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 was a fancy important person! He would happily come to Uma to talk, especially since he was having way too much fun with this whole thing.

"My goodness!" he remarked. "The food must be quite exquisite; they simply cannot seem to keep you away from it, my dear madame! Tell me, is there anything particularly scrumptious you might recommend?"

Re: Smalltalk like its your job!

[refused2berescued]

Uma had to pause, first to wrap her head around the question (look, words like scrumptious didn't get a lot of use on the Isle) and then to figure out whether or not she should be insulted. "It's all pretty good," she allowed. "I like those little flakey mini-pastry...things."

She was pointing to some mushroom quiches, more things she didn't know the words for.

"They don't fall apart in your pocket or make a mess like those meatballs do."