WHO: Adrasteia, Erik, other folks. WHAT: It's an open log WHEN: Mid to late Guardian WHERE: Kirkwall, &c. NOTES: Erik curses. That's about it. Open starters in threads.
The mention of firearms, guns, mostly passes her by. Derrica understands it to be a weapon, but it's unfamiliar. Her quizzical expression ebbs in the wake of a specific question, and she makes a thoughtful little moue before she answers.
"We have smiths who specialize in crafting them."
Today, her staff is back in her room behind a locked door. Some mages carry them everywhere; Derrica doesn't.
"I don't know the exact...mechanics of it," Derrica says, snagging a slice of cheese from the plate. "But we're all particular about them. And some materials are better than others, depending on the type of magic you have an affinity for."
Not so different than what he's mentioning. Weapons that suit a particular purpose, a particular style of fighting. Staves aren't so different.
"Do you want it to do something special? Your sword?"
"You mean like magic shit? I ain't decided, honestly. It makes sense, 'cuz the option exists, but I feel like... there's too many options, yanno?" He shrugs a little bit, picking up another bit of food. "I can't settle on what I wanna do, if I wanna do anything special. Fire? Lightnin'? Ice? Fuckin'..." He sorts through his notes. "Runes, the fuck are those really?"
He doesn't know what would be ideal, though the concept of setting someone on fire with his sword is... appealing, to say the least.
"You'd have to ask someone in Research," Derrica jokes. Maybe she should know. Maybe it would be a help to her, if someone put runes along her staff.
She'll ask Marcus. Eventually.
"Do you want to know what I would suggest for you?" she asks, a self-conscious note coloring the words. This is far from her area of expertise, and even what she knows is secondhand, what she's seen others benefit from. But still, why not share it with him?
"Hm." Erik nods along. "I'll find someone." Not Stark, he thinks, but someone else. He'll have to check the rolls and see who might be available to consult him on the matter.
He knows fewer people here than he'd have anticipated, but that's alright. He's got time, ain't he?
He raises his eyebrows at her query, smiling in a way that he hopes goes towards helping her not feel self-conscious about it. What's he gonna do, tell her that the magic that's been around her for her entire life isn't enough knowledge to help him out? Unlikely.
A brief pause while Derrica uncurls slightly, readjusting her seat on the bench while she lifts a few slices of meat and cheese to fold into the bread in her hand.
"See if you can find someone who can put a corrupting rune on your weapon," she offers, a little apologetic smile slipping onto her face. "I know how it sounds, but it's effective against the types of things we usually end up fighting on missions."
And all the other runes she knew of were so specialized as to be useless to him. If he were planning on spending the coin, he should have something that benefits him almost every time.
"I think they're only useless against darkspawn, but fighting darkspawn..."
Her hand wobbles in the air, expression turning to a mock-grimace.
"A corrupting rune, huh?" He jots that down, underlining it a few times. "And darkspawn are already corrupted, right? WHich is why it doesn't work on them." There's a logic to all this shit, he just has to puzzle it out. Which isn't impossible, it just feels very... well. More comic-book-y than his life had managed to thus far, and that's saying quite a bit.
"Isn't that what the Wardens are for anyway, fighting darkspawn? Is that something we usually gotta deal with?"
"Not always. Sometimes you don't really have a choice, when you come across them like we did in Ghislain last summer."
But rather than let that shift them into a more pessimistic course, Derrica pokes his elbow lightly and points out with a teasing smile, "If you make yourself two matched swords, you could have one corrupting rune and one cleansing rune. You're be prepared for anything."
"Oh damn." He grins at her. There's a burst of more writing; he'll need to look up how the weapon is shaped with a rune in it, does that change anything?
But maybe he should stop trying to do the job of whoever is going to build the thing for him first. The weapons will be what they will be; it'll be his task to get good at using them. "That's not a bad idea. Cleansing runes work on, like, spirits and alladat right?"
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"We have smiths who specialize in crafting them."
Today, her staff is back in her room behind a locked door. Some mages carry them everywhere; Derrica doesn't.
"I don't know the exact...mechanics of it," Derrica says, snagging a slice of cheese from the plate. "But we're all particular about them. And some materials are better than others, depending on the type of magic you have an affinity for."
Not so different than what he's mentioning. Weapons that suit a particular purpose, a particular style of fighting. Staves aren't so different.
"Do you want it to do something special? Your sword?"
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He doesn't know what would be ideal, though the concept of setting someone on fire with his sword is... appealing, to say the least.
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She'll ask Marcus. Eventually.
"Do you want to know what I would suggest for you?" she asks, a self-conscious note coloring the words. This is far from her area of expertise, and even what she knows is secondhand, what she's seen others benefit from. But still, why not share it with him?
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He knows fewer people here than he'd have anticipated, but that's alright. He's got time, ain't he?
He raises his eyebrows at her query, smiling in a way that he hopes goes towards helping her not feel self-conscious about it. What's he gonna do, tell her that the magic that's been around her for her entire life isn't enough knowledge to help him out? Unlikely.
"Yeah, I'm down for all suggestions."
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"See if you can find someone who can put a corrupting rune on your weapon," she offers, a little apologetic smile slipping onto her face. "I know how it sounds, but it's effective against the types of things we usually end up fighting on missions."
And all the other runes she knew of were so specialized as to be useless to him. If he were planning on spending the coin, he should have something that benefits him almost every time.
"I think they're only useless against darkspawn, but fighting darkspawn..."
Her hand wobbles in the air, expression turning to a mock-grimace.
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"Isn't that what the Wardens are for anyway, fighting darkspawn? Is that something we usually gotta deal with?"
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But rather than let that shift them into a more pessimistic course, Derrica pokes his elbow lightly and points out with a teasing smile, "If you make yourself two matched swords, you could have one corrupting rune and one cleansing rune. You're be prepared for anything."
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But maybe he should stop trying to do the job of whoever is going to build the thing for him first. The weapons will be what they will be; it'll be his task to get good at using them. "That's not a bad idea. Cleansing runes work on, like, spirits and alladat right?"