audience: astarion

[mygod]

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[haematocritical]

[ does the mental equivalent of sitting sharply up. ]

How.

[mygod]

Well, they're not marked as captives, I suppose. What brought them here is different than what brought you here.

[haematocritical]

And what, exactly, brought us here?

[mygod]

Oh. Were you not there yesterday?

[ They assume that he missed the impromptu Q&A... ]

[haematocritical]

[ i got pretty lost in the sauce. ]

I was around. But there were forty of us clamouring for your attention.

[mygod]

Well, you were brought here via magic by a group who wants to use you all to summon a powerful being.

[ They gesture around them. ]

Hence, a prison.

[haematocritical]

[ gazes. ]

I was aware of the sacrifice part, sadly. So, there's magic, but only magic they deem worth accessing. By themselves.

[ HIS FIRE BOLT CANTRIP. ]

[mygod]

You got it!

After all, they can't have you guys just blasting away at this place.

[haematocritical]

[ he pauses.



and then pulls such a face, my god (ha) ]

Yes, that would be... annoying. And stupid of someone if they did try to pull that off. [ this so pointed. ]

[mygod]

Oh, yes. Most definitely so.

[ Who would do that. ]

[haematocritical]

Very stupid.

[ WHO would DO such a thing. ]

[mygod]

Mmhm...

Well! Any other questions?

[haematocritical]

[ hmmm. ]

How many “monsters” are there anyway— a neat 20?

[mygod]

There's 25.

[ ... ]

No, there's 20.

[haematocritical]

[ ...

opens mouth. closes mouth.

one hand goes on his hip, the other lifts to make a little rotating motion with his finger. ]

No, no. Let's go back to the 25, shall we?

[mygod]

Nope! It's 20.

[ They make the same motion, but going in the other way. ]

[haematocritical]

[ makes the motion he was making before, but faster! ]

What happened to the other five?

[mygod]

[ THEY ARE JUST SPINNING THEIR HANDS. ]

Nothing.

[haematocritical]

[ keep going maybe they’ll take off. ]

Now that just seems like a lie.

[mygod]

It's not! You're just being weird and mistrustful.

[haematocritical]

So says you hiding your face with a mask.

[mygod]

And you are really convincing me to take it off! Are you normally this great of a sweet talker?

[haematocritical]

I'm not actively persuading you of anything. Merely pointing it out.

[mygod]

Seems a little off topic.

[haematocritical]

Not really. You talked about mistrust, yet you won’t show your faces.

Presumably something to do with avoiding detection so I’m not denying there’s a reason, but it can’t be all that surprising there’s a seed of mistrust around the place.