SALTBURNT | hex club group chat.

[powerhungry]

HEX CLUB/PINK SLIP GROUP CHAT. SILCO HAS ADDED YOU TO THIS CHAT. 42 people: Silco, Gwen, Faith, Hawk, Neon, Buffy, Cassian, Devon, Koby, Shadowheart, Stephen, Yeko, Zephir, Dean, Tara, Wanda, Jake, Saber, Sanji, Adrian; Ani, Peony, Bob, Yelena, Valentina, Sam, Max, Tristan, Parisa, Qimir, Thresher, Armand, Shauna, Cellar, Roza, Iggy, Isolde, Peter, Wally, Danny, Eddie, Teddie.

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@qimir

[snaggleteeth]

[after google fails him—]

Hello, Stephen.

What does this mean?

[rehandle]

[ Ah. ]

A barrier of protective spellwork, to keep the unwelcome from passing through.

[snaggleteeth]

Do you think Koby would let you put one on his room?

[they know each other. stephen was the initial referral, even.]

[rehandle]

[ Oh. Not what he's expecting - but not an unpleasant surprise. ]

We can ask him.

[ Maybe they already have, technically, though there's every chance he's fast asleep. ]

🔒

[snaggleteeth]

Another thing. The sealskin. Going to assume you know something about it.

He needs a solution, limiter, or a workaround for its randomness and exploitability. Any improvement would be better than none. Can your magic do that?

🔒♾️

[rehandle]

[ Unsafe assumption, but he can make some of his own based on the events of the day and what he's heard thrown around, so - ]

I can look into it, but I'll need to understand it more to know what kind of approach to look into. What can you tell me?

[snaggleteeth]

[some days, nominal consent feels important. other days, you see ani mikheeva hijack koby's ward detail, and you're like, she is the sex worker with low-yield superstrength and a perplexing amount of beef with every other pair of testicles on campus. and what is nominal consent, if not skirting a posthoc request for forgiveness, really.]

The vampire took it. Made him talk. Koby's drawing a straight line between that conversation and the hostages. And of course, enough guilt you'd think he handed it over with one of your Christmas bows on top.

The house seems to choose randomly and maliciously. That much, I'm not sure can be changed. But you could try.

[rehandle]

[ It's the confirmation of whatever context he'd been missing, and it tenses his muscles for fight that's already over, but there's still - ]

Choose what, exactly? When it manifests?

He's not spoken to me directly about what this thing is or how it seems to work.

tw vague mention of prevailing suicidal weirdos in residence

[snaggleteeth]

He'll tell you now. Be curious what you make of his editorializations. A lot of shame.

[he is, perhaps, not the most reliable judge of personal accountability.]

Sure. When it manifests, maybe narrow down where? If not that, a way to track it. To let the—recipient know what fair use looks like.

[not disclosed: the twenty five minutes he spent thinking on reasonable public threats about what would happen to the next person who violated koby's autonomy. it wasn't productive. house full of masochists, impulsive defiance, suicides eager to happen.]

It's a lot. Will you have time?

[rehandle]

I'll make time.

[ He's got nothing but time these days, but even if that weren't the case - this is important. He hadn't known, before, how vulnerable Koby had become. ]

Thank you for coming to me with this.

[snaggleteeth]

He would've said. I'm just impatient.

You're welcome. Let me know if there's anything I can do.