[IC/OOC] Fade Rift Inbox & Contact

[faithlikeaseed]

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[faithlikeaseed]

[He can't blame her in the least.]

Then I'll come off all the better for it.

[Not in his nature to try and show a fellow researcher up, but--]

Anything else you think we might've missed?

[elegiaque]

Have you studied the differences between the symptoms in the Templars and the rifters? Is there anyone else experiencing anything—what's the same, what's different? What do they have in common and what don't they?

What don't they share with those of us who haven't gotten sick, despite—

( you're imagining this awkward pause, shut up )

—contact?

( e x t e n s i v e contact )

Maybe that's worth looking at: those of us still in good health. Why?

[faithlikeaseed]

[He takes a moment to put his answers to those questions in order, to think; he's let himself be sloppy in the past out of exhaustion--]

Not as deeply as we might--it's hard with them spread out, as it is. The templars are stricken with it like they've missed their lyrium doses, but the symptoms come down much sooner than they ought. [Is there anyone else, she asks, and he thinks of the mages who've reported fatigue and falling spells. But that started before all of this and it's spread to Skyhold...] There's that fellow Fenris as well; something's wrong with his brands.

It's lyrium in the blood that makes a templar, and-- Being a creature of the Fade, [oh, how he dislikes the idea, but voicing it makes it firmer in his head,] that makes a rifter. Lyrium's tied to magic and the Fade, but if it were just that, we mages would have it, too.

Maybe all we'd need to come down with it is a massive dose of lyrium--though I'd not ask anyone to try that on a theory.

[A brief pause. Then:] Lady, has your family a symbol they're known by? [There's a reason for the question, really.]

[elegiaque]

A mermaid, ( in the thoughtful tone of someone considering the rest of what he's said, still, answering the last first. ) The family crest; she holds a sword in her right hand and a harp in her left. My grandparents selected it, when the title became a Vauquelin one; I have a locket that bears it.

So the illness hasn't spread out of Kirkwall. All the known rifters

( troubling thought there might be unknown rifters, but can't be entirely discounted )

are here, but not all the Templars are. All of the Templars in the Gallows have it, but we haven't any cases of former Templars in Kirkwall not attached to the Inquisition, and none outside of Kirkwall, so there is something that they, specifically, have in common here, something that they were all exposed to, through...obviously the rifter with the blood plague, but they didn't all see him, did they?

[faithlikeaseed]

[It's a vivid-enough description he can use it; the details of it are surely wrong, but it will do for a locus to store the memories of this conversation beneath. Third floor of the tower, around clockwise from the stairs, inner room--]

That's something I don't know to say as whether they had--but it'd seem safer to assume they didn't. Some of them had to be elsewhere when he was brought in, and he's-- [...He finds himself struggling with his own memory--rare feeling!--to retrieve something he'd noticed about the rifter. It slips his grasp.] --mm, don't remember. But might be worth asking them all if they did see him.

Or maybe they simply had to be close enough when he was brought here--close enough to the places where the Veil's already weak.

[elegiaque]

So we know: Templars and rifters. And Fenris, whatever the fuck he is. And we know "blood plague", and what it came from.

( A person, a rifter, the name escapes her. )

But for all of our arguing over whether or not it's contagious, we haven't actually established how any of them became ill, have we?