crystal

[thereneverwas]

FORM: crystal
SENDER: Barrow
RECIPIENT: Riftwatch at large
NOTES: Warning for addiction & medical chat, will update for anything else.

Good morning, Riftwatch.

[Barrow is all business, perhaps in an effort to bulldoze through what’s otherwise an uncomfortable topic:]

Just wanted to give you all fair warning that I’ll be out of commission for an… unknown duration of time— short hopefully— as I work my way off lyrium.

If you have need of anything to do with the training yard or the siege weaponry, you can speak to Jayce Talis in my stead. And I suppose if… you have any logistical questions, you can ask the head healer, Stephen Strange.

[he falls silent a moment, awkwardly unsure if more needs saying, then:]

Um. That’s all.

Comments

[laruetheday]

Why would you do that?

[thereneverwas]

Well—

[she caught him a bit off-guard ok]

[laruetheday]

It makes you stronger, doesn't it?

[thereneverwas]

Well— it— well yes, but,

[laruetheday]

I'm sure you have your reasons.

[ she doesn't know shit about shit. she's just a 21 year old teenage girl ]

private.

[elegiaque]

The cost of the strength is his mind. Lyrium dementia is a slow, unpleasant death that on a Riftwatch salary he probably doesn’t have the coin to ensure he’s not enduring on the streets. He’d be forced into retirement long before it got that bad, and we don’t have a retirement package.

( pointing this out privately instead of loudly in barrow’s hearing is gwenaëlle’s idea of tact. )

private ∞

[laruetheday]

[ wow what the fuck? ]

Shit! He definitely needs to quit, then.

[elegiaque]

Well, three down. Two and a half.

( three for sure if barrow succeeds, and he’s got better odds here than anywhere else, seems like. )

It’s shit to go through, though. If you’re close, he’ll need all the help he can get. Sometimes just someone sitting through the delirium seemed to help Orlov.

[laruetheday]

I'll offer, but he might not want me around. He said no to Abby already.

[elegiaque]

Best to let him lead that, but he might feel differently in the thick of it.

[laruetheday]

Got it. I'll check on him, you know, during.

[bouchonne]

Lyrium trade is tightly controlled. That means that those who use lyrium are, likewise, controlled.

[laruetheday]

Right... [ she's learning many things today. ]

Okay, so what do we do? To help.

[bouchonne]

Alas; there's little we can do. We must simply trust in Barrow.

[laruetheday]

Understood.

[ she doesn't like it, though. ]