we're not lost, we're on an adventure

[chainlightning]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Merrill
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Tips and tricks for navigating the city
WHEN: Now?
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: c:

Hello everyone! If you could do me a favor and not cut any of the long strands of twine you might see around the city, that would be wonderful. It's to help people get around. Myself included - lived here for years and I live for a while and can't remember where anything is!

[ Not that Merrill was very good at remembering where things were when she was in Kirkwall every day anyway, but. ]

If anyone else is having a hard time finding their way around, a ball of twine is the best way! It'll get you back to where you need to be.

Comments

[circleprodigy]

A ball of....well, as long as no one trips over the twine, I suppose.

If we (myself and my mabari) are nearby, you and anyone else are welcome to explore the area with us. Garahel has an excellent sense of direction.

[chainlightning]

Oh, I hope not! I do try to keep it out of the way.

That would be lovely, though! How are you- um, finding it, so far?

[circleprodigy]

It's...distracting, with the thin Veil. How did you cope with that?

Though otherwise, it reminds me a bit of Denerim.

[chainlightning]

It wasn't quite as thin, before. But- you just grow used to it, I suppose. And I already had a spirit speaking to me quite frequently, so I was used to that, too.

[ Merrill coped the way she always copes, really -- with smiles and pretending everything is fine until it actually was. ]

Really? I've never been- what's it like? What of Kirkwall reminds you of it?

[circleprodigy]

A friendly spirit, I assume? Most I have encountered thus far seem to be rather disruptive.

Denerim is loud and crowded...and it has its docks, too. I visited semi-recently, for nostalgia's sake.

[chainlightning]

Spirits have different definitions of 'friendly' than you and I do. All of them can be dangerous, just like any of us could be dangerous -- or disruptive. I'm sure that with everything going on more of them are likely to lash out.

Is it as hard to get around in as Kirkwall?

[circleprodigy]

That potential is always there, true. I hope that our current efforts will appease at least some of them.

It can be, at least to myself. I only remembered the alienage and then only vaguely. I was utterly lost anywhere else.

[chainlightning]

So do I. I think we'd all like to feel a little safer while sleeping, for starters.

Oh- I should see if anyone's moved into my old house in the alienage, come to think of it!

[circleprodigy]

If it's empty, I hope you can reclaim it if you like. It helps to have something familiar.

[chainlightning]

It's okay if it isn't, as long as it's someone who really needs the space. Not some other bandit or something. I can always stay with the Inquisition, after all -- with people who've become familiar.

But if it is empty, and I get it back, you should visit!

[circleprodigy]

I-- [She bites back all the reasons why she wouldn't fit in at the alienage, but...it's just a visit, not an intention to live there herself. Besides, she is a little curious about their vhenadahl.]

Let me know, then. If it happens and there is opportunity, I'll see what I can do.

[chainlightning]

I'll try to actually be a good host, too. I never have anything but water to offer anyone. And the roof leaked.

Maybe that's been fixed...