crystal.

[cozen]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Bastien
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: Nonsense. If your characters will not say anything but are obviously/observably involved with people, please feel even more encouraged than normal to "not here" reply with the deets for everyone's gossip-gathering purposes.

Bonjour, mes amis.

[ Faintly sing-song, but in a drawling and subdued way. It doesn't do to sound too chipper and excited about asking people semi-invasive questions. ]

I have been talking to the Seneschal, and we thought—well, it's possible we might need a fraternization policy. Or a record, at least, in case it becomes a problem later. And to decide whether that is necessary: information about fraternization.

[ It's obvious from his voice that he's pleased that that rhymes. ]

So who is together? Or involved, if together is a scary word.

Please feel very free to rat out your bashful friends.

[ As an afterthought, ]

If you have opinions about the policy or record part, I will take those, too.

Comments

[delphian]

Well, couldn't be helped. I wouldn't ask it of you.

[illithidnapped]

[His lips purse slightly, it's a thoughtful sound.] I mean, you could ask it of me.

[delphian]

Aye, there's the rub, or the lack of it: I wouldn't believe you.

[illithidnapped]

[Ahah. Good one, Tsenka. Very good.]

True enough, but I always find the best way to remedy something you're uneasy about...

[Wait for it.]

...is by doing it.

[delphian]

Mmm.

I'm not uneasy.

[illithidnapped]

It was a reference to my own— oh, never mind.

[His sigh is such a withering little thing.]

Good luck to you, I suppose. Try meandering near the Docks if you can, that's where I found my best pre— err. Prospects, that is. Back when I first joined Riftwatch and the pools to fish in were exceedingly shallow.

[delphian]

Making personal references with no context?

( callback to being called out for not specifying who or what a bede is? absolutely. )

You've made too many friends, sounds like. Getting complacent.

I'll be all right.

[illithidnapped]

Complacent?

Darling, no one here works half as hard as I do, thank you very much.

[Pun absolutely intended.]

And I did, for the record, try to share the figurative spotlight. It isn’t my fault you’re touchy.

[delphian]

( tsenka reflects, for a moment, on how likely it is that this conversation keeps listing back to her discomfort. how likely it is she'll indefinitely keep her temper. she isn't irritated and it isn't personal now, but there's only so much changing the subject she's got in her,

her crystal shuts off. )