Mission Log 6 [Video]

[sixthdeadliest]

[Someone is very irritated as he turns on the feed.]

Anybody else get a visit from our new paperboy?

[He turns the video so the basement window of his apartment can be seen. The paperboy has good aim: Hit it dead center and smashed it real good.]

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[hearmythu_um]

Your home has been attacked?

[Paarthurnax is serious. As far as he's aware good things don't come through windows. That's not what windows are for.]

[sixthdeadliest]

Of sorts. The only thing damaged was the window.

[He envies you right now, Paarthurnax: No windows to break.]

[hearmythu_um]

There is the disadvantage in such large windows. [As opposed to arrow slits, maybe.] And in covering them with glass. Sahlo spaan.

[You should sleep out in the fresh air. But then the paperboy could aim for you.]

[sixthdeadliest]

[He almost argues that the window isn't that large but remembers how castles used to be set up. Yeah, it would seem large in comparison.]

[He's tempted to sleep in the fresh air though. Got any room in your cave or whatever?]

Can't really argue with that. Thing is I don't remember subscribing to the newspaper.

[hearmythu_um]

[Paarthurnax pretty much only knows architecture by way of its weak points.]

[Well, the whole floor's always free, since he prefers perching up on the walls. If you don't mind a dragon looming over you, you're good.]

Then the boy had no cause to visit you? Gein volaan. Hmmh. Unless he was angered that you did not.

[sixthdeadliest]

[Actually, it'd probably be the safest place to sleep. No one wants to tick off a dragon in its lair...]

Could be that. Though a broken window isn't going to convince me to sign up for it voluntarily.

[hearmythu_um]

No. He invites vothaarn, resistance better. But does his newspaper offer anything of value?

[sixthdeadliest]

Just the weather report. [He looks through it again.]

You tend to hunt in Fayren, right? According to this, it's supposed to have thunderstorms tomorrow evening.

[hearmythu_um]

That is worth knowing. Lok meyz nahlot... the skies here grow too silent. Perhaps I will go to see if this paper tells the truth.

[sixthdeadliest]

Well, it certainly can't hurt. The weather report isn't always accurate back home. Not sure how good the weathermen are here.

[hearmythu_um]

It would be remarkable for mere constructs to mimic such mistakes. But I hope they are right. There is much to be learned from bahlaan strun- a good storm.

[sixthdeadliest]

[Six lifts an eyebrow curiously.] What do you mean?

[hearmythu_um]

Your people have some knowledge of the sky. Perhaps you know how it is shaped by the forces of wind and air, heat and moisture. A tempest sets these forces into play against one another. Ro meyz frod. It is an excellent demonstration... and an excellent test of this world.

[sixthdeadliest]

...Point taken. 'Course we'd probably have to keep an eye on it for several weeks to make sure it wasn't a fluke if it's right or wrong.

[hearmythu_um]

Mal heyv. Provided no-one alters the weather, that should be a small task. First I will watch the storm.

[sixthdeadliest]

All right. Let me know how it goes?