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[theweakhavepurpose]

[The video opens on a pile of wood, sticks, shrubbery, and chunks of what might have been siding, all piled into a very obvious pyramid surrounded by rocks.]

So everything has sucked recently. Back home in Montana, when shit got rough we'd always get together and have a big bonfire. Get drunk, make s'mores, all that stuff. It didn't make things better but at least you forgot about it for a little while.

Worth a try right?

[He sounds like he's honestly asking. He's trying really hard to be positive for once.]

I've got some graham crackers, chocolate, and other things for roasting. No marshmallows though so if anyone wants to come through in the clutch it would be appreciated.

I'm lighting this up tonight at dusk, so if you want in, be there. I've only got so much to burn and it might not last more than an hour or two.

((OOC: Feel free to use this like a log and make top levels and do action things. Go forth and get some bonfire mingling on!))

Comments

[aroundthecoroner]

[Michael snorts.]

I mean, there's probably some things that none of us want to learn about our parents.

[theladyofhighever]

[a slight smile] No indeed. [a pause] My father mistook my mother for a serving wench of all things. When she'd sunk her first Orlesian warship at fifteen!

[aroundthecoroner]

Ouch. Talk about a bad first impression.

[Michael imagines he would quite possibly die in this situation.]

[theladyofhighever]

Yes, very much so. They fought and my mother prevailed. After that, he learned a little respect.

[aroundthecoroner]

That's definitely one of the more interesting "how my parents met" stories I've heard. Actually, it's probably the most interesting.

[He hasn't actually heard too many, to be fair.]

[theladyofhighever]

Thank you for saying so. And might I add that afterwards, my father was smitten? Of course, watching my mother demolish over two dozen Orlesian warships might have helped.

[she's very proud of her mother and what she accomplishsed]

[aroundthecoroner]

I mean, I think just about anybody'd be impressed by that.

[And slightly afraid. But some people are into that.]

[theladyofhighever]

I thought so, too. [a pause] Mother taught me to swim and sail as soon as I could stand upright for a time.

[Alistair seemed to like watching Mariane slaughter darkspawn?]

[aroundthecoroner]

Did she teach you how to destroy ships, too?

[That may have been another attempted joke.]