A Tiny Alliance Discusses A Bladed Wolf

Featured Characters: Seamus, Silver, Lord Grey, ALN, Landis, Glory

**Warded Warmage:** So. How is everyone doing today?

**Warded Warmage:** I'm content, myself. Got a little charity done, cleaned up a few booby traps that slipped the net last time. It's been a good day.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** If Glory doesn't come back soon, I might just rip apart every last goblin she has.

**Warded Warmage:** ...

**Warded Warmage:** I think that would significantly reduce her ability to contribute to our endeavours.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I am rapidly losing the ability to care.

**Warded Warmage:** Oi

**Warded Warmage:** Start caring.

**Warded Warmage:** I've stuck my neck out for you. Don't become a liability.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** She. Wouldn't. Fucking. *Listen to me.*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Just five *fucking* minutes.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** If those fucking goblins throw one more fucking piece of shit at me -

**Warded Warmage:** She's a goblin queen.

**Warded Warmage:** You may have set your expectations too high, in terms of *pleasantness*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Princess.

**Warded Warmage:** Her calling herself that doesn't change her school.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** And is *five minutes* of waiting too much to *fucking* ask?

**Warded Warmage:** She deals with things that a) thrive on upsetting people and b) rub off

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Fuck everything

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I need to...

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I should make this post

**Warded Warmage:** I'm surprised she isn't *less* considerate

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Why the hell do I always need to be the reasonable one? Why can't she spend five minutes when she's upset *thinking about me?* Why can she only fucking think about my fucking feelings when she's *fine?*

**Warded Warmage:** You can be the unreasonable one, if you want to.

**Warded Warmage:** Being the unreasonable one isn't a *good thing*.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I hate this

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Can they just *stop*

**Warded Warmage:** I don't know how I'm supposed to console you.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** How do I deal with not being human?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** This is fucking... I thought I could deal with it

**Silver Shapeshifter:** But fun fact - BEING MADE OUT OF SWORDS IS BAD FOR YOU

**Warded Warmage:** How non-human are we talking?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Made out of swords. I don't think I'm made out of anything else, currently, but I don't know how this curse works

**Warded Warmage:** Well, shit.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** beyond, y'know, being a wolf made out of swords

**Warded Warmage:** I don't suppose you have any reservoir of Self kicking around?

**Warded Warmage:** You know, hair, bodily fluids, toe/fingernails?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Mother has that

**Warded Warmage:** I only know a little Heartless stuff.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't

**Lordgreyii:** I have some.

**Warded Warmage:** Well, might be time for mum to part with it then, aye?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't know if that'll be sufficient. This isn't a small curse.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... Though I apparently passively regenerate Glamour.

**Warded Warmage:** Even if it only helps a little, it's worth doing.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I didn't realise I did that.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Up until I was completely out.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** And then I had some.

**Warded Warmage:** ...

**Warded Warmage:** Well *that's* concerning.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Grey please no

**Lordgreyii:** You didn't? Your family did less than I would hope to educate you on your Practice.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Normally I just *have* Glamour

**Silver Shapeshifter:** How would I tell if I'm regenerating some? It'd just... add to the rest of the pile

**Warded Warmage:** Oi, Grey. How much you asking for, for what you have of Silver here?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I thought that the regenerating thing only applied to the stuff I *had*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Seamus what are you doing

**Warded Warmage:** What? I'm testing the waters.

**Lordgreyii:** I don't have any price in mind, but I do not find myself in any particular hurry to bargain it away.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... would killing goblins even make me feel better? Fuck, I don't think it would

**Silver Shapeshifter:** oh *fuck you*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Here I thought I was of some fucking entertainment to you

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Am I really entertaining like *this*?

**Lordgreyii:** Silver, you are in danger of losing your status of Practitioner and becoming Other. Most likely Fae.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** shut up

**Warded Warmage:** Grey, if she *does*, you know I need to bind her, right?

**Lordgreyii:** Giving yourself to your emotions will only hasten the process.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Don't even - you FUCKING

**Warded Warmage:** I told you before, Silver.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *I am not even made out of flesh right now and you want me to control my emotions?*

**Lordgreyii:** Yes. I do not comment on how easy of a task that is.

**Warded Warmage:** Grey, I'd very much like for Silver here to not become a fae right now.

What do I need to do to make this happen.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I want to *kill something* right now and I don't know *how not to*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't think I'm going to

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Goblin corpses are really boring

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I'm tired

**Lordgreyii:** Remove the curse that currently ails her, force her to avoid Practicing for... I'd say at least a week, likely more.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Which curse? I've got two

**Warded Warmage:** You didn't have to tell me. I appreciate that you chose to do so.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** why the heck would you do that

**Lordgreyii:** I would prefer that this bit of Self is not the only thing that I have left to remember her by. If Silver does turn Fae, she will immediately fall to Winter.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** shut *up*

**Warded Warmage:** Silver, he's being helpful at the moment.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't want to think about this

**Warded Warmage:** I would be grateful if you would calm the fuck down.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I'm managing to have enough human shape to type on a phone

what more can you actually expect

**Warded Warmage:** So, this curse. Where'd you pick it up?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Drank it

**Silver Shapeshifter:** what did the note say again

**Silver Shapeshifter:** one sec

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I should still have it

**Warded Warmage:** You tried pulling trig?

**Lordgreyii:** I recommend that you bind yourself into that shape.

**Warded Warmage:** ... vomiting. I don't know the slang in Britain.

**Lordgreyii:** Temporarily, at least.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I do quote what was written on a tag on the potion:

**Silver Shapeshifter:** "For Silver.  This should help.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Vanquish the goblin and strike a blow against its kin everywhere.  Drink this whenever you feel it is appropriate, and raise the chances that you survive your quest into the Warrens.  If you do, we will stay in touch.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Nell Herndon Satterly"

**Warded Warmage:** Satterly?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** bind myself into a single shape? Grey, excuse me?

**Warded Warmage:** Ok.

So we lean on Satterly then.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** And how do you expect me to vomit? I don't have flesh?

**Warded Warmage:** Stick a finger down your throat.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Except the goblin flesh still on me

**Silver Shapeshifter:** that's disgusting

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Which throat?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** A glamour throat?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't see how a glamoured throat is going to do much

**Warded Warmage:** Just try, will you?

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Hey guys, i'm back

What up?

**Lordgreyii:** Forcing your body to keep to what should be a natural shape for you would be important.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Go *fuck yourself*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Glory

**Silver Shapeshifter:** THAT IS WHAT IS FUCKING UP

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... aww shit

**Silver Shapeshifter:** is that gainsayable

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** By the way, me and Landis talked things out, and now we're completely cool

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Yeah. I'd be glad to hear that, y'know, *if I wasn't completely*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... ugh

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Helping with the thing that's draining his son here, so it may be a while before I can drop by the house again.

**Warded Warmage:** Silver. I understand you're angry right now.

**Warded Warmage:** And I *don't care*.

**Warded Warmage:** Work with me here.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Can you message your goblins to *STOP THROWING SHIT AT ME GLORY?*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I'm - I don't know how, Seamus! I'm tired! I haven't slept in ages

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** ...okay, I read about the rest of the chat.

**Warded Warmage:** Well, if you can't vomit, that's a logical first step then.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Hey Silver, does Brain have any spare Glamour for you?

Biran\*

**Lordgreyii:** Binding yourself is seeming to become more important.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Brian\*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't fucking know he hasn't come out of the house

**Lordgreyii:** I recommend against the application of more Glamour.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Which, smart, I am still not completely human-looking

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Guess he's sleeping in late today

**Warded Warmage:** You want to reinforce Self, sleeping when you're tired would be a good start.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** So, what's this thing about the curse? Can I help somehow?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Oh yes. Sleep. In the backyard of a house with goblins that throw shit at me.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *yeah that* - FUCKING SARCASM

**Warded Warmage:** If you put me in contact with this Satterly character, I can try applying pressure. Get us the information we need.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't know how to contact Satterly

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I tried

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Who's Satterly?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** They didn't respond to DMs

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Want me to try and track them down?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Give me a sec I am going to make this post

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Unless they’re some high-tier technomancers or have next to no internet presence, I doubt they can hide from me.

The alternative option is... I do know a guy, who knows a guy, that can *eat* curses.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Posted

Oh, so now you give a shit about my thoughts, huh?

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** I heard of some Goblin Kings that ended up taking a deal with Dark Fall Faerie that went *really* south, and they all ended up cursed. And it was a really nasty curse.

This guy was able to get it off them.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Anyway I posted a thing

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** The Dark Fall Faerie was pissed enough that they kept on trying to screw this group over in the years to come.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Yeah, I don't care

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** If anyone other than these Satterly's can get it off, it's this guy

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Now. Can. You. GET THE GOBLINS TO STOP THROWING SHIT AT ME

**Silver Shapeshifter:** THey apparently want me to calm down

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't think I'm going to calm down *while having shit thrown at me*

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Alright, I'll send a message to Shatbraggart. He should be still back there with them.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... oh

**Silver Shapeshifter:** That

**Silver Shapeshifter:** That's much better

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Anyway, what's with this curse of yours again?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Drank a potion

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** And soory about the whole chasing thing

**Silver Shapeshifter:** sword wolf

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Cool

**Silver Shapeshifter:** 'sorry'.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** go fuck yourself.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Who are these Satterly guys?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Echo on the forum.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** An Echo gave you a curse?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** that incident.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** No - ugh

**Silver Shapeshifter:** You remember the echo that was on the forum?

**Warded Warmage:** Wait, echo was a Satterly? Or the rather angry woman who talked to the echo?

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Yeah

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *no*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** A Satterly was *pissed* with the echo

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Well

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I'm mostly sure the echo wasn't a Satterly

**Silver Shapeshifter:** now I'm unsure

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Anyway the angry woman

**Silver Shapeshifter:** yes

**Silver Shapeshifter:** That was a Satterly

**Warded Warmage:** Alright then. Gives us a lead.

Right continent, too.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I thought I was going to enjoy this

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** I can probably track them down

**Warded Warmage:** She didn't seem the type to have an extensive online presence.

Old school.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** She didn't even respond to a fucking DM

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** But I am caught up with Landis's whole thing

**Warded Warmage:** If I had to guess, I'd say she only comes on OMO for business she can't do elsewhere.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Landis is a fucking awesome individual, and you should *take good care of him*

**Warded Warmage:** Got that vibe.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Even if he is an idiot sometimes

Seriously, Landis?

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** What?

What he do?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** He probably told you, he wasn't oathbound not to or anything

Idk what you guys talked about

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** He told me everything, but specifically are you talking about?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** The Grey-can-challenge Landis thing

**Silver Shapeshifter:** really not safe

**Warded Warmage:** Think I can find the Satterlys. I'll have to resort to *politics* though.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... why the hell are you doing this, Seamus?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Not that I don't appreciate it but like

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Why isn't it safe?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Like...

**Silver Shapeshifter:** what do I even do for you?

**Warded Warmage:** Do you think I *want* to find my way across the fucking ocean to bind a fae that used to be one of my associates?

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** I mean, yeah, I guess Landis doesn't have much experience with Faeries

**Warded Warmage:** Because that's the logical alternative to resolving this.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** You wouldn't - since when am I your responsibility if I do turn Fae? Faerie don't remember their origins, Seamus

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't expect I'd remember anything about you

**Silver Shapeshifter:** which is sad

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I'd like to remember you all

**Warded Warmage:** I don't like taking chances.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Grey is fucking scary (reply to “I mean, yeah, I guess Landis doesn't have much experience with Faeries”)

**Warded Warmage:** You know a lot about me. How do I know that information goes away?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I have talked to so many Faerie

**Silver Shapeshifter:** sooooo many

**Silver Shapeshifter:** And none of them

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *none of them*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** remember their origins

**Lordgreyii:** It might not. (reply to “You know a lot about me. How do I know that information goes away?”)

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Well, you said that he wasn't high up in the Court's, right?

**Warded Warmage:** Anyways, I don't believe I have to justify myself to you, Silver. I've elected to do this.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Hi, Grey.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Are you going to murder me

**Lordgreyii:** I was not planning on it.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... surely I don't need to be blunt with you?

**Lordgreyii:** I know. Go ahead.

**Warded Warmage:** *Was*.

Concerning turn of phrase.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Well. Great.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I have reason to believe that I was... wrong, Glory.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** What?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Look, my lessons on noble titles were one of my least favourite lessons...

**Silver Shapeshifter:** fuck it

**Silver Shapeshifter:** blunt

**Silver Shapeshifter:** supposedly you respond to me being blunt

**Silver Shapeshifter:** So far as I am aware, Lord Grey is *Marquis* of the Grove of Nameless Stars

**Silver Shapeshifter:** what's the proper phrasing again, one moment

**Warded Warmage:** Marquis?

It's a March?

Border country?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** It's on the border of Bright Spring, yes.

**Warded Warmage:** Good to know.

**Lordgreyii:** Marquis, Earls, Barons, and Viscounts all have the privilege of being addressed as Lord.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Marquis Grey of the Grove of Nameless Stars, is that correct? insofar as I'm not using your Name and so its inherently not correct, that is

**Silver Shapeshifter:** oh

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Glory do you know what level of power a Marquis is

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... uhhhhh

**Silver Shapeshifter:** order

**Silver Shapeshifter:** King, Duke, Marquis -> everything down from there, if I'm remembering correctly

**Warded Warmage:** I know a bit about where they'd fall on a medieval European feudal system.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** assuming Bright Spring matches up to the British system

**Warded Warmage:** It ain't that simple, even before you factor in that it's a fae court, and not a human one.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I think I just made Glory angry

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

**Warded Warmage:** The borderlands? Their rulers typically exercise more power and authority than their place in the hierarchy theoretically provides.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** fuck off scary Faerie!

**Warded Warmage:** Their enemies are closer, and their lieges usually far away.

... Silver?

**Lordgreyii:** The grove *under* nameless stars has a name. The correct formal form of address would be *Marquis of*, the name of the grove under nameless stars, *Lord…*

**Warded Warmage:** ... you doing ok?

You're worrying me. You know that?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Oh, your grove has a name?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I thought that was its name

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Hey! I don't think you need to contact the Satterlies

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ...

**Silver Shapeshifter:** unless you want a good antidote for me

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Uh

**Lordgreyii:** I assume that DMs are being exchanged.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... Seamus, I thought that I had just explained various ways I'm not okay?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Oh

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Glory, why haven't you told anybody about my family

**Silver Shapeshifter:** just

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *Why*

**Lordgreyii:** I still recommend as I said before. It will not be pleasant, but a far better fate than falling to Winter.

**Warded Warmage:** I do want a good antidote for you.

And perhaps equally important, I want people to not go around *cursing my fucking allies*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** You're such a sweet friend of ours, Seamus

let me just call 'em, they sent me a number

**Warded Warmage:** Well, tell me how it went when you're done.

https://omo.fandom.com/wiki/Silver\_and\_Satterly\_discuss\_an\_Antidote

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I would appreciate it if you would refrain from threatening the Satterlies. I just established my first amicable practitioner family trading relationship, and having that ruined would be *very bad* for me.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** They sent the antidote.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't think you're going to be happy when I tell you about it.

**Warded Warmage:** Why wouldn't I be happy?

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Hey Silver, I'm on my way now to pick you, the goblins, and Brian up to Landis's place.

Though I should warn you, he's kind of in a weird mood right now.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** If I take the antidote, then I get my human shape back, but I get... less human shape, to put it mildly. I'll be much more... I'll absorb Glamour even more easily.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Dunno why

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Oh, Landis is in a weird mood? Excellent! *WE CAN HAVE A WEIRD MOOD PARTY*

**Warded Warmage:** So, it's potentially worse than nothing

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Yes, Seamus.

**Warded Warmage:** You're right. I'm not happy.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** It would, apparently, make the issue even worse than leaving me like this.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Wait, you'll be taking Glamour in more easily? You mean you can get stuck in certain forms now?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** No, I'll be more likely to turn Fae, Glory, *pay attention*

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Shit

**Warded Warmage:** Hate to say it, I really do. But I think Grey's advice shouldn't be discounted here.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Is there anything I can do?

**Warded Warmage:** Might be sensible to bind you to one form and minimize practice for the immediate future.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Seriously, I do think you should give this guy I'm talking about at least a chance!

**Warded Warmage:** Preferably the most human-ish form you can manage.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Curses are his specialty!

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Bind *me* to *one fucking shape?*

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Yeah he'll ask for a big price, but he can turn you back to normal!

**Warded Warmage:** If it helps?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... and who the fuck is this that they can eat a curse this fucking major

**Warded Warmage:** Then yeah! Suck it up!

Life sucks, a lot of the time. You do what you have to to make it through.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... did Glory just say she's coming to pick me up?

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Yup!

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... who knew embarrassment could overtake anger

**Silver Shapeshifter:** fucking hell, Glory, why did your goblins break *all* my Glamour?

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** :woman\_shrugging: They don't like you, I guess.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I have two dead goblin corpses next to me, Glory

**Silver Shapeshifter:** They didn't like me so much that they suicided just to annoy me

**Silver Shapeshifter:** what

**Silver Shapeshifter:** the

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *Fuck*

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** :woman\_shrugging:

Guess you really pissed them off somehow.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** How shocking. Goblins don't like a Faerie mage who's befriending their Princess.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Seamus, do you think I'd *trust* Glory to bind me to a particular shape right now?

**Warded Warmage:** She's your only option?

Don't you have, like, a brother kicking around? Or Skitter?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Landis seems a bit stressed, Isi seems busy, you seem busy, I am not trusting Grey with this, Skitter's busy - Brian...

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Ugh.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I literally cut the familial connection, I don't. I. That's...

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't think I can trust him with this. The family still has issues with him.

**Warded Warmage:** I'm not busy.

I am, however, in Tecumseh.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Would Tecumseh enjoy a giant wolf made of swords stopping by your house?

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Silver, have you gone full Fae? (replying to above message)

**Warded Warmage:** I mean, some of them? Probably.

On the grounds that they'd jump to conclusions that it was coming to eat me.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** If I had, I don't imagine I would be in this chat. (replying to “Silver, have you gone full Fae?”)

**Silver Shapeshifter:** How many times am I going to have to repeat this?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I made a post go read the post

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Grey's in here. I don't see why you wouldn't.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Because I wouldn't remember any of you?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Do you people know nothing about Fae

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Is that how that works? Interesting.

Also no. I'm a Necromancer, not a Faerie Mage.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** To the best of my knowledge, no Faerie remembers their origins

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Same with goblins too

Another thing that they have alike

**Warded Warmage:** It isn't exactly inconceivable, Silver, that some do and have figured out how to give the impression otherwise.

Like, off the top of my head? Take the memories of what you were, put them in a jar. Don't open it unless you actually *want* to remember the time you weren't fae.

I imagine most of them don't.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Memories are precious.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** That just sounds like a faster way to becoming Faerie, if connections are vital to Silver. (Replying to “Like, off the top of my head?”)

**Silver Shapeshifter:** That was a tactic which a Faerie would take, not one recommended for me to use.

**Warded Warmage:** I'm not recommending she do this

I'm saying that the fae managing to convince folk something's a hard rule, when it isn't? *Wouldn't surprise me.*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ¯\\_(ツ)\_/¯

**Silver Shapeshifter:** How is Glory going to fit me into the van

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** I'm coming in through the Warrens

**Warded Warmage:** Wait, how big are you?

You're a *giant* wolf made out of swords?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Right now or my actual shape?

**Warded Warmage:** It occurs to me it isn't useful for me to ask that question.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** There's a difference? (reply to “Right now or my actual shape?”)

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I managed to regenerate some Glamour. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to talk to you, because I wouldn't have hands. I am... vaguely resembling a humanoid, currently

**Warded Warmage:** If you manage to get more glamour, it'd be a good idea to reinforce that

Christ. Why'd you even drink that thing?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** GIANT GOBLIN KING

**A Lonely Necromancer:** I had the sudden thought: do you actually have any actions or activities to shore up your Self, besides glamour?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *HE WAS FIFTY FUCKING FEET TALL*

**Warded Warmage:** Wait, the one from the forums?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I make things, Isi. I talk to friends and family. ... I hug friends and family?

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Good enough, I suppose.

**Warded Warmage:** They actually got a posse together to go after it, and they *didn't bother to tell me?*

I'm the one who told them it should be done!

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Weren't you busy?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I thought you were busy

**Warded Warmage:** I'd still like to be kept in the loop

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Sorry. We panicked, rather.

**Warded Warmage:** Mostly, because I'm under the impression that my advice prevents a lot of *specific people* from doing terminally stupid things

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Are you suggesting that I shouldn't have drunk the potion of 'don't die' while hunting a Goblin King?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Honestly, Seamus, just read my post!

**Warded Warmage:** I've been a tad busy, you know. Trying to figure out how to talk to the Satterlys. Not talking to the Satterlys, because you were doing it.

I don't know if it was necessary, Silver. It just feels like it hasn't been a *long time* since I was trying to help deal with *Glory* ingesting mystery magic

...

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *fifty foot tall goblin king*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I may have been wielding a fucking Knight-Errant's legendary blade, but I was not fucking taking more chances with my survival than necessary

**Warded Warmage:** Christ, they took losses.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** You certainly have gone through an experience.

I suggest having an egg.

**Warded Warmage:** Fool's dead?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't want an egg

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Seems so, yes

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Eminence is organising a funeral. I think she invited you to the chat.

**Warded Warmage:** Might have gone to spam

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Mm. I am likely unable to attend. I have some things I must tend to.

**Warded Warmage:** He sent me a lot of stuff I wasn't interested in

... did Dust make it out, do you reckon? Didn't seem terribly likely.

Can't say we were friends, exactly. But I've certainly met worse.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't know. He didn't come with II and I.

**Warded Warmage:** I ain't writing him off. I got a bit of a glimpse at the things he answers to, back in Madison.

I'm not certain he'd be allowed to die. If he were... well, I *hope* that would be the end of it.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** He... seemed to lose a lot of himself.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Wait, will Ms...Eminence? Be alright now that the Fool is dead? I was under the impression she was created to assist him in some endeavors.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't know.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Slightly worrying.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** On the plus side, one of the gifts she gave me is now much more harmless than it was.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Do you think sending a gift would be bad taste?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** When dealing with Eminence, I recommend either avoiding a karmic relationship or maintaining it very much in the positive.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ...

**Silver Shapeshifter:** So I think sending a gift would be unwise.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Good to know. Dear me, looking at a whole, much has occurred while I was occupied. I had hoped OMO would calm down after the Diabolist incidents and Stella.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I hope so myself. I'm. Tired.

**Warded Warmage:** After Stella? We're very much still during Stella.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Oh. ... goblins found my house. wonder if stella can find my house.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Well, I should clarify Stella attacking with those Nex' she had sent.

That was a tizzy.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Wait, did she attack you with Nex?

**A Lonely Necromancer:** ambiguous answer

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Can I take that as a yes? I'm inclined to take that as a yes.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** It is your wish to do so.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Let me know if I can help? I know I'm... not at my most trustworthy, but you can ask me to swear oaths to ease your mind, and I am, y'know. Useful.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Wouldn't you like to know, posh Brit?

Er, apologies.

I haven't been fully myself lately.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... Isi.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** What have you been up to?

**A Lonely Necromancer:** You shall know...sometime. I am in a bit of a situation.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** You know, if you go Other on us after all this sniping at me about it -

Isi, have you been - fuck whats the word

there is a word for this

**A Lonely Necromancer:** I've shored my Self with some leftover Echoes, though I believe to be rather well despite things.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** That thing where you assume something is happening to someone else because its happening to you

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I think it starts with a p

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Is it that saying where a thief thinks everyone else is a thief and projects themselves onto those people?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Projecting!

Are you projecting, Isi?

**A Lonely Necromancer:** In the past, no. I was genuinely worried for you, I'll have you know.

But now you bring up some thoughts.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I appreciate your concern, even if it has greatly frustrated me.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Man, I was too late to bid on the tooth.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Mm. Especially since I don't wish to have another Meridith incident happen again.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Hey, still making my through the Warren to your location now.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Their disposal, to be specific

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Go fuuuuuuuuuuck yourself, Glory!

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Uh

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Isi, are you suggesting you're considering throwing me into the Warrens?

**A Lonely Necromancer:** No.

Simply that I might've had to dispose of you due to a freak accident in an experiment.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Anyway, how are your guys situation's going?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I hope that doesn't occur. (reply to “Simply that I might've had to dispose of you due to a freak accident in an experiment.”)

**Silver Shapeshifter:** .............. (reply to “ Anyway, how are your guys situation's going?”)

**A Lonely Necromancer:** In other news, I recently traded for one of Meridith' half preserved and decayed wings.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Get something useful out of it?

**A Lonely Necromancer:** A keepsake.

My situation is...not complete peril. (reply to “ Anyway, how are your guys situation's going?”)

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Neither is mine. Except maybe for Glory, if she keeps pissing me off.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Might I suggest a mundane fistfight? Some Innocent find it as a lovely way to work things out rather quickly, with none of the politics of managing relationships.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Don't worry, I think it's only sunny skies from now!

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I think if I tried to fistfight Glory then Glory would break my Glamour and then suddenly there would be a lot of swords everywhere.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** I've been in a few scraps. It's how I got this lovely membership ascot.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I can't see you, Isi

**Silver Shapeshifter:** what ascot?

**A Lonely Necromancer:** An ascot I occasionally wear as showing of my official membership.

It's a lovely...deep red that I can't recall the exact color.

Burgundy. It's a lovely shade of burgundy.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Shatbraggart sometimes wear an ascot too, on fancy days.

Hey Silver, so what do you plan to do about this curse thing?

Got any ideas on how to fix this whole mess?

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Whoops. Seems that there's a few pests I have to deal with. I will be in contact later, though probably less in the coming days.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I want a nap

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Until later, Isi.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... are you texting and driving in the *Warrens*, Glory?

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Yup! I can give you some pats when I get there, Silver.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *I do not want your pats right now Glory*

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** ...look, I'm sorry. I really am.

I just...

Needed to deal with this myself

**Lordgreyii:** and are prone to goblin-like behavior?

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Goddammit gray, I ws ina moment

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I was fine with that

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I just wanted you to *wait*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** And instead you *set goblins on me*

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *do you know how much goblins hurt me Glory*

**Lordgreyii:** You offer me constant insults and somehow don't expect me to take opportunities when I see them.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Yeah, sorry about. I did tell to do nothing lethal though

**Warded Warmage:** It is generally considered rude for one's minions to throw feces at people.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** It hurts the very fundamentals of what I am to deal with goblins like that, Glory

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Do you expect fairness from gray? (reply to “You offer me constant insults”)

**Lordgreyii:** I have been very fair.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** It literally breaks down my very Self

**Silver Shapeshifter:** It

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *hurt*

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Well the world's not fair.

**Lordgreyii:** And look where that has gotten you.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** I'm Sorry. I really am Silver

**Silver Shapeshifter:** That doesn't fix it

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** What can I do to make it up to you?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't *know* Glory

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** I can find that curse-eating guy!

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't fucking know

**Silver Shapeshifter:** No

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** He does good work

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I don't need you *FUCKING* dealing with whatever the fuck that is

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Glory, I don't want dramatic gestures!

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... oh, that was quite a crack to my glamour

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ow

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Fine. I don't want *that* dramatic gesture.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** What can I do?

Give you my Self?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ...

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Are you insane, Glory? (Warded Warmage reacted with Y E S)

**Lordgreyii:** Oh yes, give the Practitioner perilously close to falling into *Winter Fae* your Self.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** You said your Self was damaged.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** It's been damaged for days

**Silver Shapeshifter:** It's more damaged right now, granted

**Lordgreyii:** The best activities for the Self is *rest and recuperation*, doing relatively sedate things that you like doing *besides Practicing*.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** :thinking:

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Would I be such a boring Winter Fae?

**Warded Warmage:** Current plan, which I *hope* she's on board with, is to glamour her into something reasonably human-ish, bind her to that form, minimize practice use for the next while, and get some *goddamn sleep*

Boring winter fae, she says.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I knowwwwwwwww

**Warded Warmage:** You know they repeat one story, forever, until they're destroyed?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I know

**Lordgreyii:** I would lament your loss.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** So sweet, Faerie Lord.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Anyway.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I still hate that plan, Seamus.

**Warded Warmage:** And do you have a better one?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Talking to MP, right now. She might have something.

**Lordgreyii:** Have you truly fallen so hard into the pattern of shapeshifting that a period of rest without doing it is frightening?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Yes.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Terrifying.

**Lordgreyii:** You understand the concern then?

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Who's going to bind her?

**Warded Warmage:** You were willing to delve the Abyss but repairing your Self through tried and true, mundane methods is scary?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** ... I want to throw up, but I can't actually throw up, because everything is metal. It's weird.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *Yes*, Seamus!

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** What's wrong with that plan?

**A Lonely Necromancer:** I've returned with my ascot living up to its name.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** You want to trap me in one single shape and take away all the things i have to keep myself safe!

**A Lonely Necromancer:** What have I missed.

**Lordgreyii:** *Temporarily*, Silver.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** If I only have one shape, if I have no Glamour, then *what do I have?*

**Landis963:** Computer is set up in my Demesne, I'm going to temporarily connect my Demesne to a marked door in the parking garage.  Do. Not. Park. Your Car. On the 7th Floor. Again.

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Silver could no longer shapeshift if we bind her?

Okey dokey (reply to “Computer is set up in my Demesne”)

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Uh, hi Landis

**Lordgreyii:** It need not be forever.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Deary me. This is certainly a  conundrum.

**Warded Warmage:** Silver, I've been in a single shape my whole life. Forgive me if I don't see how it's such a terrible thing.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Imagine losing your wards, war mage!

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Imagine not having a gun

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Imagine having no weapons

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Imagine having

**Silver Shapeshifter:** *Nothing*

**Warded Warmage:** I didn't always have those things.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** So being an Innocent person.

**Warded Warmage:** I lived.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Yes, fuck it, I'm terrified of that

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Don't you have a family you can rely on?

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** Maybe you can learn to use Glamour in a different manner?

**Lordgreyii:** I would compare this to suicidal thoughts, but frankly falling to Winter is worse.

**Warded Warmage:** It's just a few bloody days, Silver

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Hah, *HAH*

rely on -

For god's sake, do you pay attention to anything, Glory

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** I've been in and out of this chat for a while.

**Warded Warmage:** What reassurances do you need? Oaths? Guards?

**Silver Shapeshifter:** No, no, this was in person, Glory -

for fuck's sake

I don't

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** And if Silver's in trouble, I'll protect her.

**Landis963:** I suspect these proverbial waters run deeper than any mere reassurances.

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Silver, I didn't return from knocking a child's teeth in to want to see you fall apart. We are  trying to pull you together and help.

**Landis963:** Bone-deep, metaphorically.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** i know

**Lordgreyii:** As I understand it, you are partially at fault for this, Practitioner. (reply to “And if Silver's in trouble, I'll protect her.”)

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I appreciate it

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I just

**Silver Shapeshifter:** you're asking me to trust you

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** You don't trust me?:cry:

**A Lonely Necromancer:** ...Silver, remember when you asked if I was projecting myself onto you?

I believe it's the other way around.

**Warded Warmage:** One of the few convenient things about the practice is that people can be made trustworthy, if it comes down to it.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Who says we can't both be projecting

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I asked you to wait five minutes and you attacked me with goblins

**A Lonely Necromancer:** Oh yes, oaths are a thing. Handy, at times. (reply to “One of the few convenient things”)

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** I was in a very bad state of mind at the time, admittedly

**Silver Shapeshifter:** I'm aware.

**Landis963:** I take exception to that word "was."

**Silver Shapeshifter:** Oaths would. Probably help.

**Lordgreyii:** I would consider you *still* in a bad state of mind. (reply to “I was in a very bad state of mind at the time, admittedly”)

**GLORIOUS LORD OF BRILLIANT SHINE:** I can take Oaths

In fact, I think I'm almost at your location!

**Warded Warmage:** Ever figure out how you're going to fit her in the van?

**A Lonely Necromancer:** More glamour?

Or would that just feed the addiction.

**Landis963:** Also, if memory serves the van is a Demesne of sorts.  Inherently malleable to its practitioner.

I don't know how well that holds for a Demesne which is mobile, but some... massaging might be able to take place.

**Silver Shapeshifter:** hgskweindoip

Continues in: A Wolf Is Hit By A Van