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

[samahl]

Cyril seems delighted by the show of magic more than anything. He is distracted by the book for a moment before returning his attention to Colin as he explained.

He doesn't fully understand a lot about what Colin is saying and will probably think of questions to ask about it later. But, for now, he thinks he gets the jist of it.

"That would mean that everything is far more connected than they teach. There would be some kind of energy connecting you and this book, right? Some thread we can't see or perceive. That makes the Fade less another place and more the same place, like you and this book are totally disconnected. Like you and I, or any other person aren't." He presses his lips together in thought.

"At least... perhaps it's like that." He sighs, forcing himself to not get any more carried away. "I wouldn't know, being disconnected myself. You'll have to tell me how it feels to you."

[keenly]

"You're not disconnected. That's the idea--everything is connected. You just can't see the threads to pull." A shrug, and he lets the book lower to the floor. "Like how dogs hear some sounds we can't, mages can access things other people can't. I could lift you in the air--I won't--but you couldn't do the same to me. So we're connected to each other, but that has nothing to do with which of us can or can't do the lifting. You'd need to ask Enchanter Averesch for more detailed theory. I was Harrowed very late, I didn't manage to learn much advanced theory."

[samahl]

"Wait a second. You could lift me into the air?" he asks. He wants to talk about the rest of what Colin is saying too, of course, but for a moment he is going to be distracted by that thought.

"How would that feel?"