SUBJECT: The Riftwatch Cultural Exposition
PARTICIPANTS: Jude Adjei, Wysteria de Foncé, Stephen Strange, Jayce Talis, Nina Zenik, Cosima Niehaus, Mobius, Viktor, Peter Parker, Joselyn Smythe, Tony Stark
CLASSIFICATION: Public
DATE FILED: Backdated to late fantasy!July
STATUS: Complete
SUMMARY: Members of Riftwatch's Research and Diplomacy divisions traveled to the University of Orlais to host a cultural exposition, showing off various Rifter- and Riftwatch-developed technology to win hearts, minds, and support from prominent scholars in the Orlesian academic community.

REPORT:

To Whom It May Concern, This Being a Formal Record of "The Riftwatch Cultural Exposition" Which Was Held at the University of Orlais in Early Solace 9:49

As both Provost Stark and Ambassador Byerly have closely monitored the planning of and subsequent rewards reaped from this Exposition, this record is largely for posterity. Therefore, I shall keep it brief. Please see the attached copy of the Event's programming, accompanied by an Appendix A (which briefly summarizes the contents and relevant presenters of each) and Appendix B (which refers to the present filing locations of various blueprints, schematics, and papers to be utilized as reference should the presenters in question expire, disappear, or come to quit their work with the Company).

I have also included a list of contacts curated during the Exposition (Appendix C, most notable being the Dean of Lydes College, a tenured professor of the Orlesian University, as well as a junior professor of the same), as well as a list of materials formally funded or gifted directly to Riftwatch by various donors (Appendix B, to be utilized in the production of a second Microscope; see file #594, stack C).

Formally,
Wysteria A. Poppell de Foncé

In addition to the above contents, a worn tract of a popular lady's fashion tract from Val Royeaux has been attached at a later date to the (exceedingly not brief) report. It features a variety of articles about the latest in hats, masks, a scathing review of an evidently once well regard clothier, and an extensive passage regarding the growing trend of wearing plaster casts. One young courtier is quoted as having boldly declared, 'This is the ultimate metaphor for bravery and commitment; in these trying times, we are all but morally obligated to staunchly demonstrate that we are resilient and adaptable survivors.'

NEXT STEPS: Leverage those connections!

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This is Ambassador Rutyer. The other division heads and I have conferred, and we are taking this warning seriously. The mission to Granitefell is being halted.

Those still in the Gallows: stand by for our return.

[By and large, Riftwatch's Commander isn't a common voice heard over the sending crystals. He has an apparent preference for doling out orders and communications in person during the Forces Division's weekly assembly or, better still, have Matthias deliver them on his behalf.

But occasionally—]

We're shifting one of the ship's ballista to the wall for defense of the gate and harbor. Before that can happen, we'll be required to clear a portion of the battlements and raise a scaffolding to sway it up with. I'd have ten hands for the work. Any division will do so long as you can haul on a line.

Volunteers would be preferable [—sounds very like he will resort to other methods should they not make themselves readily available—] for this and with assisting with repairs to the ferry.

Esteemed Rifters!

[ Byerly's voice is jolly. Have things been weird the past little while? Yes they have. But it's nice to be home with memories intact. ]

Good Bastien has informed me that the recent anthology, Tales from the Rifts, has been a rousing success. Or at the very least a solid success. Well done with your stories.

What this means, of course, is that you all will have a decent income from this book's sales, for handsome Bastien has insisted that the royalties go to you lot. It won't be very much, mind - perhaps a year's wages, maybe two - but we might invest it and let the money grow, or you might use it to purchase something a bit indulgent sooner.

So what ideas do you have? How would you like your very modest fortune spent?

SUBJECT: Tales from the Rifts
PARTICIPANTS: Bastien, Cosima, Ellie, Jude, Wysteria, Tony (ish), Gwenaëlle, Abby
CLASSIFICATION: Public
DATE FILED: Cloudreach 9:49
STATUS: Complete
SUMMARY: Bastien compiled some stories and legends from rifters' homeworlds (on his own time and dime, but relevant to Riftwatch) and politely bullied his way into having them published.( Read more... )

Right, we've got a few new faces, ( a droll voice, feminine, intensely starkhaven, ) so I thought, having had an interesting night, that I might offer you all a bit of advice if you are new to Kirkwall.

( you know, not just rifters don't know about kirkwall. )

Being as I've had a year or so now, in it. Do not, unwarily, as an elf or a mage or some exciting combination of the two things what include rifters of the hard to miss variety, go to the Hanged Man. Captain Rowntree knows loads of taverns in the city that you won't get the tar beat out of you, and a few where you might be able to arrange it a bit more consensually. And I can ask him if his face scares you. Plus I know a few.

I have—

[ I have echoes oddly in the background. Other people's crystals. ]

That is not what I sound like. That isn't—put it away. That's awful. Is that what I sound like?

[ All of this also echoes, so close together that it’s more a disconcerting acoustic largeness than a proper cave-like echo. ]

Go away. Or I'll go away.

[ She is going away, leaving her companions and their crystals behind. ]

I have an announcement, Riftwatch. I have just arrived and my bear, [ just in time for Chantry visits, ] is in your garden. The little one with the three trees. It's only until I find somewhere else for him to stay, but for now: beware of bear.

He should be nice as long as you do not surprise him. And if you carry something in your pockets to toss him if he needs a distraction, that is not a bad idea. He likes sugar and lizards.

He might also like snack-sized dogs. I don’t know. I haven’t tried. But if you like yours I would not take them there right now, to be safe.

That's all! Now someone tell me if this worked.

What does everybody do with their hair around here? –Or beard, or whatever hair you're comfortable discussing over the crystals. Keeping mine like this is finally starting to become a liability. If you're gonna make a joke about that I've heard it before, fifty times, so shut up in advance.

Thanks.

(... Sound of the crystal immediately being picked up again,) And can I pay somebody to trim the ends? Nothing crazy.