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[ The elf on the camera is bristling, cast in the blue firelight of the Fire district. His hair is oddly bright white, as are the almost-glowing lines that trail down his chin and neck, and disappear into the collar of his armor. Over one shoulder is the absolutely massive hilt of a sword, which looks comically out of proportion with him. Fenris had finally figured his device out, but it involved a lot of making a fool of himself in front of the Kedan, which he does Not Look Pleased about.
The effect of his otherwise withering glare is somewhat undermined by the fact that he opens his mouth to speak but compulsively twitches his head to the side to stare over one shoulder for a few moments, paranoid about things lurking in the shadows. He wets his lips when he finally looks back, suspicion and unease written across his pointed features before he schools them into a sneer again. ]
I am not a mage-- [ he practically spits the word, what a pleasant first impression he's making here ] but even I can see that this is not the Fade. In Between, they say. Bah. What nonsense.
[ In fact while he's at it let him just stare distastefully down his nose at the thing in his hands. "Technology?" Unlikely. By its strange glow and stranger capabilities, it is totally obviously something far worse!! ] This place reeks of magic all the same. And I wonder who has suffered to make it so? Magic comes with a cost. It always comes with a cost.
Whoever did this will reap what they've sown. I should like to be as far away as I can be when that day comes.
[ooc: Please don't reply with text!! Fenris is illiterate and kinda ashamed about it, so he would just skip over text replies without saying anything in order to save face.]
The effect of his otherwise withering glare is somewhat undermined by the fact that he opens his mouth to speak but compulsively twitches his head to the side to stare over one shoulder for a few moments, paranoid about things lurking in the shadows. He wets his lips when he finally looks back, suspicion and unease written across his pointed features before he schools them into a sneer again. ]
I am not a mage-- [ he practically spits the word, what a pleasant first impression he's making here ] but even I can see that this is not the Fade. In Between, they say. Bah. What nonsense.
[ In fact while he's at it let him just stare distastefully down his nose at the thing in his hands. "Technology?" Unlikely. By its strange glow and stranger capabilities, it is totally obviously something far worse!! ] This place reeks of magic all the same. And I wonder who has suffered to make it so? Magic comes with a cost. It always comes with a cost.
Whoever did this will reap what they've sown. I should like to be as far away as I can be when that day comes.
[ooc: Please don't reply with text!! Fenris is illiterate and kinda ashamed about it, so he would just skip over text replies without saying anything in order to save face.]
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Tbh, Iorveth hates these things. It's creepy and he's not comfortable speaking with someone he doesn't have physically present. He's gotten used to it, but he can understand the surprise. ] Mh. [ So not his world. Which doesn't seem odd, considering his features aren't really the standard of Aen Seidhe. ] You'll find very little of your world here, if anything at all. Another piece of sorcery - they meddle in dimensions and pull from wherever they please.
The majority here are human. [ And here's a sneer of distaste. Mmm hoomans.
...son even iorveth aint that cray ]
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[ WHEN IN DOUBT JUST BLAME MAGIC it's easier that way ] What of Dwarves, then?
..... Or Qunari?
[ (It's worth a try.) Anyway Iorveth come here and let Fenris tell you all about Tevinter Magisters and why that is totally something they would do. ]
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[ There's an irritated sigh, because omfg, the nonhuman population here is sad and he would stab someone for a gd dwarf at least. ] There's I've yet to find one. A pity. I could use the drinking partner. [ Look at him being all personable and shit. ]
I can't answer on Qunari as they don't exist in my realm.
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[ And then you said the magic words. Drinking partner. Let Fenris just lay here and bask in the presence of probably the first elf he actually got along with. ] I've never met a dwarf I could not drink under the table. [ That's a lie, he only knows one dwarf, and Varric always takes pity on him half a bottle in. BUT MINOR DETAILS. ]
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[ A snort. So Iorveth fails just as hard as Fenris probably does as he is skin and bones and light weightedness, BUT WHATEVER, bring it. ] You've not met stout enough dwarves, then.
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It's all an exercise in what he can stand without needing to pull himself out of the cloud of apathy he has settled in. He can stand much. ] What of humans?
[ Still, he smirks now. An amused shift in his tone. ] And you can do better, you imagine?
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But that's answer enough and Iorveth gives a short shrug, still in good humor. It's the imbalance of numbers in the Northern Kingdoms, and the Continent as a whole, that leads to humans going made with expansion and cruelty. He doubts it would be any different elsewhere were their likewise no checks for them. ] Aside from their toxic nature and need to spread and eat at all they touch like parasites?
[ Uh pls, he is not the least bit sure but YOU KNOW WHAT. Pride is what. ] I have a platoon of seasoned warriors I regularly out drink. [ Only partially true. Cedric always beat him. ]
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He shakes off that thought with a smirk. For the first time he lifts his other hand, which is still wrapped around the neck of a bottle of wine, gauntlet and all. ] Will you put your liver where your mouth is, then?
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And an eyebrow raised at that (because there only is the one lololol). ] Are you ahead of me already? I don't need the handicap. [ Stop being sloshed you crazy lil urchin ]
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He's not sure of himself either, this is just the closest approximation he can make to actual flirting tbh. ]
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If you can still manage walking in a straight line, I'm in a tree at the southern edge of the Wood Sector and I have vodka. [ Because omfg hateful elf, come here and let him show you hospitality by getting you ragingly drunk. :|b He learned it from Geralt. ]
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mansion"apartment" swimming in fire and magic. The kind of fleeing that he does is always aided best by hard liquor. ] I'm unhindered, but how will I know what tree to look for? [ And seriously, why the fudge are you in a tree? ]video;
I'll be outside. [ Pause. ] You'll need help getting past the traps.
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Fenris nearly groans, at that. He can still remember the hideous shredding pain of stepping on one of those toothy metal bear traps once in the forests just outside of Kirkwall, when Hawke couldn't talk any of their party's rogues into an outing. And the indignity of needing the abomination's healing magic to put the gouged bone and muscles in his calf back together. ] Why do you wish to drink in a trapped tree?
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Um, the answer is because he is a paranoid shit who can't sleep soundly in cities or without things that make people scream in pain if they try to approach him. So. ] Because I value privacy.
If forests frighten you, I have an indoor place within the city. [ Don't be a wuss, Fenris :| ]
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And scoffing because omg that's an affront to his ego. ] I do not fear trees. [ He might when he realizes that Iorveth wants to climb up them for some reason, though ]
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is it an affront to your warrior spirit? is it? ] Then I'll see you shortly. [ OOPS, DISCONNECTED, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE NOW, SEE YOU SOON.
just pretend he's not totally in another conversation with you rn]uwu action!!
He's still got his sword on his back, the one that hangs only slightly off the ground from where it's strapped to his back. He steps light with those ridiculous bare feet of his, but he's got absolutely none of the natural grace that elves are supposed to have in the woods.
In fact, he keeps stubbing his toes on protruding roots. ] Venhedis.
uwu action!!
Is your world devoid of forests? You act as if you've never seen one.
[ Said with a smug shit smirk because Iorveth's a diiiiiick. But either way, he's standing up, picking up a large-ish stick near his rock and turning towards the trap perimeter. Fenris can handle himself with the roots, and if he can't, well, son needs to learn :| There's a moment of his squinting at the ground before he find a seemingly indistinct patch of grass and jabs at it with the stick. Whiiiich causes the bear trap to snap up viciously and snap the stick in half. Ballin. He picks it up, clearing the opening, and does a douchey sort of 'after you milady' gesture. ]
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WHY ]
Oh, here we go. [ Don't be a tool like the Dalish, Iorveth!! Just fork over the alcohol! With a flat sort of stubborn defensiveness as he follows in Iorveth's footsteps, staring mistrustfully down at the ground: ] I do not live in one.
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Once Fenris makes it through, he goes to setting up the trap behind him. Look that needs to be there, especially if he's going to be shitfaced because his aim sucks when he's seeing double. ]
Where do you live, then? [ Ugh don't be a city elf 8( and just striding past him up to the tree to grab at a lower branch and hoist himself up. Brb. ]
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Speaking of which, Fenris stands very pointedly at the base of the tree. He has never actually tried climbing up one before - that he can remember, anyway. To him, it seems... ominous. ]
What are you doing?
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A half finished bottle of vodka is waved idly in a pendulum like manner. ]
Do you fear heights as well as woods, city elf? [ :'> ]
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[ Fenris takes the time to step back so he can better glower up at you, Iorveth!! Oh my god don't you tease him with the alcohol, he hates you, how is he supposed to resist?? ] I do not fear either, I only see no point in courting a drunken fall onto the trapped ground. [ A beat, and then as dry and deadpan as possible: ] For you, of course. [ He reaches for a low branch, though, definitely not totally butthurt about being called a city elf (even though it's true.) The Dalish can throw everything away for a history full of shame and defeat for all he cares, but Iorveth with his lovely dragging-slavers-behind-wagons stories seems hardly akin to the the elves who waste their freedom on nothing worth having, to Fenris. ]
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[ There's a chuckle and it's been a while since he'd gotten to tease someone used not used to the Scoia'tael life on their aversion to tree climbing. They don't pick up new recruits terrible often. ] I paid my dues in drunken falls in my younger years, I assure you you need not worry for me. [ Because it was totally just him you were worried about, right? Right. ]
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