crystal & form.

[exequy]

FORM: Crystal, or a written form in the Seneschal's office
SENDER: Kostos
RECIPIENT: Everybody
WHAT: Funeral arrangements
WHEN: Nowish
NOTES: cw for discussion of death!

The Inquisition's records regarding what to do with us if we all die are incomplete. Obviously half of you do not have any family—

[ Coming next month: sensitivity training.]

—but if you would like your remains or your belongings handled in a specific way or given to a specific person, there is a form in the Senechal's office. Or I can write it down for you, if you tell me how you would like your mummy dressed.

The deadline is at some point before you die. So you should do it this week.

[ Salvio—poor Salvio—has actually done something to deserve this, and that something was asking Kostos to make this announcement in the first place. ]

Comments

the form.

[exequy]

[ Characters who don't want to answer out loud can go fill out the form in Salvio's office, as promised; players who want to display their characters' (ICly confidential) answers for other players to see can fill it out here. ]

<b>Name:</b> <b>Division:</b> <b>Requested Rites:</b> <b>Next of Kin:</b>

[wythersake]

Name: Marisol Vivas
Division: Rich
Requested Rites: Ashes mixed with gold flakes and fed to flamingos
Next of Kin: The largest flamingo

[wythersake]

Name: Salvio Pizzicagnolo
Division: Seneschal
Requested Rites: Body placed in small boat and pushed out to sea, then ignited by flaming arrow, to honour a hero's death
Next of Kin: None can succeed me

[wythersake]

Name: Kostos Averesch
Division: Depressing
Requested Rites: I was kidding about the mummification. These days I'm into the tree thing.
Next of Kin: Berenike Averesch

[rathercommon]

Don't bodies always get burned? 'Cause demons and all that?

jk he would never call southerners boring. not in caps anyway.

[exequy]

Not always. Not in Nevarra. And the Dalish turn into trees, somehow.

[ No, they don't, and he knows it. ]

[coppelganger]

You can give my body to Cosima. I'm sure she'll come up with something useful for it.

[exequy]

[ He's hardly one to judge, which is why he sounds more interested than judgmental: ]

Useful, how?

[letoldthingsdie]

As long as they don't dissect bodies for science in the Research Division, I'm sure it won't matter to the deceased given that they'll be dead.

[Was that... a joke?]

In my world we have similar customs to Thedas - we burn the bodies of our dead. Some planets have different traditions like entombing their deceased and funeral customs can also vary.

[exequy]

Some planets.

[ Explain. ]

[sangsues]

Enchanter,

( gross, magic )

I would suggest burning or handing over to the research department as the only options.

[exequy]

If you manage to split yourself down the middle, I will see that you get both.

crystal;

[hornswoggle]

Well, this is certainly one way to go about raised morale.

[ but the idea of any of this mattering is ???? to john ]

[exequy]

Morale is not my job. But we have an unusual number of spiteful, contrary— [ Nevarrans surnamed Averesch ] —people here. Telling them they are going to die could make them more determined not to.

[arlathvhen]

If possible, allow my brother and the Dalish here to handle it. If not, bury me, and tell my clan where. They will take care of the details.

[ Surprisingly, she doesn't trust the shemlen around here to take care of the finer details. ]

[exequy]

Can we choose where?

[bouchonne]

Can we request specific remains and belongings?

[exequy]

If someone does not provide their own instructions.

[ Definitely not, unless Kostos is actually left in charge, and then still probably not, because he does have more respect for the dead than that. But maybe the prospect of Rutyer acquiring their bodies will incentivize more people to take care of their affairs. ]

[chainlightning]

If Beleth and Pel are still here, I'd want them to handle it. If not, I'd want Galadriel and Thranduil and Solas to handle it. [ Solas, close enough to a Tolkien elf minus the hair. ]

And if none of them are here - Anders, or the other Companions of Hawke, or the elves in the alienage. And I'd like all my wages and such to go to the elves in the alienage.

[exequy]

Any elves in particular, or would dropping your money in the street be enough?

[staysail]

When you say dressed...

[In a tone like, go on.]

[exequy]

A big hat for you, I would assume.

[in_death_sacrifice]

I would ask for my remains to be left to the Grey Wardens to deal with. I'd prefer not to have much fanfare surrounding my passing, but I'll leave the specifics of that up to Inessa.

My belongings can mostly be given to Inessa, with some things that will need to be distributed to friends back in Orlais. I'll send a list with all of the specifics immediately.

[He definitely thinks about dying a little too often. He doesn't expect to survive long enough to deal with the calling, because he's such a cheerful optimist.]

[exequy]

A short list, I hope. No one has time to tour the country handing out baubles.

[iceblade]

Send my remains to Freya, in White Wolf Hold. I'll not trust lowlanders to do a proper sky burial.

[exequy]

[ Noted, whatever, but for curiousity’s sake: ]

What makes a sky burial proper?

[rowancrowned]

My next of kin is Gwenaëlle Baudin. If I am felled where return of my body is not possible or she is unreachable, I would like to be cremated, with a lock of hair removed to be delivered to her.

And if possible, for my ashes to be disposed of in the ocean.

[exequy]

How many feet long should the lock be?

[luxating]

What do you do with people's belongings, if there's no one written down about it?

[exequy]

Why, do you have a wishlist?

[writteninblood]

Give my belongings to my sister and let her handle the body. Or, if she's also dead, give it all to Adasse, and my body to the care of one of the other Dalish. Or, just bury it somewhere and let my clan know where.

...That's Clan Ashara, if this is for a record. If you burn my body, I'm going to come back and haunt you.

[exequy]

I’m Nevarran.

[ He’s not burning any bodies if it’s left up to him. ]

[divineshadow]

This one should be raised and returned to battle. [because dying anywhere else is for suckers.]

[exequy]

[ Correct. ]

You might be the only rifter with any sense. Not much of it. But some.

[libratus]

[ Conversations Ilias doesn't want to have right now for 500, Alex.

Clipped, ] A few of my belongings would be best handled by a necromancer, should I predecease you.

[champions]

I already decided you will both live long, healthy lives, so I'm afraid there will be no necromancers necessary.

[champions]

Fire my remains from a cannon, aimed at whoever's fashion is the most offensive.

[exequy]

By whose standards?

private.

[periastron]

G'day, uh— I just wanted to say there's some stuff in the records from an assignment Commander Coupe had me and a couple others tackle a few months back. Better to get updated stuff, I reckon, but it might be there's some responses in there that you can use to flesh out the replies you already got.

( Her voices is a little rough, scratchy. )

Um— want any help with it? Not gonna be wrecked about it if you say 'no,' just, you know. Offering.

∞

[exequy]

The Seneschal is maintaining the records. I am completing forms for people who cannot or will not come do it themselves.

[ But thanks so much for offering, ma'am, and the Seneschal would no doubt appreciate any assistance, and so on, and so forth. He's not going to say it. She'll have to imagine. Or not. ]

[elegiaque]

I don't care what happens to my body once I'm not using it, but I'd prefer to be spared any sort of religious affectation. The Provost can deal with my belongings if he outlives me and I've left instructions with my valet and with the Duke de Coucy's household otherwise.

[exequy]

I will note you down for Doctor Beaumanoir [ who he has not punched yet, in this time bubble ] and his research.

[ipseite]

( mildly interested, despite herself: ) Is being mummified something we might choose?

[exequy]

Until I am told otherwise.

[ And everyone else will be told otherwise on the same day, either because of the public argument it will cause or the pissy comments he will immediately take to the crystals. ]

But unless the Inquisition establishes its own necropolis, there may be opposition from local families to having rifters’ bodies added.

[aenseidhe]

Give authority of my remains over to Thranduil. Have him do with them as he will.

[ he's heard enough of Aen Seidhe customs to be trusted with carrying them out in what manner he's able. he and gwen both, but iorveth's hesitant to out goth names to the public. even is kostos can likely connect the dots, most will just assume it's something to do with young elf worshiping ancient one. ]

Or would more worth be gotten from letting you take my skull? [ is he joking? hard to tell. ]