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Skyhold Quests

Sutherland and Company

Skyhold Masterpost

The PC passes a man in the tavern.

Sutherland: I hope I can help somehow. Maybe cleaning?

They stop to speak with him.

Sutherland: Oh. Inquisitor. I—uh, I joined. Sutherland, Your Worship. I saw some bandits, so I came to warn people. I'll let your warriors know and then… stay out of the way.

War Table: New to the Crew: A Young Hopeful

The PC returns to the tavern.

Sutherland: Inquisitor! It was amazing! Ahem, I'm sorry. Slow down. Your quartermaster outfitted me, and I got training to hunt the bandits near my home. In your name! I hired Voth here. Don't tell anyone, but he's a—a mage. A good one, though.

They talk to Sutherland.

Sutherland: Thank you for trusting me, Your Worship. I'll pay you back. I swear.

Dialogue options:

General: Who are you again? [1]

General: Return the gear; go to work. [2]

General: Keep training, recruit. [3]

1 - General: Who are you again? PC: Right. And who were you again? Sutherland: Oh, uh, no one, Your Worship. Just—never mind. Scene ends.

2 - General: Return the gear; go to work. PC: Very well. Let's get you out of that costume and put you to work. Sutherland: What? Oh, uh, of course. Thank you, I suppose. I have some skill. I'm sure I can… help fix the… place. Thank you. Scene ends.

3 - General: Keep training, recruit. PC: Good work. Keep with the training—we'll need every hand. Sutherland: Yes! Yes, Your Worship. We will do just that! Won't we, Voth? He doesn't speak. But he's thankful, too. [4]

4 - Scene continues.

War Table: A Patrol for the Crew

The PC finds Sutherland in the tavern with someone new.

Sutherland: Good work out there, Voth. Those blighted nugs won't infect anything now. Shayd, thanks for joining in on that escort for Lady Montilyet.

Shayd: Whatever.

Sutherland: She's great, right?

The PC speaks to him.

Sutherland: Training hard, Inquisitor. You have the best people. and we’re going to help.

War Table: Outfitting the Crew

The PC returns to the tavern.

Outfitted with Josephine Sutherland: This is the fanciest I've ever been. Shayd: Is this silk? My mother told me a story about silk once. I think I'm going to cry. Sutherland: Don't, it looks so good on you. You too, Voth. I can't wait for the next job.

Outfitted with Leliana Sutherland: This is sleek stuff. I've never seen anything like this. Shayd: I have. Serious bard gear. This is the best. Sutherland: Wow. And you're great in it.

Outfitted with Cullen Sutherland: Can you believe this armor? It must have cost two houses! Shayd: It's all right. Kind of heavy. Sutherland: Looks good on you.

The PC speaks to Sutherland.

Sutherland: Inquisitor! This gear is the best. I never thought—well, we’ll be worth it. I swear.

War Table: A Test of Mettle and the Crew

The PC returns to the tavern.

If operation was completed with Cullen/Josephine Glad I could bring the news about those darkspawn, Inquisitor. Must have been a tough fight. Wish I'd seen it. Had a lull after. Shayd went to Val Royeaux. Voth, I don't know. I'll get into Cullen's reserve yet, though. Not much else doing. Scene ends.

If operation was completed with Leliana Sutherland: I know! Then you were off the walls, Voth hit him with fire, and I got him around the side!

Shayd: You were very dashing. Cleaved him good.

Sutherland: Couldn't let him get near you. Either of you. We're a team. Better, we're an adventuring company. Hot shit, we're a company.

The PC speaks to Sutherland.

Sutherland: Inquisitor! You should have seen it. Darkspawn! We put your flag in the center of their bloody lair and held it!

Shayd: Isn't he good? He's very good.

Sutherland: We are better than good. We'll prove we're an adventuring company of the Inquisition. Your company, Inquisitor. I said I'd pay you back. And I will.

War Table: A Crew of Ambassadors War Table: A Crew of Adventurers

The PC returns to the tavern to find a dwarf where Sutherland usually is.

Rat: Oh, oh pebbles. Who do I talk to? It's so high here.

The PC talks to her.

Rat: Oh, Your Worship, I'm—uh, I'm with Sutherland, I'm Rat, his squire. Forgive me, I'm not used to being this high up. I was following, and… they were taken. They said to come here with a map if there was trouble. That you would help. They said you're a great [person]. A leader. You'll help, right? Because—because I don't know what to do.

Rat: Oh, it's so hard to breathe up here. I did what I could.

War Table: Sutherland and Company Missing

The PC tracks Sutherland to the Storm Coast.

Choice dependent dialogue:

Failed to save Sutherland [5]

Traveled to the Storm Coast to save Sutherland [6]

5 - Failed to save Sutherland

The PC returns to the tavern after failing to save Sutherland. Rat and Shayd are there.

Rat: But what do I do now?

Shayd: I don't care what you do, it's over. They're dead.

Rat: I can—I can carry.

Shayd: My stuff is light. I've nothing—nothing holding me down.

The PC talks to Shayd.

Shayd: Inquisitor? Just getting my things. You won't see any of us… me, you won't see me again. The rest are dead. Stupid charge to save a stupid caravan. Stupid… heroes. Anyway. (Sniffs.) It was good while it lasted. Have a good Inquisition. Scene ends.

6 - Traveled to the Storm Coast to save Sutherland

The PC arrives at the Storm Coast and joins the fighting.

Sutherland: It's the Inquisitor! I told you! I told you! He's a true-as-anything hero!

Sutherland: Fight 'em hard, company! We have the Inquisitor at our side!

Sutherland: Reinforcements! They won't know what hit them!

Sutherland: You're fighting a legend! That's the Inquisitor!

Sutherland: Watch the flank! Shayd: On it! Voth: With you!

Sutherland: Watch yourself! Thanks!

Shayd: Pattern Three? Voth: Five, five! Sutherland: On it!

The fighting ends.

Shayd: Sutherland: That's the lot! We won! Hurrah!

Shayd: Hurrah? You beautiful ass!

Voth: Heh. Good one.

The PC talks to Sutherland.

Sutherland: I knew you'd come. Rat's a good runner. We saved a caravan, but lost the fight. They saw your flag and were hoping we were good for a ransom. Once they learned we were nobody, we were good as dead. But here you are.

Dialogue options:

General: Nobody? You're my people. [7]

General: Just in time to save you. [8]

General: Back to Skyhold, company. [9]

7 - General: Nobody? You're my people. PC: Of course I'm here. You are an adventuring company of the Inquisition. Sutherland: (Sniffs.) You hear that? Did everyone hear that? Shayd: We heard it, you fool.

8 - General: Just in time to save you. PC: Arriving at the last moment. Don't forget style in your training. Sutherland: (Laughs.) I can only hope to be half as good a leader as you. Shayd: You're getting there.

9 - General: Back to Skyhold, company. PC: Form up and report back, company of the Inquisition. Sutherland: (Sniffs.) Yes, Inquisitor. Form up! Shayd: With pleasure.

10 - Scene continues.

Inquisitor. We'll return to the hold. And we'll be back out in no time. Thank you.

War Table: A Company of Heroes

The PC heads into the tavern.

Shayd: Give it to [them] now!

Sutherland: Not yet, it’s not enough.

YShayd: ou know it is, you're just chicken.

Sutherland: If I didn't love you…

Shayd: Shut it, you fool. (Chuckles.)

The PC talks to Sutherland.

Sutherland: Inquisitor! I—we have something for you. We've been saving and, well, this is yours.

Shayd: It's payback, for all you invested. Plus extra. You know, investment and such.

Sutherland: We just wanted to say thanks. We never would have been anything without you.

Dialogue options:

General: I'm proud to have you. [11]

General: You earned it. You deserve it. [12]

General: Sponsor someone like you. [13]

11 - General: I'm proud to have you. PC: It's people like you who built the Inquisition. You're the heart of it. Sutherland: Glad to give it, Inquisitor. One condition. Shayd: When you see us down the tavern, you're buying. Sutherland: If that's your will. Your Worship. [14]

12 - General: You earned it. You deserve it. PC: That looks like pay well earned. It isn't mine to take. Sutherland: You hear that? That's what inspired me. That right there. Shayd: Don't cry again, fool. Inquisitor? You see us in the tavern, we're buying. Sutherland: If that's your will. Your Worship. [14]

13 - General: Sponsor someone like you. PC: Pay it forward, Sutherland. Find someone like you and give them a chance. Sutherland: I will. I swear I will. Shayd: Don't cry again, fool. Inquisitor? You see us in the tavern, we're buying. Sutherland: If that's your will. Your Worship. [14]

14 - Scene continues.

If the PC approaches them again.

Sutherland: Inquisitor!

Shayd: you are a special person.

Voth: I love these guys.

Rat: (Burps.)

The PC finds Sutherland after the final battle against Corypheus.

Shayd: Tell [them]. It’s only right.

Sutherland: Not yet. It’s not the right time yet.

Shayd: You’re just stalling. We’re ready.

The PC talks to Sutherland.

Sutherland: Inquisitor. You won. We all won. And… I am honored I was a part of it.

Shayd: We all are. But with things winding down, Cullen's got more than enough troops.

Sutherland: (Ahem.) It's time for us to go. We've eyes on a keep of our own. Starting a freehold. Maybe even titles. You know, rising up. Like you did. Just like you.

Dialogue options:

General: I couldn't be more proud. [15]

General: I know you'll make it. [16]

General: Then you'd better get going. [17]

15 - General: I couldn't be more proud. PC: You've turned into fine people. I'm the one who's honored. Who's proud. Shayd: Don't, you'll start him crying. Sutherland: Are you kidding? This is the best day of my life. Every day is the best day.

16 - General: I know you'll make it. PC: You'll get that title. And more. I knew it from the start. Shayd: (Sniffs and laughs.) We promise not to start any rival Inquisitions. Sutherland: Well, there goes the first week. Heh.

17 - General: Then you'd better get going. PC: That kind of ambition can't wait. You'd better get moving. Sutherland: Right. We're setting out in the morning. And… thank you. Shayd: For everything.

18 - Scene continues.

Sutherland: Your Worship. It's been an honor. It's been… incredible.

Scene ends.

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Challenge #04280-K262: Lucky For Some

Just because you don't look alike doesn't mean you don't have a twin out there, somewhere. So, a team of researchers asked themselves, what if good luckers had bad luck counterparts, all of them? And, if that were the case, was there a way to ensure good luckers don't gain an ego, and bad luckers have a way to save them from, literally, themselves? What if good luckers... have a bad luck twin? -- Anon Guest

[AN: The actual term is "match" or "counterpart" as twin has familial implications that confuse a great many Galactic Alliance citizens.]

Lucker Kash and Lucker Dov had been the first. The forces of science wanted to analyse the odd device that Ambassador Shayde had made for hir. It didn't matter how many times she told them that it was based on magic, they wanted to find out how it worked. They wanted to find out why it worked.

Magic and science didn't mix. After all, any significantly analysed magic is indistinguishable from science[1]. Some magic, by its very nature, defied analysis. Such as selecting a nontoxic quartzite river stone and holding it under the subject's tongue for an hour. Shayde insisted it was for the aura impression from the patient, but... one could never tell with Shayde.

She could be making them do that for her own amusement.

[Check the source for the rest of the story]

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Challenge #04280-K262: Lucky For Some

Just because you don't look alike doesn't mean you don't have a twin out there, somewhere. So, a team of researchers asked themselves, what if good luckers had bad luck counterparts, all of them? And, if that were the case, was there a way to ensure good luckers don't gain an ego, and bad luckers have a way to save them from, literally, themselves? What if good luckers... have a bad luck twin? -- Anon Guest

[AN: The actual term is "match" or "counterpart" as twin has familial implications that confuse a great many Galactic Alliance citizens.]

Lucker Kash and Lucker Dov had been the first. The forces of science wanted to analyse the odd device that Ambassador Shayde had made for hir. It didn't matter how many times she told them that it was based on magic, they wanted to find out how it worked. They wanted to find out why it worked.

Magic and science didn't mix. After all, any significantly analysed magic is indistinguishable from science[1]. Some magic, by its very nature, defied analysis. Such as selecting a nontoxic quartzite river stone and holding it under the subject's tongue for an hour. Shayde insisted it was for the aura impression from the patient, but... one could never tell with Shayde.

She could be making them do that for her own amusement.

[Check the source for the rest of the story]

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5 Great Ways to Engage Your Audience on Instagram

This post was originally published on Creative Market.

Over the last three years, Instagram has evolved from a place to post photos of your food to a powerful driver of business for some of the biggest brands in the world. Adoption among internet users and businesses has exploded and, unlike on most other social networks, people tend to fill their Instagram feeds with brand content. In fact, according to Forrester, Instagram has the highest engagement rates between brands and customers compared to other major social networks.

A social network where people actually want businesses to get involved sounds like a dream come true, but don’t take that openness for granted. Your fans expect you to treat Instagram just like they would: filling your feed with beautiful images, commenting on the photos of others, and generally being engaging.

If you’re not sure how to engage your audience beyond likes and comments, we’ve gathered a handful of other methods to really make an impression on Instagram.

1. Use influencers

If you’re looking to increase your visibility, consider reaching out to other influential Instagram users and accounts. These days, social media influencers are like modern-day celebrities. Collaborating with influencers will help increase your reach, brand awareness, and show people that you’re paying attention to trends.

One of the more important aspects of successfully partnering with influencers is choosing people that are the right fit for your brand. Keeping in mind who your audience is, you want to find influencers who have more than just a big following; you want to find the influencers who have the right following. The best influencers for your Instagram marketing strategy will be the people who resonate with your target audience and drive engagement amongst that community.

Reaching a large community is only valuable if you’re also able to create solid engagement. Look beyond follower numbers and hone in on influencers who drive a huge amount of interactions. Partnering with those who are already creating high engagement means that you will be able to be part of a conversation, instead of trying to take one over or start your own from scratch.

Had an awesome adventure with @sanborncanoe & @huckberry this weekend, we canoed down the Mississippi River before ending up at a beautiful state park for a gourmet camp meal ⛺️ #scoutforth #seeyououtthere

A post shared by Shayd Johnson (@xshaydx) on Sep 22, 2015 at 11:10am PDT

2. Use Regramming

One of the most powerful ways to engage your Instagram followers is to turn to them for user-generated content. Regramming—the practice of posting a photo from someone else’s Instagram account to your own, along with appropriate credit—is one of the easiest and most effective means of engaging your audience. The photo’s creator gets a personal shout-out from a brand and increased exposure through their network. As a brand, you prove to your audience that you’re paying attention to them, and are willing to share their content.

If one of your favorite brands likes your photo enough to actually share it on their feed, that’s something most people will get excited about. It creates a sort of mutually beneficial relationship, and can turn a casual fan into an ambassador for your brand. Plus, it helps you fill your feed with great photos while saving you the time it would take to go out and shoot them yourself.

Seeing these Regrammed photos will likely prompt your other fans to start sharing more, ideally creating a cycle of available user generated content (UGC) for you to use. But how do you encourage fans to share their photos with you in the first place?

Some tips for attracting UGC on Instagram include:

Having a compelling branded hashtag that encourages user contributions

Organizing a photo contest through Instagram

Staying on top of your tagged images

Encouraging photo submissions during branded live events

3. Use your captions to prompt discussion

Far too many brands treat the Instagram caption as an afterthought. Yes, Instagram is a visual social network and the photos matter most, but your caption is valuable real estate that you can use to prompt further engagement.

A good caption, believe it or not, probably won’t be just a few words. The best Instagrammers in the world tend to tell a story, ask a question or use fun hashtags or emojis. Spending time carefully crafting the perfect caption will bring your image to life and help your followers relate to you and your content.

Find a consistent voice. Make your life easier by coming up with some soft guidelines, such as adding a date or timestamp, or posting fitting lyrics. Are you a storyteller who writes a paragraph or do you like to use share prompts that encourage your followers to do the talking? Finding your personal voice is important and will help you when dealing with writer’s block in the future.

There is a lot going on in this photo.. I usually aim for simplicity in pictures but I love how this really tells a story of what it was like to be there. (if I could only figure out a way to describe the smell you would get the full picture) I shot this in Kanyakumari India in 2012 . We were on this kinda exploratory surf mission for Surfer Magazine looking for waves all across the southern tip of the country. The beach was always full of activity a truly vibrant and colorful scene, tons of people were worshipping and getting ready for the day’s work. Fisherman laying out nets and prepping boats, families getting food and water and last but not least.. the beach was always the public restroom. Let’s just say it wasn’t uncommon to see something odd floating by you in the water. # The waves were really good this morning so we surfed. It was normal for a few people to stop and watch as they surfed… But this time the entire village seemed to gather. Every time someone would do an air fists would get raised and people would hoot and holler, It was a really good excuse to take a step back and shoot a frame that really captured everything that was going on. It was this short experience for me that I knew I may never see again. When I saw it in the archives it reminded me why I love photography. @craig__anderson @_warrensmith_ @surfer_magazine @dillonperillo_

A post shared by ChrisBurkard (@chrisburkard) on Nov 12, 2015 at 5:27pm PST

4. Participate in your comment threads

Monitoring what your followers are saying about the photos you post, both positive and negative is a big part of engaging your audience. Thank people for kind comments, or for tagging their friends. Actually respond to comments where people ask you questions about the photo, or about your business.

By taking the time to acknowledge them, you prove that you care about what they have to say. It doesn’t take long, but responding to comments, questions, and concerns that pop up in your Instagram feeds also creates strong brand loyalty and shows that there is a real person behind the images.

5. Run contests and campaigns

Hosting a contest can build some serious excitement around your business or brand. Instagram actually makes it pretty easy to run quick contests that will build your following and increase engagement. The only limitations are your own creativity. Think about what you’re trying to get out of a contest and then consider your options.

Here are a few different types of contests you might want to consider:

Like contests are one of the easiest to host. These simply ask users to like your photos in order to enter a contest for a prize of your choosing.

Comment contests ask followers to do slightly more work, by commenting on your photo in order to enter the contest. These contests are often framed as “tell us why you want to win this prize” or “tag three of your friends.” Asking your followers to comment or tag other Instagram users will provide you with awesome feedback as well as direct new traffic to your business’s Instagram account.

Regram contests ask those users who want to enter your contest to Regram an image, tagging your business or branded account. This way, an image of your choosing will be shared with not only your followers, but the followers of your followers. #followerception. Photo challenge contests are a really popular type of Instagram contest. They tell users who want to enter to post one of their own photos on their personal accounts, using specific hashtags. This past summer, men’s underwear company MyPakage held an Instagram contest asking their followers to share photos using the hashtag #permissiontoplay. They explained that they were granting permissions “… to get out of class, permission to complete life goals, permission to leave your daily routine… Permission To Play.” Soon, the contest gained speed as followers (new and old) shared photos of “getting out there and being awesome.” Even after the contest ended, Instagram users have continued to use the hashtag, which has garnered over 7,200 posts.

Having a killer whale of a time! @evanbeer just won 5 pairs of MyPakage and a chance to win a 13 day surf trip to Costa Rica! #PermissionToPlay #FreeWilly

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Challenge #03670-J017: Nothing Scheduled

The station was quiet, well as quiet as a major hub could be, but more than that, it was peaceful. They sat in the garden, enjoying the relaxation, nibbling on snacks, and petting a cleaner, who was scooping up the snack crumbs. -- Anon Guest

Rare indeed in the public service industries is an entire day off. Yes, members of essential services get their holidays, but the day off is a direct result of slowness in the system. A lack of demand leading to the oversupply taking some much-needed relaxation.

It's wonderful.

Lyr Marken, District Chief Security Officer for the One-G JOAT Sector[1] has wanted to enjoy such a thing for some time. Ambassador Shayde, chief cause of problems, had taken a day off to teach Rael about fishing. And if that was what they were calling it, Lyr wasn't about to quibble regarding technicalities.

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Challenge #03670-J017: Nothing Scheduled

The station was quiet, well as quiet as a major hub could be, but more than that, it was peaceful. They sat in the garden, enjoying the relaxation, nibbling on snacks, and petting a cleaner, who was scooping up the snack crumbs. -- Anon Guest

Rare indeed in the public service industries is an entire day off. Yes, members of essential services get their holidays, but the day off is a direct result of slowness in the system. A lack of demand leading to the oversupply taking some much-needed relaxation.

It's wonderful.

Lyr Marken, District Chief Security Officer for the One-G JOAT Sector[1] has wanted to enjoy such a thing for some time. Ambassador Shayde, chief cause of problems, had taken a day off to teach Rael about fishing. And if that was what they were calling it, Lyr wasn't about to quibble regarding technicalities.

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Challenge #02729-G172: Tis the Season

Human 1: so what about you?

Human 2: I learned how to make paper cranes so I'm going to make them in different colors and put them in everyone's bedroom with notes like "this little bird told me xyz"

Human 1: ...

Human 1: epic. -- Anon Guest

Aprilfools: A Human holiday/tradition involving trickery, deceit, pranks, and practical jokes. Owing to many Terran Colony calendars becoming out of sync with the planet of origin, the entire Terran month of April has become a collective season of silly jokes. Always find out what kind of Prankster your Ships' Human is. Such foreknowledge has saved many lives. -- A Galactics' Guide to Human.

Humans have an interesting sense of humour. Attempting to discourage them from things they deem harmless has been a long and arduous journey. However, most of them do indeed prefer to share the laughter rather than cause lasting harm. Dye in the bathing water supply is a popular. Bubbles in fountains. Tiny writing somewhere inaccessible with the words, took you a lot to get up here and read this scribed carefully there.

Why the Humans insist on doing this is unknown, but it is known that the celebration of this peculiar holiday helps hold off Silly Season during that particular time of the year. All things considered, many species preferred the individualised shenanigans of Aprilfools to whatever mass hysteria occurred during Silly Season. It was easier to clean up for one.

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Challenge #02721-G164: Hail Poetry!

The sign said "Old Terran style poetry for sale! Custom sonnets, written for you about what you love, in GalStand! Please fill out form and provide one Hour; finished poem will be sent to you within the next ten days. 50% discount for JOATs." The human seated at the table the sign hung from had a large stack of blank forms, a couple of completed forms, several one Hour notes, a notebook, and what looked like several kinds of dictionary. They were busily scribbling in the notebook and muttering to themself, occasionally crossing things out, and frequently checking the dictionaries.

On closer inspection, one of the "dictionaries" was actually a thesaurus. -- Anon Guest

[AN: I can't write sonnets to save my life so I'm faking out of doing that]

It was a pop-up sales booth, much favoured by the nomadic sorts who sold their artistic skills wherever they could wander. They were selling Terran style poems, but they were not a Terran. They were one of the multitude of Saurian life forms abundant in the Alliance. This was not a form of cultural appropriation, since the Humans were wont to share aspects of their culture wherever they went.

This wasn't even an important part of their culture, it was merely a form of art that the Humans shared like they shared everything else. He didn't need to alert the Terran Embassy, and he especially didn't need to let Shayde know this existed. Better that she never found out.

She may be "Ace", but she had a great love of romance. The absolute last thing he needed was Shayde purchasing poetry for him. Therefore, he thought it prudent to find out how much this cogniscent needed to take their pop-up booth and their business to an entirely different station. Strictly out of a combination of the decency of his spirit and a strong self-preservation instinct, of course.

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Challenge #02510-F320: Fractal Flaws

it just basically just captured lighting -- Anon Guest

Humans can freeze lightning. That was the original claim. On the edge territories, blocks of acrylic plastic or panes of glass are sold with 'frozen lightning' patterns etched impossibly into the inside of the structure. Some carry them in their vehicles as protection against plasma storms in Hyperspace. Nobody's certain if they work, but belief in sympathetic magic is a powerful thing.

The actual trick of it got out eventually. Of course it did. One can't have a technology as cool as one that can 'freeze lightning' and not have it get out into the greater collection of knowledge in the known universe. It involved electrostatic charges and an igniting incident to induce a destabilising cascade in the crystalline structure of the medium.

Watching it happen was fairly awesome, too. It really did look like the person making them was capturing lightning in a solid medium. So instead of the phenomenon dying out as the knowledge spread, the Frozen Lightning Stall became a semi-scientific mainstay in stations and stops all over Galactic space.

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Challenge #02469-F279: Close to the Skins

Tighty whities, saggy and baggy, or not much there at all... your wash tells a lot about you. -- Anon Guest

Of all the mysteries of Human existence, the concept of 'clothing' and 'decency' are the pinnacle of Human attempts at civilisation. Primary amongst the examples trotted out for debate are 'underwear'. Human underwear has gone from articles of clothing to protect the outer clothing from assorted bodily excretions, to hardly anything at all designed to cover intimate portions of skin from accidental viewing, to skin-tight copies of outerwear and back again.

Rael, for instance, was sometimes reminded about Humans 'never having enough trousers'. A quote from one of their own writers about their people's ideas of what was proper clothing. In this case, Ambassador Shayde couldn't have enough pants.

She had the long, grey slacks that were part of her everyday uniform as something of a public servant. Underneath that, because she had been taught it was proper, and because it was a form of armour, were the Ships' Skins. Or, as she referred to them, witches britches an' a belly tee. What witchcraft had to do with Ships' Skins evaded Rael, and he was almost too afraid to ask.

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