enchanted book: secret satina!

[cozen]

FORM: Magic book (and word of mouth + transcription for anyone who can't read).
SENDER: Bastien
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: Responses public unless otherwise stated so feel free to comment/threadjack. Deadline to sign up is October 24, 2024. You'll be PMed the name of your gift recipient(s) on October 25, and the deadline to ICly shoot them a comment with their gift will be November 2.

SECRET SATINA
To participate in this year's secret gift exchange for Satinalia please provide the following.

1. Name
2. Likes (colors, foods and flavors, genres, activities, and so on)
3. Dislikes (see above)
4. Deepest secret ☺

If you choose to sign up your reluctant friends without telling them & they do not look in the book to notice & stop it, make sure you are also willing to get a gift for their assigned recipient on their behalves if they do not give in and participate.

<b>1. Name:</b> <b>2. Likes:</b> <b>3. Dislikes:</b> <b>4. Deepest secret:</b>

Comments

[aberratic]

1. Ennaris Tavane
2. History, books, journaling! The color purple, simple jewelry, time with friends.
3. I don't know... I don't think I like yellow?
4. I've never done a Secret Satina before!

[extortionate]

So you don't like yellow.

[pathlit]

1. Name: Viktor
2. Likes:
- Sweets
- Warmth
- Neutral + dark colors
- Helping others
3. Dislikes:
- Bright colors
- Weaponry
- Perfume
- Decorative without function
4. Deepest secret: A gentleman doesn't kiss + tell. ☺

[grindset]

[laruetheday]

1. Name: Clarisse
2. Likes: Red, chocolate, weapons, games
3. Dislikes: Flowers, perfume, books
4. Deepest secret: I'm not telling you guys THAT

[wythersake]

Come now, that little face is quite trustworthy.

[grindset]

1. Name: Jayce Talis
2. Likes: Comfort food, personal grooming, unusual minerals, symbolism, shared activities.
3. Dislikes: Food with eyes, obscene humour, and minding his own business, apparently.
4. Deepest secret: Has likely drawn a picture of you in his diary.

[pathlit]

[ bruh ]

mutter mutter near the crystal

[armd]

Why do people keep doing that...?

[extortionate]

1. Name:
Lazar

2. Likes:
Shiny, foie gras, chiaroscuro, tits, cake, diamonds.

3. Dislikes:
Blood orange, sfumato, sepsis, nuts, balls, griffons.

4. Deepest secret:
Deep down, I really believe the most heartfelt gift's cash.

[tadpoled]

How is someone meant to give you tits? I do hope you’re referring to the bird and not a disembodied pair of breasts.

[biggame]

1. Name: Lord Xiomara Asaaranda Novoa
2. Likes: Caves, swimming, cliffs, storms, brandy, beer, bears, bright colors (all), patterns, COOL history like the Scaled Ones, pretty things, sharp things, could use a new arm guard.
3. Dislikes: Boring colors, scratchy clothes even if you swear they're so warm I won't regret it, most books, inside, cold, dragons unless the point is killing them.
4. Deepest secret: When I was a kid I set the roof of the house on fire and let my parents blame my brother.

[wythersake]

Are we quite certain that you're not the dragon?

[tadpoled]

1. Name: Tav
2. Likes: Nature, plants, exploring new places, wizards with beards, the colors green, blue, and purple, armored garments, reading,, tattoos.
3. Dislikes: Tentacles, surprises, hags, creches.
4. Deepest secret: Got taken care of a few months ago. Not that it was a well-kept secret.

[extortionate]

What the shit is a creche

[armd]

1. Name: Abby
2. Likes: Books, food, dogs, exercise
3. Dislikes: Mushrooms.
4. Deepest secret: I'm not the strongest person here

[wythersake]

It's Niehaus, I knew it.

[delven]

1. Name: Lord Evelyn Farrier
2. Likes: fruit pastries, spiced wine, green, turquoise, jewelry, fish pie, unspiced wine, history (the fun kind but also the real kind not the Scaled Ones), neat artifacts, traveling
3. Dislikes: lizards, mud, music that's heavy on pennywhistles, things flavored with flowers, late Ancient age pottery
4. Deepest secret: I think calling myself Lord is silly

[extortionate]

You only calling them fake because they're lizards?

[altusimperius]

1. Name: Benedict
2. Likes: nice fabrics, things that smell good, smoking herbs, wine, drawing
3. Dislikes: pranks, ugly things, anything messy
4. Deepest secret: if you don't already know, you aren't going to

[thereneverwas]

1. Name: Barrow
2. Likes: food, booze, shit that makes life easier, tobacco
3. Dislikes: anything too fancy or that requires maintenance, I like the cats fine but no more of those please
4. Deepest secret: bedded Lazar's mum

[extortionate]

Explains why my brothers are so fuck-ugly.

[inmycare]

1. Name: Siegfried Farnon
2. Likes: pipe tobacco, quality tea, scones (as long as they don't contain those dried grapes that, for some reason, Kirkwall bakers are so enamored of), days off
3. Dislikes: dried grapes (as previously noted), strongly spiced foods, teas with flavors besides "tea," loud noises, surprises that require going to a secondary location
4. Deepest secret: not willing to trade this for a present from a colleague, if it's required to participate

[extortionate]

What about wet grapes?

[portalling]

1. Name: Stephen Strange
2. Likes: Practical objects. Books, scrolls, alcohol, tea, runestones, anything to do with magic. Music, particularly anything related to the piano.
3. Dislikes: Non-functional decoration. Chantry stuff.
4. Deepest secret: Cat supplies would also be welcome; I suspect I've officially adopted Smaller Yngvi from Gwenaëlle's menagerie.

[explosion]

[ She goes to write something and then— nope. Not for him to see.

]

[brennvin]

1. Name: Astrid Runasdotten
2. Likes: Furs, statuettes, beads and ties for my hair, anything you've made with your own hands. Weapons and things to care for weapons. Drawing supplies but I know paper's like, hard to get these days. I actually love lookin' at maps. Elfroot for smoking. Good boots. Snacks! I love meat and fish and goat cheese and liquor and— ( She's eventually cut off there. )
3. Dislikes: Books?
4. Deepest secret: I don't like fermented shark. 

[aberratic]

You dislike books??

[ here's hoping ness doesn't get astrid as her giftee, oh no... ]

[wythersake]

1. Name: Isaac
2. Likes: Tentacles, surprises, hags.
3. Dislikes: Wine, threats, knitwear.
4. Deepest secret: I’m not Orlesian, this has all been an elabourate ruse.

[explosion]

[ Hags. ]

What is it that you like about hags?

[dissolving]

1. Name: Cedric
2. Likes: Blue, a good story, stiff drink. Dogs.
3. Dislikes: Sweets, smokes, cold. Don't take this wrong, but got all the Chant I need.
4. Deepest secret: Haven't thought of a Satinalia costume.

[cozen]

1. Name: Bastien
2. Likes: Stories, music, games, puzzles, art, fruit, tobacco (any quality), coffee (any quality), blue, the Black Fox, dogs, and anything you love yourself and would like to share.
3. Dislikes: Alcohol.
4. Deepest secret: I grew the mustache to cover a very hairy mole.

[explosion]

But what will you grow to cover the hairy moustache?

[wildered]

1. Name: Siorus
2. Likes: Natural history, mead, useful things, food that's not fungus.
3. Dislikes: Anything that might break in a sack. Don't dislike mushrooms but I am tired of them for the next five years.
4. Deepest secret: About 4,000 feet.

[favoriteanalyst]

1. Name: Mobius
2. Likes: esoteric histories (esp. regarding the Chant, Chantry, and its cults), a full-bodied drink, company to share that drink with, writing utensils that are easy to use and not easy to break, sweets, the sea, learning new things about new places, rifters
3. Dislikes: tobacco, anything with lots of small parts or fiddly bits/needs fine motor skills, bold patterns, don't need anything related to animals
4. Deepest secret: all kept in the moustache, that's why it's never shaved