[ open?? closed? schrödinger's log?? ] heroes always get remembered

[goodforsaken]

WHO: Lex Luthor, assorted guest stars, and YOU??
WHAT: General intro purposes? Get you some arms and armor made, Inquisition! Geek out in the library! Be confused by the incongruous noble all up in the Undercroft!
WHEN: Approximately now - the end of August.
WHERE: Skyhold: the Undercroft + Library + the buffet option
NOTES: Starters in comments. As it stands no warnings are required; I'll edit here a/o subject lines if that changes. Here is Lex's info post for anyone who'd like to run with the idea that they've heard of him/had contact before!

Being possessed of the incredibly informed opinion most not!Orlesians have of Orlais when they've only ever visited and spoken mostly to people wearing silly hats, Lex is more than comfortable with his first forays into the Inquisition taking place in Skyhold and not Halamshiral. That's where he's ultimately most useful anyway; he suffers no illusions regarding any diplomatic capabilities that don't involve ensnaring largeish globs of money.

The day side ....globbage occurs, however, is not this day or, nor is it whatever other days this log ends up involving. No, instead here we are in Skyhold, where Lex's general occupancy encompasses the following:

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[arcaneadvisor]

Recent forays into the realms of discussions of dragons and demons with the Rifters send Morrigan up to the library; there are plenty of things she can understand herself but having to slow down and remember how to explain them to people that haven't ever encountered them in the past? Exhausting, quite frankly. (Look she still isn't over any time she's had to explain the Fade when she's pretty much lived with knowing what the Fade is for as long as she can remember.)

Anyway, the library doesn't have anything on elves that she hasn't already read and scoffed at, but she has Kieran who reads voraciously, so she's pretty much always making the trip. And you know there's a volume on glassworking that she might be interested in. Just to be safe.

[goodforsaken]

Safety is important! Or so Lex hears from like, other people. But in fact, due to two coincidentally great tastes that may (?? who knows) go well together, that in this case being Kieran and dragons, Lex has already procured what is, if not the largest volume on dragons in useful text, definitely largest in that it comes up to his like ........waist, and has huge, beautiful pictures. He has lugged it over to one of those large, flat tables such as research materials are stored on, and is sketching determinedly what appears to be not any one particular dragon, but one composed of the various limbs (...and heads, and scales), of several.

Maybe when he comes to retrieve a second volume they can reach for the same one!! Dear Maker, how do these coincidences contrive themselves to be.

[arcaneadvisor]

Lex you are perhaps the spindliest person Morrigan has seen this side of, you know, a terror demon, quite how you were capable of lifting that book alone? Well, saying she's impressed with a man would be too much of a stretch (Alistair and Zevran get passes but that's taken a Blight, ten years, and a kid) but at least nothing seems to have been destroyed. Considering someone has sent a pile of books into her at some point.

Ah, fate or chance, something she can never get out of her head and if she ever sees Flemeth again (haha) she'll somehow pluck those words out of the air to throw them at her. Ten years, and only marginally more comfortable with touching than she was when she first left the Wilds, so she recoils, hand suspended in mid-air.

"Well, what an awkward situation." Not for her. Probably. Things aren't awkward when you're a Witch of the Wilds and Arcane Advisor.

[goodforsaken]

They also aren't awkward when you're a ...whatever Lex is, because he is by default as awkward as he is spindly, so there's really nowhere to go but up. To wit: they are now like mutually recoiling; Lex will push physical space buttons until the appropriate agricultural noun comes home, but being touched by other people, even accidentally...ugh. Deeply unsettling.

(Also, the reason he can lift that book alone is Smith Arms (tm).)

So now he is pressed to decide whether he attempts to throw himself out the closest window rather than navigate socialization, or--ah ha. "I'm finished with that one," he inclines his head toward the weighty tome he needed all of his smithy army power to lift. "If you'd like to trade."

He's definitely not springing to 'oh no, you take it, I insist,' because of course he isn't, but at least he's straightforward, uh.

[arcaneadvisor]

Gwenaelle would be awfully upset if you went out the window, and in turn Morrigan would be upset. No one wants that. Hell hath no fury like a Witch of the Wilds with her nose out of joint on behalf of someone she has come to care for. Also Kieran would be really upset and have you seen how his tiny face crumples? Like that is some next level small boy witchcraft because even Morrigan can't explain how he does it.

Morrigan did (or will, what is time it's just a concept, we can hurl that out the window instead so the universe balances itself) say she was so proud of Gwenaelle and her words, for bringing someone here.

"How very generous. Has Skyhold finally thought to look to the state of itself?" Says the woman who technically has three rooms, if you count that room the eluvian is locked up in. Look she needs a lot of space for her smugness sometimes, it can't be confined to just one little room.