Cry Wolf

[bb_wolf]

Who: Big Bad Wolf + Anyone
Broadcast: n/a
Action: Isakaulit
When: Any time from now on.

[Bigby found out about the Iskaulit. Namely, that it is large and has big, open spaces.

Big enough for him. And so his clothes are hidden away safely and there's a giant wolf on the loose, exploring everything.

And not frolicking. He's hundreds upon hundreds of years old. He's definitely not frolicking or anything like it.]

Comments

[namisan]

Sounds like your average pirate bar. [Sounds like a headache to be a Sheriff there tbh. At least pirates can just skulk out the back door and leave the mess behind.] This Gren sounds pretty bloodthirsty.

[bb_wolf]

Gren's a fucking pain in my ass. He's not allowed to work in the Mundy world because he can't keep his fucking temper, goes breaking his glamour and then we have to try and clean up with memory wiping.

And while Gren is a pain in the ass, when he changes back to Grendel, he's a pain in the ass AND smells like a fucking rancid swamp.

[namisan]

[Yeah most of that went over her head, but she thinks she follows the general concept. Especially when she thinks of Bigby trying to hide that he's a huge ass wolf.]

Memory wiping, huh? [That's kind of creepy to think about, though.] What would happen if you didn't do that?

[bb_wolf]

Yeah. First rule of the Exile. The Mundys can never know about us.

We live, now, in a world with no magic and a lot of paranoia and violence. If they knew we existed... they would hunt us, torture us for science, hound us, start demanding magic solutions for things...

No. [ He takes a long drink. ]

They can't know. We deserve to live in peace.

[namisan]

[Well, when you put it like that...]

Sounds like memory loss is the nicest thing you can do to protect yourselves, then. It's a pity such a skill doesn't exist in our world. [At least-- well, there's probably one jerk out there who can rearrange memories. Such is the nature of devil fruits.]

[bb_wolf]

We prefer to just stay out of sight, but accidents happen. We try to minimise accidents by doing things like not letting Gren work for mundys.

[ He takes a long, slow drag of his cigarette. ]

Owing the people who can do it isn't fun.

[namisan]

Well, that answers my second question. Not the nicest of people?

[bb_wolf]

Magic is a rare skill these days. They like to make people pay through the fucking nose for it. The Usurper Wizard isn't too bad, but he's not very skilled. Totenkinder likes making us all pay because we won't let her hunt and eat children.

Would be nice if we could find the Queen of the Green City. Strange child, but very magical.

[namisan]

[...you're being extorted by a cannibal. Good to know. She's beginning to think Bigby's world isn't one she'd care to visit, either.]

She made a habit of eating children before that?

[bb_wolf]

[ Possibly not. Fables are very different creatures. ]

Yeah. Had a house made out of gingerbread and sweets to lure them in.

[namisan]

Oh, lord. Sounds like a real piece of work. She's definitely not doing it anymore though, right?

[She's afraid to ask if it'd be considered a bad thing if they weren't so concentrated on looking normal. Bigby is a giant wolf, after all. Different place, different rules.]

[bb_wolf]

No. Definitely not. She's got a nice little apartment where people keep track of her and make sure she's not luring children.

[ It's different. Bigby has eaten people but he's not a cannibal. He doesn't eat wolves. That would be gross. ]

[namisan]

[She quirks a faint grin at that.]

What does she do with all that time she's forced to be a decent person?

[bb_wolf]

A lot of magic for the Fabletown government. And probably a certain amount of mischief that we haven't caught her at, but she's not luring and eating anything sentient, so it's not my problem.

[namisan]

Sounds like an interesting place to be the Sheriff of.

[bb_wolf]

They were having problems. People spatting, arguing, not respecting the rules that had been set up. Especially the types of Gren and Bluebeard, thought they were the big bads and no one could pull them into line.

Which is why Snow came to get me and bring me in as Sheriff.

So yeah, it's interesting.

[namisan]

[Bluebeard puts her in mind of pirates, briefly. Well, they've got a Blackbeard and a Whitebeard...]

Ever run into anything you can't handle?

[bb_wolf]

In our people? No.

I'm the Big Bad Wolf. If I can't handle it, it can't be handled.