Literally the moment they gave him one

[toujoursdroit]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Romain de Coucy
RECIPIENT: Anyone + Gwenaëlle
WHAT: Someone is making an entrance
WHEN: Somewhat after the Winter Palace ... events
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Sorry he's so ... him. No warnings for now, though.

Good day, people of the Inquisition. I understand it's acceptable etiquette to pose general questions through this means. Mine is this: What resources, in your opinion, does the Inquisition most need at present?

Also, Gwenaëlle, if you are listening, please let me know where you are. I'm too old to go wandering up and down staircases at random.

Comments

[inagutterson]

D'you have ink and paper? I have a list.

[It's a long list. A longer list than a filthdemon is entitled to.]

I can take you to m'lady, I watch her quarters to keep out the riff-raff because you can't go two steps without tripping over a doglord here.

[toujoursdroit]

That is very chivalrous of you. Does she pay you to keep such a watch, or do you provide your services gratis?

[inagutterson]

That an insult? [That word is a big sounding word, what is that word?] I take my potatoes au gratin but I know her through my work, through the Boneflayers and Asher Hardie but I know her old man tried real hard to bury that one. Think it's why he went for me when I went to pay him a visit.

[toujoursdroit]

You and Comte Vauquelin had a scuffle, then? I'm afraid I didn't hear this story.

[He sounds genuinely as if he would enjoy hearing it now.]

[inagutterson]

Nearly everyone in Skyhold did. Tried to send a message to just m'lady, but he was after me so everyone heard. They know how poor his aim is too, how he missed that many times, I stood there for a long time. Felt almost bad for him.

He's not getting his spoons back if he's asked for the silverware. I need them. And I drank the brandy.

[It was a great night, a high speed getaway and everyone was screaming. Pretty sure he yelled at an elf on the crystals too.]

[rowancrowned]

[ also peed on that elf's tree. ]

[toujoursdroit]

I see. You can rest assured, the comte did not ask anything of me before I departed; I am not here to retrieve his flatware.

[You may be Romain's new favorite.]

[inagutterson]

You would've had to fight me for it. I'm rich in nugs. All vicious.

[They're not. They're just fat and lazy and useless but let us pretend.]

D'you know the comte very well? If he could've asked you things but apparently didn't care about his spoons, I mean that's good, you need high quality items in a time of war and we're very lacking up here.

[toujoursdroit]

My son-in-law has never cared for my company, despite his affection for my late daughter.

[And if that distaste is entirely mutual, well, there's no reason to spell that out in a public forum.]

I doubt very much the loss of the spoons has done much other than dent his pride, however.

[inagutterson]

So he's just always been a sour prune then?

[Just let him know if you need him to be a small pest. Or a large one. His fees are reasonable and he likes upsetting Orlesians.]

He couldn't stop a dwarf escaping his estate in a keg pulled by twenty nugs, him standing there with his shirt open. Has he always been like that? Didn't seem right to ask his daughter, you can only really ask dwarf girls things like that about their dads seeing as they're worse than their dads in most cases.

[toujoursdroit]

I am told there are many people who find the comte very charming.

[Mostly female people, in Romain's experience.]

That said, it would be disrespectful to my granddaughter to speculate on her father's inefficiency at guarding his property in a public venue. I am sure he had his reasons for allowing you to depart relatively unmolested.

[That reason could be that he simply enjoyed the moment's drama a bit too much, for instance, but Romain is refraining from speculation. Aloud.]

[inagutterson]

The drunk? The mad? Someone's embarrassing cousin six times removed?

[We've all got one of those. Yngvi is that to, like, twelve people.]

She didn't seem to mind more than making sure I got out safely. Even offered to pick up any belongings she didn't think she might want because I've got manners. [No he doesn't.]

[toujoursdroit]

My granddaughter enjoys a good piece of mischief, now and then. And a mischief-maker as well, it seems.

[It's dry, but not entirely unkind.]

[inagutterson]

If you're inclined the same way, you just have to ask for Yngvi Congealedinagutterson.

[Yes that is the actual surname he'd sign a document with.]

[toujoursdroit]

A name I doubt I'll forget. I am sure if you amuse my granddaughter I am likely to see you at some point during my stay in Skyhold.