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ellie with an e(srb rating of m). ([personal profile] ascocarp) wrote in [community profile] wasteyard2019-06-03 08:54 am

RADIO FREE ELLIE: 1st Broadcast.

    WHO: Ellie and YOU.
    WHAT: Ellie is bored and playing with a ham radio.
    WHERE: Anywhere with a radio.
    WHEN: After the TDM, for various values of 'after' when time is variable.
    NOTES: It's Ellie, so casual discussions of violence are de rigueur.


[The broadcast begins a little fuzzy as Ellie messes with the dials and utters indistinctly to herself.] Can I- uh- yeah, okay. Cool. Hello? Wait, no, that's... [More fuzz and murmuring.]

[Eventually, she seems satisfied. Now, how do radio broadcasts go? She remembers the ones in Boston's military QZ go...? God, she never paid any attention in that class. Her voice comes in clear, and it's obviously a young person speaking.]
Uhhhh, nine-hundred hour... fuck it, the sky's fucking broken. Callsign... Daniela Star.

[Right.]

So, like, is there anybody here that goes by William? Or Will? Not Bill. Heh, those guys are assholes...

Oh! Also, has anybody seen any frickin' trees? Like real trees, with branches and shit. I found some potted plants, but they were all plastic. What about animals and stuff? I don't mean the freaky shadows, fuck those assholes. Like actual living breathing animals.

But... y'know, speaking of the shitty shadow fuckers, does anybody know how to, like, beat them? I saw somebody do it, but they had like a full suit of armor. I tried it and my hand almost fell off. They're cold.

...Maybe that's it. Anybody seen any fucking suits of armor laying around?
swordliest: (at the age of sixteen)

[personal profile] swordliest 2019-06-04 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
A king? [He scoffs, lightly.] Not likely. Possible, I guess, but— [but, he's thinking about possibilities, now] I doubt it.

[There's an edge of something sharp under his tone. Mages, fine, that wouldn't bother him so much... but king gets at him, his closest equivalent being the Archon.

Blah blah blah, he's politically neutral, whatever... Tevinter mucking around willy nilly is still the last thing anyone needs right now.]


Did you hear anything else? A name?

[He hasn't discounted the idea that all of this is just the work of a sufficiently-powerful mage. Eliminating the possibility of blood magic would be nice.]
swordliest: (and now I am sure)

[personal profile] swordliest 2019-06-04 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[mildly:] Depends on him, doesn't it?

[This is, like, at least 60% a joke.]

No. It's fine, probably. [He's probably fine, is what he means, since she asked. Not the Archon. Maybe just an ordinary mage halfway up his own ass, no way to tell from hearsay.] Just the first time I've heard of a mage around here, is all. Be interested to hear what he's got to say for himself.

[given all the, yknow, shady fucking magic going around]
swordliest: (how can you love what it is you have got)

[personal profile] swordliest 2019-06-05 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
You sure about that? Sounds to me like you want me to.

[he's just keeping his options open, ok]
swordliest: (of your greed and disgrace)

[personal profile] swordliest 2019-06-05 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
What, you haven't got any faith in me? [and after he knocked a shadow down and it got right back up again, too!! awful.] I bet I could take him. King or no.
swordliest: (you know not what is in store)

[personal profile] swordliest 2019-06-05 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[He laughs, a little.]

Don't worry. Got plenty enough to deal with already. Not going to start anything unless I've got a reason to.

[beat]

I'm just saying.
swordliest: (had given all it could yield)

[personal profile] swordliest 2019-06-06 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
[yeah, what kind of DUMBASS would do something like that?? haha....... ha....]

Helps that I probably couldn't find him even if I wanted to.

[What with, again, all the shady fuckin magic. People seem to be one of the harder things to find, around here.]

Maybe we'll get lucky and hear from him first. [With the radio, which he's already forgotten the name of.] Wasn't joking about asking him some questions.
swordliest: (at the age of sixteen)

[personal profile] swordliest 2019-06-06 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
It's magic that got us here. [... probably...] Maybe magic's what gets us out.

[He has questions about both sides of that equation.]

Assuming he's actually a "magic king", anyway, and not just some prat with a complex.
swordliest: (of your greed and disgrace)

[personal profile] swordliest 2019-06-07 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[A snort. Her definition's close enough.] Fair point. Only it's worse if he's useless, too, if you ask me. Still have to sit through all the bullshit, but you don't even get anything decent to show for it.
swordliest: (align my heart,my body,my mind)

[personal profile] swordliest 2019-06-07 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Not because he's magic. [This is, it seems, an important point of distinction for him.] If he's shit at it.
swordliest: (I placed all my trust)

[personal profile] swordliest 2019-06-07 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
[so fucking dry:] You'd be surprised.

[There is so much he could say, but— even after everything, even with the whole bloody world knowing his brother's name, she hadn't known it, and there's still a part of Carver that's thirteen and afraid to give the secret away.

Keep it safe, then. Complain about coworkers!]


It's like you said. Plenty of mages are just assholes like the rest of us. They'd swear they shit gold, when in reality they couldn't hit the ass end of an ogre if it was standing right in front of them.

[colorful]
swordliest: (had given all it could yield)

[personal profile] swordliest 2019-06-07 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
It's complicated.

[He's not trying to dismiss her with that, it's just... true. Does he talk about the Circle, when the Circles aren't really a thing, anymore?]

People are afraid of it, where I'm from. Magic. [beat] Well— mages, I guess.
swordliest: (the young man stands)

[personal profile] swordliest 2019-06-10 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[He gauges her reaction, a little. Not consciously, it's just something he's used to doing: evaluating people on how they might respond to his family, even with his family gone, for the most part. She hadn't been afraid before, but... sometimes being told you could be afraid is all it takes.]

Might be. Who knows, if he's a decent enough mage maybe he buggered off already. Couldn't blame him if he did.