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

3.

[bouchonne]

[ Cheerfully and without malice: ]

Why, you're halfway there without one.

[windyvoice]

Only halfway? Damn, I gotta step up my game.

[bouchonne]

You really do. Half-ass nothing, dear girl.

[ Bbbut just so we get the facts straight - ]

You don't just switch your mask out at will, however.

[windyvoice]

Why not?

[bouchonne]

Because those aren't the rules.

[windyvoice]

There's rules for masks? Is it some class signifier? I bet it's a class signifier. Hey, fast question, does the guillotine exist yet?

[bouchonne]

[ ??? ]

The presence of a mask at all is a class signifier, yes. But the precise mask has to do with family bloodline.

[windyvoice]

Wow, you could steal someone's whole ass identity with just a mask.

[bouchonne]

Not really. There's the matter of voice, after all.

[windyvoice]

Voice is easy. The only shit you'd have to seriously worry about is like height and whether or not they got the same jaw line. Next would be family knowledge, but people shit themselves over bloodlines, so that's easy. Personal info, amnesia.

[bouchonne]

And build. And clothing. And - How's your Orlesian?

[windyvoice]

Jeez, boss, I wasn't saying that I was gonna do it. I'm just saying you could.

[bouchonne]

I could, maybe. You couldn't.

[windyvoice]

Don't be so hard on yourself, boss, you could definitely do it.

[bouchonne]

Of course, that begs the question of why I would want to.

[windyvoice]

Dunno. Some scary division head machinations, probably.

[bouchonne]

Do you think I'm scary?

[windyvoice]

You're number three on my list of division head scariness, so like sure. Less scary than the existential horror of existence, more scary than like Laura.

[bouchonne]

Scarier than Thranduil, I'm guessing?

[windyvoice]

Fuck no, Thranduil is like top of the list.

[bouchonne]

Who's at the bottom, then?

[windyvoice]

Flint, duh.

[bouchonne]

[ What. ]

You are...not well-acquainted with him, perhaps?

[windyvoice]

Yeah, that's the point. He doesn't know me, so I don't exist.

[bouchonne]

That doesn't make him un-scary.