#i also need to do laundry like real baaaad

[nemossubmarine]

DA RP Write-up #14.2

Guess who got two thumbs (still, tho the fate of some of Cahair’s fingers is still up in the air) and got into Orzammar? This guy! But before that...

We pick up with Boshara who is being brought into Orzammar under heavy guard. She is taken to the warrior’s district first and stuffed into a waiting room.

There’s some shouting that follows Boshara’s arrival, but not directed at her. The shouter turns out to be general Saelac, who acts rather graciously towards her.

Boshara asks of Randy’s condition and is told that he is being attended to in the Mandulfr household, which is where Boshara is taken as well.

Boshara is greeted by Marjaleena Cenas there, who as we remember, Boshara suspects on having something to do with the attack on Randy. 

Marjaleena gives Boshara her own personal servant by the name of Bert Ferol, who attends to her every need, including finding her a bigger bedroom, once she realizes she doesn’t quite fit in the regular dwarven-sized bed.

Meanwhile outside, Humbert has a long talk with the door guard regarding the whole Orzammar situation. He learns that there are some people permitted in, namely some Fereldan chantry folk, who are bringing in food aid.

The carta situation inside Orzammar seems to be rather quiet, but the roads outside are getting downright rowdy. This is no concern of General Saelac. 

While the others are going to bed Alf and Cahair decide to go look around. They dare not sneak into the templars’ tents, but they find a group of dwarves drinking and join in.

One of them, by the name of Merrik, takes an immediate liking to Cahair(’s humor), which is certainly a new experience.

They talk a bit about how the dwarves have been waiting here for a while and about the templars, who also have been here a while.

One of the templars drops by to tell the peeps to quiet down and Alf can’t resist making a bit of fun of the templar’s heavy accent. But the situation doesn’t luckily escalate.

While drinking, Cahair and Alf take notice of one dwarf who seems to be a rather poor in trying to lie about what he does for a living.

So Cahair, rather publicly, takes the dagger he retrieved from one of the carta member’s bodies and asks Merrik about it.

The weird dwarf starts certainly paying attention now.

Merrik tries to make Cahair part with the dagger, but Cahair isn’t having any of it and refuses to part with it.

An off-the-cuff mention of Richard (or rather that Cahair’s partner is a man as well) sours Merrik’s attitude towards Cahair rather quickly.

Alf steps in then, and offers Merrik gold for information, which he agrees to.

Merrik tells that the carta had been running some scams involving old turned over carts (such as one we found Trin under last time) and that the dagger has belonged to someone pretty high-ranking in the carta. Of the initials ZH on the handle, Merrik can’t say.

While Alf is discussing with Merrik, the strange dwarf approaches Cahair. He’s clearly quite young, looks to be about 14, though claims to be much older. He tries to get Cahair to give him the dagger to have a look over, but Cahair isn’t having any of that and asks him to come ask about it tomorrow.

After that is done the elves retreat into the cart for the night.

In the morning our fellows still stuck outside wake up to the voices starting to come from outside. They see that the templars seem to be queueing up for one of the tents, we suspect in line for their lyrium intakes.

There’s also the chantry sisters that are let in through the doors.

There doesn’t seem to be much to do, in terms of helping ourselves to get in. We just have to wait for Boshara.

Cahair and Alf notice Merrik and the strange dwarf passed out near their tents and go rife through their pockets. 

Cahair finds some papers that seem to indicate that the strange dwarf is part of a lyrium smuggling ring.

 Alf notices that the money he gave Merrik seems to have disappeared from his purse (and the little that remains, Alf takes for himself).

We also send Merle, our Orlesian dwarf, to make friends with the templars, and he comes back with news. The very angry templar we saw shouting is a Knight-Lietuetant by the name of Jackquemin Gaillard. And apparently there’s a Knight-Captain that’s on their way from Orlais. 

It sounds like the templars are preparing to basically storm Orzammar, which sounds... really bad.

Boshara spends the start of her morning getting prettied up. Marjaleena had ordered some new clothes, more in line with dwarven fashion, to be made for her. She is also made-up in dwarven fashion.

After that, Boshara goes to find the room where Randy is kept. It seems no one, including Marjaleena is let in, but Boshara manages to talk her way in.

Randy is being attended to by several dwarven medics and servants, but is still very much unconscious

Boshara goes to find Marjaleena to see if she can help with getting her other friends in.

Marjaleena seems pleasant enough, but also she doesn’t say much that doesn’t make Boshara suspicious. For example, Boshara gets a sense that she is lying when she talks about the “love at first sight” she felt for Randy.

From Marjaleena Boshara learns that king Aeducan sent the carta leaders to become part of the Legion of the Dead and for a while all was peaceful, but now the carta is back in full swing.

About Boshara’s request, Marjaleena suggests they go talk to her father. As the only alive paragon, Jon Cenas’ word has quite a sway.

Boshara asks why Jon was made paragon, and Marjaleena explains that he was a rather famous paragon champion, did a lot to advance the sport and kid’s education and also he designed some pretty sick grappling hooks.

So that’s where they go. They find Jon in his house in his personal gym. He seems like a very nice older man.

They talk a bit about the Provings that Jon Cenas is preparing for. He’ll be facing General Saelac in a friendly match.

Speaking of Provings, wouldn’t that just be the greatest way to get our heroes still outside Orzammar in? Boshara and Jon Cenas sure think so.

They would need to ask General Saelac’s opinion, so Jon sends for him.

While they wait, Boshara asks for Jon for his autograph which he gives.

General Saelac comes by and Boshara starts pitching our friends to him.

It starts relatively sane, seeing that Humbert has an actual soldier’s training of sorts. Though Boshara uses descriptive words such as iron-muscled, which Humbert would probably not use for himself.

Then Boshara introduces Cahair as a “sly fox” and goes almost a bit overboard with the “wild elf” angle, but reigns it in at last second.

Elspet is introduced as Pamela Paine, the mystic woman and a martial art expert who can knock people off their feet by her expertise in aura destruction.

And Alf is the Shadow Warrior In-Sein (get it?), who lives and strikes from the shadows.

General Saelac is impressed by this and says he’ll send people to pick them up. Boshara can go to the warrior’s quarters where they’ll meet.

While they head there Boshara asks about King Aeducan and the lyrium situation, both which the general assures to be fine. 

He gently requests that Boshara would lay off on topics relating to politics, which Boshara agrees to.

So, our heroes’ boring morning of templar-watching is interrupted by dwarves coming to get them. 

When they enter Orzammar, they can hear Knight-Captain Gailard starting another shouting match with the door guards.

They are taken in the Commons and then left to their own devices. They stay and listen to a town crier for a while. It seems that General Saelac is rather well-liked by the folk of Orzammar. Or at least he has a good propaganda machine.

We drop our bronto and cart at Tapser’s Tavern to a rather unpleasant stablehand.

Before heading to the warrior’s quarters, we notice the Fereldan Chantry sisters giving out food, and Elspet decides to go talk to one of them to let them know about the Orlesian templars’ plan of entering Orzammar by force.

She also scores a date with the sister, who is named Jennifer.

Our heroes meet up with Boshara who arranges a luncheon with Saelac. Elspet goes to a date of her own and doesn’t join this event.

Boshara introduces our confused heroes with the same grandiose, if not more, and they have to act like they know what’s going on.

Once our heroes’ role in the Provings (they would be an entertainment match before the actual competition, and wouldn’t be using weapons) is explained, it doesn’t sound quite as bad.

Humbert and Cahair ask about the carta situation and whether they need to worry about carta’s revenge. Saelac assures that there will be no need to worry, but assigns a soldier named Carras to investigate the matter further.

Humbert also tries to push on the Aeducan issue, since Randy was supposed to bring the fertility rune to him, but Saelac uses the promise Boshara made to him to change the subject.

Elspet and Jennifer have a pleasant little date. Jennifer is a bit worried about the information Elspet gave and says that she’ll pass the information on. 

After lunch, Boshara and Cahair share all their information in elvish, as they can be pretty certain no one else there speaks it. Meanwhile Humbert talks with Boshara’s two personal body guards Olira Ulmot and Corav Turmot, but I didn’t hear any of that conversation, so I’ll just report on Boshara and Cahair.

They discuss how much Marjaleena might be involved in this whole thing, is it possible that the carta leaders from the Legion of the Dead escaped to surface and if there’s a way for Boshara to find out more (for example we saw some of the carta members we killed having quite unusual tattoos), is king Aeducan dead or just kept captive, and how much Saelac is at fault.

Boshara isn’t free to walk around, but she has access to the Diamond Quarter, so she’ll continue her investigation there, focusing on the carta leaders turned legionnaires and Aeducan. Regarding our ship’s lyrium troubles, she could also ask Marjaleena to help with that, and maybe at the same time, find out more about her.

The others can’t go to the Diamond Quarter, but they can move around more freely, so it is decided they’ll focus on the carta: Alf could try to sneak in to the Dust Down to find some carta members, while Humbert could join the night patrol looking for carta activities. Cahair could go check the miner’s quarters since we aren’t quite certain what the lyrium situation of Orzammar exactly is.

Elspet could use her bird form to help with Boshara and maybe Boshara could even sneak her in to check on Randy.

But those plans we shall be putting into action NEXT TIME! Dundunduu.

[vertigoambrosia]

ugh learning about the sims whike my compy is still out and ughghggh i wanna play sooo baaaad

watching some lets play stuff though and man people seem to fucking love building

like they’re all ‘ohhh the floor plan has to be right and this is so cuuute and i bought a cute little kitty statue for the desk and changed the wallpaper to make it pretty’

also apparently there’s a laundry expansion pack and for some reason people like it?

anyway, i’m gonna make you listen to my sims goals

pete and ivan are involved but also my own sims so i’m forcing you to read that too!

i played a bit before i had to take my computer back to the shop and got someone to go on a date...and then panicked because i didn’t know how to make them go somewhere interesting

but i’ve looked it up now and i think i’ve figured it out so

actual do that date now that i know how to make them go to the big park [ororo likes the outdoors so she and jim will totally have a good time and maybe become girlfriend and boyfriend! jim’s aspiration is serial romantic, and while i don’t plan to get too far in aspirations, he’s also a romantic type so he’ll get sad if he doesn’t chat and flirt for too long of a time

side note he’s coworkers with pete in the secret agent track; pete came over to his house once and he got a bit flirty!!!! i had to shut that shit down real quick

have pete and ivan go on a date, and actually get a higher friendship score. their romance bar is completely full but the friendship meter is only like 50%? it’s weird, and they’d totally rather flirt and fuck than chat

or pete goes to work out and ivan goes to fucking troll or some shit

WHERE SHOULD THEY GO?? i could just have the date at home but a saturday night out would be cute :3 i haven’t even looked at the other worlds so i dont know

someone needs to have a party. i’ve had trouble making real friendships, even with people in the same house, and it might be fun to get some sims to interact

also if ivan or my other criminal sim is in someone else’s house they can clog their drains as a prank. also he can pickpocket people...wonder if he can get away with it in a group???

and my other criminal sim, max, is a kelpto so maybe i can figure out how to steal shit

ivan also managed to become friends with nancy landgraab on his own...weird but ok i guess. they’re coworkers and had a good rapport at the start so i just went with it and had him chat with her on the regular

it’s so much easier to make enemies than friends! hell, jim is enemies with some NPC and i have no idea what happened there

actually play ororo and jean’s house. and make her a real garden and do some gardening

also actually play the maximoff house even though i know pietro’s gonna whine constantly about their house since it’s cheap and he’s a snob

try to get my kid/teen sims to have friends - some of them have brought aquaintances from school back home but they kinda don’t have real friends

also moxie brought cassandra goth over after school and cassandra was kinda flirty? so obviously they have to become girlfriends now

tobeis and luna are neighbors and they haven’t even met (i guess kids arent included in the WELCOME WAGON

try and make either a community park or gym or idk club; somewhere for these people to go besides the random pond they fish in

lol that’s already a shitload of things to do, and not even bringing up the newest couple i moved in, or the family i made with a toddler, which i haven’t played before (i did start crying while making the baby for some reason though - i’ve been weird about a certain top of nice thing making me cry)

part of me wants to take time off soon and just spend the time swimming at the beach and playing the sims

(not at the same time, obviously)