an interview before getting the job. Despicable.

[agonybolt]

Peacekeeping... Wait a minute, isn't that the other part of this? Weren't we supposed to bring peace to this place?

[bougy]

Well, that depends on your definition of 'peace'. We were hired to 'take care of' the goblins by the human king.

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[adoube]

Mmmmmmmmmm... n a p p in g ! Playing! Tag? I wonder...

The sun can't be missing. We'd be frozen over. It's likelier we just can't see it. So... it seems we're playing hide-and-seek with the sun <丶｀∀´> ~(˘▾˘~)

[agonybolt]

That's... holy shit really smart.

You might be right. So then the question becomes: what the hell could block the sun like this?

[adoube]

α. weather
β. regional / planet-wide fields
γ. the sun operating in waves our eyes can't see
δ. the population catching a strange eye sickness
ε. I... don't... know
ζ. do your own thinking!!!

[agonybolt]

So, basically, we've been given the impossible task of fixing the weather and/or the universe itself.

Perfect.

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[sanicspeed]

Hey detective. You've got a point here. Without light, a planet should last less than a day. Of course, it would take a while for the plant life to die and anyone that was holed up in a warm place might last a little longer but you're still right.

I've been looking into it and can't figure out a thing, really.

[agonybolt]

I'm not a scientist, but if we're throwing magic shit into the mix like other people are saying, I guess it doesn't really matter.

Have we been given any sort of clue or direction at all?

[sanicspeed]

I wish I had something. The only thing I do have is some kind of book. I'm trying to get some fingerprints off of it so I can see who owned it previously.

[agonybolt]

Do we even have that kind of technology here? And what book is it?

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[evenslimmer]

Are you asking sincerely or rhetorically?

[agonybolt]

Both.

[evenslimmer]

I think the answer in both cases is "no one really knows." Unless you take it all at face value.

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[viscontree]

My name is Julius Visconti. It's good to meet you Detective Castellanos. [He's being formal as usual..!!]

There may be some kind of mysterious phenomenon at work here. I did find it strange how we haven't suffered any major damage from the weather itself. We've been here for months and it's as you say everything is fairly disorganized.

How should we keep track of things?

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[agonybolt]

[... ah! the thing really does do video!! Color him surprised.]

Hold on. You've been here for months? That's news to me.

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[viscontree]

Indeed. This is my second mission. [There was Anwick and then now this. Anwick happened such a long time ago but he remembers it clearly.]

I haven't met anyone else who's been here longer. When did you arrive?