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[disfavour]

Humans! [ Good, now that he has your attention. ] There is a sickness aboard this vessel, a Dark Beast that harbours rot and the ruin of any that approach it. I, myself, suffered injuries that have now healed. It is a skilled foe that walks in shadow, a warrior of the forsaken. It does not bleed when wounded or hesitate to give harm and it will kill you, should you be fool enough to challenge it. Unless, of course, it decides to keep you alive for sport — those mortals who deliberately put themselves at risk do so at their own peril. If you believe you are strong, I am here to tell you that you are not. Keep your corpses to a minimum. 

Specifically: it carries a great chain that burns like embers, knows your mind and moves at incredible speed. Thranduil is aware of this demon, as are all those of Elvenkind aboard. 

[ Nuada, who brings the network this message from the corridors where he is patrolling, peers into the camera with wolflike gold eyes. You may have seen them around recently, instead belonging to one massive six-foot hound. ]

To those who are not human, I say this; stay with your brothers and sisters, send word over a secure line if any of you are attacked. All manner of Aes Sidhe, from my world or not, are my concern.

[ What else? His manner eases ever so slightly, as it is wont to do between comrades. ]

Loki — we must speak concerning the forging of your weapon. It is time to take up arms worthy of your skill, my friend.

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[summerlord]

I am glad to hear that it has healed. [There's an undercurrent of question in his tone: has it healed well? He's a healer; Nuada was a patient. He's allowed the concern.]

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[disfavour]

[ Allowed and more; a small grateful smile slides into place. ]

It would not have done so without your skill, my lord.

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[thebreakingwave]

Other than dark, shadowed, and carries a chain, can you give any other description? Is it tall or short? Male or female? Walks on two legs or more?

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[disfavour]

You did catch the word 'demon', did you not? I doubt very much whether it walks on a pair of legs or four will make a great deal of difference if you encounter it. To answer you, however; tall, male, two.

[wolfinthesnow]

When did you face it?

[Because he has no doubt that Nuada did face it]

Where did you face it?

[disfavour]

Not a great while ago. It did not attack until disturbed, but that is hardly saying anything about its temperament.

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[elvenking]

[Catching...some of that wording, there...]

Nuada.

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[disfavour]

[ Raising his brows. ]

Thranduil.

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[longestnose]

...there are stories of such a thing, where I come from.

I am glad to see you in your normal elven form.

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[disfavour]

Not as glad as I am to remove the Glamour, my friend. What do the stories say?

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[puppydogeyes]

You had time to heal then you had time to tell us.

[Or Thranduil and Elvenkind could have brought it to her, but she'll deal with that later.]

I'm gonna need more physical description than that poetic shit. And where it was.

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[disfavour]

I have spoken of it before now. If it would have done you any good to learn of it, you would have been informed sooner.

[ His tone is imperious and unrepentant; if the elves haven't been able to do anything about it, why on earth would they inform the cattle aboard? In Nuada's opinion, the death of a human would have been very useful in picking up the creature's refreshed trail. ]

Are you simple? You have your description, or one of any worth. It is a demon, its form will likely alter at will where it walks in shadow. [ Cocking his head. ] Perhaps you expect that you will know it on sight if I tell you the colour of its hair.

It walks the halls, woman. You will know it for what it is when you stumble into its path.

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[51stcentury]

[Not for the first time, Jack is cursing the fact that so many of those aboard this ship seem to like to talk in riddles.]

What do you mean, it "walks in shadow"? [Jack's getting flashes of Abaddon here, especially with the usage of the word 'demon', and he's not liking the sound of it.]

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[disfavour]

[ This is the long-suffering look of an elf who has no idea how else to clarify it walks in shadow except to repeat himself. Because it really did do that. ]

What I said. It knows the dark well and carries with it a solitary sense of deepest night.

[ SUPER CLEAR, Y/N? Nuada opts yesss. ]

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[onetouch]

You're suggesting we -- hide? [ which, usually, he wouldn't have a problem with, but... fidgeting! ]

The people on board this ship don't tend to like it when they're told to sit idle. Or that they're incompetent.

[ he's not even necessarily lumping himself in with ~people~ he's just saying. ned wraps his arms around himself and addresses the feed with more insistence. ] Do you know the way to kill it? And what is your determination for what counts as-as human?

[disfavour]

[ Pardon him a. Moment. That ... is the strangest likeness he's yet seen, veering away from mentioning it though he keeps his attention keenly fixated on Ned.

This ship is so weird. ]

I am accustomed to mortal stubbornness, it hardly surprises me. [ Especially that people apparently want to fling themselves into certain danger even after being told Don't Do The Thing. Nuada shakes his head, distracted. ] Are you implying you are not one of the humans aboard?

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[acapriciousthing]

[Death seems... remarkably calm about the whole thing]

Just how many variations on elves and fae do we have on this ship?

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[disfavour]

Clearly not enough.

[ Hmph. ]

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[lordof]

you should not have struck him.

[disfavour]

[ A strange way to make contact, without a face or name. Cowardly. ]

It should have heeded my warnings.

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[wolfdreamer]

There are some here that might challenge it. They have fought beasts of this ship before.

[not that they should take chances, if it is a beast of some magic. Bran hesitates, and then his curiosity has him ask:]

Where did it come from? Do you know?

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[disfavour]

They have not fought the like of this creature, boy, however highly they think of their talents. [ Sounds like a child calling him, at any rate. ] Where it came from, I do not know. It was there in the corridor and after it attacked me, it went on its way.

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[allfatherissues]

[and here is Loki, with his usual sort of smile -- though perhaps a bit thinner than usual, given the subject of Nuada's post.]

You speak of such a creature wandering the ship -- nay, you were attacked by it, and still you bother to mention the forging of my weapon? I should be flattered, for it should rest far from your mind.

[and then a bit more seriously:] You are well now, then?

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[disfavour]

I would not have you abroad this vessel without a blade worth more than its weight in cold steel, had the creature carved my arms off or not. As it was, it simply felt the need to pin me by the shoulder with my own lance.

[ He nods, surveying Loki as if to check he's all in one piece too. Good. ]

Lord Elrond healed much of the wound. It smarts still, but that is nothing. [ Onto more important matters! ] Have you given any thought to which brand of magic you want woven through your weapon? The style of the piece, too.

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[bullshead]

[ just chilling in the forge as usual. whatever whatever. ]

Why didn't you run? [ you know, take your own bloody advice? idiot. ] You should listen to your own words.

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[disfavour]

[ Oh look, it's Little Lord Useless. ]

Perhaps because it infested the shadows around me or that if I hadn't defended myself I might not have survived altogether. [ IT IS A MYSTERY. He changes his tone to say, ] I will need you gone from the forge tonight.

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[histori]

[Ori is quite literally shaking in his boots, but he's doing his best not to show it.]

I-I have some skill in drawing. Would it help if I sketched pictures of the beast and...put up drawings to warn people? Th-then they could recognize it when they saw it.

[It kind of sounds like a Balrog to Ori. And though his academic heart would be interested in seeing it, the rest of him quails at the thought.]

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[disfavour]

In fact, Master Dwarf, I think you might be able to help me there. If I describe it to you, would you be able to draw it for me?

[ Solely to submit to Thranduil, of course. ]

[nightblogs]

Man, I hate insomniacs.

[disfavour]

[ A disjointed point to make, from Nuada's perspective, but one that makes him arch an inquiring brow. ]

Is that so.

[ Elaborate, implies his tone. ]

I APOLOGIZE FOR MY LATENESS

[altercate]

What are you talking about.

WE'RE THE LATE PARTY, WOOO \o\

[disfavour]

I am not in the habit of repeating myself.