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

[rathercommon]

But how much longer can the parchment last? It's a long and complicated process, making it, isn't it.

[bunko]

But there will always be books, yes?

[rathercommon]

[ Hold the phone. Sending crystal. Whatever. ]

What about books.

[bunko]

A book can be used in many ways, yes? For parchment, most especially. There are many empty pages, or pages that are most found empty.

[rathercommon]

So we cut pages from them.

[bunko]

If we must. It is the thing of sense to do.

[rathercommon]

And what about the writing already on it?

[bunko]

You would, of course, write around the other writings. Or choose the pages that are blanked.

[rathercommon]

[ She grunts, a little bit appeased. ]

There aren't many blank pages. That's the thing about precious resources - they tend to be well-rationed.

[bunko]

There's pages at the front end, yes? And the back end? That is two. And two for each book, on the shelves that are here--that is a good many.

[rathercommon]

Not necessarily! I mean - sometimes. But not often.

[bunko]

Ah, but sometimes is a good start!

[rathercommon]

Well, yeah, but - what if we need those pages for other purposes? Like making notes about what's in the books!

[bunko]

But there are those spaces, that are besides the writing. The writing, it is framed by blank spaces.

[rathercommon]

Those are only big enough for really short notes.

[bunko]

So, then, you would take care to write short notes, and in a short hand.

[rathercommon]

And if I have a lot to say?

[bunko]

Why would you have so much to say?

[rathercommon]

About a book I'm reading?

[ In spite of her (affected) tartness, that draws a laugh out of her. ]

I always have a lot to say about the books I'm reading.

[bunko]

Even as you are reading them?

[rathercommon]

Especially as I'm reading them. Of course. By the time I'm done reading them, I've forgotten my thoughts. That's why writing them is nice.

[bunko]

I suppose yes.

[Though 'suppose' is generous. Reading and writing are best done sparingly. The two, in conjunction? Difficult at best.]

Do many enjoy this? Perhaps they should change the way in which the books, they are written. A wide space beside the words, for the words of your own.

[rathercommon]

That might not be a bad idea, actually...Though that would leave less room for the text itself.

[bunko]

A shorter book! Surely this is not so terrible a suggestion.

[rathercommon]

What are you talking about? That's completely terrible. A shorter book would be a terrible shame.