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 ✞ Father Francis Mulcahy 16:56, various Various |
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Marik & Francis, Nov 1st, evening
You seem to visit it regularly.
If you're able, I have to ask you to take charge of the cemetery for a while. I'm not fit for work at the moment and I don't know when I'll be back.
You can count on me though. The cemetery won't be neglected.
If there's anything else you need, let me know, alright? It's the least I can do.
Alright. Thank you.
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Mulcahy & Meowth, Nov 4th, afternoon (pt 1)
But I wanted to thank you. Back in the Egypt domain, even when I felt like I had to hide everything about myself to the rest of the Court, you were the one person I felt like I could be honest with without having it used against me somehow. I know we've never spoken before, but that means something about you, and that you have been kind to me when I most needed it.
I also have to thank you for taking care of Felix. You were the one responsible for furnishing the dungeons, right? If not for you, I
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Thank you for keeping him safe.
I would like to do something nice for you when I'm well. Either a favor or a gift.
since the more people come by, the more legitimate and respectable our cause looks
If you're in need of more demonstrators, Pomni has been quite a thorough teacher at her Battle Club. I'd be happy to assist.
So many decorations. And it's the very least I can do in return. I really do owe you for your protection. That's what this was, even if you don't see it that way.
i could make pokemon themed decorations like we have back home too
other than, uh. reshiram
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Mulcahy & Meowth, Nov 4th, afternoon (pt 2)
this?
I apologize, I haven't seen these names written out.
anyway, i can totally make decorations with those guys faces on it, if you want. i figure theyll get a kick out of it. i always like to put my face on stuff
But yes, I'm sure they'd appreciate it. /Look, ma, I'm on the baubles!/
Oh, look at me. I came here to pay your kindness back, not the other way around!
😄
anyway, i like making stuff, so its no problem. and its nice to get seasonal once in a while
My head is killing me, so I'm going to have to put my stone down, but thank you again. Let me know what happens with your and Spinel's demonstration.
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Mulcahy & Dax, post-Domains (Pt. 1 of 5)
Did you make it home safely? How are the two of you holding up?
no injuries
tlak more later
How are you?
I'm sorry I didn't wait for you.
Just remind me to start carrying handcuffs for the next time you start to get that tone in your voice.
I just had to get to him. I can at least say I did the math right. I would've made it, if not for...
Well, Crab World was very interesting.
Crab World, huh?
And yes. Crab World. I spent most of my time in Fake Egypt, though.
I spent most of mine in John's horrible little empire when I wasn't in the restaurant. I learned I really dislike wearing leather.
You'd think Marik would learn. I don't understand the two of them.
Every time I turn around, one of them is doing something else. Not relevant right now. Sorry.
It's been a long week.
I don't know Kaz, but Marik... I think he's just too young to know what he really wants.
I think he's at least learned something /now./
I dismantled his domain with Eva Stratt. I got a good look at him as we were walking him out and everything turned to sand. I think he knows now that this kind of power isn't what he wants.
We'll see, I suppose.
I mean, we talked to each person and got them out from under that spell, one by one.
He simply gave up when he realized no one was left.
Certainly not. I think it was more than just that, though.
Marik, I mean.
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Mulcahy & Dax, post-Domains (Pt. 2 of 5)
I'm not sure he enjoyed playing tyrant as much as he thought he would.
Some of the memories he wrote into my head... he was... very impudent, let's put it that way.
But when he actually came to me that week, while I was still under his spell, he just looked like a lost boy. Standing there awkwardly in my office. He said that if I needed anything, I only needed to ask. I didn't believe him with the way I was of course, but I remember that he did that.
But it's its own sort of fortitude to back down.
Yes. I may have been disappointed in who he was before, but I'm proud of him that he's gotten this far. Frankly, many don't.
He and I have a bit of a speckled history. But if he's changing his tune, I'm happy to set it all aside.
What's wrong, he's no regret? I don't know what's going on with him. I don't know him well and I haven't heard anything about the other wardens. I've been busy.
Besides, anger is tiring.
I don't care that he's a necromancer, but it sounds like he did more than just blasphemy.
I know far more than I wanted to about the religion of the Nine Houses. Haha.
What delayed you in Crab World?
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Mulcahy & Dax, post-Domains (Pt. 3 of 5)
I'm all right, Francis. I promise.
Thank you for coming over. Felix needs the help, too.
I need a favor from you, Francis.
But you'll be glad to know that I have no intentions of leaving the house the rest of the week. I will contact some folks to help cover my usual work at the cemetery and Dormitory.
My apprentices should already have the Temple work in hand.
I'll help with the kids. I've been looking for an excuse to go back, anyway.
I'll also be sending Qifrey over, if he's amenable to it. I think you'd get along.
Dax, may I ask you an entirely irrelevant question?
Why do you?
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Mulcahy & Dax, post-Domains (Pt. 4 of 5)
And also, my communication hologram looks different from most other people's. Mine looks more like a typewriter you'd find on the island. Felix's looks like it belongs on his old ship. I've seen others that just look like compact little rectangles. They all have different text. That probably doesn't help.
May I ask you an entirely irrelevant question, too?
He got the nickname from his dad.
Sweet of him to be looking after you.
The Army couldn't take that from him, no matter much it threatened a court-martial.
Well, aside from all of that, he's also /very/ personable.
But you know that better than me.
In more ways than one, so I hear. But don't tell him I said that or it'll get to his head.
Do you remember what Marik wrote into your head?
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Mulcahy & Dax, post-Domains (Pt. 5 of 5)
I don't know. It's been troubling me.
In some ways I'm lucky that all the places I ended up in took away my faith. With the cross on my neck and my altar in the house, I remember which one is me.
It's still troubling, though. I didn't have a good memory in the first place.
He really is something.
The burdens of life never seem to add up when you're holding on to one of its joys.
Ah, I can't recall or fully explain the full thing when I'm like this. But I often remember the end of it. "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
I think anything is endurable as long as you've got someone there.
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Mulcahy & Gaeta & a dead hornet, Nov 5th
Bug net
Want me to talk to the kitchen spider and see if she'll try to catch it?
Relatedly, do you think you could pick up some new bowls on your way home today?
There may have been some collateral when he shot it with a laser.
Peter has lasers now??
Pomni says it's a move called 'flash cannon.'
I'll teach him not to use it inside the house.
Is this what it feels like to be a parent, send your kid to day camp, and have them come skipping back with a gun they built in arts and crafts?
Anyway, yes, I'll pick up some new bowls on my way home, love ❤️
Thank you, dear. Hawkeye got the broken ceramic cleaned up. We really should check again for a nest.
Or, if your spiders don't mind the free lunches...
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Inej & Francis worry about Kaz, Nov 5th (Pt. 1 of 2)
How have you been? Is something the matter?
What's on your mind?
I hope the feud ends as quickly and peaceably as it can, too. I have had more than my share of conflict.
Is there a reason why you brought up Kaz in particular?
Ah. Well, I suppose he would be, with the money situation and all.
Will it help if he knows that they're going to public services? Gaeta doesn't actually pocket any of it.
Or that I talked Felix into lowering "in perpetuity" to "ten months." I tried for eight, but compromised.
But I really do wish him well, even after everything.
Perhaps I'll send up a prayer for him. I'd much, much prefer to actually do something with my hands, but I don't get a sense that it'll help here.
I just care about him so much. it's hard to see him suffering
I imagine he'll never accept help from me, but if /you/ ever need something, please let me know. It doesn't just have to be about religious matters. I took a sacred vow to help people with my hands, not just study texts in a dusty room. I used to work in a hospital. Even here, I keep myself busy with the cemetery and the Dormitory.
But of course, if you ever just need someone to listen... I'm here for that, too.
But there's a reason we /do/ love. I believe in you. You are a strong, capable, kind young woman. If there is any way to help him, you will find it.
Actually don't
Sorry. It's been a hard year.
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Inej & Francis worry about Kaz, Nov 5th (Pt. 2 of 2)
He and the demons, who /are/ local, made a deal to create the barrier around this island, so that they could torture its people as they pleased. Nyarlathotep, anyway. I think the demons used it as a staging ground for the changing of the crown?
Nyarlathotep used to have a cult here. I think they're all gone by now. I think.
but on a lighter note, I was going to ask if you know any artists I could contact to draw the shrine for Sankta Marya?
And yes, I do! Are you looking for a painter?
I'm quite in bed at the moment, but I can give you a list of the painters that I know some time tomorrow.
Tell me more about your faith some time.
if you like pastries
Once I'm better, we'll find a time.
❤️
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Pokey & Mulcahy make accommodations, Nov 5th
When in the day and for how long is it? I've been helping Zivia and Lev with Shabbos lately, which tends to take up my Saturdays. I think I can take a brief recess though.
He can help get me to Lotus Hall, but once I'm there... I don't suppose I could ask for temporary arrangements for a wheelchair?
Ribbit is bribing cis people with food, hahaha
I suppose it depends on whether this feels like the kind of setting where we'll all be sat down in one place all brunch, or if people will walk around and talk?
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CT contacts Francis about the well, Nov 6th (Pt. 1 of 3)
Is something the matter?
The last time I was there was before the domains. I saw nothing strange then, but I haven't been able to work since last week, so I haven't been around.
I left Marik Ishtar in charge of it in my absence. Yes, he was a warden, but he'd been doing his own sweeping there since he arrived and I found nothing amiss then.
The well... remind me what's down there. There was something, wasn't there?
Oh I
Hold on
I can't be /sure/ if that implies a direct correlation back on the island. By all means it's possible Nyarlathotep himself just put that there to be prideful, and perhaps "priest Kaz" gravitated towards it because he's an ill-tempered man that makes an ill-tempered priest. But I don't get a good sense.
Though to be fair I only spent a short time there before I became very quickly indisposed. Still, nothing in the fake memories I received implied his presence.
They've been doing interviews? That's good.
I've left it to them, I doubt most of the wardens would talk if I could be there fact checking directly, ha
But. Yes. Crab World didn't have even a hint of Nyarlathotep as far as I could see, and it was certainly a much more chaotic place than Fake Egypt. Of course, that was where he could drop down a nice big temple to himself, but... I hardly think he cares about that more than he does about simply causing trouble.
Doesn't Kaz live in his old house?
He certainly does!
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CT contacts Francis about the well, Nov 6th (Pt. 2 of 3)
Nyarlathotep doesn't play. Well. Actually the problem is that he does play, but in a way that is distinctly harmful to his 'toys'
I heard that something might be going on with his group. Ribbit took down the affiliate sign for a while, and she didn't even do that after Kaz murdered my partner and created a public scandal. Felix said his threads were spiraling.
A lot of us are acting off, of course, given what just happened to us all, so he's hardly the only one, but
Well. Who knows. If Marik's been out there...
Either way, what are we going to do about the well?
I'll have some guards posted up until I can get some warding done, I think.
And I'll have to tell the public. Which won't be fun, but...
Is there any way to destroy that altar or will it create some kind of evil black hole under the island?
Certainly it's not a functional well anymore.
Though I'd suggest leaving it at least reasonably accessible to checking on it. Just in case someone especially determined makes their way in, but it's just so inconvenient to look that no one does.
If nothing else, that will remain open and I'll plant an Eye down there so I can montior easier
No doubt it won't be effective to the most determined among us but at least it'll make it harder.
Again, it's not like I expect it to stop the most determined folks, but the harder we can make it, the better.
Look at me, telling you what to do. You don't need to hear it from me. Thank you for alerting me. I hope this gets resolved soon.
Sense????
Jokes on me!
Kaz is... unique among arrivals, to be certain. I'm not surprised he's shaken things up again, but I am surprised that, if we're correct, it's gotten /this/ bad.
Or maybe not. This island loves pushing people to the brink.
Even I didn't think he was capable of much more than he'd already shown he was
Or Kaz?
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CT contacts Francis about the well, Nov 6th (Pt. 3 of 3)
But if he's been pushed to further instability, who knows. Nylarathotep must be getting bored with people not playing his game.
Though I also sometimes doubt he considers her a legitimate threat
Which would be unwise of him, frankly, but he's the sort
Right, yes.
But what I mean is less about whether she's a threat and more about... well, I don't know what things like him think. But she wants to upturn his little ant farm. That should be annoying to him at the least.
Yes.
The pressure to keep a thing like that 'entertained' is... unpleasant to have in the back of your mind
I'm used to the pressure to be undiscovered. But when that's not even on the cards... I don't know
Well, we do what we can. And if we can't, we do what we can live with.
I appreciate the insight and answers a lot. I don't like the outcomes but that's often how it is with these things
Keep me abreast of what happens. Marik said he'd send me a log of his activities at the cemetery at the end of every week, but I'm starting to think I'll need a corroborative account.
I'll keep you in the loop
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CT contacts Francis about the well, Nov 6th
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Francis & Felix discuss the altar situation, Nov 6th
Ten minutes. Ten minutes and Kaz is already headed that way.
Plus a whole bunch of other people who must've figured out where he was going
It's gotten worse since we got back, but it's not -- it's not like how everyone else is having a hard time bouncing back afterward.
Look on the bright side. You caught him in time.
Did your spiders say who was going after him?
It's bad. Whatever it is it's really frakking bad to be Spiraling his threads that much. I -- hah, I actually unblocked him long enough to ask what was going on a few days ago, and of course he blew me off. I'm actually getting worried.
I’m worried too. But they’ve caught him. Whatever he plans to do, he can’t do it now. Especially if Dahlia’s involved.
Your spiders got there just in time, hm?
Sounds like the anxiety might be keeping us up tonight.