Oh I love my Rosie child

[thebestseller]

Who: The crew of the SS Twin Roses and any visitors
Broadcast: N/A
Action: SS Twin Roses
When: The end of April

['Sup, it's a ship mingle. We've lost Adawolfe, Anders and Ravi, but gained Lance, Shovel Knight, and Chuuya.

Enjoy the free pudding and make yourselves at home, newbies.]

Comments

[stabsbothways]

[ Summer is here to nab a deck of cards from a recently departed passenger. She is not prepared for what she finds.

When there's a break in the performance, she applauds. ]

I see that its important to keep morale high for the machines here.

[thebestseller]

[Castle turns and offers a bow.]

I try to be kind to my cleaning bots. That way, when the machines take over, I have a better chance at surviving.

[stabsbothways]

Is that a thing? An inevitable machine takeover?

[ She suspected it wasn't serious if they were continuing to build them. ]

[thebestseller]

It's a fairly popular theme in fiction back where I come from. I figure it can't hurt to be kind, just in case.

[stabsbothways]

That kind of scaremongering where I'm from is usually reserved for Mages... or Tevinter, which overlaps with the previous thing... or the Qunari, the Darkspawn... a fun one had the Chantry taking over the world. That one is banned most everywhere, though.

Ironic.

[thebestseller]

[Castle simply blinked in response.]

OK, aside from mages, I didn't follow... pretty much any of that.

[stabsbothways]

Let's put this in relation to Wolfe and Anders, who you knew. They're both mages, who are part of a group that's generally feared for variety of reasons, some justified, others less so.

Tevinter is an "evil" empire that has a lot to do with said fear of mages, since the people with magic run everything and those that don't aren't worth the dirt on a mages shoe.

The Chantry is an expansive religion which says that it was the Magisters of Tevinter who created the Darkspawn- well, the Chantry everywhere but the one in Tevinter, that is. That one disagrees with that series of events. The rest of the Chantry though, they say that to prevent mages from doing something like that again, they have to be locked in tall towers, and can be murdered if they even look at a Templar wrong. Templars being Chantry soldiers who are addicted to a highly dangerous substance often smuggled from a dwarven criminal organization called the Carta.

The Darkspawn, sorry for the tangient, are disgusting creatures that grow underground and sometimes come up to murder people and then drag the survivors back underground to make more of them. They poison the land and are generally a Blight upon every living thing in the world and sometimes try to destroy the world. You know that old hat.

Uh... what else. Oh, yes the Qunari.

[ There's a personal vitriol in her voice when she says the word, far above the dispassionate way she described all the previous things. ]

The Qunari follow an even stupider religion that robs people of individuality so that it can mold them into bricks to fit nice and neatly into their utopic society. They don't like mages and chain them up like cattle.

Oh, that wasn't a rhetorical question, was it?

[thebestseller]

[Castle is rather surprised by the long description that follows, but he listens intently anyway. It's a lot to take in, and he does have some trouble following along, but he does his best, anyway.]

Uh, no- I was actually curious. That sounds like a lot worse to deal with than a robot uprising, honestly. I'm not sure humans would be able to survive very long if they had Darkspawn poisoning everything. I think I'd rather deal with the robot uprising.

[stabsbothways]

Well. I'm human. Most of the people in Thedas are human.

[ Not sure why he thought otherwise? ]

We've made it a few different ages through what is it, five blights now? We make due.

Haven't been through a robot uprising, so I couldn't compare.

[thebestseller]

[He nods.]

Well, I haven't been through one of those, either, to be fair, so I don't have much of a measure to compare against. Just an active imagination.

[stabsbothways]

An active imagination might be the most terrifying and dangerous thing we've discussed so far.

[ She teases. ]

[thebestseller]

You know, my fiance says things like that a lot. I like to think outside the box, she stays rigidly inside it. She thinks I've got my head in the clouds a bit too often.

[stabsbothways]

Cut a hole in the box and you have all the ingredients for some nice kinky fun.

[thebestseller]

[Castle stops a moment to ponder that, then laughs aloud.]

I dunno, I think she'd have my head for suggesting such a thing.

[stabsbothways]

I despair on behalf of your sex life.

Maybe she'd be for some role reversal. You aren't claustrophobic, are you?

[thebestseller]

Not at all. Honestly, I think she'd enjoy having me at her mercy like that.

[stabsbothways]

My kind of girl.

[thebestseller]

[A smirk.]

Mine, too. She's quite a catch.