FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Matthias
RECIPIENT: every! body!
WHAT: orphans are coming to guilt everyone and we have to complain about them. and THEN mobilize to stop them.
WHEN: now
WHERE: complaining live from the Gallows
NOTES: this is setting up a big orphan vs orphan streetfight so if you want to punch a child in the face it's not too late to come along and live that fantasy.


So while we're all complaining-- [Are we all complaining? More or less.] Like, the Inquisition's not without its problems. Which is balls, but it's not like I came here with false expectations, right--underneath, everything is balls. [So matter of fact, that.] But so far, I haven't heard of the Inquisition stooping so low as to recruit a bunch of orphans to come and snivel in every town square in Thedas to get pity for the cause.

But that's all right for the Chantry. 'Cause that's the news out of Val Royeaux. I heard it off this fellow in a tavern, he'd just been, said Benedetta's got a bloody army of sad-eyed kids on the march. Every road in Orlais is clogged with them, and they're headed to stand outside the Consensus and look pathetic and say their parents died in the invasion, and she's their only hope. [And he could not sound more disgusted.] It's horseshit. But so's everything these days, I guess. So their parents died in the invasion. It's not like they're the first to have lived a hard life. And what's Benedetta going to do for them, anyways? Like some mingy bint sitting on a chair and growing a fat ass ever brought anyone's mother back from the dead. It's horseshit.

[Hang on now, he's getting lost. Back to the point--] So what I want to know is, how d'you get to Val Royeaux. Besides take a left at Ghislain.