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[dashing]

FORM: crystal
SENDER: Herian
RECIPIENT: all of the Inquisition
WHAT: organising guard stuff
WHEN: backdated to a little after the quarantine announcement
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: regarding Chantry Relations, a separate network post will happen for that post-sickness stuff, but in the meantime I have done an ooc post. And also, THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND. This isn’t relevant, it’s just stuck in my head.

Good day, Inquisition.

This is Knight Enchanter Herian Amsel. I am working with Knight Enchanter Voss during this sickness to ensure proper guard rotation is fulfilled and that are quarantine can be enforced, if necessary. Due to any Templars and rifters making contribution to guard duty being currently incapacitated, volunteers would be gladly received.

We are all well aware of the Gallow’s history, and with that in mind we’d particularly like to encourage mages to contribute to guard duty, in the hopes this will set minds better at ease. I am also eager to ensure that, if there are the numbers for it, we try to make sure that the guard is dominated by no particular fraternity - again, in the hopes of offering some peace of mind to all the mages here present.

If you wish to volunteer for the guard roster, please respond with your name, combat skills and experience. If you are a mage, responding with your chosen fraternity if you have one would be greatly appreciated. Mages are by no means demanded to declare this information if you consider it a matter of privacy, but it may then be that we do not add you to the present roster.

Less immediately pressing, but any insight into combat skills and experience levels amongst mages granted to us will allow Knight Enchanter Voss and I to better prepare for commencing combat and defence training for mages, so whatever information you can offer us would be greatly appreciated.

I have also recently taken leadership of the Chantry Relations project, if there should be any with pressing need to discuss related matters, or if there is any further assistance I can offer. Project members, I will look to speaking with you all regarding matters once our present situation is better in hand.

Comments

Delayed in the game, delayed in real life

[overharrowed]

It seems as if you have a strong response already, though if you still need to add numbers, I'll do my part. This is mainly to say congratulations on the new posting, even if it's not an especially celebratory time.

This is Enchanter Julius, since I don't believe we've yet had the pleasure of meeting in person.

going at a stately and dignified pace

[dashing]

Enchanter - no, I don't believe we have. Thank you for your kind words.

It never hurts to know of more ready to assist, should someone fall sick or be injured. May I ask as to the nature of your expertise?

[overharrowed]

I've some combat experience under my belt, though my primary focus with the Inquisition is research. I'm also fairly handy with glyphs, should you require that sort of defensive fortification.

And as for your earlier question, I never formally declared for a fraternity. [Wryly:] I always thought there would be time to get to it later.

[dashing]

Glyphs would be most valuable. Do you have any inclined to incapacitation, rather than injury?

( She makes a quiet sound of acknowledgement. ) I can well understand that. I've no desire to push others to commit to something they feel may no longer be relevant, but if there is one that you feel some affinity for, it helps to create a broader outlook.

[overharrowed]

Paralysis shouldn't do any lasting damage if applied properly. I'd be happy to meet with you, Knight Enchanter Voss, or both to go over the details.

I came up under Irving, so I was likely to go Aequitarian before the war, if that helps you. I don't know if I would commit to any particular one now, even if I had the opportunity. I think many of them had both their positive and negative points, but my experience is that life doesn't often divide itself up in such neat categories. Or at least my life doesn't.

[dashing]

No, it rarely does. I simply feel that... it provides a point of reference. For some, though, those divisions are important enough for condemnation to be cast right quick.

( She is guilty of that, with Resolutionists. She is condemned in term, for being a Loyalist. )

It is an unhappy thing, but when it is a matter of war, people are inevitably set into categories, whether they wish it or not.

[overharrowed]

Categories save people time, rightly or otherwise. I can understand the impulse, even if I don't always agree with it.

If you wished to discuss the matter more, I'd be happy to do so, but perhaps it's a conversation better conducted in person? I'm sure you're as busy as the rest of us, but I'd be happy to carve out some time if you're so inclined.

[dashing]

And they have become a defining part of a war. I am not sure fraternities mattered nearly so much, before the voted for the dissolution of the Circles. Now, it appears they are viscerally personal.

I would be very glad to meet with you, Enchanter. I will in the Chantry Relations office for the foreseeable future, and if I should be absent, can be promptly summoned hence.

( And here's one I prepared earlier. )