O2 ♚ I'M A LONG TIME TRAVELER HERE

[slaveking]

WHO: Character(s)
WHAT: Several Rifters and native drop-ins congregate at the Tavern as advertised via messenger crystal.
WHEN: Late January (forward-dated for recentmost app approvals!)
WHERE: The Tavern, private room
NOTES: OOC plotting here! Feel free to treat this like a general mingle log, but I will be making empty starters below for specific topics for group threads/conversation. An infodump/glossary link may also be pending from Araceli/Church.

It's past dinner time. This provides a reasonable excuse to drink only out of the ale pitchers set up for the expected guest, although there's a little bread and salt pork set up on the one bench along the wall. Dozens of chairs and a few less tables are loosely organized into groups. There's no dais or marked center for the room, the bar room version of the principles of the Arthurian round table, all being equal in the private room. Which, granted, is only as private as the public announcement and common courtesy might enforce. In other words, that can't be a real expectation.

However, the other Tavern workers are watching the door and main floor discreetly, multi-tasking with running the usual evening business. It's not so different from any other night, not even for the involuntary immigrants gathering on the second level. Drink, talk, and get to know.

Comments

[lennethvalkyrie]

[Lenneth looks at the notes with faint embarassment.]

I am afraid I cannot read the writing of this world, although I am attempting to learn.

[A beat, and then her eyes light up in sudden realization.]

Have you extra paper, and somewhat to write with? I had not considered that perhaps one of you might know the runes.

[foxsays]

Forgive me, I did not think!

[And now it occurs to her that though reading is something she was taught, that her fellow rifters might not know either.]

I do have more with me, I've come into the habit of making sure I have some with me at all times. [More for writing home recently but it's a good habit to have all the same.] Though if you wished to choose a time and place other than now, I promise to make time.

[lennethvalkyrie]

My immediate desire for paper is more one of curiosity--to see if perhaps there are other Rifters who might know the runes I use.

I would, however, very much desire to learn to read and write the script used in this world. There is a library we might search for information, and it irks me greatly to leave it unused. [Of course, she couldn't have been the only one to think of that. She remedied:] By myself, at least.

[foxsays]

I had an advantage: Antivan? It seems to be more or less the same as my own tongue at home, though there are books that mention runes, usually anything to do with dwarves if that helps?

[Dwarves are less an area she's researched since finding out that they don't have magic. With the mark, understanding that and then politics are her primary concerns.]

I try to spend a few hours in the library a week, getting my head around all this instead of just asking questions. [There are advantages and disadvantages to getting your information from either source but if she does it carefully, she should manage to negate them by using both.] I wonder if there's a way to use the sending crystals we have just to record? Maybe that way someone could dictate and you could take notes, at least while you learn.