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FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Flint
RECIPIENT: Riftwatch
NOTES: World State Update; with thanks to our benevolent overlords, threads on this post count for April AC because March is fake.

We've just received word from the Orlesian front line.

As I'm sure we're all aware, barring the fall of the Val Chevin blockade, there has been little movement from the front over the winter. Overland, the Orlesians have been dug in around Val Royeaux, and the same can said of the enemy force's occupation in Val Chevin, evacuated Montfort, and beyond. That said, it appears [a little arch; Riftwatch has been informed of the fact, not consulted] that with Spring approaching, the bulk of the allied army - including the Orlesian force, the Inquisition, and the scores Divine Beatrix has managed to train over the winter - has begun to make their move.

They mean to retake Montfort then proceed to recapture Ghislain, with the aim being to divide the Tevinter-Ander army and interrupt supply lines between Perendale and Val Chevin. Unsurprsingly, Corypheus' forces have responded in kind and the fighting has presently come to a head southwest of Montfort.

[Dry as kindling:]

If anyone else has exciting new plans for the Spring they'd like to share - re-papering your parlor, or the deployment of the half legion of foot soldiers you've been keeping in your back pocket -, I'm sure we'd all be delighted to hear them.

Comments

[bouchonne]

I actually would like to hear if anyone is re-papering their parlor. I like to keep abreast of new trends in home decoration.

[heirring]

I've a copy of a catalog out of Antiva if you're planning to redecorate your office, Messere Rutyer.

[bouchonne]

I would be very much obliged, Miss Poppell, thank you.

[heirring]

I'll put it in your mail cubby this afternoon. And I will mark out the two samples which I like myself, so that we can be sure as not to accidentally select the same patterns.

[bouchonne]

Hold on. Why do you get first pick?

[heirring]

There are very few colors suitable for the lighting situation I find myself faced with, Mr. Rutyer.

[bouchonne]

We're all in Kirkwall, Miss Poppell. We're all under these mournful, overcast skies. And so we all have the same lighting situation.

[heirring]

Then because I am doing you a small favor by sharing the booklet in the first place, is why.

[bouchonne]

Yes, but I helped you refurbish that pile of yours, didn't I.

[heirring]

[Quite archly indeed:]

I have received approval for a very moderate stipend from Riftwatch which presently helps to cover administrative fees owed to the city. None of which been reallocated to wallpaper.

[bouchonne]

How are you paying for wallpaper, then?

[heirring]

By way of a small loan. Not that my personal finances are your business, Ambassador, but given the mutual interest in the property I will concede the point this once.

[bouchonne]

Going into debt for fashion. How reckless. I would never.

[ He has often. ]

[degenere]

Antiva?

[heirring]

[Hi Andraste, it's me Wysteria.]

As it so happens.

[degenere]

For wallpaper? That will look very charming, Mademoiselle Home-Owner. It is for cheering up your ruins, yes?

[heirring]

[That was almost an unqualified positive. Suspicious.]

It is. Why do you ask?

[degenere]

Curiosity. The house is so old that the outdated fashions will look almost deliberate. It would be wonderfully avant-garde if it was purposefully done.

[heirring]

[heirring]

—Oh, the subject of being outdated has reminded me. Have you acquainted yourself with Messere Rutyer yet, Monsieur de Foncé?

[degenere]

How does that remind you?

[heirring]

Last we spoke, you seemed so determined to bring yourself up to date on the matter.

[degenere]

And when I am so determined I will of course always succeed. But this is not what we are discussing.

[heirring]

Oh yes, I see. Do lead on then, Monsieur.

[degenere]

There is no where to lead you, mademoiselle, if your mind is already made up toward Antiva for wallpaper. Except perhaps a bluff that you might jump from.