Sending Crystal

[gatheringstorm]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Korrin Ataash
RECIPIENT: Anyone who has positive CR with Korrin (along with Inquisition leadership)
WHAT: The mystery of the missing people in Sahrnia is uncovered.
WHEN: At some point during her scouting mission
WHERE: Emprise du Lion
NOTES: Imprisonment, death, moral dilemmas.

Those with her on the scouting mission are welcome to overhear her making the message instead of responding to it over the crystal.

[Korrin hasn't interacted with others that much over the sending crystal while away, mostly because she's too tired to be social by the time there's a free moment. But after a particularly trying day, she needs a friendly voice and an outsider's perspective. For all that she's seen so much in her time as a mercenary, this still leaves her shaken.]

Fucking Red Templars. They have huge red lyrium mining operation to the south, which would be disturbing enough all on its own, just for deliberately messing with that shit. But of course they had to make it even worse. So many of the villagers have been captured and forced to work for them, kept cages when they're not being useful. Hell, some of them have already died from exposure or overwork and just...left there.

And it's not going to stop, from what we've seen. Sure, we can get to those on the fringes and free them, but if that keeps happening, they'll catch on and there goes any chance of truly stopping this. For all we know, they could kill all the rest if they realize we're onto them. And we can't get anywhere close to those at the center; they're too well-guarded and we'd be overwhelmed in a heartbeat. Fuck.

...tell me we're doing the right thing. Or at least give me news that isn't completely horrible.

Comments

[sandsofhell]

Keep calm, there's more than one way to ensure the safety of those people, and it doesn't envolve just freeing the ones on the outskirts or leading an army into battle. What you've just told us is more valuable than you can realize, both to the Inquisition and the people being enslaved.

[He pauses a moment to think something over.]

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you don't need to be afraid of the result of a thousand battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, and vice-versa, then for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither yourself, or the enemy, then you will lose every fight.

[gatheringstorm]

[Oh hey, Korrin remembers that voice. She's silent for a moment, trying to collect herself, though it takes some effort and deep breaths.]

'Keep calm'...easier said that done, but Maker am I trying. I'll be better when the rest of the Inquisition hauls ass and gives us the numbers we need to take the quarry.

I know myself pretty well, and I've faced Red Templars before. I didn't know they were getting away with this, though. That was new. Guess I need to know them better than I thought I did.

[sandsofhell]

War takes time and patience, it's not really something that can be done in a single night.

They'll be dealt with eventually.

[gatheringstorm]

'Eventually'. [Sigh.] Patience is so damn difficult to keep. How...?

[sandsofhell]

You get used to eventually.