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FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Chloe Price
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Tabletop Gaming is totally a thing people wanna do in a fantasy world (right?????)
WHEN: After people are feeling better and shiz
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: Some swearing but other than that, she cool this time

How do you -- Am I doing this right? Is it recording or whatever it's supposed to be doing?

Oh - cool - uh - Hear ye, hear ye or whatever people around here say to get people's attention en masse. A lot of you don't know me, like most of you, actually, but - my name's Chloe and I've got two questions for the lot of you.

First - does anyone know the place I could get some clay? Or, like, maybe some small stones would work too if I had something I could sand them down nice and smooth with. Preferably for cheap, because - y'know - not made of money here or anything.

Secondly, and more importantly I guess, there's this. Thing. I do back home. They're called Tabletop Role Playing Games and they're kinda cool. I had fun with them, anyway. A lot of fun. It's probably pretty pointless around here because you guys practically live the plots I used to play out with people, but --

Fuck, okay, the point of the game was that a group of people all make up characters for themselves using different races and classes, all of which came with varying degrees of points in certain areas like charisma, strength, intelligence, et cetera - and you chose like. Imaginary weapons and gear and then you went on adventures, led by your Game Master, who would help to guide you through the ... whatever land you were in, I guess. Along the way you'd battle these monsters - kinda like the shit I saw when I came through the rift thing? Less cool in person, by the way - and you would gather experience points and make your character stronger as you went.

The point is, it's fun, and I was thinking --

I mean, if anyone wants to play with me - maybe - I could... Make that a thing. I can make all the stuff we'd need to get a good game going, it won't take me too long. A week or so, probably.

So if you're interested, let me know. It'd be ... nice. To have something from home in this place.

... Whatever. Peace.

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Gosh, Prompto, don't sound so put out by the idea, you'll hurt my feelings. [ translation: HOW DO YOU HAVE SO MUCH ENERGY. ]

I've never been a GM before so I can't guarantee this will be the best of all experiences.

[It's a mystery for the ages.]

Hey, I can totally show more enthusiasm if it helps. [Please say no, Chloe.] Don't worry too much about it. I mean, I don't think anyone's ever played it here so no one's gonna notice if you flub.

I am not feeling well enough yet to handle more, thank you.

I'm told I'm a good storyteller, though, so hopefully that'll be true. That's the most important part of the GM role anyway. I think. I hope.

Still recoverin', huh? Yeah, that's a pretty rough start to being in Thedas. I swear, that's the craziest crap I've seen go down here.

[And after nearly being here a year, that's... kind of saying something.]

From what I know it's pretty important. You'll be fine, really!

If it's not from the flu, it's probably from getting over cravings for... something. I can't pin point what. [ She knows what, because cigarettes and alcohol don't last this long, but the whole Mental Health Medications talk is not one she's big on having. ] Glad to know that that's not the usual for this place, though. Blue's my favorite color, but holy shit, my skin can stay white as fuck all the time, thanks.

[ CROSSING HER FINGERS. ] Guess we'll see.

...Cravings? You still going through the nicotine withdrawal? [Which sounds odd; does it usually take this long for the addiction to be kicked?] On top of everything else, yeah. Not a great month or two. Glad to be back to being pasty white and sleeping whenever I want to.

[Seriously. He slept for like fourteen hours once the illness finally let up.]

Probably not. That shit only takes like... 3 weeks tops. Flu covered up any of the bad parts, I guess. I'm uh - pretty thankful that I had someone who gave me a shit ton of tea that knocked me out through most of that crap. Though the rest didn't feel great long term. [ She also passed the fuck out for Too Long but that's her Tuesday. ]

Probably all rolled into one. Well, I guess if you gotta be miserable, might as well do it all at once? [Be extra miserable but for a shorter period of time.] Glad you missed a lot of it. Going invisible and people forgetting about you? Not fun.

Mm... The uh - the brief experience I had with that shit was enough for me.

That happened to you before?

Not the invisible part. [ Forgetting though, that's a thing. ]

...people forgot about you? [Said with a sufficient amount of horror in his voice.]