[Locked to Luceti Residents]

[malnosso]

My dear people of Luceti --

An invasion, all under the guise of a fantasy. What’s been done will not be forgotten. Certainly not by you, and not by the denizens of a dozen other enclosures who suffered similar attacks at the same time. As we speak, programmers and engineers hard at work combing through the barrier’s nuts and bolts. If the Cultists and his Lordship exploited some natural weakness in the dome, they will find it. Patch it up. Curious, isn’t it, that the Count chose yours to invade with his own two feet?

But there are other matters to discuss. I spoke with some of you only a few months ago. Let me announce more completely what I, back then, only intimated. I’m Carol, and I intend to spend some time in our little town. If you like, you can consider my resolve to continue my work here a sign of good faith. I remain unarmed and -- I assure you -- wholly peaceable. In this way, I hope I may have faith in you as well. After all, we are kin in a strange kind of way.

It is my duty -- as well as my pleasure -- to be Luceti’s liaison with the Organization. You must have many questions, concerns, and many many curses. Bring them to me, and we’ll see what can be done. We can talk here. But if any of you find the journals distasteful, you can also come have a seat with me at the sweet little tea shop. I’ll be there for the afternoon.

[As usual, this voiced post has a neatly typed 'written' section as well.

A thread with CJ can be found here.]

Comments

[Action]

[voidseeing]

Really? Would've thought you'd be expecting it after what went down at the Keep.

[Action]

[liaising]

[Her tone cools.] Matters of the Keep, and what happened there, have also only recently become public knowledge.

[Action]

[voidseeing]

[Gai gives a slight shrug, the crystals making a glassy creaking sound as he does so.]

I wasn't on that mission myself, so I only know what I've heard secondhand. For all I know, wires might've gotten crossed somewhere.

Maybe you could clarify what actually happened, just to set the record straight.

[Action]

[liaising]

...The case was deceptively simple. Two members of the Organization broke protocol and aimed to have the Count removed from his position.

[Action]

[voidseeing]

[Now Gai leans in slightly, interested.]

Care to share their names?

[Action]

[liaising]

I hardly see the use in doing so, considering they were both exonerated of blame come the end.

[Action]

[voidseeing]

Oh yeah? Sounds like this case isn't quite as simple as you're making it out to be.

[Action]

[liaising]

The courts found it terrible simple. I don't see why we shouldn't.

[Action]

[voidseeing]

Good point.

[And he sits back again with a slight wince.]

I hope you managed to accomplish whatever you were here for the last time we saw each other.

[Action]

[liaising]

We did, thank you.

[Action]

[voidseeing]

Thanks to you, so did we, but I'm sure you've already heard about how that one ended.

[Action]

[liaising]

It reminded me of the Earth story, yes...? Pandora's box.

[Action]

[voidseeing]

That's the one. Of course we'd open it, even knowing what we do about that story. Curiosity is too much to resist sometimes.

Did you know she was sealed there, or was that as much of a surprise to you as it was to us?

[Action]

[liaising]

Certainly. I rather hoped for something...different. But surprise though she was, she may help us yet.