crystal

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FORM: Crystals
SENDER: Jayce Talis
RECIPIENT: All of Riftwatch
NOTES: Midday, Wintermarch. A call to testing the limits of an enchanted barrier system. Participants are encouraged to go ham on the barrier with physical and magical force (please stay clear of any boom zone), kind of like a wreck-it room but more productive. There's no separate testing log; you can handwave your character's involvement or you can thread out a scene in this post if you want to! OOC details on the barrier system are here. They'll be utilizing the full system for assessing how much damage it can take before becoming functionally useless. The recharging will be tested with two posts only to minimize strain on participants.

Simple refreshments will be provided: tea, biscuits (he made them himself!), butter and jam, sausages and a pot of mulled wine on his and Viktor's hot plate (for afterward).

Hey, it's Jayce from Research. Not to worry, this isn't about an unintentional combustion event. I'm looking for any available hands that won't mind testing the resistance force of a project intended to benefit the defenses of the Gallows. We'll need physical and magical force to mimic another siege, so... well, if you're looking to let off some steam, then this might be the perfect excuse to do so in the name of science.

Since these barriers, which are powered by lyrium, will eventually fail under enough force, I'd like to see if they can be... recharged, you know, in a pinch with magic, either from an anchor or a mage. Given how lyrium-hungry this system is, it probably won't amount to much, but we can obtain a baseline and extrapolate the data.

If you're available, let's meet outside the Gwaren outpost in forty-eight hours. Barrow, the Master of Works, will oversee us. Let us know so we can form a rough headcount. Oh, and, uh... if that time conflicts with the majority, then we'll reschedule. All right, thanks.

Comments

[boeric]

This barrier you see, in the Pass. It resists only Rifters?

[ hi (: ]

[aberratic]

[ uhhhhh hi?? ]

Oh, it wasn't a barrier, it was just—a very large lyrium crystal. It... had some adverse effects.

[ how much is she allowed to say to Who The Fuck Is This, oh dear. ]

[boeric]

Raw crystal? As the dwarves mine?

[aberratic]

Yes, suspended in the chamber. A strange color, but otherwise like natural, raw lyrium.

Sorry, who am I speaking to? I don't recognize your voice.

[boeric]

Sennara. I am with Research, [ wry: ] No booms.

[ intentional combustion only ]

This is red lyrium?

[aberratic]

[ well if she's really part of riftwatch...! ]

No, it was... a sort of greenish-yellow. It wasn't blighted, just wrong, it had strange properties. Have you read our reports on the interactions between Rifters and lyrium?

[boeric]

No. This acts differently to what we know?

[aberratic]

Not... differently, [ which isn't a total lie, though it does feel like a gross oversimplification, ] but more strongly. Our report is still in progress, but you can read it when it's finished, it will have all the details.