to all;

[righteously]

Okay, look. We need to talk.

What the hell is going on around here? That whole 'make the summoned run around like trained jackasses' thing? Not kosher.

Before I say anything else, I'll be the first to admit, I didn't let the bug loose. It was a bad call, somebody got hurt, and I'm sorry. I really am. If I could go back knowing what it did, I'd have let it out in a heartbeat.

But that's the thing, isn't it? I mean, seriously. Let's break this whole thing down.

Those douchebags running the Free Cities (or Thorne, or Solvunn) drag us in from wherever we were, without asking, against our will.

A highly reclusive nation decides to let us come hang out for a Disney vacation in their deeply secretive community as a gesture of good faith.

At a time when Summoned from all three factions coincidentally happen to be hanging out in the same reclusive ass place, something mysterious and terrible happens. I don't know about the rest of you, but I, for one, am shocked it didn't go as planned.

Instead of sending guards, the Free Cities sends us freaking couriers with the most useless note in the history of the goddamn planet telling us to release a device we know nothing about, without telling us what it does, just that we need to be real friggin sketchy about it.

When not everybody obeys without question like good little soldiers, one of our own gets hurt, and they shake the shame finger at us like it's our own fault? Are you kidding me?

First of all, if they can send couriers they can send their own friggin guards to handle crap like this. Or, hell, have the damn couriers release the things, they have hands, they could've prepped the packages their own damn selves instead of foisting it off onto the people who didn't even ask to be here in the first place.

Second of all, even if they COULDN'T, how about they slap in a goddamn paragraph or two on what the thing is? If everything's all hunky dory, and all that little bitch does is provide a protective shield, who CARES if a note that was gonna SELF-DESTRUCT ANYWAY gets read over somebody's shoulder?

This whole thing reeks of grooming us to start following orders without full intel. Surely nothing will come of that. Except, oh wait, Libertas just got friggin' bombed. The continent's going to war, and we're getting played.

And here's the other thing: I'm pretty sure Free Cities kids weren't the only ones running around doing sketchy crap during the happy fun werewolf party. Thorne, Solvunn, you two wanna weigh in here? Bueller? Anyone?

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Comments

[sorser]

I don't know.

I think it's spiraled in the wrong direction. Control over the Singularity was always going to lead to war.

I guess we were all just holding our breath, hoping it wouldn't happen.

[carmesi]

I believe the intent of Thorne never aligned itself to neither The Free Cities nor Solvunn's intents in bringing us here anyway.

What of the High Mage Ambrose? Do you still trust him?

[sorser]

I trust him as a resource. I trust him as someone who's more interested in figuring out the magic problem than dealing with politics.

Do I think we can count on him to side with the Summoned over the queen when it comes to something like that? Absolutely not.

[carmesi]

I didn't even consider he would side with us. He has his loyalties.
The man who died, what do you know about him?

[sorser]

Grigory Jannus. The queen's favorite assistant mage. And, if you believe the rumor, probably her lover.

[carmesi]

[wanda's done some intense stuff after losing a loved one, so. she can sympathize. still—it doesn't justify the dead people.]

It's strange to think that he was also targeted.
On purpose, or just the wrong place at the wrong time?

[sorser]

[Oh. Ooh. He is glad Wanda is here to bounce ideas off of.]

He would be the perfect target if someone was trying to get under the queen's skin. To really set her off and finally get the war going.

[carmesi]

But they would have to know what he meant to her.

[sorser]

Rumor spreads. If the Summoned knew about it, then who says someone else can't, too?

[carmesi]

And outside of Thorne?

[sorser]

Possible. Can't rule it out, right?

[carmesi]

Suppose not.
Is there not a king?

[sorser]

There is. But the general consensus is that the queen's the one really calling the shots.

[carmesi]

[funny that. anyway, don't fuck it up stephen]

Let's hope she doesn't get angered further.