01 | video/text

[lavelly]

[It's set to video, but the feed is dark, and there's some kind of ambient noise. After a few moments it becomes clear that Lavellan is unknowingly covering the camera with his hand. He's talking, too, but his voice is muffled.]

Hello. Hello? Is this--is it working? I can't tell--

[Then there's actual video: it's a fuzzy closeup of Lavellan's eye, and then his ear.]

Can... anyone hear me? Am I doing this correctly?

[There's more muffled noise, like someone manhandling a microphone; the feed jostles and then goes dark again. There's what sounds like muted cursing in a foreign language (elvish, for those who recognize it) before the video ends entirely. Trying to use advanced technology is rough when you're from medieval fantasy land :(

The video is accompanied by text that looks like someone poked uncertainly at the letters of an unfamiliar keyboard with one hand. Because they did.]

hello.isanyonethere///

Comments

[crowkiller]

The fifth, yes. I'm not so old as to have come from the fourth or third.

I am Zevran Arainai of Antiva.

[lavelly]

[Never mind, maybe Lavellan did know this guy. Wasn't Zevran Arainai the assassin Leliana had recommended?]

The same as Zevran Arainai, formerly of the Crows?

[crowkiller]

I am beginning to think I am famous in your time...

[This is the second time someone has mentioned him that he didn't know.]

Yes, that is I.

[lavelly]

I don't know about famous. I'd certainly never heard of you before Leliana recommended your services.

You did very well, you might be happy to know.

[crowkiller]

Pity, but at least Leliana is a smart woman to tell you of me.

I doubt I did much, I am no Grey Warden after all.

[lavelly]

I wouldn't know. I'm afraid I didn't do much reading on the Blight, and I don't remember much of it, either. I was rather young at the time, and my clan didn't join the defense effort.

[Is this the point? Reign it in, Lavellan.]

In any case, you'd be about a decade out of date.