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[learned_to_die]

IT APPEARS THAT THIS IS SOME VERSION OF COMMUNICATION, AKIN TO MESSAGES RECEIVED VIA RAVEN. I CANNOT YET UNDERSTAND HOW SUCH THINGS ARE POSSIBLE, NOR CAN I UNDERSTAND HOW I AM EXPECTED TO SO ACCURATELY PRESS MY FINGERS TO SUCH PAINFULLY SMALL LETTERS ON THIS THING CALLED A "KEY BOARD."

[Ned is part of the Old Dads club; he has accidentally turned on his caps lock and has absolutely no idea how to turn it off, nor does he have any social precedent for understanding how hostile this makes him look.]

I AM TOLD THAT I AM IN A CITY CALLED WYVER, A NAME AS FOREIGN TO ME AS THE REST OF THIS IS. THE LOCALS HERE ARE NOT INCREDIBLY FORTHCOMING WITH ASSISTANCE OR INFORMATION, AND AS SUCH, ANYTHING THAT YOU MIGHT OFFER WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

THANK YOU FOR WHATEVER YOU MIGHT PROVIDE.

-- EDDARD STARK, LORD OF WINTERFELL, WARDEN OF THE NORTH, HAND OF THE KING

Comments

[cacoethical]

not exactly!!!!!! i meant another overly formal yet shouty man with no apparent understanding of technology

which is fine by the way im loving it its very charming and i had a thoroughly edifying conversation with the last one 😊😊😊😊😊😊 im especially enjoying the signature thats a very impressive title

what does a hand of the king do if i may ask?????

[He is, yes, entirely earnest.]

[learned_to_die]

I BELIEVE YOU REFER TO LORD BARATHEON? I DID NOTICE A SIMILARITY IN OUR MESSAGES.

YOU USE MANY EXCLAMATION POINTS AND QUESTION MARKS. ARE YOU TRULY AS EXCITED AND CURIOUS AS THEY SUGGEST?

THE HAND OF THE KING IS AN ADVISOR, OF SORTS. THERE IS A SAYING IN WESTEROS THAT, "WHAT THE KING BUILDS, THE HAND DREAMS." MANY CONSIDER THE HAND TO BE THE SECOND-MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE SEVEN KINGDOMS, AS HE IS ACTING KING WHENEVER THE CROWNED KING IS OTHERWISE PREOCCUPIED. HE DISPENSES THE KING'S JUSTICE, LISTENS TO THOSE WHO COME TO COURT, SITS ON THE SMALL COUNCIL, AND SO FORTH.

-- LORD EDDARD STARK, LORD OF WINTERFELL, WARDEN OF THE NORTH, HAND OF THE KING

[cacoethical]

WOW!!!!!!! 😮😮😮😮😮

[Now who's shouting?]

that sounds like a lot of responsibility!!!!! i guess that explains the diction

both yours and his actually!!!! LORD BARATHEONs i mean (that doesnt feel right without all the capitals does it???? im beginning to see why you two prefer them)

anyway thats an even more thoroughly impressive signature than i thought clearly though for the record thats not why i am now going to offer to give you any kind of help you might want from me!!!! thats because were all a bit lost here i think and should therefore assist one another as best we can i think

[learned_to_die]

HOW DID YOU DO THAT? CREATE THAT SMALL ... FACE, WITH YOUR DEVICE? AT LEAST, I BELIEVE THAT IS MEANT TO BE A FACE OF SOME KIND? SURPRISED, PERHAPS?

IT CAN BE, YES. IT IS CONSIDERED A GREAT HONOR TO BE ASKED TO BE HAND BY A KING. [So much so that Ned couldn't turn the request - though it was more of a demand than anything else - down. Retrospectively, he knew he should've listened to his wife, listened to the voice in the back of his mind that warned him of a fate similar to that of the previous Hand, the man Lysa said was murdered by the Lannisters.] YOU ARE A VERY ENTHUSIASTIC PERSON, I GATHER. THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY A BAD THING, THOUGH ONE OUGHT TO LEARN HOW TO CONCEAL ONE'S EMOTIONS, LEST HIS ENEMIES OR POTENTIAL FOES GET THE UPPER HAND.

BUT YOUR KINDNESS RINGS TRUE, AND IT IS APPRECIATED. WHAT MIGHT I CALL YOU?

-- LORD EDDARD STARK, LORD OF WINTERFELL, WARDEN OF THE NORTH, HAND OF THE KING