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.
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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"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?"