Why'd You Kill the Merchant?!

[sansseraph]

Who: ALL O' Y'ALL
Broadcast: If you want
Action: FRICK YEAH PARTY AT THE JUNKYARD...I mean, Waystation. Junkstation.
When: 10/07 - Event End

It looks more like a junk heap than a waystation, but luckily there aren't any math fetishists to add you to the pile (hopefully). Talk to the scavengers and heed their warnings...if you want. Or perhaps you'll approach a shady individual for purchasing or selling stuff.

"Welcome, stranger!"

Comments

[wolfuncaged]

I take it people were less receptive of the Grey Wardens showing up to defend them from the Blight? Seems rather foolhardy, to be honest.

[He was in Tevinter still when it hit. They tend to not care as much. Because, well, history and all that. ]

[bryces_pup]

Yes and no. Depends on whom we're speaking about here. The peoples I went to for help weren't necessarily unreceptive. They just had major troubles of their own. "Oh, we'd help but werewolves are attacking our clan" or "We'd honor our word but our king is dead and the entire dwarven kingdom is in a deadlock deciding the next one". And of course, "Love to help, but our Circle is overrun by abominations."

[A pause.] Almost forgot: "The Arl who could lend you aid and help engineer an end to the civil war is unconscious with a poison we can't cure. Also, our town is being overrun by undead. Please help."

[Nothing went easy during that year.]

To top it all off, once Loghain took power, he pinned King Cailan's death and the disaster at Ostagar on the Grey Wardens. So many in Ferelden saw us as traitors and tried to claim the bounties on our heads.

[wolfuncaged]

[Fenris listens, occasionally giving a soft, amused scoff. ]

Sounds a lot like our time in Kirkwall, honestly. Hawke ended up helping the city out a lot, but people were unwilling to do their part if we did not run around pointlessly for them - doing their work for them.

Hm. And that is where you met Zevran, correct? He was one of those claiming a bounty...on behlaf of the Crows?

[bryces_pup]

People do love to pass their dirt work onto someone else.

[At the mention of Zevran, she smiles. She can't help it; she usually does when he's brought up.]

More or less. Loghain hired them. I suppose Alistair and I just weren't dying as quickly as he'd have liked. Zevran and some hired lackeys ambushed us on the road. After a sound thrashing, we found him alive and interrogated him. He readily gave us information on Loghain, and then asked to be spared.

[Her lips twitched.]

You know, I still can't quite pin the reason why I did. I'll admit, a part of me found him rather curious, given his personality and how he argued his case. I do believe he called me a death goddess. [Which helped his cause, admittedly.] But... I don't know. Something told me to bring him along. And I'm glad I did.

[wolfuncaged]

Maker forbid they do it themselves, after all.

[That does get a soft huff of amusement out of the elf. ]

Zevran has a way of cajoling people I have only ever seen the dwarf manage, in all honesty. I would not be surprised if those two survived us all, relying almost entirely on their own wits and charisma.

[bryces_pup]

Zevran knows how to read people. It's almost uncanny. And, he's a good person. With a questionable love of killing people.

[wolfuncaged]

Hm. Well. He is an assassin. He would not be a good one if he couldn't kill people with some degree of satisfaction.

[Says the living weapon, who doesn't really feel anything when he kills people, doop doop. ]

But yes. He does have a skill in reading people.

[bryces_pup]

Very true. He's taught me quite a few things about that, actually. Best places to strike and how to hit them. One of his maneuvers saved my life once. [Against Howe, of all people. Who better to teach her how to fight a rogue than another rogue?]

And in manipulating them and cajoling them. [She chuckles.] At least when he's not driving them crazy. Oh, poor Wynne. I think she threatened to remove his brains through his nose once or twice, and she was the most level-headed of the bunch. [And Zevran just kept on poking her, because he could.] Though I think we all considered that once or twice, especially when he started with the unsolicited sex advice.

[wolfuncaged]

[That gets a chuckle out of him. ]

I should remain on your good side, then.

I imagine Alistair did not cope with that well. He's never come across to me as someone who copes well with someone bringing hsi sex life into the limelight.

[bryces_pup]

Oh, I'm not that scary. Really! Besides, you could pluck out my heart from my chest if you so wanted so I think you have little to worry about.

[At his assertion, she laughs, because wow did he nail that on that head.]

You'd imagine right. I remember him plugging his ears and going "Lalala I can't hear you" once or twice. [She huffs.] Luckily, at least I bothered to listen.

[wolfuncaged]

True, but I tend to have a good reason to do so. You're safe.

[You're not a slaver nor have you tried to kill him, so bonus!]

It's amusing to think of the King of Ferelden as such. It does shatter the allure of loyalty a little.

[bryces_pup]

[Awww yis]

I suppose it does, though bear in mind said king spent half his life in a Chantry. He... wasn't exposed much to that sort of thing. It was all very new to him.

[Queen Riona, robbing Chantry boys of their virginity and making them king since 9:30 Dragon.]

[wolfuncaged]

[Oh bless. ]

Truly? I was not aware the Chantry in the South was so strict concerning those things.

[bryces_pup]

To an extent. I think his personality worked against him a bit, too, and his background. [He was a bit of an outsider, as she understood it. Never quite fitting in anywhere. It made her heart ache a little to think on it.] But no. I don't think the Chantry exactly encouraged ... caboodling.

[wolfuncaged]

[Fenris makes a soft noise of amusement. ]

Something the black divine would no doubt use to let his countrymen know what a sorry state the Andrastian Chantry is in.

[bryces_pup]

Oh? Does the Imperial Chantry encourage that sort of thing?

[wolfuncaged]

The Imperial Chantry tends to encourage most things. They parade themselves like peacocks, for the most part. Like most of Tevinter, it's all about the spectacle. It was...quite an education, to learn how Andrastians follow their faith.

[He quite frankly, prefers it, and not all of it is even to just spite Tevinter.]