02 | OPEN

[shri]

FORM: Sending Crystal.
SENDER: Lakshmibai
RECIPIENT: Any one and everyone.
WHAT: Head of Community Outreach & Are you a rifter? Do you know how to weave? Want to turn a profit and help out the inquisition? Please inquire.
WHEN: Time is a flat circle.
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: nothing too serious

Greetings... It is Rani Lakshmibai.

[ Right, that out of the way. ]

I have two matters which I need a moment - [ Here we go. ] - I have recently been made Head of Community Outreach, for which I'm honoured. I wish to a little more to understand where I might be applied in helping others, but as yet many things still escape me as where help might be best applied to those that need it. If you have a moment to speak with me, in person, I would be much obliged. My Quarters are in the Gallows.

[ Onwards then, because who works and doesn't overwork? Not her. ] Secondly, and for rifters amongst us... I have spoken with Master Barnabas, a merchant here in Kirkwall, and I realised that whilst what many of us bring in terms of items here can be desirable and turn a good profit for it's... foreign nature. Such things are short-term investments. [ And that as far as she's concerned, is a waste. ] As such, I am looking for women or men, of moderate skill in weaving textiles and who can take direction easily, to join me in such work. You will be paid, though primarily, all extra earnings are to be funded back into the Inquisition. I intend to work things that no part of Thedas has seen before, and feel we are uniquely qualified for such an endeavour.

If such a thing is in your ability, please enquire.

[ Somewhere, her husband is following her about, tugging at her hair and laughing. ]

That is all. My regards.

Comments

private.

[dashing]

Welcome to the Diplomacy Division, Lakshmibai. I expect we will have a more formal discussion of things when I am returned from Minrathos.

[shri]

I will look forward to it. I am glad to be doing my part.

[dashing]

Good. I have been involved with some efforts from my time with the Chantry Relations project, including an educational effort that encouraged collaboration with members of the local Chantry and community. I have not been free to invest as much time in it as I was before taking my current post, so I would... be glad of your aid in that, if such would appeal to you. It has been helpful for making rifters more familiar to locals.

[shri]

I am more than happy to give it -

[ Makes no mistake in that. ]

- I would like to give a reason to trust us and see as just the same as them. [ To say nothing of the sneering behind her back still, even with the announcements. But even so - ] I will advisement on matters to do with the Chantry as well. Much of it still escapes me.

[dashing]

The new head of that project, Enchanter Ceallach, would be an excellent source of knowledge and, I think, collaboration. She is... like me, a Loyalist and devout, but not without questions concerning the Chantry. She is not one to follow blindly. She is also sympathetic to the position rifters find themselves situated in.

And myself, of course. There are others I can recommend, but— some are cautious when speaking to rifters. There has been... a degree of mockery made of the Chantry and the devout that has left some wary of newcomers.

[shri]

Understandably. I have no want to further that divide.

[ She just wants to get to work, as if anything when it involved community and politics, is ever that simple. ]

I will speak with her when next I can, you are busy enough, madam to go seeing after a new recruit.

[dashing]

She is generous with her time and her energy, but pray do not feel that I am above offering you aid wherever you might need it.

[shri]

Of course. I will do my best.

[ The real threat here, probably, working herself half to death. ]