audience: astarion

[mygod]

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[mygod]

[ not like this. ]

Only a thief would say as much.

[ hello crow. it considers beating war up, but instead flies away angrily. it'll be back.................... ]

Don't worry, he has already talked me to death about magic.

[haematocritical]

[ yes like this. ]

Thief is so gauche. But some people just make it too easy.

[ anyway. ]

Oh, welcome to the club. We do offer brooches, but sadly I left all of those back at the significantly less culty camp.

[mygod]

[ there's way too much sassy in this one area. ]

Did you three trade one cult for another?

[haematocritical]

Yes, well done. There’s no cobwebs on you, are there?

[ he is so pissed. ]

Some of us even had the distinct joy of avoiding one sacrificial situation, only to end up in a-bloody-nother.

[mygod]

[ this is a brat. ]

Are you annoyed about the slaughtering part, or about the captive part?

[haematocritical]

[ yes. ]

Both! Shockingly, it's both.

[mygod]

For you, I'm not sure if it's so shocking actually.

Your board snippet did say you hoped fates weren't set in stone. You won't let that be the case here, I presume? Giving up so easily...?

[haematocritical]

[ his mouth twists slightly. ]

None of us remember answering that, you realise.

[mygod]

[ a quiet chuckle. ]

Yes, I know. But is it untrue?

[haematocritical]

The amount of blood I arrived covered in should be enough of an answer.

[mygod]

So your bite is as bad as your bark then.

[haematocritical]

[ sweetly: ]

I stabbed the last person who tried to sacrifice me for their own gain until they stopped moving. Permanently.

[ it’s said layered in that very false sweetness but there’s a real blink-and-you-miss-it mess of emotions that flicker through his eyes. anger, hate, and a very empty fear and loss, like someone who cut something out of their lives for the better and cannot stand that they just feel empty and lost after everything they went through to do it.

and then it’s gone and he just looks pissy again. wow. ]

[mygod]

[ ooooo, emotion. the real ones. hmmmmmmmm. ]

It sounds like there was some history there for you to go at it so voraciously.

[haematocritical]

Yes. There was.

[mygod]

Well, I apologize for your current predicament which was always out of my hands for you specifically. However, we are at least attempting to rectify the situation for you all.

[haematocritical]

[ gazes at the sky for a moment. maybe there's a voice in his head that sounds like karlach being very sad that he puffed up like an angry cat with the npcs. ]

And what does that entail? Other than playing the watching and waiting game.

[mygod]

[ they wait on him to gaze at the sky and figure out whether he wants to feel an iota of shame for being mad with the npcs. ]

It is a watching and waiting game, I'm afraid. Do you have the patience?

[haematocritical]

[ oh. he's not going to do that no. but he does seem to have unclenched a little bit. ]

...

I suppose we'll find out. It's not as though I can leave if I decide I don't.

[mygod]

[ astarion is unclenching...? wow. ]

That is true, but neither can we. There are things in place forbidding us from leaving. So it is better if the whole of us move forward rather than drag our feet.

With hopefully a little less blood for you than the last time.

[haematocritical]

[ we love a canon point that lets me be nicer sometimes. … sometimes….. ]

But you do have more freedoms than we do, no? Presumably something that lets you move beyond all this fog.

[ hmmm. ]

I don’t know, I rather enjoyed it in a way. It was more than deserved. [ he’ll stab the head of this cult too, he’ll do it. ]

[mygod]

[ is it weird to tell a vampire to be less bloodthirsty??? ]

We have the freedom of an inn and a garden, if you consider those freedoms. And the area for cultist gatherings.

[haematocritical]

[ no. but also it was extraordinarily well deserved. ]

… Depends on the sort of inn. How many others are there, barring the four of you? Are we talking the first aspirations of a cult or something deeply entrenched and well established?

[mygod]

It is a very clean, comfortable inn with a housekeeper. No one is there except the four of us and him.

[ :)? ]

This has not been done before, so it is the first breaths of a new cult.

[haematocritical]

I do hope you're not telling me the cult is the four of you, just after I composed myself.

And stop rubbing your accommodations in.

[ boo. ]

[mygod]

Hm, no. All of us here are out-numbered by the whole cult, but we are here with you as your keepers, so there is only four of us at the inn. And the housekeeper.

[ ... ]

You could always ask.