Cassius Black (
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therookery2022-04-14 08:27 pm
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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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[This, breezily. It could be true. That's nominally his job, right?]
Would it help if I went first?
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Yes.
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[#namaste]
Speaking of, I would describe myself as a staunchly optimistic Loyalist. A devoted servant to the education of mages and the improvement of their lives through it, and an ambassador for the improvement of relations both within the Circle and without it.
Metaphorically speaking, of course. Given the current state of most of our towers.
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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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When Cassius does speak again, very little about the tenor or temperature has altered. If this conversation were in person, he might be smiling through all of his teeth.]
I believe the Nevarra City Circle was once home to a great deal of treasured scholarship by our peers. I don't suppose you secretly saved any of that on the way out, did you? I'm sure Cumberland would be grateful to see anything returned to the College library.
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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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[Dismissive, like the wave of a hand. And then, less so (but still with that smiling tenor):]
I'm curious. Did you spend time in that Circle yourself, or was it just a convenient target?
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[ 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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Planning to put all of us up elsewhere, are you? Should I start making a list of my accommodation requests now?
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private.
∞
[ clearly the concern here. ]
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[ 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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I could take Madame de Fer, too.
[ He could not. ]
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[ does that improve the odds? mmm ]
But it's better if we don't have to, isn't it?