Owen[B]: For?
[Th]Blake: I’ll make my point before things get complicated and others join the chat. Penel;ope told me before that she wouldn’t act against her family, even if they do questionable things
[Th]Blake: I’m wanting to make sure that she isn;t drowning out other voices.
[Th]Blake: In the imterest of being fair and not manipulative, I told the ghost of Molly Walker I would weaken the Duchamp[ famil;y. Rather than kill indiscrimnnatel;y, I decided on this.
Lea[D]: The hell?
Owen[B]: ?
Penny[D]: Why the Duchamps?
Dolores2[D]: first I’m hearing of this
[Th]Blake: ?ns after. complicated. I’mn not making promises. But if any Duchamp in this chat feels the need to speak their voice, like Gail mnight’ve needed someone to speak for her, name husbands or members of family who have crossed lines or needed to die, tell me.
Chat JBJC [Sunrise at 7:12] has been silenced by Penny[D]. Only chat moderators may speak. They thank you for your patience.
Penny[D]: Okay.
Penny[D]: No.
Penny[D]: I’m sorry, but this isn’t okay.
Penny[D]: I can’t let my cousins and sister and everyone else do something at 4am in the morning that they might regret.
Penny[D]: Sandra and everyone are out there fighting for our sakes and our futures.
Penny[D]: If you give him a name, you might as well be pulling the trigger on a gun.
Mags: Is it your place to decide? Like Blake said, aren’t you just doing what your parents did?
Mags: If I don’t get a satisfactory response, I’m unmuting the chat.
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Penny[D]: If you unmute the chat, and anyone is shortsighted enough to give him names, you might as well be killing them.
Penny[D]: who the hell are these guys?
Mags: The only one doing the killing is Blake. I don’t agree with it, and it scares me, a little, but that’s on him. Right from the beginning, when you invited me to this group, you told me you wanted this to be a place where the young practitioners had a voice.
Mags: If you take that voice away, I have to agree with Blake, then you’re not being true to the spirit of things here.
Chat JBJC [Sunrise at 7:12] has been unsilenced by Mags.
Owen[B]: Fuck you, Penelope.
Else[B]: Who are those people who joined? Are they more Others? Did someone guess the chat password?
Elliepete: Nope and nope.
Penny[D]: This is getting too difficult to manage.
Owen[B]: You had no right. No right to cut off all communications.
ChloMo[D]: Manage, Penny, or control?
Lea[D]: I expected better.
Else[B]: Again, strangers in chat. Are they the Faerie?
Elliepete: Wrong again.
Mags: Calm down, please. Only speak if you have something to say.
Chat JBJC [Sunrise at 7:12] has been restricted by Mags. [One] message per person per minute.
Mags: If you’re not contributing, I’ll silence you for two minutes.
ChloMo[D]: Fuck it. I’ve got to go. Something’s been happening at the lakeside.
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[Th]Blake: Peter, Ellie and Christoff are Thorburns. Now without a house and maybe without a library. But I know Christoff is interested in being a practitioner.
Elliepete: waded into the middle of a shitstorm? seems to be a theme tonight. I’m doing the typing with my sister beside me.
Lea[D]: I’m going to say it, since I don’t say much. Being a practitioner? You mean being a diabolist.
Christoff: No. Your monsters killed my brother. I’d like to figure out how to bring him back.
Owen: Why invite these people, Blake?
Chat restriction lifted for [Th]Blake
Mags: While you’re answering questions, Blake. No more shenanigans like asking for names for your hitlist.
[Th]Blake: Thank you
Penny[D] has renamed Elliepete to Elliepete[Th]
Penny[D] has renamed Christoff to Chris[Th]
Chris[Th] has renamed Chris[Th] to Christoff[Th]
[Th]Blake: I brought them in because they’re faces.m They’re actual people. Because I wanted to generate some sympathy for them,. and I’m praying they won’t be assholes.
Elliepete[Th]: us? be assholes? Imagine that.
[Th]Blake: I don’t think much of humnanity as a whole but I believe in people. I think the same is true for everyone else. which is why you make us different. you objectify. make us diabolists instead of actual people.
Penny[D]: it wasn’t about that. It’s about the fact that you’re tampering with forces beyond your ken.
[Th]Blake: I walked into this with no intention of even touching diabolism. Not ever. Rose did too. I held onto my convictions, even as I lost m y life, my humanity, my familiar, friends who I loved. My bike, dammnit. Everything I hold dear. I could have spoken some names and summoned things and solved problems but I never did.
[Th]Blake: I was away for a time. Rose has been in the middle of this since the end of December. She got desp[erate. She’s using demons for leverage. I don”t like the slipp[ery sl;ope shes’ on.
[Th]Blake: Damn these wooden hands
Owen[B]: You talk about slippery slopes but you killed people. Tonight, even.
Craig[B]: You killed my father, didn’t you?
[Th]Blake: I did. I killed people and I killed Laird.
Else[B]: I don’t think you have any moral high ground to stand on.
[Th]Blake: I don’t think anyone in Jacob’s Bell does, Elspeth. You’re dealing with monsters you created. You’ve all pushed us harder into diabolism than anything else, and if everything continues along this path, you’ll deal with monsters you paved the way for.