The Evermarch Divine Trace Centre (EDTC)

A couple of days went by and Lorric had nearly forgotten about his ex-wife and the phone call to Bishop Thorman. Lorric worked as the manager of a call centre, a job that he did at home and usually he only kept the call centre workers in line, but occasionally, if they were short staffed or whatever he would take a call or two. Today was one of those days, and he was logged into the system, dealing with a recent backlog.
the script used by callers:
‘Hello Mrs Jarvis, my name is Raymond. I am calling on behalf of the Evermarch Temple. I am a layman, which means I am a non-ordained member of the Church. I am in no way affiliated with The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. I am calling to ask you a few questions about God if you don’t mind and have a moment. If now it not a good time, we can arrange a later date.’
‘Och well, I’d better get it over and done with.’
Mrs Jarvis knew the score, reflected Lorric. If you put off these tracer calls, you’d eventually end up with a uniformed church policeman at the door, or worse, a Committee representative. Usually even just mentioning the muta was enough to keep people on the line.
The process:
‘Not for me to say, Mrs Jarvis.’
‘Did he speak to you, love?’
‘He did not,’ admitted Lorric. ‘He spoke to only one in ten people, and most of it was Bible verses. Some of it was more interesting though.’
‘So I’ve heard. But you speak to him now, aye? That’s where all this goes, right?’
‘Not exactly, Mrs Jarvis. It’s true that tracers do make calls directly to God from time to time, but that’s not where these reports go. We transcribe them and send them to Merric College.’
‘Then what?’
‘As you have indicated that God spoke to you, you can expect a follow up call in the next six to eight weeks.’
‘Oh, right. I dinnae get off that lightly then?’ she joked.
And so it went on, Lorric took down her details and as he had told her, the information was all entered into a computer system on the Temple network. Lorric had no great interest in what happened after that. His job was simply to make sure the fifty or so tracers that worked under him kept on making their allotted amount of calls each day.
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Thorman seemed like a decent enough sort, but not very effective, a typical old school clergyman. Lorric did have a direct line to God, but it was such a codified and arcane process he’d probably have more luck with a message in a bottle. 
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