ellipsanet | Official Police Department Announcement

[Harrison appears on the screen, lookin proper and official. His face is neutral, a look most of the police department members will be familiar with. He's here with an announcement.]

Greetings, otherworlders.

I wish to personally thank all of you for your efforts to protect Nightwake. You also came to the rescue when the police department was attacked, which was also highly appreciated.

However, I am also here to announce that The Doctor is still in our custody. We found him behind the debris and he's still in stasis. Efforts to move him to an even more secure location will be made, while Nightshade has climbed the danger levels. Any news of their activity should be reported to me.

[He still has a few more announcements.]

I wish for people who found pager looking devices during the "spring cleaning" to keep them with them, in case they get 'summons'. We have one with one of our officers. Sadly, we haven't been able to trace the signal as it has not been activated at all.

Also stay on the lookout for Corvid motifs. Several of them were spotted during the events prior to the blackout and during it.

Again, thank you for everything you have done for Nightwake and this world.

At this time, I will not answer questions or comments. If you have something to tell me, please come meet me at my office.

[OOC: This is an NPC post, but Harrison will not be replying to anything. This post can, however, be used as a forum to talk about the event or what Harrison talked about.]

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Corvids? So there's people who use crows and stuff as a symbol, huh... I wonder how come.

I wonder, too. Couldn't they have picked something else? Many people like crows!

[He wears a crow pendant on his necklace with all his amulets, crystals, etc. - under his clothes, so no one usually sees it, which probably makes it more suspicious when someone does catch a glimpse of it in the changing room or public bath! And on festive occasions he sometimes wears a raven brooch and inro belt box, too... all of them presents from Shoto, callbacks to the crow tengu Arashi who was Hijikata's familiar on Avalon. No one better suspect him!]

Oh, yeah, that's true too! Maybe it means something. Like those animal statues that one time.

Those meant something? I mean, besides "This is what you're going to be dealing with"?

[Come to think...]

There are the dark albatrosses which "the" people seem to have messed with... but those look different. If that were the emblematic animal they wanted to go with, they should've made the effort to get albatross accessories.

I dunno if they did or didn't. But why would they make big fancy statues if they weren't important? It's like... whoever was behind that one wanted us to prove something, right? And these crow guys, they just want us to not live.

I don't know, Rinku-chan. Those things are so different, I don't think the Nightshade and those other shitheads deserve to have their symbolism compared to the statues in the ruins. Clearly, that was a row of trials set up way before our time, meanwhile "the" people don't even have a history here besides the havoc they've wrought. They're otherworlders, too, or at least some of them are.

[Then again, who's to say that every civilisation on Ellipsa didn't originate from otherworlders way back in history? But saying "those guys suck and we and our allies don't" just doesn't have a very mentor-esque ring to it!]

Huh... I dunno. It feels like even we have a history here, even though it's only two-and-a-half years. Those guys could've been like us and just worked hard and had fun, instead of trying to wreck everything.

Yeah, and that's it - they chose to be trouble-making dipshits instead, and now they're trying to claim corvids! I say we start a countermovement!

[All this just because he's corvid-affiliated by proxy... maybe he shouldn't go muddling the waters in the middle of an investigation, and honestly, he knows it, too. He's just pettily venting at this point.]

Eh? Like... trying to do the opposite of that? I don't get it, Hijikata-san. I think we're already doing good things.

[whoosh]

And we'll keep doing that. I'm saying we shouldn't let "the" people claim corvids as their thing.

[He exhales.]

Well, I guess it doesn't matter anymore now. Since we're on to them, they may well drop the symbol, or at least be less overt with it.

I guess so. I didn't know you also liked corvids, Hijikata-san. What kind? How come? Do you turn into any?

I can't, not here - they're part of the autumn roster. Back in Avalon, though, my partner - my familiar - was a crow tengu, and with a spell called Familiar Fusion, he could lend me his wings.

[There was so much at stake on Avalon, and life was harder in many ways - he well remembers living either in a tent or in a remote hut, depending on the season, after giving his inn room up to disaster refugees -, but he still thinks of it with such fondness, it hurts a little sometimes that he doesn't know how to go back.]

Wow, really? That sounds cool! Kinda like Kantera-san got his familiar back with a Potion of Lost Powers! Except that's a dragon, and he's already a dragon.

Yeah, kind of like that! But I'd need a familiar bond, and that's only possible through Avalonian magic.

[Then again, he was able to attain Dragon Slayer magic without having a dragon mentor, a dragon lacrima, or any of the other usual means at hand, so now he wonders... but he's made his choice already, and he knows why he ruled out the familiar magic early on:]

Besides, I wouldn't want to drag Arashi into another world-saving adventure when he's probably he happy to have his normal life back.

Huh... That makes sense! I still don't know what new magic I wanna get. Maybe I should start asking people.

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