Case No. 16
BARISTA: AUDITOR
CAFE: ALL
DATE: MID MARCH
RECEIPT ID: TOI-08
We're on him now. The Giant. Forget the code names and mixed up pronouns, there's no time for that. We're a few hundred meters out from the Giant and the Seed of Sodom. I'll still file this under Diner. No point in breaking the format now. Naberius, Jericho, and Julius are ahead, while Alaric, Daichi, Indrid, Joy, and I follow behind. Given the recent revelations about Joy's use of the Spoon… Well, it would have been better for her to stay behind. At the same time, we didn't want to leave her on her own.
The Giant seems to be near the heart of the Thorned Tangle. The still and quiet place where the twisting vine-towers dare not spread. A sacred clearing of sorts called by the Esterskaldian witches the "Vernal Eternal." No snow, no rot, nor blinding sun reaches this inner most sanctum of the Plane. It is here, in this everlasting spring, where the Giant expects to find his forbidden seed.
We are, of course, at a disadvantage. We cannot see nor touch the Seed ourselves. Our physical senses are no good here. The only one of us who seems to have any sort of "connection" to the Seed, is Indrid Cold. He's been running on loop for hours now, on and on about the Seed, about the lost Archons, about—about everything and nothing, it seems. I wonder… has he tapped into the Seed's knowledge himself? I wouldn't put it past Indrid. I… I don't yet know the limitations of his powers or how his mind works. We can speculate on Indrid later though.
Here? Now? We need to stop the Giant once and for all. Slay him before he can get his hands on the Seed. Slay him like he slayed his comrades, the Mangrove Syndicate. Slay him like he slayed his brothers, sisters.
Caffeinated Report: C-TOI-09
"Bristol, Florida, Bedford, Bedfordshire, Independence, Missouri."
Urban Legend Trivia | 4 Words
Caffeinated Report: C-TOI-10
"To start a letter with a pig."
Animal Trivia | 1 Word
Caffeinated Report: CD-TOI-11
"As Indrid said over, and over, and over, and over again in CD-TOI-02:"
Reference | 2 Words
Caffeinated Report: C-TOI-12
"Kurmmander."
Mythology Trivia | 1 Word
Caffeinated Report: C-TOI-13
"The Sun Titan, as a recurrent theme."
Crystal Trivia | 1 Word
BARISTA: AUDITOR
CAFE: ALL
DATE: LATE MARCH
RECEIPT ID: TOI-14
Well…
Hm. I'm not sure what to do next. What we can do next. This is rather uncharted territory. Truth be told, I'm still not entirely sure what happened. I've been reading CaDence's transcript back and I still haven't quite pieced together how this all went so terribly wrong. I can take a guess at it, of course. Something Wicked, something Joyful, something… New is likely growing. Though we don't seem to have any recourse at the moment. The Green Tea has gone cold. The dregs of it are bitter. The flora, fauna, and even minerals seem to be against us. No doubt because we refused to pay our dues to Beez. I suppose that would be…
…Good Lord… What is THAT? What now—