crystal.

[elegiaque]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Gwenaëlle Baudin
RECIPIENT: All y'all.
NOTES: There's a new junior dad in town. Tell her all about your sick magic weapons and how buff or noodly your little nerd arms might be. (Happy to do action spam here or in her inbox for any office threads!)

Alright, Riftwatch, I assume I don't need to introduce myself,

( possibly because she hasn't been paying strict attention to recent arrivals, but she is certainly not herself a new face, )

but if you have somehow mistaken my accent for Alexandrie, this is Gwenaëlle Baudin, and if you haven't noticed my taking up the office, I am now your acting Captain of the Watch. ( because they are still pretending that dad might come back (with smokes) and that rowntree's appointment might be temporary. she has already begun studying nevarran, but she isn't all that optimistic about when she's going to need to know it by. ) I've started with inventorying our armoury, and as such I have a couple of requests to make of, primarily, those of you not in Forces. If you are in Forces, I need to know if you possess any personal weaponry of note that we should be taking into account. You can provide details by crystal, book or at my office. If you are not in Forces, I would like to know that, but disclosure is voluntary unless your division head decides to make it mandatory.

( yes, she checked with rowntree before announcing it's mandatory for forces. )

Further, if you are not in Forces, I'd like to have an overview of the combat readiness of our ( nerds ) general non-combatants and what their, your needs are. If you'd like particular training, or if you specifically wouldn't. If you're going to be particularly vulnerable in the sort of emergency we recently experienced, or if it'd be useful for me to be aware that you won't. Again, we can have these conversations by whatever means suits you.

( there's a brief pause. )

And to be clear, I'm not assuming all diplomats and researchers need to be provided personal fainting couches, and you will not be considered clever for getting up in arms about having your toughness questioned. If you would like to be provided a personal fainting couch, ask the Seneschal.

Comments

private.

[elegiaque]

If you just want to sneak into my office and draw a circle on the map, I'll leave it conspicuously on the Vice Admiral's desk, no one's using it.

( a beat. and, )

But you could bring your companion if you have the time.

[elegiaque]

( given that red templars exist, it strikes her briefly that they haven't tested this before,

but then, who'd they test it on? and with what templar? )

You can try it on mine.

private;

[grindset]

[Immediate, if sideways, relief—like being knocked out for one's own good. He's decided that boundary was just fine where it was.

This pause is not quite as long, which probably makes it more conspicuous, somehow.]

I'll ask him.

[wythersake]

[ just writing down marius bellerose ]

Diplomacy could do with an incident or two. I worry they get bored.

[elegiaque]

I'm not convinced that's what worries you.

🎀

[elegiaque]

No rush. Let me know.

[dissolving]

Thanks. Think 's just you and Fromme, and between you and me, she's got crazy eyes.

[elegiaque]

I don't know that I've crossed her path. How crazy?

[dissolving]

Y'ever meet someone just don't seem to blink?

[ seem to because she probably blinks a perfectly normal amount. anyway: ]

Know I didn't sign on Forces, don't mean to change that. Only, you end up with holes in shifts, let me know.

[elegiaque]

I'll rope you in if I need you.

( which is more likely than it isn't, everything being as it is. )

Why'd you choose diplomacy?

[dissolving]

Shortest hands.

[ that's true. but they're all short, it's not really why. and it's gwen. he's admitted worse: ]

And — dunno. Been at a sword half my life. Know there's more to it than that, [ a life. ] Be a waste not to try.

[elegiaque]

Huh.

( it seems unlikely that's all she thinks, but it's all she says. )

[dissolving]

[ just for this, this excruciating pause in which he considers whether the chantry hasn't gone far enough in limiting magical communications, he's making griffon ball happen and she's going to enjoy it. ]

Why'd you pick Forces?

[elegiaque]

( okay well someone wants the armpit, i guess, )

My aunt was running it and I didn't think she'd force me into the field to die.

[dissolving]

So, it worked.

[ she's not dead ]

[elegiaque]

Ouais, not how either of us thought it was going to.

[dissolving]

You ever think you'd want something like this? Captain. Before Abby told you so.

[elegiaque]

( a hum— )

Years ago I went for Seneschal, which probably would have led down a vastly different path if it had worked out at the time, which it didn't. I think it's,

Someone has to do it. I can. So. Abby asked me if I was going to try for Commander, and that seemed, um— a bit much. But this made sense.

[dissolving]

Well, you got the boat.

[ if not commander, then vice admiral, ]

I'm sure Seneschal Baudin's fine, but I never met her. You're a good pick for this. Know the place in and out.

[elegiaque]

( same office, so, split the difference. probably a bit less likely the other desk has ever been fucked on, though. )

I think I'm just very practical.

( well, in incredibly specific ways. )

[armd]

Why?

private

[sprent]

(Matter-of-fact:) I do not know how to fight and don't wish to learn.

But — Ellie was teaching me how to use the knife that I carry, just in case. I think I should try to continue that.

[elegiaque]

You asked me if I was going to go for Commander. I thought Captain sounded— reasonable.

private ∞

[elegiaque]

( a thoughtful hum— )

If it's something that you want to do, I'm happy to help you with it.

[sprent]

... That would be nice. Thank you.

I promise to only need the fainting couch for hiding behind.