01. || crystal

[fairforce]

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Theophania Hart
RECIPIENT: Riftwach
NOTES: nah

Hello, Riftwatch. I can't tell from observation if it's the custom to give an introduction--I think it's not--but I prefer this to waiting to catching everyone one-by-one in the hallway or training yard. I'm Lady Seeker Theophania Hart. [Well.] Tiffany. I do the title first so there's no surprise later.

I'm among the newest of your company, permanently, but here to investigate the recent abomination. I'll be requesting records and following up on the leads that I have throughout the course of my work, but if anyone has anything additional that should be said, please, let me know.

For the record, I'm finding the Gallows to be surprisingly comfortable, but maybe that's because I've been on the road for what feels like an actual Age, and the weather is terrible, and I'm suffering what I believe to be a mild case of trench foot. Given the time you've all been having, I'll stop my complaining there.

I suppose that's it, unless anyone has any advice to offer to a new recruit. And you can skip any hazing, I'm much too old for it.

Comments

[fairforce]

Of course you've tried that.

[She doesn't annoyed or exasperated. Really, the comment is mostly to herself. Why wouldn't the Sister have explored all workarounds on her own?]

Maybe something to better contain it, then? A barrel, but sounder--maybe with dirt? You'd run the risk of looking like a smuggler, but maybe you could get away with it.

[okayimin]

There's an idea...

[ She makes a humming noise. ]

One of the leech jugs should work. Reckon I have a spare after the winter culling. And we got a few spare cells down in the dungeon.

[fairforce]

And people aren't likely to want to look in a leech jug. It would be a very good disguise.

[okayimin]

That just leaves finding a place to keep it, seeing as I can't leave it in the jar. Healthy stone is best, of course, but I'll just have to find something else to make do.

[fairforce]

'Healthy stone'?

[okayimin]

[ Surfacers. ]

Stone that hasn't taken in too much of the Taint.

[fairforce]

Ah. Right.

Well, perhaps there's a good clean quarry somewhere nearby that we could source from...? [How do stone work.]

[okayimin]

Absolutely not. Kirkwall stone is about as clean as a shit pile and there's a few other things to consider besides. Mineral deposits for one thing and whether or not there's a nearby lyrium vein which might affect the growths. And nugs, of course. Living ones, that is. Their scat can be good compost, but you really want to know what the nugs' been getting into if you're gonna use it on food stuffs. It's about the only time a kept nug is better than a roads nug.

[ This is an extensive lecture she clearly has strong opinions on. ]

[fairforce]

Right. I-- see.

[Luckily Tiffany is used to lectures. They're just not usually about stone.]

The only choice is to import it, I suppose.