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[obi_wanmanshow]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Obi-Wan Kenobi
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: An announcement, and a thought-experiment
WHEN: After having resolved the Leliana/Assassination plot
NOTES: n/a

This is Obi-Wan Kenobi. I apologize for the delay in doing so, but I'd like to make an announcement; I've been appointed as the liason for the Rifter population.

For this reason, if you have a concern about a particular Rifter which cannot be peacefully resolved on your own, or if any Rifter has need of information, or support, please don't hesitate to contact me. I know we may not seem like any kind of cohesive group, but you aren't alone. Please, try to remember that.

[He clears his throat, then and continues.]

As for the rest of you, I have a question. Nothing too serious, just a little... oh, call it a thought-exercise: I first heard this one as a child.

If your house was on fire, what's the first thing you'd take out of it?

Comments

[obi_wanmanshow]

[He picks up the explination smoothly, having anticipated it. He's had to stumble through this one more than once, and has finally nailed it down.]

A droid is a machine built to look and act a little like a person. They're still obviously made of metal, though, and they aren't really alive. A Protocol Droid is specifically made to be useful in diplomatic situations, and they often serve in the place of translators. No living being can learn the number of languages a Droid can be programmed to use.

[gatheringstorm]

[The Vashoth woman furrows her brow, trying to picture how such a construct would look and behave.]

It almost sounds like it could be a dwarven construct; they can make golems, after all, but I don't think infusing them with vast amounts of language-knowledge is a thing.

You should tell Ambassador Montilyet about this, I bet she'd be fascinated by the concept.

[obi_wanmanshow]

If it comes up, I'll mention it.

So, were these anything like what you imagined?

[gatheringstorm]

They're even better than I thought, Obi-Wan. It's a little weird, realizing that there's so much more out there than we have in Thedas, but a good weird? At any rate, now I'm hoping a little that I'll get to see some of these folk step out of a rift.

...though it'd be even harder to sell the 'not demons' angle when others see them.

[obi_wanmanshow]

That's what I'm afraid of, to be honest. Jedi are peacekeepers, but we are trained to defend ourselves against attacks. You've seen what happens when a Jedi lightsaber makes contact with steel?

[Plasma blades go through breastplates and sword-blades not quite as easily as through flesh, but the advantage is significant.]

It could be very ugly.

[gatheringstorm]

Hm...that might worth seeing the ambassador or her direct reports about. They could be made aware and...I don't know, try to help people calm down somehow, before things escalate? I'm no diplomat, I've no idea how they'd best go about it.

[The world of not saying what she thinks all the time? An utterly foreign one.]