text.

[altsolani]

I don't know whether to be grateful that nothing repaired stays fixed forever or frustrated. One the one hand, it keeps me in a job, on the other it means that there's an awful lot of running around Zion.

I thought this might be an easier way to find out where I'm needed. I can do repairs to cooling and venting systems in your homes and have some training as an electrician. A lot of the major repairs come through dispatch but if you happen to realize your system isn't working as well as it ought too but hasn't reached failure yet, I can help out with those during my free time.

My name is Blight. You can contact me here or message me privately.


[A pause, he adds:]


Yes, I realize how pathetic it is that my first post here is an advertizement. Hopefully I'll have more interesting things to say in the future.

Comments

[forcemageure]

Depends on what kind of public you're relating to, doesn't it? If something breaks and you can't fix it, you're probably not picking your electrician for his stunning personality.

On the other hand if you're trying to socialize I can't say I'd personally introduce myself with a list of flaws in hand.

[altsolani]

Ah, so that's where I went wrong.

Though, I am talking to you now, aren't I? It can't have been all that bad.

[Nevermind he has no idea who you are.]

[forcemageure]

And I don't even need anything fixed! I hope you're marking this down on your calendar.

[ Yes, what a red letter day for Felix this must be, even before the incredibly fascinating reveal. ]

[altsolani]

Right away: 'The-Day-A-Mysterious-Stranger-Gave-Me-Advise-On-How-Not-To-Screw-Up-PR. Or TDAMSGMAOHNTSUPR for short.

Sounds like a new holiday.

[forcemageure]

Or like you're trying to expel something mid-sized and furry from your lung. Maybe a kitten!

Anyway, since suggesting you amend that to 'mysterious, charming, and in all likelihood incredibly handsome stranger' would only make things worse, you can stick with 'Hawke.' Much easier.

[altsolani]

Well, Funalis was already taken by Old Gods, I needed to think of something creative on the spot.

[Oh Tevinter humor, sorry Hawke.]

Hawke is much easier to remember. Wouldn't that make it TDHGMAOHNTSUPR?

[forcemageure]

[ He'll probably survive. ]

I wouldn't quit electricianing to go into the arts just yet; my tongue just forked trying to pronounce that.

Is Funalis as depressing as it sounds? We've got a whole passel of Old Gods where I'm from. They're not much for parties.

[altsolani]

It celebrated the God of Silence and was marked as a day to remember the dead, so yes. It is.

Everyone calls it All Soul's Day now. They needed to update it once honoring the Old Gods fell out of fashion.

[Being corrupted into an archdemon will do that.]

just idly pretending he hasn't read the thread with the guy he ...lives with, it's more fun that way

[forcemageure]

[ ...oh. ]

Your God of Silence wouldn't happen to be called Dumat, would he?

[ He? It? They? Who knows. ]

[altsolani]

Not my God, but yes.

Have you met someone from Tevinter before?

[forcemageure]

Oh, I don't know. Surely the Old Gods belong to us all, what with cocking things up for everybody just about equally.

Can't say I have. Not here, anyway. Thedas was a different story, assuming a broadly liberal definition of 'met.'

[ Like, did he meet Danarius? ]

[altsolani]

[Give him a moment, okay?]

You're from Thedas and your name is Hawke?

[Tevinter's not exactly in the publication are for Tale of the Champion, but there are certain things about the mage-templar war that filtered even up north, even more so once he was in Redcliffe.]

[forcemageure]

[ Hawke ...sighs. He sort of thought Felix had already put all of that together and wasn't saying ...exactly that sentence but oh, well. ]

I could say Hawke is an extraordinarily common name in Ferelden, and you can't swing your arms without hitting one of us, but I suppose if I were all that fussed I'd have picked an alias or something.

[ Like uh, Blight. For instance. ]

[altsolani]

Well, it would have been the time, if you had wanted to away from it.

[forcemageure]

I would have, but my legs didn't work when I got here.

[ Because glibness is the cure for everything, yes? ]

[altsolani]

[Okay that actually made him smile for once. Well done.]

At least it was only your legs? I could think of far worse to have stop working.

[forcemageure]

Considering they used all those tiny needles to jump start everything, so can I.

[ He lives to serve. ]

[altsolani]

How long have you been here?

[forcemageure]

Five months, give or take. Wet behind the ears and all those other synonyms for 'grossly new.' You seem more like a veteran, yourself.

[altsolani]

I've been here for a while, but I spent a long time in the hospital.

[forcemageure]

For what, more than just the standard 'my limbs are made of jelly and I have no eyebrows' blessing we all come into?

[altsolani]

I was sick and my mind needed to catch up that it was an illusion. Let's say it inspired my name.

[forcemageure]

[ ...that's. Surprising. ]

You mean you had the Blight and it actually followed you out of the Matrix? I didn't know that was possible. Even in the mental sense.

[ What an unsettling thought D: ]

[altsolani]

[It takes him a while to respond because he worries for a moment that he's said too much.]

Well, I do like to be unique.

[forcemageure]

I'd say you've succeeded. And then some.

[ Does the incredible dryness come across in text?

PS: 'You'd be surprised how people just tell me their darkest secrets' etc. It's okay, Felix, you're just conforming to canon. ]