SUBJECT: Automatic Rift/Rifter Indicator Via Early Detection system
PARTICIPANTS: Wysteria, Erik, Ellis, Holden, Cosima, Hugo, Richard, Margaery, Petra, Nikolai, Ellie, Cassius
CLASSIFICATION: Public
DATE FILED: August
STATUS: Ongoing
SUMMARY: A series of efforts to survey for the installation of, install and maintain the A.R.R.I.V.E.D. system, the network of alerts which respond when a rift (or rifter) manifests nearby.

REPORT:

Provost Stark,

Collected here are the various accounts regarding the installation, maintenance and monitoring (etc) of the Automatic Rift/er Indicator Via Early Detection system. In an effort to make the reporting somewhat more digestible, I have taken the liberty of collating a brief summary for this cover page. What I believe to be the most pressing details are thus:

The early VANEs are susceptible to damage and sabotage by third parties. Recommend development of a more robust locking mechanism or perhaps some minor enchantment in order to discourage alteration to the devices?

A significant source of raw lyrium has been confirmed in the Vinmark Mountains. Please see the attached map for details. A coded noted was found among the articles in the abandoned encampment; I have surrendered the original to Madame de Cedoux, but have preserved a copy here for your records.

Miss Ellie (and Misters Mercier d'Annecy and Ellis) has provided a full report of the area near the enemy's forces at Starkhaven where we might install a VANE. She has been so kind as to provide a (rather good) series of drawings of the area.

Mister Holden has confirmed the presence of deep mushrooms and a suspect lyrium vein near Brunswick-on-Planes and recommends the installation of a VANE device there. In order to effect this, Lady Tyrell and company have assured the magistrate that Riftwatch will assist with rebuilding efforts in the area.

Miss Cosima has plans to conduct a field survey of sites where rifters have arrived in the past six months and other sites of interest in an effort to measure lyrium levels in places with documented rifts. Unfortunately, she and her team were delayed by the invasion; she has assured me that a separate report will follow shortly.

As a last unhappy note, it seems that during the course of Mister Dickerson's survey of the Vinmark foothills (again, see attached for further details/schematics/and so on) the bodies of two rifters were recovered. Mister Dickerson has noted that both were in a significant state of decay, though I would hazard a guess that they were likely felled by whatever demons emerged from the Fade with them. Suffice to say: ample encouragement to crack on with the installation of the ARRIVED network.

Best Wishes,
Wysteria de Foncé
Research Division
Project Felandaris


P.S. 'ARRIVED?' Must everything have such a dreadfully long name?

NEXT STEPS: Complete some misc odds and ends related to the above.

NOTES & LINKS: OOC Info, IC links: Wysteria & Holden explore a cave, Erik forms a team, Ellie does some recruiting, Ellie, Hugo & Ellis skirt the enemy front line, Holden and Gabranth knocks some heads, Cosima asks for back up, Richard's No Good Very Bad Day(s), Margaery & Cassius Talk Strategy