Party Banter Meme

[faderifting]

In the Dragon Age games, as you travel Thedas with your best pals, they have a lot of short conversations about politics, the weather, butts, etc. So this is the Fade Rift equivalent, in four easy steps!

1. Imagine your characters are on a very long walk toward a mission objective, or on a very long walk back after kicking ass, or standing guard together, or gathering herbs, or working in the library late at night, or something. Anything sort of boring that might make people want to have a dumb conversation just to break things up a bit.

OPTIONAL CONTEXT: Over the course of the month, many/most members of Riftwatch will be sent into the mountains around Kirkwall to deal with some local issues. Details and action scenes will be available when the plot goes up, but feel free to use snowy mountain trekking as a starting point for banter—complaining about or admiring the snow, fighting about whose fault it is the fire kept going out overnight, debating whether those were really bear tracks you saw, etc.

2. Post a few remarks your character might say (similar to TFLN, except spoken out loud and less ridiculous and sexy, maybe. maybe not. we don’t know your life) while passing the time. If you did the gossip meme, feel free to include a link to that here to help people think of things to bother your character about. (If you didn't do it...do it now? If you want. It's not too late.)

3. Tag around to reply to those general remarks or to start new/wildcard conversations! Threads should be pretty short and involve minimal action; there’s no need to turn anything into a big production. Multiperson threads are encouraged. Series of conversations between the same two characters occurring on different days are also encouraged.

4. Gather up all of your little conversation snippets like a bouquet and keep them forever, because they’re game canon. Banter threads can't be used for Base AC, but do count towards AC Rewards points.

Comments

[staysail]

Ah, now you're doing me a disservice. I haven't thrown up on anyone's boots since I was fifteen. [But his feelings aren't hurt, not by his tone.] And speaking of, I hear there's a nasty bit of grippe going through the region. Maybe they wanted the lot of us out of the Gallows so they could air it out a bit. Freeze the disease out by getting the windows open, and freeze the disease out of us by getting us out here among the ice. How's that for your morale?

Now, t' tell it true, this'd be the first and worst time I've really spent among snow. I haven't seen much of it before. Must have been driven half to madness one of your last times, that you've worked in snow before and come back now for more of it.

[taxonomy]

Then I won't press there, you've done better than I have on that count. [There's always a keg at student parties. Always someone who says they'll hold you upside down.] I always thought you were meant to sweat an illness out? Maybe that's what they're really doing back at the Gallows, every hearth blazing in the rooms we're not in, lounging about in the baths, the place stinking of sweat worse than a hard-worked horse.

[Which is probably worse because how many people actually bathe in the Gallows on a good day?]

The wildlife was more interesting last time, what's about here? Some goats. Where've you been to not be about in the snow, even Ferelden can get a good dusting in the right places.

[staysail]

Sure and I'm not keen on it, but there's worse to be smelled than sweat, isn't there? Don't know if that's true of sick sweat. I've always heard the opposite. Get cold, clear out the lungs. Worked a wonder for me in the past.

And I said really among the snow. I've seen it before. Most of my life has been in Antiva and Rivain and then out on the sea. Hard to get a good thick snowfall out there. The water keeps moving, doesn't make a place for it.

How many goats, do you think?