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[codeoracle]

Attention! Attention! Ambassador Logan Delos. Deputy Ambassador Peter Maximoff. Do there have to be bodies before you do anything? Or will we being doing the dirty work?

Those that are committing these abductions. You are guilty of the crime of wrath. You will be found and we will take your hearts, forcing you to confess to these crimes with your own mouth. Robbing the youth of their freedom is an unforgivable offense and all will know who is responsible. Be ready.

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[hampire]

How melodramatic!

[Which is saying something, coming from a guy who's got drama queen written all over him.]

[codeoracle]

Some things call for drama, you know.

[hampire]

So it would appear.

I'm curious as to how taking someone's heart forces them into a confession. Wouldn't they be dead?

[codeoracle]

We don't literally take their heart, that would be murder. It's metaphysical. Cognitive psience. We steal items that are tied to their corrupted desires.

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[shotgunsolutions]

It's rather hard to confess to something when you're dead. Or is the whole taking their hearts bit more of a metaphor?

[codeoracle]

A metaphor. We don't kill.

[shotgunsolutions]

And wrath is a crime now? Not the kidnapping part?

[codeoracle]

We attribute the crime to the sin behind it. The crime itself is still the kidnapping.

I believe some would call it an aesthetic. Or a calling card.

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[dun_moch]

So you are still present in this universe.

[Inconvenient, but also relieving in a way. Dooku would hardly be able to take his revenge if the Phantom Thieves had all been Ported out since they targeted him.]

Tell me, why wrath?

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[codeoracle]

Count. Of course we are, there are still injustices here.


...A public act of aggression is a manifestation of Wrath, Count Dooku. We consider unprovoked kidnappings of a specific age group rather aggressive. Don't you?

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[dun_moch]

Then you will be here for a very long time, I suspect.

It seems to me that a truly aggressive act would be to destroy the target, not seize them. I would characterize these crimes as more covetous than wrathful, myself.

But of course, I would never presume to tell the Phantom Thieves how to conduct their business.

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[codeoracle]

As long as whatever is in control of the Porter beliefs we're needed here, yes.

Perhaps, but considering these people are still missing there are only so many leads. We will uncover the truth and those responsible will answer to the crimes of their corruption.

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[girlybruiser]

Unforgivable.
How much information have you found out, Oracle?

[codeoracle]

Not enough, yet. But others are researching as well. We have allies.

[girlybruiser]

I will do everything I can, too.

[codeoracle]

Expect updates through our normal channels once I know more.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Okay.

This is excellent. Theatrically speaking.

[codeoracle]

Thieves are very theatrical.

[slightlyoffchilt]

And will we be getting an encore?

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[khajidont]

Is your whole team working on this?

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[codeoracle]

I am the most involved I believe. I'll be giving the team updates as I learn more.

Are you asking to help?

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[khajidont]

I've been working on it. I just didn't know that anyone else was too.

I'm careful with who I work with. But I'm a friend of Fox's. I can trust who he does.

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[bodilesswarrior]

Public threats might do more harm than good.

[codeoracle]

Mm. Nice u/n. [Is this the tech-nerd version of the "awkward, same dress" faux pas?]

Or they may give results. This is hardly close to an official calling card--criminals here have seen those from us before. Our methods bring about a change of heart and cause them to confess to their crimes publicly.

[bodilesswarrior]

Right back at you. [Probably? Really, it's strange that this has never happened to her before, barring actual mystical oracles.]

But criminals come in a lot of varieties, and a threat like this could cause them to panic and dispose of their victims. Or hurt them out of spite.