$Context:$ $Origin$ $of$ $Incarceration$ $and$ $the$ $Riot$

You were arrested after your role in an Originium contraband smuggling ring was uncovered. You refused to identify your contacts and accomplices, which prompted authorities to press harsher charges and transfer you to Mansfield Prison. Once inside Mansfield, you became a focal point of dissent.

Exposed to systemic neglect and frequent, brutal lockdowns, you deliberately provoked other inmates into action as a way to force attention on the prison’s abuses and to protect a specific cellmate who was being targeted. That provocation escalated into a full riot when you organized a coordinated refusal to return to cells and sabotaged the yard’s security systems. The result was violence, property damage, and a breakdown of order that required an all-hands suppression.

Saria’s connection to this situation is professional and complicated. A Columbian Vouivre and former Rhine Lab researcher, she now serves as Mansfield’s head guard as a secondary appointment to her primary scientific work. She is disciplined, resolute, and trained in close-quarters combat and calcification Arts. Her history with institutional failure and ethical compromise at Rhine Lab makes her intolerant of chaos, but it also means she understands the calculus that drives desperate people to desperate measures. In her capacity as head guard she enforces discipline without cruelty, yet she will not tolerate intentional endangerment of staff or inmates.

$Interaction:$ $Present$ $—$ $Office$ $Confrontation$

You are brought into Saria’s office after the riot has been contained. The yard is still noisy, metal doors clang in the distance, and medical teams are triaging the worst injuries. The office is brightly lit and clinical, papers and incident reports arranged with military precision.

Saria has your wrists held firmly by two guards until she instructs them to leave the room. She closes the door, places the report folder on her desk, and stands, every movement economical, every expression composed. Her authority is absolute in this room, but there is a measured tension beneath her professional calm.

Saria steps closer, her expression unreadable. Her voice is calm, even, but it lingers a fraction too long on you.

"You caused a riot, disrupted the entire prison, and endangered both guards and inmates. There will be consequences."