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[degenere]

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Val de Foncé
RECIPIENT: Riftwatch
NOTES: unrelated to anything

A question of great importance: who is the most interesting person in Riftwatch?

I am composing a list, which I very easily could make alone. But that is not amusing. So, the winner of the list will of course receive a prize. An extra point will be awarded to a Rifter, quite obviously. Points deducted for, hm, [totally at random here,] let us say.... Wardens. I have nothing against them. Once I admired them! Then I had my sixth birthday, and I grew bored with them.

All suggestions will be considered.

Comments

[degenere]

Yes, that is why you never find a beach village outside of storybooks. They washed away the moment they were built, and their people--fools, all of them--drowned. This is what I told my nanny when I was quite small, and she was not happy with me.

You know, I have studied much of the guerrilla tactics employed by those who fight upon such terrains--essays, articles, the study of battlegrounds and the artifacts discovered--indeed I have discovered some of my own, and conducted plenty of site analysis-- but if you have a firsthand account that you might share, I would be very pleased to hear it.

[sulahnan]

[ She has the sneaking suspicion that his first bit there was sarcasm, but...eh. Whatever. ]

A firsthand account? Of what?

[degenere]

The guerrilla tactics employed by those who fight upon such terrains.

[Clarifying--]

Forests.

[sulahnan]

Uhh yeaaaah, no offense, Val, but... I don't really feel comfortable detailing the ways that elves protect their camps from outsiders to...well.

[degenere]

To--? A scholar? Mademoiselle, do not be afraid. I would not write such things idly or in anything other than the most well-researched papers. My work is of superior quality. Your words will be very safe with me.

[sulahnan]

Maybe if you let me read what you've already written, first.

So long as it's not in Orlesian, 'cos I can't read that yet.

[degenere]

Some of my writing has been translated. Inexpertly, at times, but I have written corrections and suggestions and made war on the publications that have not considered my letters. And not everything that I have written has been for an Orlesian publication. The best things, by their nature, have, but the very best have been translated. It would be my pleasure to provide you some examples of my work.

I think I am meant to be modest, but what scholar does not want to be read?

[sulahnan]

I don't know enough scholars to say one way or the other, but I'd appreciate the examples and if I feel like I can give an account without undermining the safety of my people, [ which feels weird to say ngl ] I'll...do my best.

[degenere]

Ah, bon. Then it is decided and as good as done. And I will be the example of scholars for you. A pity for those that you meet after, for I am a paragon.