crystal; new phone who dis

[aberratic]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Ness Tavane (aberratic, on behalf of The Forgotten (Julius, Bastien, Clarisse, Viktor (and Isaac)))
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: Player plot info! Basically: As far as everyone in the Gallows is concerned, the people Ness is talking about just straight up do not exist and never have.

[ the voice that comes over the crystal is a soft, somewhat frazzled soprano. other voices can be heard arguing behind her, but only the tones of frustration and suspicion are audible; the content of the discussion is indistinct. ]

Good afternoon, Riftwatch, this is Quartermaster Ennaris Tavane. We—that is, myself, the Seneschal, Griffon Keeper La Rue, and Messeres Bastien and Viktor, we are being barred from use of the ferry to re-enter the Gallows. Is there anyone available to vouch for us, please? We're all very tired from our return journey and have quite a lot of work to get back to.

Comments

[elegiaque]

Show of hands, narrow down who’s mislaid their crystal.

( presumably she doesn’t mean this turn of phrase literally, or it really won’t help over the crystal. )

[extortionate]

Bet it was a Rifter. Got sucked back into the sky, poof, fell down somewhere —

[aberratic]

Captain Baudin!

[ certainly sounds like someone familiar with gwenaëlle—or, perhaps not, because she sounds happy to hear from her. ]

Please reassure the ferrymaster it's really us, he will not listen to me—

[elegiaque]

Did it sound like I was playing along? Allow me to be clearer.

If you haven’t returned stolen property to the guard on duty by the time I get there to collect it, we will have a problem.

[aberratic]

Captain?

[ again, a voice that sounds genuinely caught off guard, and more than a little distraught. ]

[elegiaque]

( that doesn’t seem relevant to her. )

I didn’t stutter. You have the length of time it takes me to get to the other side of the harbour to consider how you want to explain yourself.

[grindset]

Miss Tavane has done nothing out of the ordinary, I assure you—

[elegiaque]

You understand that a different stranger with a crystal vouching for the first one is not helping either of you?

[grindset]

[Viktor turns a disconcerted look on Ness. Something is... not right, here.]

action

[aberratic]

[ primed and ready to accept that she can never keep anything good, ness has already accepted that somehow, bizarrely, everyone seems to have forgotten her at the very least and maybe the entire group in specific, and the look she returns viktor is one of abject misery. ]

We should turn in our sending crystals. If we don't cooperate, this will get worse.

private

[armd]

(She heard what that woman just said to Abby, right?) They know our names.

private ∞

[elegiaque]

( and ‘tavane’ had called her captain from her voice alone— )

If they have anchor-shards, ( a sound like she’s sucking her teeth, ) we know the Venatori have shardbearers now, and we don’t know where they came from or what they use them for beyond the obvious.

private;

[boeric]

Research should see crystals. Venatori have their own.

private;

[elegiaque]

Recommend it to Niehaus. I’ll do the same.

( private )

[pathlit]

Captain Baudin, a word. The man with the thick accent—he knew information about me I haven’t shared. From my life before Thedas.

private.

[exequy]

I am on my way down from Hightown. We can make sure to rule out demons, at least.

private.

[elegiaque]

Do you know how to tell if someone practises blood magic? Or which mage I should ask if not you.

Talis says one of them is telling him his own secrets.

∞

[exequy]

If it's significant any one of us might be able to feel it. If it's subtle—I don't know. One of the Vints?

[ Sometimes stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason.

And he's not outing Nell (today) (yet). ]

[armd]

(Clearly on her crystal,) I don't have mine.

[elegiaque]

( dryly, ) If you need a hand looking for it, start with the left and then try the right.

[armd]

(Pause.

Then,) Found it, thanks.

[laruetheday]

Will you stop screwing around and let us in?

[armd]

Will you give whatever crystal you found to the ferryman and get off our communication channels?

[laruetheday]

Dude, come on, I'm not in the mood.

[armd]

Yeah, neither are we. If you're planning on joining there are official ways to do that, you can't just steal a crystal and hop into the discussion.