degenere: (25)
Valentine Nicasus Maxence Mérovée Olivier de Foncé ([personal profile] degenere) wrote in [community profile] therookery2016-07-07 01:17 pm

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FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Val de Foncé (and with him, as always, is Jehan Mercier)
RECIPIENT: e v e r y o n e
WHAT: the scholars of Orlais have something to say.
WHEN: now, right now
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: aren't they charming.


Inquisition, we are confused.

[Melodious, Orlesian, flirtatious (somehow even in this most simple of sentences): these are three words one might use to describe the sound of Val's voice. It makes confused sound kind of fun, if a bit puzzling.]

My friend and I have come all this way to be an asset to you. And now we have arrived here, to your Skyhold, and we find so much to be in want. How have you all managed so far, with these conditions? I am a man used to the roughness of a camp, a life of travel. I love this life. You'll find no one loves it more than me. But a camp, that is one thing, and this? It is meant to be a city, of a sort. Yet there is no apartment for us. There is barely a work space, in your library--we have been, my friend and I. We have seen the conditions. There is barely a book there.

I am sorry for you, Inquisition.

[So sincere. A pause, in which he has pressed a hand to his chest, in a deep show of pity. And then, briskly, cheerfully:]

But we will not leave you there, in sorrow. The good news. You now have, among your numbers, me. An introduction: Valentine de Foncé, a master architect, among many other masteries, too numerous to name. If you ask sweetly, I'll tell you them all. If you ask very sweetly, I'll give demonstration. And for the Inquisition, I will offer my services, and my knowledge--and so, too, does my friend. If only so we can get a decent space in which we can do our work. And believe me: you want this. We have arrived to be your greatest blessing.

Now, tell me. With business sorted: what does anyone do for fun around here?
mythalenaste: (simply interlace)

[personal profile] mythalenaste 2016-07-07 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, nothing's changing. You'll have to rough it with the rest of us.
elegiaque: (084)

[personal profile] elegiaque 2016-07-07 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
( suspiciously; )

...de Fonce?
mythalenaste: (of rages and of strife)

[personal profile] mythalenaste 2016-07-07 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Because the Inquisition has better things to do than pamper scholars with information it doesn't benefit from. This isn't where you write the paper that makes your career. This is where you help save the world.
blessedmaiden: (184)

[personal profile] blessedmaiden 2016-07-07 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
If I have to be completely honest, sir, I'm quite enjoying the current selection. As a rifter, all books in our library are new for me, so I can't really complain. Oh, but I'm sure whoever is in charge of our small library would be delighted to accept a donation, just saying.

Oh, right... I'm Rydia of Mist and welcome in Skyhold, with a bit of fantasy you will find plenty of fun things to do here.
faithstarved: (Gotta get out now)

[personal profile] faithstarved 2016-07-07 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
A city? is that truly what you expected when you traveled here? Here I thought the bards had done an excellent job of explaining Skyhold as a crumbling old keep stuffed to capacity.
Edited 2016-07-07 20:32 (UTC)
faithstarved: (Here comes the shame)

[personal profile] faithstarved 2016-07-07 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes the bards are the only ones telling the truth.

[said in Orlesian, by way of answering both his questions.]
issala: (parshaara)

[personal profile] issala 2016-07-07 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
...how many of you are there?
faithstarved: (Nothing though)

[personal profile] faithstarved 2016-07-07 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You must learn to read between the lines. The truth is there if you look.
mythalenaste: (is it not our place to wonder)

[personal profile] mythalenaste 2016-07-07 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, and if you want to impress me, call me impressed. But that's not going to produce a gigantic library out of thin air.
mythalenaste: (heard many call your name)

[personal profile] mythalenaste 2016-07-07 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Does your expensive education also tell you we'll need coats in the winter?
mythalenaste: (where sand and shore)

[personal profile] mythalenaste 2016-07-07 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[A chuckle. He's bizarre, but at the moment, kind of fun.]

No, I'm thinking of an actual coat for a person. Although there is an Avvar somewhere round here who sells what he calls slankets--blankets with sleeves, made out of pelts. The very height of fashion.

[Teasing.]
gatheringstorm: (judging)

[personal profile] gatheringstorm 2016-07-07 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[More Orlesian nobles with inflated egos. Wonderful.]

Our hero. However did we do without you until now?

[Her Marcher-accented voice is dripping with sarcasm.]
mythalenaste: (we wondered where our god was)

[personal profile] mythalenaste 2016-07-07 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
His name is Asher. Ask for him on the sending stone, it'll know where to send you.
apologist: (008)

[personal profile] apologist 2016-07-07 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Very well, I would say. [ Brightly. He's helping. And also very Orlesian. ] To have even one book so far from civilization is an accomplishment, should you set aside this war, and should you not it set it aside it is nearly a miracle.

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