-2- Some Terrors don't know how to use filters

[lieutenantsteward]

Strange, your bird is a menace! It is constantly staring, and I swear it is conspiring with that damned creature. It often returns from its treks into Hell itself with tufts of fur in its beak. The two creatures are either the same, or they are plotting something.

Get rid of it.

...

If any are still going out on deck, I would advise to mind your distance from the bird if you haven't already.

Comments

[wishiwasatree]

What creature? The bird?

[lieutenantsteward]

Has no one warned you of the tuunbaq, Miss?

[wishiwasatree]

Of the what?

[lieutenantsteward]

The creature that stalks us. You have surely heard the noises and the growling?

[wishiwasatree]

Thot it was the ice! Its a creature?

[lieutenantsteward]

The noise of the ice is much different.

Miss, I should get to making the bread. Would you mind meeting me in the galley?

[wishiwasatree]

I can be there

[lieutenantsteward]

In a matter of minutes, Jopson is by the stove, waiting on Miss Trixie. He kneads the bread he had set out earlier, pulling apart pieces to fry.

[wishiwasatree]

Trixie's relieved that she doesn't have to keep writing. She pulls on her shawl and heads out to the galley, eager to stand by the stove for a little while.

"How can I help?"

[kingsroads]

How the devil do you expect me to get rid of something I did not create in the first place? The raven is his own bird, I cannot control him any more than I can control you or anyone else on this ship.

[lieutenantsteward]

I do not presume to know the means, Mr. Strange. I simply need to have it done.

[kingsroads]

I shall not. That raven has not harmed you, Lieutenant. Let it be.

[lieutenantsteward]

And if it is somehow communicating with the creature?

[kingsroads]

The only proof you have is tufts of fur. Perhaps it is attacking the creature? Or perhaps the tuunbaq is simply unwell?

[lieutenantsteward]

You speak nonsense, Mr. Strange. Will you not try?

[kingsroads]

And you speak nothing but baseless fear. I shall try to converse with the bird but I shall not convince it to leave.

[lieutenantsteward]

Baseless?

Sir, do you not recall what it did to you? What it can do to others?

private - look, Jopson, this is how you do this

[goingtobeunwell]

It isn't Strange's bird, Jopson. It was brought from London when things changed -- Dr. Sheehan and myself are acquainted with it.

private - maybe he just wants to be petty

[lieutenantsteward]

Captain.

You are acquaintances with a bird?

Re: private

[goingtobeunwell]

Yes. Not close. Sheehan's more of a friend to the bird than I.

Re: private

[lieutenantsteward]

Respectfully, sir, that does not change what I saw.

Re: private

[goingtobeunwell]

Perhaps the raven is trying to determine the intent of the creature.

Re: private

[lieutenantsteward]

Perhaps that is all, Captain. I cannot help but fear that it will create more strife.

Re: private

[goingtobeunwell]

You know how I feel about superstition, Jopson.

Re: private

[lieutenantsteward]

I do, but perhaps a little superstition is necessary considering what we have all endured?