[ without preamble: ]
I thought I knew all the rebels in Kirkwall. Should I know you? Your voice sounds familiar, but your name doesn't.
I thought I knew all the rebels in Kirkwall. Should I know you? Your voice sounds familiar, but your name doesn't.
[ of course he's heard she's here. he's been very careful to hear who everyone in charge is. it's why he thinks, for several minutes, about just not replying —
what do you even say? 'you ripped a man in half in front of me'? 'i saved your life multiple times'? 'there was a windmill on fire'? probably that wouldn’t narrow it down much. ]
Kostos is a contact. I believe you and I met near Farwater.
[ that's a town as of now ]
what do you even say? 'you ripped a man in half in front of me'? 'i saved your life multiple times'? 'there was a windmill on fire'? probably that wouldn’t narrow it down much. ]
Kostos is a contact. I believe you and I met near Farwater.
[ that's a town as of now ]
way to make me spend five full minutes trying to figure out if i'd used the wrong roll/role
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galvanising
2018-04-04 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Farwater?
[ she has to think about that one, whether it rings any bells. the battles all began to run together after a while, but that name conjures up particularly ugly memories. a brutal fight, a near-pyrrhic victory. she couldn't name which scars came from Farwater as opposed to Green Hill or Markston or the Verge, but she knows it's a decent number. that does it. ]
The healer. The one I kept seeing. You told me I was going to have to start bringing lyrium if I expected you to keep patching me up so often.
[ or someone did. in her defense, she'd lost a lot of blood. ]
[ she has to think about that one, whether it rings any bells. the battles all began to run together after a while, but that name conjures up particularly ugly memories. a brutal fight, a near-pyrrhic victory. she couldn't name which scars came from Farwater as opposed to Green Hill or Markston or the Verge, but she knows it's a decent number. that does it. ]
The healer. The one I kept seeing. You told me I was going to have to start bringing lyrium if I expected you to keep patching me up so often.
[ or someone did. in her defense, she'd lost a lot of blood. ]
[ ah, memories. ]
If everyone kept your habits, I daresay we'd be in better shape for leverage.
[ but please don't start again. pls. it had — helped a little, in farwater, to be so dead on his feet. made everything a little more dream-like, a little less real. it hadn't really helped with running. ]
Isaac, [ he repeats, doesn't bother to add the title. it's only useful for fishing at opinion; they're well-settled there. ] And I can't imagine they told you of this freely.
[ if she trusted the heads to back this, there'd have been no point in privacy. ]
If everyone kept your habits, I daresay we'd be in better shape for leverage.
[ but please don't start again. pls. it had — helped a little, in farwater, to be so dead on his feet. made everything a little more dream-like, a little less real. it hadn't really helped with running. ]
Isaac, [ he repeats, doesn't bother to add the title. it's only useful for fishing at opinion; they're well-settled there. ] And I can't imagine they told you of this freely.
[ if she trusted the heads to back this, there'd have been no point in privacy. ]
[ if everyone was like her they would have won the war, nell thinks but does not say, instead of being stuck in this indefinite peace, nothing stable or safe about it to really earn the name. ]
Nell [ she replies, by reflex rather than necessity; he seems to know her already. ]
There are several mages on the Division Heads' staff. They're not as careful with their secrets as they might think.
Nell [ she replies, by reflex rather than necessity; he seems to know her already. ]
There are several mages on the Division Heads' staff. They're not as careful with their secrets as they might think.
More than several. [ and that says a deal: that none lead directly, ] De Fonce and Bonaventura; have you any notion where their sympathies lie?
[ a striking thing for a strike, if they might pull all supporting roles with them ]
[ a striking thing for a strike, if they might pull all supporting roles with them ]
Bonaventura lives with a qunari apostate, so I'd imagine she'd be sympathetic. De Fonce is an Orlesian noble, but seems to enjoy being lazy and perverse, so who knows. You think we should try for the full set?
Edited 2018-04-10 04:25 (UTC)
Why not? Some of what these Rifters practice is near enough to magic. If we're trading on our utility, we can't afford to be easily replaced.
Presumably a diplomat can keep from mentioning qunari apostates around anyone important, and we'll have someone who could entertain De Fonce. Do a card trick, or point out the window and shout: Look, a bird —
Presumably a diplomat can keep from mentioning qunari apostates around anyone important, and we'll have someone who could entertain De Fonce. Do a card trick, or point out the window and shout: Look, a bird —
Edited 2018-04-10 07:14 (UTC)
Are we counting flights of imaginative fancy?
[ that's a solid 'none' ]
[ that's a solid 'none' ]
Edited 2018-04-19 16:12 (UTC)
And I'd hoped for your thoughts of Minrathous.
[ blithe, as though that isn't a dig, and he isn't deeply suspicious of the inquiry -- ]
If you ask the right people, [ 'nevarrans' ] I spent a spell in Nevarra. Are you looking for recommendations?
[ blithe, as though that isn't a dig, and he isn't deeply suspicious of the inquiry -- ]
If you ask the right people, [ 'nevarrans' ] I spent a spell in Nevarra. Are you looking for recommendations?
Ghislain left something to be desired. As I expect did Antiva City.
Edited 2018-04-20 20:02 (UTC)
I could never be so disloyal to one of my home cities. Antiva City... when you looked out to see it seemed like the world was rich with possibility.
( Looking to the streets was another matter. Perhaps that was why Merchant Princes had such big estates - to obscure the view. )
( Looking to the streets was another matter. Perhaps that was why Merchant Princes had such big estates - to obscure the view. )
There's vantage from above, I'll grant.
[ better a tower than a tunnel. but he doesn't like where this conversation's heading. ]
[ better a tower than a tunnel. but he doesn't like where this conversation's heading. ]
Not a question of how much, but to whom.
[ certain parties are always heard — ]
Forgive me, is this a social call? I fear I've been distracted.
[ certain parties are always heard — ]
Forgive me, is this a social call? I fear I've been distracted.
[ There’s no preamble or warning—save his assurance over the crystals—but shortly after Isaac’s request, a large jar full of dead spiders shows up on his doorstep.
It would be really fucking creepy, if he hadn’t actually asked for them. ]
It would be really fucking creepy, if he hadn’t actually asked for them. ]
Enchanted to hear from you again, Delacroix. Who ratted me out?
[ it's amiable. he's not particularly concerned. ]
[ it's amiable. he's not particularly concerned. ]
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