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 somewhere, 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 anything else sort of boring. You can provide context if you'd like, like "[ On the way back from Antiva: ]," but it isn't mandatory.

2. Post a few different remarks your character might make—similar to TFLN, except spoken out loud and less ridiculous, maybe, or maybe not, I 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. Threadjacking to create multiperson conversations is encouraged (unless someone says not to). Multiple different conversations between the same 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.

Comments

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[glossator]

We call it 'theological debate' here.

[youwonscience]

No way. Does it involve alcohol here too?

[She's reacted like it's a joke before it occurs to her that it might not be, but too late now.]

[glossator]

[This face? Make jokes?]

Some might consider it the only way to survive a session.

[Impossible to say.]

[youwonscience]

See, this is the shit it's important to learn when you're raised without any religion at all. I'd have been way more interested if I knew it came with refreshments.

[glossator]

[Never has he ever concluded a general assembly without at least considering a stiff drink.]

Is that common where you come from? Being brought up without.

[youwonscience]

Yes and no. It wasn't that uncommon in the city where I grew up, but it's still ... I don't know, something like less than 10% of the country I come from. So it's not like I never encountered religion, just wasn't raised in it.

[glossator]

Fascinating. Who funds your [general you] scholarship?

[youwonscience]

[HAHA who indeed]

No one source. The government, independent organizations dedicated to furthering knowledge, commercial enterprises hoping to hit on something profitable by funding wider scholarship. Sometimes it's just one really rich dude who gets a wild hair, but that's, uh, rough to build a program around. For general, non-specialist education, it's a mix of government-funded schools, independent self-funding schools and religious schools.