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erιĸ 'ĸιllмonger' ѕтevenѕ (n'jadaĸa) ([personal profile] clawings) wrote in [community profile] faderift2020-11-30 10:36 pm

Yup, what's goodie

WHO: Erik Stevens & Y'ALL
WHAT: Checking things out, buying some stuff, reading books, &c
WHEN: ooc: December | ic: Cassus
WHERE: Exploring Kirkwall and the Gallows, &c
NOTES: Erik curses but that's probably gonna be it




→ I got all the sounds, got plenty; open

[ Here are a few places one can find Erik within the Gallows on a regular basis:

The Library: Reading a little bit of everything, actually but focusing on recent history reports, whatever passes for science fiction, books about the Fade, and books about religion. Oh and a book or two on elven culture. Shh.

He's here at all sorts of hours but mostly between 11pm and 5am, apparently not sleeping very well otherwise. Why else be in a library at prime sleeping time?

The Smithy: Erik is fascinated by this area and mostly writes notes about whatever process he's allowed to observe here. Leave his little engineering heart alone about it! (Or don't, actually. Bothering him is preferable to the narration.)

The Herb Garden: Because he's curious if he recognizes any plants from home. Spoilers: he doesn't, but he keeps coming back anyway, usually in the early afternoon.

Training Area: Sparring with swords and spears, because there's no excuse not to stay in shape. Also there's a war on? So. Come gawk at the man. It'll be fun.

Anywhere else: He explores the entire Gallows during his quarantine and then does it again afterward, so consider this an open invitation to wildcard me.
]


→ You should ask around, my city; open

[ Erik discovers the market district in Lowtown and spends an inordinate amount of time there, mostly browsing, but occasionally buying small items. A scarf at one point. Close to the middle of the month he is clearly looking for something specific - jewelry, it would seem. He picks up bracelets, necklaces, earrings, but doesn't seem to settle on anything for a while.

You can also find him in the occasional tavern. He hates drinking alone; join him? ]


→ You should get to work, get busy; closed to athessa & vanadi

[ Erik left a note at Athessa's. Now he just has to wait for them to show up. So he's chilling in the herb garden, again, this time at sunset. ]

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[personal profile] lettenhove 2020-12-03 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he accepts the wine readily, despite its poor vintage, and then sighs. ]

It's not Novigrad, that's for sure. But it has some simularities. For example, we're in Lowtown right now. Hightown, as you can probably guess, is higher up. That's where the rich and nobility apparently live. [ he wishes he lived there, but the gallows will have to do. ]

Apparently you don't want to go to Darktown. I heard it's bad news down there.
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[personal profile] lettenhove 2020-12-03 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this guy certainly has a unique way of speaking, but jaskier nods in understanding. ]

Something like that. I try to avoid danger too, unless there's someone bigger and stronger than me to fight it.
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[personal profile] lettenhove 2020-12-03 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Always a lover. Always. [ said with a sweeping arm, gesturing at nothing really. ]
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[personal profile] lettenhove 2020-12-03 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ points upward and then gives another wave of his hand. ]

I shall gladly drink to that. Though, it's not always what's on the outside that matters.
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[personal profile] lettenhove 2020-12-04 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ pausing to grip the front of his open doublet, tugging on the lapels a bit as he smirks ( yeah, he's like that ) ]

I'll drink to that. Thank you for the compliment, my friend.
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[personal profile] lettenhove 2020-12-04 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
Writing more songs to sing to the drunk masses, naturally. Though, drinking, carousing, and generally falling into beautiful people's beds tends to be my other pursuits.

[ he takes a sip of his wine, peering at erik above the rim of the cup. ]

Before ending up here, I was correcting the common folk's beliefs on a certain race, which they often misjudged.
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[personal profile] lettenhove 2020-12-04 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh, if only erik knew how often jaskier got chased out of someone's bed by that person's spouse... he once had to get geralt to bodyguard for him so he wouldn't lose bits to certain nobles who almost caught him.

his luck hasn't been so great here, alas. ]


Which part? The carousing or the changing people's minds?
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[personal profile] lettenhove 2020-12-04 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
I... think I'll go with the latter too. I can probably do without the reputation I had back home.

[ he grins a bit sheepishly, takes another sip, and then shifts in his seat as if trying to get more comfortable. ]

Not too bad, actually. It's a slow process, but as I traveled the Continent, so did my songs. And people began to see the man I sang about in a different light.
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[personal profile] lettenhove 2020-12-04 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ snorting rather indelicately, he rolls his eyes. for the briefest half-second, a flash of pain flickers through his eyes, but he recovers so fast it's hard to tell there was anything at all. ]

He was never very appreciative. He claims he doesn't care what people think, but I know that's not true.
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[personal profile] lettenhove 2020-12-04 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
He did, until... [ a wince. ] Until reasons prevented us from continuing our travels together.