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

[staysail]

When you say dressed...

[In a tone like, go on.]

[exequy]

A big hat for you, I would assume.

[staysail]

Ah. See, now that you've said that, I feel reassured.

The biggest possible. It's an offering, y'know. To the spirits that ferry the dead and drowned across the surface of the dark and unforgiving waves of that final sea.

[exequy]

[ Sure, okay. ]

The spirits take the hats?

[staysail]

Half. The larger the hat you come in with, the more likely you'll be left with something halfway decent, to pass for a hat.

[exequy]

A very big hat, then.

[ With feathers. ]

What do they do with their halves?

[staysail]

Y'know, no one's ever asked? Or if they've asked, they've not returned to tell the answer. We can only speculate.

Currency, maybe.

[exequy]

Spirits are known for their robust economies.

[ No.

But he likes Darras. Sorry to the dozens of people who would be more entitled to Kostos' immediate semi-affection if the world were more fair—but maybe they should have considered being high-spirited, self-assured scoundrels. He has a type. It can't be helped. ]

Is this a personal belief system, or do others share it?

[staysail]

[Could you say all those nice things a little louder for the Yseults in the back, please.]

Somewhat personal, I'll confess. But it's one that gets a great many new believers, when the believers are enough in their cups to consider questions of philosophy such as this one.

[exequy]

You should give it a name.

And perhaps start a practice of being burned or entombed with two hats. Then you could each have a whole hat remaining.