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

[heirring]

And doses of lyrium were used to help heal the Rifter blood plague in 9:44. Thus we already have some history of safely administering refined lyrium to Rifters for the purposes of stabilizing their— [a pause; she searches for some suitable terminology] —corporeal forms.

[prelest]

Hmmm.

[ Well, that’s quite…upsetting. ]

So what’s going to happen, exactly? When a Rifter takes lyrium.

[heirring]

That would be the first phase of the study. Outside the aforementioned illness, I don't believe there's been much exploration regarding what occurs when a Rifter consumes lyrium. We are a rare breed, Miss Zenik, and a large number of us have been rather less than willing to explore the possibilities lest they prove dangerous.

But I would suggest Rifters are already in a great deal of danger. That is, if they wish to remain in Thedas with all their limbs rather than melting away at the behest of whatever powers beyond the Veil first saw them manifest here. The majority of us would seem to be rather temporary creatures, at present.

[prelest]

You’ve stayed a long time, haven’t you?

[heirring]

Myself and Madame de Cedoux are the Rifters longest in residence, yes. And then Mister Stark. —Or perhaps Loxley? One of the two. I don't recall when the latter arrived, exactly. Only that he came with Mister Dickerson, who I don't believe you would have had the pleasure of knowing.