Weekend at Ferdie's

[notathreat]

WHO: Ellie, Astarion, Nikos, Kostos
WHAT: Family road trip and also Astarion is there + oops their contact is dead, what now? WELL-
WHEN: Auguftempber
WHERE: Hasmal, Ferdinand's most unfortunate living room
NOTES: Murder aftermath, corpse misappropriation, misuse of magic, various hijinks

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[exsecutus]

Nikos first takes the time to roll his eyes at his brother. The stupid fuck. But as it seems as if Kostos has pivoted to trying to be useful, instead of standing in the back making idiotic commentary, Nikos decides to take the high road and limit his response to that eye roll.

"It seems the most likely reason," he says in answer to Ellie's question. "And as his killer didn't even bother to make it look like an accident, it seems also likely that they want the body found. Good way to send a message to his network, and to the whole fucking neighborhood besides. We need to make this disappear."

[exequy]

Now aided by a wisp as he pulls open drawers and pushes aside cushions, Kostos does not immediately say anything when he succeeds. He does make some noise about it, though. The half-open drawer squeaks and thunks as he jerks it out the rest of the way, the false bottom makes a hollow thumping sound when he knocks his knuckles against it, wood scrapes and the few things that had been resting on top of the bottom clatter as he pulls it out.

He flips through the hefty stack of papers inside, too, for a pleasant thwick thwick thwick of victory.

Then he looks at them.

Looks at them a little longer.

And finally he interrupts the others' discussion by dropping the lot of them on the flat surface nearest to them, unceremonious and annoyed.

"They're encoded," he says.

Not too difficultly, but he can—sullenly—admit that someone else will make quicker work of them.

Still sullen: "There is no body-vanishing spell."

[notathreat]

Ellie looks between the others and the body a little incredulously, before she blows all the breath out of her lungs.

"Shit. I keep forgetting there's... consequences for getting found with dead people heeeereokay um- we should hide this. And get rid of the blood."

Because that's not normal either. Right. Fuck. Okay.

Ellie bends down to the corpse, picking up one of the arms to drag, realizes that'll spread the blood.

"Someone help me."

[exsecutus]

Consequences for getting found with dead people is met with a no shit sort of look from Nikos. But at the same time, "If you're good at your job, there's no consequences or dead people."

The dry smack of the papers on the table is a siren's call. Nikos wipes his hands on his legs, in case any blood has been left behind, and pushes himself to his feet with a quiet grunt of effort.

"One of you." He jerks his head toward Ellie and the flesh vessel formerly known as Ferdinand. Help. "If there's no body-vanishing spell, make it vanish the old-fashioned way."

He begins to look through the papers--skimming at first, then with sharper eyes. His mouth moves as he soundlessly reads some parts aloud. After another moment, he's casting around for something to write with, something to write on. This is almost fun, except that it's very serious Riftwatch business, and Nikos isn't a child looking to be amused.