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[stoleyoursweetroll]

[She's working around the people clamoring to FIRST and upvote and downvote and write ASCII cats on the board (which she is totally calling HER board, the Severs-the-Threads Memorial Message Board, part of the Severs-the-Threads Brand, for the record), but between admiring the results of her Hard Hard Work, Severs has been etching a mark directly into one of the posts holding the message board up:



This is, after all, a product of the Thieves' Guild, technically. Of course it gets a Shadowmark.]

Hey, you're welcome, dryskins.

You're lucky there's no money system around here, or I'd be charging three septims per message you write on this thing. So, hey. Don't waste the chalk. I paid for that out of the kindness of my cold, scaly heart, and I don't take well to my rare acts of charity being wasted. Don't vandalize the board, either. I'll know, and I'll vandalize you.

Drawing pictures is okay, though. I'm not assuming that everyone here knows how to read, if it's at all like Skyrim.

- Sev.

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[stoleyoursweetroll]

Oh, clever! You might have to explain one or two little concepts to me, though. "Naturalist," first of all, and "being ladylike," second.

[deranged_practicality]

A naturalist is someone who studies nature: animals, plants, rocks and so on.

Being ladylike is learning the set of behaviors required to participate in your society when you are a woman. And the set of behaviors you cannot do and still participate in society. The latter list is rather longer.

[stoleyoursweetroll]

I was mostly being facetious about the ladylike thing. See, I come from Skyrim. We mostly define "ladylike" in terms of "number of wolves slain" and "how much mead you can down in one night."

[deranged_practicality]

It is a very culturally-specific thing. But is that 'ladylike' or just something everyone does, including the ladies?

[stoleyoursweetroll]

Maybe it would be better to define it as Nordlike. We didn't slay a lot of wolves back in Black Marsh.

Though if you ask me, I'm kind of hoping the Nord version of "ladylike" is what this particular place's culture settles on, too. I can't imagine trying to traipse around in Imperial petticoats in this climate.

[deranged_practicality]

I wouldn't recommend it, no. About the first thing I did was get something resembling what I wear in the field, rather than when in my home country.