weighed and measured in kind

[rowancrowned]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Thranduil
RECIPIENT: A L L
WHAT: Please don't riot about the phylacteries. (yet)
WHEN: Post-negotiations.
WHERE: Gallows! 
NOTES: After this. Specifically, after Iorveth does a property damage and before anyone else can try that.

[ thranduil's voice is tight, if still somehow pleasant: ]

I understand that there are a great number of questions and concerns at the moment regarding the Inquisition's proposed policy of phylacteries for Rifters.

If there are concerns that anyone would wish to make known through official channels, the Research Division has been appointed to handle the research of this new, proposed policy. [ very pointed stressing. ] My office is where it has always been, and any concerns should be turned into the box reserved for correspondence of that nature.

I would remind all Rifters that we are yet considered a single unit. [ remember the curfew? ] That poor behavior will affect all of us- indeed, anyone currently afflicted with a Shard. I would advise them that this is never as true as it is now, and that consequences for actions taken in the heat of the moment are the same as those made when rational.

Comments

[the_cleric]

It depends on what they are yelling, I guess, and how loudly they are yelling it. And where they are yelling it. Noise violations.

[She says it with some authority.]

I mean, I guess I was thinking, we ask the mages for tips! They did it so they can help us do it too. They do not like the phyrlactates very much either so they will be totally ready to help us too, probably.

[tagartist]

... That's not the worst idea I've heard. Probably one of the better ones so far.

[the_cleric]

Yeah? Hey, thanks! It would get us somewhere, right? I mean, obviously they know what they are doing, because they fixed it for themselves.

And if they don't want to tell us, we can make them tell us. [Her sudden tough-guy voice is maybe not so convincing, as she goes on to describe her specific threat:] By asking really, really nicely.

[tagartist]

[ There's a snort - which is nice, actually, since she hasn't laughed since the whole announcement was dropped. ] Sounds like a solid way to go about getting people to do what you want them to. I'm sure it'll work flawlessly.

[the_cleric]

Ye-ah.

[--with great satisfaction, because she made someone laugh, and because her idea is a good one.]

And don't worry. I have some other ideas, too.