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?

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[paperwing]

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sigh.]

[bunko]

[ :) :) :) :)

unless that was an audible sigh and then come on you'll hurt his feelings]

[paperwing]

[it was a sigh of many things, one of exasperation and one of "i can't believe i associate with these two and i have feelings for one of them".

but it was also very quiet so you probably didn't hear it.]

Again?

[bunko]

Sabriel!

[Cheerful enough that yes: he did not hear the sigh. Or, if he did hear it, he is choosing to ignore it.]

It is good, to hear from you! But you must tell me, please: you have heard of Paul di Simone, yes?

[paperwing]

[She is not, as one might suspect, angry. Or annoyed. Just exasperated because here we are. Again.

Except now she's sheepish because: no. She hasn't.]

Only what you have said of him. And the songs that I assume are his?

[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?

[paperwing]

[You get a laugh, Skip! Shocking.] You sound quite confident in my favourites.

[He's probably right, but he'll have to play more of them for her to be certain. For... scientific reasons. Like which are her favourites and which are not. Yes.

She considers.] A little. Remind me how it goes?

[Not that she just wants to hear him sing.]

[bunko]

Ah, and you will forgive me, my forward--but of course they were your favorites! For you are a woman of taste. This, I know. And a woman of taste, she will always love the songs of the great bard Paule di Simone.

[A compliment to her coupled with a compliment to di Simone. Scipio congratulates himself mentally. Well done.]

But the song! 'Il Pugile', he called it. The man who fights, with the fists. I confess that I know it best by the Antivan, but still, you can feel his spirit in it--

[No starting note needed. This one, he knows by heart.]

Nella radura c'è un pugile, E un lottatore per il suo settore, E porta con sè i ricordi, and then he cries that he is leaving, this fight is one he abandons, but he cannot. He must remain. It is his anima, his soul. And then the chorus, all can sing with the chorus. "Lie la lie," and on, and on. A sad song, but a song of beauty, a song that speaks of time that passes from us.

[paperwing]

I admit that as you most often sing his songs, they most likely are. [But is that because they were written by Paule di Simone, or that they were then sung by Scipio the Marvel? Who gets the credit? A mystery.] Though, I am fond of the tunes you play for a specific moment. Those would be my favourites.

[She can pick apart some Antivan, but she does get the gist of it, nevertheless. Ah, yes. She remembers.]

Il Pugile. Is that one your favourite?

[bunko]

Oh, I could never choose one favorite. Such a thing, it is impossible. I would choose at least five, and even then, it would be only under the threat. Il Puglie, this would be among those five.

[Though he does manage a pause in his fanaticism to consider what she has said.]

A specific moment? Ah, do you mean--in conversation?

[paperwing]

But it is one of those favourites. Have I heard the other four?

Similar to that, yes. When you pick out a tune based on what has been said, on memories and thoughts.

[bunko]

You have, yes! I play the songs of Paule di Simone most of all. When I play these favorites for you, you will of course remember. I played them as we traveled, those nights, because they are a comfort.

Ah, but your words are very kind. My tunes are very humble. How can these be your favorites?