CASE 005. TEXT.

[consulting]

Request for: body count.
Not dead. Obviously.
Injured parties, report to medbay by request of JW.

Update on ship ongoings, don’t be trivial.
Emotional accounts, overly embellished stories with
words such as : ‘terrifying’ and ‘unjustified’ will be met with scorn.
We’ve gathered that the demons are ‘big old meanies’.
Now, how can they be stopped and what are we doing to stop them?

SH & JW

PS.

“No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.”

[ There is a small addendum, a call out to specific people. The word familiar to one, the cypher familiar to the other. The quote is a clue enough. ]

RDKTCIGN

[ FILTER TO KIRK | SPOCK ]

Sorry, I missed brunch. - SH

Sherlock went missing, as suspected. Went to find him. Didn’t think it’d take so long, sorry. What can we do to help? - JW

( OOC | key is 15 and replies will come from both John and Sherlock)

Comments

text

[became]

I like "stupid jerks" better, personally.

[consulting]

I'm not sure they're seeking your opinion.
Is this where I hand on the obligatory Christo?

vzv rii szmqxan?


[ VIGENERE. PASSKEY: VIRTUOSO. ]

video;

[unparental]

[ SUCH STERN MOMFACE HERE. ]

Next time leave your very worried friends a message, okay? Some of us don't need to have another mini-heart attack anytime soon. [ beat. waaaaaaaait for it. ] Big old meanies.

[ you bring this on yourself, sherlock. less so you, john, but he is your bro. ]

VIDEO

[consulting]

[ SPACEMOM. BD ]

Could't text without signal. Don't be stupid, Jenna. I don't think it's within your physiological capacities to have a heart attack.

video;

[theblogger]

I had no idea we were going to be out so long.

[ Because the apology, if any, is going to be coming from John, isn't it? ]

You haven't gotten tangled up in any of this mess, have you?

text

[handelaar]

[He really hates texting, but whatever.]

Still alive

Who am I talking to, anyway

[consulting]

Sherlock Holmes.
Though John Watson may make an appearance.

No one dead?

SH

Anon Text.

[spider]

T____I____M____Eabcde

[consulting]

> INCOMING FILE.
> yourelate.zip

SH

TEXT | ANON | LOCKED AWAY FROM SHERLOCK THO

[became]

BBAAAABBBABABAA ABABBAAAAAABBABAAABBAABAAAAABB ABBAAAABAA ABAAAABBAB BAABBAABBBAABAA AAABBABBBAAABBAAABBBABBBABABAABAABAAABAA BBAAAABBBABABAA ABABAABBABABBBABABBA

[ someone found your first post, bro. consider this a thank you card for that nice bomb you left him. ]

( 'you landed me in the doghouse, you know.' )

text;

[wiretap]

dead: 1.
injured: undefined.

re: demons.
christo to reveal in human host.
salt and iron for protection.
latin to initiate exorcism.

see: castiel.

[consulting]

Location of body?

Re: Demons.
'christo' -
if it works via text.
can you mass message everyone a 'christo'?

SH

[ BECAUSE PRIORITIES. ]

text;

[theblogger]

Who was it?

voice & action ( ? )

[romanticism]

[ Oxford would, at this point, have been unceremoniously deposited in the medbay by Dean - complete with a very, very broken kneecap and an assortment of interesting bruises - so if John is around then they could have their exchanges in person? He sounds terribly weary and lacklustre. ]

Demons can be removed by exorcisms. Wonders aboard this ship never cease.

voice

[consulting]

[ Lovely. He's been told. He notes the weariness in Oxford's tone. He respects Oxford enough to give him voice back. ]

First hand experience, then?

action b/c ilu

[theblogger]

[ He's had a night to sleep on top of about three weeks of being AWOL - it's time to go to the medbay to see what sort of damage has been done. The mention of a body (and considering who it is) is enough to propel him here.

And there's a familiar face, only not one he's used to seeing in his own neck of the woods. ]

Oxford?

[ But he'll pick up Ratchet's tablet on the way in. Sure, it's easy enough to see what's ailing the other man, but he'll need to see what's been put in the history over the last few days.

...Where is Ratchet, anyway?

Never mind that. ]

text;

[adlered]

Everyone has already answered your questions, Mr. Holmes.

And if I were injured I fear that I might give our favorite doctor a heart attack by going to the medbay. I breathe too much for a dead woman anyway.

You're losing your touch if you got lost. Though it appears you had company. I'm almost jealous.

text;

[theblogger]

Seeing some of the things happening here has sort of stolen the thunder of your grand return.

You're not afraid I wouldn't treat you instead?

[cutsofftheirlimbs]

If they were more physical I might be able to help stop them.
Seem to be leaving engineering alone.
Hotspur and Moreau set up defendable position in shuttle bay.

[consulting]

Defendable position implies there is something in need of defending.
Have they been taking a passive or active route in their 'attacks'?
I thought it was just possess and go?

text | encrypted

[awakenings]

About time.
Most people here have already given you the details.

Are you two all right?

text | encrypted

[theblogger]

We'll be fine.

You?

[statsraaden]

[Oh, these young men are back. At last.]

Where on the seas were you?

text;.

[goldshirt]

You two have really gotta stop doing this.

Sherlock, you might want to memorize some latin.
[EXORCISM.TXT]

Watson, you're back just in time to patch everyone up.

[including Jim.]

[consulting]

The joint posts?

SH

INCOMING FILE
>TRANQUILITY_OBSERVATIONS_EXTENDED.TXT

text; encrypted

[firstofficer]

And was your venture as fruitful as Doctor Watson's, Mister Holmes?

[consulting]

It wasn't a venture, I'd particularly sought out. Spock.

How was the tea?

SH

text.

[purrfectlycute]

:33 < im okay
:33 < i mean im not pawsessed as fur as i know and i havent b33n hurt
:33 < my furiend was but i dont know if that was a demon or if eridan just made someone mad
:33 < which really isnt outside the realm of pawsibility to be honest
:33 < but were not dead
:33 < do you know anyone who... well, is?

[consulting]

:33 < Alayne Stone.
:33 < Haven't encountered a dead body in months.
:33 < Can't wait.
:33 < It's Eridan.
:33 < Why do you type like this?

[video - encrypted 80%] SHE DOESN'T KNOW YOU'RE FROM BASKERVILLE, MAN

[the_vishual]

Sherlock, sir?

[ a beat. ]

I O U.

Three letters.

[consulting]

? ? ?

SH

[ Eloquence thy name is Sherlock Holmes ]

[darkholme]

Dr. Death McDoomenstein
Mister Macabre
... The Detective?

Although /Sherlock/ is kinda great all on its own.

You're a tricky one to pin down, Mr. Holmes.

text.

[theblogger]

Is this a continuation of the Coatman thing?
He's Hatman in the papers.