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.

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[portalling]

( Derrica, of all people, deserves honesty here. He hesitates for a moment, trying to figure out how to say I’m bad with this sort of thing— but ah, fuck it. )

I’m bad with temperance, around this sort of thing. Like, famously so. If there’s magical secrets to be unlocked and arcane boundaries to be pushed in the pursuit of knowledge, I tend to run facefirst into it. Not unlike our Madame de Foncé here.

It can work in our favour — see: time magic — but other occasions, well, not so much. I’m not always the best judge of when too far is too far. I’m saying this aloud so you’re aware that this is a weakness, and you essentially have blanket permission to check me on it. Hell, we could even have a codeword. Avocado or something.

That said, I’m obviously interested in seeing the eventual effects, but I’m also invested in people’s health during. Making sure no one has any heart attacks, or what have you. And the experiment should be a limited run since it is, after all, involving an addictive and controlled substance.

( … )

Wait, what was less careful last time?