Can't stop won't stop

[justice_is_blond]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Myrobalan Shivana and Anders
RECIPIENT: All denizens of the Gallows
WHAT: At long last, a cure for Rifter Valley Fever.
WHEN: whenever
WHERE: wherever
NOTES: None applicable.

Good evening.

[Anders’ voice is tired, but calm and collected.]

As we set up to make sure we reach everyone, we have an announcement: we've found the cures. Myr?

[If someone can sound gently frazzled, Myr does.] Magebane first, to clear up the infestation. You should’ve gotten yours by now, but if we’ve missed someone, [all too likely they have,] you can stop by the infirmary for it. Serah Colin is managing our supply.

[There’s a too long-pause and a half-audible aside--something about “forgetting”--before he adds,] Rifters will want to speak to Madame de Cedoux since she’s not liable to forget you’re here.

That's the easy bit. [There's the noise of papers and then Anders continues:]

Rifters, we need you to bring an object you're willing to be bound to for a few hours. It's temporary, and it will stabilize your presence here for the other two stages. If you don't have one, we'll provide books.

The third step is a little complicated. Rifters need to experience and process a lot of different emotions, the more complex, the better. You're becoming like spirits; this will establish your… personhood, so to speak.

Non-Rifters, if there's something out of place in your living quarters, or things you can't remember getting, you may have strong ties to a Rifter and they may need your help for this third step. The binding should mean that you'll be able to remember them and their significance to you when you see them.

[There's a pause and a quiet huff of air.] It may take time and work. Patience will be key.

The Lady Thevenet, Enchanter Hawthorne, and Serah Averesch will be helping with the binding process.

And if that all weren’t complicated enough, [gentle sarcasm,] there’s one additional step, once you’re feeling like your old selves again. You’ve come loose from Thedas in all of this, and you’ll need to have one of our templars reinforce your being a part of the world and not the Fade.

I’m told the process can be disorienting, but it’ll also be very brief. Ser Ashlock has volunteered himself for that.

[Anders clears his throat.]

Potentially more than merely disorienting, as one who has… experienced that. But as you'll be bound the effects should be lessened, and know that we would not call in a Templar to do this unless absolutely necessary.

Once you're cured, Rifters, please check in with myself or Myrobalan so we can check your name off the list; we need to make certain no one is missed.

If you've any questions, please ask. We'll be here until the last Rifter is cured.

Comments

[utulien_aure]

If anything, I have suffered the least of any of our number here. And even were I not, someone still must step forward.

[Well of course he isn't getting it, no one's mentioned anything about rings or people who might have chosen to turn themselves into one.]

You have known these people longer than I, and have ever read hearts more deeply. Do you truly think they would purposefully entrap others?

[laurenande]

Yes.

[Oh, Fingon, did she not tell you the tale of her imprisonment? Maybe another time. Right now she is convinced everything will result in death or betrayal but the purposeful entrapment? She is completely sure about that.]

They cannot be trusted, not to a man. Be wary at least and do not allow them to do their works without heavy scrutiny.

[utulien_aure]

Including the healers?

[Most of what he's heard is that she was rather well-admired among the elven population- he can guess how well that was received by the authorities, but the specifics have rather passed him by.

This is becoming alarmingly common, actually; he didn't even know that a certain pair of twins were his nieces' grandchildren until Elros was around to tell him himself]

It seems I am bringing Elros along with me, lest I find he has gone without company at all. [A slightly bemused tone at that; Fingon can usually count on being the person first in line, and it's odd being beaten to the punch.]

There is a second pair of eyes, at least. I'm sorry I cannot comfort you more.