Craig[B]: no offense but thats your battlefield. your all enchantresses and you do this sort of thing well. what if we accept and you turn it around on us?
Lea[D]: Else[B], I PMed you.
Penny[D]: Mags is here to help negotiate deals.
Mags: I’m only here as a mediator. I can’t make the Behaims deal with you and I can’t stop them from dealing with you.
Craig[B]: well i don’t think we should make any deals until alister is back online.
Tandy[B]ear: yea
Lea[D]: *Is* he going to be back on? Emphasis on is. If we’re not sure then we might run out of time.
Mags: One possibility is to sign something provisional. Make it official later. Or don’t.
Penny[D]: The whole point is to have a deal in place before we’re angry or upset or not thinking straight.
Penny[D]: Before things maybe possibly end tonight and the lordship is decided.
Penny[D]: We make things official, before one side knows whether they won or lost.
Penny[D]: Preserve the point.
Mags: Which defeats the point of something provisional, ya.
Mags: Also slow it down a bit. Let others get a word in before you drown them out.
Craig[B]: i don’t know
Craig[B]: ains? elspeth? owen?
Else[B]: Thinking. Ainsley is still out, backing up Alister. We could call but I don’t want to distract.
Owen[B]: I’ll do a quick read and see if it’s okay to call. Brb.
Penny[D] has renamed Ainsley[B] to Ainsley[B]Afk
Penny[D]: I know its late and everyone is tired.
Penny[D]: I know tensions are high and we’re all worried about our families.
Craig[B]: combo break
Penny[D]: …What?
Craig[B]: no threes plz penelope. saying ‘you know’ three times to try to do smthing with rule of 3?
Penny[D]: I’m not sure it works like that.
Craig[B]: tell us you weren’t trying to see
Mags: Don’t taunt. Penny, don’t make threes.
Penny[D]: Whatev.
Penny[D]: As I was saying, I know it’s late and we’re tired and we’re scared.
Penny[D]: Its easy to feel helpless.
Penny[D]: But let’s do what we can to get in contact with people.
Penny[D]: Wake them up, talk to them by phone. There are too many who are idle.
Owen[B]: Ains and ali are busy running. Have to wait to call them.
Owen[B]: Maybe we could wait until we have something to say first before we rally everyone? Like you said, a lot of us are spooked at the idea of what might happen. I’m watching the chat with one eye and looking after protecting my house with the other. I’ve been in fights. Some of us in here don’t have any responsibility or the security of knowing they can protect themselves at all.
Else[B]: the younger ones.
Owen[B]: Yeah
Tandy[B]ear: yea and I know I want to be here but I don’t know what to say
Penny[D]: I’m feeling outnumbered by Behaims right now.
Lea[D]: A lot of our girls are old enough to be out there with their husbands or too young to be in here. Chloe had to leave just a minute ago.
Penny[D]: Sigh
Penny[D] has renamed ChloMo[D] to ChloMo[D]Afk
Penny[D]: We’re running out of time.
Penny[D]: How many hours until the night is over? My aunt told me before that we had a situation.
Craig[B]: two hours and fifty two minutes.
Penny[D] has set chat name to: JBJC [Sunrise at 7:12]
Else[B]: Trust a chronomancer to know the time off the top of his head.
Dolores[D] renamed themselves to ThorburnBogeyman
Craig[B]: …what?
Lea[D]: Oh god.
Penny[D]: No no no. Lola?
Craig[B]: is this a joke
Mags: Blake?
Else[B]: Doing a quick read. Phone in hand, trying to call.
ThorburnBogeyman: No joke. Hi Mags.
Mags: What did you do, Blake?
Lea[D]: busy signal from her phone. did anyone else get ahold of her?
Else[B]: No.
Penny[D]: He got her?
ThorburnBogeyman: I didn’t ‘get'; amyone.
ThorburnBogeyman: Anyone.
Penny[D]: What did you do to Lola?
Penny[D]: How did you get into her house?
Lea[D]: I can’t get her mom or my mom on the phone either.
ThorburnBogeyman: Lola is here. She’s safe and unharmed. I had her implied permission to use her computer.
Penny[D]: Did you torture her for that implicit permission?
ThorburnBogeyman: No. I told her about evemts earlier in the night and she accepted what I was suggesting. Enough to let me on.
Penny[D]: Which doesn’t explain how you’re on her computer right now.
Penny[D]: Her house was protected.
Penny[D]: Did she go outside?
Penny[D]: Mags?
Mags: I’m here. I’m not sure what you want me to do.
Penny[D]: Arbitrate!
Craig[B]: where was lola? where is the thorburn?
ThorburnBogeyman: You can ask questions all night, but I was reading what you were saying before I announced myself. Penelope is right, we don’t have a lot of time.
Penny[D]: What happened to Lola? Jessie was at her house, too, I think.