You can worry that Migar Tinack will decide that since you are covering my debts elsewhere, you should cover my debt to him as well, and you will be besieged by dwarf after dwarf with daggers. [ Kirkwall's the best. ] But thank you.
[ And. ]
There is also Nevarra, which is furious with us. Antiva, which may decide to be if we are not careful. The Red Templar madmen. Tevinter fanatics. Rifts. [ There is a pause. He's using the pause to drink. ] The Inquisition is desperate enough to ask me to lead one of its projects. I think that is a clear sign we are all going to die. And Nikos is making friends.
( She sounds possibly alarmingly unconcerned. Mercenaries with knives, whatever. Maybe she has something on Migar. Maybe she doesn't. Who knows. ) I am not covering all your debts.
( Some, yes: he's family. But she won't do so much as to enable. )
Mmm. I am working on the Nevarra situation. You don't want to know how many sweet letters I had to compose during the quarantine. It is not all so grim; you have been asked to lead a project because you are capable, and Nikos doesn't make friends, so you can stop dramatising.
[ She can try. And if she succeeds then he will incur new debts with new dwarves, because while he's perfectly aware of how many bits are in a sovereign, a childhood of relative extravagance and then twenty years having everything available free of cost didn't leave him with much sense of how much a bit is actually worth. ]
Northern Powers.
[ His tone suggests that it is all so grim, it is the actual apocalypse probably, and also you will take his drama from the cold dead hands of his mummified corpse. ]
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I paid off your outstanding bills at three taverns, so hopefully that will make the list a little shorter. But please, illuminate me.
( Is this going to be a comedy list or does she need to brace herself?
She figures 40/60 odds. )
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You can worry that Migar Tinack will decide that since you are covering my debts elsewhere, you should cover my debt to him as well, and you will be besieged by dwarf after dwarf with daggers. [ Kirkwall's the best. ] But thank you.
[ And. ]
There is also Nevarra, which is furious with us. Antiva, which may decide to be if we are not careful. The Red Templar madmen. Tevinter fanatics. Rifts. [ There is a pause. He's using the pause to drink. ] The Inquisition is desperate enough to ask me to lead one of its projects. I think that is a clear sign we are all going to die. And Nikos is making friends.
[ He is not making friends. ]
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( She sounds possibly alarmingly unconcerned. Mercenaries with knives, whatever. Maybe she has something on Migar. Maybe she doesn't. Who knows. ) I am not covering all your debts.
( Some, yes: he's family. But she won't do so much as to enable. )
Mmm. I am working on the Nevarra situation. You don't want to know how many sweet letters I had to compose during the quarantine. It is not all so grim; you have been asked to lead a project because you are capable, and Nikos doesn't make friends, so you can stop dramatising.
( Anyway, ) Which project?
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Northern Powers.
[ His tone suggests that it is all so grim, it is the actual apocalypse probably, and also you will take his drama from the cold dead hands of his mummified corpse. ]
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A sigh. )
Nevarrans turn everything into a crisis for brooding.
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The world could literally end.
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[ Come take them, Corypheus. He's ready to die. ]
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