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[openhands]

Who: Cassandra Pentaghast & YOU!!
Broadcast: Fleet-wide
Action: SS Marsiva
When: week of April 12-18

[When Cassandra wakes, she goes from sound asleep to alert in just a matter of a couple of seconds. She's out of bed immediately with a reflexive reach for weapons that aren't there. Naturally, this merits a frustrated growl, but no matter. She doesn't need a sword or shield to do some damage if she must to get out of...wherever this place is.]

[She scans the room with a little more scrutiny with a scowl before she notices the communicator and picks it up. Enjoy your new view of the ceiling, network, while she looks the device over in her hands because she doesn't understand why she has some vague sense of familiarity with it without ever having seen it before in her life. It's at least something to take her mind off the fact she has absolutely no idea how she got here in the first place.]

What is this?

[Answer her before books start getting stabbed, you guys.]

Comments

[openhands]

[Cassandra would not be quite so quick to admit to her pride, but it is most certainly there. At this point, she has been a Seeker longer than she has not and it matters a great deal to her.]

Yes. The Templars naturally did not hold any fondness for any visiting Seeker. They knew they were under investigation when one would arrive.

[grabthecheese]

No wonder you didn't find the corruption in time.

[She doesn't say it to be critical - just, to her, stating fact. Because any half-decent soldier would have more than one hiding spot prepared, and if you can't lie to a political then you won't last long in the army. Even if apparently Seekers don't belong to any army.]

[openhands]

Our transparency had nothing to do with it. Seekers have abilities different from that of Templars to get to the truth.

The problem was the same corruption had begun to spread among the Seekers.

[Those at the very top withheld so much knowledge and kept as many as they could in the dark.]

[grabthecheese]

Abilities? Like what?

[Because that sounds more worrying than anything.]

[openhands]

We are able to manipulate lyrium within Templars and mages both. [And to answer what she feels is likely the next question, since Polly seems to enjoy asking a lot of them,] Lyrium is a substance Templars take to enhance their own abilities. Mages use it to enhance their spells and hold onto consciousness when in the Fade.