An Important Survey

[offortune]

FORM: Hand-written and posted on the bulletin board, AND helpfully read aloud over the sending crystals.
SENDER: Rafael & Scipio, your friendly neighborhood layabouts
RECIPIENT: Everyone, like it or not
WHAT: An important survey written (and read) by two men with too much time on their hands and too few gloves obviously pro bono on behalf of the Inquisition to collect details, public opinion, and information to further refine and direct the practices and causes of said Inquisition. Helpfully. Informatively. And so forth.
WHEN: Mid-Wintermarch
WHERE: Skyhold, wherever sending crystals are
NOTES: Feel free to respond in text or audio! Replies will come from both Raf and Skip. Threadjacking highly encouraged!!

1. What is the most useless animal?

   1. If you had to be transformed into an animal what would you choose?

   2. Why would you not choose the most useless animal so that people would leave you alone?
      

2. Why do people want to go stand in the snow instead of at least going to a nice warm place even if it is full of Wardens?

3. Choose a better nickname for Skyhold.

   1. Some suggestions include:

      1. Skycold

      2. Snowhold

      3. Frozehold

      4. Frostbit shithole

4. Choose nicknames for the advisors. So far our favorites include Noodlehair Ruthotford, Josefiiiiiine, and Leliana (Isn't it a pretty name? Why mess with perfection? [We hear she'll stab us in our sleep.]). We are sure that you can all do better than these.

5. Choose a mascot for Skyhold. If you want it to be the same as the answer to #1 we're not going to argue.

6. Pick a motto for the Inquisition.

   1. Some suggestions:

      1. “The Hairy Eye Sees All”

      2. “A Lifetime of Cold”

      3. “Doing Some Good (And We Have Proof)”

7. What is the best thing to eat where you are from? Provide samples if possible. (Samples can be directed to SCIPIO AND RAFAEL at A TAVERN.)

8. If you could do one and only one magical spell, what would it be? (Mages do not need to answer.) (But they can if they want.)

9. List 3 cold weather tips.

10. Have you heard of Paul di Simone yet?

    1. If not, why not?

    2. What sort of cold and joyless rock do you live under precisely?

    3. Are you running to the Herald's Rest yet to hear the singer there do his songs?

    4. If yes, which of his masterpieces is your favorite?

Comments

[bunko]

Ah, but of course! You should know of him for he, too, was a poet. There has been none of his like ever born, and there never will be. By his own hand he wrote five hundreds of ballads and songs, of all sort and variety. The poetry of the words and the poetry of the tune were both his, and his fingers, they were like a silver, a gilded gift to all who heard him coax sweet melody from the strings of his lute.

[resought]

The weather is all that will stop you seeking the answers you seek?

[tsk, tsk

yeah now she's just being a shit]

[resought]

Are you telling me you're not able to go to these places?

[resought]

It will not be of any use if they spend all their time answering questions and destroying books [she heard that other thing] in the process, no!

[resought]

I'm aware of those who cannot write, but they read it aloud so they could hear. Collecting results via the sending crystals is far more efficient. Or in person, should that fail.

[paperwing]

[underneath the other two, nicely scripted:]

Please find them something to do

[bunko]

The songs that I have played for you are many. But the ones that are the best are the ones written by the very hands of Paule di Simone. These were your favorites, I am sure.

[Because Sabriel has good taste so of course she would like Paule di Simone.]

The ballad of the man who fights alone, in the forest's clearing. Do you remember that one?

[bunko]

[Oof, says Scipio, quietly, when he's elbowed just a little too hard, but he recovers well:]

But how fortuitous, for the Inquisition! For we know a man who has a specialty in the paper. There will be no lack.

[bunko]

Well--

[No, wait. A pause, as he considers. But the truth wins out.]

--Yes! You have been to the outside, yes?

[aforethought]

Yea but then folks got to listen too you

[bunko]

Peace! There will be no books that are destroyed.

[resought]

If you mean outside of Skyhold, of course I have. How do you think I came here in the first place?

[resought]

Then go out and ask!

[but alright, fine

she's usually the reasonable one so she'll back down

marginally

grumpy noises]

Are you quite certain?

[bunko]

The bears... Hm! Please, tell me more of this one. Were there two bears? I can think of the one of the two bears, and the woman, but if there is another then I would know it now.

[bunko]

Paule di Simone once Writ a Tune that grew feet so a girle could dance


[100% serious.]

[bunko]

[Also, added later by priority as second most important point:]

You Coulde make the soape.

[bunko]

[Even if he were able to write very well, Scipio might still skip (hah) over the point of Emprise du Lion. Politics and numbers (with the exception of profit) are not his forte, and his attempts to get philosophical require a translator.

Still. It gives him a moment of (very strange) pause, and he doesn't like it. This doesn't prevent him from writing back, this time on the back of Katniss' original reply.]

I like Nicknames! Notte as Much as it is I like hats if the hats they are Warme.

For a exchanged of hat, I will tell you, of Paul di Simone. You must knowe truely or I committ a Failure.

[bunko]

Yes.

You are Welcome.

[Because it's such a privilege to listen to them.]

[bunko]

But then you know of the cold! In Skyhold, it is cold--and without, too!

[bunko]

Oh yes, very certain. We will be happy to help the Inquisition with its parchment so no books need ever be destroyed. They are only lucky that Scipio and Rafael are here, or who would be turned to?

[all smooth confidence, so confident they might actually know a guy. because they do. (sort of.)]

[resought]

Ser, you're speaking with a Ferelden. If you think the cold bothers me, you'd be mistaken.

[resought]

So, if you get enough answers, this is something you will do?

[Right? You will, won't you? Of course you will.]

Scipio and Rafael, is it? I'll be sure to remember that.

[eolasemah]

Oh.

[She considers this.]

Can I hear them?

[aforethought]

[ You win, Skip. Tacked up to the board some time later: ]

1. Survey-makers
a. A Beyouteafull Butterfly
b. Is that why they do that?

2. Because wardens get folks killed. I guess thats not a funny answer

3. Sunnybeach

4. It does sort of look like noodles doesnt it. I dont think I can eat noodles any more.

5. Can it be noodles?

6. "Well higher pretty much any one"

7. Mushroom wine. If you can fined some Ill make it. Maybee check they arent the poison kineds. That ruinns a party


8. The kined that gives you free food & board for life. So pretty much any I figure

9. Light the cold on fire
Light yoreself on fire
Light someone elss on fire and get arressted. Then youll be indoors.

10. Who?

a. Well I dont know what were going to rename it yet
b. Ownly if you perrforem with him

[foodsofmypeople]

Looks like it to me