002

[treasureling]

Who: Malak
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: On the planet.
When: 3/25

[ The shot shows a rich cloth, with a handful of weapons carefully arranged on it. Swords, knives, daggers: their basic designs are simple, but there is elegance to it, and elaboration in inlaid tracings along the blades, in the handles. ]

I've, ah. I've been hard at work, since we came here. I suppose it was nice to find something familiar.

It seems a shame to leave these behind, or to take them all for myself. I'm not a warrior.

Are there those in the fleet who would like any?

Comments

[forcemageure]

Oh, you're very serious about knives.

[ This isn't a complaint, it's just not something he takes into account because stabby things are for emergencies and executions apparently 8(, not day to day use. ]

I'm not averse to the idea, but if you don't mind pretending for a moment this sort of communication looks like new and baffling magic to some of us, I've no idea where you are or how to get there.

[treasureling]

Don't worry, it's new and baffling magic to me too. In fact, there isn't much magic where I come from, and I've never seen godliness do anything like this.

...I'm not that serious. I'm just used to dealing with warriors. One woman always has to have a better weapon than the next.

[forcemageure]

[ The remark about women goes entirely over Hawke's head, coming from from a relatively egalitarian society as he does. All the scariest people he knows are women. ]

More serious than I am, at any rate. [

[ He grins, crooked and friendly. ]

Lucky for us both that's exactly what I need. Let's see if between the two of us we can't get together in person.

[ They will defeat the new and baffling magic yet! ]

[treasureling]

Do you know where the forge is?

action???

[forcemageure]

I'm sure I can work it out. Given basic deductive reasoning skills and an ability to put one foot in front of the other.

action!!!

[treasureling]

Does that mean you have those, or you're hoping I do?

[forcemageure]

I might've left them in my other trousers, actually.

[ He's ...fine. As we can tell since he appears in the general area of the forge about an arbitrarily assigned length of walking distance later. ]

[treasureling]

[ Malak's set himself up in a grassy area nearby. Was there a grassy area before? There is now. ]

[forcemageure]

[ Sure! Maybe there was even a grassy knoll! ]

I hear you're the man to see about pointy things.

[ ...somehow this manages to be suggestive. ]