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 ASSISTANT: Since so many people reported being out of it, we made a random generator to help you come up with some general banter prompts for your top-levels.

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.

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

Poesia

[bloodandsand]

1. Goodness, don't you look lovely in that! Undressing you would be like unwrapping a present!

2. Traveling can be so horribly tedious at times.

3. You look so pensive, dear, whatever might be bothering you?

4. [ After a battle: ] Did you hear that one fellow scream? What a beautiful tone, he ought to have been a singer!

5. WILDCARD

2

[cozen]

Would you like to play a game?

[bloodandsand]

Ooh! Yes, please! What sort of game?

[cozen]

Let me see. There is Calico Cat, where we compete for the rest of the journey to be the first to acquire objects of each color. There I Spy, of course, where we tell one another the first letter of the name of something we can see and try to guess what it is. We could tell a story. I say a sentence, you say a sentence. Or word association, or... Choosing a target in the distance and trying to guess how many steps it will take to reach it—cheating with long or short strides is of course permitted. We could kick a stone along the path ahead of us, and whoever misplaces it loses a point and has to find a new stone. We could take turns choosing a letter and trying to have a conversation that does not use it, until one of us does use it or stumbles and loses a point—

[ He plays a lot of games. It's the only way he ever gets drudgy work done. ]

The points do not mean anything, of course.

[bloodandsand]

Have you played all those games? Goodness, you're clever, precious. Which is your favorite?

[cozen]

I enjoy all of them. Perhaps we could kick the stone and play word association at the same time!

3

[limier]

This is my face.

[bloodandsand]

Is it really? You must be a terribly intense thinker, darling.

[limier]

Some could do with greater intensity.