CRYSTALS | Locked to Venatori

[extortionate]

FORM: Venatori Sending Crystal ("They're red and they're worse" - the Mods)
SENDER: Alais Amphion
RECIPIENT: Other Alamar Venatori
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Riftwatch landed yesterday. It’s not clear if they’ve discovered —

[ a low hum, distracted. it synchronizes with the shuddering chord behind her: urthemiel’s harp. particularly unpleasant to any mages listening. ]

— Aurelius is stranded in town. Someone needs to get him.


[ start your own threads, do whatever. log post here ]

Comments

PROFILING / MURDER

[extortionate]

If they all vanish here, the rest come looking. We could lose the site. But,

[ a pause. it isn’t not for the soporati present that she adds: ]

We could use the blood. There are at least nine — Tapsenna, Salvito, can you get eyes on them? Agger, Dalca — how do we go about this?

[overharrowed]

Are you asking how to kill someone, because that can be a very short answer.

I mean, if you want to get more creative, that's up to you.

[extortionate]

Can you share that answer with the class?

[ ok, that's mean. try again (more patiently): ]

I think we should try to take some alive. But I don't - there are a lot. We need to be smart about it, you won't help anyone dead. [ ask her again in an hour ] Aurelius saw a Qunari.

[overharrowed]

I assume "a lot" means we're outnumbered. How much? We have a number yet?

[extortionate]

Under a dozen - I need scouts to confirm, but we should assume all of them have fought before.

[ unlike their own cadre of professors. or maybe that's just her. a sigh, ]

If they brought a Templar, maybe we don't have to handle it directly. We can produce red lyrium on site.

[thereneverwas]

Under a dozen? Easy.

Which ones you want alive?

[overharrowed]

Should be easy enough to divide and conquer [easy agreement]. As long as we're smart about chokepoints and surprise, not that complicated.

[extortionate]

Spare the Anchors, if you can. I don't think we should risk leaving their mages alive, or the Qunari —

[ she mostly sounds anxious about the qunari. faintly pained: ]

— But I trust your judgment.

[exequy]

I'm on it.

[ And privately racing Salvito to get there first. ]

[laruetheday]

[ you're ON, bitch ]

[laruetheday]

Of course. I'll check back in shortly.

public -> private

[extortionate]

Thank you.

[ private: ]

Prisca, can I trust you with something? It's about Aurelius.

private

[laruetheday]

[ ohoho ]

Can you trust me? Of course you can! What's going on?

eternal

[extortionate]

I'm worried. He docks not a day after Riftwatch strolls in? It's... a big coincidence.

[ one she wouldn't bring up at all (might instead cover for) if he weren't clearly already lYiNG tO hEr ]

[laruetheday]

Coincidences happen. But I, personally, have always believed that man is too good an actor to be trusted.

[extortionate]

I guess we need liars,

[ a little too much venom in that! pull back, pull back: ]

While you're in town, can you follow up? You're good at — people. I don't want things to get muddled just because I,

[ boy she's talking fast ]

Well. It's not my area.

[laruetheday]

I think you're better at it than you think you are. But of course I'll follow up.

[extortionate]

Thank you. I don’t know what we’d do without you here.

[laruetheday]

Oh, I'm sure you'd get along somehow. [ she's feeling soooo smug right now ]

I'll be in touch in a bit.