pockets full of stones

[rowancrowned]

FORM: Sending crystal!
SENDER: Thranduil
RECIPIENT: All the Rifters. (Just the Rifters.)
WHAT: Now that the Tourney's done... 
WHEN: The day after everyone returns for the tourney. 
WHERE: Kirkwall!
NOTES: The stunning next step to the Rifter Phylactery p...lot?

I hope we are all somewhat recovered from the Tournament. We should all be very pleased with our efforts. The very warm farewell before the matter of the Anders incursion was a result of your hard work-- all of you. 

And now we find ourselves returned to Kirkwall. I begged patience from many of you, and I thank you for it. Skyhold wishes for us to come and speak with a delegation from the Chantry and the Templars much as the mages did. I will be attending, as will Obi-Wan Kenobi and Araceli Bonaventura. Both are known well to the leadership of Skyhold and very familiar with Thedas itself.

However, we need a fourth for our party, and this I leave to you. Any Rifter is eligible for nomination. I would suggest that you choose carefully. Ideally, our fourth would be familiar with Thedas and settled into the Inquisition, as well as accustomed to dealing with pressure with grace. 

There will be a box outside my office with slips for nominations nearby. Please record your name and the name of your nominee below it. I would appreciate responses turned in with all haste.

Comments

[zombra]

And the point I'm trying to make is I have no idea if the people going are gonna be capable, because I don't know them. I didn't vote for them. We're a minority group that has to play by the rules of a world we're still all learning about, and -- like it or not -- we're the current focus of the Chantry's witch hunt. If the phylactery thing isn't possible? Great! But we're still sending representatives to -- you know -- represent our rag tag group. I'd rather not hear they walked away from the negotiations leaving a worse impression than we've already given.

[ It's not a party; it's a way to gauge which among them has the wits to stand against their detractors and which are social nightmares that should never open their mouths in polite company. ]

[ipseite]

Yes, ( politely, ) I understood your meaning.

Thank you for hearing me, as well.

[zombra]

[ Perhaps not quite as politely: ]

And yet you kept on talking as if I didn't understand yours. We're on the same side here. The lose-lose side. It's just a matter of how little is lost at the end of it. I'm hoping not much.

[ipseite]

( petrana doesn't lower herself to the bait of tessa's tone. )

You've an opportunity before you to, as you say, 'vote for your representative'. I hope that some of what I have said proves useful to you, in using that opportunity as you are best able.

[zombra]

[ No bait here, but Tessa can't stop her from interpreting it as she will. ]

Yeah, you've given me more info, which is really what I'm after here in this whole situation. Thanks for that.

[ipseite]

You are most welcome.