Welcome to the Land of Silence! Take care to not disturb the spirits as much as possible, and pay your respects.
Silent Salt Cookie, the traitor Beast of Silence owns this blog! Be gentle when his armor is off is all he asksā¦
āI will pay the price for my arrogance.ā
Important Story:
Voice
Framed
Bloom
Every Day
Failureā¦?
Current Arc:
Silent Salt finds himself stuck between two problems: Project Nurture, who has taken his grandchild and his friends, and the CrĆØme Republic, who is still after him for the death of Custard Cookie. Despite this he still finds love in Mystic Flour Cookie as he starts to reflect that maybeā¦ everything is his own fault.
Meanwhile, White Lily is searching for a way to stop her evil half, and with the information given to her by the Apostle of Death, her own father, she may have a planā¦
Silent Salt
The horse
White Lily
Relationship charts
Mod will answer asks in pink text
Other info under cut
~ Other blogs ~
@moonfirecookies - main blog
@integrity-and-corruption - Beast/Ancient oc blog (and shadow milk)
@pineapples-island - Ananas Dragon Blog
@slothtowardsparadise - Redemption!Eternal Sugar Blog
@the-creme-republic - crĆØme republic multi muse blog
@thesprinklecircus - first cookie multi muse blog
@sandwichshopofheros - Sandwich Cookie and Hero Cookie Blog
@clusterofworlds - Oc blog (will be multi muse later)
@golden-rulers - oc + Goldencacaoberry blog
~ Rules ~
Please no extreme suggestive/nsfw asks. While I am ok with certain aspects, please do not go to far.
No Homophobia, Transphobia, Racism, all of that stuff, I donāt want any of that here. (Basic DNI criteria)
Iām ok with shipping! Im a multishipper, please be respectful towards ships even if you personally donāt like the ship.
However, this is the ONLY blog where I do not allow Beast x Ancient shipping due to a personal headcanon for this Silent Salt iteration (see Headcanons). Incest or ships with inappropriate age gaps are not welcome.
Do not ask for any personal information!
~ Headcanons ~
Probably the most important headcanon: White Lily Cookie is Silent Salt Cookieās Daughter. As such it feels uncomfortable to ship this Silent Salt Cookie iteration with White Lily Cookie for obvious reasons.
Silent Salt was born with a faint voice, the loudest he can get is a whisper, he speaks either through sign language or sounds similar to Morse code. More recently, he gained the ability to speak louder with a magichanical device that was gifted to him.
He was also born with softer dough than normal, making it easy to put dents, scar, and squish him. This is the main reason why he keeps his armor on.
He somehow made his armor to not produce noise, he can also walk without making noise.
He moves his soul jam form his armor to his sword depending on the situation. If he wants more power in his attacks, the soul jam is on his sword. If heās on the defense, the soul jam in on his chest plate to strengthen the durability of his armor.
Under the Land of Silence and the catacombs, is The Land of Noise, a flourishing place filled with life, this place is where most cookies go after crumbling.
This goes for all beast cookies I might make a blog for in the future, but they all have animal like traits! (Ex. Mystic flour can produce silk, through her mouth, fangs on all beasts, etc.) All the beasts have a mixture of traits but the base is cat. The beasts do their best to hide this mainly because they think itās embarrassing.
Adding to above, while thereās no clear cut inspiration on what canon silent salt is based on, his current mix is cat/ant/leopard. This is subject to change on the future.
He doesnāt like cluttered or messy places, he will deep clean an entire place if possible.
āNo, my grandchild and my friends have been kidnapped, and my soul jam just- went off somewhere a few days ago and I canāt find it! And if those same cookies or the crĆØme republic get it then they can track me!ā
Shadow Milk sighed and sat down by him. He opened a portal and pulled out his words of encouragement blueberry plush. āHere squeeze thisā¦. You break it I kill youā¦ā
āA group of cookies, Project Nurture they call themselves. Some cookies, are reincarnates of something, larger than any of us could imagine. And others, while not reincarnates, hold that power as well. Thatās what my grandchild has, thatās what some of my friends had to.. they are after it, so they took them.ā
.. and heās probably next, if not close to it. Though he does not mention it.
He bitterly laughs, a tired one. āThe best that can be done right now, is to actually find where that group is operating, so far from my searches, they arenāt on beast yeast.ā
āItās a memorial tree, for everyone Iāve lost.. the ones on the branches represent the other beasts, or what we used to beā¦ I didnāt think any of the flowers here would start to witherā
āI donāt count myself if I am not gone.ā He watches him float up. The branch with the fully wilted flowers were.. from Eternal Sugarās domain. The two with flowers from both the burning spice and shadow milkās domains were starting to wilt, thereās flowers included on the fountās branch that, did not come from the domain actually.. the last branch isnāt even close to wilting.
āTechnically here, in my timeline at least, thereās six of us. I did combine a memorial for that missing one, their marriedā
āThatās, my cousin for you. I havenāt seen her since we argued a while agoā¦ not sure what is possibly wrong, shes been that tired for as long as sheās fallen as a virtue.. hell she even slept the whole time while in the treeā
āAt least she got decent sleepā¦ my back was killing me Iām that tree I could hardly sleep at all let lone do ANYTHING! Ugh I wanted to rip my hair outā¦.ā Shadow Milk complained.
āNo! We were literally in the roots of the damn thing! It was awful and so uncomfortable! No matter what I did the tree would just hold me tighterā¦ā Shadow Milk said.
āWhile I was in the tree, it was a big voidā¦ empty of everything except for the five of usā¦ it was fine most times, until Burning Spice was bored.ā He shudders... wait he was scared of burning spice? āAnd he only would fight me.ā
āWait wait. Youāre scared of spice head? He could barely do a thing in my tree. And boy did he tryā¦. He would scream and shout until his voice finally ran out for a centuryā¦ just for him to start againā¦ā Shadow Milk sighed.
āHe was able to do, quite a lot in my tree, we fought in there 47 times over the years. He kept trying to get something new out of me.. I lost every time.ā
āHeās always been able to beat me, even before the fall.. then again he also wasnāt as brutal as he was while in the tree, the score is zero to fifty right now.ā
āI am hoping I will be able to fight him off sooner or later. My plans changed slightly for when war starts.. I wonāt be keeping everyone frozen in silence.ā
āI donāt need to kill, I need to stall time.. originally I was going to just, freeze everyone and wait until the time rifts open, maybe just use my own power to channel the binding spell again. But then I met another shadow milk. Many eyesā¦ apparently had the souls of the others inside him.. and it gave me a new idea.ā
āThe Ultimate Cookie, it apparently has so much power it made him look, like thatā¦ and I wonāt be letting mine get to it. Iāll be using it. Itās enough to power to use the spell without draining myself or anyone close to meā¦ and I can probably prevent myself from dying in the process! All I need it for is to distract, and as a power source. Then my daughter can deal with that fake witch.ā
āā¦ ok and I thought I was crazy. You do know what happened to that other guy right? It was trying to control himā¦ what makes you think you can control it?ā
āI have two horses and a leopard, if I do die which will be never, my oldest gets the leopardā¦ Youngest gets Noxā¦ grandchild gets Eclipse. And no youāre not taking my helmet.ā
He looked at the tree then back at him. āIāllā¦ see to it that happens.ā
āIn my timeline none of us ever married. We were far too busy to even look for anyone. Wouldāve been counter productive anywayā¦ cookies are not like us.ā
āIn my timeline a few of us got married.. I did, Eternal Sugar did.. and Cinnamon Storm did, even with how horrible it turned out to be. I couldnāt save my wife, I couldnāt do anything to stop it, my version of you didnāt let meā
āYa thatā¦ that sounds like meā¦..ā He took back his blueberry and held it. āYou are the closest Iām gonna get to a Silent Saltā¦. I mean it means nothing you still have to deal the other me in your own timeline butā¦ I am sorryā¦ā
ā.. Iām still upset with my version of you, I think Iāll always be angry at him.. maybe forever maybe not, but you have never done anything to me. We did nearly fight to the death but you and that other version are far more, reasonable.ā
āItās more for my piece of mindā¦ after everything Iāve done I canāt exactly apologize to the ones in my timeline anymoreā¦. But I appreciate that comment.ā Shadow Milk said. āI told won that fightā¦ā
And of course he keeps jumping up at the shadow milks, trying to grab them. This is absolutely the most cat like anyone has ever seen him act like before.
āI was always far too busy for gamesā¦ especially before corruption. Heck even if I were to ask anyone my letters would go ignoredā¦. Or the usual response too busy.ā
āI would have as well, even when the normal cookies were a priority I still cared to try and stand for my friends, I held myself and the others to a.. different standard. I was looking back on that before you came actuallyā
āYet I still failed to check up on everyone.. Iāll admit I think everything went wrong the day my shadow milk said our mothers ate cookies, and itās still my failure since I should have stood for himā¦ but that information is hard to believeā
āHeheā¦ Iāve always known. A curse to be a cookie of knowledge. Butā¦ I never thought our creators would be like that. Iā¦ I hopeā¦ they arenāt like that.ā
āTrust meā¦ by that point of even just telling I was likely already gone. I was tryingā¦. So hardā¦ to keep things together. Telling myself itās for the greater good and it was my purpose.ā
āMy fail safe was just curl up in a ball. Hide. Cause oooooo boy would I have an angry mob on my handsā¦. In the end I did.ā Shadow Milk rolled his eyes as he rubbed his throat a bit. āHiding sure didnāt help.ā
āMy fail safe was a protocol I told all my knights. If I were to ever go astray, if I were to betray solidarity, they were to strike me down and crumble me.ā
āIt didnāt, when I corrupted they were dead.. the ghosts wouldnāt attack me, they werenāt even apart of the curse and they wouldnāt go through with it. So I went to elder faerie and tried to have him do itā¦ and he didnāt do it eitherā
āBy the time I finally found everyone, everyone was far gone. You killed your entire army. Still covered in old jam. You didnāt stick around you left right after I found ya. Flour didnāt even talk. Spice was loud. Sugar acted like I was a pest in her garden.ā
āI only reunited with everyone after the sealing, Iām not even sure how the others believe me when I said the witches sealed us, Iām not that great of a liar.. elder faerie does say I have a silver tongue so maybe that was apart of it. My shadow milk saw through it though, no one believed him.ā
āOh no I believed it was the witches 100%. I thought it was them finally paying attention to us to punish usā¦ until Dark Enchantress said it was youā¦.ā
āPerhaps thatās why he didnāt believe me, I guess everyone else thought I was angry that I was sealed, my version of you probably saw through that.ā
āI mostly believed you cause there was a part of me that remembers a part of you. I was like āheās my friendā¦ he would never, ever hurt me or usā. Boyā¦ I believed my own lie.ā
With a nod he puts his helmet back on and starts making his way to the bay. Where uhā¦ thatās a lot of ships. Like a lot a lotā¦. Huh. Wait those were crĆØme republic ships oh noā¦
Shadow Milk saw the ships. Didnāt know exactly what or who was on them. But he remained in the shadows. After all this wasnāt his timelineā¦. He canāt really interfere. No matter how much he wanted to. Last thing he was is a Timekeeper Cookie lecturing him.
ā¦ itās not that bad! Heās taken on a whole army by himself..! Albeit without much thought other than pure anger and griefā¦ and said army did not have rifles. So he does the normal thing when he does not want anyone in his land, torment the cursed souls to make them scream! Which does work to some extent!
Unfortunately for silent salt, a while 50,000 army comes out of the ships to get him! And so he stops the screaming to try and lead them into a hole and maybe get them off of him.
Shadow Milk watched in worry. That was a lot but knowing Saltās strength from his own timeline this one had got to be at least just as capableā¦ right?ā¦. Right? He scrambled to keep up.
Heās doing it very well! Until he wasnāt. They had his soul jam, they can follow him wherever he went. It got worse when the consul himself got off the boat and followed after the knight with Financier just behind him.
The knight did not last long after, clotted cream casted the light cage with Financierās assistance, continuously did damage until the knight stopped resisting entirely, which took several minutes, and then is forced back to the boats to be taken back to the republic.
Clotted Cream was finally relived.. they got him. They finally got him. The consul teleports the stolen soul jam back to the republic, in a safe spotā¦ thereās no way heās keeping it here the entire time. That would be a disaster if the beast got out somehow.
He did not notice the rat as he fortifies the light cage as much as possible.
After fortifying the light cage byā¦ a lotā¦ and by a lot I mean an extreme amount, the consul left. It was just silent salt and the rat left in the room.
Unfortunately, there was nothing in the room, no lock to get him out either.. just the light cage thatās feels like itās been filled with the wrath of several gods.
āNo, my grandchild and my friends have been kidnapped, and my soul jam just- went off somewhere a few days ago and I canāt find it! And if those same cookies or the crĆØme republic get it then they can track me!ā
Shadow Milk sighed and sat down by him. He opened a portal and pulled out his words of encouragement blueberry plush. āHere squeeze thisā¦. You break it I kill youā¦ā
āA group of cookies, Project Nurture they call themselves. Some cookies, are reincarnates of something, larger than any of us could imagine. And others, while not reincarnates, hold that power as well. Thatās what my grandchild has, thatās what some of my friends had to.. they are after it, so they took them.ā
.. and heās probably next, if not close to it. Though he does not mention it.
He bitterly laughs, a tired one. āThe best that can be done right now, is to actually find where that group is operating, so far from my searches, they arenāt on beast yeast.ā
āItās a memorial tree, for everyone Iāve lost.. the ones on the branches represent the other beasts, or what we used to beā¦ I didnāt think any of the flowers here would start to witherā
āI donāt count myself if I am not gone.ā He watches him float up. The branch with the fully wilted flowers were.. from Eternal Sugarās domain. The two with flowers from both the burning spice and shadow milkās domains were starting to wilt, thereās flowers included on the fountās branch that, did not come from the domain actually.. the last branch isnāt even close to wilting.
āTechnically here, in my timeline at least, thereās six of us. I did combine a memorial for that missing one, their marriedā
āThatās, my cousin for you. I havenāt seen her since we argued a while agoā¦ not sure what is possibly wrong, shes been that tired for as long as sheās fallen as a virtue.. hell she even slept the whole time while in the treeā
āAt least she got decent sleepā¦ my back was killing me Iām that tree I could hardly sleep at all let lone do ANYTHING! Ugh I wanted to rip my hair outā¦.ā Shadow Milk complained.
āNo! We were literally in the roots of the damn thing! It was awful and so uncomfortable! No matter what I did the tree would just hold me tighterā¦ā Shadow Milk said.
āWhile I was in the tree, it was a big voidā¦ empty of everything except for the five of usā¦ it was fine most times, until Burning Spice was bored.ā He shudders... wait he was scared of burning spice? āAnd he only would fight me.ā
āWait wait. Youāre scared of spice head? He could barely do a thing in my tree. And boy did he tryā¦. He would scream and shout until his voice finally ran out for a centuryā¦ just for him to start againā¦ā Shadow Milk sighed.
āHe was able to do, quite a lot in my tree, we fought in there 47 times over the years. He kept trying to get something new out of me.. I lost every time.ā
āHeās always been able to beat me, even before the fall.. then again he also wasnāt as brutal as he was while in the tree, the score is zero to fifty right now.ā
āI am hoping I will be able to fight him off sooner or later. My plans changed slightly for when war starts.. I wonāt be keeping everyone frozen in silence.ā
āI donāt need to kill, I need to stall time.. originally I was going to just, freeze everyone and wait until the time rifts open, maybe just use my own power to channel the binding spell again. But then I met another shadow milk. Many eyesā¦ apparently had the souls of the others inside him.. and it gave me a new idea.ā
āThe Ultimate Cookie, it apparently has so much power it made him look, like thatā¦ and I wonāt be letting mine get to it. Iāll be using it. Itās enough to power to use the spell without draining myself or anyone close to meā¦ and I can probably prevent myself from dying in the process! All I need it for is to distract, and as a power source. Then my daughter can deal with that fake witch.ā
āā¦ ok and I thought I was crazy. You do know what happened to that other guy right? It was trying to control himā¦ what makes you think you can control it?ā
āI have two horses and a leopard, if I do die which will be never, my oldest gets the leopardā¦ Youngest gets Noxā¦ grandchild gets Eclipse. And no youāre not taking my helmet.ā
He looked at the tree then back at him. āIāllā¦ see to it that happens.ā
āIn my timeline none of us ever married. We were far too busy to even look for anyone. Wouldāve been counter productive anywayā¦ cookies are not like us.ā
āIn my timeline a few of us got married.. I did, Eternal Sugar did.. and Cinnamon Storm did, even with how horrible it turned out to be. I couldnāt save my wife, I couldnāt do anything to stop it, my version of you didnāt let meā
āYa thatā¦ that sounds like meā¦..ā He took back his blueberry and held it. āYou are the closest Iām gonna get to a Silent Saltā¦. I mean it means nothing you still have to deal the other me in your own timeline butā¦ I am sorryā¦ā
ā.. Iām still upset with my version of you, I think Iāll always be angry at him.. maybe forever maybe not, but you have never done anything to me. We did nearly fight to the death but you and that other version are far more, reasonable.ā
āItās more for my piece of mindā¦ after everything Iāve done I canāt exactly apologize to the ones in my timeline anymoreā¦. But I appreciate that comment.ā Shadow Milk said. āI told won that fightā¦ā
And of course he keeps jumping up at the shadow milks, trying to grab them. This is absolutely the most cat like anyone has ever seen him act like before.
āI was always far too busy for gamesā¦ especially before corruption. Heck even if I were to ask anyone my letters would go ignoredā¦. Or the usual response too busy.ā
āI would have as well, even when the normal cookies were a priority I still cared to try and stand for my friends, I held myself and the others to a.. different standard. I was looking back on that before you came actuallyā
āYet I still failed to check up on everyone.. Iāll admit I think everything went wrong the day my shadow milk said our mothers ate cookies, and itās still my failure since I should have stood for himā¦ but that information is hard to believeā
āHeheā¦ Iāve always known. A curse to be a cookie of knowledge. Butā¦ I never thought our creators would be like that. Iā¦ I hopeā¦ they arenāt like that.ā
āTrust meā¦ by that point of even just telling I was likely already gone. I was tryingā¦. So hardā¦ to keep things together. Telling myself itās for the greater good and it was my purpose.ā
āMy fail safe was just curl up in a ball. Hide. Cause oooooo boy would I have an angry mob on my handsā¦. In the end I did.ā Shadow Milk rolled his eyes as he rubbed his throat a bit. āHiding sure didnāt help.ā
āMy fail safe was a protocol I told all my knights. If I were to ever go astray, if I were to betray solidarity, they were to strike me down and crumble me.ā
āIt didnāt, when I corrupted they were dead.. the ghosts wouldnāt attack me, they werenāt even apart of the curse and they wouldnāt go through with it. So I went to elder faerie and tried to have him do itā¦ and he didnāt do it eitherā
āBy the time I finally found everyone, everyone was far gone. You killed your entire army. Still covered in old jam. You didnāt stick around you left right after I found ya. Flour didnāt even talk. Spice was loud. Sugar acted like I was a pest in her garden.ā
āI only reunited with everyone after the sealing, Iām not even sure how the others believe me when I said the witches sealed us, Iām not that great of a liar.. elder faerie does say I have a silver tongue so maybe that was apart of it. My shadow milk saw through it though, no one believed him.ā
āOh no I believed it was the witches 100%. I thought it was them finally paying attention to us to punish usā¦ until Dark Enchantress said it was youā¦.ā
āPerhaps thatās why he didnāt believe me, I guess everyone else thought I was angry that I was sealed, my version of you probably saw through that.ā
āI mostly believed you cause there was a part of me that remembers a part of you. I was like āheās my friendā¦ he would never, ever hurt me or usā. Boyā¦ I believed my own lie.ā
With a nod he puts his helmet back on and starts making his way to the bay. Where uhā¦ thatās a lot of ships. Like a lot a lotā¦. Huh. Wait those were crĆØme republic ships oh noā¦
Shadow Milk saw the ships. Didnāt know exactly what or who was on them. But he remained in the shadows. After all this wasnāt his timelineā¦. He canāt really interfere. No matter how much he wanted to. Last thing he was is a Timekeeper Cookie lecturing him.
ā¦ itās not that bad! Heās taken on a whole army by himself..! Albeit without much thought other than pure anger and griefā¦ and said army did not have rifles. So he does the normal thing when he does not want anyone in his land, torment the cursed souls to make them scream! Which does work to some extent!
Unfortunately for silent salt, a while 50,000 army comes out of the ships to get him! And so he stops the screaming to try and lead them into a hole and maybe get them off of him.
Shadow Milk watched in worry. That was a lot but knowing Saltās strength from his own timeline this one had got to be at least just as capableā¦ right?ā¦. Right? He scrambled to keep up.
Heās doing it very well! Until he wasnāt. They had his soul jam, they can follow him wherever he went. It got worse when the consul himself got off the boat and followed after the knight with Financier just behind him.
The knight did not last long after, clotted cream casted the light cage with Financierās assistance, continuously did damage until the knight stopped resisting entirely, which took several minutes, and then is forced back to the boats to be taken back to the republic.
Clotted Cream was finally relived.. they got him. They finally got him. The consul teleports the stolen soul jam back to the republic, in a safe spotā¦ thereās no way heās keeping it here the entire time. That would be a disaster if the beast got out somehow.
He did not notice the rat as he fortifies the light cage as much as possible.
After fortifying the light cage byā¦ a lotā¦ and by a lot I mean an extreme amount, the consul left. It was just silent salt and the rat left in the room.
You know what Iāll put this here, all of these will get updated from time to time. Some relations (Madonna Lily specifically) are missing.
Silent Salt:
Notes:
The relations for Shadow Milk are split up between the three he knows: he absolutely despises his own shadow milk, but trusts and is friendly with both the other shadow milk and the ex ultimate shadow milk
He and mystic flour are currently dating
He grieves heavily for both Madonna Lily (not shown) and Elder Faerie, he still loves them even when theyāre gone.
He grieves all the beasts equally, he misses the old days before the corruptionā¦
āNo, my grandchild and my friends have been kidnapped, and my soul jam just- went off somewhere a few days ago and I canāt find it! And if those same cookies or the crĆØme republic get it then they can track me!ā
Shadow Milk sighed and sat down by him. He opened a portal and pulled out his words of encouragement blueberry plush. āHere squeeze thisā¦. You break it I kill youā¦ā
āA group of cookies, Project Nurture they call themselves. Some cookies, are reincarnates of something, larger than any of us could imagine. And others, while not reincarnates, hold that power as well. Thatās what my grandchild has, thatās what some of my friends had to.. they are after it, so they took them.ā
.. and heās probably next, if not close to it. Though he does not mention it.
He bitterly laughs, a tired one. āThe best that can be done right now, is to actually find where that group is operating, so far from my searches, they arenāt on beast yeast.ā
āItās a memorial tree, for everyone Iāve lost.. the ones on the branches represent the other beasts, or what we used to beā¦ I didnāt think any of the flowers here would start to witherā
āI donāt count myself if I am not gone.ā He watches him float up. The branch with the fully wilted flowers were.. from Eternal Sugarās domain. The two with flowers from both the burning spice and shadow milkās domains were starting to wilt, thereās flowers included on the fountās branch that, did not come from the domain actually.. the last branch isnāt even close to wilting.
āTechnically here, in my timeline at least, thereās six of us. I did combine a memorial for that missing one, their marriedā
āThatās, my cousin for you. I havenāt seen her since we argued a while agoā¦ not sure what is possibly wrong, shes been that tired for as long as sheās fallen as a virtue.. hell she even slept the whole time while in the treeā
āAt least she got decent sleepā¦ my back was killing me Iām that tree I could hardly sleep at all let lone do ANYTHING! Ugh I wanted to rip my hair outā¦.ā Shadow Milk complained.
āNo! We were literally in the roots of the damn thing! It was awful and so uncomfortable! No matter what I did the tree would just hold me tighterā¦ā Shadow Milk said.
āWhile I was in the tree, it was a big voidā¦ empty of everything except for the five of usā¦ it was fine most times, until Burning Spice was bored.ā He shudders... wait he was scared of burning spice? āAnd he only would fight me.ā
āWait wait. Youāre scared of spice head? He could barely do a thing in my tree. And boy did he tryā¦. He would scream and shout until his voice finally ran out for a centuryā¦ just for him to start againā¦ā Shadow Milk sighed.
āHe was able to do, quite a lot in my tree, we fought in there 47 times over the years. He kept trying to get something new out of me.. I lost every time.ā
āHeās always been able to beat me, even before the fall.. then again he also wasnāt as brutal as he was while in the tree, the score is zero to fifty right now.ā
āI am hoping I will be able to fight him off sooner or later. My plans changed slightly for when war starts.. I wonāt be keeping everyone frozen in silence.ā
āI donāt need to kill, I need to stall time.. originally I was going to just, freeze everyone and wait until the time rifts open, maybe just use my own power to channel the binding spell again. But then I met another shadow milk. Many eyesā¦ apparently had the souls of the others inside him.. and it gave me a new idea.ā
āThe Ultimate Cookie, it apparently has so much power it made him look, like thatā¦ and I wonāt be letting mine get to it. Iāll be using it. Itās enough to power to use the spell without draining myself or anyone close to meā¦ and I can probably prevent myself from dying in the process! All I need it for is to distract, and as a power source. Then my daughter can deal with that fake witch.ā
āā¦ ok and I thought I was crazy. You do know what happened to that other guy right? It was trying to control himā¦ what makes you think you can control it?ā
āI have two horses and a leopard, if I do die which will be never, my oldest gets the leopardā¦ Youngest gets Noxā¦ grandchild gets Eclipse. And no youāre not taking my helmet.ā
He looked at the tree then back at him. āIāllā¦ see to it that happens.ā
āIn my timeline none of us ever married. We were far too busy to even look for anyone. Wouldāve been counter productive anywayā¦ cookies are not like us.ā
āIn my timeline a few of us got married.. I did, Eternal Sugar did.. and Cinnamon Storm did, even with how horrible it turned out to be. I couldnāt save my wife, I couldnāt do anything to stop it, my version of you didnāt let meā
āYa thatā¦ that sounds like meā¦..ā He took back his blueberry and held it. āYou are the closest Iām gonna get to a Silent Saltā¦. I mean it means nothing you still have to deal the other me in your own timeline butā¦ I am sorryā¦ā
ā.. Iām still upset with my version of you, I think Iāll always be angry at him.. maybe forever maybe not, but you have never done anything to me. We did nearly fight to the death but you and that other version are far more, reasonable.ā
āItās more for my piece of mindā¦ after everything Iāve done I canāt exactly apologize to the ones in my timeline anymoreā¦. But I appreciate that comment.ā Shadow Milk said. āI told won that fightā¦ā
And of course he keeps jumping up at the shadow milks, trying to grab them. This is absolutely the most cat like anyone has ever seen him act like before.
āI was always far too busy for gamesā¦ especially before corruption. Heck even if I were to ask anyone my letters would go ignoredā¦. Or the usual response too busy.ā
āI would have as well, even when the normal cookies were a priority I still cared to try and stand for my friends, I held myself and the others to a.. different standard. I was looking back on that before you came actuallyā
āYet I still failed to check up on everyone.. Iāll admit I think everything went wrong the day my shadow milk said our mothers ate cookies, and itās still my failure since I should have stood for himā¦ but that information is hard to believeā
āHeheā¦ Iāve always known. A curse to be a cookie of knowledge. Butā¦ I never thought our creators would be like that. Iā¦ I hopeā¦ they arenāt like that.ā
āTrust meā¦ by that point of even just telling I was likely already gone. I was tryingā¦. So hardā¦ to keep things together. Telling myself itās for the greater good and it was my purpose.ā
āMy fail safe was just curl up in a ball. Hide. Cause oooooo boy would I have an angry mob on my handsā¦. In the end I did.ā Shadow Milk rolled his eyes as he rubbed his throat a bit. āHiding sure didnāt help.ā
āMy fail safe was a protocol I told all my knights. If I were to ever go astray, if I were to betray solidarity, they were to strike me down and crumble me.ā
āIt didnāt, when I corrupted they were dead.. the ghosts wouldnāt attack me, they werenāt even apart of the curse and they wouldnāt go through with it. So I went to elder faerie and tried to have him do itā¦ and he didnāt do it eitherā
āBy the time I finally found everyone, everyone was far gone. You killed your entire army. Still covered in old jam. You didnāt stick around you left right after I found ya. Flour didnāt even talk. Spice was loud. Sugar acted like I was a pest in her garden.ā
āI only reunited with everyone after the sealing, Iām not even sure how the others believe me when I said the witches sealed us, Iām not that great of a liar.. elder faerie does say I have a silver tongue so maybe that was apart of it. My shadow milk saw through it though, no one believed him.ā
āOh no I believed it was the witches 100%. I thought it was them finally paying attention to us to punish usā¦ until Dark Enchantress said it was youā¦.ā
āPerhaps thatās why he didnāt believe me, I guess everyone else thought I was angry that I was sealed, my version of you probably saw through that.ā
āI mostly believed you cause there was a part of me that remembers a part of you. I was like āheās my friendā¦ he would never, ever hurt me or usā. Boyā¦ I believed my own lie.ā
With a nod he puts his helmet back on and starts making his way to the bay. Where uhā¦ thatās a lot of ships. Like a lot a lotā¦. Huh. Wait those were crĆØme republic ships oh noā¦
Shadow Milk saw the ships. Didnāt know exactly what or who was on them. But he remained in the shadows. After all this wasnāt his timelineā¦. He canāt really interfere. No matter how much he wanted to. Last thing he was is a Timekeeper Cookie lecturing him.
ā¦ itās not that bad! Heās taken on a whole army by himself..! Albeit without much thought other than pure anger and griefā¦ and said army did not have rifles. So he does the normal thing when he does not want anyone in his land, torment the cursed souls to make them scream! Which does work to some extent!
Unfortunately for silent salt, a while 50,000 army comes out of the ships to get him! And so he stops the screaming to try and lead them into a hole and maybe get them off of him.
Shadow Milk watched in worry. That was a lot but knowing Saltās strength from his own timeline this one had got to be at least just as capableā¦ right?ā¦. Right? He scrambled to keep up.
Heās doing it very well! Until he wasnāt. They had his soul jam, they can follow him wherever he went. It got worse when the consul himself got off the boat and followed after the knight with Financier just behind him.
The knight did not last long after, clotted cream casted the light cage with Financierās assistance, continuously did damage until the knight stopped resisting entirely, which took several minutes, and then is forced back to the boats to be taken back to the republic.
Clotted Cream was finally relived.. they got him. They finally got him. The consul teleports the stolen soul jam back to the republic, in a safe spotā¦ thereās no way heās keeping it here the entire time. That would be a disaster if the beast got out somehow.
He did not notice the rat as he fortifies the light cage as much as possible.
After fortifying the light cage byā¦ a lotā¦ and by a lot I mean an extreme amount, the consul left. It was just silent salt and the rat left in the room.
āNo, my grandchild and my friends have been kidnapped, and my soul jam just- went off somewhere a few days ago and I canāt find it! And if those same cookies or the crĆØme republic get it then they can track me!ā
Shadow Milk sighed and sat down by him. He opened a portal and pulled out his words of encouragement blueberry plush. āHere squeeze thisā¦. You break it I kill youā¦ā
āA group of cookies, Project Nurture they call themselves. Some cookies, are reincarnates of something, larger than any of us could imagine. And others, while not reincarnates, hold that power as well. Thatās what my grandchild has, thatās what some of my friends had to.. they are after it, so they took them.ā
.. and heās probably next, if not close to it. Though he does not mention it.
He bitterly laughs, a tired one. āThe best that can be done right now, is to actually find where that group is operating, so far from my searches, they arenāt on beast yeast.ā
āItās a memorial tree, for everyone Iāve lost.. the ones on the branches represent the other beasts, or what we used to beā¦ I didnāt think any of the flowers here would start to witherā
āI donāt count myself if I am not gone.ā He watches him float up. The branch with the fully wilted flowers were.. from Eternal Sugarās domain. The two with flowers from both the burning spice and shadow milkās domains were starting to wilt, thereās flowers included on the fountās branch that, did not come from the domain actually.. the last branch isnāt even close to wilting.
āTechnically here, in my timeline at least, thereās six of us. I did combine a memorial for that missing one, their marriedā
āThatās, my cousin for you. I havenāt seen her since we argued a while agoā¦ not sure what is possibly wrong, shes been that tired for as long as sheās fallen as a virtue.. hell she even slept the whole time while in the treeā
āAt least she got decent sleepā¦ my back was killing me Iām that tree I could hardly sleep at all let lone do ANYTHING! Ugh I wanted to rip my hair outā¦.ā Shadow Milk complained.
āNo! We were literally in the roots of the damn thing! It was awful and so uncomfortable! No matter what I did the tree would just hold me tighterā¦ā Shadow Milk said.
āWhile I was in the tree, it was a big voidā¦ empty of everything except for the five of usā¦ it was fine most times, until Burning Spice was bored.ā He shudders... wait he was scared of burning spice? āAnd he only would fight me.ā
āWait wait. Youāre scared of spice head? He could barely do a thing in my tree. And boy did he tryā¦. He would scream and shout until his voice finally ran out for a centuryā¦ just for him to start againā¦ā Shadow Milk sighed.
āHe was able to do, quite a lot in my tree, we fought in there 47 times over the years. He kept trying to get something new out of me.. I lost every time.ā
āHeās always been able to beat me, even before the fall.. then again he also wasnāt as brutal as he was while in the tree, the score is zero to fifty right now.ā
āI am hoping I will be able to fight him off sooner or later. My plans changed slightly for when war starts.. I wonāt be keeping everyone frozen in silence.ā
āI donāt need to kill, I need to stall time.. originally I was going to just, freeze everyone and wait until the time rifts open, maybe just use my own power to channel the binding spell again. But then I met another shadow milk. Many eyesā¦ apparently had the souls of the others inside him.. and it gave me a new idea.ā
āThe Ultimate Cookie, it apparently has so much power it made him look, like thatā¦ and I wonāt be letting mine get to it. Iāll be using it. Itās enough to power to use the spell without draining myself or anyone close to meā¦ and I can probably prevent myself from dying in the process! All I need it for is to distract, and as a power source. Then my daughter can deal with that fake witch.ā
āā¦ ok and I thought I was crazy. You do know what happened to that other guy right? It was trying to control himā¦ what makes you think you can control it?ā
āI have two horses and a leopard, if I do die which will be never, my oldest gets the leopardā¦ Youngest gets Noxā¦ grandchild gets Eclipse. And no youāre not taking my helmet.ā
He looked at the tree then back at him. āIāllā¦ see to it that happens.ā
āIn my timeline none of us ever married. We were far too busy to even look for anyone. Wouldāve been counter productive anywayā¦ cookies are not like us.ā
āIn my timeline a few of us got married.. I did, Eternal Sugar did.. and Cinnamon Storm did, even with how horrible it turned out to be. I couldnāt save my wife, I couldnāt do anything to stop it, my version of you didnāt let meā
āYa thatā¦ that sounds like meā¦..ā He took back his blueberry and held it. āYou are the closest Iām gonna get to a Silent Saltā¦. I mean it means nothing you still have to deal the other me in your own timeline butā¦ I am sorryā¦ā
ā.. Iām still upset with my version of you, I think Iāll always be angry at him.. maybe forever maybe not, but you have never done anything to me. We did nearly fight to the death but you and that other version are far more, reasonable.ā
āItās more for my piece of mindā¦ after everything Iāve done I canāt exactly apologize to the ones in my timeline anymoreā¦. But I appreciate that comment.ā Shadow Milk said. āI told won that fightā¦ā
And of course he keeps jumping up at the shadow milks, trying to grab them. This is absolutely the most cat like anyone has ever seen him act like before.
āI was always far too busy for gamesā¦ especially before corruption. Heck even if I were to ask anyone my letters would go ignoredā¦. Or the usual response too busy.ā
āI would have as well, even when the normal cookies were a priority I still cared to try and stand for my friends, I held myself and the others to a.. different standard. I was looking back on that before you came actuallyā
āYet I still failed to check up on everyone.. Iāll admit I think everything went wrong the day my shadow milk said our mothers ate cookies, and itās still my failure since I should have stood for himā¦ but that information is hard to believeā
āHeheā¦ Iāve always known. A curse to be a cookie of knowledge. Butā¦ I never thought our creators would be like that. Iā¦ I hopeā¦ they arenāt like that.ā
āTrust meā¦ by that point of even just telling I was likely already gone. I was tryingā¦. So hardā¦ to keep things together. Telling myself itās for the greater good and it was my purpose.ā
āMy fail safe was just curl up in a ball. Hide. Cause oooooo boy would I have an angry mob on my handsā¦. In the end I did.ā Shadow Milk rolled his eyes as he rubbed his throat a bit. āHiding sure didnāt help.ā
āMy fail safe was a protocol I told all my knights. If I were to ever go astray, if I were to betray solidarity, they were to strike me down and crumble me.ā
āIt didnāt, when I corrupted they were dead.. the ghosts wouldnāt attack me, they werenāt even apart of the curse and they wouldnāt go through with it. So I went to elder faerie and tried to have him do itā¦ and he didnāt do it eitherā
āBy the time I finally found everyone, everyone was far gone. You killed your entire army. Still covered in old jam. You didnāt stick around you left right after I found ya. Flour didnāt even talk. Spice was loud. Sugar acted like I was a pest in her garden.ā
āI only reunited with everyone after the sealing, Iām not even sure how the others believe me when I said the witches sealed us, Iām not that great of a liar.. elder faerie does say I have a silver tongue so maybe that was apart of it. My shadow milk saw through it though, no one believed him.ā
āOh no I believed it was the witches 100%. I thought it was them finally paying attention to us to punish usā¦ until Dark Enchantress said it was youā¦.ā
āPerhaps thatās why he didnāt believe me, I guess everyone else thought I was angry that I was sealed, my version of you probably saw through that.ā
āI mostly believed you cause there was a part of me that remembers a part of you. I was like āheās my friendā¦ he would never, ever hurt me or usā. Boyā¦ I believed my own lie.ā
With a nod he puts his helmet back on and starts making his way to the bay. Where uhā¦ thatās a lot of ships. Like a lot a lotā¦. Huh. Wait those were crĆØme republic ships oh noā¦
Shadow Milk saw the ships. Didnāt know exactly what or who was on them. But he remained in the shadows. After all this wasnāt his timelineā¦. He canāt really interfere. No matter how much he wanted to. Last thing he was is a Timekeeper Cookie lecturing him.
ā¦ itās not that bad! Heās taken on a whole army by himself..! Albeit without much thought other than pure anger and griefā¦ and said army did not have rifles. So he does the normal thing when he does not want anyone in his land, torment the cursed souls to make them scream! Which does work to some extent!
Unfortunately for silent salt, a while 50,000 army comes out of the ships to get him! And so he stops the screaming to try and lead them into a hole and maybe get them off of him.
Shadow Milk watched in worry. That was a lot but knowing Saltās strength from his own timeline this one had got to be at least just as capableā¦ right?ā¦. Right? He scrambled to keep up.
Heās doing it very well! Until he wasnāt. They had his soul jam, they can follow him wherever he went. It got worse when the consul himself got off the boat and followed after the knight with Financier just behind him.
The knight did not last long after, clotted cream casted the light cage with Financierās assistance, continuously did damage until the knight stopped resisting entirely, which took several minutes, and then is forced back to the boats to be taken back to the republic.
Clotted Cream was finally relived.. they got him. They finally got him. The consul teleports the stolen soul jam back to the republic, in a safe spotā¦ thereās no way heās keeping it here the entire time. That would be a disaster if the beast got out somehow.
He did not notice the rat as he fortifies the light cage as much as possible.
After fortifying the light cage byā¦ a lotā¦ and by a lot I mean an extreme amount, the consul left. It was just silent salt and the rat left in the room.
*it seems the most reasonable first step of this release a Salt game would be to, well, find a Salt*
*ā¦ she has ā¦ a few ideas of where he may have been snatched to, most likely the Creme Republic again..*
*so, that leaves getting herself there!*
*which is definitely very easy for her. mhm. yeah. very easy*
*all she needs to do is make a Definitely Very Simple rune to teleport herself there that uses energy from her surroundings instead of the magical energy she definitely has to power it*
*it works! and means she has enough magic to float around to try and find him now sheās here*
Oh god everything is so bright why did the crĆØme republic have to make their buildings all out of white colored materials?!
Silent Salt was currently in jail. Which was a lot darker, thankfully. They forced the armor off of him, and took his swords. He didnāt even know where his soul jam was! Right now the knight was a sopping wet cat just waiting for the trial heās pretty much doomed to lose in.
āTaking everything one at a time, Elder Custard had heard of something of great interest.. and if itās something that will raise his reputation and status, he will gladly look into it himself, itās why he left the note that morning, this was normal for himā¦ and he tended to take me with him. As his assistant at the time I was to help him with his work and findings.ā
Oh so weāre taking this one at a timeā¦. The explanation to that was very, reasonableā¦
and again, why did you have to go out at three in the morning to get this supposed incredibly vague artifact? would it have turned to dust in the sunlight or something?
āWell if you really want to be sure.. where are the witnessās fire markings? Magic markings like those are permanent! Surely if heās capable of using elemental magic, then his markings would be fairly visibleā the prosecutor interrupts.
āBesides, my mother fears fire, she would not want a son who can set things ablazeā
āShe encouraged nothing as I have done nothingā
āItās the only type of magic found at the scene when investigators came over, someone with fire magic burned the evidence, and that was your defendant.ā
āMagic markings can be covered, even with clothing! But they still will glow when Magic is used, unless of course, itās black magic.. or a black magic user with more magic types mixed in their doughā
āI know I donāt, because I have a different type of magic.ā Egg Tart shows his arms, pulling back the sleeves, there were pastel yellow markings dotting across his arms with a few swirls here and there.
āLight magic. With no other magic types. I donāt see why I would leave my own magic at the crime scene when thereās only fire at the scene, I canāt control fireā
*she stares. oh. actually this makes the sort of dispersal of this type of magic she saw at the scene make a lot more sense..*
ā¦ you know, iāve always found cookies who have a specific type of magic QUITE confusing. you have to identify the type, you have to identify the unique signature of which cookie it came fromā¦ that being said, light magic does explain a few things about what i Saw there..
slight topic change, any of you ever gone out and set fires with a magnifying glass? :)
āWhat does that have to do with anything involving this trial?!ā The crowed in the courtroom murmured loudly before quieting down after the judge quiets them down.
āI think what heās trying to say is the fire still would have spread regardlessā ohā¦ oh he so hid something else with the masking to hide whatever was keeping the fire from spreading.
there are so many nonmagical solutions to prevent out of control firesā¦ that you then wouldnāt have to use masking to hide ā¦
*she turns her focus away from the witness*
i was HOPING this FOOL that insisted on lying and framing my friend for murder would be a BIT more sensible in how he went about it, buuuut he DID just tell us what he did. he started a fire using concentrated light magic, contained it using some other form of magic, and then used masking to hide the presence of his magic. which he, again, failed miserably at doing. iām sure First Egg is very proud of what her idiot son has failed to accomplish
āMaybe he did cause the fire, but what about the actual murder weapon itself? That sword, it was Already hard to move the damn thing! And Iām sorry to say but, Egg Tart is not really a physically strong cookie. Especially if he wanted to get as precise as possible to crumble the Elder.ā The prosecutor then saysā¦. Shit right the sword. How the FUCK did this guy replicate how salt crumbled his own victimsā¦ even for a regular cookie itās hard to completely replicate that..
The crowd, especially the jury, was starting to lean towards shadow milkās side, at leastā¦ even with just that doubt alone.
some cookies are stronger than they look, and even then, there are ways to help cookies deal with their weaknesses. is this seriously your last line of defense for him?
besides, for him to have escaped an angry Salt hunting him down with all limbs intact, heād have to be pretty strong, yes? or have you decided to change THAT part of your story as well?
āTell meā¦ beast of deceit..ā Clotted Cream eventually speaks up again, staring down into the court room.. heās curious now, something has been on his mind for a while, it really was looking like Silent Salt wasnāt as guilty as he thought.
āWhy do you think he killed my father? Because out of all of these proof, why would he? We are rivals, if he wanted me dead he would have killed me instead. Thereās no house or status to his name other than his mother who is not apart of the republic. He canāt become part of the confection, heās to youngā¦ and if I had died, then thereās more of a chance someone older would take my placeā¦ so, did he kill for no reason? Did he do it, for nothing other than to fulfill something he logically, can never reach unless he did have a higher status?ā
*she turns towards him and thinks for a few seconds before responding*
i doubt he was trying to get involved in your government, so itās likely he was up to some unnconnected shenanigans that the elder close to discovering. maybe it has to deal with the artifact he mentioned, maybe itās something else entirely, maybe heās here to assassinate someone, i canāt say THAT for certain. but whatever he was up to, i think elder crumbled figured out about it and he got rid of him
He seemed satisfied with that.. maybe Clotted Cream wasnāt that bad after allā¦ whatever the outcome would beā¦ itās all up to the jury nowā¦ and they leave to the other room to discuss what was. Brought before them.
The jury came back after about thirty minutes.. it was a very short decision. The definitely not very suspicious cookie gives the judge a paper with the verdict, and they read it out loud. āWe, the jury, find the defendant.. not guilty of felony murder of the first degree.ā
Silent Salt nearly wheezes from the previous stressā¦ he was free to go..! HE WAS FREE TO GO HOME!!!
ā¦ thereās cookies under there planting a small bomb to open the floor and come up. The definitely not extremely and dauntingly suspicious jury cookie gets up from their spot, and locks onto the knight and his daughtersā¦
*ā¦ she does not like the sound of that. at all. sheās just gonna. ignore the floor noises. those are FIINE. those are NORMAL. sheāll just. float a LIIITLE closer to the knight. for totally not hiding behind him reasons*
Silent Salt puffs up from the noise, he didnāt like it either, and everyone starts to panic. The whole court is evacuatingā¦ oh god Project Nurture is here. And theyāre after him and his family!
āWe need to go, NOW?!ā He scruffs shadow milk, and his daughters, and immediately boltsā¦ oh shit wait heās jumping out a window?!
āHES OUTSIDE?! GET HIM?!ā One of the cookies from inside yelled. Oh god theyāre also coming out the windowā¦ he needs his armor right now. And he needs his sword.
Silent Salt runs right to the prison where all his stuff isā¦ the cookies are following him. They want him, not the other threeā¦ and neither White Lily nor Blue Lily were having it. So they chased after the cookies.
*she flies after them, catching up very quickly, and then attacking. ghostly blue puppet strings dropping down from above to try and FLING whichever cookies they can latch on to*
Some of the strange cookies were caught and flung, and with both White Lily and Blue Lily helping hold them back with their own magic, Silent Salt is able to get inside the prisonā¦ and comes out about a few minutes later, fully armored and with both swords. And heās going at them, though heās still missing his soul jamā¦. It wasnāt with his stuffā¦
*now that all the cookies are nicely gathered together, she starts using more Other Realm based attacks, the sky getting considerably dark as glowing blue eyes open up all over*
*definitely wonāt prevent any snatchings, though*
*ā¦ she. may have to track down where his Soul Jam went ā¦ after the fight*
Well that absolutely terrifies the regular people! They are getting OUT the way of the fight! Silent Salt was now focused on crumbling these strange cookies left and right, using both his own sword and the one that was given to him by the alternate Elder Faerie.. this is how he actually crumbled peopleā¦
The now seriously actually very suspicious jury cookie was now outside, the veil still covered their face, but there was a glow.. a bright yellow glowā¦ and they throw a smoke grenade.
*very specifically, she has decided to inflict Kaleidescope of The Void on the attackers! any of them without sufficient mental defenses will now be experiencing an array of fun effects including: jam seeping out of their dough and eyes and mouth, the near irresistable urge to dig deeper and deeper beneath the earthbread until thereās no hope of reaching the surface again, and hearing voices that arenāt there whispering near unintelligeable nonsense*
*rather fortunately for the attackers, the yellow smoke surprises her enough to quit her attack*
The cookies that absolutely got caught by the spell shadow milk did before she stopped, are very much either dead or dying! Itās really hard to see in the fog though, White Lily tries to clear the air a bit but, itās not working to wellā¦ and then she heard a very loud bangā¦ and there was a very loud yelp that came from Silent Salt. And then the sound of him falling overā¦ oh fuck.
āWe got the target! Letās go.ā Someone said in the fogā¦ and now thereās sounds of struggle.
āDad?!ā White Lily follows the sound of the struggle, she did not care about the danger she needed to get to him now?
āSis wait?!ā Blue Lily this time.. she faded after her sisterā¦
Several more shots.
āNO?!ā
And then nothing elseā¦ other than Silent Salt screamingā¦
*she growls in annoyance at the smoke, trying to clear it from the air enough that she can SEE whatās HAPPENING and STOP BREATHING IN UNKNOWN SMOKE*
*she starts flying in what very much SOUNDS like itās the direction the shouting it coming from, probably significantly faster than someone who canāt currently see where theyāre going should be moving but she PROBABLY wonāt crash into anyone so itāll be FIIIINE*
While well she did crash into someoneā¦ she crashed into White Lily, who looked mortifiedā¦. Oh thereās jamā¦ thereās jam on the groundā¦ Blue Lily was on the groundā¦
*she looks. rather dazed for a couple of seconds. sheād been going VERY quickly. before she shakes herself off and floats back up to get a better look around*
Blue Lily had been shot with, some kind of magic, more likely magichanical, sheās not dead! ā¦ not yet at leastā¦ but she is badly hurt, and White Lily is to horrified to move.. they are not okā¦ not at all.
By now the smoke was settling down, the cookies were goneā¦ Silent Salt, was gone. Only his sword remains where he dropped it. The other one was broken.
*she chooses to snatch the Conveniently Places Healer with her puppet strings and plonk them down in front of the wounded cookie with zero explanation*
The Conveniently Placed Healer of course gets to work on that because holy shit itās bad. Yeah thatās real badā¦. Yeah so Blue Lily gets snatched and taken away for better healing.
ā¦ they shouldnāt of gone after themā¦ if they didnāt thenā¦ their sister wouldnāt beā¦
*it seems the most reasonable first step of this release a Salt game would be to, well, find a Salt*
*ā¦ she has ā¦ a few ideas of where he may have been snatched to, most likely the Creme Republic again..*
*so, that leaves getting herself there!*
*which is definitely very easy for her. mhm. yeah. very easy*
*all she needs to do is make a Definitely Very Simple rune to teleport herself there that uses energy from her surroundings instead of the magical energy she definitely has to power it*
*it works! and means she has enough magic to float around to try and find him now sheās here*
Oh god everything is so bright why did the crĆØme republic have to make their buildings all out of white colored materials?!
Silent Salt was currently in jail. Which was a lot darker, thankfully. They forced the armor off of him, and took his swords. He didnāt even know where his soul jam was! Right now the knight was a sopping wet cat just waiting for the trial heās pretty much doomed to lose in.
āTaking everything one at a time, Elder Custard had heard of something of great interest.. and if itās something that will raise his reputation and status, he will gladly look into it himself, itās why he left the note that morning, this was normal for himā¦ and he tended to take me with him. As his assistant at the time I was to help him with his work and findings.ā
Oh so weāre taking this one at a timeā¦. The explanation to that was very, reasonableā¦
and again, why did you have to go out at three in the morning to get this supposed incredibly vague artifact? would it have turned to dust in the sunlight or something?
āWell if you really want to be sure.. where are the witnessās fire markings? Magic markings like those are permanent! Surely if heās capable of using elemental magic, then his markings would be fairly visibleā the prosecutor interrupts.
āBesides, my mother fears fire, she would not want a son who can set things ablazeā
āShe encouraged nothing as I have done nothingā
āItās the only type of magic found at the scene when investigators came over, someone with fire magic burned the evidence, and that was your defendant.ā
āMagic markings can be covered, even with clothing! But they still will glow when Magic is used, unless of course, itās black magic.. or a black magic user with more magic types mixed in their doughā
āI know I donāt, because I have a different type of magic.ā Egg Tart shows his arms, pulling back the sleeves, there were pastel yellow markings dotting across his arms with a few swirls here and there.
āLight magic. With no other magic types. I donāt see why I would leave my own magic at the crime scene when thereās only fire at the scene, I canāt control fireā
*she stares. oh. actually this makes the sort of dispersal of this type of magic she saw at the scene make a lot more sense..*
ā¦ you know, iāve always found cookies who have a specific type of magic QUITE confusing. you have to identify the type, you have to identify the unique signature of which cookie it came fromā¦ that being said, light magic does explain a few things about what i Saw there..
slight topic change, any of you ever gone out and set fires with a magnifying glass? :)
āWhat does that have to do with anything involving this trial?!ā The crowed in the courtroom murmured loudly before quieting down after the judge quiets them down.
āI think what heās trying to say is the fire still would have spread regardlessā ohā¦ oh he so hid something else with the masking to hide whatever was keeping the fire from spreading.
there are so many nonmagical solutions to prevent out of control firesā¦ that you then wouldnāt have to use masking to hide ā¦
*she turns her focus away from the witness*
i was HOPING this FOOL that insisted on lying and framing my friend for murder would be a BIT more sensible in how he went about it, buuuut he DID just tell us what he did. he started a fire using concentrated light magic, contained it using some other form of magic, and then used masking to hide the presence of his magic. which he, again, failed miserably at doing. iām sure First Egg is very proud of what her idiot son has failed to accomplish
āMaybe he did cause the fire, but what about the actual murder weapon itself? That sword, it was Already hard to move the damn thing! And Iām sorry to say but, Egg Tart is not really a physically strong cookie. Especially if he wanted to get as precise as possible to crumble the Elder.ā The prosecutor then saysā¦. Shit right the sword. How the FUCK did this guy replicate how salt crumbled his own victimsā¦ even for a regular cookie itās hard to completely replicate that..
The crowd, especially the jury, was starting to lean towards shadow milkās side, at leastā¦ even with just that doubt alone.
some cookies are stronger than they look, and even then, there are ways to help cookies deal with their weaknesses. is this seriously your last line of defense for him?
besides, for him to have escaped an angry Salt hunting him down with all limbs intact, heād have to be pretty strong, yes? or have you decided to change THAT part of your story as well?
āTell meā¦ beast of deceit..ā Clotted Cream eventually speaks up again, staring down into the court room.. heās curious now, something has been on his mind for a while, it really was looking like Silent Salt wasnāt as guilty as he thought.
āWhy do you think he killed my father? Because out of all of these proof, why would he? We are rivals, if he wanted me dead he would have killed me instead. Thereās no house or status to his name other than his mother who is not apart of the republic. He canāt become part of the confection, heās to youngā¦ and if I had died, then thereās more of a chance someone older would take my placeā¦ so, did he kill for no reason? Did he do it, for nothing other than to fulfill something he logically, can never reach unless he did have a higher status?ā
*she turns towards him and thinks for a few seconds before responding*
i doubt he was trying to get involved in your government, so itās likely he was up to some unnconnected shenanigans that the elder close to discovering. maybe it has to deal with the artifact he mentioned, maybe itās something else entirely, maybe heās here to assassinate someone, i canāt say THAT for certain. but whatever he was up to, i think elder crumbled figured out about it and he got rid of him
He seemed satisfied with that.. maybe Clotted Cream wasnāt that bad after allā¦ whatever the outcome would beā¦ itās all up to the jury nowā¦ and they leave to the other room to discuss what was. Brought before them.
The jury came back after about thirty minutes.. it was a very short decision. The definitely not very suspicious cookie gives the judge a paper with the verdict, and they read it out loud. āWe, the jury, find the defendant.. not guilty of felony murder of the first degree.ā
Silent Salt nearly wheezes from the previous stressā¦ he was free to go..! HE WAS FREE TO GO HOME!!!
ā¦ thereās cookies under there planting a small bomb to open the floor and come up. The definitely not extremely and dauntingly suspicious jury cookie gets up from their spot, and locks onto the knight and his daughtersā¦
*ā¦ she does not like the sound of that. at all. sheās just gonna. ignore the floor noises. those are FIINE. those are NORMAL. sheāll just. float a LIIITLE closer to the knight. for totally not hiding behind him reasons*
Silent Salt puffs up from the noise, he didnāt like it either, and everyone starts to panic. The whole court is evacuatingā¦ oh god Project Nurture is here. And theyāre after him and his family!
āWe need to go, NOW?!ā He scruffs shadow milk, and his daughters, and immediately boltsā¦ oh shit wait heās jumping out a window?!
āHES OUTSIDE?! GET HIM?!ā One of the cookies from inside yelled. Oh god theyāre also coming out the windowā¦ he needs his armor right now. And he needs his sword.
Silent Salt runs right to the prison where all his stuff isā¦ the cookies are following him. They want him, not the other threeā¦ and neither White Lily nor Blue Lily were having it. So they chased after the cookies.
*she flies after them, catching up very quickly, and then attacking. ghostly blue puppet strings dropping down from above to try and FLING whichever cookies they can latch on to*
Some of the strange cookies were caught and flung, and with both White Lily and Blue Lily helping hold them back with their own magic, Silent Salt is able to get inside the prisonā¦ and comes out about a few minutes later, fully armored and with both swords. And heās going at them, though heās still missing his soul jamā¦. It wasnāt with his stuffā¦
*now that all the cookies are nicely gathered together, she starts using more Other Realm based attacks, the sky getting considerably dark as glowing blue eyes open up all over*
*definitely wonāt prevent any snatchings, though*
*ā¦ she. may have to track down where his Soul Jam went ā¦ after the fight*
Well that absolutely terrifies the regular people! They are getting OUT the way of the fight! Silent Salt was now focused on crumbling these strange cookies left and right, using both his own sword and the one that was given to him by the alternate Elder Faerie.. this is how he actually crumbled peopleā¦
The now seriously actually very suspicious jury cookie was now outside, the veil still covered their face, but there was a glow.. a bright yellow glowā¦ and they throw a smoke grenade.
*very specifically, she has decided to inflict Kaleidescope of The Void on the attackers! any of them without sufficient mental defenses will now be experiencing an array of fun effects including: jam seeping out of their dough and eyes and mouth, the near irresistable urge to dig deeper and deeper beneath the earthbread until thereās no hope of reaching the surface again, and hearing voices that arenāt there whispering near unintelligeable nonsense*
*rather fortunately for the attackers, the yellow smoke surprises her enough to quit her attack*
The cookies that absolutely got caught by the spell shadow milk did before she stopped, are very much either dead or dying! Itās really hard to see in the fog though, White Lily tries to clear the air a bit but, itās not working to wellā¦ and then she heard a very loud bangā¦ and there was a very loud yelp that came from Silent Salt. And then the sound of him falling overā¦ oh fuck.
āWe got the target! Letās go.ā Someone said in the fogā¦ and now thereās sounds of struggle.
āDad?!ā White Lily follows the sound of the struggle, she did not care about the danger she needed to get to him now?
āSis wait?!ā Blue Lily this time.. she faded after her sisterā¦
Several more shots.
āNO?!ā
And then nothing elseā¦ other than Silent Salt screamingā¦
*she growls in annoyance at the smoke, trying to clear it from the air enough that she can SEE whatās HAPPENING and STOP BREATHING IN UNKNOWN SMOKE*
*she starts flying in what very much SOUNDS like itās the direction the shouting it coming from, probably significantly faster than someone who canāt currently see where theyāre going should be moving but she PROBABLY wonāt crash into anyone so itāll be FIIIINE*
While well she did crash into someoneā¦ she crashed into White Lily, who looked mortifiedā¦. Oh thereās jamā¦ thereās jam on the groundā¦ Blue Lily was on the groundā¦
*she looks. rather dazed for a couple of seconds. sheād been going VERY quickly. before she shakes herself off and floats back up to get a better look around*
Blue Lily had been shot with, some kind of magic, more likely magichanical, sheās not dead! ā¦ not yet at leastā¦ but she is badly hurt, and White Lily is to horrified to move.. they are not okā¦ not at all.
By now the smoke was settling down, the cookies were goneā¦ Silent Salt, was gone. Only his sword remains where he dropped it. The other one was broken.
*she chooses to snatch the Conveniently Places Healer with her puppet strings and plonk them down in front of the wounded cookie with zero explanation*
The Conveniently Placed Healer of course gets to work on that because holy shit itās bad. Yeah thatās real badā¦. Yeah so Blue Lily gets snatched and taken away for better healing.
ā¦ they shouldnāt of gone after themā¦ if they didnāt thenā¦ their sister wouldnāt beā¦
*it seems the most reasonable first step of this release a Salt game would be to, well, find a Salt*
*ā¦ she has ā¦ a few ideas of where he may have been snatched to, most likely the Creme Republic again..*
*so, that leaves getting herself there!*
*which is definitely very easy for her. mhm. yeah. very easy*
*all she needs to do is make a Definitely Very Simple rune to teleport herself there that uses energy from her surroundings instead of the magical energy she definitely has to power it*
*it works! and means she has enough magic to float around to try and find him now sheās here*
Oh god everything is so bright why did the crĆØme republic have to make their buildings all out of white colored materials?!
Silent Salt was currently in jail. Which was a lot darker, thankfully. They forced the armor off of him, and took his swords. He didnāt even know where his soul jam was! Right now the knight was a sopping wet cat just waiting for the trial heās pretty much doomed to lose in.
āTaking everything one at a time, Elder Custard had heard of something of great interest.. and if itās something that will raise his reputation and status, he will gladly look into it himself, itās why he left the note that morning, this was normal for himā¦ and he tended to take me with him. As his assistant at the time I was to help him with his work and findings.ā
Oh so weāre taking this one at a timeā¦. The explanation to that was very, reasonableā¦
and again, why did you have to go out at three in the morning to get this supposed incredibly vague artifact? would it have turned to dust in the sunlight or something?
āWell if you really want to be sure.. where are the witnessās fire markings? Magic markings like those are permanent! Surely if heās capable of using elemental magic, then his markings would be fairly visibleā the prosecutor interrupts.
āBesides, my mother fears fire, she would not want a son who can set things ablazeā
āShe encouraged nothing as I have done nothingā
āItās the only type of magic found at the scene when investigators came over, someone with fire magic burned the evidence, and that was your defendant.ā
āMagic markings can be covered, even with clothing! But they still will glow when Magic is used, unless of course, itās black magic.. or a black magic user with more magic types mixed in their doughā
āI know I donāt, because I have a different type of magic.ā Egg Tart shows his arms, pulling back the sleeves, there were pastel yellow markings dotting across his arms with a few swirls here and there.
āLight magic. With no other magic types. I donāt see why I would leave my own magic at the crime scene when thereās only fire at the scene, I canāt control fireā
*she stares. oh. actually this makes the sort of dispersal of this type of magic she saw at the scene make a lot more sense..*
ā¦ you know, iāve always found cookies who have a specific type of magic QUITE confusing. you have to identify the type, you have to identify the unique signature of which cookie it came fromā¦ that being said, light magic does explain a few things about what i Saw there..
slight topic change, any of you ever gone out and set fires with a magnifying glass? :)
āWhat does that have to do with anything involving this trial?!ā The crowed in the courtroom murmured loudly before quieting down after the judge quiets them down.
āI think what heās trying to say is the fire still would have spread regardlessā ohā¦ oh he so hid something else with the masking to hide whatever was keeping the fire from spreading.
there are so many nonmagical solutions to prevent out of control firesā¦ that you then wouldnāt have to use masking to hide ā¦
*she turns her focus away from the witness*
i was HOPING this FOOL that insisted on lying and framing my friend for murder would be a BIT more sensible in how he went about it, buuuut he DID just tell us what he did. he started a fire using concentrated light magic, contained it using some other form of magic, and then used masking to hide the presence of his magic. which he, again, failed miserably at doing. iām sure First Egg is very proud of what her idiot son has failed to accomplish
āMaybe he did cause the fire, but what about the actual murder weapon itself? That sword, it was Already hard to move the damn thing! And Iām sorry to say but, Egg Tart is not really a physically strong cookie. Especially if he wanted to get as precise as possible to crumble the Elder.ā The prosecutor then saysā¦. Shit right the sword. How the FUCK did this guy replicate how salt crumbled his own victimsā¦ even for a regular cookie itās hard to completely replicate that..
The crowd, especially the jury, was starting to lean towards shadow milkās side, at leastā¦ even with just that doubt alone.
some cookies are stronger than they look, and even then, there are ways to help cookies deal with their weaknesses. is this seriously your last line of defense for him?
besides, for him to have escaped an angry Salt hunting him down with all limbs intact, heād have to be pretty strong, yes? or have you decided to change THAT part of your story as well?
āTell meā¦ beast of deceit..ā Clotted Cream eventually speaks up again, staring down into the court room.. heās curious now, something has been on his mind for a while, it really was looking like Silent Salt wasnāt as guilty as he thought.
āWhy do you think he killed my father? Because out of all of these proof, why would he? We are rivals, if he wanted me dead he would have killed me instead. Thereās no house or status to his name other than his mother who is not apart of the republic. He canāt become part of the confection, heās to youngā¦ and if I had died, then thereās more of a chance someone older would take my placeā¦ so, did he kill for no reason? Did he do it, for nothing other than to fulfill something he logically, can never reach unless he did have a higher status?ā
*she turns towards him and thinks for a few seconds before responding*
i doubt he was trying to get involved in your government, so itās likely he was up to some unnconnected shenanigans that the elder close to discovering. maybe it has to deal with the artifact he mentioned, maybe itās something else entirely, maybe heās here to assassinate someone, i canāt say THAT for certain. but whatever he was up to, i think elder crumbled figured out about it and he got rid of him
He seemed satisfied with that.. maybe Clotted Cream wasnāt that bad after allā¦ whatever the outcome would beā¦ itās all up to the jury nowā¦ and they leave to the other room to discuss what was. Brought before them.
The jury came back after about thirty minutes.. it was a very short decision. The definitely not very suspicious cookie gives the judge a paper with the verdict, and they read it out loud. āWe, the jury, find the defendant.. not guilty of felony murder of the first degree.ā
Silent Salt nearly wheezes from the previous stressā¦ he was free to go..! HE WAS FREE TO GO HOME!!!
ā¦ thereās cookies under there planting a small bomb to open the floor and come up. The definitely not extremely and dauntingly suspicious jury cookie gets up from their spot, and locks onto the knight and his daughtersā¦
*ā¦ she does not like the sound of that. at all. sheās just gonna. ignore the floor noises. those are FIINE. those are NORMAL. sheāll just. float a LIIITLE closer to the knight. for totally not hiding behind him reasons*
Silent Salt puffs up from the noise, he didnāt like it either, and everyone starts to panic. The whole court is evacuatingā¦ oh god Project Nurture is here. And theyāre after him and his family!
āWe need to go, NOW?!ā He scruffs shadow milk, and his daughters, and immediately boltsā¦ oh shit wait heās jumping out a window?!
āHES OUTSIDE?! GET HIM?!ā One of the cookies from inside yelled. Oh god theyāre also coming out the windowā¦ he needs his armor right now. And he needs his sword.
Silent Salt runs right to the prison where all his stuff isā¦ the cookies are following him. They want him, not the other threeā¦ and neither White Lily nor Blue Lily were having it. So they chased after the cookies.
*she flies after them, catching up very quickly, and then attacking. ghostly blue puppet strings dropping down from above to try and FLING whichever cookies they can latch on to*
Some of the strange cookies were caught and flung, and with both White Lily and Blue Lily helping hold them back with their own magic, Silent Salt is able to get inside the prisonā¦ and comes out about a few minutes later, fully armored and with both swords. And heās going at them, though heās still missing his soul jamā¦. It wasnāt with his stuffā¦
*now that all the cookies are nicely gathered together, she starts using more Other Realm based attacks, the sky getting considerably dark as glowing blue eyes open up all over*
*definitely wonāt prevent any snatchings, though*
*ā¦ she. may have to track down where his Soul Jam went ā¦ after the fight*
Well that absolutely terrifies the regular people! They are getting OUT the way of the fight! Silent Salt was now focused on crumbling these strange cookies left and right, using both his own sword and the one that was given to him by the alternate Elder Faerie.. this is how he actually crumbled peopleā¦
The now seriously actually very suspicious jury cookie was now outside, the veil still covered their face, but there was a glow.. a bright yellow glowā¦ and they throw a smoke grenade.
*very specifically, she has decided to inflict Kaleidescope of The Void on the attackers! any of them without sufficient mental defenses will now be experiencing an array of fun effects including: jam seeping out of their dough and eyes and mouth, the near irresistable urge to dig deeper and deeper beneath the earthbread until thereās no hope of reaching the surface again, and hearing voices that arenāt there whispering near unintelligeable nonsense*
*rather fortunately for the attackers, the yellow smoke surprises her enough to quit her attack*
The cookies that absolutely got caught by the spell shadow milk did before she stopped, are very much either dead or dying! Itās really hard to see in the fog though, White Lily tries to clear the air a bit but, itās not working to wellā¦ and then she heard a very loud bangā¦ and there was a very loud yelp that came from Silent Salt. And then the sound of him falling overā¦ oh fuck.
āWe got the target! Letās go.ā Someone said in the fogā¦ and now thereās sounds of struggle.
āDad?!ā White Lily follows the sound of the struggle, she did not care about the danger she needed to get to him now?
āSis wait?!ā Blue Lily this time.. she faded after her sisterā¦
Several more shots.
āNO?!ā
And then nothing elseā¦ other than Silent Salt screamingā¦
*she growls in annoyance at the smoke, trying to clear it from the air enough that she can SEE whatās HAPPENING and STOP BREATHING IN UNKNOWN SMOKE*
*she starts flying in what very much SOUNDS like itās the direction the shouting it coming from, probably significantly faster than someone who canāt currently see where theyāre going should be moving but she PROBABLY wonāt crash into anyone so itāll be FIIIINE*
While well she did crash into someoneā¦ she crashed into White Lily, who looked mortifiedā¦. Oh thereās jamā¦ thereās jam on the groundā¦ Blue Lily was on the groundā¦
*she looks. rather dazed for a couple of seconds. sheād been going VERY quickly. before she shakes herself off and floats back up to get a better look around*
Blue Lily had been shot with, some kind of magic, more likely magichanical, sheās not dead! ā¦ not yet at leastā¦ but she is badly hurt, and White Lily is to horrified to move.. they are not okā¦ not at all.
By now the smoke was settling down, the cookies were goneā¦ Silent Salt, was gone. Only his sword remains where he dropped it. The other one was broken.
*it seems the most reasonable first step of this release a Salt game would be to, well, find a Salt*
*ā¦ she has ā¦ a few ideas of where he may have been snatched to, most likely the Creme Republic again..*
*so, that leaves getting herself there!*
*which is definitely very easy for her. mhm. yeah. very easy*
*all she needs to do is make a Definitely Very Simple rune to teleport herself there that uses energy from her surroundings instead of the magical energy she definitely has to power it*
*it works! and means she has enough magic to float around to try and find him now sheās here*
Oh god everything is so bright why did the crĆØme republic have to make their buildings all out of white colored materials?!
Silent Salt was currently in jail. Which was a lot darker, thankfully. They forced the armor off of him, and took his swords. He didnāt even know where his soul jam was! Right now the knight was a sopping wet cat just waiting for the trial heās pretty much doomed to lose in.
āTaking everything one at a time, Elder Custard had heard of something of great interest.. and if itās something that will raise his reputation and status, he will gladly look into it himself, itās why he left the note that morning, this was normal for himā¦ and he tended to take me with him. As his assistant at the time I was to help him with his work and findings.ā
Oh so weāre taking this one at a timeā¦. The explanation to that was very, reasonableā¦
and again, why did you have to go out at three in the morning to get this supposed incredibly vague artifact? would it have turned to dust in the sunlight or something?
āWell if you really want to be sure.. where are the witnessās fire markings? Magic markings like those are permanent! Surely if heās capable of using elemental magic, then his markings would be fairly visibleā the prosecutor interrupts.
āBesides, my mother fears fire, she would not want a son who can set things ablazeā
āShe encouraged nothing as I have done nothingā
āItās the only type of magic found at the scene when investigators came over, someone with fire magic burned the evidence, and that was your defendant.ā
āMagic markings can be covered, even with clothing! But they still will glow when Magic is used, unless of course, itās black magic.. or a black magic user with more magic types mixed in their doughā
āI know I donāt, because I have a different type of magic.ā Egg Tart shows his arms, pulling back the sleeves, there were pastel yellow markings dotting across his arms with a few swirls here and there.
āLight magic. With no other magic types. I donāt see why I would leave my own magic at the crime scene when thereās only fire at the scene, I canāt control fireā
*she stares. oh. actually this makes the sort of dispersal of this type of magic she saw at the scene make a lot more sense..*
ā¦ you know, iāve always found cookies who have a specific type of magic QUITE confusing. you have to identify the type, you have to identify the unique signature of which cookie it came fromā¦ that being said, light magic does explain a few things about what i Saw there..
slight topic change, any of you ever gone out and set fires with a magnifying glass? :)
āWhat does that have to do with anything involving this trial?!ā The crowed in the courtroom murmured loudly before quieting down after the judge quiets them down.
āI think what heās trying to say is the fire still would have spread regardlessā ohā¦ oh he so hid something else with the masking to hide whatever was keeping the fire from spreading.
there are so many nonmagical solutions to prevent out of control firesā¦ that you then wouldnāt have to use masking to hide ā¦
*she turns her focus away from the witness*
i was HOPING this FOOL that insisted on lying and framing my friend for murder would be a BIT more sensible in how he went about it, buuuut he DID just tell us what he did. he started a fire using concentrated light magic, contained it using some other form of magic, and then used masking to hide the presence of his magic. which he, again, failed miserably at doing. iām sure First Egg is very proud of what her idiot son has failed to accomplish
āMaybe he did cause the fire, but what about the actual murder weapon itself? That sword, it was Already hard to move the damn thing! And Iām sorry to say but, Egg Tart is not really a physically strong cookie. Especially if he wanted to get as precise as possible to crumble the Elder.ā The prosecutor then saysā¦. Shit right the sword. How the FUCK did this guy replicate how salt crumbled his own victimsā¦ even for a regular cookie itās hard to completely replicate that..
The crowd, especially the jury, was starting to lean towards shadow milkās side, at leastā¦ even with just that doubt alone.
some cookies are stronger than they look, and even then, there are ways to help cookies deal with their weaknesses. is this seriously your last line of defense for him?
besides, for him to have escaped an angry Salt hunting him down with all limbs intact, heād have to be pretty strong, yes? or have you decided to change THAT part of your story as well?
āTell meā¦ beast of deceit..ā Clotted Cream eventually speaks up again, staring down into the court room.. heās curious now, something has been on his mind for a while, it really was looking like Silent Salt wasnāt as guilty as he thought.
āWhy do you think he killed my father? Because out of all of these proof, why would he? We are rivals, if he wanted me dead he would have killed me instead. Thereās no house or status to his name other than his mother who is not apart of the republic. He canāt become part of the confection, heās to youngā¦ and if I had died, then thereās more of a chance someone older would take my placeā¦ so, did he kill for no reason? Did he do it, for nothing other than to fulfill something he logically, can never reach unless he did have a higher status?ā
*she turns towards him and thinks for a few seconds before responding*
i doubt he was trying to get involved in your government, so itās likely he was up to some unnconnected shenanigans that the elder close to discovering. maybe it has to deal with the artifact he mentioned, maybe itās something else entirely, maybe heās here to assassinate someone, i canāt say THAT for certain. but whatever he was up to, i think elder crumbled figured out about it and he got rid of him
He seemed satisfied with that.. maybe Clotted Cream wasnāt that bad after allā¦ whatever the outcome would beā¦ itās all up to the jury nowā¦ and they leave to the other room to discuss what was. Brought before them.
The jury came back after about thirty minutes.. it was a very short decision. The definitely not very suspicious cookie gives the judge a paper with the verdict, and they read it out loud. āWe, the jury, find the defendant.. not guilty of felony murder of the first degree.ā
Silent Salt nearly wheezes from the previous stressā¦ he was free to go..! HE WAS FREE TO GO HOME!!!
ā¦ thereās cookies under there planting a small bomb to open the floor and come up. The definitely not extremely and dauntingly suspicious jury cookie gets up from their spot, and locks onto the knight and his daughtersā¦
*ā¦ she does not like the sound of that. at all. sheās just gonna. ignore the floor noises. those are FIINE. those are NORMAL. sheāll just. float a LIIITLE closer to the knight. for totally not hiding behind him reasons*
Silent Salt puffs up from the noise, he didnāt like it either, and everyone starts to panic. The whole court is evacuatingā¦ oh god Project Nurture is here. And theyāre after him and his family!
āWe need to go, NOW?!ā He scruffs shadow milk, and his daughters, and immediately boltsā¦ oh shit wait heās jumping out a window?!
āHES OUTSIDE?! GET HIM?!ā One of the cookies from inside yelled. Oh god theyāre also coming out the windowā¦ he needs his armor right now. And he needs his sword.
Silent Salt runs right to the prison where all his stuff isā¦ the cookies are following him. They want him, not the other threeā¦ and neither White Lily nor Blue Lily were having it. So they chased after the cookies.
*she flies after them, catching up very quickly, and then attacking. ghostly blue puppet strings dropping down from above to try and FLING whichever cookies they can latch on to*
Some of the strange cookies were caught and flung, and with both White Lily and Blue Lily helping hold them back with their own magic, Silent Salt is able to get inside the prisonā¦ and comes out about a few minutes later, fully armored and with both swords. And heās going at them, though heās still missing his soul jamā¦. It wasnāt with his stuffā¦
*now that all the cookies are nicely gathered together, she starts using more Other Realm based attacks, the sky getting considerably dark as glowing blue eyes open up all over*
*definitely wonāt prevent any snatchings, though*
*ā¦ she. may have to track down where his Soul Jam went ā¦ after the fight*
Well that absolutely terrifies the regular people! They are getting OUT the way of the fight! Silent Salt was now focused on crumbling these strange cookies left and right, using both his own sword and the one that was given to him by the alternate Elder Faerie.. this is how he actually crumbled peopleā¦
The now seriously actually very suspicious jury cookie was now outside, the veil still covered their face, but there was a glow.. a bright yellow glowā¦ and they throw a smoke grenade.
*very specifically, she has decided to inflict Kaleidescope of The Void on the attackers! any of them without sufficient mental defenses will now be experiencing an array of fun effects including: jam seeping out of their dough and eyes and mouth, the near irresistable urge to dig deeper and deeper beneath the earthbread until thereās no hope of reaching the surface again, and hearing voices that arenāt there whispering near unintelligeable nonsense*
*rather fortunately for the attackers, the yellow smoke surprises her enough to quit her attack*
The cookies that absolutely got caught by the spell shadow milk did before she stopped, are very much either dead or dying! Itās really hard to see in the fog though, White Lily tries to clear the air a bit but, itās not working to wellā¦ and then she heard a very loud bangā¦ and there was a very loud yelp that came from Silent Salt. And then the sound of him falling overā¦ oh fuck.
āWe got the target! Letās go.ā Someone said in the fogā¦ and now thereās sounds of struggle.
āDad?!ā White Lily follows the sound of the struggle, she did not care about the danger she needed to get to him now?
āSis wait?!ā Blue Lily this time.. she faded after her sisterā¦
Several more shots.
āNO?!ā
And then nothing elseā¦ other than Silent Salt screamingā¦
*she growls in annoyance at the smoke, trying to clear it from the air enough that she can SEE whatās HAPPENING and STOP BREATHING IN UNKNOWN SMOKE*
*she starts flying in what very much SOUNDS like itās the direction the shouting it coming from, probably significantly faster than someone who canāt currently see where theyāre going should be moving but she PROBABLY wonāt crash into anyone so itāll be FIIIINE*
While well she did crash into someoneā¦ she crashed into White Lily, who looked mortifiedā¦. Oh thereās jamā¦ thereās jam on the groundā¦ Blue Lily was on the groundā¦
*she looks. rather dazed for a couple of seconds. sheād been going VERY quickly. before she shakes herself off and floats back up to get a better look around*
Blue Lily had been shot with, some kind of magic, more likely magichanical, sheās not dead! ā¦ not yet at leastā¦ but she is badly hurt, and White Lily is to horrified to move.. they are not okā¦ not at all.
By now the smoke was settling down, the cookies were goneā¦ Silent Salt, was gone. Only his sword remains where he dropped it. The other one was broken.
*it seems the most reasonable first step of this release a Salt game would be to, well, find a Salt*
*ā¦ she has ā¦ a few ideas of where he may have been snatched to, most likely the Creme Republic again..*
*so, that leaves getting herself there!*
*which is definitely very easy for her. mhm. yeah. very easy*
*all she needs to do is make a Definitely Very Simple rune to teleport herself there that uses energy from her surroundings instead of the magical energy she definitely has to power it*
*it works! and means she has enough magic to float around to try and find him now sheās here*
Oh god everything is so bright why did the crĆØme republic have to make their buildings all out of white colored materials?!
Silent Salt was currently in jail. Which was a lot darker, thankfully. They forced the armor off of him, and took his swords. He didnāt even know where his soul jam was! Right now the knight was a sopping wet cat just waiting for the trial heās pretty much doomed to lose in.
āTaking everything one at a time, Elder Custard had heard of something of great interest.. and if itās something that will raise his reputation and status, he will gladly look into it himself, itās why he left the note that morning, this was normal for himā¦ and he tended to take me with him. As his assistant at the time I was to help him with his work and findings.ā
Oh so weāre taking this one at a timeā¦. The explanation to that was very, reasonableā¦
and again, why did you have to go out at three in the morning to get this supposed incredibly vague artifact? would it have turned to dust in the sunlight or something?
āWell if you really want to be sure.. where are the witnessās fire markings? Magic markings like those are permanent! Surely if heās capable of using elemental magic, then his markings would be fairly visibleā the prosecutor interrupts.
āBesides, my mother fears fire, she would not want a son who can set things ablazeā
āShe encouraged nothing as I have done nothingā
āItās the only type of magic found at the scene when investigators came over, someone with fire magic burned the evidence, and that was your defendant.ā
āMagic markings can be covered, even with clothing! But they still will glow when Magic is used, unless of course, itās black magic.. or a black magic user with more magic types mixed in their doughā
āI know I donāt, because I have a different type of magic.ā Egg Tart shows his arms, pulling back the sleeves, there were pastel yellow markings dotting across his arms with a few swirls here and there.
āLight magic. With no other magic types. I donāt see why I would leave my own magic at the crime scene when thereās only fire at the scene, I canāt control fireā
*she stares. oh. actually this makes the sort of dispersal of this type of magic she saw at the scene make a lot more sense..*
ā¦ you know, iāve always found cookies who have a specific type of magic QUITE confusing. you have to identify the type, you have to identify the unique signature of which cookie it came fromā¦ that being said, light magic does explain a few things about what i Saw there..
slight topic change, any of you ever gone out and set fires with a magnifying glass? :)
āWhat does that have to do with anything involving this trial?!ā The crowed in the courtroom murmured loudly before quieting down after the judge quiets them down.
āI think what heās trying to say is the fire still would have spread regardlessā ohā¦ oh he so hid something else with the masking to hide whatever was keeping the fire from spreading.
there are so many nonmagical solutions to prevent out of control firesā¦ that you then wouldnāt have to use masking to hide ā¦
*she turns her focus away from the witness*
i was HOPING this FOOL that insisted on lying and framing my friend for murder would be a BIT more sensible in how he went about it, buuuut he DID just tell us what he did. he started a fire using concentrated light magic, contained it using some other form of magic, and then used masking to hide the presence of his magic. which he, again, failed miserably at doing. iām sure First Egg is very proud of what her idiot son has failed to accomplish
āMaybe he did cause the fire, but what about the actual murder weapon itself? That sword, it was Already hard to move the damn thing! And Iām sorry to say but, Egg Tart is not really a physically strong cookie. Especially if he wanted to get as precise as possible to crumble the Elder.ā The prosecutor then saysā¦. Shit right the sword. How the FUCK did this guy replicate how salt crumbled his own victimsā¦ even for a regular cookie itās hard to completely replicate that..
The crowd, especially the jury, was starting to lean towards shadow milkās side, at leastā¦ even with just that doubt alone.
some cookies are stronger than they look, and even then, there are ways to help cookies deal with their weaknesses. is this seriously your last line of defense for him?
besides, for him to have escaped an angry Salt hunting him down with all limbs intact, heād have to be pretty strong, yes? or have you decided to change THAT part of your story as well?
āTell meā¦ beast of deceit..ā Clotted Cream eventually speaks up again, staring down into the court room.. heās curious now, something has been on his mind for a while, it really was looking like Silent Salt wasnāt as guilty as he thought.
āWhy do you think he killed my father? Because out of all of these proof, why would he? We are rivals, if he wanted me dead he would have killed me instead. Thereās no house or status to his name other than his mother who is not apart of the republic. He canāt become part of the confection, heās to youngā¦ and if I had died, then thereās more of a chance someone older would take my placeā¦ so, did he kill for no reason? Did he do it, for nothing other than to fulfill something he logically, can never reach unless he did have a higher status?ā
*she turns towards him and thinks for a few seconds before responding*
i doubt he was trying to get involved in your government, so itās likely he was up to some unnconnected shenanigans that the elder close to discovering. maybe it has to deal with the artifact he mentioned, maybe itās something else entirely, maybe heās here to assassinate someone, i canāt say THAT for certain. but whatever he was up to, i think elder crumbled figured out about it and he got rid of him
He seemed satisfied with that.. maybe Clotted Cream wasnāt that bad after allā¦ whatever the outcome would beā¦ itās all up to the jury nowā¦ and they leave to the other room to discuss what was. Brought before them.
The jury came back after about thirty minutes.. it was a very short decision. The definitely not very suspicious cookie gives the judge a paper with the verdict, and they read it out loud. āWe, the jury, find the defendant.. not guilty of felony murder of the first degree.ā
Silent Salt nearly wheezes from the previous stressā¦ he was free to go..! HE WAS FREE TO GO HOME!!!
ā¦ thereās cookies under there planting a small bomb to open the floor and come up. The definitely not extremely and dauntingly suspicious jury cookie gets up from their spot, and locks onto the knight and his daughtersā¦
*ā¦ she does not like the sound of that. at all. sheās just gonna. ignore the floor noises. those are FIINE. those are NORMAL. sheāll just. float a LIIITLE closer to the knight. for totally not hiding behind him reasons*
Silent Salt puffs up from the noise, he didnāt like it either, and everyone starts to panic. The whole court is evacuatingā¦ oh god Project Nurture is here. And theyāre after him and his family!
āWe need to go, NOW?!ā He scruffs shadow milk, and his daughters, and immediately boltsā¦ oh shit wait heās jumping out a window?!
āHES OUTSIDE?! GET HIM?!ā One of the cookies from inside yelled. Oh god theyāre also coming out the windowā¦ he needs his armor right now. And he needs his sword.
Silent Salt runs right to the prison where all his stuff isā¦ the cookies are following him. They want him, not the other threeā¦ and neither White Lily nor Blue Lily were having it. So they chased after the cookies.
*she flies after them, catching up very quickly, and then attacking. ghostly blue puppet strings dropping down from above to try and FLING whichever cookies they can latch on to*
Some of the strange cookies were caught and flung, and with both White Lily and Blue Lily helping hold them back with their own magic, Silent Salt is able to get inside the prisonā¦ and comes out about a few minutes later, fully armored and with both swords. And heās going at them, though heās still missing his soul jamā¦. It wasnāt with his stuffā¦
*now that all the cookies are nicely gathered together, she starts using more Other Realm based attacks, the sky getting considerably dark as glowing blue eyes open up all over*
*definitely wonāt prevent any snatchings, though*
*ā¦ she. may have to track down where his Soul Jam went ā¦ after the fight*
Well that absolutely terrifies the regular people! They are getting OUT the way of the fight! Silent Salt was now focused on crumbling these strange cookies left and right, using both his own sword and the one that was given to him by the alternate Elder Faerie.. this is how he actually crumbled peopleā¦
The now seriously actually very suspicious jury cookie was now outside, the veil still covered their face, but there was a glow.. a bright yellow glowā¦ and they throw a smoke grenade.
*very specifically, she has decided to inflict Kaleidescope of The Void on the attackers! any of them without sufficient mental defenses will now be experiencing an array of fun effects including: jam seeping out of their dough and eyes and mouth, the near irresistable urge to dig deeper and deeper beneath the earthbread until thereās no hope of reaching the surface again, and hearing voices that arenāt there whispering near unintelligeable nonsense*
*rather fortunately for the attackers, the yellow smoke surprises her enough to quit her attack*
The cookies that absolutely got caught by the spell shadow milk did before she stopped, are very much either dead or dying! Itās really hard to see in the fog though, White Lily tries to clear the air a bit but, itās not working to wellā¦ and then she heard a very loud bangā¦ and there was a very loud yelp that came from Silent Salt. And then the sound of him falling overā¦ oh fuck.
āWe got the target! Letās go.ā Someone said in the fogā¦ and now thereās sounds of struggle.
āDad?!ā White Lily follows the sound of the struggle, she did not care about the danger she needed to get to him now?
āSis wait?!ā Blue Lily this time.. she faded after her sisterā¦
Several more shots.
āNO?!ā
And then nothing elseā¦ other than Silent Salt screamingā¦
*she growls in annoyance at the smoke, trying to clear it from the air enough that she can SEE whatās HAPPENING and STOP BREATHING IN UNKNOWN SMOKE*
*she starts flying in what very much SOUNDS like itās the direction the shouting it coming from, probably significantly faster than someone who canāt currently see where theyāre going should be moving but she PROBABLY wonāt crash into anyone so itāll be FIIIINE*
While well she did crash into someoneā¦ she crashed into White Lily, who looked mortifiedā¦. Oh thereās jamā¦ thereās jam on the groundā¦ Blue Lily was on the groundā¦
*she looks. rather dazed for a couple of seconds. sheād been going VERY quickly. before she shakes herself off and floats back up to get a better look around*
Blue Lily had been shot with, some kind of magic, more likely magichanical, sheās not dead! ā¦ not yet at leastā¦ but she is badly hurt, and White Lily is to horrified to move.. they are not okā¦ not at all.
By now the smoke was settling down, the cookies were goneā¦ Silent Salt, was gone. Only his sword remains where he dropped it. The other one was broken.
*it seems the most reasonable first step of this release a Salt game would be to, well, find a Salt*
*ā¦ she has ā¦ a few ideas of where he may have been snatched to, most likely the Creme Republic again..*
*so, that leaves getting herself there!*
*which is definitely very easy for her. mhm. yeah. very easy*
*all she needs to do is make a Definitely Very Simple rune to teleport herself there that uses energy from her surroundings instead of the magical energy she definitely has to power it*
*it works! and means she has enough magic to float around to try and find him now sheās here*
Oh god everything is so bright why did the crĆØme republic have to make their buildings all out of white colored materials?!
Silent Salt was currently in jail. Which was a lot darker, thankfully. They forced the armor off of him, and took his swords. He didnāt even know where his soul jam was! Right now the knight was a sopping wet cat just waiting for the trial heās pretty much doomed to lose in.
āTaking everything one at a time, Elder Custard had heard of something of great interest.. and if itās something that will raise his reputation and status, he will gladly look into it himself, itās why he left the note that morning, this was normal for himā¦ and he tended to take me with him. As his assistant at the time I was to help him with his work and findings.ā
Oh so weāre taking this one at a timeā¦. The explanation to that was very, reasonableā¦
and again, why did you have to go out at three in the morning to get this supposed incredibly vague artifact? would it have turned to dust in the sunlight or something?
āWell if you really want to be sure.. where are the witnessās fire markings? Magic markings like those are permanent! Surely if heās capable of using elemental magic, then his markings would be fairly visibleā the prosecutor interrupts.
āBesides, my mother fears fire, she would not want a son who can set things ablazeā
āShe encouraged nothing as I have done nothingā
āItās the only type of magic found at the scene when investigators came over, someone with fire magic burned the evidence, and that was your defendant.ā
āMagic markings can be covered, even with clothing! But they still will glow when Magic is used, unless of course, itās black magic.. or a black magic user with more magic types mixed in their doughā
āI know I donāt, because I have a different type of magic.ā Egg Tart shows his arms, pulling back the sleeves, there were pastel yellow markings dotting across his arms with a few swirls here and there.
āLight magic. With no other magic types. I donāt see why I would leave my own magic at the crime scene when thereās only fire at the scene, I canāt control fireā
*she stares. oh. actually this makes the sort of dispersal of this type of magic she saw at the scene make a lot more sense..*
ā¦ you know, iāve always found cookies who have a specific type of magic QUITE confusing. you have to identify the type, you have to identify the unique signature of which cookie it came fromā¦ that being said, light magic does explain a few things about what i Saw there..
slight topic change, any of you ever gone out and set fires with a magnifying glass? :)
āWhat does that have to do with anything involving this trial?!ā The crowed in the courtroom murmured loudly before quieting down after the judge quiets them down.
āI think what heās trying to say is the fire still would have spread regardlessā ohā¦ oh he so hid something else with the masking to hide whatever was keeping the fire from spreading.
there are so many nonmagical solutions to prevent out of control firesā¦ that you then wouldnāt have to use masking to hide ā¦
*she turns her focus away from the witness*
i was HOPING this FOOL that insisted on lying and framing my friend for murder would be a BIT more sensible in how he went about it, buuuut he DID just tell us what he did. he started a fire using concentrated light magic, contained it using some other form of magic, and then used masking to hide the presence of his magic. which he, again, failed miserably at doing. iām sure First Egg is very proud of what her idiot son has failed to accomplish
āMaybe he did cause the fire, but what about the actual murder weapon itself? That sword, it was Already hard to move the damn thing! And Iām sorry to say but, Egg Tart is not really a physically strong cookie. Especially if he wanted to get as precise as possible to crumble the Elder.ā The prosecutor then saysā¦. Shit right the sword. How the FUCK did this guy replicate how salt crumbled his own victimsā¦ even for a regular cookie itās hard to completely replicate that..
The crowd, especially the jury, was starting to lean towards shadow milkās side, at leastā¦ even with just that doubt alone.
some cookies are stronger than they look, and even then, there are ways to help cookies deal with their weaknesses. is this seriously your last line of defense for him?
besides, for him to have escaped an angry Salt hunting him down with all limbs intact, heād have to be pretty strong, yes? or have you decided to change THAT part of your story as well?
āTell meā¦ beast of deceit..ā Clotted Cream eventually speaks up again, staring down into the court room.. heās curious now, something has been on his mind for a while, it really was looking like Silent Salt wasnāt as guilty as he thought.
āWhy do you think he killed my father? Because out of all of these proof, why would he? We are rivals, if he wanted me dead he would have killed me instead. Thereās no house or status to his name other than his mother who is not apart of the republic. He canāt become part of the confection, heās to youngā¦ and if I had died, then thereās more of a chance someone older would take my placeā¦ so, did he kill for no reason? Did he do it, for nothing other than to fulfill something he logically, can never reach unless he did have a higher status?ā
*she turns towards him and thinks for a few seconds before responding*
i doubt he was trying to get involved in your government, so itās likely he was up to some unnconnected shenanigans that the elder close to discovering. maybe it has to deal with the artifact he mentioned, maybe itās something else entirely, maybe heās here to assassinate someone, i canāt say THAT for certain. but whatever he was up to, i think elder crumbled figured out about it and he got rid of him
He seemed satisfied with that.. maybe Clotted Cream wasnāt that bad after allā¦ whatever the outcome would beā¦ itās all up to the jury nowā¦ and they leave to the other room to discuss what was. Brought before them.
The jury came back after about thirty minutes.. it was a very short decision. The definitely not very suspicious cookie gives the judge a paper with the verdict, and they read it out loud. āWe, the jury, find the defendant.. not guilty of felony murder of the first degree.ā
Silent Salt nearly wheezes from the previous stressā¦ he was free to go..! HE WAS FREE TO GO HOME!!!
ā¦ thereās cookies under there planting a small bomb to open the floor and come up. The definitely not extremely and dauntingly suspicious jury cookie gets up from their spot, and locks onto the knight and his daughtersā¦
*ā¦ she does not like the sound of that. at all. sheās just gonna. ignore the floor noises. those are FIINE. those are NORMAL. sheāll just. float a LIIITLE closer to the knight. for totally not hiding behind him reasons*
Silent Salt puffs up from the noise, he didnāt like it either, and everyone starts to panic. The whole court is evacuatingā¦ oh god Project Nurture is here. And theyāre after him and his family!
āWe need to go, NOW?!ā He scruffs shadow milk, and his daughters, and immediately boltsā¦ oh shit wait heās jumping out a window?!
āHES OUTSIDE?! GET HIM?!ā One of the cookies from inside yelled. Oh god theyāre also coming out the windowā¦ he needs his armor right now. And he needs his sword.
Silent Salt runs right to the prison where all his stuff isā¦ the cookies are following him. They want him, not the other threeā¦ and neither White Lily nor Blue Lily were having it. So they chased after the cookies.
*she flies after them, catching up very quickly, and then attacking. ghostly blue puppet strings dropping down from above to try and FLING whichever cookies they can latch on to*
Some of the strange cookies were caught and flung, and with both White Lily and Blue Lily helping hold them back with their own magic, Silent Salt is able to get inside the prisonā¦ and comes out about a few minutes later, fully armored and with both swords. And heās going at them, though heās still missing his soul jamā¦. It wasnāt with his stuffā¦
*now that all the cookies are nicely gathered together, she starts using more Other Realm based attacks, the sky getting considerably dark as glowing blue eyes open up all over*
*definitely wonāt prevent any snatchings, though*
*ā¦ she. may have to track down where his Soul Jam went ā¦ after the fight*
Well that absolutely terrifies the regular people! They are getting OUT the way of the fight! Silent Salt was now focused on crumbling these strange cookies left and right, using both his own sword and the one that was given to him by the alternate Elder Faerie.. this is how he actually crumbled peopleā¦
The now seriously actually very suspicious jury cookie was now outside, the veil still covered their face, but there was a glow.. a bright yellow glowā¦ and they throw a smoke grenade.
*very specifically, she has decided to inflict Kaleidescope of The Void on the attackers! any of them without sufficient mental defenses will now be experiencing an array of fun effects including: jam seeping out of their dough and eyes and mouth, the near irresistable urge to dig deeper and deeper beneath the earthbread until thereās no hope of reaching the surface again, and hearing voices that arenāt there whispering near unintelligeable nonsense*
*rather fortunately for the attackers, the yellow smoke surprises her enough to quit her attack*
The cookies that absolutely got caught by the spell shadow milk did before she stopped, are very much either dead or dying! Itās really hard to see in the fog though, White Lily tries to clear the air a bit but, itās not working to wellā¦ and then she heard a very loud bangā¦ and there was a very loud yelp that came from Silent Salt. And then the sound of him falling overā¦ oh fuck.
āWe got the target! Letās go.ā Someone said in the fogā¦ and now thereās sounds of struggle.
āDad?!ā White Lily follows the sound of the struggle, she did not care about the danger she needed to get to him now?
āSis wait?!ā Blue Lily this time.. she faded after her sisterā¦
Several more shots.
āNO?!ā
And then nothing elseā¦ other than Silent Salt screamingā¦
*she growls in annoyance at the smoke, trying to clear it from the air enough that she can SEE whatās HAPPENING and STOP BREATHING IN UNKNOWN SMOKE*
*she starts flying in what very much SOUNDS like itās the direction the shouting it coming from, probably significantly faster than someone who canāt currently see where theyāre going should be moving but she PROBABLY wonāt crash into anyone so itāll be FIIIINE*
While well she did crash into someoneā¦ she crashed into White Lily, who looked mortifiedā¦. Oh thereās jamā¦ thereās jam on the groundā¦ Blue Lily was on the groundā¦
*it seems the most reasonable first step of this release a Salt game would be to, well, find a Salt*
*ā¦ she has ā¦ a few ideas of where he may have been snatched to, most likely the Creme Republic again..*
*so, that leaves getting herself there!*
*which is definitely very easy for her. mhm. yeah. very easy*
*all she needs to do is make a Definitely Very Simple rune to teleport herself there that uses energy from her surroundings instead of the magical energy she definitely has to power it*
*it works! and means she has enough magic to float around to try and find him now sheās here*
Oh god everything is so bright why did the crĆØme republic have to make their buildings all out of white colored materials?!
Silent Salt was currently in jail. Which was a lot darker, thankfully. They forced the armor off of him, and took his swords. He didnāt even know where his soul jam was! Right now the knight was a sopping wet cat just waiting for the trial heās pretty much doomed to lose in.
āTaking everything one at a time, Elder Custard had heard of something of great interest.. and if itās something that will raise his reputation and status, he will gladly look into it himself, itās why he left the note that morning, this was normal for himā¦ and he tended to take me with him. As his assistant at the time I was to help him with his work and findings.ā
Oh so weāre taking this one at a timeā¦. The explanation to that was very, reasonableā¦
and again, why did you have to go out at three in the morning to get this supposed incredibly vague artifact? would it have turned to dust in the sunlight or something?
āWell if you really want to be sure.. where are the witnessās fire markings? Magic markings like those are permanent! Surely if heās capable of using elemental magic, then his markings would be fairly visibleā the prosecutor interrupts.
āBesides, my mother fears fire, she would not want a son who can set things ablazeā
āShe encouraged nothing as I have done nothingā
āItās the only type of magic found at the scene when investigators came over, someone with fire magic burned the evidence, and that was your defendant.ā
āMagic markings can be covered, even with clothing! But they still will glow when Magic is used, unless of course, itās black magic.. or a black magic user with more magic types mixed in their doughā
āI know I donāt, because I have a different type of magic.ā Egg Tart shows his arms, pulling back the sleeves, there were pastel yellow markings dotting across his arms with a few swirls here and there.
āLight magic. With no other magic types. I donāt see why I would leave my own magic at the crime scene when thereās only fire at the scene, I canāt control fireā
*she stares. oh. actually this makes the sort of dispersal of this type of magic she saw at the scene make a lot more sense..*
ā¦ you know, iāve always found cookies who have a specific type of magic QUITE confusing. you have to identify the type, you have to identify the unique signature of which cookie it came fromā¦ that being said, light magic does explain a few things about what i Saw there..
slight topic change, any of you ever gone out and set fires with a magnifying glass? :)
āWhat does that have to do with anything involving this trial?!ā The crowed in the courtroom murmured loudly before quieting down after the judge quiets them down.
āI think what heās trying to say is the fire still would have spread regardlessā ohā¦ oh he so hid something else with the masking to hide whatever was keeping the fire from spreading.
there are so many nonmagical solutions to prevent out of control firesā¦ that you then wouldnāt have to use masking to hide ā¦
*she turns her focus away from the witness*
i was HOPING this FOOL that insisted on lying and framing my friend for murder would be a BIT more sensible in how he went about it, buuuut he DID just tell us what he did. he started a fire using concentrated light magic, contained it using some other form of magic, and then used masking to hide the presence of his magic. which he, again, failed miserably at doing. iām sure First Egg is very proud of what her idiot son has failed to accomplish
āMaybe he did cause the fire, but what about the actual murder weapon itself? That sword, it was Already hard to move the damn thing! And Iām sorry to say but, Egg Tart is not really a physically strong cookie. Especially if he wanted to get as precise as possible to crumble the Elder.ā The prosecutor then saysā¦. Shit right the sword. How the FUCK did this guy replicate how salt crumbled his own victimsā¦ even for a regular cookie itās hard to completely replicate that..
The crowd, especially the jury, was starting to lean towards shadow milkās side, at leastā¦ even with just that doubt alone.
some cookies are stronger than they look, and even then, there are ways to help cookies deal with their weaknesses. is this seriously your last line of defense for him?
besides, for him to have escaped an angry Salt hunting him down with all limbs intact, heād have to be pretty strong, yes? or have you decided to change THAT part of your story as well?
āTell meā¦ beast of deceit..ā Clotted Cream eventually speaks up again, staring down into the court room.. heās curious now, something has been on his mind for a while, it really was looking like Silent Salt wasnāt as guilty as he thought.
āWhy do you think he killed my father? Because out of all of these proof, why would he? We are rivals, if he wanted me dead he would have killed me instead. Thereās no house or status to his name other than his mother who is not apart of the republic. He canāt become part of the confection, heās to youngā¦ and if I had died, then thereās more of a chance someone older would take my placeā¦ so, did he kill for no reason? Did he do it, for nothing other than to fulfill something he logically, can never reach unless he did have a higher status?ā
*she turns towards him and thinks for a few seconds before responding*
i doubt he was trying to get involved in your government, so itās likely he was up to some unnconnected shenanigans that the elder close to discovering. maybe it has to deal with the artifact he mentioned, maybe itās something else entirely, maybe heās here to assassinate someone, i canāt say THAT for certain. but whatever he was up to, i think elder crumbled figured out about it and he got rid of him
He seemed satisfied with that.. maybe Clotted Cream wasnāt that bad after allā¦ whatever the outcome would beā¦ itās all up to the jury nowā¦ and they leave to the other room to discuss what was. Brought before them.
The jury came back after about thirty minutes.. it was a very short decision. The definitely not very suspicious cookie gives the judge a paper with the verdict, and they read it out loud. āWe, the jury, find the defendant.. not guilty of felony murder of the first degree.ā
Silent Salt nearly wheezes from the previous stressā¦ he was free to go..! HE WAS FREE TO GO HOME!!!
ā¦ thereās cookies under there planting a small bomb to open the floor and come up. The definitely not extremely and dauntingly suspicious jury cookie gets up from their spot, and locks onto the knight and his daughtersā¦
*ā¦ she does not like the sound of that. at all. sheās just gonna. ignore the floor noises. those are FIINE. those are NORMAL. sheāll just. float a LIIITLE closer to the knight. for totally not hiding behind him reasons*
Silent Salt puffs up from the noise, he didnāt like it either, and everyone starts to panic. The whole court is evacuatingā¦ oh god Project Nurture is here. And theyāre after him and his family!
āWe need to go, NOW?!ā He scruffs shadow milk, and his daughters, and immediately boltsā¦ oh shit wait heās jumping out a window?!
āHES OUTSIDE?! GET HIM?!ā One of the cookies from inside yelled. Oh god theyāre also coming out the windowā¦ he needs his armor right now. And he needs his sword.
Silent Salt runs right to the prison where all his stuff isā¦ the cookies are following him. They want him, not the other threeā¦ and neither White Lily nor Blue Lily were having it. So they chased after the cookies.
*she flies after them, catching up very quickly, and then attacking. ghostly blue puppet strings dropping down from above to try and FLING whichever cookies they can latch on to*
Some of the strange cookies were caught and flung, and with both White Lily and Blue Lily helping hold them back with their own magic, Silent Salt is able to get inside the prisonā¦ and comes out about a few minutes later, fully armored and with both swords. And heās going at them, though heās still missing his soul jamā¦. It wasnāt with his stuffā¦
*now that all the cookies are nicely gathered together, she starts using more Other Realm based attacks, the sky getting considerably dark as glowing blue eyes open up all over*
*definitely wonāt prevent any snatchings, though*
*ā¦ she. may have to track down where his Soul Jam went ā¦ after the fight*
Well that absolutely terrifies the regular people! They are getting OUT the way of the fight! Silent Salt was now focused on crumbling these strange cookies left and right, using both his own sword and the one that was given to him by the alternate Elder Faerie.. this is how he actually crumbled peopleā¦
The now seriously actually very suspicious jury cookie was now outside, the veil still covered their face, but there was a glow.. a bright yellow glowā¦ and they throw a smoke grenade.
*very specifically, she has decided to inflict Kaleidescope of The Void on the attackers! any of them without sufficient mental defenses will now be experiencing an array of fun effects including: jam seeping out of their dough and eyes and mouth, the near irresistable urge to dig deeper and deeper beneath the earthbread until thereās no hope of reaching the surface again, and hearing voices that arenāt there whispering near unintelligeable nonsense*
*rather fortunately for the attackers, the yellow smoke surprises her enough to quit her attack*
The cookies that absolutely got caught by the spell shadow milk did before she stopped, are very much either dead or dying! Itās really hard to see in the fog though, White Lily tries to clear the air a bit but, itās not working to wellā¦ and then she heard a very loud bangā¦ and there was a very loud yelp that came from Silent Salt. And then the sound of him falling overā¦ oh fuck.
āWe got the target! Letās go.ā Someone said in the fogā¦ and now thereās sounds of struggle.
āDad?!ā White Lily follows the sound of the struggle, she did not care about the danger she needed to get to him now?
āSis wait?!ā Blue Lily this time.. she faded after her sisterā¦
Several more shots.
āNO?!ā
And then nothing elseā¦ other than Silent Salt screamingā¦
*it seems the most reasonable first step of this release a Salt game would be to, well, find a Salt*
*ā¦ she has ā¦ a few ideas of where he may have been snatched to, most likely the Creme Republic again..*
*so, that leaves getting herself there!*
*which is definitely very easy for her. mhm. yeah. very easy*
*all she needs to do is make a Definitely Very Simple rune to teleport herself there that uses energy from her surroundings instead of the magical energy she definitely has to power it*
*it works! and means she has enough magic to float around to try and find him now sheās here*
Oh god everything is so bright why did the crĆØme republic have to make their buildings all out of white colored materials?!
Silent Salt was currently in jail. Which was a lot darker, thankfully. They forced the armor off of him, and took his swords. He didnāt even know where his soul jam was! Right now the knight was a sopping wet cat just waiting for the trial heās pretty much doomed to lose in.
āTaking everything one at a time, Elder Custard had heard of something of great interest.. and if itās something that will raise his reputation and status, he will gladly look into it himself, itās why he left the note that morning, this was normal for himā¦ and he tended to take me with him. As his assistant at the time I was to help him with his work and findings.ā
Oh so weāre taking this one at a timeā¦. The explanation to that was very, reasonableā¦
and again, why did you have to go out at three in the morning to get this supposed incredibly vague artifact? would it have turned to dust in the sunlight or something?
āWell if you really want to be sure.. where are the witnessās fire markings? Magic markings like those are permanent! Surely if heās capable of using elemental magic, then his markings would be fairly visibleā the prosecutor interrupts.
āBesides, my mother fears fire, she would not want a son who can set things ablazeā
āShe encouraged nothing as I have done nothingā
āItās the only type of magic found at the scene when investigators came over, someone with fire magic burned the evidence, and that was your defendant.ā
āMagic markings can be covered, even with clothing! But they still will glow when Magic is used, unless of course, itās black magic.. or a black magic user with more magic types mixed in their doughā
āI know I donāt, because I have a different type of magic.ā Egg Tart shows his arms, pulling back the sleeves, there were pastel yellow markings dotting across his arms with a few swirls here and there.
āLight magic. With no other magic types. I donāt see why I would leave my own magic at the crime scene when thereās only fire at the scene, I canāt control fireā
*she stares. oh. actually this makes the sort of dispersal of this type of magic she saw at the scene make a lot more sense..*
ā¦ you know, iāve always found cookies who have a specific type of magic QUITE confusing. you have to identify the type, you have to identify the unique signature of which cookie it came fromā¦ that being said, light magic does explain a few things about what i Saw there..
slight topic change, any of you ever gone out and set fires with a magnifying glass? :)
āWhat does that have to do with anything involving this trial?!ā The crowed in the courtroom murmured loudly before quieting down after the judge quiets them down.
āI think what heās trying to say is the fire still would have spread regardlessā ohā¦ oh he so hid something else with the masking to hide whatever was keeping the fire from spreading.
there are so many nonmagical solutions to prevent out of control firesā¦ that you then wouldnāt have to use masking to hide ā¦
*she turns her focus away from the witness*
i was HOPING this FOOL that insisted on lying and framing my friend for murder would be a BIT more sensible in how he went about it, buuuut he DID just tell us what he did. he started a fire using concentrated light magic, contained it using some other form of magic, and then used masking to hide the presence of his magic. which he, again, failed miserably at doing. iām sure First Egg is very proud of what her idiot son has failed to accomplish
āMaybe he did cause the fire, but what about the actual murder weapon itself? That sword, it was Already hard to move the damn thing! And Iām sorry to say but, Egg Tart is not really a physically strong cookie. Especially if he wanted to get as precise as possible to crumble the Elder.ā The prosecutor then saysā¦. Shit right the sword. How the FUCK did this guy replicate how salt crumbled his own victimsā¦ even for a regular cookie itās hard to completely replicate that..
The crowd, especially the jury, was starting to lean towards shadow milkās side, at leastā¦ even with just that doubt alone.
some cookies are stronger than they look, and even then, there are ways to help cookies deal with their weaknesses. is this seriously your last line of defense for him?
besides, for him to have escaped an angry Salt hunting him down with all limbs intact, heād have to be pretty strong, yes? or have you decided to change THAT part of your story as well?
āTell meā¦ beast of deceit..ā Clotted Cream eventually speaks up again, staring down into the court room.. heās curious now, something has been on his mind for a while, it really was looking like Silent Salt wasnāt as guilty as he thought.
āWhy do you think he killed my father? Because out of all of these proof, why would he? We are rivals, if he wanted me dead he would have killed me instead. Thereās no house or status to his name other than his mother who is not apart of the republic. He canāt become part of the confection, heās to youngā¦ and if I had died, then thereās more of a chance someone older would take my placeā¦ so, did he kill for no reason? Did he do it, for nothing other than to fulfill something he logically, can never reach unless he did have a higher status?ā
*she turns towards him and thinks for a few seconds before responding*
i doubt he was trying to get involved in your government, so itās likely he was up to some unnconnected shenanigans that the elder close to discovering. maybe it has to deal with the artifact he mentioned, maybe itās something else entirely, maybe heās here to assassinate someone, i canāt say THAT for certain. but whatever he was up to, i think elder crumbled figured out about it and he got rid of him
He seemed satisfied with that.. maybe Clotted Cream wasnāt that bad after allā¦ whatever the outcome would beā¦ itās all up to the jury nowā¦ and they leave to the other room to discuss what was. Brought before them.
The jury came back after about thirty minutes.. it was a very short decision. The definitely not very suspicious cookie gives the judge a paper with the verdict, and they read it out loud. āWe, the jury, find the defendant.. not guilty of felony murder of the first degree.ā
Silent Salt nearly wheezes from the previous stressā¦ he was free to go..! HE WAS FREE TO GO HOME!!!
ā¦ thereās cookies under there planting a small bomb to open the floor and come up. The definitely not extremely and dauntingly suspicious jury cookie gets up from their spot, and locks onto the knight and his daughtersā¦
*ā¦ she does not like the sound of that. at all. sheās just gonna. ignore the floor noises. those are FIINE. those are NORMAL. sheāll just. float a LIIITLE closer to the knight. for totally not hiding behind him reasons*
Silent Salt puffs up from the noise, he didnāt like it either, and everyone starts to panic. The whole court is evacuatingā¦ oh god Project Nurture is here. And theyāre after him and his family!
āWe need to go, NOW?!ā He scruffs shadow milk, and his daughters, and immediately boltsā¦ oh shit wait heās jumping out a window?!
āHES OUTSIDE?! GET HIM?!ā One of the cookies from inside yelled. Oh god theyāre also coming out the windowā¦ he needs his armor right now. And he needs his sword.
Silent Salt runs right to the prison where all his stuff isā¦ the cookies are following him. They want him, not the other threeā¦ and neither White Lily nor Blue Lily were having it. So they chased after the cookies.
*she flies after them, catching up very quickly, and then attacking. ghostly blue puppet strings dropping down from above to try and FLING whichever cookies they can latch on to*
Some of the strange cookies were caught and flung, and with both White Lily and Blue Lily helping hold them back with their own magic, Silent Salt is able to get inside the prisonā¦ and comes out about a few minutes later, fully armored and with both swords. And heās going at them, though heās still missing his soul jamā¦. It wasnāt with his stuffā¦
*now that all the cookies are nicely gathered together, she starts using more Other Realm based attacks, the sky getting considerably dark as glowing blue eyes open up all over*
*definitely wonāt prevent any snatchings, though*
*ā¦ she. may have to track down where his Soul Jam went ā¦ after the fight*
Well that absolutely terrifies the regular people! They are getting OUT the way of the fight! Silent Salt was now focused on crumbling these strange cookies left and right, using both his own sword and the one that was given to him by the alternate Elder Faerie.. this is how he actually crumbled peopleā¦
The now seriously actually very suspicious jury cookie was now outside, the veil still covered their face, but there was a glow.. a bright yellow glowā¦ and they throw a smoke grenade.
*it seems the most reasonable first step of this release a Salt game would be to, well, find a Salt*
*ā¦ she has ā¦ a few ideas of where he may have been snatched to, most likely the Creme Republic again..*
*so, that leaves getting herself there!*
*which is definitely very easy for her. mhm. yeah. very easy*
*all she needs to do is make a Definitely Very Simple rune to teleport herself there that uses energy from her surroundings instead of the magical energy she definitely has to power it*
*it works! and means she has enough magic to float around to try and find him now sheās here*
Oh god everything is so bright why did the crĆØme republic have to make their buildings all out of white colored materials?!
Silent Salt was currently in jail. Which was a lot darker, thankfully. They forced the armor off of him, and took his swords. He didnāt even know where his soul jam was! Right now the knight was a sopping wet cat just waiting for the trial heās pretty much doomed to lose in.
āTaking everything one at a time, Elder Custard had heard of something of great interest.. and if itās something that will raise his reputation and status, he will gladly look into it himself, itās why he left the note that morning, this was normal for himā¦ and he tended to take me with him. As his assistant at the time I was to help him with his work and findings.ā
Oh so weāre taking this one at a timeā¦. The explanation to that was very, reasonableā¦
and again, why did you have to go out at three in the morning to get this supposed incredibly vague artifact? would it have turned to dust in the sunlight or something?
āWell if you really want to be sure.. where are the witnessās fire markings? Magic markings like those are permanent! Surely if heās capable of using elemental magic, then his markings would be fairly visibleā the prosecutor interrupts.
āBesides, my mother fears fire, she would not want a son who can set things ablazeā
āShe encouraged nothing as I have done nothingā
āItās the only type of magic found at the scene when investigators came over, someone with fire magic burned the evidence, and that was your defendant.ā
āMagic markings can be covered, even with clothing! But they still will glow when Magic is used, unless of course, itās black magic.. or a black magic user with more magic types mixed in their doughā
āI know I donāt, because I have a different type of magic.ā Egg Tart shows his arms, pulling back the sleeves, there were pastel yellow markings dotting across his arms with a few swirls here and there.
āLight magic. With no other magic types. I donāt see why I would leave my own magic at the crime scene when thereās only fire at the scene, I canāt control fireā
*she stares. oh. actually this makes the sort of dispersal of this type of magic she saw at the scene make a lot more sense..*
ā¦ you know, iāve always found cookies who have a specific type of magic QUITE confusing. you have to identify the type, you have to identify the unique signature of which cookie it came fromā¦ that being said, light magic does explain a few things about what i Saw there..
slight topic change, any of you ever gone out and set fires with a magnifying glass? :)
āWhat does that have to do with anything involving this trial?!ā The crowed in the courtroom murmured loudly before quieting down after the judge quiets them down.
āI think what heās trying to say is the fire still would have spread regardlessā ohā¦ oh he so hid something else with the masking to hide whatever was keeping the fire from spreading.
there are so many nonmagical solutions to prevent out of control firesā¦ that you then wouldnāt have to use masking to hide ā¦
*she turns her focus away from the witness*
i was HOPING this FOOL that insisted on lying and framing my friend for murder would be a BIT more sensible in how he went about it, buuuut he DID just tell us what he did. he started a fire using concentrated light magic, contained it using some other form of magic, and then used masking to hide the presence of his magic. which he, again, failed miserably at doing. iām sure First Egg is very proud of what her idiot son has failed to accomplish
āMaybe he did cause the fire, but what about the actual murder weapon itself? That sword, it was Already hard to move the damn thing! And Iām sorry to say but, Egg Tart is not really a physically strong cookie. Especially if he wanted to get as precise as possible to crumble the Elder.ā The prosecutor then saysā¦. Shit right the sword. How the FUCK did this guy replicate how salt crumbled his own victimsā¦ even for a regular cookie itās hard to completely replicate that..
The crowd, especially the jury, was starting to lean towards shadow milkās side, at leastā¦ even with just that doubt alone.
some cookies are stronger than they look, and even then, there are ways to help cookies deal with their weaknesses. is this seriously your last line of defense for him?
besides, for him to have escaped an angry Salt hunting him down with all limbs intact, heād have to be pretty strong, yes? or have you decided to change THAT part of your story as well?
āTell meā¦ beast of deceit..ā Clotted Cream eventually speaks up again, staring down into the court room.. heās curious now, something has been on his mind for a while, it really was looking like Silent Salt wasnāt as guilty as he thought.
āWhy do you think he killed my father? Because out of all of these proof, why would he? We are rivals, if he wanted me dead he would have killed me instead. Thereās no house or status to his name other than his mother who is not apart of the republic. He canāt become part of the confection, heās to youngā¦ and if I had died, then thereās more of a chance someone older would take my placeā¦ so, did he kill for no reason? Did he do it, for nothing other than to fulfill something he logically, can never reach unless he did have a higher status?ā
*she turns towards him and thinks for a few seconds before responding*
i doubt he was trying to get involved in your government, so itās likely he was up to some unnconnected shenanigans that the elder close to discovering. maybe it has to deal with the artifact he mentioned, maybe itās something else entirely, maybe heās here to assassinate someone, i canāt say THAT for certain. but whatever he was up to, i think elder crumbled figured out about it and he got rid of him
He seemed satisfied with that.. maybe Clotted Cream wasnāt that bad after allā¦ whatever the outcome would beā¦ itās all up to the jury nowā¦ and they leave to the other room to discuss what was. Brought before them.
The jury came back after about thirty minutes.. it was a very short decision. The definitely not very suspicious cookie gives the judge a paper with the verdict, and they read it out loud. āWe, the jury, find the defendant.. not guilty of felony murder of the first degree.ā
Silent Salt nearly wheezes from the previous stressā¦ he was free to go..! HE WAS FREE TO GO HOME!!!
ā¦ thereās cookies under there planting a small bomb to open the floor and come up. The definitely not extremely and dauntingly suspicious jury cookie gets up from their spot, and locks onto the knight and his daughtersā¦
*ā¦ she does not like the sound of that. at all. sheās just gonna. ignore the floor noises. those are FIINE. those are NORMAL. sheāll just. float a LIIITLE closer to the knight. for totally not hiding behind him reasons*
Silent Salt puffs up from the noise, he didnāt like it either, and everyone starts to panic. The whole court is evacuatingā¦ oh god Project Nurture is here. And theyāre after him and his family!
āWe need to go, NOW?!ā He scruffs shadow milk, and his daughters, and immediately boltsā¦ oh shit wait heās jumping out a window?!
āHES OUTSIDE?! GET HIM?!ā One of the cookies from inside yelled. Oh god theyāre also coming out the windowā¦ he needs his armor right now. And he needs his sword.
Silent Salt runs right to the prison where all his stuff isā¦ the cookies are following him. They want him, not the other threeā¦ and neither White Lily nor Blue Lily were having it. So they chased after the cookies.
*she flies after them, catching up very quickly, and then attacking. ghostly blue puppet strings dropping down from above to try and FLING whichever cookies they can latch on to*
Some of the strange cookies were caught and flung, and with both White Lily and Blue Lily helping hold them back with their own magic, Silent Salt is able to get inside the prisonā¦ and comes out about a few minutes later, fully armored and with both swords. And heās going at them, though heās still missing his soul jamā¦. It wasnāt with his stuffā¦
*it seems the most reasonable first step of this release a Salt game would be to, well, find a Salt*
*ā¦ she has ā¦ a few ideas of where he may have been snatched to, most likely the Creme Republic again..*
*so, that leaves getting herself there!*
*which is definitely very easy for her. mhm. yeah. very easy*
*all she needs to do is make a Definitely Very Simple rune to teleport herself there that uses energy from her surroundings instead of the magical energy she definitely has to power it*
*it works! and means she has enough magic to float around to try and find him now sheās here*
Oh god everything is so bright why did the crĆØme republic have to make their buildings all out of white colored materials?!
Silent Salt was currently in jail. Which was a lot darker, thankfully. They forced the armor off of him, and took his swords. He didnāt even know where his soul jam was! Right now the knight was a sopping wet cat just waiting for the trial heās pretty much doomed to lose in.
āTaking everything one at a time, Elder Custard had heard of something of great interest.. and if itās something that will raise his reputation and status, he will gladly look into it himself, itās why he left the note that morning, this was normal for himā¦ and he tended to take me with him. As his assistant at the time I was to help him with his work and findings.ā
Oh so weāre taking this one at a timeā¦. The explanation to that was very, reasonableā¦
and again, why did you have to go out at three in the morning to get this supposed incredibly vague artifact? would it have turned to dust in the sunlight or something?
āWell if you really want to be sure.. where are the witnessās fire markings? Magic markings like those are permanent! Surely if heās capable of using elemental magic, then his markings would be fairly visibleā the prosecutor interrupts.
āBesides, my mother fears fire, she would not want a son who can set things ablazeā
āShe encouraged nothing as I have done nothingā
āItās the only type of magic found at the scene when investigators came over, someone with fire magic burned the evidence, and that was your defendant.ā
āMagic markings can be covered, even with clothing! But they still will glow when Magic is used, unless of course, itās black magic.. or a black magic user with more magic types mixed in their doughā
āI know I donāt, because I have a different type of magic.ā Egg Tart shows his arms, pulling back the sleeves, there were pastel yellow markings dotting across his arms with a few swirls here and there.
āLight magic. With no other magic types. I donāt see why I would leave my own magic at the crime scene when thereās only fire at the scene, I canāt control fireā
*she stares. oh. actually this makes the sort of dispersal of this type of magic she saw at the scene make a lot more sense..*
ā¦ you know, iāve always found cookies who have a specific type of magic QUITE confusing. you have to identify the type, you have to identify the unique signature of which cookie it came fromā¦ that being said, light magic does explain a few things about what i Saw there..
slight topic change, any of you ever gone out and set fires with a magnifying glass? :)
āWhat does that have to do with anything involving this trial?!ā The crowed in the courtroom murmured loudly before quieting down after the judge quiets them down.
āI think what heās trying to say is the fire still would have spread regardlessā ohā¦ oh he so hid something else with the masking to hide whatever was keeping the fire from spreading.
there are so many nonmagical solutions to prevent out of control firesā¦ that you then wouldnāt have to use masking to hide ā¦
*she turns her focus away from the witness*
i was HOPING this FOOL that insisted on lying and framing my friend for murder would be a BIT more sensible in how he went about it, buuuut he DID just tell us what he did. he started a fire using concentrated light magic, contained it using some other form of magic, and then used masking to hide the presence of his magic. which he, again, failed miserably at doing. iām sure First Egg is very proud of what her idiot son has failed to accomplish
āMaybe he did cause the fire, but what about the actual murder weapon itself? That sword, it was Already hard to move the damn thing! And Iām sorry to say but, Egg Tart is not really a physically strong cookie. Especially if he wanted to get as precise as possible to crumble the Elder.ā The prosecutor then saysā¦. Shit right the sword. How the FUCK did this guy replicate how salt crumbled his own victimsā¦ even for a regular cookie itās hard to completely replicate that..
The crowd, especially the jury, was starting to lean towards shadow milkās side, at leastā¦ even with just that doubt alone.
some cookies are stronger than they look, and even then, there are ways to help cookies deal with their weaknesses. is this seriously your last line of defense for him?
besides, for him to have escaped an angry Salt hunting him down with all limbs intact, heād have to be pretty strong, yes? or have you decided to change THAT part of your story as well?
āTell meā¦ beast of deceit..ā Clotted Cream eventually speaks up again, staring down into the court room.. heās curious now, something has been on his mind for a while, it really was looking like Silent Salt wasnāt as guilty as he thought.
āWhy do you think he killed my father? Because out of all of these proof, why would he? We are rivals, if he wanted me dead he would have killed me instead. Thereās no house or status to his name other than his mother who is not apart of the republic. He canāt become part of the confection, heās to youngā¦ and if I had died, then thereās more of a chance someone older would take my placeā¦ so, did he kill for no reason? Did he do it, for nothing other than to fulfill something he logically, can never reach unless he did have a higher status?ā
*she turns towards him and thinks for a few seconds before responding*
i doubt he was trying to get involved in your government, so itās likely he was up to some unnconnected shenanigans that the elder close to discovering. maybe it has to deal with the artifact he mentioned, maybe itās something else entirely, maybe heās here to assassinate someone, i canāt say THAT for certain. but whatever he was up to, i think elder crumbled figured out about it and he got rid of him
He seemed satisfied with that.. maybe Clotted Cream wasnāt that bad after allā¦ whatever the outcome would beā¦ itās all up to the jury nowā¦ and they leave to the other room to discuss what was. Brought before them.
The jury came back after about thirty minutes.. it was a very short decision. The definitely not very suspicious cookie gives the judge a paper with the verdict, and they read it out loud. āWe, the jury, find the defendant.. not guilty of felony murder of the first degree.ā
Silent Salt nearly wheezes from the previous stressā¦ he was free to go..! HE WAS FREE TO GO HOME!!!
ā¦ thereās cookies under there planting a small bomb to open the floor and come up. The definitely not extremely and dauntingly suspicious jury cookie gets up from their spot, and locks onto the knight and his daughtersā¦
*ā¦ she does not like the sound of that. at all. sheās just gonna. ignore the floor noises. those are FIINE. those are NORMAL. sheāll just. float a LIIITLE closer to the knight. for totally not hiding behind him reasons*
Silent Salt puffs up from the noise, he didnāt like it either, and everyone starts to panic. The whole court is evacuatingā¦ oh god Project Nurture is here. And theyāre after him and his family!
āWe need to go, NOW?!ā He scruffs shadow milk, and his daughters, and immediately boltsā¦ oh shit wait heās jumping out a window?!
āHES OUTSIDE?! GET HIM?!ā One of the cookies from inside yelled. Oh god theyāre also coming out the windowā¦ he needs his armor right now. And he needs his sword.
Silent Salt runs right to the prison where all his stuff isā¦ the cookies are following him. They want him, not the other threeā¦ and neither White Lily nor Blue Lily were having it. So they chased after the cookies.
*it seems the most reasonable first step of this release a Salt game would be to, well, find a Salt*
*ā¦ she has ā¦ a few ideas of where he may have been snatched to, most likely the Creme Republic again..*
*so, that leaves getting herself there!*
*which is definitely very easy for her. mhm. yeah. very easy*
*all she needs to do is make a Definitely Very Simple rune to teleport herself there that uses energy from her surroundings instead of the magical energy she definitely has to power it*
*it works! and means she has enough magic to float around to try and find him now sheās here*
Oh god everything is so bright why did the crĆØme republic have to make their buildings all out of white colored materials?!
Silent Salt was currently in jail. Which was a lot darker, thankfully. They forced the armor off of him, and took his swords. He didnāt even know where his soul jam was! Right now the knight was a sopping wet cat just waiting for the trial heās pretty much doomed to lose in.
āTaking everything one at a time, Elder Custard had heard of something of great interest.. and if itās something that will raise his reputation and status, he will gladly look into it himself, itās why he left the note that morning, this was normal for himā¦ and he tended to take me with him. As his assistant at the time I was to help him with his work and findings.ā
Oh so weāre taking this one at a timeā¦. The explanation to that was very, reasonableā¦
and again, why did you have to go out at three in the morning to get this supposed incredibly vague artifact? would it have turned to dust in the sunlight or something?
āWell if you really want to be sure.. where are the witnessās fire markings? Magic markings like those are permanent! Surely if heās capable of using elemental magic, then his markings would be fairly visibleā the prosecutor interrupts.
āBesides, my mother fears fire, she would not want a son who can set things ablazeā
āShe encouraged nothing as I have done nothingā
āItās the only type of magic found at the scene when investigators came over, someone with fire magic burned the evidence, and that was your defendant.ā
āMagic markings can be covered, even with clothing! But they still will glow when Magic is used, unless of course, itās black magic.. or a black magic user with more magic types mixed in their doughā
āI know I donāt, because I have a different type of magic.ā Egg Tart shows his arms, pulling back the sleeves, there were pastel yellow markings dotting across his arms with a few swirls here and there.
āLight magic. With no other magic types. I donāt see why I would leave my own magic at the crime scene when thereās only fire at the scene, I canāt control fireā
*she stares. oh. actually this makes the sort of dispersal of this type of magic she saw at the scene make a lot more sense..*
ā¦ you know, iāve always found cookies who have a specific type of magic QUITE confusing. you have to identify the type, you have to identify the unique signature of which cookie it came fromā¦ that being said, light magic does explain a few things about what i Saw there..
slight topic change, any of you ever gone out and set fires with a magnifying glass? :)
āWhat does that have to do with anything involving this trial?!ā The crowed in the courtroom murmured loudly before quieting down after the judge quiets them down.
āI think what heās trying to say is the fire still would have spread regardlessā ohā¦ oh he so hid something else with the masking to hide whatever was keeping the fire from spreading.
there are so many nonmagical solutions to prevent out of control firesā¦ that you then wouldnāt have to use masking to hide ā¦
*she turns her focus away from the witness*
i was HOPING this FOOL that insisted on lying and framing my friend for murder would be a BIT more sensible in how he went about it, buuuut he DID just tell us what he did. he started a fire using concentrated light magic, contained it using some other form of magic, and then used masking to hide the presence of his magic. which he, again, failed miserably at doing. iām sure First Egg is very proud of what her idiot son has failed to accomplish
āMaybe he did cause the fire, but what about the actual murder weapon itself? That sword, it was Already hard to move the damn thing! And Iām sorry to say but, Egg Tart is not really a physically strong cookie. Especially if he wanted to get as precise as possible to crumble the Elder.ā The prosecutor then saysā¦. Shit right the sword. How the FUCK did this guy replicate how salt crumbled his own victimsā¦ even for a regular cookie itās hard to completely replicate that..
The crowd, especially the jury, was starting to lean towards shadow milkās side, at leastā¦ even with just that doubt alone.
some cookies are stronger than they look, and even then, there are ways to help cookies deal with their weaknesses. is this seriously your last line of defense for him?
besides, for him to have escaped an angry Salt hunting him down with all limbs intact, heād have to be pretty strong, yes? or have you decided to change THAT part of your story as well?
āTell meā¦ beast of deceit..ā Clotted Cream eventually speaks up again, staring down into the court room.. heās curious now, something has been on his mind for a while, it really was looking like Silent Salt wasnāt as guilty as he thought.
āWhy do you think he killed my father? Because out of all of these proof, why would he? We are rivals, if he wanted me dead he would have killed me instead. Thereās no house or status to his name other than his mother who is not apart of the republic. He canāt become part of the confection, heās to youngā¦ and if I had died, then thereās more of a chance someone older would take my placeā¦ so, did he kill for no reason? Did he do it, for nothing other than to fulfill something he logically, can never reach unless he did have a higher status?ā
*she turns towards him and thinks for a few seconds before responding*
i doubt he was trying to get involved in your government, so itās likely he was up to some unnconnected shenanigans that the elder close to discovering. maybe it has to deal with the artifact he mentioned, maybe itās something else entirely, maybe heās here to assassinate someone, i canāt say THAT for certain. but whatever he was up to, i think elder crumbled figured out about it and he got rid of him
He seemed satisfied with that.. maybe Clotted Cream wasnāt that bad after allā¦ whatever the outcome would beā¦ itās all up to the jury nowā¦ and they leave to the other room to discuss what was. Brought before them.
The jury came back after about thirty minutes.. it was a very short decision. The definitely not very suspicious cookie gives the judge a paper with the verdict, and they read it out loud. āWe, the jury, find the defendant.. not guilty of felony murder of the first degree.ā
Silent Salt nearly wheezes from the previous stressā¦ he was free to go..! HE WAS FREE TO GO HOME!!!
ā¦ thereās cookies under there planting a small bomb to open the floor and come up. The definitely not extremely and dauntingly suspicious jury cookie gets up from their spot, and locks onto the knight and his daughtersā¦
*ā¦ she does not like the sound of that. at all. sheās just gonna. ignore the floor noises. those are FIINE. those are NORMAL. sheāll just. float a LIIITLE closer to the knight. for totally not hiding behind him reasons*
Silent Salt puffs up from the noise, he didnāt like it either, and everyone starts to panic. The whole court is evacuatingā¦ oh god Project Nurture is here. And theyāre after him and his family!
āWe need to go, NOW?!ā He scruffs shadow milk, and his daughters, and immediately boltsā¦ oh shit wait heās jumping out a window?!
āHES OUTSIDE?! GET HIM?!ā One of the cookies from inside yelled. Oh god theyāre also coming out the windowā¦ he needs his armor right now. And he needs his sword.
He then drops the three. āGo, now.ā
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