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[bheidh]

Who: bheidh & OPEN
When: IC 6/16
Where: Shopping District + Pleasure District
What: A field trip of exploration ( getting lost ) and an evening of entertainment ( working )
Rating/Warning: None

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( shopping district )

( She feels so lost - out of place, does Leliana. The bright lights, stores and tall buildings are quite a way away from Thedas, and they're as unfamiliar as they could be. Leliana's no stranger to shopping - from markets to the higher end shops of Orlais, but this is quite different. This doesn't feel the same as the shops that Leliana knows, especially not when she's had little opportunity to shop in more recent years.

Though Leliana can keep it from her expression there's something in the way she moves - her slower steps, her gaze around the streets - that shows how out of place Leliana feels. She's curious - occassionally stopping at a store window to see their wares, but for the most part she's walking along down the streets - just trying to figure it all out.

Modern technology had been mentioned to her in that last 'game' - in what Leliana had thought was the Fade. What the man had called virtual reality Leliana had thought was something else, but in the days since - and with nothing so familiar (or demon-y) happening Leliana's wondering just how right he may have been. As ridiculous as it all is. She doesn't want to let her guard down - to just accept it - but this is far from Leliana's dreams, and with so many here that she knows of, and with less fight to escape than she'd have thought-

It's partly why Leliana's exploring the area. Gathering her bearings is one thing, to know that if she needs to she knows where to go - to get supplies, to find somewhere secure, but also to gather information. She may be removed from Skyhold but tricks and training don't just leave you, and finding out everything that Leliana can would aid her greatly now. And those she knows )

( pleasure district )

( It's late evening when Leliana's at work, and surprisingly it's the most familiar thing about this whole experience. Though her 'uniform' isn't quite what Leliana knows from the Chantry it's closer than the outfit she'd arrived in (jeans, Cassandra had called them).

The work isn't quite the same - Leliana knows how to woo and to tease, to get close to people and enchant them, but she's never been a whore. It's what she has to do - no worse that killing a man, though Leliana is using it for her own means too. For those that pay extra - to take the Sister for a private show - she tries to ask what she can, to trade as many peeks for secrets as possible.

Her 'part' - or act, as her boss tells her, involves singing, and it is something of a relief - a comfort. It feels just as the game did at times - enchanting, singing, getting what you need. She pulls on the tales from Thedas, songs passed among the bards as Leliana moves around the room from patron to patron. For now she's still clothed, not that the uniform gives her much for clothing, trying to see who she can extract secrets from that night )

Comments

[nostatus]

There's a lot of buildings that have to do with.. uh, science or whatever? [ He's not too up to date with modern things, forgive him.. And even for his time period, the place he came from was pretty behind the times. ]

I don't know if those buildings are even open to us to begin with, but even if they were.. there's really nothing to find there. I think there's a whole district with 'em, just not worth the trouble of learning your way 'round here if you don't have to be there anyway.

[bheidh]

( Science? That is something that gets a slightly confused look from Leliana. Is it usefuo or interesting? Does she need to know about it? Well, she might not even be able to find out )

What is in them? It would be senseless to have so many buildings and keep them empty.

[nostatus]

People researching stuff, I guess.

[ Science stuff also partially goes above Shinpachi's head, after all.. In this case even mostly, since he doesn't understand any of that modern mumbojumbo. ]

I dunno what they're researching though.. It doesn't really seem like anything that's new and actually useful often pops up in this place.

[bheidh]

Then maybe they're researching something old. Or something from this place.

( Or this place itself. She has plenty of her own questions about it )

[nostatus]

[ He actually lets out a short laugh at that answer. Not really because he thinks it's weird or anything, but it's just-- ]

Considering how little I understand this place, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't understand it either. [ Nothing here makes any sense to him at all.. but then again, part of that is just coming from Ye Olde Japan which might as well be the polar opposite to this place. ]

Don't think any research at all can help that though. This place's beyond anyone's understanding, I'm sure.