CRYSTAL - OPEN | TAKING A LEATHER BEATING

[universal_charm]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Jim Kirk
RECIPIENT: Anyone and everyone
WHAT: Kirk has gotten an assignment in the Research division and he needs some third party help
WHEN: Through Justinian
WHERE: Gallows
NOTES: Probably some innuendo

Hello everyone, this is Jim Kirk speaking.

I'm going to be conducting some experiments on leather samples I have been provided and I need help from anyone so inclined. I could use the help of anyone strong and can swing weapons, and also the help of several mages with varying expertise - fire, ice, that sort of thing.

I'm willing to work out a compensation for your time. Please contact me with your availability and your skills if you're interested.

Comments

[universal_charm]

Whatever they got around here to buy that I can afford. Tends to mean beer or piss wine. So take your pick. Amount depends on the hours you work with me.

[wardeneructate]

You've never done this before have you. The whole actually enticing someone to want to do some labor for you.

[universal_charm]

I prefer honesty. But maybe I can get you a nice bottle of wine. Depends on the quality of your work for me, you know.

[wardeneructate]

Not a good way to get good work out of people. Give them good reward that makes them want to. Otherwise you got some sodding idiots ready to do nothing for you because you're not showing signs of giving them reward.

Piss poor system. It's why people want to know what they're getting before they go in. Telling me you're giving me cheap stuff because you can't get something better doesn't make me want to do things for you. You get what I'm saying, kid?

Come on now. You can do better.

[.......His dad side is coming out whether he wants it to or not.]

[universal_charm]

_{[ He lets out a sigh, not enjoying getting the lecture. ]}

So what, I should lie to you and say I have a grade A wine from the fanciest shop in town? What happens when it comes time to pay and I don't have it? That's an even worse way to do business because now I've made an enemy since I stiffed someone. Seems like a good way to get a knife in the back next time I'm at a bar.

_{[ So there. ]}

Not like it's complicated work anyways. This would be worth a beer and a pizza back home...

Wine and a meal, from a nice bar. A room to crash in too if you get that drunk.

[wardeneructate]

Never said you had to offer what you don't have. But telling someone that you can't get them something good isn't the way to do it. I'm not even merchant caste and I know that.

[A little burp then...]

Heh. I don't need a room. Under a table works fine for me. Some lady might end up there so I get a good look up those skirts.

[universal_charm]

_{[ So classy, Oghren. And pervy. ]}

Or they might roll you out with the barrels, but if you're fine with it, so am I.

[wardeneructate]

Wouldn't be the first time.

[That says something about him doesn't it.]

[universal_charm]

Is that how that story with the - what did you call it? The thing that tried to hump you - happened?

[wardeneructate]

You really haven't seen one of them if that's the question you're asking about that.

[universal_charm]

To be fair, I haven't gotten out to very far from Skyhold all that often in the past year. The strangest animals I've seen are dragons and nugs.

[wardeneructate]

Nugs aren't that strange. Dragons though. That's another story. They were supposed to be gone or something last I checked. Pretty sure anyway.

[universal_charm]

Nature has a way of surprising you like that. Life finds a way, as they say.