Are you a morning person, or more of a night owl?
Many experts are known to advise that an early start on one’s agenda more sturdily sets one up for the tasks of the day.
What’s the first thing you notice about a person when you meet them?
I have an eye for an individual who knows what they want and how to look for it.
You see a huge spider in your room, what do you do?
My most pressing order of business, of course, would be to take matters up with our guard captain vis-a-vis, if you’ll pardon the phrase, a bug report. Our system is intended to preclude such breaches.
If you could go back and change one decision you made in the past, what would you change?
Hmm, plenty of later adjustments it could have been useful to have implemented initially, in hindsight. Of course, that’s the nature of all works. A slight adjustment to my daughter’s early medical diet, perhaps, would prove among the most efficient changes.
Tell me about your first kiss.
There exists only one woman who successfully wrangled such a thing out of me, and you may not be surprised to learn she would go on to become my wife and a valued member of our operations.
Do you give people second chances?
We’ve always judged it a more reliable response to adjust the system to preclude the possibility of any recidivism.
Are you a cat person or a dog person?
I tend to find both rather ungainly and ill-disciplined for my personal affairs.
Do you think you’re attractive?
Ahmm, I don’t know that that’s a question I see much value in exploring in myself.
What’s your worst habit?
I have a subconscious tendency to rub the metallic finish off my hands when engaged in particularly complex designs. A minor inefficiency in the grand scheme of things, but it has required me to include a line item in the budget for regular touch-ups.
When was the last time you cried?
Ahmm; not something I keep records of.
Are you a good liar?
Being as we trade on our reputation, it would be an ill business venture to try.
What’s your biggest pet peeve?
Absence of focus would be what most often brings me to a personal point of frustration.
Have you ever had your heart broken?
Not myself, and thanks to certain internal enhancements applied, I don’t expect to.
Are you more likely to use your fists or your words in an argument?
My personal enhancements are not from the combat-focused line; I am more of a talker.
What’s something you’re naturally good at?
Communication management, or, as you might consider the same thing, public relations.
What’s something you had to work hard to be good at?
The dexterity and power of limb necessary to execute one’s designs in reality unfortunately did not come quite as naturally to myself as to my father, but that shortfall, like many, has merely required an application of effort and ingenuity to address.
Can you tell when someone is flirting with you?
Mm, I’ve learned to read the signals, as with many things.
Do you think money can buy happiness?
‘Happiness’ is a somewhat imprecise and nebulous concept that cannot often concretely be held down to scrutiny. By contrast, however, if you wish to discuss a variety of quality-of-life improvements which money can buy…
Do you believe in destiny?
The word evokes a romanticised notion which fails to exactly describe the reality in principle, but it is true that any system, no matter how complicated, can have its eventual output calculated from the substance and arrangement of its components, if only one has access to a processing power great enough to calculate.
Are you a good cook?
Although not my personal realm of direct expertise, it is a task I can fulfil to a perfectly adequate standard.
What do you think happens after you die?
While I could not presume to know the details, it is widely recorded that the Tinker’s walls are the only ones of greater quality even than our own, and as such the Garden they enclose can be supposed to retain its perfection indefinitely, no matter how many pass onto there from here.
Did you have to grow up fast?
As in many of our family’s projects, we placed greater attention on steadiness and consistency than on speed per se.
Who do you look up to?
I’m sure you will have to agree that my father is a singularly industrious visionary. It is an honour to be entrusted with the future progress of our operations in his eventual aftermath.
When you go to a tavern, what do you order?
I tend to favour plum brandy, although I am rapidly perfecting the process of home production from a private orchard of mine, and expect to have outstripped commercially available quality within the next eight years.
What do you like most about yourself?
I think my record of success in the family’s business partnerships adequately speaks for itself.
What do you like least about yourself?
As many do, I am held back by a modest handful of physical limitations, for which purposes I am always designing improvements.
Do you want kids someday?
As our sole current heir is, alas, a girl, it will no doubt be a regrettable requirement.
Are you a planner or more spontaneous?
Plan thrice, measure twice - that’s the adage that has well served our operations.
Can you keep a secret?
On points where I am contracted to, you may consider me impregnable.
Do you like being the centre of attention?
Certainly it allows for optimum application of my personal strengths.
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you do today?
Mmm… well, I suppose I’d be quite distressed. Though, assuming I retained my faculties, between you and me, I expect I would go to see a show. One never has the time for such frivolities generally, in my business. Perhaps I’ve said too much.
Do you enjoy getting all dressed up for a special occasion?
Well, it naturally serves the functions of decorum to respect the attentions of one’s associates.
Where do you feel safe?
The defences of our estate are quite formidable, thanks to a generous application of our own products, which I can testify personally provides an invaluable sensation of security.
Do you love or hate being alone?
I find one achieves more when able to utilise the sounding board of company - although some may suit such a role more adequately than others!
What’s the last nightmare you remember having?
Ah, I believe some frivolous reworking of anxious memories from many years previously, none of them relevant today.
Do you admit to mistakes when you make them?
An accountable system is known to be more efficient.
Do you want to grow up to be like your parents?
For the sake of pragmatism I think I’d choose to retain full use of my original limbs.
How do you deal with being sick? Are you stoic or super whiney?
Alas, I must admit to being ill-suited to ‘power through’ an illness on my own without the provision of alchemical assistance. Fortunately, we have a range of developments for such purposes.
What did your parents expect from you when you were born?
As the Church of the Tinker teaches all parents, each newborn person is a unique raw material to be moulded towards its optimal use. My devoted parents behaved accordingly.
Do you have a strong sense of style?
While style may be no replacement for substance, I find it can often take a comfortable place alongside.
Would you rather camp outdoors or stay the night in an inn?
The opportunity to refine the blank slate of the great outdoors into a designed interior of superior efficiency and pleasantness is why the Tinker chose to leave the Material Plane unsplit by walls in the first instance.
Is there a food that most people like but you absolutely hate?
Even prior to my own metallic enhancements, I was not fond of the acidity of vinegar. The appeal of pickled items in goblin-influenced cuisine thereby eludes me, despite its obvious practicality for storage purposes.
Are you more of a hoarder or a minimalist?
A neater workspace makes for a neater mind. While it is often necessary to hold many possible components within easy reach, naturally I have a robust filing system.
Are you superstitious?
I’ve always considered such things a distraction from more valuable and pertinent questions.
Are you the kind of person who remembers people’s birthdays and pet’s names and stuff?
Certainly yes - and any one of you may become so, with the correct application of a robust internal system.
What do you do to feel better when you’re sad?
I have a series of idle designs always on the go upon a separate drawing board in my quarters, which I find to be a beneficial mental and emotional exercise.
Is it hard for you to trust someone?
Mm. I prefer to rely on more concrete arrangements than what one might traditionally consider ‘trust’.
Are you susceptible to peer pressure?
Ahmm. Naturally, any system functions more efficiently when its components remain compatible, vis-a-vis their alignment along the intersections.
If you decided to stop adventuring and settle down, what kind of job would you take?
I’m certain any major industry would find me an invaluable commodity in any available representative, mercantile or administrative position.
As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Ahmm - unburdened by the fragile limitations of bodily imperfection, hence, as you will see, my various corrective enhancements.
