[OOC] The Sky is Falling!

[eolasemah]

Recently a rift opened in Skyhold itself. Although nobody saw it happen, it was rumored to have been opened by a mage native to Thedas and not one of the rifters.

There are damages to the courtyard from where buildings and vegetation have been singed and frozen and dented from the resulting demon battle. It looks a mess. This is a mess.

The purpose of this post is for general opinion gathering, rumormongering, and plotting for the fallout from this fiasco. If people can just open rifts wherever they want, what does this mean for the Inquisition? Can rifters do it, can regular mages do it? Why would someone within Skyhold and ostensibly part of the Inquisition do this in the first place? Why weren't snacks provided?

If you feel so inclined, reply with your character's reaction to the news (or the sight, or the battle) and what action they might want to take, if any. Plot, make CR, do the thing!

Comments

[arlathvhen]

Galadriel you are Beleth's favorite?? She can't do much to help but if there is anything she can do, Beleth will ask her to just say the word.

[arlathvhen]

Beleth won't directly address Cullen but she may do a lot of whispering when his back is turned and frowning in general. Ur not my real dad!!!

[arlathvhen]

It was an honest mistake, and nearly dying was punishment enough!!! But thank you.

[laurenande]

Oh Beleth <3 Galadriel will totally ask. Someone has to stand watch while she practices/experiments after all.

That this enables Beleth to watch some amazing/ridiculous magic non-native to Thedas is just a wonderful sidenote, right?

[fightingale]

c a s s a n d r a


they also can't scrutinise the shardholders, that would be bad

unfortunately it would be a waste of resources to have to spy on people within skyhold






sigghhhhhhhh

[arlathvhen]

you can trust her galadriel!! >:O

god yes she'd be so fascinated too

[stabsbooks]

rifts in skyhold are worse

[stabsbooks]

alas cassandra truly doesn't give a fuck whether anyone is watching her or not

[fightingale]

agreed

wwjd

[stabsbooks]

interrogate people

definitely

[fightingale]

and possibly kill the non-compliant

[stabsbooks]

seems legit

[tactical_alert]

assassinate some bears

[tactical_alert]

Seeker #2 mmmmostly shares the same opinions as Cassandra and Leliana. While he'd prefer Cass's interrogations to go a little more like diplomatic inquiries, information gathering is critical.

Once it's determined that Sina's incident was an accident, he'd like for the Mage Council to discuss appropriate action/reaction to a sharded mage practicing unknown magic in a public place. They must work with the Council and not against it if this whole tentative peace thing is supposed to happen, OKAY? (Thank the Maker that Cassandra's going to sit in the meeting. It's easy to forget sometimes that she's actually a reasonable person willing to work things out.)

As for anyone with a shard, he will suggest that there be some form of information exchange and training. Those who don't know what shards can do get informed. They should be occasionally free to those researching shards to be, well, researched. (Like a checkup, not like an experiment, thank you for the compassion, Adelaide.)

...Of course there's also now going to be the somewhat paranoid part of him thinking what if one of them decides to do this deliberately, what if someone goes out there somewhere and is actually their enemy and starts opening rifts aaaaaa-- but nobody on war table missions ever goes anywhere alone, so the only thing more he could do for that is say hey y'all ain't going out anymore, and not only is that not his call to make, but it's very unfair and...kind of silly. He knows it.

[gatheringstorm]

THANK YOU, Leliana. Korrin appreciates that support, especially since most mages don't have shards and hence have nothing to do with the incident in question. She's a little tired of the scapegoating.

[sunshinethroughgrey]

Switching to mage mode - really? Now that's fascinating ... were you all conscious?

[gatheringstorm]

Korrin will firmly point out that this isn't a mage issue, but a shard-bearer issue. Sometimes the two overlap, but not every mage has a shard and can open rifts, honest. And yes, she'll be against general mage supervision on the grounds that it's scapegoating.

[gatheringstorm]

Korrin's in agreement with ensuring that there isn't a repeat of what happened, but she'll firmly point out that this isn't an issue about mages in general. The majority of them don't have a shard and thus can't do anything about rifts, either opening or closing them. They can find answers without scapegoating.

[nadasharillen]

*quietly joins SDS*

[lennethvalkyrie]

We were. Two of us had some magical ability apart from the shards.

(No magic right Jamie?)

[theproperglove]

why WEREN'T there snacks provided, this was surely an oversight

Josephine is, of course, interested in finding out the causes of how this even happened and how to stop it from happening again, but she wants to do it nicely. She'll probably try and get the other advisors to pull their heads in if she thinks their methods are causing more trouble than good, but yes. If only every problem in the world could be solved through DIPLOMACY /waves hands

[sunshinethroughgrey]

I see ... so it is made easier if the Rifter in question has magic...

[sunshinethroughgrey]

Bethany brought cookies and tea, Ambassador. Here you go.

[perseverances]

Korrin, he has to look out for the safety of the entire Inquisition, and this is the second mage-related incident in the latest months. He's not trying to scapegoat any of the mages, but until a fix has been found, he's going to advocate the issue. And it's not because he was a former templar, but he knows of the power a mage wields.

[perseverances]

anders what are you doing