Practical Diplomacy, Friday, February 8, 2019

[sith_happened]

"One of the most useful skills to hone as a diplomat is the art of getting out of an uncomfortable conversation--and this is the important part--without stabbing someone."

Take a moment, kids, to feel badly for Anakin's teachers because that had been an actual lesson he'd gotten.

"You can stab yourself, but only in absolute emergencies."

He gestured around at the Danger Shop, which had been set up as the exact same reception as the first class, complete with the same appetizers and the same people because diplomacy got repetive. "I have programmed NPCs to come around and annoy you in a variety of ways. Your job is to get out of the conversations as gracefully as possible. And...go."

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Re: Mingle!

[sith_happened]

"Hi," chirped a little old man. "Can you tell me if the sore on the back of my neck has started oozing again?"

Ew. No. Why.

Re: Mingle!

[in_sidon_we_trust]

"Oh, yes, but of course!" Sidon said with actual, genuine enthusiasm, because he just couldn't help wanting to be helpful, even when it involved little old men and their oozing necks, and, as he went to check, he might have then entered into a whole conversation with the gentleman about his oozing neck, but he did remember that the idea was to actually get rid of the people talking to them, so, no matter how terribly curious he was about the oozing neck, he tried to keep things in the spirit of the exercise and gasped.

"My good sir," he said, and then dropped his voice (and his head) down quietly, "I do not wish to alarm you, but it appears as though it most certainly has. Might I suggest that it would be wise to extract yourself momentarily from the festivities to seek our a washroom, so that you may see to it properly? If I may say so, it does not look like the sort of thing I myself would wish to leave unattended."

Re: Mingle!

[sith_happened]

"Really?" the man replied, sounding a little more worried. "Do you think I need to find a doctor?"