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thranduil oropherion ([personal profile] rowancrowned) wrote in [community profile] therookery2018-05-07 12:13 am

weighed and measured in kind

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.
castintoflames: (✧ and it sighs in my sleep)

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[personal profile] castintoflames 2018-05-10 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
What are you considering?
mal_adjusted: (We Got This)

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[personal profile] mal_adjusted 2018-05-10 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Tracking spells are ... complex to begin with. That's why they used blood magic - it was a short cut. You use the spell to bind an object to a person and the easiest way to do that is with blood. I'm just wondering why we can't cast it on objects instead? Like maybe if Rifters are out in the field, we could have a tracking spell on their crystals.

[Stops, and sharply exhales.] Maker's Breath -- why not just put trackers on EVERYONE's crystals? It's fair, it's non-obtrusive, and if you want to ... you know, do things that you don't want people to put their nose into ... you can just leave your crystal in your room.
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[personal profile] castintoflames 2018-05-18 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
The problem with that is we have already given our loyalty to the Inquisition in order to obtain the crystals. As such, to me, putting a tracking device on them seems like overkill. You either trust those who swear loyalty to you or you do not.

(He will fight for freedom. He can't agree to being collared and leashed.)

Blood magic is evil work. Useful, perhaps, if you can overlook how incredibly intrusive it is, but evil nonetheless.
mal_adjusted: (Green-eyed monster)

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[personal profile] mal_adjusted 2018-05-18 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Uhm, what?

[Hold on now.]

What do you mean you gave your loyalty to get a crystal? These are standard equipment for anyone who works with the Inquisition. Did they make you take some weird vow or something?

[Highly Suspicious Daughter Is Suspicious.]
castintoflames: (✧ the edge of the room)

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[personal profile] castintoflames 2018-05-19 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Standard equipment for those who work with the Inquisition. In order to do so, we must be trusted on some level. If we were to change loyalty and aid another group, do you think they would let us keep the crystal?

(He doubts it highly.)
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[personal profile] mal_adjusted 2018-05-22 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
....all right that's just idiotic. The Other Side is the giant magister arsehole!

[Which is to say, their paranoia is overrated.]
castintoflames: (✧ it was always there you see)

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[personal profile] castintoflames 2018-05-23 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
There are always more than two sides in any conflict. You can always choose to stand alone.
mal_adjusted: (I smirk in your general direction)

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[personal profile] mal_adjusted 2018-05-24 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I agree with that. There's enough of us 'Third Party' to prove your theory. [She snorts.] Great, just another reason for both sides to resent the third. But is it waffling when you don't like what either side is preaching?