[ me when the emotion most accurate for this tag is a gif of an animation from the games that i don't have an equivalent icon for: ah. ]

The equivalent of tired and overworked middle management, huh ... maybe the edginess was just them trying to cling to what power they can ...

[ an exaggerated spreading of his hands, and a sad, slow, mournful shake of the head, eyes closed. gosh, put that way you can almost feel sorry for the NPCs...

anyway. ]

I do wonder how long they've been here for! But it doesn't look like we're going to get too many answers ... at least not quickly, anyway.