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[el_desheredado]

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[After a small slamming sound, we join our conversation, already in progress:]

Fuck--okay, no. This is exactly what all the readings pointed to, all right? From Day One. This is exactly it. Do I need to draw you another diagram or what? They ripped a fucking hole, okay? They ripped a hole, they got in, they started, I don't know, dancing naked on the mountain or whatever the hell they do--they're witches, man!

I didnt say they werent but you got to realize that you cant go runnin around like this and expect it to make a lick of difference when what you got to do is think straightlike.

What part of witches do you not get here, man? What part?

I believe I said I understood the entire thing.

They're in the City, man. We can't stop the curses and I swear that's when they're moving. We don't see them for days and then suddenly those spikes are back in all the readings. It's like...all that stuff gets stirred up and they're just eating it with a spoon. And it's not one or two here, okay? It's a fucking coven. A fucking coven of these inter-dimensional bitches--

There aint no reason for you to go using language like that.

--has ripped a way into the City for their own fun.

Seems kindly like you ought to remember what that girl said: didnt we rip a hole in here too?

Not a good time.

We got some witches in the City already so dont you forget that either. Good witches too. So dont tar them with the same brush. Theyre Cityzens the same as all the rest. No dont mind me I'm just tryin to be the voice of reason seein as you arent bein reasonable yourself.

Okay, fine. Fine. Okay. Okay. We're good. Step by step. Okay. So we've got two things to do: warn everyone because, ha ha, the "bad witches" (that suit you better?) are in the City now and then we've got to get the "bad witches" out again. They can't stay here. Not with all the crazy shit they're doing on top of curses. This place is dangerous enough as it is. We don't need their spells going on.

Okay, so, step by step, right? First we warn the Cityzens.

Likely they already know about it.

How cou-- [Blinking red "recording" light is blinking!] Oh, are you fucking kidding me?

[An angry sound and a slam as he slaps the Network device off again. Seems even would-be Deities have trouble with these things now and then.]
[//voice post ends]

[ooc: Tristero and Blackdog are having a discussion. That is, Tristero is upset and Blackdog is being rational and it's a bad scene. And this is in regard to the current witch invasion as they discuss what to do next! So, yes, consider this an announcement that there are creatures called "witches" in the City now. Watch out for those spells they're setting up this week...!]

Comments

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[scienceandstuff]

We're not planning on hurting the goat, are we? [ Clearly that's ... the most important thing here. ]

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[el_desheredado]

I still don't know what to think about the goat.

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[scienceandstuff]

With the right kind of nurturing I'm sure it could be saved. We shouldn't tar it with their brush.

[ This is what happens when she leaves the lab, she just gets attached to all evil pets. ]

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[el_desheredado]

I'm still not sure I can explain the goat. Can we talk about its eventual rehabilitation after we explain the goat?

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[shenandoah]

[Cyrus just huffs.]

Never could trust a damn witch.

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[el_desheredado]

Look, man, I'm not trusting these. Never have, never will.

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[shenandoah]

An advisable course of action, to be sure.

[Mhfmrph.]

Now, am I to understand these witches are the source of all the ill magicks that are in this place? The curses and whatnot.

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[el_desheredado]

Oh, hey, that's funny. Yeah, that'd be a big negative there. The curses were going on long before these thrill-seekers broke in here. So far as I can see, they're using the curses, like they're riding on them, but they aren't causing them. They're probably doing other crap, but not the curses.

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[candothat]

The answer may be the goat.

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[el_desheredado]

What?

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[candothat]

The goat! The goat is the only thing that makes no sense. Electromagnetic fluctuations, yes, that makes sense, anything that enters or exits this dimension would create a detectable distortion, okay--this explains your bad witches. But I was confused by the goat, and so I researched its possible relevance.

Goats have nothing to do with physics--that is ridiculous, of course--but they have significant symbolic importance in the Christian religion and are typically associated with personifications of evil or the damned. Medieval documents describe witches using goats for various rituals, and a goat head features in twentieth-century Satanic imagery, so maybe this goat is a focal point of whatever power these bad witches are exerting.

[Once upon a time, he used to be a scientist. Now he's talking about the symbolic importance of goats.

These are dark times.]

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[prosopopoeia]

'ow utterly informative.

[ :| ]

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[el_desheredado]

Yeah, you're welcome.

[willworkforexperience]

Ohhhh no.

[el_desheredado]

No, no, we're cool. No need to panic. We're cool. I swear we're cool, okay?

[willworkforexperience]

Should I get my asthma meds? Oh god, do I go pick up the goat? I should go pick up the goat. I'll take Blackdog with me. Pick up the goat, Kat.

[valentineluke]

[Took note of didnt we rip a hole in here too?]

October has always been curse heavy.

[el_desheredado]

[It's pretty much common knowledge that they came from outside the City and got in. Tristero and Deacon have both talked about their lives before they made their way in here. The fact that they made their way here and weren't brought here is a different matter, perhaps.]

You know it.

[valentineluke]

How can we be certain your 'findings' are correct? Various magical beings and whatnot come and go at all times - anyone of them, gods, angels, etc., could easily spike a reading.

[deadmanbusiness]

Evil witches are causing extra problems this month. How unexpected.

[Theo is SHOCKED. SHOCKED I tell you. Let us show you how shocked this run ragged necromancer is.]

Why didn't I think about that. Maybe you should go and see if they have any connection to that cabin which showed up as well.

Dare I even ask what sort of reality the hole they tore goes into? If there aren't things with tentacles I'm going to be horribly disappointed.

[el_desheredado]

Lots of things build cottages, okay? That part was easy to figure out. The goat is the problem.

And, no, don't ask what sort of reality they came out of.

[deadmanbusiness]

Yeah, but very few things build cottages that show up in the middle of the night and immediately start giving an entire city the heebejeebies.

The goat is the problem? You mean it's like some sort of dark creature incarnated into the form of a goat using the witches as some sort of vehicle to fuel it's horribly unspeakable plans?

Sounds like my father. Or brother.

[Theo has family issues.]

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[hexuality]

[She looks pissed off, okay.]

I'm with the dog. Don't you dare lump my kind of witch in with these ones.

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[bargeist]

I told him there was no cause to be usin that kind of language.

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[hexuality]

There are Dark witches in my world, too. I get it. But I'm not going to stand for a witch hunt without proper definitions. I'm not a fan of reenacting history at a stake.