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Rafael ([personal profile] offortune) wrote in [community profile] therookery2016-01-22 11:31 am

An Important Survey

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?

bunko: (80)

[personal profile] bunko 2016-01-22 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh



wait

There's an audible intake of breath here, as Scipio turns to look at Rafael.]
rathercommon: (you need to be punched)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2016-01-24 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course it's valuable. A good piece of parchment is worth a lot. To say nothing of a properly bound book.
rathercommon: (skeptical)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2016-01-24 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
They're worth a lot everywhere. But wartime especially drives up the prices, yeah - the skins that are used in the production of parchment often go to leather instead.
bunko: (09)

[personal profile] bunko 2016-01-25 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[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.
rathercommon: (incredulous)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2016-01-28 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Who is this man you know, exactly?
rathercommon: (happy)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2016-01-28 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Well, surely he has enough books to supply more than just you. He wouldn't be a very good source otherwise, would he?
bunko: (45)

[personal profile] bunko 2016-01-28 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but we, we are his friends. He is a man who shares with his friends.
rathercommon: (interested)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2016-01-28 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
You think I couldn't be his friend? I'm very charming.
bunko: (26)

[personal profile] bunko 2016-01-28 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
You are, it is, but--

[Actually.]

Maybe yes. You could be, yes.
rathercommon: (leery)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2016-01-28 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...what caused that change of tune. ]

So...Okay. Then are you going to give me his name?
bunko: (50)

[personal profile] bunko 2016-01-28 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
We will put you into contact with him, yes. When the time is right.
rathercommon: (leery)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2016-01-28 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ --Oh. ]

Well - Right, then. When's the time going to be right?
bunko: (73)

[personal profile] bunko 2016-01-28 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, well, this? I cannot say. We must first write the letter to our friend.
rathercommon: (skeptical)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2016-01-28 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
You're just trying to put me off, aren't you.
bunko: (65)

[personal profile] bunko 2016-01-28 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Gattina! You would wound me, with talk such as this. I do not try to 'put you off'. You will be friended to my friend. This do I promise to you.
rathercommon: (caught in a lie or something)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2016-01-29 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hmmm. Torn between skepticism and eagerness: ]

Really.
bunko: (01)

[personal profile] bunko 2016-01-30 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
I did call it a promise, yes?
rathercommon: (ummm whatever though)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2016-01-30 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah. But "promise," I've found, often tends to be a very flexible sort of word.
bunko: (73)

[personal profile] bunko 2016-01-31 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. But I am a man of my word.
rathercommon: (skeptical)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2016-02-07 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. Okay. Well - I'll trust you.

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