Crystal;

[youwonscience]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Cosima Niehaus
RECIPIENT: Meant to be directed at people currently in Kirkwall, though if you want to say your out-of-town character gets it by accident, feel free to assume she accidentally cc'ed them.
NOTES: In reference to the research plot with OOC details over here. This is backdated to Justinian, circa week one of the current modplot. (Actual fieldwork, handwaved or otherwise, contingent on modplot fallout; don't worry about volunteering for actual RP time before September at the soonest.)

Hey, so I know everyone's hands are really full right now, and mine are too but I also think finding and protecting Rifters is still a, uh, priority. What with Venatori in our backyard and all. I'm in the middle of collating some reports and I think we really need to take some field measurements, but field work just got ... complicated.

When I'm eventually ready to go out, could I get some help? Measurement help is great, researchers welcome, but it's maybe more pressing to. Um. I guess I'm looking for a bodyguard, maybe? Wow, that sounds stupid, but getting captured by the Venatori once was more than enough for a lifetime, so. Any volunteers appreciated.

I'd just wait, but the Venatori have already made clear they're interested in experimenting on whatever Rifters they can get their hands on. If we had a system for being sure we could beat them to the punch, it'd help the war effort. Besides, you know, being the humane thing to do.

Comments

[notathreat]

I mean, if it's between human experimentation and staying the Gallows, there's a damn clear winner.

I don't look like much, but I'm good at watching backs.

[youwonscience]

Sounds great to me, honestly. A sharp pair of eyes is worth a lot. I should know.

[Haha, it's a glasses reference that does not play over sending crystal at all.]

Anyway, I'm happy to have you along, if you're up for it.

[notathreat]

You bet.

So you sound like a researcher? More than a fighter, anyway.

[No shame in that, from Ellie's tone.]

[youwonscience]

Got it in one. I'm Cosima. I mainly work on red lyrium and the Fade's effects on the environment where plants and animals get exposure through a Rift. But, you know, wherever they need me in Research.

[notathreat]

You a Rifter too, or just somebody looking out for us?

feel free not to circle back if it's been too long!

[youwonscience]

Nah, I'm from California. I was here a while ago, only recently came back. But rifts and the Fade have a personal stake for me, beyond their use to Riftwatch.

You'd think I'd have learned some basic fighting skills at this point, I guess, but it's not really my thing. Thus the field work bodyguards.

[notathreat]

Weird, how falling through a Rift once seems like it makes you more likely to do it more than once. But no worries, it takes all kinds.

Where in California?

[youwonscience]

Berkeley. Well, [correcting herself] my parents' mailing address was Berkeley, we actually lived on a houseboat in the Bay most of the time.

[notathreat]

"We"?

[It's not a place she's super familiar with, but. She's not familiar with most of California. Just the places she passed through, and it's likely completely different from what Cosima remembers.]