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Richard Dickerson ([personal profile] nonvenomous) wrote2034-10-19 09:51 am

Inbox - Fade Rift







Book/crystal/correspondence/action/whatever you desire.

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[personal profile] unshut 2022-04-30 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
She oohs. She aahs. She flicks the edge of her reversed cloak back to center. "Paperwork. My favorite."

It's punctuated by a waggle of eyebrows made stark in the bit of light she's inhabiting. Like a turned knife, that casually sharp point of Fitcher's curiosity blunts as it's diverted. She doesn't offer him her arm, but it would ruin the concealing lines of her clothes to do so. Don't look so serious, Silas. Your face will get stuck that way.

"The exciting sort of documents, I hope. Account ledgers. Letters of licence. Something with lots of squiggly numbers."
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[personal profile] unshut 2022-04-30 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Research. Pass, says the tilt of her brow, as if she has any real say over where she goes and what papers she rifles through. Otherwise that too floats beyond the margins of their little cabal without remark.

"Not those. And I don't think any of the rings are likely to fit my— Well." One of the chunkier bands with a flat dark stone, a sigil-less signet ring for the pressing of seals on unimportant correspondence is plucked from his possession and tried on a series of fingers while Fitcher tallies the rest of what is extracted from his pockets. The pearls with the heavy pendant, maybe. And there's a pin that must be a sapphire or some other darkish stone that might do well on his collar.

"A shame you haven't a pierced ear. You should consider it." The one that hasn't been mangled. "Highly dashing."
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[personal profile] unshut 2022-05-02 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Then let's hope that I don't steer us wrong."

But this will be fun—a game of losing the right things and sorting how to reap a little coin in return. By the time they tuck in for the evening, they might be a little richer. And if that fails, they'll at least have had an entertaining evening of disseminating their ill-gotten gains across a dozen different Kirkwall gambling tables. It's the enjoyably laissez-faire sort of wagering—the kind where the stakes are all more or less pretend, and there's no real method by which to come out worse than they are.

Thank you very much to their host for providing such a fine evening.

"Here. Hold still."

With the ring briefly at home on her slightly too small forefinger, Fitcher works the pin's catch free and then turns to him. She runs her hand matter-of-factly under the edge of his vest so as to stitch the pin high on his breast without jabbing Silas through the shirt.

Nothing for the inkblot summon shaped like a bundle of sticks arranged in the form of a dog, but presumably Thot's kept anything she cares to elsewhere.
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crystal.

[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-06-08 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
So that's what you've been up to.

[ —on a slight delay, after That Post, but what is he meant to do, check the network every day or something? ]

I suppose you might have told me already if you've discovered something disastrous, in all your studies.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-06-08 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Unseen eyebrow raise. Brightly— ]

However you like.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-06-08 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
Certainly. Then we can discuss it all in more detail after I spring you.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-06-08 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ A beat, then; ]

How hard could it be?
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-06-08 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not so good with animals. Besides Thot, anyway. But desperate times, and all that.

Is what you're doing really jail worthy?
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-06-08 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
No,

[ but should he be, underscored in his tone. ]

Curious, rather.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-06-08 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
Well—

[ An indecisive pause. ]

What are you looking for, exactly? Besides how good lyrium might be for scrapes and bruises.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-06-08 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
I feel that implies distressing things about the flesh, if it doesn't work that way on everyone else.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-06-08 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ And he is, still, listening intently to unpleasant things in some comfortable corner, away from that island full of aggravating people.

After a weighty pause, he infuses some cheer in his voice as he says; ]


I don't feel make believe. Although, further to that point, are you in want of volunteers?
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-06-08 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
Alright.

[ :) ]

What happens, then, if you're successful with this transmutative business?

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