Most of the time the other Houses are trying to stick their noses into what we're researching in the Library — irritating, but not as bad.
[Hmm, class politics — that's more of an inter-House politics thing, if Palamedes were to think of a one-to-one comparison. The Sixth is functionally a meritocracy and a big library and nothing else, and he himself has a reputation of, eh... "I wouldn't have known that was the Warden if no one told me," more or less, at inter-House functions.
All told, he would rather not kiss ass for supporters, he would not be good at it. And sidebar, but he makes a mental note to engineer more reasons for Viktor to say words like "schmoozing," for reasons.
He wiggles his sparkly pen at him, for emphasis and agreement, and flips to a blank page which he titles "SURVEY" to begin a more organized track for that idea.]
Yes, good, hold on. I'm getting this down too. You're brilliant, and we may need to consider more than one survey. [scribble scribble] If I can wrangle another stone sourced from darkblood, we can compare that to mine, see if necromancy is a contributing factor — but I would want to authenticate it first, and ideally, have two externally-sourced stones...
[This is becoming some amalgamation of a conversation and talking out loud to themselves and occasionally bumping into each other's ideas, which frankly, Palamedes thinks is ideal. It's best to have too many ideas and pare them down later, so the amount of paper they're mutually going to fill just sitting here is not only a nonissue: it's great.
Anyway, wow, he has plenty of mystique with this pen. He looks up from his notes again with another brief flash of a grin, for the pen or Viktor playing along or that thing he does with his hair, it could be any. He wiggles the pen again.]
Would you believe I stole this? Not on purpose. [not entirely on purpose.] A local shop was asking for guestbook signatures, and I may have walked off with it.
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[Hmm, class politics — that's more of an inter-House politics thing, if Palamedes were to think of a one-to-one comparison. The Sixth is functionally a meritocracy and a big library and nothing else, and he himself has a reputation of, eh... "I wouldn't have known that was the Warden if no one told me," more or less, at inter-House functions.
All told, he would rather not kiss ass for supporters, he would not be good at it. And sidebar, but he makes a mental note to engineer more reasons for Viktor to say words like "schmoozing," for reasons.
He wiggles his sparkly pen at him, for emphasis and agreement, and flips to a blank page which he titles "SURVEY" to begin a more organized track for that idea.]
Yes, good, hold on. I'm getting this down too. You're brilliant, and we may need to consider more than one survey. [scribble scribble] If I can wrangle another stone sourced from darkblood, we can compare that to mine, see if necromancy is a contributing factor — but I would want to authenticate it first, and ideally, have two externally-sourced stones...
[This is becoming some amalgamation of a conversation and talking out loud to themselves and occasionally bumping into each other's ideas, which frankly, Palamedes thinks is ideal. It's best to have too many ideas and pare them down later, so the amount of paper they're mutually going to fill just sitting here is not only a nonissue: it's great.
Anyway, wow, he has plenty of mystique with this pen. He looks up from his notes again with another brief flash of a grin, for the pen or Viktor playing along or that thing he does with his hair, it could be any. He wiggles the pen again.]
Would you believe I stole this? Not on purpose. [not entirely on purpose.] A local shop was asking for guestbook signatures, and I may have walked off with it.