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Fade Rift Mods ([personal profile] faderifting) wrote in [community profile] allthisshitisweird2019-01-01 01:40 pm

crystal malfunction memevent

crystals get fucked
(a meme slash tiny game event)

The Inquisition’s sending crystals are typically very reliable and not susceptible to accidental transmissions or misdelivered messages. They’re also fairly limited in function and security.

The latter is something that researchers in Skyhold are working to address, when they have the time. Unfortunately, one of them—maybe a little angry about having to work alone on First Day, maybe day drinking while she does so—has now made some significant errors while meddling with proposed improvements. And from the beginning of the day on Wintermarch 1, the sending crystals will start behaving badly:

  • Messages might transmit to the wrong person.
  • Messages might transmit to the right person but also a few additional unintended people.
  • Messages might transmit to everyone at once.
  • Pieces of old conversations from any point in the last year or so might leak, either to individuals or to everyone. Delayed messages of that sort will sound distant, like they’re coming from the end of a long tunnel.
  • Attempts to transition from a public to a private conversation will sometimes fail.
  • Crystals may start transmitting to people or to everyone at random, without being touched.
  • All of this could occur at any time—sometimes at the beginning of a conversation, sometimes midway through it, sometimes when someone isn’t using the crystal at all.

    The problems will start out sporadic enough to seem insignificant or like probable user errors, but grow increasingly common as the day wears on, until the issue is identified and corrected at Skyhold in the early hours of Wintermarch 2 and the tipsy researcher disciplined accordingly.

    This meme/event is game canon. You can decide among yourselves if there’s something you would rather try out for fun with no consequences and/or retcon after the fact, as always, but unless otherwise established by players, this is really happening. Threads done in this post can count toward activity rewards.

    Additionally, this specific post is for open top-levels that anyone can tag and threadjack. Think TFLN in style/format, missing pants optional. Don’t post closed or locked conversations here. If you want to do specific misfires with specific people, you can use inboxes. You can also post to the rookery comm if you want to use the event for a more visible gamewide open post.
  • limier: ([ red - intent ])

    [personal profile] limier 2019-01-02 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
    [ a pause. when she speaks again, it isn't any gentler. but: ]

    Helplessness may appear a comfort. The refrain, yes? There was nothing I could do.
    indissection: (022)

    [personal profile] indissection 2019-01-02 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
    [ A sigh. ]

    You’re not the first to say so.
    limier: ([ red - explain ])

    [personal profile] limier 2019-01-02 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
    You are not a child. You've position, wealth, leverage.

    I do not give a whit who you fuck — but I would not that you thought yourself weak.
    indissection: (041)

    [personal profile] indissection 2019-01-02 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
    I am not sleeping with anyone. [ Thankfully, or pitifully. ] I know where my strengths lie, ser.
    limier: ([ tan - explain ])

    [personal profile] limier 2019-01-02 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
    Then I trust you will make them of use.
    indissection: (043)

    [personal profile] indissection 2019-01-02 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
    I have been. The infirmary is much improved.
    limier: ([ tan: chat ])

    [personal profile] limier 2019-01-02 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
    My husband will take it a comfort.
    indissection: (012)

    [personal profile] indissection 2019-01-02 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
    Who might he be?
    limier: ([ tan - regard ])

    [personal profile] limier 2019-01-02 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
    Enchanter Vauquelin.

    [ occasionally posted to the infirmary ]
    indissection: (032)

    [personal profile] indissection 2019-01-02 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
    I have yet to make his acquaintance.
    limier: ([ tan - explain ])

    [personal profile] limier 2019-01-02 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
    His work is little called for within our walls.

    [ thank god no one here needs to be pregnant ]
    indissection: (024)

    [personal profile] indissection 2019-01-02 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
    Then I shan’t beg for an introduction. Instead I shall let my work speak on my behalf.
    limier: ([ yellow: comment ])

    [personal profile] limier 2019-01-02 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
    Inform us when it listens.
    indissection: (077)

    [personal profile] indissection 2019-01-02 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
    [ Wryly: ] Of course, ser.
    coquettish_trees: (surprise)

    [personal profile] coquettish_trees 2019-01-02 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
    [ sorry is that the sound of a Templar publicly and apparently legitimately married to a Mage with Gwenaëlle's erstwhile surname?

    G W E—

    wait it doesn't matter anymore does it.

    now back to our regularly scheduled handkerchief. ]
    faithlikeaseed: (Default)

    [personal profile] faithlikeaseed 2019-01-02 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
    [she’s not the only one noticing

    there’s rumors and then there’s that
    dissono: (012)

    [personal profile] dissono 2019-01-02 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
    ( dick game: fuck your chantry )
    limier: ([ teal - propose ])

    [personal profile] limier 2019-01-02 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
    [ distantly, as though spoken to someone else in passing: ]

    Until this cockup is sorted, might we avoid weeping into the bloody things —
    coquettish_trees: (how literally dare)

    [personal profile] coquettish_trees 2019-01-02 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
    [ a pause in the described activity.

    Was that to— it couldn't— wHY IS IT SENDING? Scramble of covers, quick thud of feet, turned off. Again.

    (And then put into a drawer in the kitchen somewhere.) ]