Practical Diplomacy

[sith_happened]

Today the class was back in the Danger Shop, but instead of a press conference, it was set up to look like an extremely stuffy reception. Waitstaff of various species wove through the crowd offering appetizers and drinks as people made smalltalk and tried to look and be as interesting as possible.

Anakin hated these events. "Right," he said to the class. "A huge part of your job as a diplomat will be making and maintaining contacts, and excruciatingly dull receptions is an excellent time to do so. Your job today is to find and remember three separate beings' names and what they do while holding a glass of something and eating a plate of appetizers. It's not nearly as easy as it sounds. You must also give them a false name and backstory. Silly accents are entirely optional."

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Re: Smalltalk like its your job!

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Sidon's accent was already pretty ridiculous, so that was likely to say the same no matter how hard he tried to do something different in the spirit of things, but he did have fun weaving together a new persona for himself. Of course, he'd named himself Vahn Ruto, the first name that popped into his head, and decided that he was from a place called Azorilandia, which had nothing to with water at all, to prove how creative he was being.

But he was exciting. Mingling and chatting and getting to know people was what he did best, even if there wasn't anything really small about his smalltalk when you got right down to it.