CRYSTAL;

[heirring]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Wysteria de Foncé
RECIPIENT: All y'all
NOTES: Potential discussion of human experimentation, drug use, etc

Greetings, Riftwatch. This is Madame de Foncé speaking. I will be brief.

[Presumably this is met with a round of skeptical noises from every corner of the Gallows.]

This is a formal request for a last slate of volunteers for my inquiry into the effects of lyrium in the anchor shard. Any member of the company with a shard is more than welcome. A sheet has been posted on the notice board in the dining hall, alongside a thorough description of the risks associated with the work. The language of this posting has been reviewed by a number of highly qualified members of this company, and you may take it as fact.

[Have they approved the specific language? Who can say. Certainly Wysteria doesn't specify.]

Trials are to begin promptly, and I require at least one native Theodosian with an anchor and would prefer to have one or two additional Rifters included in the study. All participants will be thoroughly briefed at each stage of the work.

Should you have any questions, you are welcome to extend them. Do not vandalize my pages on the board. Thank you and good day.

Comments

sign-ups

[heirring]

[And indeed there is a sign-ups sheet and a considerable essay alongside it posted on the notice board. The latter is a great long informative broadsheet that one might term a waiver, had they such language. It goes into the pros and cons of refined lyrium use, reviews the dangers of raw lyrium, and discusses dosages and administration methods at some length. It is an overwhelmingly technical bit of text, but it is not incorrect.]

((ooc: comment here if you want to be included in the lyrium experiments log in the not too distant future. Or to vandalize the forms.))

[elegiaque]

G. Baudin

[altusimperius]

Benedict Artemaeus

[pathlit]

[ He does, actually, spend a bit of time at this notice board reading through the waiver material, with a quick apology and a Go ahead to anyone who might be waiting to review it themselves or add their name to the sheet.

Eventually: ]

Jayce Talis

[grindset]

Jayce Talis

›crystal, private;

[heirring]

[A reasonable number of hours after someone has scratched a name out, in which someone else might have scurried over to survey her results and noticed a troubling update to The List:]

Mister Talis, why have you withdrawn yourself from my study?

[portalling]

Stephen Strange

( Written in Gwenaëlle's hand, but it’s his signup. )

[prelest]

Nina Zenik

[prelest]

What is it you're trying to find out, anyway?

[heirring]

There appears to be a natural affinity between Rifters and lyrium. This study will first endeavor to document whether the effects are a byproduct of their connection to the anchor, or to the Rifters themselves.

[prelest]

What sort of affinity?

[elegiaque]

You know I'd feel strongly about being left out.

[heirring]

I suspected that might be the case. I don't suppose you have any experience with ingesting lyrium prior?

[Wysteria, you can't just ask the idle rich if they've done fantasy meth.]

[elegiaque]

( look at her. it's a fair question. )

Not prior, no.

( this is what volunteering information that might influence the results up front looks like, wysteria, "ooooh I'm a normal no magic rifter" ass. )

[atonally]

Used to be you had to swear your life away to get access to lyrium.

[ Now that he has broken his crystal silence to be grouchy about weird magic once, why not constantly?? ]

[heirring]

There is a great deal of paperwork to be filled out by the study's participants.

[atonally]

That’s a comfort.

Are you trying to remove them or improve them?

[thereneverwas]

[conspicuous silence]

[atonally]

[ Yeah stay quiet buddy. ]

[elegiaque]

If you've already done that, you might as well volunteer.

( hashtag it's a long shot but you miss 100% of the shots you don't take )

[atonally]

[portalling]

( Moving their conversation over here because, well, relevant. )

Well, needless to say, I’m extremely interested. Half of me wants to observe all the proceedings, the other half wants to be part of the experimentation, so—

I’ll read through all of your prior notes, certainly, and contribute my own shard experimentation in whatever extent you find helpful. I know you’re approaching it from the rift research angle, but the physiological effects are of interest to me from a medical standpoint, too.

›private

[heirring]

Would you like to see the arm as well?

[tender]

I'll be observing the proceedings. Mister Dickerson and I discussed the necessity of a healer being present for it, and I'm sure Madame de Foncé is of a similar mind.

[ :) ]

So you could participate, if you wish.

[ but like... ]

not here.

[heorte]

[ Ellis Disapproves ]