002.

[sangsues]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Etienne Guerinet Beaumanoir
RECIPIENT: everyone (sorry)
WHAT: whats all this
WHEN: post-proposal etc
WHERE: the walliest kirk
NOTES: Orlesians

( A quiet clearing of the throat; one can naturally assume it is a very beautiful clearing of the throat, done by a very beautiful man. )

This matter of the phylacteries for rifters… it seems sensible. If they are such a valuable resource to the Inquisition, the closing of rifts, and so on, being able to find said resource if a rival power were to try and overpower them and abscond with them makes sense, I think. For their own safety, for our own safety. If Corypheus and his forces were, for example, to make an attack on a party closing a rift and kidnap those rifters for nefarious purposes, it would be better for all if we were able to find them as quickly as possible. The phylacteries are an established way of doing just this, no?

By all means, if you wish to see the world end, protest. Even if this is not your world, though, I think we can all agree that you are currently in it. It’s fate is not entirely irrelevant to you.

Comments

[coiledscales]

I am already quite willing to see this world survive without you or your ilk laying their metaphorical talons into me, thank you. Give us some credit.

[sangsues]

Did you listen to anything else I said?

[coiledscales]

Yes. I find your argument unconvincing.

[sangsues]

If you are happy to be abducted by our world-ending adversary, so be it.

[coiledscales]

Now that is a stretch, if I ever heard one. You are assuming a conclusion and then changing all facts to fit it, even if you have to mutilate them to make it so.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Wow. Wow.

Dude.

Shut the fuck up.

[sangsues]

I don’t see how a plausible risk is a stretch, but phylacteries exist for purposes of safety.

[koteletten]

How charming. Is that how people thank others for expressing concern for their safety in your world?

[koteletten]

Not merely plausible. There is an incident in the records of just such a situation as you describe. I believe the rifters were subjected to all manner of torture and experimentation by our enemies before they were eventually located.

[sangsues]

Maker’s mercy. How could such a thing come to pass and phylacteries not be implemented immediately?

[letoldthingsdie]

Rifters aren't a resource. They're not livestock. They're people. You would take away their choice in the matter for some hypothetical that Corypheus could just steal Rifters?

[He's going to try very hard not to be angry about all this nonsense. He'd promised Obi-Wan that much. The fact that someone was stupid enough to speak out like this makes him wonder where the value is in trying to reason with anyone at all and yet here he is. Trying.]

[sangsues]

Charmed, I’m sure.

[koteletten]

Not hypothetical at all, in fact. It has happened before.

[thunderproof]

It seems that phylacteries are not made for the protection of those whom they point to. Strange.

[sangsues]

You would prefer to be left in the hands of the venatori, then?

[koteletten]

An excellent question, to which I've no answer. Lack of resources to research the possibility, perhaps? The Inquisition is nothing if not desperately frugal.

[thunderproof]

I would prefer to be free, on all counts. If a consequence of that is danger from the Venatori, then at least I chose that.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Generally speaking, yeah.

[motherfucking_ghost]

It's like an echo chamber in here. [re: charming, charmed, all you guys are all so very CHARMED at how CHARMING he is

which is fair he's very charming]

[letoldthingsdie]

You're ignoring my point. Who holds the phylacteries?

[sangsues]

Very droll. What part of my message evoked this response that left us so charmed?

[koteletten]

The Inquisition, naturally. Would you propose some other repository? The Chantry would certainly be willing if you'd prefer it.

[koteletten]

How fascinating. Is it that the words have opposite meanings among your people, or that your culture recognizes rudeness as gratitude?

[provenforce]

You can't think of any way to track us down that doesn't involve giving someone our blood?

[zombra]

So you're agreeing to have a phylactery made from your blood too, right? I mean, you sound like you're very important. We wouldn't want to lose you.