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memoriesinsmoke

Fifth Spark

Feb 13, 2011 00:09

[Liz has been paying attention to the posts about the statues, along with the statues, themselves. They've been popping up everywhere, and so far people are getting antsy.

She's just been observing, however. Liz is a B.P.R.D. agent - it's her job to deal with strange happenings, and this is pretty strange. So, she's taken note of everything. The ( Read more... )

kevas, zeke, nicholas d. wolfwood, you are all idiots, it's my fucking job okay, i can do this

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[Locked] pimp_hat February 13 2011, 05:21:42 UTC

Dem statues, dey be villaguhs. Sometin' be turnin' dem to stone.

[Locked] memoriesinsmoke February 13 2011, 05:22:46 UTC

That's what I thought. You see exactly what it was? [Give her details, if you have them. The more Liz knows, the better she can assess what kind of monster they're dealing with.]

[Locked] pimp_hat February 13 2011, 05:25:30 UTC

Wouldah t'ought it be a basilisk but aftah seein' what happened but it...

[By the Loa he can't believe what he's about to say.]

It be lookin' like a chicken.

[Locked] memoriesinsmoke February 13 2011, 05:34:41 UTC

Cockatrice. [Liz says it without hesitation.] It's a creature that looks like a chicken or rooster, and can turn people into stone. Some known ways to kill them are to have them hear a rooster crow, or to make them look at their reflection in a mirror.

If this is what we're dealing with, hopefully those methods of killing them will work here.

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thenotmagician February 13 2011, 05:28:51 UTC

I agree with you there.

memoriesinsmoke February 13 2011, 05:38:14 UTC

Just talked to someone else who saw what it was. From the sound of it, it seems like we're dealing with a cockatrice.

1/idk thenotmagician February 13 2011, 05:44:10 UTC

A co-

2/IDK thenotmagician February 13 2011, 05:44:37 UTC

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misguides February 13 2011, 07:23:22 UTC

Sounds like you know what's going on.

memoriesinsmoke February 13 2011, 07:39:38 UTC

Cockatrice. [She's just reciting the information, now.]

It's a creature that can turn people into stone. Looks like a rooster. The known ways of killing it are with the sound of a real rooster, making it look in a mirror, or a weasel - they're immune.

There's no way of knowing for sure if those methods will work, but it's better than nothing.

You think you'll be able to help? [She trusts Wolfwood, so she's hoping that he'll be able to handle this.]

misguides February 13 2011, 09:08:35 UTC

Got it. I'll see if I can't lift some mirrors from any of the bathrooms they got around here. [And he's absorbing it readily. Still kind of hard to believe that they're fighting a chicken but he's getting more and more used to the idea of weird shit happening here.]

Yeah, I'll do what I can. Just lemme know when you've got enough people to deal with these things.

[Truth be told, he'd have done it even if she hadn't asked. Wolfwood may claim indifference to a lot of things but there's kids at risk here and that tends to be something he can't just sit on the sidelines for.]

memoriesinsmoke February 14 2011, 03:28:57 UTC

Good idea. [The more mirrors they get, the better off they'll be.]

Mirrors or anything reflective. Also, we need to think about possible ways to avoid getting turned to stone. It's hard to know for sure, since the way the petrify people varies on the lore. Some legends say it's sight, others say it's the sound of them crowing, and others say it's their breath. We'll have to keep this in mind, work on thinking of some preventative measures for either cause.

[As for calling him when the time comes, that much is a given. She needs all the people she can get.]

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