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

[supersonic]

"Yes." He understands. It's a careful syllable, even here in the company of other mages, even when most of these mages rebelled themselves in some form or other, and are rebelling now. There is a world of difference between sitting idle in these bunks and cutting Templar throats in the dark.

"I suppose it requires that. Belief." Willpower, too, to keep making that choice, long after an easier option had presented itself. "But she does not seem to have so much egotism as—" as Magnus, "as I would expect to accompany it," he finishes instead, a tad wry.

Magnus might have led them to this same action, a strike to pressure the Inquisition into negotiation, if he were inclined to so nonviolent a solution, but there would not have been an equanimous discussion about it first. No votes would have been cast. This is a different sort of leadership than Pietro has grown accustomed to.