Rumarin Dialogue: Otero and the Bandits (Migrated Post)

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[The following was originally posted to Tumblr on December 31, 2017.]

Dialogue from Rumarin of the Interesting NPCs mod. Only spoilery if you've never commented on his healthy sense of humor.

• Dragonborn: You certainly have a healthy sense of humor.
  
  Rumarin: It helps that my parents were troubadours, and we spent every day around performers of all walks of life. Jesters, actors, magicians, and bards...a wellspring of speechcraft that you couldn't help but drink from. It was the jester to whom I gravitated to, a Nord man named Otero.
  
  
  • Dragonborn: How did that relationship develop?
    
    Rumarin: Otero was always better with children than adults. Probably because it's easier to make them laugh. You see, laughter was important to him. He said it was powerful enough to disarm any foe.
    
    
    • Dragonborn: When did you become an adventurer?
      
      Rumarin: The day I stopped wanting to be a jester. I was about ten years old. Otero had taken me aside one afternoon to practice his new act. It was a great routine. In fact, I was laughing so loud I attracted an audience. A group of bandits.
      
      
      • Dragonborn: What did you do?
        
        Rumarin: Well I was terrified. But Otero rose up, looking fat and half drunk, and warned the bandits to leave, or die. The bandits started roaring with laughter. When Otero made another threat, some were reduced to tears. They never saw the blade slide out of his sleeve. I never saw a fat man act so swift. And that's when I learned how disarming laughter really is.