Open | Seek sanctuary true

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Pel
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: An announcement
WHEN: Present
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: References to grief and loss.


This is Pel. I've just been informed that I will be transferring to Skyhold, effective as soon as I can pack my bags.

I requested this transfer. Between my position, my projects, my daughter, the death of one of the dearest friends I had in the world, I can't focus the way I need to. I'm missing my own child's infancy. Maybe it'll help to go somewhere quieter and do a less busy job.

You...you've all become my family. And if you need me, I'll be a crystal's call away. This is just something I have to do.
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Crystals | to members of the Rifts and the Veil and Elven Artifacts projects

FORM: Is this a written message sent by hand? By raven? Is it a message by sending crystal?
SENDER: Pel
RECIPIENT: Anyone in Elven Artifacts or Rifts & the Veil
WHAT: Announcement of a discussion session
WHEN: Present
WHERE: Gallows
NOTES: Follow-up to the discoveries made in the island elven ruins.


[Pel rattles off the talking points like she's reading them from a list and using the fewest possible words to convey them.]

Anyone in either the Veil project or the Artifacts project, please attend a joint meeting this afternoon if you're able. There will be food. It will be in the elven artifacts laboratory in the Gallows, so please remember not to touch anything you haven't been invited to touch. Thank you.

[Meeting log is here]

crystal

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Thranduil
RECIPIENT: Inquistion
WHAT: New, alive boss. (sorry, Val)
WHEN: Post Hello Kitty Island Adventure
WHERE: Kirkwall!
NOTES: Census time!



Good evening, fellow members of the Inquisition. I am Thranduil, a Rifter.

I have had the pleasure of meeting most of you during my time here in Thedas, numbering, at present, a little under two years. I have done my best to become a contributing member of the force dedicated to halting the monster known as Corypheus and his foul machinations across this land. As it becomes apparent that I may well be spending the rest of my life here, I have sought to educate myself on the manners and histories of Thedas so that I might be of better use to the Inquisition, who saw fit to host me and the others like me.

I have recently been appointed as the head of the Research division. I am honored and humbled by the appointment, and so vow to do my utmost to stand as an example of how we guests ought to conduct ourselves whilst also furthering the noble cause of the Inquisition.

[ he stops for a moment, to allow that to sink in, before continuing. ]

In that vein, I am announcing a reorganization of the division with an eye to the priorities most crucial to the Inquisition. Signing up for a meeting time may be done in person, as there is a schedule on my office door, located on the top floor of the Gallows, or over the crystals. I have no intention of requiring anyone to switch projects; rather, I wish to outline the standards I will be setting in place for communication, conduct, and reports.

Furthermore, and should they be willing, I welcome all project leaders who feel as though we have not yet properly become acquainted to come to my office and introduce themselves, as all members of the Inquisition ought to make use of the library and benefit from the information gathered by my department.

Again, it is a pleasure and an honor to hold this position. I thank you for your time.

[ gently, almost as an afterthought: ]

And, ah-- Maedhros Fëanorion, and Fingon Fingolfinion, [ why, sindarin naming conventions.] allow me to be the first to welcome you in kinship to Thedas. My office door is open to you as well.

[Private to Iskander, Petrana, and Beleth:]

I believe it would not be amiss to meet for dinner this evening, and discuss the new state of things. I have much to learn.

Sending Crystal; All

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Pel
RECIPIENT: All y'all
WHAT: Arcane Warrior training ad
WHEN: Present
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: Will update.
 
 
My name is Pel, or Woman-with-the-yarn-shop.  About...well, last year, I encountered an ancient pres--you know, if you want to hear the story, ask.  Right now, I'm just offering mages training to become what books obscure enough to write about it at all sometimes call Arcane Warriors.  A bit like Knight-enchanter magic.  Now I feel practiced enough to teach it, I'm offering.  And it needn't be only elves applying; best give the practice all the chance it has not to die off again.

And you'll need a sword.

Destroyed the Chantry, AMA

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Anders
RECIPIENT: Open
WHAT: Thedas' first AMA
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Darktown Clinic
NOTES: There could be discussion of abuse, physical and otherwise, and assault.


[There's a short intake of breath as if the person with the crystal is suddenly reconsidering this decision and wondering if it's a bad idea. That's because he is, and this probably also is. The pause that comes after is due to him debating if he should just put down the crystal and walk away or if he should charge on anyway.

The latter, as usual, wins out. Anders clears his throat.]


Good afternoon. Due to... I'm Anders.

[Master speechmaker.]

There is still a great deal of confusion and emotion connected to what I did and the site where it happened. In an effort to try to help, I am offering to answer questions. Ask them if you have them. I don't promise to answer everything. If something seems a deliberate attempt to be rude or provoke, I'll ignore it. But if you've a genuine interest in an answer, I will try to provide it.

[The message ends abruptly so that he can now take a shaky breath and sit down and wonder if he's just been an idiot.]

OPEN

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Pel
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Awkward question?
WHEN: Present
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: Fantastic racial slurs.


 
Why is 'knife-ear' worse than 'rabbit?'
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[personal profile] degenere2017-05-24 02:34 pm

crystal || OPEN.

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Val de Foncé
RECIPIENT: E V E R Y O N E
WHAT: researchers, meet your new boss. everyone else, give Val a high five. applications for Research Secretary now being collected.
WHEN: right now
WHERE: your ears

Research, Inquisition. [Hail and well met my dudes Val is still Orlesian. Note the accent.] If this word does not thrill you as it does me, we have very little to speak of. In fact we may not have spoken at all. In Val Royeaux, at the University, I and my friends are well known for all of the research that we have contributed to the vast stores of knowledge that are contained within our much beloved and greatly venerated University.

And I am pleased now to inform you, Inquisition, that I have been made Head of Research for this very organization that we all name as our own. A very wise choice. There are so very few that possess my credentials, experience, and charm. It is my belief that we, as a division, shall far surpass the work of all other divisions. For our purpose is not only superior: it is clearer, too.

[In a more serious tone, now:] To those lucky enough to be working on research projects for the Inquisition, I am requesting that all work you have amassed on each topic be put into the fires and burned. [And a pause before, more cheerfully:] No! Do not do that. What I mean is, we start anew, together. But you must submit your work to me for a metaphorical burning. I shall burn it with my critique. I require at the very least a written proposal for the work you are conducting. If a project has begun, let us visit it together.

I shall also require a secretary. Chief duties for this position will be, of course, reading project proposals. Please, make an introduction and submit your credentials to me in my office forthwith. You need not be a member of our research efforts, but you must have a keen interest in reading terrible handwriting.

[And generally doing all the work but that part remains unsaid.]

And! To those that might contest my selection, I shall quote the translation of a rustic proverb found engraved upon the wall of Orzammar, taught to me by my very dear Baroness Frédérique: may a demon eat your arse.
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[personal profile] arlathvhen2017-04-10 09:56 pm

Casting down bad memories

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Beleth Ashara
RECIPIENT: Everyone who's part of the first group to Kirkwall
WHAT: Discussing what's to be done about the statues
WHEN: Sometime between Cloudreach 14th and 20th
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: This isn't an Official Poll that's going to decide things but it's a good way for people to throw out suggestions for voting on and discuss ideas


Good day, to every member of the Inquisition currently helping take care of the Gallows. We've been making some amazing progress, and I'm sure that our contributions will give this place the overhaul that it desperately needs. With time, the Gallows will become a symbol of hope, rather than despair.

If I may, I'd like to take time to discuss ideas for one of those symbols. Specifically, those horrid statues that are strewn about. Now that they will...probably no longer attempt to kill us.

I've been informed that there are artisans willing to melt down the statues and create new ones to be put in their place. Additionally, our group has been given permission to choose what kind of statues would be put up there. Suffice to say, whatever we go with will make a statement about our goals here. The Inquisition is trusting us to make sure that statement is positive.

So, I would like to discuss possibilities with everyone, and see if we can get some good ideas going.

To start the ball rolling, if it's alright, I'd like to share my own proposal. Of course, this is only a suggestion, and I welcome any other voices.

I propose that we have the statues remade to represent the diverse groups within the Inquisition. Have a statue of a dwarf, another of a Dalish, another of a mage, etc, etc. It would send a message of cooperation and coexistence, and hopefully promote such in our new home.

The floor is open for further suggestions.

sending crystal

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Pel
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Bored insomniac crap
WHEN: Current, an hour or two after the Kirkwall announcement
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES:


What's a good name for a sword?

[beat]

Not Alexander.
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Griffon gripes

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Freddie, Val, and Jehan (your favorites!)
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: A Griffon Grievance
WHEN: Now
WHERE: Everywhere
NOTES: Can we say a group of griffons is called a grievance? A grievance of griffons?

Inquisition.

[This is Val. Don’t stop listening, his tone is grave and serious, which means what follows will be equally grave and serious.]

When one thinks of the noblest of creatures, beasts of the air, one must first and always think of griffons. The dragon, she has a certain unspeakable loveliness, a loveliness of her form, in all her savage glory, but if the word to meditate upon is nobility, then it is the griffon that comes first to mind. On this, we can all agree, yes?

Read more... )
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[personal profile] dalishious2017-01-30 05:20 pm

missing one (1) really big qunari

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Merrick
RECIPIENT: all y'all
WHAT: When you can't find a gigantic qunari you know something's up
WHEN: post-Halamshiral
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: sad elf

[ Well here's a voice you don't hear very often. In fact, this is the first time Merrick has addressed the network ever. Are nugs flying somewhere? It's important, though, because while he did make a posting about this, he doesn't feel like it's enough. He mumbles softly in a deep, heavily accented voice: ]

Someone is missing. His name is Metaari. He is a qunari, over two meters tall, with curled horns and-- violet eyes. We got separated at Halamshiral. He has not returned.

I'm going to go find him. But-- [ He says this with great difficulty. ] If anyone has any information about where he might be, tell me.

[ A pause. ]

Please.

Sending Crystals - Open

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Pel
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: When you have to name a thing and don't have a name for the thing
WHEN: Not during the Winter Palace events
WHERE: Skyhold + pretty much everywhere
NOTES: Baby names.


So I'm having a baby. And it's not really working thinking of names for baby boys that I like. Girls are easier, I don't know why. So. If you like a boys' name, tell me what it is. My friend Alistair is here with me, and if he can make a joke about the name you suggest--

A mean joke, [Alistair interjects in the background.]

--a mean joke, it's rejected automatically. So. Think of it like a game. If you can stump him, you get a prize.
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Help Wanted

FORM: Written flyer
SENDER: Pel
RECIPIENT: Skyhold, generally
WHAT: Help Wanted ad
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Will update.


NEEDED: sword master
must be willing to work with elves
must be willing to work with differing techniques while still offering guidance
pay depends on experience
please attach response to this note

Backdated - Harvestmere 4

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Pel, Sina, and Herian
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Quick "we're not dead" announcement
WHEN: Harvestmere 3
WHERE: Near Halamshiral
NOTES: Talk of violence, arson.


We're all right. Herian, Sina and I. I don't know who--what the Inquisition knows about what happened, but we were having negotiations with Clan Grymusseth and they took us. It was a trap all along.

We're back at the Inquisition camp being tended to. Their camp is on fire.

[OOC: Put the name(s) of the people you want your character to address (Sina, Herian, or Pel) in the subject line. Their disappearance lasted for hours after a negotiation began, so the local Inquisition camp began rescue efforts before they reappeared. If you want your character to have heard about this, feel free.]
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[personal profile] ombranera2016-08-11 09:03 pm

[ OPEN ] Sesso, Carcere, Sangue, o La Fama

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Zevran Arainai
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Brief Announcement, Sex, Jail, Blood, or Fame?
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Kestrel House
NOTES: Possible mature themes and stuff.


As of this moment I would like to announce the availability of my Kestrels for contracts. Any marks that align with the desires of the Inquisition will be given a discount, any requests from the Inquisition proper will be done Gratis. Likewise if you feel you are skilled in the art of subterfuge and murder and would wish a guild with which to align yourself we've opened our ranks.

Serious business aside- we are scattered quite a ways now, we members of the Inquisition, and the months have been quite hard, there has been much traveling, much fighting, and I am willing to bet more than a few wild nights in the past few weeks. The time has come, I think, for another Antivan Game. Sesso, Carcere, Sangue, o La Fama.

The rules are simple: you share a sultry tale of a carnal evening, a time you spent in or around a prison for whatever reason, personal injury from which you have recovered, or an incident meeting with someone famous. A musician, a composer, a member of those that saved the world during the fifth blight, the Champion- etc. I have a fine bottle of Antivan brandy that will go to the most remarkable and engaging of these tales upon your return should you be in Orlais, or in the morning after all the tales have been told. Be as elaborate or as brief as you like, and should you find any tale in particular quite entertaining and think it ought to win? Say so. I shall consider all opinions equally.
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[personal profile] byblow2016-07-26 09:14 pm

EMERGENCY QUERY

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Alistair
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: A matter of life or death
WHEN: Wibbly wobbly timey wimey
WHERE: Everywhere
NOTES: Fuzzy art



So. Inquisition.

[ It's been a few hours since he was traumatized by the sudden appearance of a fuzzy painting of the late Cailan Theirin's overly familiar face, by now, so Alistair doesn't sound too rattled. A little rattled, maybe. But not too. ]

Burning art—does that make you a bad person?

[ Follow up-questions: ]

What if it's really bad art?

What if it's really bad art of a dead king you owe some degree of allegiance to?

--and whoever did this, I'll get you.
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Riddles on the Road

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Pel Ashara
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Just riddles.
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Orlais and everywhere else
NOTES: Will update with any warnings.


[Pel is restless, and possibly a little bored. Sometimes, you have to walk away from work for a few minutes and do something else. But Pel doesn't like to shut off her brain. So she speaks into the stone, voice mild and thoughtful.]

Anyone up for an exchange of riddles?

I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?
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[personal profile] degenere2016-07-07 01:17 pm

open ||

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Val de Foncé (and with him, as always, is Jehan Mercier)
RECIPIENT: e v e r y o n e
WHAT: the scholars of Orlais have something to say.
WHEN: now, right now
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: aren't they charming.


Inquisition, we are confused.

[Melodious, Orlesian, flirtatious (somehow even in this most simple of sentences): these are three words one might use to describe the sound of Val's voice. It makes confused sound kind of fun, if a bit puzzling.]

My friend and I have come all this way to be an asset to you. And now we have arrived here, to your Skyhold, and we find so much to be in want. How have you all managed so far, with these conditions? I am a man used to the roughness of a camp, a life of travel. I love this life. You'll find no one loves it more than me. But a camp, that is one thing, and this? It is meant to be a city, of a sort. Yet there is no apartment for us. There is barely a work space, in your library--we have been, my friend and I. We have seen the conditions. There is barely a book there.

I am sorry for you, Inquisition.

[So sincere. A pause, in which he has pressed a hand to his chest, in a deep show of pity. And then, briskly, cheerfully:]

But we will not leave you there, in sorrow. The good news. You now have, among your numbers, me. An introduction: Valentine de Foncé, a master architect, among many other masteries, too numerous to name. If you ask sweetly, I'll tell you them all. If you ask very sweetly, I'll give demonstration. And for the Inquisition, I will offer my services, and my knowledge--and so, too, does my friend. If only so we can get a decent space in which we can do our work. And believe me: you want this. We have arrived to be your greatest blessing.

Now, tell me. With business sorted: what does anyone do for fun around here?

Sending crystal announcement

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Pel Ashara
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Announcing the publication of her first book
WHEN: After Weisshaupt/Western Approach things calm down a bit
WHERE: Skyhold


[A somewhat monotone voice is heard over the crystals.]

It's Pel. Of Clan Ashara. I've written a book and it's published now. It's about Dalish culture. I will be selling it at my yarn shop until the new Divine is elected, at which point it will be banned because it's a book about elves written by an elf. So buy it while you can.

[What? She's not a hawker. She's not a beggar, either.

She'll hang around on the crystal in case anyone has questions.]
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[personal profile] ombranera2016-05-18 04:58 pm

[ CLOSED ] Loose lips endanger children

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Zevran Arainai
RECIPIENT: Mia Rutherford, Vivienne, Pel Ashra, Anders, Leliana, Alejandro
WHAT: SOMEONE TOLD
WHEN: After a mysterious delivery
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Message is sent individually rather than as a group broadcast, consider this a series of private calls/conversations. There will be swearing


I have trusted you with my greatest treasure and secret and while, yes, I have come to the decision that I will be keeping Luciano and raising him myself here in Skyhold and that I am comfortable allowing people I trust come to know of him-

That does not mean I am comfortable of random envoys being sent to deliver knit goods and gold to my doorstep!

Now not only does the man sent them know, that envoy knows. An Orlesian envoy- who are not known for their discretion or integrity in the face of pain or bribery. I should know, I threatened their employer from them with little more than a glare. Whomever they might have spoken to on the way to Skyhold might know!