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

[stone_blind]

And if the rifts go away, that's great, but it doesn't actually solve anything about what's wrong with the world. There'll be fewer demons, but just as much evil.

[reparo]

Yes, true - but without the demons to hide behind, the evil that gets left behind will be given no excuse and nowhere to hide.

[stone_blind]

Do you really think that? Casteless were getting spat on long before any rifts opened up, and they'll keep getting spat on after they're closed.

1/3

[reparo]

I'm not so naive as to think that the rifts being closed for good will make it easy to convince people to stop being terrible about a whole lot of things, I just think that if they spat again and there would be no order of things to hide behind when they got smacked across the mouth.

[reparo]

Metaphorically, of course. [ No, she'll be the first to throw hands. ]

[reparo]

And I think I'd like to change my answer from survival to equality.

[tadpoled]

I'm here because I was brought here.

[atonally]

[atonally]

Starkhaven fish and egg pie.

[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.

[stone_blind]

Which do you call it? Normalcy or status quo?

[stone_blind]

Does everyone get fish and egg pie in Starkhaven, then?

[stone_blind]

That's probably a better answer. But that's not what things were like, before all this. No one got smacked for being a bastard, unless they were poor to begin with.

[stone_blind]

And are you locked up?

[tadpoled]

And under guard. Recently changed.

[cozen]

It depends on which piece of "it" we are talking about, I suppose.

[sprent]

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

[atonally]

More than get it now Tevinter’s starved them out and occupied the city.

[extortionate]

Then not for you.

[stone_blind]

[ Uh. She thought that was a sarcastic question she'd just asked. ]

Why?

[stone_blind]

Wasn't asking.

[stone_blind]

I'm listening.

[stone_blind]

Answering a different question again.

[tadpoled]

I was sick, but I've turned a corner. Better for everyone involved.

[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.