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Cassius Black ([personal profile] satinet) wrote in [community profile] therookery2022-04-14 08:27 pm

crystal;


FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Cassius
RECIPIENT: All riftwatchers great and small
NOTES: You should definitely reply to this. Don't worry about why. Threadjacking welcome/encouraged.


Greetings Riftwatch! This is Senior Enchanter Black speaking—the Seneschal.

[This particular cheerful intonation may strike fear into the hearts of certain members of the company. Namely, those who would prefer not be talked at for ten minutes without interruption, or those who might flinch at the prospect that at any moment their wages might be trimmed further in order to set aside a reserve fund for Refugee Orphans Or Whatever.

But today, when Cassius says,]
I'll be brief, [he means it.

Which is definitely not ominous in the slightest.]


I'm collecting information about which nations and known institutions we as an organization know best. If you would be so kind as to reply to this listing the peoples, places, and various consortiums big or small for which you feel the most affinity or understand the intricacies of, that would be of great help.

There's no need to go into any detail if you don't feel inclined. A very general list will do just fine.
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[personal profile] exequy 2022-04-15 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Because it is nosy and obnoxious.
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[personal profile] exequy 2022-04-15 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ After a long moment of thought: ]

Yes.
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[personal profile] exequy 2022-04-15 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Something/everything about that answer riles Kostos right up. More than he was already riled. ]

I’m Nevarran and Antivan, and we collapsed the Nevarra City Circle on purpose.

[ Ages ago. People had to suspect, when he and Nell Voss went in and the whole thing came down—and Teren von Skraedder was there, she saw it, and now she’s back, so, like. yolo. ]

You can write that down.
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[personal profile] exequy 2022-04-16 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ They did remove a number of books, artifacts, and valuables. The spoils are now dispersed between the Inquisition and Riftwatch’s own stores, or in a few cases perhaps secreted away on islands with assistance from The Pirates. Kostos could explain this.

But they didn’t recover everything, of course, and Senior Enchanter Wendelin Bopp’s Treatise on the Efficacy of Summoned Grease in Cooking and Leather Maintenance was not a priority, and also Cassius Black can go fuck himself.

Ergo, ]


If Cumberland has run out of mages capable of lifting rubble, they can peel off a piece of the roof and buy a shovel.
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[personal profile] exequy 2022-05-02 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It was the best Circle I spent any time in,

[ is defiant, somehow. Adopted defiance—Nell's defiance. Kostos had not been forewarned, actually, and had no time to argue with her, and was furious in the aftermath. But it's been years. And she was right. This way there's nothing to go back to. ]

Maybe I will work my way down the list.
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[personal profile] exequy 2022-05-17 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Go ahead. Put in my box.
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private.

[personal profile] tender 2022-04-16 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Be careful, Kostos.
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[personal profile] exequy 2022-04-16 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
I could take him.

[ clearly the concern here. ]
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[personal profile] tender 2022-04-16 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
I know.

[ reassuring; this was not in doubt. ]

Just...he's not the only one who can hear you. Or what he might do with what you tell him.
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[personal profile] exequy 2022-04-17 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ A moment, and then a less confident grumble: ]

I could take Madame de Fer, too.

[ He could not. ]
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[personal profile] tender 2022-04-17 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
You wouldn't have to do it alone.

[ does that improve the odds? mmm ]

But it's better if we don't have to, isn't it?