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Fade Rift Mods ([personal profile] faderifting) wrote in [community profile] allthisshitisweird2021-10-16 07:47 pm
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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).
helpinghidinghaunting: But not keep (There are things that we can have)

[personal profile] helpinghidinghaunting 2021-11-03 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

That is very nice of you, Astarion.
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[personal profile] illithidnapped 2021-11-03 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
What can I say? [He asks, preening.]

I learned it from watching you.
helpinghidinghaunting: Every word we can't take back (Every argument)

[personal profile] helpinghidinghaunting 2021-11-03 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[His eyes go wide at this, his voice going very small.]

...Really?
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[personal profile] illithidnapped 2021-11-03 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
Mmhm. [His smile is arched; he knows he’s misbehaving. That he’s fanning a fragile heart with sweet deception.

But really, it’s harmless. Mostly.

Probably.
]

Try not to let it go to your head.
helpinghidinghaunting: Make me a better man (All the things you're trying to do)

[personal profile] helpinghidinghaunting 2021-11-05 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Cole is oblivious to the truth of the matter - he's just genuinely touched, blue eyes sparkling a little.

He nods, then-]


Let what go to my head? My hat is already up there, there's not much room.
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[personal profile] illithidnapped 2021-11-05 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
It—

Oh, never mind. [Soft sigh, absolutely resigned. Let the lad have his day in the sunlight.]

Go back to work, darling. I assume you remember that's also what you're here for.
helpinghidinghaunting: That we've begun (Not the fire)

[personal profile] helpinghidinghaunting 2021-11-05 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Right.

[And with that, Cole turns to walk over to his desk, just a little bit more spring in his steps.]