we could be immortals

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WHO: GREY WARDENS!! Alistair, Kaidan, Rafael, Sabriel, Sigrun, and Scipio. Maybe others non-Wardens later?
WHAT: Warden things. Very secret. The Skyhold Wardens discuss important things like the fact they're not dying and they should probably get about to killing this Corypheus and saving their kin quickly. Annnnnd then they get drunk. As you do.
WHEN: Haring 18, early hours of 19.
WHERE: Skyhold, kitchens. There's food, there's Joining stories, there's ale, and beautiful and attractive Wardens to boot. What more could you possibly need?
NOTES: There are two parts to this post, one to discuss the Calling/Corypheus, and the other for them to celebrate the fact they're not dying (right now). There's also an open thread for anyone who wants to crash their party when they get particularly loud/annoying/entertaining! COME BOTHER US.

1. WE'RE NOT DYING AND THERE'S A DARKSPAWN MAGISTER WE NEED TO KILL. WARDENS ONLY.

2. WE'RE NOT DYING PARTY. WARDENS ONLY.

Plates are piled high, drink is forthcoming, and the fires are low, but despite the crisp winter night outside the kitchens are rather cosy. The cook has long since left the Wardens to their own devices and for the time being, they are alone with the company of their own, and the rather wonderous knowledge that none of them are prematurely hearing the Calling. Corypheus will be defeated another day. For now, it is a time to celebrate, pass the cheese, steal food off each others plates, and tell stories in the dim light.

3. IT'S 2AM AND YOU'RE MAKING A RACKET. EVERYBODY.

It was a dark night and Skyhold was peaceful and there was not a peep. Except not really, because it's the small hours of the night, and maybe someone left a door open somewhere, but that noise is incredible and the perpetrators only seem capable of increasing in volume. And seriously, all you wanted to do was sleep. Or maybe you're already awake and wondering why the fun is not at the tavern tonight but in the kitchens and the party doesn't start until you walk in. Do you investigate the noise? Do you join in the merrymaking or do you tell everyone to shut up and trudge back to your bedroll to no avail?

4. WHATEVER.

Comments

1. talking shop

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Whatever it was that the latest Warden to Skyhold wanted to tell them was clearly important as Sabriel had been rounded up early in the afternoon by Alistair and brought to the kitchens with her peers. The cook bustled in the background, tutting and sighing and saying - repeatedly - that she didn't care what they had to discuss but they were welcome to one end of the table only and if she caught them crossing that line or stealing food before she finished what was to be theirs then Andraste so help her.

It was important to warrant a coral and an air of mystery, then, but not important enough to forgo dinner. Which by that logic, the gathering had to involve good news, Sabriel figured. Or bad, and the food was to soften the blow. Given that her latest nightmares involved helplessly watching those who stood against the Abomination burn to death with her unable to save them and that she had spent much of her free time dealing with the aftermath alongside the rest of the Council, any blow would be lesser and perhaps welcomed. More bad news, because they were Wardens, and bad news followed, and it would give herself something else to fret over.

Still, she makes an effort to look peaceable and presentable as she tries not to assume the worst.

"So, Alistair... why exactly are we all here?"

2. we're not dying partey

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3. FOR THE LOVE OF ANDRASTE STFU

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