[E-mail: Harriet Webster]

[firecracker_hopping]

[Sent after talking to Ezra.]

Hey... I don't know if you heard. We lost the Undertow to petrification, thanks to Aerveas's druids.

Comments

[jupiter_bands]

[she doesn't see this until after paintball, and after replying to a similar update from Emily O'Hara

The Undertow... doesn't quite feel real to her yet, the idea that it's affected so many real people a little difficult to wrap her head around

She heard that the Ahura is okay, but figures he must be miserable about it. That's as close as she can come to really getting it; the rest is an abstraction]

I'm mostly up to speed. I didn't even realize they could do that.

[firecracker_hopping]

No one did. We're working on countermeasures.

We're... also getting ready. Safta's next. There's nowhere else to go for Aerveas.

I got some stuff you can help with, if you got time. I know you might be busy over there.

[jupiter_bands]

Mostly with silly stuff, it's been quiet on the diplomacy front.

What do you need?

[firecracker_hopping]

See if you can figure out how to depetrify things. If we can, I want to try using a jet to spray anti-petrification potion as an aerosol over the city.

Also... go to Marlene and give her this list.

[Underneath it is a bunch of books. They are all Army manuals about tanks.]

We need to make tanks not able to be tipped over.

Lastly, we're trying to think of every possible way Aerveas could surprise us and fuck us over to death. So, uh, brainstorm horrible ways to destroy Safta but keep that list secret. Like just me. For obvious reasons.

[jupiter_bands]

that last one = WEIRDEST PROJECT EVER but all right

Is the petrification special? Regular anti-petrify potion won't work?

[firecracker_hopping]

I think so, yeah... I haven't talked to the Ahura about it. We couldn't intervene and I think he knows why.

But theory and then getting fucked by it are really different.

[jupiter_bands]

I'll collab with the guild to gather details about how it might be different and how to make a formula targeted at this type of petrification [can't be that hard, right?]

What should I tell Marlene to do after she finishes the books? If she whips up a spell can that be communicated through worlds in words? (a potion recipe could so no worries on that count)

[firecracker_hopping]

I'm not sure if I got a lot for her besides getting you the books. I don't wanna burden her. If she offers help, let me know?

[jupiter_bands]

Hold on, back up. Why's Marlene getting the books then? I thought you wanted her to do a spell. [Harriet doesn't know Marlene's living in Lera's old apartment and the books are Lera's]

[firecracker_hopping]

Oh... right. She moved into my old place.

We sort of did a room swap. Marlene is getting you the books! They're specifications on tanks.

[jupiter_bands]

Ohhh. Those are in your room? Okay that works.

[firecracker_hopping]

Yeah. Thanks, Harriet. I really do appreciate it.