shiftsandshades: (mince your herbs evenly)
𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔡𝔰 ([personal profile] shiftsandshades) wrote in [community profile] therookery2024-12-08 05:12 pm

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FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Kieran
RECIPIENT: All
NOTES: tbd


Good evening! I apologize for the late hour -

[ (all this in a pleasant Fereldan accent belonging to a young man, speaking like he's giving his excuses for being late to tea) ]

- but I'm trying to find the ferry. Am I too late for it?

[ You might be asking yourself: Who is this? How did he get hold of a crystal? Are there more members of Riftwatch who've been magically erased from the world?

Probably it's fine, though. Right? ]
elegiaque: (152)

[personal profile] elegiaque 2024-12-08 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
( now, it has been some time since she last saw morrigan or her son in the flesh, but— )

Is that who I think it is?

( if it’s not, she hasn’t handed a stranger an easy lie. and if it is,

maker, she could do with some good news.
)
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[personal profile] elegiaque 2024-12-09 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
( her smile is audible in her wry answer— )

If anything, more than I did then. ( sometimes you join forces because your bitch aunt probably won’t send you to die if you do, and then you end up captain of the gallows watch and routinely in the field. just gwenaëlle things. )

If the ferryman’s finished, I can come across and get you as long as you haven’t developed a fear of heights— do you need somewhere for the night?
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[personal profile] elegiaque 2024-12-09 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
I really shouldn’t disturb the cat for anything less than an emergency.

( and small yngvi doesn’t regard anything that doesn’t directly concern small yngvi an emergency. )

Were we expecting you? ( seems like no, but she’s been scattered since sarrux— maybe she missed a letter— )
elegiaque: (196)

[personal profile] elegiaque 2024-12-09 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
I was in Cumberland, recently; we might’ve nearly crossed paths.

( bringing back tattooed feet, a novelty skull and family trauma as souvenirs, but who’s counting, )

And in my official capacity— I’m going to assume I know how you got that crystal, but please surrender it when you get across the ferry and you can get your own issued properly. I’m guessing you haven’t come to sightsee the Gallows.

( they kept him in hightown for a reason. )
elegiaque: (187)

[personal profile] elegiaque 2024-12-09 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I will, but you may have to take it up with someone other than me. The proper owner of all of these crystals is Riftwatch.

( and probably she wasn’t meant to have kept it when she left. gwenaëlle is inclined to think that morrigan is perfect and brilliant and can do whatever she wants (and, more pragmatically, that it’s useful for an eluvian expert they already have a relationship with to have an easy method of contacting them), but she’s not unaware that most of the people weighing that won’t have worked with her. )

But we’re going to have plenty of work for you, Maker knows.
elegiaque: (159)

[personal profile] elegiaque 2024-12-15 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
( keeping her meals down, sleeping a full night, )

I’m still doing some coordination for a safehouse we’re expecting to have secured in Nevarra once Nevarra City’s properly accessible, among other things. We’ve been expanding our reach, so, you know, expanding our challenges while we’re at it.
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-08 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Could always swim it.
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-09 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, it's only piss. And fish piss. And sharks.
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-09 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, Hightown ain't out there yet.
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-09 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah. It's rotten. Worst of the worst — but I'm a charitable guy, so you find anything lying around up there, can help you dispose of it proper.
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-09 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
'Round here? Lazar. Pack of those running around the city, though. You hear anything about them out there, don't spend a second thought.
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-09 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
What kinda rumours we looking for, here?
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-09 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ a blank slate. perfect ]

'Bout how tall would you say you are?
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-09 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Runt of the litter.
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-09 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
I get by. So: You gonna tell us we known you the whole time?
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-12 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh. And we don't remember you because... ?
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-14 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I was away for some time.
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-16 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Three years. Got hitched.
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[personal profile] extortionate 2024-12-24 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, minding the business back in Or-Lay.

[ is that fishing? not exactly. but it doesn't hurt to emphasize the outsider around a posh stranger. ]
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[personal profile] succise 2024-12-09 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
(Gwenaëlle is responding positively to him so he can't be tied into the strange people insisting they've been here the whole time—

but Vega will complain anyways,)


Your timing is dreadful.
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[personal profile] succise 2024-12-16 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
You have.

— And we are dealing with a situation at present so yes, you are too late for the ferry, and you will have to wait until tomorrow. Or perhaps even the next day.
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[personal profile] succise 2024-12-27 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Outsiders thinking they're owed classified information.

It seems to be spreading.
laruetheday: (bro‚ i can handle my sedatives.)

[personal profile] laruetheday 2024-12-11 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ probably it's fine. ]

Hello, actual stranger. Yeah, you missed the ferry, but there are apartments near the docks where some of us are staying for now.
laruetheday: (am i a hero? i can't really say. but yes)

> private

[personal profile] laruetheday 2024-12-15 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if you don't make it over to the Gallows tonight, come by. I'll be around.

[ Seems like he knows Gigi, so she assumes he'll catch a ride. ]
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[personal profile] laruetheday 2024-12-15 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Clarisse.

[ A pause, then: ] I'm the griffon keeper, but something's wrong. Nobody remembers me. Or any of the group I came back with. You know Gwenaëlle, right? Maybe you can convince her we're telling the truth.
laruetheday: (fish meat is practically a vegetable.)

[personal profile] laruetheday 2024-12-28 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. [ Right, right. ] I'm Clarisse, like I said. I'm in Forces, and I'm Riftwatch's griffon keeper, and a few days ago I came back from a mission along with four others, and... nobody knows us. It's like we got erased from everybody's memory while we were gone.

At first they held us in the dungeon assuming we were the world's shittiest Venatori spies, but now they're just keeping us at arm's length. Which is almost more annoying.

[ Anyway, welcome to Riftwatch. ]