crystal

[stone_blind]

FORM: Sending crystal cause this girl can't read
SENDER: Katia
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: hopefully contains praxis

[ There's a bit of a fumbling noise on the crystal, then the sound of puffing air. Whoever this is is blowing on it, maybe as some sort of test.

Then a voice - one with an accent that's probably unfamiliar to almost everyone here. This woman has a Dwarven accent, all broad vowels and lax consonants, but it's not quite the same as an Orzammar accent. Tevinters might possibly know it as the accent of a dwarf of the Ambassadoria. ]

I want to know. How many of you are doing all of this because you want things to go back to how they all used to be? Restoring order and stability and all of that. The status quo.

[ And then she waits for a response. ]

Comments

[extortionate]

You kidding me? That'd be shit for business.

[stone_blind]

You a mercenary?

[extortionate]

You got money?

[cozen]

[ oh my god katia you can't just ask people if they support the status quo ]

[stone_blind]

[ she DOES now go here AND have a lot of feelings ]

[cozen]

[ fair enough, so, ]

I do not think I have ever heard anyone say "status quo" and mean it well. When it's liked it's called normalcy or something.

[atonally]

[ With something in his mouth, literally his icon right now, ]

I am.

[stone_blind]

[ Hell yeah okay cool. Already someone to fight. Fantastic. ]

Why? What was good about it?

[atonally]

My favorite part was probably the lack of demon holes.

[reparo]

That wouldn't be me.

[stone_blind]

[ The firm nod of approval is almost audible. ]

Then what are you fighting for?

[reparo]

Currently, for the idea of there being a future for everyone here. You might call it survival, I suppose, but - I don't see a point to returning to the status quo. Isn't that why we're in this mess in the first place?

[favoriteanalyst]

Restoring order and stability, and going back to how things used to be? Those are two different things. [The mage war was hardly stable and orderly, after all.] Order and stability doesn't have to look like how things were. Ideally, you do this to make things better than it was.

Unfortunately, that looks different to everyone.

[stone_blind]

And how does it look to you?

[favoriteanalyst]

Who's asking, out of curiosity?

[tadpoled]

I'm here because I was brought here.

[stone_blind]

And are you locked up?

[tadpoled]

And under guard. Recently changed.

[sprent]

Do we even have a status quo to go back to? I think everything from here on is new.

[stone_blind]

I expect that when we come out of this, there'll still be deshyr telling everyone what to do. The Shaperate will go on carving. That sounds like the status quo to me.

[allthatgleamsisgold]

Cycles break often and violently - this chaos seems in line with that being the case now.

Is there anything of the status quo worth preserving...?

[stone_blind]

If there is, I haven't seen much of it. The more I hear, the more I think every nation's unjust in its own way.

[altusimperius]

[gently staying the fuck out of this one]

[thereneverwas]

Nnnaaaah.

[stone_blind]

What's that mean? Nah?