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[alldoomnogloom]

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[ablazement]

[she is just like, very out of it. it is very tiring work to kill a cowboy. it's not the first time she's killed someone she cared about so she's not like absolutely destroyed or anything, she's just like. zoned out.

astarion can have her hand! she's just sitting here trembling, tail in her lap.]

[haematocritical]

[ this is what you get for wandering into the cowboy chainsaw massacre.






well. he has her hand now. which fingers did she lose anyway? ]

...

I have no idea how to do this without a potion. [ HELPFUL. ]

[ablazement]

[her pinky and ring finger on her left hand! (nat voice) HER MARRIAGE HAND]

Maybe call Pesto. [she mutters.] They can preserve these too.

[alldoomnogloom]

[ het of her ... ]

I can make the request. Perhaps even Laudna can ... sew them back on?

[ how does that work. ]

[haematocritical]

[ the way nat broke into your house with a rootin' tootin' cowboy and destroyed all your furniture in week 0. ]

...

[ he's just manstanding with karlach's hand like help. ] If they tell a joke I'm not responsible for what I will do.

[ pained. ]

[ablazement]

[they really did i'm an innocent victim]

It doesn't matter to me which way. [i'm sorry she's just like, the kind of sad that you are when you don't want to be too sad because your two best buddies are emotionally bad at everything so you're just muted instead]

Ow.

[alldoomnogloom]

[ looking up from where he was already writing out a note for pestilence inquiring politely about karlach's loose fingers ]

Are you quite alright?

[haematocritical]

[ helpfully leaning over and mumbling something like "ask them for some cloth or something. and some brandy. three bottles?" before he just blinks and looks up at karlach. ]

...


I don't think this is something an express order from Pestilence is going to magically heal.

[ablazement]

The battle high is wearing off.

[squinting. at her hand. ow.]

[alldoomnogloom]

[ just oocly noting i sent off a note!!! with the requests. her fingies.

gale will finally look up at over at her hand however, frowning some - and also putting a hand over his chest, though mostly out of habit. ]

That was certainly quite the battle. You did well.

[haematocritical]

[ her fingies. ]

...

[ both of you stop being disasters. after a moment he'll lean and bump his shoulder against karlach's. minor cat privileges. ]

Yes, there were certainly more stakes in place there than just surviving. You made a promise to him?

[ablazement]

Thanks. I guess.

[yay note

she leans against whatever wall she can find, closing her eyes. when astarion bumps her shoulder, she just rests her head against it. sorry, she knows, but she's having a time.]

Last night, he said he'd rather be dead than hurt someone else. I promised I wouldn't let him. [...] Promised I'd remember him, too.

[alldoomnogloom]

[ reaching over to pat her on the knee or whatever he can reach, putting the notebook away for now. ]

He had a good heart. That much seems obvious. I hope he is able to find some peace in knowing you have done him more than a great kindness.

[ablazement]

[deep breath, slow sigh.]

It was better this way. [...] Sorry about the skeletons.

[alldoomnogloom]

[ pat pat again.

tara will jump up on her lap at this point again, starting to knead paws into one of her thighs. ]

Oh please, hardly an issue. I've blasted myself in the face before - remember the Trial of Shar?

[haematocritical]

Who can forget the Trial of Shar.

[ that FORCEFIELD. ]

We are aware this was likely the first of many though, yes?

[ablazement]

[puts becks back in bed]

I remember the Trial of Shar. [she says, absently.] But yeah. It'll be this every week. They're... not them. We have to pick the right people so they don't suffer like he was.

[haematocritical]

[ wakes up and sits up like a zombie. ]

The right people? In the trial you mean.

[ goody. ] Well it can’t be as much of a disaster as yesterday was, scraping in at the last minute.

[alldoomnogloom]

Yes, the overseers suggested as much. And that Death was a punishment, more than our responsibility.

[ so there's that. ]

We should pick the right people. The ritual demands blood, but is apparently not as fussed as to who's blood it is. So it is on us to care.

[haematocritical]

Yes, that was what War told me.

[ gazing into the distance a little now. ]

“You must live with your choices”, was it?

[ablazement]

[a bitter snort. yeah she's definitely living with her choices right now!!!]

At least if they're lying to us, they're a unified front. Famine, War, and Pesto told me all the same shit.

We have got to stick together. I won't lose either of you to this. And - maybe fucking reconsider the monster thing. Maybe we don't want to strengthen these shits.

[alldoomnogloom]

[ hmmmmmmmmm. ]

Sometimes to keep something from devouring you entirely, you must feed it.

[haematocritical]

Yes, it sounds like we’re all getting the same information. A lie isn’t difficult, but a lie across more than one person is harder to keep straight.

Did he ever tell you what his monster was? I’m assuming the— [ he waggles his fingers. tentacles. ] were something to do with it.

[ :piparingan: ]

… Maybe “you must live with your choices” isn’t just about what happens during the ritual.

[ablazement]

[after today, she's about ready to snap gale over her knee in frustration at this, but she doesn't. she just lays down wherever they are. on a bench. i don't know. she's pouting now.]

He didn't tell me. [...] Probably something snakelike.

[alldoomnogloom]

[ he knows karlach but listen. listen. sometimes he gets obsessive about something and has to hyperfixate for a bit at least its on finding a way to live and not becoming a god!!!!!! though there is always time. ]

That reminds me to ask what happens if one’s match dies before they can be found, actually.

I was given some possibilities for a wish, and the potential outcomes - it would be a chance to be restored to life, even if I somehow perish in the process here.