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[melavasomniar]

[When the video comes on it doesn't show a person, nope, just a shoulder and a cityscape that might be recognizable to its residents as Nonah. The video is shaky and unfocused when Lavellan starts walking and talking.]

Neat little contraptions those porters are, aren’t they? They remind me of something we've got back home, but with less eerie inter-dimensional pit stops and, somehow, more baffled people when you pop out the other side. [He stops walking for a moment to center the video and shrug. The background now clearly places him in a public park.

For another moment the recording goes shaky as Lavellan takes a seat on the grass, and then quickly he rights it again. The image is still blurry though, and it stays that way the rest of the video.]

And these… these things-- [He taps on the screen of the device rather than looking for a word his vocabulary doesn't have.] I’ve never seen an enchantment like it, I can’t even find the rune! They must have some talented dwarf or tranquil working on these.

[A pause.]

Anyhow, that’s enough admiring the fancy shem technology. Nice to meet you all, I’m Talyn Lavellan. The Inquisitor, if you’re the sort that cares for titles. I’m your man for all your damsels-in-distress and lost sheep related needs. Been told I’m good at that sort of thing. [A fact he is strangely proud of, if his smile is anything to go by.]

I’m not sure how quickly that business is going to get off the ground here though, so in the meantime, can anyone tell me where the good parties are around here? Preferably ones with copious amounts of alcohol and dancing that only barely qualifies as such. This elf’s got plans.

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[wasnever]

[Logically Sera knows the explanation for this, but she can't help but have a kneejerk negative reaction.]

You're not the Inquisitor.

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[melavasomniar]

You know, I told Cassandra the exact same thing when she first gave me the title.

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[wasnever]

Ugh.

I hate this. Not your fault. I guess. Still friggin' hate this.

You're supposed to be a big Qunari woman.

[cartesianspidertank]

[ It's a little CGI girl!!

And she's ignoring the party question and going back to the technology question because TECHNOLOGY ]

Hello Talyn!!! Are you familiar with clockwork devices?!

Machines that run with gear mechanisms??

[melavasomniar]

[Aww, she's cute!]

Like draw bridges and things? I know of them, but I don't have a clue how they work. I imagine... tiny mice are pulling the strings?

[cartesianspidertank]

YAY GOOD

So imagine a machine made of gears that when you pressed a switch, instead of raising or lowering a bridge, it took an input of numbers, like 2 and 2, and outputed their SUM, 4!!!!

This is called a CALCULATOR, and is a basic computer!!!

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[selfpraise]

You can't be the Inquisitor.

[All other examples of people they know not being the people they know had radical differences. This is just a different elf and therefore far more likely to be someone trying to claim his name.]

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[melavasomniar]

D-dorian, I... [Alright, so he's already cleared this up with Sera, some people are just different here. She knew a different Inquisitor, Dorian might as well but--

God, hearing that from him hurts so much all the same. Lavellan forces a bit of a laugh to cover any hurt that might show through.]

Apparently somehow I can, how about that, right?

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[selfpraise]

[Unfortunately Dorian's too busy processing this to realise how it's affecting the Inquisitor.]

It doesn't make sense. You're still an elf.

[He skims the conversation with Sera and yes, it does look like a Inquisitor, Sera's insults aside.]

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[pmsgargoyle]

What does "The Inquisitor" do, exactly?

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[melavasomniar]

I inquisit, obviously. Mostly it involves killing things and collecting herbs.

[housebroke]

Were you given the name The Inquisitor for the obvious reason?

[melavasomniar]

Perhaps. You might have to spell out what the obvious reason is for me to confirm though.

[housebroke]

Religious persecution would be the first thing to come to mind.

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[aggressiveapathy]

What did you call me?

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[melavasomniar]

Excuse me?

[aggressiveapathy]

Something something technology. Don't pretend. I have rewind.

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[whathawksdo]

[ So not the Inquisitor her "in the future" friends were expecting, but, then, who ever knows what to expect here?

That said, poor Lavellan only gets an voice feed from the local Champion. He'll just have to imagine what a female Hawke might look like. ]

I wouldn't put too much stock in Dorian's complaints. It hasn't smelt like dogs in this house for months now.

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[melavasomniar]

That's no surprise. Anything to fuel his hate on mabari though, I suppose.

Hawke, I presume?

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[kanadian]

[ Squints ]

You're that guy that all these people keep talking about?

[ More squinting. ]

I expected someone more serious.

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[melavasomniar]

[Oh. Apparently his reputation precedes him.]

I get that often. I guess there's just something about saving the world makes people think you can't have a sense of humour.

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[flowerette]

[ Oh. How delightful. An elf! She wants to dissect you! ]

It will never cease to be adorable how those from worlds without this sort of technology react.

[ She smiles, sweet and charming. ]

I'm Raina. Not exactly damsel in distress, but I do hope we'll get along, Mr. Lavellan. Or should I call you Sir Lavellan?

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[melavasomniar]

[Aw, how nice! She called him adorable. c:]

A pleasure, Raina.

I haven't been knighted, so Sir probably isn't right. But Mister doesn't sound right either, does it? If you want to be fancy some people call me Lord Inquisitor, if not either just Lavellan or Talyn are fine by me.

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[sassguard]

What's a shem?

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[melavasomniar]

It's an elven word for humans.

[...Which has a not so great meaning, but he didn't mean anything by it?]