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[aforethought]

FORM: Sending Crystal.
SENDER: Melys.
RECIPIENT: Kirkwall Inquisition.
WHAT: Reintroductions.
WHEN: Now-ish.
WHERE: Here-ish.
NOTES: Language, probably.

So. You all still pay any shithead that shows up?

[ hello inquisition ]

Comments

[elegiaque]

It certainly looks like it.

[aforethought]

Yeah? You got a mirror, or just a grand view of the courtyard?

[ are you getting paid, y/n ]

[elegiaque]

I'm not myself a member of this illustriously undiscerning organisation.

[aforethought]

[ she's pretty sure illustration has nothing to do with this ]

How'd you wind up with one of these, then? Thought they only tossed them out when you joined on.

[ or when you fish it off a corpse, or buy it off some hard-up fuck, but ]

[elegiaque]

As a guest of the Inquisition, ( drolly ) I'm entitled to some consideration.

[aforethought]

They hiring for that one? Reckon I could get by on consideration, with some practice.

[ and, like, cash ]

[elegiaque]

If you'd someone to stand the costs of your stay, I'm sure. I think even the rifters are expected to work for their keep.

[byblow]

I hear they pay people who aren't shitheads a little more, so you might want to pretend.

[aforethought]

[ a snort: ]

You find that one out firsthand?

[byblow]

Ah, no. I'm a tier below shithead. They don't pay me at all. Maybe I'll give you some competition for Lady Vauquelin's Horse Handler.

[aforethought]

You'd give the horse a run for it.

What's with all you lot sticking around for free? Ain't no one raise you right?

[byblow]

I was raised by dogs. [ She asked for it. ] They taught me to stick around for a bone and a scratch behind the ears.

—but I'm a Warden, now. Someone is paying me. In a way, everyone is paying me.

[aforethought]

[ why couldn't he have stayed a dog ]

Sure paying for you, alright. [ skeptically: ] So what'd they get you on? What'd you do?

[byblow]

What did I... [ Oh, right. ] I lost a tournament. Watch out for those.

[intruthandlove]

I have had better luck with the merchants in town. [ When she isn't casually offering to fight people for supplies. ]

[aforethought]

I think you and me been meeting different merchants.

[ probably it helps not to have her work history ]

You another 'guest' of these lot, then?

[intruthandlove]

I can't imagine how many there would be in the city. [ The most mild of mild responses. ]

That does seem a more delicate term than "Rifter." So yes, if you like.

[aforethought]

Delicate don't got much to do with the Fade, in my experience,

[ which is totally more relevant and richly-developed than that of anyone that actually came out of it ]

— Well. Saw a drawing of a Desire Demon once, reckon that'd be okay. Get any of those in with you

[justice_is_blond]

I think the shitheads have to show up and also work, but only some of them. If you can fake a panic at convenient times you may be all set.

[aforethought]

What are we talking — a fainting spell? Hollering at spiders?

[justice_is_blond]

I think more the hollering sort. But if you can faint on cue, that may suffice.

[aforethought]

Figure I could get someone else to faint, [ that's called assault ] Reckon that'd work?

[justice_is_blond]

That would... heavily depend on the means that causes them to faint.

[aforethought]

I hear great things on blood lotus,

[ look ma, no head wounds ]

You got any suggestions?

[justice_is_blond]

I suggest things that aren't violence or drugs, personally. I don't think you'd be hired or pitied enough for pay if you're attacking or drugging people.

Especially because then I have to come along afterward and make sure you've done no lasting damage.