041114RysporKate

 -- gregariousTroubadour [GT] began pestering abyssalArrow [AA] at 20:04 --

 AA: Hello Ryspor.

 GT: ~Kate, hello.~

 GT: ~How...how are yov doing?~

 AA: I'm well, though I'm not making much progress here.

 AA: And you?

 GT: ~I...covld be doing better. I ʃtill feel like I ʃhovld have done ʃomething, or ʃeen the ʃignʃ, bvt I'm jvʃt...trying not to dwell too mvch on that aʃpect of it.~

 AA: What happened?

 GT: ~What...happened? Bvt...ʃvrely yov've heard by now?~

 AA: I've been busy, and have been mostly ignoring all but urgent information. No one has contacted me as such yet.

 AA: Again, what happened?

 AA: Ryspor?

 GT: ~Jvʃt...give me a moment, I'm trying to figvre ovt how to phraʃe thiʃ.~

AA: Okay.

 GT: ~Joʃʃik and Kikate attempted to kidnap Libby and deliver her to Jack.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~Thingʃ were ʃlightly derailed when Libby tovched the water of my Land, and devolved into a mindleʃʃ...thing.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: What does that have to do with the water of your land?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~It'ʃ cvrrently affected by a majykk that cavʃeʃ all who tovch it to devolve.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: That's not good.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: So Libby is now a destructive monster, permanently?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~No, ʃhe'ʃ reverted back now, and pleaʃe let me finiʃh, yov...~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~Yov need to hear thiʃ next bit.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Okay.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~In, in any caʃe, I'd...attacked him previovʃly in an attempt to get Libby back, and, and the monʃter ʃmelled the blood in the water, and...~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~Kikate'ʃ dead, Kate.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~I'm ʃo fvcking ʃorry.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: That's not funny.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Besides, it's not even April Fools any more, though knowing trolls April fools must be months long.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~I'm ʃorry, bvt it'ʃ not a joke. I dearly wiʃh it waʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: ...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: How?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Why didn't he tell me?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~...Becavʃe he'ʃ dead for good, Kate. Hiʃ dreamʃelf iʃ miʃʃing aʃ well, and...there waʃn't really a head to kiʃʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Unbelievable.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I have so many questions, but I have no idea which to ask first.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: So, monster Libby killed him?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~Yeʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: How?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~I...are yov ʃvre yov wiʃh to know?~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Absolutely.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Tell me as much detail as you can muster.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~...ʃhe bit hiʃ head off.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I got that much. Did he die quickly or did he fight until the end? How did she subdue him long enough to do that?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~...He never had a chance. He attempted to kill her aʃ ʃhe waʃ finiʃhing her tranʃformation, at which point I ʃtabbed him in, in the gvt. By then Libby had fvlly devolved, and...it jvʃt LEAPT at him, and it waʃ over.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Wait, why did you stab him?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: He could have killed her!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~Yeʃ, that'ʃ the POINT. He wovld have KILLED her.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: ...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: This is so stupid.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: So that's it then?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~...Yeʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Do you know why they chose this moment to go after Libby?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: She wasn't that much of a threat at this time.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: How stupid.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I thought he was smart, and then he goes off and does something like that.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Fuck him. Fuck Libby, fuck Jossik, and Fuck you.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Fuck everyone.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Fuck.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~I...I do think it waʃ more Joʃʃik'ʃ idea than anything, if that helpʃ at all. I ʃvʃpect Jack waʃ bribing him with ʃtimʃ, and Kikate, ovt of a combination of hiʃ moirallegiance with Joʃʃik and a miʃplaced ʃenʃe of dvty, waʃ merely tagging along.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Fuck Jack in particular.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~Indeed.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I'm not sure if I want to talk to Libby or strangle her.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Not that I would even stand a chance against her.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~Well, ʃhe'ʃ not really in contact with anyone aʃ of right now. ʃhe'ʃ hiding from Jack in an vndiʃcloʃed location that iʃ alʃo apparently a death trap deʃigned ʃpecifically for Baliʃh.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: ...Explain.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~I'm aʃ confvʃed aʃ yov are, believe me.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Do it anyway.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~Preʃvmably ʃhe eʃcaped from Jack ʃomehow. I honeʃtly don't know anything more on the ʃvbject. ʃhe told me very little.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: This is so much.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: But, time isn't something we have a lot of.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~Well, yov're vniqvely qvalified to make that ʃtatement, I ʃvppoʃe.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Yes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Given what you've told me, I want to blame you for his death.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~...Yov have every right to.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: But then, he went to jeopardize us all.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: So then, do I blame Libby? Even if she was lucid, she'd probably still act in self defence.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: So I guess the only thing left to do is to blame Jack, as usual.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Fuck.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,85,0);font-size:14px;">AA: Was Jack doing anything?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="color:rgb(85,0,127);font-size:14px;">GT: ~No. He mainly ʃtood on the ʃidelineʃ and vʃed vʃ to keep Libby diʃtracted.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~He ʃeemed genvinely afraid, for once.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,85,0);font-size:14px;">AA: Did Kikate say anything?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~He talked half to himʃelf and half to Libby abovt how ʃorry he waʃ, and how thiʃ waʃ the only way. How ʃhe'd become too dangerovʃ for her own good.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Did I miss something?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: What has she been doing?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~Nothing to warrant taking her ovt behind the figvrative ovtdoor ʃtorage block with a rifle, that'ʃ for certain.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Thank you for telling me all of this.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~...Not a problem.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: ~We, ah, we're planning on hoʃting a corpʃe party, or, ah, 'fvneral', aʃ ʃoon aʃ iʃ feaʃible.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: We still have his body?

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">PART TWO COMING SOON