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

[notathreat]

[A silence, then- while she thinks it through. Enough people have been blindsided by this that it makes the decision easier, if not the words.]

She's here. Her name is Abby.

Just- so it's not a surprise later. We're not trying to kill each other anymore.

[justashotaway]

[ Laura's gaze cuts sharply toward Ellie. ]

Abby is my friend.

[ If it's accusatory, it's not evident in the flat affect of her voice. ]

Who did she kill?

[notathreat]

[Ellie expects this, so the flinch is minimal, and mostly in her eyes.]

It's fine. It's between her and me.

[The next part is harder, especially because she's on her back foot, and it makes her defensive. She doesn't want to open that up, to drag Joel's past out into the light. He's gone. She sets her jaw.]

The man who raised me.

[justashotaway]

Oh.

[ If it required retribution, then Ellie had cared about him. Laura considers this, and the rest of it, in silence. ]

I will not invite you to places I know she will be.

[notathreat]

It's fine. Really.

[Ellie's smile is a little pained.]

Thanks, though. Maybe just warn me.

[justashotaway]

All right.

[notathreat]

Next time ask about the scars with the cooler stories.

[justashotaway]

You'll have to tell me which those are.

[notathreat]

Cheater.

[It's all of them.]

[justashotaway]

[ She gets a shrug in return. No one said she had to guess!!! ]

[notathreat]

[Big ol' shrug back. As far as Ellie's concerned, ball's in her court.]

[justashotaway]

I don't wish to talk more of scars.

[ So that solves that problem. ]

[notathreat]

Okay. Anything you do want to talk about?

[justashotaway]

Do you have a preference?

[notathreat]

I wanna know how you and Matthias met. And how Biter became your cat.

[justashotaway]

We met at lunch. And - I had not touched a cat before. He showed me the cats that live in the pantry and the kitchens. Nobody minds if you take a kitten away.

How did you meet Matthias?

[notathreat]

Yeah, I guess they don't.

[Her face has softened, though. She likes that.]

Back around Satinala, we were all talking about one of the holidays they celebrate in other worlds. He asked me about putting presents in socks and then-

Oh, shit. I forgot to tell the Provost that idea about chainmail socks.