Practical Diplomacy, Friday, January 11, 2019

[sith_happened]

"Another peril of diplomatic life is having to attend local cultural events and pretending to be impressed," Anakin shouted over the sound of drums and some sort of weird horn thing that was being played with great enthusiasm and very little skill by the troupe dressed up in some form of local attire in the Danger Shop behind him. "Today I have five different scenarios that you will have to work through while maintaining a proper diplomatic expression--not laughing, not saying 'ew', and not saying no to any of the weird requests they will make of you."

The drummers behind him got even louder. You lucky, lucky students.

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Re: Activity #4

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Ah, the self-effacing charm at work yet again! Which whenever it came to clothing, was never too much of a stretch, and Sidon, his bright smile never dulled even by sheepishness, bowed his head slightly to someone helping out, and offered his apologies. "Begging your pardon," he said, "but I fear such marvelous and stunning garments are beyond the ken of my people's much more humble and simple accouterments. I trust you can lend your knowledge of such things to assist me in ensuring that I am sporting them properly and doing them the fine justice they so richly deserve? I can hardly believe I have been graced with such an honor as to don them myself! And this band...such a wonderful name! Though there's nothing so beautiful in my own clumsy language. Perhaps, if you don't mind, correct me if I'm getting this wrong? I would so hate to mar their moment of well-deserved glory with a fumble of my own incapable tongue." And he tried the name with careful caution. "Am I getting that right?"

People, he found, were far more tolerant of a fool when that fool was just so gosh-darn nice.