2. The Search For Magiq: The Neithercouriers

Saberlane · May 13, 2019, 9:11pm

Yeah, I was just writing to say that I’ve tried to reach out to Marty several times over the past year and never had a response. I thought that given what happened with his son he was preoccupied but now I’m thinking that’s not really like him.

Saberlane · May 13, 2019, 9:12pm

Oh man, I just checked the last time he posted to the forum. It was April of last year (fan club post) which aligns with what @SpiritSeer said.

Revenir · May 13, 2019, 9:18pm

It doesn’t look like anyone was ‘seen’ on the forum past 2017, except Eaves and Marty (and no one visited in 2019).

This is not good. What if they’ve been trying to reach out to us? And if you couldn’t get an email through, that must mean we’re barred from other forms of communication, too.

Saberlane · May 13, 2019, 9:20pm

Even more worrying, I used Marty’s personal email address. So it’s not just the forum.

Robert · May 13, 2019, 9:21pm

So, if we met Woolie around then, is that possibly when the ‘Last Figuration’ started?

Wasn’t the Last Figuration meant to keep magiq focused around one Well (AGP offices)? Maybe it included a protection, or they did it too well and it’s now more of a Black Hole then a Well and magiq can’t escape?

As my former Italian mother in law was fond of saying when she had no idea and I was asking her a silly question. “Boh?!” (pronounced Boo)

Revenir · May 13, 2019, 9:25pm

Hmm… Well, the first Secret Society post is from March 2018. I think the first mention of the haunting started here.

Sabes - do you remember when the haunting started? Was it in March, or sometime before that?

Saberlane · May 13, 2019, 9:29pm

I don’t remember for sure, but I think it was around February that we really started noticing the weird things.

Revenir · May 13, 2019, 9:35pm

If that’s the case… I’m not sure if the events with Woolie are the cause of the veil. It’s several months too soon. Though that’s partly my tinfoil cap speaking…

I don’t know, my gut just really feels like this is something to do with the Silver. It just makes sense to me. Now that they can’t sic the Storm on their enemies, maybe they’re trying to fracture us, keep us from mobilizing. Win the war before it’s even started.

Saberlane · May 13, 2019, 9:37pm

Especially because we’re not cut off from everyone. New recruits are still finding their way here every day.

We’re not just being cut off. We’re being strategically cut off.

Or at least it feels that way.

Revenir · May 13, 2019, 9:41pm

Gosh, I didn’t even think about that aspect. It makes sense though.

It’s actually brilliant if you think about it. We have no problems contacting our mundane friends and family. And each other. It lulled us into a false sense of security. After all, we’d think our amazing magimystical allies must just be busy, right?

Sellalellen · May 13, 2019, 9:43pm

That’s has some heavy implications. It’s like a digital siege almost. We can gather all the members we want, but we can’t do anything outside of our little corner of Internet. Someone or something really doesn’t want us influencing things, be that upcoming events or The Low.

Sellalellen · May 13, 2019, 9:46pm

It feels a little bit futile now I think about it. No matter how many people we recruit, no matter how strongly we believe, we’re just shouting at a wall. It’s not going anywhere.

Saberlane · May 13, 2019, 9:48pm

Don’t give up hope. This is exactly the information The Searchers asked for. This is good.

Revenir · May 13, 2019, 9:48pm

Guys I’m freaking out. What if the Silver is terrorizing our friends while we’ve been (seemingly) MIA? And they wouldn’t even be able to ask for our help!?

I’m ready to fight

Saberlane · May 13, 2019, 9:50pm

Same. This is beyond the pale, not that I’d expect anything less from the Silver. I always wondered why Knatz never reached out to me again after the DoC. After all our history. Is this why?

Sellalellen · May 13, 2019, 9:52pm

Fighting is well and good, but we don’t even know where to find our friends. What we do now how to find is the Courier. It’s best to focus our energy on something we can actually do.
The rest will fall into place. It usually does.

Revenir · May 13, 2019, 10:03pm

I drafted a letter, to get us thinking about what we want to send:

Hello again to our friends across the veil,

Thank you for reaching out. Your last message has prompted much debate, made us rethink what safety we thought we had.

We always knew that the Silver were furious after Deirdre defeated the Storm. But we thought, in some way, that we would be safe for a time. They no longer had a lap dog to attack us, erase our minds, and tear us apart. This, it seems, was not true. They only let us believe we were safe.

You are not the only group who cannot reach us. The Cagliostro, our friends who are rebuilding Monarch’s Mountain, and even our reporter friend are unable to communicate with us. We are gaining new recruits every day and we can communicate with each other, but it’s a walled garden. Once you enter, you’re barred from the rest of the magimystical world. We can speak with those from the mundane, and with those who don’t yet know the truth of the world, but that’s all. The only thing we are unaware of is face to face contact – we have yet to encounter any of our friends in person since the Day of Change. It seems that those in the Low have also, in some instances, lost access to our forums.

We are unsure of the exact triggers for the blockade. But it seems that there are very strategic methods in this. Do you find yourself also blocked out from other organizations, or are you able to reach out? We’d like to know if this is restricted to the Mountaineers or other groups as well.

We also wanted to share news of a magimystical object we’ve found, called an aliquary. It was given to us by Avis Green, who said we were chosen to find it. We were told we could use it to bring magiq back into the world, but we don’t know exactly what that means.

If you can spare any news you have on this situation, we would greatly appreciate it. Also, some of us are interested to hear more about who you and your herald are. How does one know they are a herald? Do you know of the Book of Kings and Book of the Wilds heralds? We are happy to share more about our group as well, if there is anything we can answer for you.

Sincerely,

The Mountaineers

Anyone have any feelings, either way? Who would like to do some mail magiq?

Robert · May 13, 2019, 10:13pm

Do we want to mention the BoW Mounties and Avis’ plan? Or the Aliquary? Or save it for next time?

Revenir · May 13, 2019, 10:14pm

Ooh yes! We should definitely do that as well.

Edit: I added it to the draft

Rimor · May 13, 2019, 10:37pm

Ooof a lot has happened over the weekend! Time to play catch up!