crystal.

[byblow]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Alistair
RECIPIENT: Everybody everywhere
WHAT: Road games for everyone including those not on the road
WHEN: On the long trip from the Sunless Lands back to Kirkwall
NOTES: (1) Please threadjack and post your own would-you-rather top levels to your heart's content. (2) I think new rifters won't have their own official crystals until they get back to Kirkwall but please just have them participate over someone's shoulder or whatever else for fun.

I'm not actually walking across Ferelden again, because I'm not allowed to be in Ferelden, but if I were, you know, I think I would deserve some kind of medal. The Medal of Trudging. Awarded for walking clear across a country way too many times.

Anyway.

[ Anyway. The unspoken point is that he is bored, and it's time for a game. ]

Would you rather— [ continued in comments for organization's sake. ]

Comments

[thunderproof]

Fear, I think. I can handle pain well enough, and there's magic and medicine for that, but fear keeps one from doing things one needs to, and there's no magic for that.

[bouclier]

I agree. There seem to be spells to put fear into a person, but I've yet to hear of one that takes it out.

[thunderproof]

Though that does then make one wonder if a... courage spell could be figured it, just be doing the inverse of whatever you do for fear. Things to consider, I suppose.

❰ she'll talk to myr about it, he's better at magical theory. ❱

Would you rather be unable to feel love, or give up your dearest dream?

[justnice]

Bit of a raw deal if you dream of love, isn't it?

[thunderproof]

Mmm, you make a very good point. I hadn't considered that.

❰ a loooong pause. ❱

...I don't think I'm very good at this, honestly.

[justnice]

Don't reckon you can be good or bad at it. It's only a game.

Would you rather stay a month back there, [ at the back of their traveling group, finch waves his arms unnecessarily to the frozen wasteland slowly retreating behind them ] Or in the Anderfels?

[ probably it would help if she knew what those were like, buddy ]

[thunderproof]

Well, yes, but you can win games. This isn't one where winning is a concern, but you can certainly be good or bad at it.

❰ mmm, pedantry. ❱

I've never been to the Anderfels, I have no idea what their climate is like. I suppose not knowing, I'd choose the evil I know over the one I don't, but I might change my mind if I knew what these Anderfels are supposed to be like.

[justnice]

Just because you can, doesn't mean you've got to. It's not like rain, or seasons. People make it up.

[ ok so theo's been rubbing off a little ]

You've only got to be bad at it if you want to be. The Anderfels is — well it's all a big desert, right? And it's full of Darkspawn, those are. Well. They come out of the ground and they're awful.

[thunderproof]

❰ ...yeah, okay, sure. ❱

Mmm... Well, I'm not used to cold, so I think I could probably do better in a desert, and I'm not afraid of Darkspawn.

❰ which, maybe she should be, but still: she isn't. ❱

I'd go Anderfels, I think. What about you?

[justnice]

[ he's used to enough empty bravado that he doesn't stop to consider whether she might be serious — ]

Probably that's the better plan. They've got people and Wardens there, so you might make it a while.