crystal; closed to diplomacy

[altusimperius]

FORM: crystal
SENDER: Benedict
RECIPIENT: members of Diplomacy
NOTES:

[posh and softspoken, guess who it is:]

In light of our most recent Rifter's arrival, maybe we ought to, um. Encourage a certain degree of etiquette, both for those receiving sending crystals for the first time, and for those greeting a new member.

It can be very confusing and isolating, coming here. When one didn't intend to, presumably when one doesn't even know what our world is or what they're doing here. People say stupid things on both sides of the crystal, and they get heated.

I don't have a solution, but it's something I've been thinking about. And would like to talk through, if you'll humor me.

Comments

[ipseite]

It is my understanding that this is already a part of our quarantine procedures— I believe Kostos and I, ( wild choice for that assignment, but they both did their best, ) submitted proposed guidelines for those initial conversations, but I admit I'm not familiar with their implementation.

[sprent]

Neither.

It might be nice to do — or, at the very least, to offer? If they would like a good one on one conversation before we set them loose? I'd meet with them.

[ipseite]

I'm not aware of whose responsibility the quarantine education is directly, but it does seem a conversation may be warranted if it was overlooked entirely.

Though I would not assume that it has been— it is a small misstep at most, and there is only so much a person can be protected from making any such in their earliest days.

[altusimperius]

That’s—- me, actually. But as we’ve seen, I don’t always get to them before they have access to a crystal.

And as I haven’t been in the position very long [seeing as a few months it was occupied by an Envy demon,] being on the same page as the rest of the division seems wise.

[ipseite]

Well, if those guidelines would be of use, I believe they were filed in the diplomacy office during Mssr Rutyer's tenure. I am happy to locate them myself, if we wish to refer to or build upon them—

but I do not think you have been doing so poor a job as that. If this is our greatest worry, we should be grateful.

[altusimperius]

[bluescreen: if it was filed during Byerly’s tenure, he himself likely filed it.]

I’ll look for them.

[ipseite]

( he probably did. )

The proposal in its entirety, I believe, died on the vine— ( or at least she never heard anything about it after making the requested report, ) but I had assumed that some of our recommendations must have shaped the subsequent efforts with acclimatising new rifters, and I would be more than happy to revive it or to elaborate on any point within.