Gallows Banter Meme

[faderifting]

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).

Comments

Forces Work Room

[muckspout]

[It started as just a small pile of papers, but then Edgard discovered quills in his desk and next thing you know there is a large tower where Edgard's desk should be. It's too artful to be called merely garbage, but it is garbage nevertheless. A rustling is heard and the whole thing wobbles.]

Shit! Don't fail me now!

[armd]

Need help over there?

(not moving. not even glancing up from her book,)

[sparklequeen]

If you turn that into a mess on the floor, I swear--!

[muckspout]

[With deep offense]

It's not a mess, it's an accomplishment!

[To Abby.]

Don't knock it over!

[armd]

Why?

(now she wants to do that, she's looking up–) Is it art?

[muckspout]

[Yes.]

Not telling you!

[Definitely.]

[armd]

(she's standing up!!!!

to come over and appraise it with her hands on her hips, chill out,)

I don't get it.

Explain.

[sparklequeen]

[ The scratching of Glimmer's quill ceases. ]

Are you stacking quills?

That's actually pretty impressive.

[muckspout]

[Edgard stubbornly ignores Abby's looming and pointedly speaks to Glimmer.]

Thank you! Think so too.

[He's not looking at Abby. Abby's NOT RIGHT THERE or anything.]