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. Or something not boring! Banter in the middle of combat is fine too.

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.

OPTIONAL GAME: We're playing BINGO. Complete a row/column/diagonal for 10 extra AC bonus points. The threads for each square will need to have at least 5 tags from you to qualify, as usual, and you can't use one thread for multiple squares. You can submit them on your AC comment labeled as B1, I2, etc., to claim the points. If you're very dedicated and get bingo more than once, you can claim the bonus more than once, but not more than five times.

Comments

[sulahnan]

Guess not.

[ After a brief silence. ]

I speak two and a half languages, I was born in Rivain, and I've been poisoned three times this year.

[muckspout]

[Skeptically]
You can either speak a language or you cannot, you cannot speak half a language.

[sulahnan]

You can if there's only half a language left.

[muckspout]

[Frowning]
Explain.

[sulahnan]

The Dalish speak elven but most of our knowledge has been lost over years of being forced to give up our culture to be accepted by humans. So what we know of our own language is little more than scraps, it's not something we can speak without needing to use Trade or something else to fill in the gaps.

[ So there you go. ]

[muckspout]

Huh. Interesting. What other language do you speak?

[sulahnan]

Are you trying to get me to give away the answer?

[muckspout]

Alright, I think that one is the lie.

[sulahnan]

I wasn't born in Rivain, sorry.

[muckspout]

[Excited]
Tell me your other language and every detail about your poisonings!

[sulahnan]

[ a huff of laughter ]

Rivaini.

[ she wasn't born there but she lived there for nearly a decade ]

Let's see...most recently—well wait, now I'm wondering if getting drugged counts as being poisoned, 'cos we were both drugged [ apparently ] at that pilgrimage.

[muckspout]

Don't know if drugs count as poison. I suppose a lot of drugs maybe.

[sulahnan]

Well okay so not including getting drugged, I was briefly paralyzed due to a toxic moss in the Donnarks, Wysteria poisoned me with Waking Sea urchin toxin, and the blade that did this was coated in poison.

[ This meaning the scar on her face. ]

Oh, I forgot about this one though [ The collarbone. ]

There's a lot of poison in our line of work.

[muckspout]

[Eyes narrow]
Did Wysteria poison you on purpose??

[sulahnan]

I don't think so, but I didn't ask. She seemed to think I was joking when my tongue started to swell up and made it hard to speak.

[muckspout]

You ate it? [He makes a disgusted face.]

[sulahnan]

It doesn't matter whether I ate it or not!

[ She didn't, for the record, it was just one hell of a reaction ]

You can be disgusted when you're not constantly filthy.

[muckspout]

I have my beliefs and you eat poisonous spiky creatures apparently.

[sulahnan]

Dirt isn't a belief, it's a sediment. And I didn't eat it.

[muckspout]

Alright, you didn't eat it. And its both.

[sulahnan]

[ Rolling her eyes, arms crossed, sounding incredulous and exasperated. ]

Explain how.

[muckspout]

It's complicated. About our true nature. There might be a book or a pamphlet on it one day.

[sulahnan]

The fuck are you on about? What's complicated about it? It's fuckin' dirt and water.

[muckspout]

Exactly! The two most powerful forces in Thedas.

[sulahnan]

Nah. Magic is more powerful than both.