crystal;

[foxsays]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Araceli Bonaventura
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Offering advanced parkour lessons and trying to organise a shindig
WHEN: Now
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: Threadjacking encouraged. A few notices have been left around the Gallows to sign-up for lessons.

Inquisition, now that we're settled in Kirkwall I come to you with two very exciting propositions. As some of you know, I taught how to climb and run the walls and battlements of Skyhold, how to fall from such heights safely but alas this was not as it was at home when Skyhold was so contained. But here we are in Kirkwall! I can truly teach you how to leap from building to building if your desire and to dive into the waters from buildings and from the rigging of a ship. Of course, we start small so as not to injure your good self but if that prospect sounds intriguing, please come find me. I am Araceli Bonaventura, at your service. I'm either working at the Gallows or by the docks or you might happen to look up.

The second is a thing to celebrate and I could say that I do it as leader of the naval projects but truly? I do it as someone who loves cooking and seafood, to finally be back by the water after so long removed from it. Tell me, Inquisition, what are your favourite seafood dishes? Your favourite meals from Antiva or Rivain or places such as that? Because I thought it might be an idea to have a cookout by the waves towards the end of the month, say, the twenty-second? Everyone is welcome if they are a fan of good food and good times among friends.

[Also it's her birthday but since they don't really do birthdays that way back home, what better thing to do than have a fun time with people that have all certainly earned it?]

Comments

[ipseite]

I would be interested in such lessons - I would not necessarily need to start quite so small, if you would not mind the lend of a horse for me to demonstrate why.

[youwonscience]

I don't think I'm qualified for jumping off of buildings, but seafood is the best. I mean, I haven't had enough Antivan food to have a specific opinion, but I'm definitely in to find out.

[thecookery]

I've a simple dish I learnt from an Antivan trader back a ways. All it needs is shrimp, a little veg, the right herbs, and some wine, but I near never get to bloody make it.

[gatheringstorm]

You already know my weakness for paella, and especially how Tama makes it. I'll gladly help with that, too, but I only trust her or you to make it right.

[serannas]

Oh! I would love to learn all that!

[ Now that she's doing her best to avoid conflicts if she can. The little mage has several scars from encounters that weren't great, so she's adopting a more sneaky style to be of use to the Inquisition. ]

[foxsays]

I don't have a horse but I can probably get one. [Nuggalopes and parkour probably aren't ever going to mix.] No one's done any tricks with a horse yet.

[foxsays]

Jumping between, climbing down, sliding down, cutting through an open window or running between things that might be strung there - ropes, pulleys, washing lines. [The list could go on, she'll stop there.] Antivan food isn't too far from what I have at home, is there anything you like in particular?

[foxsays]

Then you absolutely must, I will do whatever I can to assist in making this dish. This is for all of us to enjoy and I love the cooking more than the eating sometimes.

[foxsays]

There's more than one type of paella, we actually have fresh seafood here too. [Korrin you might have to smuggle other meat into the house because Araceli is content with seafood all of her days pretty much.] Oh sirena, you won't feel your fingers ever again when I'm done with you, there's so much chopping to be done...

[foxsays]

We absolutely must Ellana! You'd love it, it's very handy for people our size.

[You know, being funsized when pretty much everyone is bigger than you and often wielding a weapon bigger than you? Or firing arrows? Or slinging spells? Definitely come run with her Ellana.]

[thecookery]

[Avery snorts, but there is less salt in her tone than there could be, really.]

Come visit the kitchens sometime. Bet I could take some of the wind from that sail.

[serannas]

[ Isn't that the truth? She's far too wee to be taking a maul to the ribs again. ]

Okay! Do you get a group together, or do individual lessons?

[gatheringstorm]

[She might, if she really has a hankering for something, but Araceli's seafood delights keep her pretty well satisfied, so it'd be a rare thing. And she laughs.]

Don't be too cruel to my poor fingers, I still need them for other things.

[Cue suggestive voice and eyebrow wiggle that you know is there.]

[crowncitizen]

Wow, you can really do all of that? [Insert some kind of parkour joke here.] I mean, I can run and climb, but to jump between buildings? Sign me up!

[There's no possible way for this to end badly.]

If my friend Ignis was here, he could probably rattle off a ton of great seafood dishes. He could cook anything and make it delicious.

[provenforce]

I can climb, but I could probably use some help on the... jumping across distances. The water also poses a problem, for me.

I've... also never had seafood.

[ipseite]

I would be delighted to be the first.

[theexile]

Your lessons sound interesting.

For your other question, I was often fond of smoked fish. It was nothing truly special and more for preservation but it was a fine treat when I was young.

I cannot remember whether I said Cosima was a vegetarian or a pescatarian, oops

[youwonscience]

Falling with style?

[Someday she will give up jokes that other people don't get. Today isn't that day.]

Oh man, though. I like shellfish; muscles with a little butter, peel and eat shrimp.

[limier]

Orlais, of course — but we’ve a share of the sea ourselves, no? I have always been partial to fried fish bones. How did you acquire such curious skills?

[ sure sounds like BREAKING IN PLACES but you know, it takes all sorts ]

[alankazam]

I found a fish with eight legs. It's been dead a while, I think, but you can have it if you'd like.

[ hi araceli!! ]

[foxsays]

Is there any particular place for this? I imagine a lady would prefer not to have an audience.

[foxsays]

As if there's any other way to do it.

[Let's joke casually about all the ways you could grievously injure or kill yourself but look, you gotta be stylish when you're parkouring.]

Kirkwall's most redeeming quality is being by the sea so the food is fresh. I don't trust shellfish when I haven't bought them myself but peel and eat shrimp? [She's had shrimp obviously but this must be one of your strange other rift foods Cosima.]

[foxsays]

Oho is that a challenge? I always like those and I actually know how to cook for a lot of people better than one or two.

[What are portions?]

[foxsays]

[Don't bring ram into her kitchen, you go eat ram elsewhere she had to suffer so much of that in Skyhold and any camp where there were rams Araceli is putting her foot down.]

I will sacrifice what I must for the cause and the Inquisition.

[In her most haughty 'I'm doing my politics thing, fight me Korrin' tone.]

[foxsays]

Either or, in Skyhold I only had one real place to do things but Kirkwall is bigger so unless I get a whole group at the same point, one on one works best now. Everyone is busier than they were before too.