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[After a moment's fiddling where muted swearing can be heard but precious little seen the feed flicks on to display one terribly bored looking tanned elf. Between the set of his jaw and the twist of his lips the displeasure he's been feeling for the last however long is quite visible, though he does his best to put on a charming smile for the ship.]

I know when we arrive on this very fine vessel we are given, without our consent, a mark for purposes in keeping tally of who is on the ship, translation, so on and so forth. And while it is a nicely done tattoo it is not precisely to my taste, mm?

[He turns his cheek to the camera, tracing a line up the black curves marked up from jaw to temple.]

These now, I like a great deal more and it makes me wonder if there is anyone else that would rather regain just a little bit of themselves by choosing a tattoo of their own design and placement to make up for what was graciously given without asking. I've skill and experience in the art and would be willing to lend my services to anyone interested.

My supplies at the moment are somewhat limited but depending upon what you would like done I am certain we could come to some sort of arrangement.

[Please. Someone. Anyone. It'll be something to do, some sort of project, something to focus on and while his expression is not quite pleading it is eager for some manner conversation centered around something he can understand for once.]

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[ omg another elf

Iorveth doesn't really need more tattoos but WHY NOT ] I'm interested.

[A fellow elf! Marvelous. It widens Zevran's formerly strained smile to see that.]

Do you have a particular design in mind?

[ Iorveth turns his head and pulls at his tall arched collar to give the camera a better view of the tattoo of branches and leaves on his neck. ] Perhaps another like this.

Oooh, now that is lovely work. Very Dalish, though it does not look to be vallaslin proper, but done in ink. Am I correct?

"Dalish?" I'm not familiar.

Clans of Elves that roam the woods in my world. Tattoos made of their own blood, usually upon their face, is a rite of passage among them.

Ah. You were correct, ours- mine is in ink. Usually we take them upon joining the Scoia'tael. [ A PAUSE since terminology doesn't seem to transfer over: ] Combat units.

You are Dalish? [ Because tattoo. ]

[He was about to ask what the 'Scoia'tael' was, when an answer was offered.]

Me? Ah, no. This was a mark of my initiation into the Crows.

"The Crows?" A combat unit? Or something else entirely?

A guild of assassins in my home world. So...we are something of a combat unit, just a bit more on the unsavory side of things, yes?

[ A visible shrug! ] Killing is killing, the semantics of its name hardly makes a difference. [ Yeah the Scoia'tael are pretty much considered bandits by anyone not in them. He has no moral high ground to stand on. ]

It always helps to be paid for it. Makes the effort worthwhile.

Then you live with the humans? [ gross humans and their gross money ]

Well, it is not as though I have had much of the choice in the matter, ever. And I have found the company of other elves to be somewhat lacking in the past. Can you blame me?

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