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[ it's a video post from our resident bard, because figuring out how to turn on a camera is slightly easier than navigating a full text message for one, but more importantly because if jaskier is given an opportunity to perform for an audience, he's going to take it.

unfortunately, while he has managed to figure out he video chat function with a small bit of coaching, he clearly has yet to actually master it, if the way his beaming face is only half framed in the feed is any indication. unless he's just going for something artful, anyway, which isn't completely out of the question but slightly more unlikely when it involves depriving the other residents of his beautiful face. ]

I'm lead to understand that this delightful little device is meant to communicate with others across long distances and doesn't even require that the user be adept in the art of magic and I. Am. Excited.

Hello darlings, I am the renowned bard Jaskier and I am aroused to such heights of creativity by this fascinating little place and all the beautiful people in it. If any of your are interested in having any of your past feats of glory epitomized in epic verse, I would love to hear all about it!

[ and here, a wink to help entice anyone that might be slightly on the fence at the moment. ] Call me!

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[ At least Jaskier is better at figuring out the smartphone technology than Wen Ning is. He has his camera facing forward, away from his face, so it's just recording a tree. ]

What sorts of tales have you made into songs thus far?

[ the number of fantasy characters in this game having to learn about technology all of a sudden is frankly astonishing. you almost have to feel bad for all the questions the more modern people are probably fielding nonstop. ]

My most popular song by far is "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher". It recounts the first adventure I ever accompanied my friend Geralt with to confront a band of elves at the Edge of the World.

[ here's hoping that if he doesn't get too specific geralt won't go and spoil it's veracity here as well. geralt simply had no regard for the craft. nor of protecting said elves by making everyone think they were already dead.

honestly. ]

It's done a remarkably good job of improving his reception into towns since its inception.

[ ... So much of that went so far over Wen Ning's head. But he just smiles and nods along, accepting that there's a lot that happens here that he's not going to understand. ]

I don't know what elves are or what a witcher is, but if you've been to the edge of the world, you must have traveled very far indeed.

[ that's alright wen ning, jaskier would be more than happy to educate you. ]

Elves are another race with the same basic form as us humans, but with pointed ears and an innate connection to the chaos magic of our world.

A Witcher is a man who travels from town to town that can be enlisted, for a price, to rid the area of whatever monster might be assailing the citizens. Despite this absolutely indispensable job that they do, they are often quite maligned by the ordinary folk and may even be run out of town on occasion.

I took it upon myself to educated the masses on some of his more exciting jobs over the years and I am quite pleased to tell you that his name has risen in such regard that he was invited to sit next to the Queen of Cintra at her daughter's betrothal banquet.

You are correct though. I have traveled quite far in my career.

A Witcher sounds a lot like a cultivator. Only... less popular. Why are they run out of town, if their purpose is to help people get rid of monsters?

[ Cultivators are something like celebrities in Wen Ning's world. Sure, he would likely be feared and maligned and run out of towns, but then he's a fierce corpse, the dreaded Ghost General. ]

That must be exciting! I haven't traveled all that far, really. I went to Gusu once, when I was young. But mostly I stayed in Qishan or Yiling. Well... I did spend 16 years in Lanling, but that wasn't really by choice.

[ Wen Ning, Jaskier didn't ask for any of this... ]

[ congrats on immediately finding yourself in jaskier's good book, wen ning. he will now start bar fights in your honor. ]

I ask myself the same thing constantly, but alas, human nature is prone to hating that which is different because they fear what they cannot understand.

[ he didn't ask, perhaps, but jaskier will never say no to a story freely given, even if there's still plenty left unsaid in this particular story. ]

That certainly is a shame. I'm of the opinion that one should get a good look at the world with their own eyes in order to form a solid opinion of it. I would be more than happy to tell you of my own travels whenever you like, however.

Oh... [ Yeah, that hits close to home. Wen Ning has lost track of the number of times people have run away from him in fear, or been teased and taken advantage of for looking different. ]

I-- I'd like that, I think. What kinds of places have you traveled? Were they very beautiful and exciting?

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