Trooper Station, Friday

[firstofitskind]

There was a very strange uptick in gremlin-bite related calls today. For some reason.

"No," Liam was saying. "I can send some Troopers by to encourage them to scatter, but I can't actually arrest a-"

"You don't want me to? Then why did you call?"

"No, I can't actually arrest someone for being gremlin-bit either. Unless they actually did something illegal while under the influence." And even then, he'd probably honestly just bring them to a cell to let them sleep it off or something. "Deal with it."

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[weirderthanthou]

"Please tell me you have some notes on how to fend off gremlin attacks," Jesse said, stalking into the station.

[firstofitskind]

"Surprisingly little," Liam admitted. "Anecdotal reports indicate they can be reasoned with, but the success rate seems to be pretty low."

[weirderthanthou]

"None of the ones I saw in the park this morning seemed all that reasonable," Jesse said.

She'd been punting them away with her telekinesis, but that just ran the risk of someone seeing her do it.

[firstofitskind]

"Yeah," Liam nodded. "I've put the Troopers on increased patrols for the time being; gremlin fangs don't penetrate their armor. Any idea what's got them so riled up, anyway?"

[weirderthanthou]

"Per Barry, someone threw a gremlin at some kind of anomaly and blew a hole in the multiverse," Jesse said. "He's still not fully sure about the consequences, but this is definitely a part of it."

[firstofitskind]

Liam... knew who Barry was, at least? Because he made a point of at least being able to connect faces to names. But he'd never actually met the guy, so he just nodded.

"Someone threw a gremlin at some kind of anomaly," he echoed. "Well, I can tell you one thing: that's not the way to deal with them."

[weirderthanthou]

"I think we can put that one down in the handbook, yeah," Jesse said.

A beat.

"...Do we even have a handbook?"

[firstofitskind]

“Not as such,” Liam told her. “I’ve got hard and digital copies of years worth of incident reports, but nothing you could really call a handbook.”

[weirderthanthou]

"Between your files and the files at town hall, maybe we should put something together at some point," Jesse said. "Make the next disaster a little more-- manageable."