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.

Comments

Re: Activity #5

[in_sidon_we_trust]

This was easily the one that Sidon was likely to have trouble with...if only because his diet was already restricted quite enough as it was. But, on the other hand, he did have experience with trying all sorts of food around here that he pretended he didn't mind, though, really, he rather wished he'd never have to eat it again.

So his solution was incredibly modest bites and to find something about the other ingredients in the dish that he enjoyed so that his praise was not necessarily false, it just avoided talking about the star ingredient as much as possible. And there were a few standout where he could also use the phrase, "Why, I hardly knew [ingredient] was in it at all! What a masterful way to truly transform the familiar into something extraordinary and exceptional!", which helped a little, too.