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[pubcrawl]

[ Ever since he'd arrived, Bull's first thought had been that he'd stepped through an Eluvian. That was preposterous, there hadn't been a single one in sight in the great hall of Skyhold. There wasn't one here, either. It was what had made the most sense– go from one realm to another without so much as blinking. Enjoy a bit of a tickle and tug at the midsection. ]

Figure talking to this little guy is better than trying to type something out. [ Or that was the gist of the explanation he'd gotten when a kind crew member had given him a quick rundown of the device. Though, Bull could really do without this so-called TAB. ] Most of you probably have yet to see the size of my hands. I would be writing in a whole new language within the first two letters.

It wouldn't be pretty.

[ This giant looking horned man shouldn't need to show his hands as proof, he practically filled the entire screen, hunkered forward just to be sure he can be made out. He gave a smirking grin and cocked his head to the right. ]

So... Aside from what I've been hearing around camp, there should be more dirt to dish with what's been going on. Who's got it? I've got a few jars I could fill. [ Shame those jars couldn't be filled with bees. ] And one last thing– anyone seen or heard from a witch? She goes by the name of Morrigan.

This whole thing reeks of her.

Comments

[pubcrawl]

I'd agree with that but you're going to have to explain this whole international flight thing.

[sketchycharacter]

It's... [Okay, if he's asking, modern flight probably isn't a thing where this guy is from.] It's locking yourself into a pressurized metal tube that shoots up thousands of feet into the sky and hurtles through the atmosphere to another country.

[No but really.]

[pubcrawl]

So like a trebuchet. Minus the metal tube.

[sketchycharacter]

Pretty much, yeah.

[Somewhere, aeronautics engineers are crying.]

[pubcrawl]

I'm surprised you know what that is.

[sketchycharacter]

A trebuchet? Why? It's not exactly an obscure concept.

[pubcrawl]

Considering you talk about a metal tube flying in the air, yes. Yes it is.

[ Bull doesn't know this guy and from what he can gather, he's not from Thedas. Where shit is medieval. ]

[sketchycharacter]

Not really. There are only a few hundred years between when a trebuchet was a fearsome weapon and the development of the first jet. There's documentation, records.

[History boner intensifies.]

[pubcrawl]

You talk like you've studied this.

[sketchycharacter]

Not trebuchets and jets specifically, but I'm pretty good with history, yeah.

[pubcrawl]

How good? Good as in you spend all your days in a library dealing with archives? Or good as in you re-live it.

[sketchycharacter]

Neither? I've spent some long afternoons in a library, but that's not my actual job. And there are other ways to do research.

[pubcrawl]

Such as?

[sketchycharacter]

Well, there's the internet. Picture every book ever written and accessible through a device kind of like the TAB.

[pubcrawl]

This little guy is an internet? So like a network?

[sketchycharacter]

That's right. Except it's not just used for talking to people, it's used for accessing all kinds of information and posting cat pictures.

[pubcrawl]

Cat pictures. Now why would anyone want to do that?

[sketchycharacter]

Why not? Cats are cute.

[He's more of a dog person though.]

[pubcrawl]

They're full of hair. And they like to sleep on faces. How is that cute?

[sketchycharacter]

They do not sleep on faces.

[Someone's never had a pet.]

[pubcrawl]

[ But he knows people who would. ]

Why wouldn't they?

[sketchycharacter]

Faces aren't very comfortable?

[pubcrawl]

They do have their comforts in other ways.

[sketchycharacter]

[Nate snorts. He knows innuendo when he hears it.]

I can't argue with that.