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

[elegiaque]

( remember when they didn't like each other, didn't that kind of feel safer for the general populace? )

That's my thought exactly.

( or whatever. )

It'd really be ideal to have a native mage with an anchor-shard as well. Or two of each for comparison's sake.

[heirring]

Oh?

[She can string out her own theories on the matter and why that might be preferable, but she's done a great deal of scratching her own thoughts down onto paper. Occasionally, when one is in a fairly good mood and hasn't yet been booed in public too terribly, one is not unopposed to hearing other ideas.]

[elegiaque]

( gwenaëlle doesn't particularly believe that she's got anything to say on the matter that'll be a new thought to wysteria, but invited to elaborate she's not going to not do it, )

To see if it makes a difference, to see if it doesn't make a difference. Mages already handle lyrium differently — I don't remember, were you here for the lyrium sickness? A Templar or two with anchor-shards would also be...rifters were the sickest, but Templars were close behind them and mages recovered swiftest.

[heirring]

I wasn't it, no. It was shortly before I arrived, but I've reviewed a great deal of the paperwork from that period.

[elegiaque]

I wasn't involved in any of the research or treatment, but I was close to the ill, it was.

( how to put it. )

A vivid illustration of the situation we're still in.

[heirring]

'Still in' indeed!

[Sounds like enthusiastic agreement. A sense of urgency with respect to the continued survival of Rifters and other members of Riftwatch in possession of anchors! How novel.]

[elegiaque]

We've come a long way from having one elf who knew how to soothe the pains and ostensibly nothing more, but, well.

[heirring]

Did you know him well at all? Solas. I assume that's who you mean.

[elegiaque]

In a manner of speaking, yes. Thranduil knew him better.

[heirring]

I only knew him very briefly. We went to Orlais together on assignment once.

I do wonder what he's up to now. Suspect deeds of a sort, clearly, but speaking specifically.

[elegiaque]

Lying to elves about being a god, probably.

[heirring]

Well, yes. I suppose that may be one of the aforementioned suspect deeds.

[elegiaque]

I don't like thinking of him, to be perfectly honest, but I'm sure whatever he's up to is tomorrow's problem.