guess who's going to gay baby jail.

[kecharitomene]

FORM: Written, in the fancy books
SENDER: Galatea Lourdes
RECIPIENT: Everyone with a book
WHAT: Definitely not Commander Coupe's stolen personal correspondence
WHEN: Immediately before the Mont-de-Marc debacle
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: Related to this calm discussion between two adults. There will be no written responses (from Galatea; please feel free to talk amongst yourselves), but if someone wants to have seen Galatea rifling around for writing implements and wonder what an illiterate baby needed those for, feel free to wild card crystal/action up in this bitch.

( the text is written in orlesian, and painstakingly, unsteadily reproduced in a shaky, uncertain hand—as if it had been copied as one might a picture, rather than fully understood. where words in the original piece of text were written close together, they run together undifferentiated; letters are ill-formed and punctuation missing. still, it is sufficiently legible to those who read orlesian to make out the following: )


A,

If not now, when?

Need the Anders come knocking, else the Divine? You are like to fare as well for either. Already new lines are drawn: Phylacteries. Agitators, even the bloody Rifters. Obscurity is a thin shield when we must rattle every line for aid.

If you speak truth, then matters cannot hold; you've lost any safeguard. To hide is a losing proposition: A war of attrition, for all you think yourself free. You place yourself in danger. You place them in it.

I miss you as an absent limb. I recall my promises; I wish to help. But the North has gone from tenuous to trash fire, and I've too many guests to act freely. I cannot lift a hand if it is tied behind my back.

Remember your duty.

L


( your move, coupe. )

Comments

[assistente]

There is no current provision for removing messages.
If it is a desired provision we might consider its addition in testing.
It is personal opinion that at all times the written word should, in general, be given proper weight and consideration.

- Seneschal Salvio Pizzicagnolo

[faithlikeaseed]

I concur.

However, it would seem prudent to have a means of expunging information to hand—at least until the security of these books is ensured. A mistaken or malicious csr crystal message doesn’t linger to be copied down at leisure. — MS

[assistente]

Crystal messages of particular importance are noted.
For record keeping purposes.

We can experiment with a temporary targeted expulsion or obfuscation until such a time that security is better ensured.

- Seneschal Salvio Pizzicagnolo

grumbles about smart quotes screwing up html on the phone

[faithlikeaseed]

good to know.

[Potentially alarming for some people, but.]

Thank you, seneschal—for all you've done on this as well.

its It's not my area of magical expertise but I'll be glad to test any spell so-devised. — MS