[open w/ some closed threads] escort missions.

[arkitect]

WHO: Emet-Selch + others
WHAT: Catch-all for threads related to this.
WHEN: October, current & backdated
WHERE: Accompanied outings or the Gallows
NOTES: none currently!

[thread starters will go in the comments! this will contain both closed, preplanned threads and open thread options, please feel free to hit me up on plurk or discord if you want anything specific!]

Comments

(for joselyn)

[arkitect]

[He draws his coat closer around himself as he stands at the dock, looking out toward Kirkwall proper; it is still somewhat disagreeable to be unable to leave alone, but he could certainly have worse company.]

Just how many errands did you say you must do, again?

[Emet-Selch only has the one, really, so the length of the trip will be entirely up to her. More time away won't be objectionable, either.]

[obdurata]

I can think of a few extra, if you like,

( is one of those things that's sort of half a joke—ha, ha, the frivolous woman wants to do more frivolous tasks, what an endurance test—and half the kind of corkscrewed empathy of someone who spent a significant amount of her life unable to leave places very like the gallows under her own power or by her own choice. if he wants to dawdle outside of the gallows' long shadow, she can think of excuses. )

I need to go to the market, and I need to collect a package from a toy shop.

[arkitect]

Well, we shall see. I may ask you to find more, or you may change your mind about that offer in time.

[depends in part on how this goes, how they find each others' company-- he will require it to remain here, after all.]

I've a commission from a smith here, myself... though I at least will not be keeping it.

[it is Gift Errands Time.]

[obdurata]

'Tis the season, ( is a droll shrug. as it were. probably it speaks somewhat well of him if he's made one entire friend to gift something on satinalia, insofar as it at least says he's capable of making one entire friend.

trickier than it looks, in her experience. she considers kirkwall, beginning to walk; convenient enough that most of their errands sound like they're not going to be miles apart.

not that riftwatch doesn't necessitate one develop a certain stamina for walking, anyway. )

Have you made plans for the holiday?

[arkitect]

Not as such, no. I do not particularly expect to wait for the holiday itself.

[it isn't the sort of holiday he cares much for, personally. he keeps pace with her as she walks, restraining the length of his steps.]

Nor did I have it in mind when I originally made the request, but... the timing has worked out conveniently enough.

[obdurata]

Serendipitous, ( she suggests, a little whimsically, ) inasmuch as anything is, around here.

( she had not been particularly enthusiastic about having to haul ass across thedas to join riftwatch when an anchor-shard had happened to her — it isn't quite the same upheaval as losing an entire world, but it does leave her not without empathy for rifters and the peculiarities of their situation. )

We didn't do all that much for it in the Circle. Nice to mark a day that was different than another, though.