This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff

I couldn’t fit it in above, but I received training in the Small Talk skill (most of it forced, like that retail job a few years ago).

But as someone who spends a lot of alone time studying things and current events, I also draw upon an endless stream of baloney that doesn’t run out before my throat does. I can usually turn it into Big Talk without getting into trouble (“and speaking of that, I wish more people knew sign language; certain monastic orders in the Middle Ages had no trouble conducting all routine conversations in complete silence, to say nothing of village sign languages such as the one that used to be prevalent in Martha’s Vineyard” *HINT HINT*); if people aren’t ready to deal with that, I doubt they’d like me in other ways.