[Yes, both of those are highly legitimate points. There are hardly any semantic details which she could wish to contest—there are clearly ways in which one might acquire and anchor, and rifters are at this point seemingly inevitable occurrences and so it seems unlikely they will run out of anchors any time soon; they don't know that rifters disappear into nothing at all when they go; it's not as if the loss of the anchor would make him useless to Rifwatch—and so instead of doing that, Wysteria begins again:]
Well, perhaps we might consider the behavior of the Gates. If we observe the patterns detected by the thaumoscope, they seem to have been stabilized in a sense by the Taint. Of course I'm not suggesting that we infect anyone with the Blight. I only wonder if the anchor's arcane energies at all mirror those ordinarily expressed by a rift, then perhaps we might find some way of artificially mimicking a contrasting flow of energy to balance it and so avoid both the big chop and— [y'know] The other thing.
This is obviously all highly theoretical. But it does seem to me that there may be some precedent waiting directly under out nose.
Lyrium has similar behaviours, right? More like a blank canvas than something active like the Blight, but it's a natural energy source tied into the Fade. Maybe this loops back to your little science project.
The Venatori weren't just Blighting the rifts willy-nilly either, they had to be doing some other nonsense to stabilise it.
I honestly don't understand how they're blighting the rifts to begin with. How on earth do you poison— Well, that's not really the point which we're pursuing. I suppose lyrium could be used in some sense if we could find the correct way to... [What? She struggles for the right phrasing. This is all so tenuous that it feels like a sort of make believe.] Control it? Direct it?
Maybe there's some way of—oh, don't say this to anyone else because I'm certain everyone will be highly offended if I say so, but Fenris has had lyrium laid into him directly. Perhaps in a Rifter something in a similar vein—that's not a pun, I mean it—could serve as a tether of some kind.
—You see, this is exactly why Mister Dickerson and I's science project ought to be of interest to the whole company.
[ But like, not no, only that it's too early a thought to start shaking down traumatised slave elves about the horrific experimentations done to their body. ]
Keep me updated. And if you get anyone killed, please make sure I'm not the last asshole to hear about it, okay? Also don't get anyone killed.
[Primly, in tones of 'Please, Mister Stark. I've considered this possibility and have ruled it out as highly unlikely'—]
Mister Dickerson and I mean to conduct the work with all due caution and respect to the various documentation that has preceded it, I assure you. We're not going to get anyone killed. That would be monstrous. And if something proves to be even slightly more dangerous than anticipated, I'll see that you're informed.
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[Yes, both of those are highly legitimate points. There are hardly any semantic details which she could wish to contest—there are clearly ways in which one might acquire and anchor, and rifters are at this point seemingly inevitable occurrences and so it seems unlikely they will run out of anchors any time soon; they don't know that rifters disappear into nothing at all when they go; it's not as if the loss of the anchor would make him useless to Rifwatch—and so instead of doing that, Wysteria begins again:]
Well, perhaps we might consider the behavior of the Gates. If we observe the patterns detected by the thaumoscope, they seem to have been stabilized in a sense by the Taint. Of course I'm not suggesting that we infect anyone with the Blight. I only wonder if the anchor's arcane energies at all mirror those ordinarily expressed by a rift, then perhaps we might find some way of artificially mimicking a contrasting flow of energy to balance it and so avoid both the big chop and— [y'know] The other thing.
This is obviously all highly theoretical. But it does seem to me that there may be some precedent waiting directly under out nose.
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Lyrium has similar behaviours, right? More like a blank canvas than something active like the Blight, but it's a natural energy source tied into the Fade. Maybe this loops back to your little science project.
The Venatori weren't just Blighting the rifts willy-nilly either, they had to be doing some other nonsense to stabilise it.
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Maybe there's some way of—oh, don't say this to anyone else because I'm certain everyone will be highly offended if I say so, but Fenris has had lyrium laid into him directly. Perhaps in a Rifter something in a similar vein—that's not a pun, I mean it—could serve as a tether of some kind.
—You see, this is exactly why Mister Dickerson and I's science project ought to be of interest to the whole company.
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[ But like, not no, only that it's too early a thought to start shaking down traumatised slave elves about the horrific experimentations done to their body. ]
Keep me updated. And if you get anyone killed, please make sure I'm not the last asshole to hear about it, okay? Also don't get anyone killed.
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Mister Dickerson and I mean to conduct the work with all due caution and respect to the various documentation that has preceded it, I assure you. We're not going to get anyone killed. That would be monstrous. And if something proves to be even slightly more dangerous than anticipated, I'll see that you're informed.
[Wow, check out how responsible she is!]
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Great.
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Great. I look forward to experimenting on you.
[On. With. Tomato, tomahto.]