[closed] gimme all your lovin', you sharp dressed man

[bouchonne]

WHO: Your Division Heads (Byerly, Flint, Thranduil, and Yseult) and Your Pirate Power Couple (Silver and Madi).
WHAT: Let's talk about retribution for war crimes.
WHEN: Eh.
WHERE: The Diplomacy office
NOTES: No set tag order! Tap in when it seems right.

So.

[ They're gathered in the Diplomacy offices. Everyone has been offered a glass of wine, or something stronger - this unpleasant discussion probably merits something stronger - and offered a place to sit.

By speaks to Silver and to Madi: ]

If you would: a brief précis of the situation in the town, and your proposal.

Comments

[katabasis]

[Unsurprisingly, he needs little prompting. It's almost as if someone wrote this diatribe earlier and then cut it, thinking 'Shut up, Flint.']

We have the Mayor's confession. Send Bastien with an elf and a mage to serve copies to both the local magistrates and to the Chantry. Allow them to pressure one another into action. The devout can be outraged that the shrine was desecrated; Pérouges' neighbors will resent that Tevinter was allowed such a foothold. Celene - if she hears of this, and we should make certain she or the Marquise of the Dales does - can use the Chantry's actions as an endorsement of her own stance on the role elves should play in Orlais. All Riftwatch need do is make it clear that our responsibility is to the alienage. No one but the accused benefits by disputing our part in it, so even if the point is raised it won't travel far.

Rutyer is right, but their concerns aren't unfounded, [he says with a nod to John and Madi.] If the Chantry chooses to prosecute Pérogues based solely on their involvement with Tevinter mages, there will be people who understand that as a threat. And if we report this only to the Chantry, all anyone will see is that Riftwatch acts in deference to it. Whatever your opinion on the relationship between us, it benefits our work that we be seen as an ally to it rather than as an extension.

[bouchonne]

[ By tilts his head thoughtfully from side to side. ]

I had been thinking that we'd keep our name out of it - use agents, rather than make our part in this public. So that any backlash, if it came, wouldn't fall on us. And it's not as though we need more of a reputation for sympathy to elves. But if we were to do this openly, the Commander's proposal is a good one.

[filotimo]

[ Madi's attention shifts from Flint to sweep over the others in the room, gauging the reception, then falls to John. ]

[hornswoggle]

[ John holds her gaze for a long moment, but volunteers nothing else.

Yes, he had framed his ideas on the idea that Riftwatch stay out of it. But if they are to move openly—

That's a different maneuver altogether. He is not inherently opposed to it. ]

[hassaran]

[ Flint's immediate lengthy answer results in a momentary flattening of Yseult's gaze into the middle distance. When he is finished, and Byerly's addendum as well, she nods. ]

Fine.

[katabasis]

[He looks to her, eyebrows rising. It's sharp, unmitigated flicker of surprise before Flint settles all the way back into his chair. His attention slides around the room until it finds its way back to Silver and Madi: Fine, she says.]

[filotimo]

Fine?

[hassaran]

[ Whatever satisfaction Yseult may feel at having won that unguarded reaction from Flint, she offers no corresponding glimpse. She keeps him in her peripheral vision before turning at measured pace to Madi. ]

Yes.

[hornswoggle]

[ Rather than ask a third time, which to John feels like betraying too much— ]

Mhavos then, to accompany Bastien? And Speaker Fabria, if he'll oblige us?

[ Messengers who can deliver sensationally devastating news without causing too much of a stir on their own. ]