let's talk anything but politics

[staysail]

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Darras Rivain
RECIPIENT: everyone
WHAT: Girl of Your Dreams, the most important game ever played
WHEN: now
WHERE: the Gallows


So for those of us that don't feel particularly moved to be adding our voices to any debates over the Divine. [Well, wait.] No, that's unfair of me. Anyone is welcome to be playing this game. It's just that you might be too busy.

Though it's quite easy. Doesn't take much attention. It's Girl of Your Dreams, and it's meant to be played when you're exceedingly bored. Every bit of this dream girl is perfect, except there's one detail, one tiny detail, that's terribly wrong. Like... "Girl of your dreams, girl of your dreams, except she's got goat's eyes." The ones with those terrible square centers, and they're half wall-eyed? And then everyone has got to say if they'd still have her or not. Which--in honesty--for that one, I would.

We could play it about the Divine, if that would strike you as more topical. "Future Divine of your dreams, Future Divine of your dreams, except she'll only eat food that you've chewed for her." Still vote for her, or not?

Comments

[limier]

I could not fathom their purpose.

[aestivation]

Or find a reader. [ which she's done so —  ] Would you take the nobleman, if he took the papercuts?

[elegiaque]

( without even hesitating, ) Dreadful. No.

[bouchonne]

As they kept returning again and again to share yet another meal with me, I have faith that it was.

[degenere]

Mademoiselle. It is like a physical pain, to me. A stabbing.

[coquettish_trees]

Miséricordeux Andraste, how awful! It seems remiss of the Inquisition to allow its valued members to suffer so without offering recourse!

Have you considered petitioning the Seneschal for funding to knock down the current library and replace it with one of true quality?

[heirring]

Nonsense. Surely you could keep separate rooms as well.

[cozen]

At what point does this girl of your dreams become the platonic roommate of your dreams?

[heirring]

Oh. Well. I believe it is a very different kind of affection.

[degenere]

I cannot imagine the Inquisition would have very much of an interest in this. There is always a thought toward funding and never toward the more important aspects of living and life and all. What is more important than knowledge, and its pursuit?

If the Inquisition has so far been pleased with its library, I do not see why anyone might move their minds.

[staysail]

Oh, aye, sounds perfectly lovely. And also nothing that would have warmed your consideration for shared accommodations, so I s'ppose your hesitation here is understandable.

A pity that the Inquisition wouldn't be more understanding of that. Have you got one of them private rooms now, at least?

[staysail]

"Situational raconteur dysfunction". I like that. Very well said in a lot of words, so no one knows what you're really about.

Who're you, then?

[staysail]

Says you. I had a cat once, she had thumbs.

[keenly]

But did she know how to write?

[staysail]

Five years. Not bad, for a record. Better than most would do. Losing arguments all that time, it's sort of liberating, y'know. You'd be surprised. Once you've lost over and over and over again... there's nothing to be afraid of any longer.

[staysail]

[Ooo, ouch. He gives a low whistle.]

What a wound. One I'd be hurt by, only I'm nearly certain that you're right about that. I'm a shit rider. And I bloody hate horses.

[staysail]

Used to have her sign my name for me when I was too busy to do it myself. The pen fit neatly, right there in her paw.

And it was adorable.

[staysail]

For illustrating the joke, of course. It really is a pity. You could use a good laugh, I think.

[shri]

When you're ready to be better at it, seek me out. I am Lakshmibai. I can help you some with that.

[staysail]

You can help me be better at liking horses?

[shri]

I can. Care to let me prove it?

[youwonscience]

Oh no, twist. How'd you win her back?

[youwonscience]

For now by default -- it was a double, but my roommate left Kirkwall a while back and they haven't needed it for anyone else yet, so it's all mine for the time being.

What about you?

[youwonscience]

Hmmmm.

I suppose "how to defeat Corypheus" is maybe too big a question without breaking it down into component parts. So maybe let's start with something easier. Maybe start with how to make usable eyeglasses, so I can hand the notes to somebody if mine ever get busted by accident.

[keenly]

Right. But not every cat can do that.