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[birdsbirdsbirds]

Who: Robin
Broadcast: Video!
Action: None!
When: Now!

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[hey, it's Robin. he's lounging around in his captain's chair, feet up on the control panel. he's twirling something around in his fingers--it looks kind of like a glow stick? it's a glass cylinder filled with some sort of glowing, red liquid.]

Back in those casino stations, I won one of these.

[he stops twirling the cylinder. when he holds it up closer to the camera, you can see that it's capped with silver on one end. the insides seem to be bubbling a little, as if the liquid is carbonated.]

This is a Luxilizer... though most people below the surface just called them Dummy Sticks, as in, you were an idiot if you walked around the lower levels without them. They're filled with a liquid extracted from a luminescent fungus that grows in the caves of my hometown.

[he twirls it again. Robin himself doesn't seem particularly delighted about the thing, he's just casually explaining, perhaps out of boredom.]

They were originally designed as a backup light source, in case a person got lost in the tunnels. It also makes it easier for others to see them. It can get pretty dangerous down there, in the dark...

[after a pause, he grips the glowing tube and smiles at the camera.]

It's funny to me. No one where I'm from would give these a second thought, but I've learned that underground cities are not a familiar concept in most worlds.

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[PRIVATE TO JASON | TOTALLY HACKABLE, HE AIN'T NO COMMS OFFICER]

Hey, remember me? [waving from his side of the video feed.] Mr. Mean Everything?

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[forcemageure]

[ Fair enough! Hawke makes a motion like he's tipping an invisible glass. ]

I'd say we can conclude the history lesson there.

[ A glorious spasm of dry. ]

private transmission

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Mm. Thank you for the explanation.

[half-attentive. thinking carefully, for a moment.]

I still think that my question stands, even if only towards a higher power... But I fully understand why she'd be mad at a clueless human making such a broad statement.

[and of course he does nothing to correct the bit where everyone thinks he's human--no matter how much he thinks that being the King of Pain gives him a little more authority to speak on such subjects than anyone with a two-digit lifespan. he lifts a finger to gesture, swinging backwards to an earlier point.]

So, blood magic. Let's go back to that.

[forcemageure]

My pleasure. Never miss a chance to slander the Chantry when they're not here to defend themselves.

[ Droll. Meanwhile, his eyebrows lift a little. ]

What about it?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[ah, well. at least the first comment gets him smiling.]

Is "everything" an acceptable answer? I've been accused of it once, without fully knowing what it is I'm being accused of.

[forcemageure]

[ For perhaps the literal first time in his life, Hawke wishes he had a Chantry text on hand. Oh, well. This will just be a him-flavoured explanation, much like the elfy thing was. ]

The very short answer is that it's magic powered by blood, but you probably want something more than that.

[ He's just assuming the accusation came from a Thedosian, considering he hasn't heard anything similar from any of the other mages here, so: ]

On its own it's ...magic. Just like any other magic. The problem tends to be what people do with it. Summoning demons, mind control. That sort of icky thing.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Mm... [and his smile drops again.] Magic is that powerful, where you're from? Is anyone capable of "blood magic," intent aside?

[forcemageure]

'That' powerful? Sure. That and ripping a literal hole in the literal sky, but that's neither here nor there.

[ He starts attempting to answer the second question, then changes his mind mid-thought. ]

You know, I feel like this conversation's much better had unable to see straight. Drink?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[--and back to a smile, with laughing, even.]

Whether or not I agree... Who would I be to turn down drinks with a charismatic man such as yourself? [haha, oh, he's so funny...] Absolutely. Name the place.