crystal.

[exequy]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Kostos
RECIPIENT: Everybody
WHAT: Nothing remotely inflammatory
WHEN: Time is a manmade construct and I refuse to be bound by it
NOTES: Context.

The next time any of us— [ That isn't an all-inclusive us; he means, specifically, mages and rifters and maybe templars, but everyone can figure that out on their own. Or not. He doesn't care. ] —is in the position to make demands, I think we should make sure we have a say in which rifters go to which Circles. We could pick in turns. Like choosing teams.

[ That's all. ]

Comments

[motherfucking_ghost]

Kinda means Circles existing again, means a couple new ones would have to be built after all this. I'd probably end up in the Orlais one. Or whatever one is near the Avvar? Depends on my girlfriend, really.

[He's not offended. He thinks this is pretty funny.]

[exequy]

Given how many mages we lost in the war, I am fairly confident we can find room for fifty more people without too many construction projects.

The Avvar are largely in Ferelden, so you would be hoping for Kinloch Hold.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Kinloch, knew I'd heard that before, I'll jot that one down somewhere. Oh oh oh, you think non-magical people can learn some legit magic? I know that's not normally how it works, but hey, pain shards are magic in themselves, right? Maybe we could learn magic-magic.

[exequy]

You could try. The days in Circles are very long.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I'm used to long days. Long days of doing...nothing. Absolutely nothing. And trying to find ways of filling those days of nothing with literally anything that doesn't involve leaving. I think I'd be in pretty good hands.

[exequy]

Yes, this sounds perfect for you.

[motherfucking_ghost]

See, you say it so nicely, but I get the feeling you mean to insult me. Ever consider maybe working on your customer service voice?

[exequy]

Were you planning to pay me?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Hmmmm, I'm considering making this a bet now, something along the lines of I pay you X amount of coin if you can sound nice for Y amount of time...

[exequy]

Put some numbers in that sentence and I will consider it.

[rathercommon]

Don't play along!

[motherfucking_ghost]

Normally I'd say 'I don't have anything better to do', but let's be honest--not true. But, I can multitask.

[rathercommon]

Well, multitask with something else. You're encouraging them.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I feel like I can't be the only one who doesn't know when this guy's being serious or sarcastic.

[rathercommon]

Well -

[ No. All right. She has no clue, either. Primly: ]

You can be assured that he's always being rude. He's a terribly rude person.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Oh, no, that part I got. Loud and clear.

[rathercommon]

Right. And the idea is repugnant, too.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Humor me for a second.

Why?

[rathercommon]

Why is it repugnant to be stripped of your freedom and sent off somewhere at someone else's whim?

[motherfucking_ghost]

We're always sent off somewhere at someone else's whim. It's called a chain of command. Stripped of freedom, I mean, wouldn't that really depend on how Circle got reformed, if they get reformed, which, let's be honest, there's a lotta anti-Circle sentiment that I wouldn't put my money on Circles being a thing again anyway?

[rathercommon]

Not true. Rifters have freedom of movement, don't they, aside from what our shards dictate.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah, but I'm saying, generally speaking, someone above us says move, we move. Unless you choose not to do the whole military song and dance. Which, now that we're people with actual rights, is a lot easier to do. Or...not...do in this case.

I'm not saying I'm for the idea, cuz I think he's blowing smoke out his ass, but if Circles, in the future, become a thing again, they aren't even gonna be made the same way. Cuz that's how you get war. And nobody wants to start that shit again.

I know a lotta people are miffed about the whole lumping rifters and mages together thing, but I mean...them's the breaks of compromise?

[rathercommon]

Sorry. "Them's the breaks"?

[exequy]

We were losing that shit. When the Herald arrived we were trapped in the only place that would let us stay and selling ourselves to Tevinter— [ not him, he was elsewhere, but generally ] —to avoid being wiped out.

[ Not to get all tetchy or anything. A return to the topic at hand: ]

But having some say in who we live with is a modest demand. We might get away with that one.

{ private }

[aceso]

Your girlfriend will not be living in a Circle. And neither will you. That is the point of living with the Avvar: the Templars do not come in and demand the mages from their holds.