OTA | Sending Crystal

[alankazam]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Alan
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Maybe y'all should keep closer track of your crystals
WHEN: Waves hands vaguely
WHERE: Everywhere
NOTES: Jack away...I'm sure there's a better way to phrase that

Hello, little rock.

You ask so many questions. All day, all night, and in all voices. What's worse than dying? Who are elves? How do you kiss one?

Listen to me: I can ask questions too. What are stars made of? Who put them there? Do you think they must have been very, very tall?

And — Who do you belong to?

Comments

[alankazam]

The fire's... frozen?

[ Now he's pretty sure he's being fucked with. ]

[obi_wanmanshow]

By comparison, yes.

[He thinks about that for a moment. Technically, that's correct? This is getting weird.]

Stars burn far hotter than mere fire, so much hotter that it's not even the same thing, anymore. That's why what we call what they're made of by a different name.

Plasma.

two-word tags you, sorry friend

[alankazam]

Like Andraste.

[ Now he gets it! So: Fires of the Maker's divinity, which aren't ordinary fire at all. Brother Abrams' theory finds support from a peculiar source. The sound of furious scratching at dirt grows louder. ]

its ok i got u back with this one-word tag

[obi_wanmanshow]

..........

.......................What?

we're both the greatest

[alankazam]

The fire that consumed her was within her as well, the fire of the Maker.

It was transfigurative, [ 'Transformative' might be more appropriate to describe a journey of faith, but he's being perfectly literal. She turned into a fucking dragon, dude. ] No longer just a prophet, but a beacon for the people.

[obi_wanmanshow]

That's... a very fine metaphor, but what I'm talking about is literal. You can create weaponry from it-- or, well, not you, specifically.

[alankazam]

Andraste wasn't a metaphor.

[ No hint of irritation at that, just a blunt statement. There are records. He'd seen her in flight. ]

Is this like the "gun" thing?

[ what is with rift spirits and making weapons ]

[obi_wanmanshow]

[That isn't what he meant, that isn't what metaphor means, this isn't at all what he means to be spending his time on, but now he's in too deep and he has a headache.

Because of course he would, wouldn't he? And he can't even say Alan is wrong, after all a Blaster does fire plasma projectiles.]

...Something closer to a sword, in my case.

[alankazam]

An enchanted sword?

[ You can do that with normal fire. Frozen would make a certain amount of sense — and it's good right about now that he has no access to runes or training in shaping them. Because he would definitely be trying to shove them both onto the nearest sword. ]

You're also a soldier?

[obi_wanmanshow]

No, and also no.

It's... [He has to roll his eyes just to get it out, honestly] ...forged, directly from Plasma.

And I'm not a soldier. I'm a Jedi M-- [dammit] Just think of me as a knight.

[He did not live through ten years of Anakin Skywalker's apprenticeship and trials just to be called Knight, but this is the world he lives in now. So he'll just have to suck it up.

It still rankles.]

[alankazam]

Knights are soldiers, [ He points out. Jedi must be a spirit of War, not Synonyms. ] How could you ever hold it? It'd burn your hands.

[ A pause, and then: ]

...Very thick gloves.

[obi_wanmanshow]

Then it's fortunate for the both of us that I'm not a knight, only similar. And not a soldier.

....

[Very thick gloves. Very thick gloves? Very thick... no. No, this is ridiculous.]

Perhaps next time you're in Skyhold, you'd care to see.

[alankazam]

Oh, yes. It's been some time since I've seen dragonhide.

[ Which is clearly what the gloves are made of. What else could be thick enough? Iron would just transmit the heat. ]

It may take me a few days. The mountains are high, and they keep so little breath.