TEXT | USERNAME: LOKI

[selfimage]

Hello. :-)

Everyone patched up and out of the slammer? Good.

It's been quite a ride, hasn't it? First dragons that were intended to end a world, now political conflicts between parties and the compelling mystery as to WHY??? the whole MISSING SUN thing, and WHO STARTED IT?? thing, etc etc. Oh- and there's also that nagging little question of what's going to happen if we do succeed in the way that we're meant to. (Insert question marks here) But forgot that for now, we can do the whole "share your multiversal anecdotes" later.

[ goblins, humans, goblin-human conflict and everything else in between. there's still fuel on the fire and a conflict and a sun missing. he's wondered if their presence here was enough to sway the tides of fate in ALASTAIR's favor, and that's left him with nothing but a sour taste in his mouth. ]

Alas, here's the thing! Despite the mission, we're still all on our own. :'( But all's not lost! I'm here to offer a little tidbit that I found rifling through some paperwork that someone oh-so-fortunately left out in the open. I just happened to be glancing over. [ "happened to." ]

There have been some very curious disappearances. 4, in particular.

Agatha Belrose
Felix Poirier
Michel Roche
Delia Favre

With all the talk of sacrifice I thought it may be preferable to find these people and, well, possibly who took them and where they've gone. You know, saving them from the whole maybe-but-we-don't-know sacrificial death thing. It sounds very unpleasant, and with a possible worrisome outcome.

[ he's never really been much of a team player, but getting the brunt of the blame if someone's sacrificed generally wasn't in his best interest. ]

Now, where to do with these names? Ideas? Comments? Concerns? I'll leave the floor open.

Comments

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[livedtwice]

I'm planning on looking into it.

[selfimage]

I know, we talked about it. Remember?
Ah- wait now
You probably don't, because I looked a little different at the time.

[strictdiscipline]

[Oh, it's you again.]

Do we know anything more about them other than their names?

[Races, profession, class status, etc?]

[selfimage]

[ ITS HIM AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! ]

Sad records were kept, so sad records were what I got.
So, no.
A whole lot of nothing.

[becauses]

A city this well-organized will have those records somewhere, if only for tithing or taxing purposes.

text » un: THOR ODINSON

[norse]

do we have any idea where the sacrifices take place?

[selfimage]

[ it's a Thor. ]

This is what my snooping bought me. A bit sad, I know. :'(
I feel like I've been thieved.

[ even though he was technically the one doing the thieving. ]

The whole WHERE and WHAT FOR are still lost on us.

un: Glee Shoth

[becauses]

Is there any reason to think they must be done at a certain place?

text, open to all // un: Glee Shoth

[becauses]

Acquire basic biographical data from the tax or tithe collectors, to start. In a city like this, nd given the skillsets available to certain ALASTAIR members, it will be less obtrusive to quietly copy biographical data from a bureaucratic archive than it will be to start asking questions of the public.

[selfimage]

Ah yes- constants always include taxes.
Yes, I know. Blah blah blah, undercover bureaucrats. Sigh, I've got it covered. Illusion magic isn't difficult for me, not when it comes to this.

un: hb

[hellshaped]

Blah blah. Where did you find this list?

[selfimage]

Blah blah blah blah blah.
Blah.

I was snooping, it was legit. Promise. I wouldn't have announced it otherwise.

username: butterfly

[digophelia]

Truly, sacrifices? As if this place cannot get any more barbaric. Is it in relation to the darkness?

[selfimage]

Oh, idk.
No one knows, really. It's all just a morbid guess on my part. Generally because I'd rather look to the worst and hope for the best. Sacrifices- especially those heeded- may not be all sunshine and daisies for us.

un: turnabout

[wright_idea]

That's assuming that they disappeared for sacrifices. Or that they're all unconnected. Without talking to people who knew the victims and investigating, we can't make any conclusions other than the fact that their disappearances contributed to RUMORS of sacrifices.

[selfimage]

Let's call it a worst case scenario.
We're playing a dangerous game now, Mr Wright. If you'd like us NOT to account for the sacrifices, and they ARE sacrifices, then we've already lost and those that have been abducted have died.
You do get my drift, don't you?
Less assumptions and more damage control.

un: Glee Shoth

[becauses]

There are enough of us, and so few leads, that it isn't a problem for one team to investigate alleged sacrifice.

It's as likely to unearth exculpatory evidence as damning evidence, in any case.

text . un : clarkegriffin

[regida]

maybe it doesn’t matter who started it, only that we diffuse the situation before things get worse.

[ but that’s an easy perspective to take, since she’s an outsider on the whole thing—they all are—and can look at it objectively. it’s been years since the queen’s assassination, and the conflict between the two parties probably started long before that, assassins are hired for a reason after all, and there must have been some type of unrest before that.

or someone who wanted to cause it. ] the fight in the square was probably only the beginning.

[ because in her experience, that’s how war starts, a series of escalations. ]

our priority should be finding the missing people. if they weren’t taken by the goblins, and we made that known, it could be a first step in ending this.

[selfimage]

[ that elicits a sigh from him on the other side. that's the easy route, and right now, he doesn't trust the easy route, especially not after what happened in Anwick. there's still some aspects of this that bother him, having been stuck in a cycle of fate himself, he can say that being stripped of your free is ants at a picnic. ]

First we have to make sure that it wasn't. There's always the possibility that there were SOME goblins that had a hand in it.

[ he puts a dark nail to his teeth. ]

We'll fool ourselves if we boil this down to the same level of simplicity of A vs. B: Battle of the Century.

un: levi

[powerdriven]

If you're going to bring up things like sacrifice, the least you could do is give a fair reason.

[ because, you know, it's awfully fishy to go making accusations like that without any substantial proof to go on. that would make them just as bad as the people here. but fine... to be honest, even chancing that this is all made up, they're pretty starved for any leads at all. ]

What's your source on this?

[selfimage]

A whole lot of rumor. If it's not true, then it's being spread.
I thought we'd lean a little bit more on the safe side. With the divide already heavy, it would be absolutely damning for something to happen to those people, wouldn't it?

[ he's not sure he buys it, but it is out there, and if it's not the goblins (which he has a hunch that it may not be), then it could easily be twisted to the worst. ]

For us and for them. :'(

Username: sakurakinomoto

[keystaff]

[There is one main word and implication that stands out in this. Of course.]

sacrifices?

[selfimage]

We we don't KNOW that for sure. It's just rumor.
Better safe than sorry, rite? ;-)

voice;

[adlantisag]

[ Often, when large spans of text appear on the network, Kida has a tendency to let her eyes gloss over it. But now that she's discovered letters, she can decode some of what it says. It's his username that goes first: L-O-K-I.

The rest is, frustratingly, too much to parse on short notice. Kida is clever, but not learn-to-read-quickly-in-two-weeks clever. She finds a private spot where she can ask the bracelet to read the rest out for her. She commits the names to memory. ]

Sticky fingers, indeed. That was all you were able to find?

[selfimage]

For now, yes. There's more, I'm sure.

[ he says easily. he'd done his share of rifling through paperwork, but he hadn't found much else. he's also hesitant to go back, knowing the trail that he left behind. ]

Who knows where they've gone? There's all kinds of details that are still super secret.

text | un: beloved

[dailydouble]

Where do these rumors of sacrifice come from?

[ Someone had been reading partly over Glee's shoulder, but the sacrifice part was irritating him enough to finally join in. ]

[selfimage]

Unconfirmed rumor, but that type of thing always comes from SOMEWHERE- True or not.

[dishearten]

left out in the open, is it.

( there's something about the phrasing makes it ... pretty obvious that's not the entire truth, but, is he really gonna throw stones? they all are doing what they need to, trying to resolve all this. snooping around isn't the worst thing someone could do. )

was there any sort of investigation? follow-up? did the family report them missing, have they been questioned?

( his sheriff side is showing. the curse did give him a bit of law enforcement knowledge. )

[selfimage]

[ when does anyone ever get the entire truth out of him? there were a million ways to lie, and most of them weren't as simple as telling falsehoods. ]

That's all I have, unfortunately. More coming soon. That's sort of what this is about- well, that and everyone SHOULD be aware of this, don't you think?

It would make us look awfully bad otherwise.

[whereismypie]

do we know if all of these are humans, or if some are goblins?

[selfimage]

From the way that the police officers were treating the divide? I'd put my gold on humans.

But that does leave the latter question hanging, doesn't it? The possibility that some of these are missing goblins. If they aren't- well- ARE there missing goblins? :?