046 ♕ [voice]

[loisfuckinglane]

[Felix]

If I were to ask you about a mysterious indecipherable journal from a certain ruined castle, would that ring any bells?

[First Gens]

Yeah, I know, breaking radio silence, always suspicious. But I think it's clear that you're at least out there trying to listen in, so I figured it's worth a shot. If you want to go ahead and assume this is some kind of zombie-hive-mind induced trick, well, I can't make you answer. But you've gotta admit, it'd be kind of strange for a castle zombie to be asking about this.

We've all gotten new journals. It's been months ago, now. And it's a little bit unnerving, when we've been running on the same system since "our" group arrived here. But it got a few of us to thinking - did this happen before? Is that why we don't have any history on the fact that you all used to even live here? If that's the case, it seems like the castle was trying to cover its tracks, or start fresh after you left... but then why would it do that to us, when we haven't gone anywhere and a bunch of us still remember and can pass that info on? Were we coming too close to something? If so, I don't know why it let all us oldtimers keep our original journals. [Wryly] Of course, we could all wake up tomorrow and find they've gone the way of the dinosaurs too, I suppose, and maybe I'm jinxing it big time by even bringing the point up, but still.

I just want to know if there's a history of this happening. Maybe it can help us understand. And as long as some of us are still asking questions, doubting and not just taking things in stride, maybe we can keep that part of ourselves that you all seem afraid we're destined to lose.

That's not the only thing. And I already get the feeling that you're not about to get all share time on this topic, but the fact is that when some of our people took an expedition to the ruins of the castle in the north, there were traps there that seemed completely undisturbed. Have any of you even tried approaching Libet before? Or do you stay away from it for the same reasons you avoid Paradisa?

Whatever spark of life might have once belonged to the castle is long gone, apparently. I'll be publishing a report on our findings soon. As a show of good faith, I'm not going to try to filter that information away from any of you, in case you honestly don't know anymore than we do. Hiding clues about this place that's trapped all of us isn't doing either of us good. I'm getting really tired of the whole cloak and dagger routine.

Comments

Felix forever;

[loisfuckinglane]

Could I ask who?

[lord_wizard]

Primarily Hermione Granger and Lakare.

[loisfuckinglane]

I had to get in touch with Lakare anyways - I'll do that next, then. Had someone already tried the TARDIS translator?

[lord_wizard]

I think they mentioned something about it only working on spoken languages, but I'm not certain.

[loisfuckinglane]

I'm guessing 'reading it out loud' doesn't count.

[lord_wizard]

Likely not. And I suppose it would be too much to hope that he managed to find some kind of cipher on his recent revisit to Libet. Not that I've had opportunity to ask.

[loisfuckinglane]

He ended up going back after all?

[lord_wizard]

Him and Zivilyn, yes. Or that's what he told me he was thinking of doing when they took that little side trip into the Dead Zone.

[loisfuckinglane]

I told him to let me know if he was going, but with everything that was going on, I know he wanted to get away from it all. I suppose I can't blame him.

[lord_wizard]

It was something of a spur of the moment decision, I gather. And that doesn't mean we can organize a larger trip for next time.

You might as well ask him if he found anything.

[loisfuckinglane]

I'll make sure to.

Thanks, Felix.

[lord_wizard]

You're always welcome, dear.

And if you need help with organizing the next trip, you know who to ask.

[loisfuckinglane]

You're first on my speed dial.

[lord_wizard]

Glad to hear it

[Even if he doesn't know what a speed dial even is.]