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stormaktstiden2014-04-08 04:04 pm
durinsdaughter) wrote in stormaktstiden2014-04-08 04:04 pm
Test drive post for demeleier
[It's been a few weeks that she's been in Demeleier now, and since a while ago she has accepted that she won't be able to leave immediately. She might not even want to, now that Kíli has arrived as well. There is a difference between knowing that a reunification with her family can't be further than a few decades off and actually having one of them around. Still strange, but still just as precious and full of wonder and joy. To have her youngest back, it's a thing that she doesn't want to leave behind. ...And even if the word that no time passes back home while they are here is a trick to subdue them (and that is a constant worry), there is a certain reluctance to desiring a way home. Not that, should a path open itself, she wouldn't immediately take it. She has a duty to her people, and while she is certain that they would not let the lord of the black messengers blackmail them into anything should he claim to have taken her as a hostage (though avenging her would be an entirely different story - she might not be a king, but her blood is still among the most noble of all dwarves in Middle Earth) she would not leave them in times of need if she could help it. And times of need they are.
But she is needed here as well, by her son and maybe others as well, and looping back to this point she opens the feed. She has an announcement to make.]
I've now set up everything in the smithy to be able to do proper work there. [As opposed to the above average but in her eyes sub-par work that she could do with an anvil and other things that were simply too large for her.] As such, I will now offer the services of a smith. [She won't mention that her smithwork is, by default, far better than any human's (though she does consider Matsue very capable. But. For a human apprentice), because that should be clear to everyone who knows dwarves and the others will see, no bragging needed - those are her thoughts, anyway.] Contact me if you need anything. Even if the item in question is unfamiliar to me, I might still be able to work with it. [Or maybe collaborate on it with the other woman or her son, two or three brains can think of more than one. She almost mentions payment modalities out of habit, but then stops herself, no. Things work differently here (and that unsettles her, but what can you do).]
[ooc: All of this is absolutely not supposed to be game canon, but simply a throwing together of something for the sake of a test drive. She's been in Deme for 1 1/2 months, Kíli arrived a while after her, and she gets along with Matsue. Everything else is up in the air.]
But she is needed here as well, by her son and maybe others as well, and looping back to this point she opens the feed. She has an announcement to make.]
I've now set up everything in the smithy to be able to do proper work there. [As opposed to the above average but in her eyes sub-par work that she could do with an anvil and other things that were simply too large for her.] As such, I will now offer the services of a smith. [She won't mention that her smithwork is, by default, far better than any human's (though she does consider Matsue very capable. But. For a human apprentice), because that should be clear to everyone who knows dwarves and the others will see, no bragging needed - those are her thoughts, anyway.] Contact me if you need anything. Even if the item in question is unfamiliar to me, I might still be able to work with it. [Or maybe collaborate on it with the other woman or her son, two or three brains can think of more than one. She almost mentions payment modalities out of habit, but then stops herself, no. Things work differently here (and that unsettles her, but what can you do).]
[ooc: All of this is absolutely not supposed to be game canon, but simply a throwing together of something for the sake of a test drive. She's been in Deme for 1 1/2 months, Kíli arrived a while after her, and she gets along with Matsue. Everything else is up in the air.]
how obvious are the boobs in person? /so sorry for asking
My name is Eiyan of Kriev, though Eiyan is just fine. Who shall I be looking for?
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I will find my way. Half an hour from now?
Dís of the Lonely Mountain. [She assumes that "of Kriev" is a descriptor of his kin or otherwise belonging, so she mirrors his words - there is a number of ways in which she could introduce herself, but in the end all of them will be meaningless for those from another world, and all of them will carry similar meaning from those of her own world.] I'll be looking forward to meeting you.
/slips into action
[Eiyan will be standing just outside the library around the time he should be expecting the other (presumed) man.]
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Well met, Eiyan. [She stays at a distance that makes the conversation easy enough despite the difference in height, seemingly not at all bothered by it and rather used to handling it.]
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Greetings. I take it you are Dís? The library is nearly empty at the moment, thankfully. Would you care to talk inside?
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I'm familiar with most who frequent the library. I doubt we'll have any problems.
[Eiyan opens the door and gestures for her to go ahead of him, politely.]
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Inside, she steps after a few steps, waiting for him to follow her inside and then lead the way.]
she could totally take him, btw. He's very much broken. D:
Well... it's not normally in my nature to suggest what you should think of someone before you meet them. However, in the case of potential danger, it might be best.
It would be remiss of me to not ask what you plan to do with this information, however.
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Protect my family.
[She meant to be vague on purpose, but then realizes that considering that there are exactly two dwarves in the village, it isn't really all that vague at all.] My son is here, and I don't want harm to come to him.
[She doesn't mention that he's still injured, it's always hard what non-dwarves are able to tell about the state of a dwarf and she won't invite anything.]
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I can understand that. I just hope that you would not going looking for trouble unnecessarily. While I know of at least one who isn't the best sort, I have not had any particular trouble with him, so I cannot say he is an immediate danger to most people.
[He pauses, thinking for a moment.]
...There is a young person named Caliborn. From what I understand, he has strange but powerful abilities, and an amount of reckless and cruel need for amusement. I would not confront him.
[He says this last with a serious look.]
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And snorts.] It's hardly me that would run into trouble unnecessarily.
[That would be her son, which is one of the reasons why she'd like to have this information. Otherwise, to know whom not to trust. It's unsettling to lack so many clues and signals that would normally help her with grasping such things.]
My son can be rather reckless. [Also this is the understatement of the century.]
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[He frowns slightly - Tilly might not be his son by blood, nor had any of his apprentices been, but they had all felt like family. He'd been a way for quite a while now, hadn't he?]
You will know Caliborn by his skin, if nothing else. It's green and somewhat scaled... However, also note that his sister is here as well, Calliope, and she is a lovely person indeed. They may look alike at first, and I would hate for you to misjudge Calliope, she is a good friend.
Regardless, the trouble that Caliborn causes seems to be arbitrary for the most part, at least to my knowledge.
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Is there another whom I should keep an eye on?
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There was one other I had in mind, but I do not know his name. However, I don't believe he is in this world any longer.
Perhaps he was not quite as violent, but certainly destructive.
[Eiyan goes a bit pale at the memory. Which would be understandable, if she knew how much writing was sacred to him and his people.]
He tore several pages from the books here, in the library. It was done in such malice...
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Isn't there a guard in the library to prevent such acts?
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A guard? No... there hasn't been need.
[A shallow sigh.]
The incident was unpleasant but I don't believe it will occur again. So far book bogies have been the only reoccurring problem at the library.
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[She looks around. Does he really mean ghosts? That would be very worrying, for those are always dangerous and seldom well-meaning where she hails from.]
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Yes. They're a type of fae, here. Mostly they are a nuisance, but occasionally they can be more disturbing.
They inhabit the books themselves, and will force to to stay fixed in place while you read through the entirety of it. They also sometimes, shall we say, enhance your reading experience, so that the pages almost come to life.
This is particularly troublesome while reading more exciting stories with aspects of danger.
[He's frowning now.]
I've had my fair share of them, so I have taken to holding my piece of iron to the pages while I read. I've been meaning to have it fashioned into a ring, if I could, actually.
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[She'll eye the books with distrust now, her shoulders tense.] Yet those ghosts that you describe sound less harmless than those that one would find in the world that I come from.
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Oh, I'm sure I can find the time. I'm not often busy.
There are ghosts in your world, then? May I ask what they are like?
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[She shrugs at the words.] I have never met one, but they are said to often linger out of ill-advised reasons to not depart, and their minds do not grow lighter the longer their linger.