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FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Solas
RECIPIENT: Everybooooody, yeah. yeeeeah.
WHAT: Rifter Role Call
WHEN: Now
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Rock your booooody, yeah. yeeeeeah.

All rifters and shard-bearers are required to come and report to me, or Bruce in the healer's tents. You can find me at the base of the library tower.

If you cannot come to see me within the next three days, please inform me immediately, so we can make other arrangements.

Please remember that the shard's magic can be dangerous to both you and those around you - do not disregard my request.

[And then the crystal goes silent.

OOC: BASICALLY everyone with a shard needs to come see Solas. 90% of these will be handwaved, but otherwise feel free to hit me up and ask for deets, reply here with questions, or reply here with action threads. I know there are a bunch of rifters currently on a mission, or elsewhere, so obviously if you don't get this message, you don't get it! But Bruce and Solas will also be actively seeking people out.]

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Yeah, see, the whole lacking details thing is really bothering me, a rifter. 'Put in mortal danger' [yes he's listening, he's not JUST being an ass for kicks] doesn't really give us a good picture.

Since existing here even without a pain hellshard on our hands is pretty much filled with mortal danger.

[There is a pause, and when Solas replies it is decidedly Private.]

"More likely to be possessed by a demon, and die". Is that detailed enough?

I assumed this was the kind of information one would rather not have completely public, unless you would like to start the same kind of persecution that mages have had to endure for centuries.

[Yeah, he sounds a little annoyed. If it weren't for the fact that there were so many of you, so spread out, he would have avoided any publicity on it at all.]

So, 'immediate threat to body and soul', I think, warrants a visit.

Edited (threads are not quite as intimidating as threats) 2016-09-18 02:34 (UTC)

Dude. Did you know--wait, hold on.

[Not have completely public suggests privacy, which means maybe he should also connect just to egghead's crystal instead of prattling on in public. Oh so tempting though.]

Did you know that, despite the abundance of cool people here, most people see us a demons or demons-in-waiting? I don't think that would surprise them. Maybe get out the torches and pitchforks, but I'd hope our illustrious and benevolent leaders [whoa there Church, busting out the big boy words] would prefer to do what they can to protect the dangerous-yet-valuable asset.

I mean, the fact that I still have my head is pretty miraculous. [Not...that...that incident was specifically/i> about being a rifter...] Also, not to brag, or anything, but if I've been in the Fade--and I don't mean just falling through it, I mean physically walking around having a grand old time fighting literal nightmares and demons and shit--and haven't been possessed? I dunno, it's sounding like my odds are pretty in my favor.

So what do you do, call up some magic, rub my hand down with something sticky and smelly, chant a couple of words, what are you suggesting you're going to do to help here?

[Can you hear him rubbing his forehead from here, Church? Because he is.]

It has nothing to do with the individual will, though I do hope that you should be able to keep yourself moderately protected. The issue is, until now, I had thought it mostly impossible for a rifter to become possessed. I was wrong. And I would like to make sure it doesn't happen again.

The shard in your hand may very well be a beacon to spirits, and, most worryingly, it may be able to lure them over from the Fade even without a rift.

I believe I may be able to keep it from doing so, by effectively dimming it to the fade. It is not a long term solution, but as I do not want the rest of the Inquisition to take this as a reason to grab their pitchforks, as you so put it, I will do what I can.

[tbf it's a common reaction to him these days. Most days, really.]

...I mean, spirits we like, right? We like spirits. It's demons when things get really, uh, unfortunate and possession-y. And I mean, you say it may be able to, so is this something that's actually happened or is this just speculation? Like I get it, don't think I don't get that it's a thing most people here generally don't want, if a bunch of us rifty-y shardbearing-y types got together and suddenly spirits and shit were popping up without any rifts, but like--

Is it gonna impact what I can do with my shard, do you think? If you 'dim it to the Fade'.

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Private.

Private.

Re: Private.

Private.