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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 1361942" data-attributes="member: 2292">“Chat” is quickly translated as “Watch” when the Copperheads arrive at the forge.  The exterior of the building is streaked with dust, the wooden shutters over the windows latched down and the door locked.“It looks unused,” Amarin points out needlessly.“Normal, too,” Yip says with a shrug. Amarin’s psi-crystal is hoisted onto the rooftop of a nearby house and kept in a position to watch the doorway.“That thing will let us know when something happens?” Geoffrey says.  He doesn’t sound confident in the plan.“It’ll do it,” Amarin assures him.  “Assuming that I’m close enough to hear it.”“How close do you need to be?”“About a mile,” Amarin explains.  “We should be fine as long as we don’t leave the city.”“You sure it see something?” Blarth asks, poking the crystal.  “It not have eyes.”“Boss, you should see the grime under his fingernails,” the crystals voice says, reverberating in Amarin’s head.  Amarin smiles to himself and nods.  “The crystal is observant by nature,” he explains.  “It holds the part of me that is purely interested in seeing things, a fragment of my personality unobstructed by other emotions and thoughts.  If there’s something to be noticed, it’ll notice it.”Everyone decides to take Amarin at his word and falls back.  Blarth and Amarin huddle around the table in the guest lodge, Amarin focusing on his crystals communications.  Geoffrey and Yip hit the streets, getting ready to question witnesses to the murder and find out anything they can by Bjorn’s smithy.Hours pass.  It’s the first time Amarin has ever had to focus entirely on his crystals communication with him, listening to every word it thinks, and it proves to be an interesting experience.  “…Hey boss, check out that cloud, it looks weird, and that bug jumping across the guttering is all striped, and they really should be more careful when they build their chimneys here, I mean check out those cracks in the metal, you’d think they’d make it out of crystals like they do back home, and that guy walking past has a really big nose, and those two look like they’re in love, and that guy with the shovel is covered in soot, and there’s something shadowy lurking behind the chimney…”Amarin sighs audibly, doing his best to keep the sound out of his thoughts.  The crystals constant monologue on the state of the world was something he thought he was used to, a subconscious buzz that he only registers when it notices something important, like interesting runes or…ah…wait…“Did you say there was something hiding behind the chimney?” Amarin thinks to the crystal.  It lets out a gleeful mental nod, and shows Amarin the image of something small and lean hiding behind the metal construction.“Blarth,” Amarin says cautiously, “Something’s watching the crystal.”“Crystal pretty,” Blarth says blandly.  His head is resting on the table, boredom writ upon his features.  “Blarth see it on roof, Blarth watch it too.  Blarth bored.”“This is something that’s hiding, on the roof, watching the thing we’ve left to watch the potential smith of evil,” Amarin says cautiously.  “I can give you the power to climb like a spider, do you think you can make it across town and rescue the crystal before whatever is watching it decides it might be worth making off with?”Blarth perks up a little.“Blarth can do that.”There is a surge, and a web of ectoplasm appears on Blarth’s hands.“I’ll meet you there,” Amarin says.  Blarth is already running through the door and crawling up onto a nearby rooftop.</blockquote>

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