OPEN.

[degenere]

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Val de Foncé
RECIPIENT: everyone, you cannot escape
WHAT: joke time
WHEN: a slightly respectful length of time after the death announcemet. emphasis on slightly.
NOTES: full offense, but you guys smell

Inquisition.

[Very serious, very Orlesian.]

There were three Fereldans walking the streets of Kirkwall and they came upon a large brown pile. As the streets of Kirkwall are so very narrow, the brown pile was quite blocking their way, so that they had but two choices to them: they could either tramp through the pile, or they could turn back.

The first Fereldan approached the pile, leaned down, and looked very hard at it. "By the Lady!" he said. "This looks like shit."

The second Ferelden approached the pile beside him, leaned down, and took a great big sniff. "Maker!" he cried. "This smells of shit!"

The third Ferelden approached the pile beside his companions, leaned down, put his finger into the pile, and the put his finger in his mouth. "By Andraste's sword!" he exclaimed. "This tastes of shit!"

The three Fereldens turned to go back the way that they had come, saying to one another, "It's a good thing we didn't walk in that!"

[GET IT.]

There! Now our mood is lightened. I welcome anyone that would try to outmatch me in jokes.

Comments

[degenere]

[--INTERRUPTING to be warm and interested--]

Really! By which playwrights? Dechambeau, perhaps? His works are often mounted as traveling productions--the set pieces are minimal, and can be constructed quickly. The same is true for Pommier. She favors provincial scenes. Easy to reproduce.

Of course, both are inferior to Voitture.

[limier]

Ah — Pascal? Pascal the baker. Hughes, I think, was the one with the fistfight. And Leonard by the fish-market. You have been to Val Royeaux's fishmarket? It is the finest.

[degenere]

[what]

I have not had the-- pleasure? [Would that be the word for it? Sure, why not.] I do not care for fish. Your pardon, madame. These are... playwrights that you are naming?

[limier]

They have written and staged plays. This is the definition, no?

[degenere]

In the technical, yes. But just as there are scholars and scholars, templars and templars, poets and poets... there are playwrights, and then there are playwrights. You see?

[Although--]

How recent was this? I have not been in Val Royeaux in some time. Out of necessity.