Corn's consequences: Interrogation

[Winter]

"Sure they could", he continues drawing on the floor, "besides mass media can be easily manipulated", he states as a matter of fact.
"Let's stick to the facts for now. When was the last time you and your wife have seen your child? And what about your inlaws?"

[Chambers]

Corn mentioning the article is a point, never yet having actually realised how public that made information.

Winter explains that anything is possible with magic. Corn learns something basic about the world they live in. The world continues to turn much as it had the day before. Maybe he will finally grasp the sheer magnitude of what it is we contend with. Why what he calls paranoia is far from it because it's based in understanding we really do have foes trying to destroy us. Foes capable of potentially anything.

He draws until his half of the pentacle is finished. And takes a step to the side to allow things to continue unless he was otherwise needed.

[Corn]

Corn Focuses on Winter , trying to ignore the casual way the veteran Guardian explained ... well, that the masses can be manipulated. Was it really a surprise? The Guardians were after all, doing a lot of that to preserve the Secrecy. Time to focus on the questions, not his own recklessness.
Don't mess this up.
" The last time I saw my in-laws were when I left Cloud with them, at [date, time]. The last time my wife has seen my son, was when she left that morning. The last time my wife saw my in-laws was..."

failure

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-11-10 05:22:35	Corn rolls 3 to Int+Comp-3 (10 Again)	7, 3, 4	failure

Crap! "I... don't remember. We were visiting them semi-regularly. If I say, she saw them a few days before the event, would that suffice? "

[Joyeuse]

Joyeuse finished their half of the Pentacle before joining Chambers on the periphery as Winter begins the interrogation in earnest.

They say nothing, focusing their senses as they took a breath. Then, with little effort, the Theurge's face settled into its familiar, stoic display, bereft of strong emotional tells.

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-11-11 21:08:41	Joyeuse rolls 7 to Hide Emotions! Composure+Subterfuge+Specialty (10 Again)	3, 9, 10, 2, 3, 2, 6, 9	3 successes

They had no reason to interrupt the proceedings and would not do so, instead observing as they desired in order to represent the Council and oversee their fellow Obrimos.

[Winter]

The piece of chalk snaps under his fingers, still he remains crouched on the floor, just barely paying attention to the other man's words.
"What about your wife, she's seemingly absent in all of this. You mentioned the murder and the kidnapping occurred many moons ago, yet it's only recently that you brought it to the attention of the Consilium. What made you change your ideas all of a sudden that you requested the Arrows?"

[Chambers]

With Corn floundering for specifics it became tempting to offer intervention. There were ways and means. But this was Winter's wheel house, well he hoped given the Guardian has requested to perform the interrogation. So The Moros councillor keeps quite and calm to watch proceedings for the moment.

[Corn]

Corn tries to give to the point answers.
" My wife was devastated. As a Sleeper she is completely unaware of the Supernatural and she was not able to comprehend how her brother in law would do such a thing. She is very concerned that Cloud is... that Alex had... She thinks that we just haven't found Cloud's remains.
The murder and the kidnapping happened a few weeks before I contacted my friend Skye and Asclepius. It was not a sudden change; at first I was as much in shock as my wife. Trying to find an explanation for what happened, and as days were passing without a ransom note from a Sleeper or the remains of my son found by the police, I started to consider that I may have been targeted by the supernatural - as so many have warned me I would be. Then, it was the matter of ... accepting that I may very well have led the murders to my In-laws door and to my child. "

[Winter]

"So, a Moros - someone whose name has been written on the book of the Watchtower of the Lead Coin and whose relationship to Stygia is soul deep - was so shocked by death that it took him weeks to call for help", he deadpanned, "you could tell how somebody has died from a mere glance, why wait for weeks?"

"Wait... your wife's brother in law?"

[Joyeuse]

Joyeuse remained silent and unmoved by Corn's display, listening to the Moros' statement and their pathmate's response.

[Chambers]

Corn might not be doing himself to many favours tripping over the details, but Winter's assumptions of the abode of crypts is not going to help either. Just because we can determine means of death it informs nothing regarding motive, manipulation or murderer if applicable. He felt no desire to inform the Obrimos of his misunderstanding of the supernal realm. That was knowledge for those who awakened to the tower itself.

His eyes steadily move between questioner and the questioned. So far this was making little in terms of headway.