open

[inkindled]

WHO: Matthias, Nikos, Salvio (tbd if Doki, Val, and Darras will get open stuff. how did I get all of these characters) + YOU
WHAT: just open stuff, man
WHEN: NOW
WHERE: various
NOTES: tiny bit of self-harm but it's so small and it gets fixed so fast

Comments

[heirring]

Yes, of course. This one is much smaller-- [she is saying, and it is a rather more reasonable pile of papers; she also fumbles it thanks to the startled (equal parts horrified and enchanted) exclamation of:] --A MOLE!

[And so dumps the whole stack more onto Salvio than otherwise.]

[assistente]

Oh-- [Salvio tries to make a sort of cradle of his arms, to catch the small deluge of papers. Most of them smatter onto the ground despite this effort, scattering on the floor.] That's, you--

[He stoops to gather some of the straying pages. Another creak of joints; he winces, oddly balanced, one arm clasping paper to his chest, the other actively seeking other paper.]

I do not think it will be anything so-- so dramatic. As a mole. This is a very... Well. I cannot imagine it, in Riftwatch.

[skulltasm]

WOULDN'T THAT BE THE POINT? WHY WOULD ANYONE SUSPECT ONE IN SUCH A RINKY-DINK OPERATION LIKE THIS?

[ Now he's just being silly. Tugging at a loose thread in Salvio's calm. ]

FAR MORE LIKELY THAT IT'S JUST RUN BY INCOMPETENT BLOWHARDS.

[heirring]

[From where she is gathering the papers that have slipped to her side of the expansive drawer and shoving them in Salvio's direction, Wysteria shoots the Skull a sharp look.]

You're being very rude, you know.

[assistente]

[Now fully crouched on the floor, Salvio accepts each new folio from Wysteria with his free hand, and scrounges for the fallen pages between folios.]

It is in its nature. I think. The, um. Pithy observations. I do not mean that as a critique, just--perhaps it is not an intention, um, you know, rudeness, precisely. I suppose I might somewhat agree. Not--in Riftwatch, precisely, or exactly, in--organizations as a whole.

[skulltasm]

[ Higher pitched, defensive: ]

ALL I'M SAYING IS, IF SOMEBODY TOLD ME THAT THERE WAS A MOLE IN THE RANKS OF RIFTWATCH, AND I WEREN'T PRIVY TO ALL THE GOINGS-ON IN THIS PLACE, I'D PROBABLY LAUGH 'TIL MY BOTTOM RATTLED, WHEREVER IT IS.

WE ARE NEITHER LARGE ENOUGH NOR INFLUENTIAL ENOUGH FOR ANYONE TO EVEN SNIFF AT, MUCH LESS INVESTIGATE.

[heirring]

Come now, that's hardly true. We may not be large, I grant you, but surely we have been very influential in a great many respects. We are the only organization in all of Thedas which works to close rifts, for example. And we have connections - well, perhaps connections is a strong word. But relations, certainly, with a great many important figures abroad, such as-- Well, it cannot be denied that we were instrumental in seeing a great many people safely out of Nevarra City, for example.

[This all said in one long breath as she has worked a dozen more pieces of rescued paper into Salvio's possession.]

Besides, what we are doing now should hardly be the only subject which concerns a would-be saboteur. I would think what we might do could be just as compelling to such a person, and surely we are nothing if not suffused with possibility.