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[closed] gimme all your lovin', you sharp dressed man
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.
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.
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[ A significant loss. ]
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So you consider yourself subservient to an organization if you make use of its resources and personnel to serve your own goals?
[ Duly noted, you three pirates/pirate-adjacent people in the room. ]
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There is little value in our independence if we do not assert it from time to time. A declarative action to show without ambiguity the strength of our convictions.
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Rutyer is right.
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A shame the Ambassador didn't have his crystal handy to capture that declaration.
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[ No look of shock or even mild surprise from Byerly - a testament to his control more than to his actual feelings about hearing those words. Instead, after that quip, to Flint: ]
It does not seem excessively brutal?
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[The point of Madi's attention is not unlike a spike being set in preparation for driving it somewhere unpleasant.]
But why stop there?
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Go on.
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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.
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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.
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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. ]
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Fine.
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Yes.
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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. ]