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Gallows Banter Meme

BANTER MEME: OFFICE EDITION

It's been a while since we did a banter meme, so for those of you who may be unfamiliar, the idea is to replicate the experience of the "party banter" that happens between characters while hiking around Thedas in the Dragon Age games, in order to encourage building new CR through mid-job interaction without the need to make up specific tasks or plots. The threads take place in person, but tags are network-spam style—mostly dialogue, occasional action—and set while characters are already in the middle of some kind of vague work task out in the field.

In this version, we're shifting the setting from the field to the Gallows to highlight some of the common workspaces (and restspaces) in the towers where characters will overlap while going about their day to day business. Obviously there are any number of other public spaces in the Gallows (like the dining halls, or the communal baths) but we're instead focusing further up the towers here, on offices, work rooms, floor lounges, and similar spaces that you might not have known existed because we only just made them up when we added layouts of these floors to the Housing spreadsheet. You might also find inspiration in the questionnaire we just posted.

We've set up top-levels below for these places, and we strongly encourage you to use them rather than just posting your own separate top-level like you might normally do. The aim is to treat these like the common areas they are—places where characters may wander in and out during the day—by encouraging more threadjacking and multi-person threads than we might normally see. Things like the person who sits an aisle over chiming in with an idea when they hear you brainstorming with your desk neighbor, or gossiping about your boss over lunch when suddenly they walk into the breakroom, or a crowd slowly gathering at the coffee pot mid-afternoon to complain about how many reports are due. So unless a thread is specifically marked Closed, assume it's open for folks to join in without asking first.

Because this is designed to be focused on characters' day-to-day work in Riftwatch, everything in this meme will be considered to have happened in the game, and threads here can be used for base or bonus AC at the network tag rate (i.e., 5 tags in a thread = 1 proof, rather than 1 log tag = 1 proof).

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Spaces: War Room, Peace Room

Layout & details: Here.

[ Eight floors is a lot of stairs just for dinner. Hence the new Room That Isn't The War Room, with its little enchanted hotplate. Whatever Yseult is cooking, it is fragrant enough to waft down the hall. Thankfully, it's a good smell. Possibly an Antivan smell? ]

That looks like a lot of food. You probably need a lot of people to eat it.

[Up too high to do anything too interesting during a short break, Benedict relaxes against the frame of an open window, blowing the smoke from his cigarette out into the crisp autumn air.

It's a moment of reprieve, but he'll be back in the Diplomacy office soon enough.]

Spaces: Open rooms with desks for all division members; project offices that each open to two different divisions' work rooms, so conversations can spill between them.

Details, desk assignments & layout: Here.

[ The biweekly first-thing-Tuesday-morning Scouting meeting isn't for another hour or so, but Yseult is already in the workroom, digging through a shelf of files with a half-eaten croissant in one hand. (The kitchen staff have already delivered this morning's fruit and pastries to a cleared-off worktable near the door, but the coffee has yet to arrive.) ]

[Astarion isn't normally early. Lateness is as characteristic of him as the artfully arranged silver curls that frame his face, or the blood red eyes that are— at this very moment— fixed fully on the table by the door laden with fresh food, or the sharp teeth that he—

Well. He's eating is the moral of the story: barely one foot in the door, the scent of sea salt still clinging to his blouse despite an overwhelming pushback from something that must be cologne. Lilac and leather oil. His signature, inescapable aroma.

It's been a long night of roguish nonsense. By his own estimation, he's earned this.]

Do you ever give it a rest? [Asked sidelong, head cocked, fingers already reaching for yet another sliver of fresh fruit.] Working, I mean.

Must get so exhausting for you.

Division Offices (Floor 8 in the Central Tower)

Peace Room, mid-evening

no subject

Peace Room, afternoon

Work Rooms & Project Offices (Floor 7 in the Central Tower)

Scouting Work Room, early morning

no subject

Forces work room, probably more than once

no subject

Diplomacy Work Room, late afternoon

project offices, early in the morning

no subject

Research Work Room, Throughout the Day

Scouting Work Room, late night

Forces Work Room

Sashamiri Meeting Room (and earshot thereof)

Other Leaders Offices (Floor 6 in the Central Tower)

Private Quarters (Floor 5 in the Mage and Templar Towers)

Communal Lounge, Mage Tower

Communal Lounge, (Former) Templar Tower - prose or brackets fine, I'll follow you

Shared Quarters (Floors 3 and 4 in the Mage and Templar Towers)

mage tower — communal lounge — any time

mage tower, communal lounge (lunch-time)