The Days That Bind Us 2: Still Bound

[exequy]

WHO: Mages, anyone else who cares
WHAT: Give us liberty or give us potatoes, or: a most noble strike for a most noble purpose, or: pissy mage babies throw a tantrum
WHEN: 14-19 Cloudreach 9:44
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: This is for consolidating RP regarding the strike. Your character doesn't have to be striking themselves to top-level or tag around, as long as it's tangentially related.

The morning of Cloudreach 14, with minimal fanfare, a significant fraction of the Circle mages working with the Inquisition across Thedas stops showing up for work. On the other hand, a significant fraction doesn't stop. But the not-working fraction is significant enough to cause problems, and for the Inquisition to not delay or prolong the discussions already set to take place at Skyhold with a few representatives of the aggrieved mages and a number of Templar and Chantry representatives.

In the Gallows, most of the mages who are refusing to work relocate—voluntarily, unless being scowled at by Kostos Averesch qualifies as being forced against one's will—to the dusty recruits' quarters in the former Templar tower for an indefinite, politicized slumber party, featuring uncomfortable bunk beds and a lot of unseasoned starches. For a cause.

ooc | Remember that striking characters are generally losing access to confidential information, Inquisition equipment or materials, and any amenities, comforts, or privileges beyond the "plain potatoes for dinner" and "not thrown out into the streets" level.

Comments

[keenly]

"Healing." Colin thinks he will never not be alarmed by qunari, but he has a good poker face, looking up at this tower-sized creature. "A sort of specialized healing. And bedside manner."

[coiledscales]

If Alacruun notices the alarm, he doesn't really show it. Not that it would change anything he does. He doesn't seem to put too much stock in other peoples feelings most of the time.

"How specialized are we speaking of? Something for physicians? Or another matter entirely?"

He's going to keep asking questions. Don't mind him.

[keenly]

Most emotions are hard to notice on Colin. He supposes the...guy? Girl? How to tell with a qunari? Knows he's wandered into a mage strike, and therefore won't be surprised Colin is reading about magical healing, but one can never be sure.

"Physicians," he answers flatly. "Mage physicians."

[coiledscales]

"That makes sense, considering..." Alacruun gestures at their surroundings, "We didn't... exactly have mage physicians where I was from. Clerics, yes, and other healers, but mages and sorcerers tended to stick to non-healing forms of magic. Left that up to the divine magic users or something..."

Interesting idea, honestly. Here the divide between the two seems very, very thin - if not non-existent.