the gang gets a tent

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Who: The entire Acquisitions team; if you're part of that division, feel free to drop in
When: Before Eden
Where: One of the smaller performance tents (aka not the Big Top)
What: Acquisitions has a bunch of nerds joining them and they need an actual workspace now, so Childermass has acquired them a whole circus tent.


With Acquisitions expanding into research, it wouldn't do to simply leave their team decentralized. It might work for thieves and conmen, who had no use for one central location, as anything they picked up was bound for the carnival's storage and nowhere else, but with people who might actually need to sit down and argue with eachother over notes and books? Less so.

As such, he's put some work into remedying that...

Childermass will have left a note on everyone's pillows (how he got in, people should be able to guess by now, the creep) to drop by the tent off the left-hand side of the Big Top. It's one of the smaller tents, previously for the performances not meant for the big time at the grand tent next door. The center ring has a few tables and a variety of chairs pulled in and there's yet another table pushed off to the side where there's room for a coffee maker, an electric kettle, a few tins of coffee and tea, mugs and cups, though the rest has yet to be altered. The wooden bleachers for the audience remains, circling the center, and there are still chests of magician's props hiding behind the curtains here and there.

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"The Faerie Courts," Childermass states that first and foremost, idly folding his hands on the tabletop as he prepares for, he assumes, too many questions that the Ringmaster should be answering. "The carnival is being pursued by the Winter and Summer Courts. Winter, in particular, because she ate their former Queen."

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That is certainly not information Eruka was prepared for, and she gapes at Childermass.

“Wh-when did she do that?!” Does Eruka have much of a clue what a Faerie Court is? Not really, but she knows what a witch’s court is like and what the Ringmaster is like, so imagining a whole host of beings with that power... two of them? The thought makes her feel faint enough that she drops into a seat with a thump, wringing the hem of her hat between her fingers.

“Do they know where we are right now?” she wails. As the urge to disappear rises, her hair peculiarly begins to become strangely translucent and liquid, writhing in the air.

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"Before she ever created the carnival," Childermass answers way too calmly for dropping that kind of info. Like hey, surprise, literal god-like armies are after us. He finds it a little tiring that the Ringmaster would fail the mention that somewhat important point but that's about it.

As for if they know... That gets a shrug. How reassuring.

"Doubtful," he adds, "She took this place apart to get rid of any tracking or trick the courts may have placed. Whether that means we aren't being tracked, however, I cannot be certain. We've put at least one world behind us with no faerie encounters, so it's possible."

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The lack of reassurance isn't lost on Eruka, who gulps, though she does her best to look at least not outright petrified. Her hair settles down, too, though she still looks a little see-through, and about to be sick.

"I see," she croaks unhappily, before she forces herself to shrug it off and straightens. She's signed the contract; there's no turning back now, and gnashing her teeth about it isn't all that productive.

"Is there, um, anything else I need to know?" Might as well get all the bad news out of the way so she can have a good cry about it in private later.

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What else to know... He's covered the Courts chasing them. He supposes he should add, "We're currently searching for the Miracles as a way to defend ourselves. Those are three powerful faerie artifacts from somewhere back near the beginning of time or some thereabouts."

He's incredibly mortal. It may as well be that long ago.

"We've already obtained one." And it's troublesome. "And we're en route to where the second one is, we hope, being kept."