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Who: DelPavo + anyone
Where: DelPavo
When: Day 276, evening, post-plotting
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[Whatever locks the Geardorm has on its main doors have now been very securely locked. And then re-locked, just to be sure.

A cranky tiny is scrutinizing them as if he's seriously considering adding more.]

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Did set something on fire, actually.

Couple of things, actually. And she wouldn't take "we don't know" for an answer... there's a chance someone might be back looking for what we know.

Pyromancers. It's like wielding fire turns off any kind of subtlety they ever had.

*and both of you might now become aware of...something new in your minds. it's like an additional muscle, sealed off for now, but you know that in a stressful enough situation involving Ophiuchus, it'll become active.*

There.

[The bracer goes back up almost immediately because lolgosh that sure is a mess up there, let's just keep that from slipping out]

You said there were precautions to keep it from activating accidentally?

*and of course there's no change in his bracer status after that*

And for activating it if we need to... we just focus on it? Will it to happen?

Yeah. It's hard to set off accidentally...and there are a few precautions. It's linked into a couple of places in your subconscious; you won't be able to activate it when you're not under some stress.

I don't entirely understand, but...that's really amazing. Thank you.

And it'll reset by itself after sleep... great. Thanks. Now's a really bad time for us to be taking chances with anything.

*nods*

Which reminds me. Canis just came into possession of something that might be pretty useful soon -- one of Ophiuchus's lanterns.

...let me guess. A Cetus smuggled in an Ophiuchus in a bag and wanted information. Same lantern?

*....ah*

Did I miss something?

Good guess.

We had some visitors while you were out, Edward. I can fill you in later.

[To Jace] Did they end up getting the answers they were looking for?

*nods*

They did, yes.

[S-sigh]

Good. Hopefully that means they won't be probing around anymore.

Extreme has a lot to learn about subtlety. I'm just glad they didn't run into any Ophiuchus.

I take it Tack's returned to whichever team is harboring him? All Extreme mentioned was that he's "on the run".

Just how many people on that team are "on the run" now?

Yes, and just the two that I know of.

Two is already more than plenty.

Probably enough already to start making things a major problem for us. And for the rest of that team, too.

I'm not actually all that troubled by the idea of the loyalists on that team having problems. Eventually, we'll want them all.

It's more concerning to me that they're actively renegade at a time like this. ...do you trust them?

I can vouch for one of them, having looked into his head. The other I've had less contact with, but he's well aware that his best chance lies with us at the moment.

What about the attention they're drawing? It's too much too soon... we still only have a handful of keystones for an entire pantheon of Judges, and with them moving like this it could make it harder to bring more of Ophiuchus onto our side.