No, it does feel a bit like it's a matter of time. I see we're back on the multiple multiple bodies, this week, after a brief breather. [ where camille also died but like. shhh. it's fine.
he just lets his hand be squeezed, before shifting their hands so he can turn gale's over and see how badly he's managed to gnaw at his nail, actually. the hands are still captive. ]
Yes, well. Not to bring the mood down further or anything, we still have to figure out who did this and there's a chance one of us will scare the daylights out of the other two by getting dragged into the ritual tomorrow holding only a quill.
You did go right for the most vulnerable point in a pinch, so I can commend you for the quick thinking there. [ the hand itself isn't looking as uh. crushed-by-a-rock this week, is it? ] Let's try to avoid that sort of thing again. Both of the two of you have given me minor heart attacks recently.
[ he will politely not point out if anyone is doing execution both himself and karlach have already gone so you'd be the doofus up next!!!!! ]
Astarion, I've told Karlach to use her wish on herself. I know ... she had some designs perhaps to use it for you, but perhaps I am being presumptuous when I told her you would prefer that she use it for her heart. If you are in need of assistance finding a wish for your own cure, I am more than happy to assist. I know of a few who might lend aide.
he just blinks at that, before looking ... well. like his icon. ]
She'd better bloody use it for her heart. She was burning up yesterday, Gale. Struggling to breathe. Your orb, and her heart are much more pressing issues. Don't get me wrong, I'd love a cure for vampirism to fall into my lap and be done with it all, but it's a little less of a pain having to schedule any meet ups for nighttime compared to the two of you rude exploding over a light dinner.
[ his grip on gale's hand gets a little tigher at that. like. i s2g neither of you should be blowing up, he'd be furious. ]
[ I thought so. unfortunately he is giving him a very fond look at all of this because it is, actually, a very kind thing to give up that chance. it is not easy, to push away something as simple as a wish being offered to you - despite what anyone says the contrary.
it is not as if it was so simple to let the chance to use the ouija board on himself slip through his hands. he will admit to his own reservations and doubts about that. ]
Don't worry about my Orb. I will be using my wish to be rid of it, so you don't have to be concerned about that anymore. It's merely at this moment it provides something of a ... we'll call it a deterrent.
[ Stop perceiving him at once. the look gale gets back is ... essentially something like a puffed up cat would give someone, if the puffed up cat were a 200+ year old vampire. ]
... A deterrent. You mean to prevent people from targeting you, lest they blow themselves and everyone else sky high in the process?
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[ just
takes the hand he is brutalising
and removes it from where he can chew on it. no. ]
Perhaps I should be asking you that, you seem very agitated. And have perhaps had a more stressful week than mine.
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... Is it terrible, that I keep waiting for the inevitability of one of us meeting the end of a knife?
[ squeezing astarion's hand a bit too tightly. ]
So there is always this moment of terrible relief when I see who has passed, and it is not you or Karlach.
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No, it does feel a bit like it's a matter of time. I see we're back on the multiple multiple bodies, this week, after a brief breather. [ where camille also died but like. shhh. it's fine.
he just lets his hand be squeezed, before shifting their hands so he can turn gale's over and see how badly he's managed to gnaw at his nail, actually. the hands are still captive. ]
Yes, well. Not to bring the mood down further or anything, we still have to figure out who did this and there's a chance one of us will scare the daylights out of the other two by getting dragged into the ritual tomorrow holding only a quill.
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For having a quill I think I performed admirably, and I would care for acknowledgement upon that point.
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You did go right for the most vulnerable point in a pinch, so I can commend you for the quick thinking there. [ the hand itself isn't looking as uh. crushed-by-a-rock this week, is it? ] Let's try to avoid that sort of thing again. Both of the two of you have given me minor heart attacks recently.
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Astarion, I've told Karlach to use her wish on herself. I know ... she had some designs perhaps to use it for you, but perhaps I am being presumptuous when I told her you would prefer that she use it for her heart. If you are in need of assistance finding a wish for your own cure, I am more than happy to assist. I know of a few who might lend aide.
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he just blinks at that, before looking ... well. like his icon. ]
She'd better bloody use it for her heart. She was burning up yesterday, Gale. Struggling to breathe. Your orb, and her heart are much more pressing issues. Don't get me wrong, I'd love a cure for vampirism to fall into my lap and be done with it all, but it's a little less of a pain having to schedule any meet ups for nighttime compared to the two of you rude exploding over a light dinner.
[ his grip on gale's hand gets a little tigher at that. like. i s2g neither of you should be blowing up, he'd be furious. ]
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it is not as if it was so simple to let the chance to use the ouija board on himself slip through his hands. he will admit to his own reservations and doubts about that. ]
Don't worry about my Orb. I will be using my wish to be rid of it, so you don't have to be concerned about that anymore. It's merely at this moment it provides something of a ... we'll call it a deterrent.
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... A deterrent. You mean to prevent people from targeting you, lest they blow themselves and everyone else sky high in the process?
[ blunt, but. y'know. ]
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Exactly! A little stratagem I would coin as Mutually Assured Destruction.
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... Well that's one way of avoiding death, I suppose.