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.
[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.
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.
[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.
[ 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.
[this is a funny conversation today after the incentives for murder came out]
... I'd like to get you the ability to see the sun again, Astarion. [a beat, as she looks at gale.] And get rid of your thing, too, with the magic. Let you both be normal people again, or as normal as you can manage.
We are all a bunch of absolute weirdos. It makes sense we’d all have things this place could exploit.
[ he’s a vampire, karlach and gale are both toeing the line between normality and just exploding into 1000 pieces accidentally or in self-sacrificial intent every day. just normal dnd things. ]
…
[ he sighs. ] The wish can kick in immediately, that’s what I was told. But it depends on the wish and there’s no guarantee we’d see any benefit of partnering up with our other if they get us killed before we can even make our wish.
To my understanding, the wish could also return me to life regardless of demise here. If that happened, I would have no memory of this place, and it would be ... two months or so into the future. After the end of this.
I don't know if it will be considered cheating, but if the wishes are powerful enough to potentially pull the Netherese Orb from me or stop a war or any other significant event, I think--
[ he starts to bring his hand up again, realizes astarion is going to smack him a second time, and puts it down in his lap instead. ]
If even one of us survives to the end, perhaps we could use its power to restore life. It wouldn't ... solve our problems, so to speak, but we'd be alive to consider those problems.
It’s not cheating if it’s smart enough to beat the people in charge at their own game.
[ he’ll stand by that. and yes, he IMMEDIATELY stares at gale’s hand like just you try that again. i dare you. ]
But it would also mean all three of us making the same wish, trying to find our partners to make that wish in the first place and throwing ourselves further into the danger zone by tying our lives to someone else’s. The thing I was very against in the beginning, we remember this, yes?
[honestly sometimes she does find the jokes funny sometimes, but astarion is right, today she just frowns. big frown.]
Gale.
[anyway proceeds to be a huge hypocrite]
Haven't really got anything to contribute. [...] Just that we've got to be ready. And that there's always a chance one of us is going to end up standing in that graveyard, one way or another.
If it's me, I want you to take me out. Don't let me keep going.
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[ that FORCEFIELD. ]
We are aware this was likely the first of many though, yes?
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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.
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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.
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[ 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.
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[ gazing into the distance a little now. ]
“You must live with your choices”, was it?
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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.
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Sometimes to keep something from devouring you entirely, you must feed it.
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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.
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He didn't tell me. [...] Probably something snakelike.
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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.
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I didn't ask, but I imagine curing vampirism wouldn't be out of the realms of the possible either.
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I've-- been considering both of these problems. Surely, with enough time, enough of my skill back ...
[ he could try and help? ]
I imagine both of those things would be entirely possible though, yes.
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... I'd like to get you the ability to see the sun again, Astarion. [a beat, as she looks at gale.] And get rid of your thing, too, with the magic. Let you both be normal people again, or as normal as you can manage.
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[ he’s a vampire, karlach and gale are both toeing the line between normality and just exploding into 1000 pieces accidentally or in self-sacrificial intent every day. just normal dnd things. ]
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[ he sighs. ] The wish can kick in immediately, that’s what I was told. But it depends on the wish and there’s no guarantee we’d see any benefit of partnering up with our other if they get us killed before we can even make our wish.
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[ he's chewing his nails again. ]
To my understanding, the wish could also return me to life regardless of demise here. If that happened, I would have no memory of this place, and it would be ... two months or so into the future. After the end of this.
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Hm. So, a loophole then. Even if it is one that would require a significant amount of memory loss.
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And a significant amount of lost time we most likely don't have.
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Yes, I doubt the remaining of the Dead Three’s little devotees are going to sit back and politely wait for us to done being dead amnesiacs.
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[ he starts to bring his hand up again, realizes astarion is going to smack him a second time, and puts it down in his lap instead. ]
If even one of us survives to the end, perhaps we could use its power to restore life. It wouldn't ... solve our problems, so to speak, but we'd be alive to consider those problems.
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[ he’ll stand by that. and yes, he IMMEDIATELY stares at gale’s hand like just you try that again. i dare you. ]
But it would also mean all three of us making the same wish, trying to find our partners to make that wish in the first place and throwing ourselves further into the danger zone by tying our lives to someone else’s. The thing I was very against in the beginning, we remember this, yes?
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[she's been watching them go back and forth, half passed out where she's laying.]
Can't stop you from finding your partner or going for it, but I wish you wouldn't. Don't want to bury another friend.
[she knows there aren't a lot of options otherwise to fix things for the two of them, though. she knows she wants her cake and to eat it too.]
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[ dont make this joke right now. but okay, okay, getting up to go fetch one of the blankets at least. ]
We don’t have to discuss this now, if you’d rather rest. It always turns a tad circular anyway.
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Gale.
[anyway proceeds to be a huge hypocrite]
Haven't really got anything to contribute. [...] Just that we've got to be ready. And that there's always a chance one of us is going to end up standing in that graveyard, one way or another.
If it's me, I want you to take me out. Don't let me keep going.
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