un : deft hand of little deaths (voice)

[scrapgege]

There's something strange going on with the spirits in the Gut's Bind. I wonder, has anyone felt it too?

It's no like Serthica, there are ghosts and spirits here, and about in the kind of amount you'd expect in a war zone, but...

Not all the time.

Sometimes they're all over, and then at other times, the area feels extremely empty. And none of the ghosts I've spoken to seem to know what's going on.

... Well most of them don't really know what's going on or care, to be honest, but... Those are huge fluctuations? In a relatively small area, so that's not normal.

I know there are others who can feel spirits, so if you've felt this too, have you found anything that could cause it?

un: unlikely friend

[allforthecause]

[ Stealing a second pendant wasn’t easy, exactly, but not was it particularly difficult. As shrewd as merchants were, they were simultaneously arrogant when they thought they were going in for the kill - so using Kahl as a distraction (deliberately looking both well meaning and slow with too much coin weighing him down) made it easy to slip the device away and make his own exit long before the man noticed. He and Kahl met up again in a dank little corner, dark and damp, and crouched down over it as they changed the username and prepared their post.

They needed to get the word out - and quickly - but doing so as themselves would only paint a target on their back. So. Burner device, pretend to be a native from the city, get the word out, then ditch the device as soon as they were done.

Time to go. ]

To our foreign guests:

You’ve been promised to Rakkathu as bodies for his horde. Our King plays your host but has already cut a deal - your lives for ours. Or at least some of them.

A dozen plus a tax - this is what he has been promised.

My conscience won’t abide for it. You’ve done nothing but help where and when we’ve asked, only to get this in return. Don’t let him sacrifice you. Murder won’t buy us freedom, whatever our masters believe.

Please. If you’re anywhere near as strong as I think you are: help free us from him once and for all.

-L

[ ooc: comments with this icon and the un “unlikely friend” are from kahl and cass’s burner phone stolen pendant. Any replies from Kahl or from Cassian’s un “bee” are from their personal pendants. ]