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captain baudin. ([personal profile] elegiaque) wrote in [community profile] therookery2018-06-30 04:53 pm

crystal.

FORM: Crystal!
SENDER: Gwenaëlle Baudin.
RECIPIENT: Anyone with a crystal.
WHAT: Summary of content.
WHEN: Currentish.
WHERE: She's in Halamshiral; wherever you all are.
NOTES: Optional side quest. Also I know the difference between Kirkwall and Halamshiral and didn't edit her misspeaking a day later. You don't know.


This is Gwenaëlle Baudin. I need to make a brief trip from Halamshiral to an estate in the Dales, and given what happened the last time I took that road—

( understandably tersely, for those who do know what it was that happened, )

—I would prefer to do it with several able warriors. I've some other contacts I can reach out to closer to hand if no one is available, but I'm not in a great rush to do it, so if anyone is bored of the unrest in Kirkwall and would like to make a bit of coin on the side while touring some different, exciting unrest in what I assume will be remembered as the last days of Orlais before it was overrun by Corypheus, do be in touch.

Do not bother responding if you can't bring yourself to refrain from embarrassing the Inquisition in the High Quarter.
rathercommon: (are you insane)

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[personal profile] rathercommon 2018-07-07 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Don't you think you're being a bit unfair? I don't think it's right for people not to participate, and not to fight, at least in some way. But the way it's set up - it's a problem more with the Inquisition than it is with the rifters, isn't it?
rathercommon: (ummm whatever though)

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[personal profile] rathercommon 2018-07-07 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
I do want to know what's being thought and said. I'm just pointing out that what you're saying isn't fair. We might not have control over the world around us, or the situations we're in, but we have got control over how we react to what's going on. Not that I need to tell you that, since it's essentially the heart of your own argument - stop complaining and get to acting. Right?
rathercommon: (haughty as anything)

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[personal profile] rathercommon 2018-07-07 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
You're telling me what's being said, but you're also telling me what you're saying. Calling them imbeciles and the like. They're doubtless terribly frightened, and disoriented, and unhappy.

[ If Kitty sounds compassionate, it's because she is. If she sounds impossibly, infuriatingly arrogant and condescending towards her fellow rifters, well, it's because she's that, too. ]

I just think empathy is awfully important, especially now. When it seems like Corypheus' greatest weapon is everyone's inability to just talk to one another. [ Anyway. And speaking of - ] And I am sorry that getting the rift-shard was so dreadful for you. It wasn't anything particularly terrible for me, so I had assumed that it wasn't any worse for you. My mistake.
rathercommon: (unsympathetic (maybe sympathetic))

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[personal profile] rathercommon 2018-07-07 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kitty lets out a sigh, but there's no further agitating about her tone. ]

So what do you think the rifters should be doing? What would be the best way to act?
rathercommon: (leering)

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[personal profile] rathercommon 2018-07-07 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kitty makes a noise of frustration. Listen and work hard? She was hoping for something more concrete. Though... ]

But this world is...really broken. In a lot of ways. A lot of ways. And sometimes it takes someone on the outside to see what's wrong, while someone who's been in it all their life won't notice it. You know - you don't ask a fish about water. All that. You think that rifters should lose that awareness of difference? That understanding that there are other ways?
rathercommon: (explaining you a thing)

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[personal profile] rathercommon 2018-07-08 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ In response to that statement about not being unaware of how things are terrible, Kitty shrugs and offers a philosophical: ]

If you want to know about water, don't ask a fish.

[ Then: ]

I do appreciate your advice. For what it's worth, I was never king of anything, nor anyone of any worth at all, so you really don't have to worry about me bragging about who I used to be. And I'm not someone who assumes that my world's rules apply in the absence of my world. But I'm also not going to temper my voice so that it sounds like everyone else's. At the end of the day, I've got to answer to my own conscience before I answer to my fear of surveillance, or even to my fear of death.
rathercommon: (ummm whatever though)

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[personal profile] rathercommon 2018-07-08 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ A little grunt of acknowledgment. ]

And any thoughts on how I do that?
rathercommon: (unsympathetic (maybe sympathetic))

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[personal profile] rathercommon 2018-07-08 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kitty hesitates, then answers: ] I...joined research. I haven't really got any skills to speak of, though.
rathercommon: (pensive)

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[personal profile] rathercommon 2018-07-08 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kitty is, of course, completely independent, and doesn't need validation from anyone. That said, validation can still be nice. Slightly cheered by the almost-sort-of-something-like-affirmation-or-at-least-something-that's-less-like-an-insult, she says: ]

I want to go out and close rifts. It means saving lives - especially saving the lives of common people, and - [ Against her better judgment, and in a bit of a rush, she adds: ] Magic's not much good against me. So.

[ But, more relevantly - ]

Is there anyone in particular I should be listening to more closely, do you think?
rathercommon: (leering)

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[personal profile] rathercommon 2018-07-08 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Not entirely relevant just at the moment, but something she's been wondering - ]

Why do people hate the Wardens?
rathercommon: (nooot sure)

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[personal profile] rathercommon 2018-07-08 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Is the Blight real, then? Or is it an invention to give them more power?
rathercommon: (caught in a lie or something)

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[personal profile] rathercommon 2018-07-08 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Hm.

[ Filing that away. ]

And you said - Commander Coupe? What does she command?

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