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Entry tags:
- abby,
- benedict quintus artemaeus,
- byerly rutyer,
- cosima niehaus,
- derrica,
- ellie,
- james flint,
- julius,
- kostos averesch,
- loxley,
- marcus rowntree,
- matthias,
- petrana de cedoux,
- tsenka abendroth,
- yseult,
- { glimmer },
- { harrowhark nonagesimus },
- { joselyn smythe },
- { jude adjei },
- { laurentius vesperus },
- { richard gecko },
- { seth gecko },
- { tony stark }
open | full circle pt 1
WHO: Concerned mages/rifters/others
WHAT: An emergency meeting!
WHEN: Solace 20
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: Explanation in the OOC post. Please tag this like a network post. There are top-level comments to provide a little chronology/structure, but threadjack to your heart's content.
WHAT: An emergency meeting!
WHEN: Solace 20
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: Explanation in the OOC post. Please tag this like a network post. There are top-level comments to provide a little chronology/structure, but threadjack to your heart's content.
Before and during dinner on an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday, there's a chain of whispers (or notes, or perfectly audible comments from the particularly unsubtle) about an emergency meeting, at an evening hour, in a basement room, regarding a matter of concern to rifters and mages.
The basement part is probably unnecessary. It's certainly ineffective; the organization is too small, the Gallows too contained, and the halls too echoey for something arranged with this much finesse-wrecking haste to truly remain a secret. They could have done it in an empty office or the recreational dining hall, probably, and sat on chairs instead of storage crates. But Kostos picked the location, and he's dramatic. If nothing else it signals a clear intention to do this as unofficially as necessary.
Anyone who accepts the invitation (or just decides to come see what the fuss is about) will first encounter Marcus Rowntree, posted up outside the door like a bouncer, letting mages and rifters move through undisturbed but stepping in to question and likely bar the arrival of anyone else. Inside, Kostos is nothing but a dark scowl in the room's far corner, picking at a splinter of wood on a crate and not mustering a word of greeting for anyone who comes in. Derrica has parked herself within arm's reach of Kostos, a long gold-edged shawl spilling over one shoulder. Her diplomacy pin gleams from the front of her tunic. The worried pinch to her brow is the only outward sign of anxiety; otherwise, she is tightly contained, watching people enter. Julius–notably not in robes–is serious but calm as people come in, standing next to the ever-composed Madame de Cedoux.
Once as many people have arrived as seem likely to, Marcus closes the door, remaining beside it, and they explain what the problem is.
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I believe Brother Vesperus is asking where the line is drawn, and how else you suggest it be enforced. Unless you anticipate only one organization's members being capable of misconduct for the rest of time.
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How's Riftwatch deal with our internal bullshit? How do the mages at Skyhold do it? There's a place to start.
We're not gonna work out a whole system of laws at this meeting. We're stopping a power grab.
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[His face is indeed very straight.]
Lady Nonagesimus and I are only asking the same questions they will. You'll be harder to dismiss with an answer.
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We're doing the work to make something better. We aren't the ones they get to dismiss.
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[It seems to be a genuine, if relentless, question.]
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[ Brief interjection, hand reaching out for Ellie's arm as she speaks. ]
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For all crimes—Torture? Murder? Exploiting another's bodily autonomy? I imagine the Guard in Kirkwall would hang [soporati] anyone who wasn't a mage for those things.
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( or worse,
they are not altus, the vesperii, but they are more than well enough positioned to be quite familiar with the creativity allowed to the criminal mind with magic at its disposal. )
Or is it the position of the south that we Tevene are uniquely terrible.
( because no one is hesitating because the venatori are mages, yes. )
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(seinfeld voice: not that there's anything wrong with
thatbeing a southern mage.) ]And I said, the same as anyone else who has committed a criminal act. We are fortunate within Riftwatch to be able to dictate what that looks like, and for punishment to be meted out justly. Southern attitudes towards mages make that kind of objectivity difficult. I think you are both aware of that.
[ Regardless— ]
The proposal doesn't specify, as Brother Vesperus does. The proposal talks of uncontrollable mages. Not dangerous. Not criminal. Uncontrollable.
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What good would surrendering so much do this acting College?
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[ Hands spreading, space between filled with so many benefits to capitulation, but mostly— ]
It may never be defined. You see the usefulness of a word like that left unchecked.
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['Your.' Since they're not calling them southern.
(It's different in the North. There's every reason to continue the attachment of the Circles to the Imperial Chantry, as there are futures there in that relationship.)]
There must be people meeting in Cumberland who would consider well argued alternatives knowing the odds won't be in their favor forever.
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Fuck that. Fuck them.
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