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

[youwonscience]

I believe she's Ukrainian. [The other descriptions... well.]

So you've met them, that's cool. [cool cool cool] I mean, I didn't know Helena from home, just Sarah, so it's not not awkward.

I hope Sarah hasn't, um.

[Been too Sarah in Church's direction?]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Actually, I don't think I've met her? Or like. I haven't had a lengthy conversation with her. I mean of course I've seen her; she was there in the fucking permafrost Antarctic bullshit with the other trapped Rifters. But I've had conversations with Helena.

...Now. Don't get me...wrong here, I don't dislike Helena, she's just um. She's very uh. Violent and strange.

Don't tell me Sarah's worse.

[youwonscience]

[A startled laugh.]

No! I mean, I don't really know Helena at all yet, but I know she's been through a lot. Sarah's just, like, kind of intense sometimes? She's way less likely to stab a templar.

[Probably. Unprovoked, at least.]

...Sarah and I apparently look enough alike for her one-night stand to grab my ass in Lowtown, for what it's worth.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Ah. She's...like that. I mean, more power to her, god knows she's getting laid more often than my horndog friend back home already.

Sssssso...how many sisters do you have?

[youwonscience]

Uh.

[She actually has to think a second.]

Besides Sarah and Helena, I've only met two others in person, and one of them is dead. I've heard of at least five more, but honestly, I don't know how many of us there are total.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I was definitely expecting a big number. My buddy Caboose has seventeen. But, y'know, that's assuming he can count.

Also I promise I'm not gonna touch any butts that are yours or yours-adjacent.

[youwonscience]

Hashtag-just-clone-things? Oof.

Thanks, though. That guy was a dick, I hope he was at least a good lay and that they talked as little as possible.

[motherfucking_ghost]

No I mean--sisters. Like actual sibling sisters. Seventeen of them. I don't...know how that happened, either. There probably weren't enough brains left over after the first seventeen that he got fuck and all in that department once he popped out.

But, ha, clone problems. Yeeeeah. Some people need to not be anywhere close to ethically questionable and morally dubious sciences. Ask me how well humanity's been doing in the artificial intelligence department in my day. Oof.

[youwonscience]

Oh, shit, I shouldn't have assumed. 18 kids though, that's. Wow.

I still wish I knew more about who's behind my sisters and me. But I'm not going to figure it out from Thedas, I guess.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Kinda gives you a chance to move forward from that, though, right? Like...you guys can move beyond being crazy clones to being people who try to science the shit out of medieval food!

[youwonscience]

Totally. It's... kind of weird how long I could go without thinking about it here, especially before Sarah and Helena showed up. It rocked my world and then I literally fell through a hole between realities and it seemed like, I don't know, the less weird part.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Have I ever told you some of my weird shit? And if I haven't, I should. Needless to say: man, I fucking feel that.

[youwonscience]

Only a little. But I'm totally up for talking about it if you want. Weird shit's my life now, right?