21 April 2025 @ 04:45 pm

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Connor ([personal profile] catathymic)
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: None!



[ it's around midday when a hesitant, distinctly fereldan voice comes over everyone's crystals. ]

Grood day, Riftwatch. My name is Connor, I'm a... guest of your organization. I have a question for... well, anyone who will answer me.

You're all here to fight Corypheus and his cultists, but there are a number of organizations, institutions, even nations arrayed against him already. You could have joined an army, or been an agent of the Maker's divine will in the Exalted March. Why did you choose Riftwatch? What brought you here, specifically?

And... I know there are those who have to stay here. You with the anchor shards, like the Herald, Maker rest her, and... Rifters.

[ still not sure you all aren't demons, honestly, but if the chantry says you're not... ]

Would you leave, if you could? Join an army, or the March? Or even just... flee to the furthest reaches of Thedas and hope the war didn't find you?

[ a long, uncomfortable pause. ]

Also. If anyone has... odd jobs. Paying, that is. Or a line on a local business in need of a temporary employee. I would appreciate any leads to that effect.

[ awkwardly, ] Thank you.
 
 
14 April 2025 @ 02:04 pm

FORM: Sending crystal.
SENDER: Madame de Cedoux
RECIPIENT: Viktor + Dr Strange
NOTES: Discussion of amputation will follow.
references: wysteria broaches it, discussing with marcus + julius, seeking medical advice.


( madame de cedouxโ€™s voice is particular, recognisable: pleasant, measured, her accent ever so slightly off-orlais, the diction and cadence of her speech always that little bit more clipped and cut-glass than is commonplace in the halls of orlesian power. still, it is habit to begin, )

This is Madame de Cedoux,

( despite the fact they can almost certainly hear, immediately, that it is. )

I am contacting you โ€” both โ€” regarding the matter of future amputation of my anchor-shard, as I have previously discussed with Madame de Fonce and Dr Strange. believe it would be appropriate and, I can only assume, useful to begin planning for a prosthesis whilst I have a healthily attached limb for comparisonโ€ฆ? It seems to me that this would dictate, somewhat, the time frame of proceeding, andโ€” well, particularly considering recent events it seems increasingly absurd to delay the matter further.

Madame de Fonce had offered me, at one point, the lend of her own. It was not my wish, but I understand that the work done on it was particular.
 
 
05 April 2025 @ 12:27 pm

FORM: Crystals
SENDER: Isaac
RECIPIENT: Y'all
NOTES: I'm not current on my log tags and you nice people will just have to deal.


In light of recent events –

[ weird way to say 'thank you for not leaving me in a swamp' but ok ]

I've compiled a list of external healers willing to work with us. They are few, and expensive, and I therefore think it also worth identifying those mages within Riftwatch able to lend emergency aid. If you've facility with regeneration or sedation, we could use the hands.

Contact me directly. I'm not naming anyone without a look at what you can do.

To wit, I'm certain it's time to call for another round of general volunteers. Whether you can stitch a wound, or care to learn, bother Strange about it. He's in charge.

[ air quotes. ]
 
 
23 March 2025 @ 11:37 am

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Cosima
RECIPIENT: In theory closed to rifters, but you know how crystals have been lately (oocly open to all)


[There's always work to do, so lazy weekend mornings aren't really a thing for Riftwatch. But you have to take breaks sometime, and the late morning with spring sunlight streaming through the window seems as good a time as any. Or so your provost thinks, evidently.]

Hey everyone. No division head business right now, just wondering. Things fall through rifts now and then. If you could pick something โ€” inanimate object, no people or pets โ€” to turn up from your home world, what would you pick?

Given my well-known, longstanding and committed relationship with our division microscope, I'm not gonna begrudge you something you could use for work if you lean that way. But also live a little if you want to. Like, it's definitely not practical, but man, I'd love a windsurfing board. Getting it back to Kirkwall from wherever the rift is might suck, but totally worth it.
 
 
28 January 2025 @ 11:18 am

FORM: crystal
SENDER: Benedict
RECIPIENT: mage group chat
NOTES: bl..ood magic??


How does one use a phylactery?

[BENEDICT HAS ENTERED THE CHAT]

--Isaac was on the mission with everyone we forgot for a time. He's still gone, nobody can remember where it was, but I found his phylactery.

[sometimes you do a little theft. just for pals]
 
 
25 January 2025 @ 04:16 pm
SUBJECT: Sarrux Pass, a village outside Wycome
PARTICIPANTS: Caius, Gwen, Hermione, Jayce, Ness, Siorus, Stephen, Vanya
CLASSIFICATION: Public
DATE FILED: O...ctober / Harvestmere
STATUS: Complete
SUMMARY: Riftwatch discovered elven ruins containing a long-buried pool of corrupted lyrium that was causing locals to mutate beyond saving. The team experienced mutations that were temporary for Rifters but permanent for natives. They killed the locals and destroyed the ruins, but signs indicate this pool may have been only one of twelve.


REPORT:
Provost,

When it walks like the Blight and talks like the Blight, every once in a while, it isn't. But pretty close. Guess an entrance to the Deep Roads wasn't the only thing under Sarrux Pass.

We found elven ruins, Ancient or early Imperium, though exactly who built them and why isn't clear. Carvings on the walls showed a pair of elves (Ghilan'nain and maybe Anduil?) either healing or poisoning the humans and dwarves there, but none of us could agree which.

Whatever it used to be, it's poison now. Some kind of corrupted lyrium discharge, if I had to put a label on it. We found a big pool of it at the bottom of the ruins. Must have gotten into the well water, to change everybody in the village so fast. The Rifters in the group started changing too, as soon as they got near it, but the rest of us had to drink it.

See attached for details of specific transmutations of the flesh. Rifters that were exposed returned to their normal shapes at a similar rate as when exposed to raw, uncorrupted lyrium. The villagers were unrecoverable.

I bottled as much of it as I could, but the group decided the pool itself was too dangerous to be left intact. Ruins and bodies both are now buried under half the mountain, for all the good that does anybody.

The Warden is letting his people know. Considering how little we were able to bring back for study, I don't recommend sharing our samples, but it might be worth asking their expertise. Famously open and forthright, wardens.

- Porthmeus

ATTACHED: )

NEXT STEPS:
  • Experiment with the corrupted lyrium samples.
  • Don't touch them.
  • Don't put them in your mouth.
  • Keep an eye out for the other eleven pools.
  • Why was #1 Halla Mom Ghilan'nain's image all over this horrible lyrium experiment anyway?? Weird!
NOTES & LINKS: OOC post, IC log, and Tevinter Nights: The Horror of Hormak summary on Dragon Age Wiki.
 
 
09 January 2025 @ 09:15 pm

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.
 
 
01 December 2024 @ 04:55 pm

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Ness Tavane ([personal profile] aberratic, on behalf of The Forgotten (Julius, Bastien, Clarisse, Viktor (and Isaac)))
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: Player plot info! Basically: As far as everyone in the Gallows is concerned, the people Ness is talking about just straight up do not exist and never have.


[ the voice that comes over the crystal is a soft, somewhat frazzled soprano. other voices can be heard arguing behind her, but only the tones of frustration and suspicion are audible; the content of the discussion is indistinct. ]

Good afternoon, Riftwatch, this is Quartermaster Ennaris Tavane. Weโ€”that is, myself, the Seneschal, Griffon Keeper La Rue, and Messeres Bastien and Viktor, we are being barred from use of the ferry to re-enter the Gallows. Is there anyone available to vouch for us, please? We're all very tired from our return journey and have quite a lot of work to get back to.
 
 
19 October 2024 @ 08:57 pm

FORM: Magic book (and word of mouth + transcription for anyone who can't read).
SENDER: Bastien
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: Responses public unless otherwise stated so feel free to comment/threadjack. Deadline to sign up is October 24, 2024. You'll be PMed the name of your gift recipient(s) on October 25, and the deadline to ICly shoot them a comment with their gift will be November 2.


SECRET SATINA

To participate in this year's secret gift exchange for Satinalia please provide the following.

1. Name
2. Likes (colors, foods and flavors, genres, activities, and so on)
3. Dislikes (see above)
4. Deepest secret โ˜บ

If you choose to sign up your reluctant friends without telling them & they do not look in the book to notice & stop it, make sure you are also willing to get a gift for their assigned recipient on their behalves if they do not give in and participate.



 
 
14 October 2024 @ 03:52 pm

FORM: Crystals
SENDER: Isaac
RECIPIENT: Locked to Benedict, Julius, Kostos, Nell, Petrana, Strange. Marcus is optional. Vega is accidental.
NOTES: If you want to do these and aren't on the message, hmu OOC and we’ll get your dude involved!


The eluvians place certain opportunities in better reach. I've a list of actions and points we might address; fold them into your existing work, where able.

I trust that I needn't underscore the importance of discretion. Be mindful of those you involve, and if you must shout about all this, for fuck's sake use the filter.