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.


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Comments

[allthatgleamsisgold]

Destroy it. We'd be dead either way if it comes to that, and I doubt his eminence would be happy the artifact were to fall into enemy hands.

[extortionate]

If we're dead anyway, what he wants doesn't matter.

[ that's a dangerous thing to say. in the chamber, her mouth pulls taut. ]

I think you're right - it just seems like a waste. All those months tracking it down,

[ julian's work was no small part of the search ]

[allthatgleamsisgold]

Mind your words.

[A deep breath and a sigh.]

Whether our souls go to the Fade or dissipate into the ether in death - should it be the latter, and we fail the magister whose singular goal is to enter the Fade - or worse - empower his enemies...?

Well. I would prefer my potential eternity free of torment. Wouldn't you?

[elegiaque]

None of us put in the work to hand a victory to Riftwatch. If we fail, we make sure they do, too.

[extortionate]

[ this is the problem with working for a cult. you can't just say: i don't believe we go anywhere, i don't know if he'll succeed; if he succeeds he won't remember us. you can't only be here because the work seemed interesting, and your paper wasn't going anywhere, and most of the time you don't want your parents tortured -

unsurprising, maybe, that aurelius knows the right button to push. (she has always been competitive) ]

It'd be easiest to collapse the cavern from the inside. Other ideas?

[elegiaque]

( atta girl. )

Is there a way to play off — oh, that's beneath me — tell me, can the Harp itself be prompted to destruction? A chain reaction.

[extortionate]

[ a groan for the pun: ]

I'm not sure. We could, mmhm - deactivate the barrier, or maybe overchannel it?

[ she's thinking aloud. lusko will have a better answer. ]

That would get the strings going. We could at least use that to disrupt some glyphs. A bomb and trigger.

[allthatgleamsisgold]

That seems workable. Let's hope it doesn't come to it.