While I wouldn't disagree it was a risk you all took, it still seems somewhat shocking. You're all certainly taking this with a bit more fortitude than some of us out there.
Well, it's not the first time I've been accused of being cold. It isn't an outcome I wanted out of Time, least of all for him, but it is one I unfortunately must accept.
I don't have a diamond, and we don't have a cleric.
I didn't say cold. Perfunctory, maybe. You did encourage us to look into it, after all, I can't imagine you didn't give a single jot about it.
[ yeah he'll go around accusing every npc of caring see where that gets him. nowhere probably. ]
But you are correct. No diamond, no cleric, no scroll, no enigmatic skeletal man offering resurrection services for a small cost. You should have picked up Shadowheart instead of me.
[ maybe they are a sociopath, and they are mimicking normal emotions they have seen from others, gale!!! ]
I have concerns about a resurrection offer from a skeletal man, but they can wait. Are you still going to argue with me that all of you were plucked out of time by the random chance of a summoning?
This plane received you, and we will make do with what we have in our own way.
No, War, I'm making a joke by suggesting with some level of sarcasm you should have clearly engineered to bring the live Cleric instead of the dead Wizard from our party.
I would have grabbed any skilled live cleric with the utmost certainty if it had been left up to my process. But I did not do the summoning.
[ IT'S A SASSY JOKE, THEY GET IT, BUT THEY ARE OFFENDED BECAUSE gestures, ALL RIGHT!! the stress exasperation of the day is coming out. ]
So now we have a dead arcane bomb wizard, a vain murderous vampire, and a bleeding machine heart tiefling among the other thirty-seven insane, ridiculous people needing to be attended with one less of our collective.
You'd have done well with Shadowheart, she's a Sharran, so these sorts of rituals might have been practically a Tuesday for her. Or-- well. Former Sharran.
[ he's realizing he's rambling about someone not here, but listen. he misses them right now. hands up in surrender, though he's still laughing a tiny bit. this is how his stress exasperation comes out, and maybe if anything it's something of a relief to see war kinda stressed. it'd be worse if they weren't. ]
As for our mutual friends, vampire spawn, and really only murderous if he's given nothing to do and no attention, which is an easy problem to fix. And Karlach is the kindest person I've ever met, a decade in the Blood War or no. I imagine we'd be somewhat lost without her.
[ well.]
Anyway, I know you weren't responsible for the summoning or Death's untimely end, I saw those sigils. What a mess.
[ they are covered up, but their movements suggest someone who is usually very composed realizing they may have spiraled a little unnecessarily and are now trying to recover some dignity!!
an exhale. ]
The church sigil was one of the greatest insults to the arcane I have ever laid eyes on. My skin is still crawling.
I'll reiterate that if I'm to be ritually sacrificed, I expect some dignity and attention to detail about it! That only seems fair. Otherwise it's simply a waste of everyone's time.
If you ask it aloud, fate will grant you the opposite here. Best keep it to yourself.
[ their shoulders and head make a motion of insulted recoil. ]
Yes, she tried to say I was a practitioner of necromancy and such. The only credit I can give her is that much of ourselves are meant to be a mystery to you all, so she wouldn't have the eye to understand.
Superstitious, but alright. I can understand how that may be the case.
[ god. if he wasn't already certain of wizardry before this is clinching it. ]
Necromancers. Necromancy has its place and like all magic it is how one uses the tools one is given, but - well it all gets rather messy quickly. Anyway I suppose one must have a certain subset of knowledge to recognize the different disciplines, though at least to me it feels rather obvious. One involves years of careful and disciplined study to master a craft that is both flexible and vast, and the other involves being humiliated by a devil and then waving one's hands at random about for two spells a day. [ ... ] Not that Wyll isn't a valuable and cherished member of our party.
[ there is silence, and it a kind of concerning silence until a very restrained snort escapes suddenly and is immediately brushed away after by a cleared throat. ]
I respect the desire to unravel the knowledge of all arcane tapestry, but I, personally, have a different area of interest than... the macabre school of spellwork.
I am going to proceed on the assumption the answer to that question is yes. If the cult didn't get what they wanted out of the first summon, whatever that may be, then they will try again.
Of course. Experimentation often requires repeated attempts.
[ a bit sarcastically, but also. not. sure that makes sense. ]
I was wondering something, on the particulars.
If one makes a match, and therefore is allowed a wish, and that wish is to be returned to life upon the summation of ... whatever is happening here, would that apply to any death happening during the events unfolding?
If you specify it is the return of life from whence you came, then no. It will only be the return of life there. It does not, however, keep you from having died, of course.
I suppose I meant more specifically would it be honored, after the end, or would death here cancel that commitment?
Say I found the match of my monster, and wished to be returned to life at the moment before I arrived. But then through misadventure, die here to some sloppy ritual or another. The wish has already been made, but is the ink set?
Your wish is instantaneous. If you die, you will be returned to life at home; however, you will be two months forward and not have any memory of what occurred here.
You may wish to return to life at your immediate time before coming here, but you would need to be alive at the end of this if so.
[ he absently has a hand at his chest over the orb, looking a little lost in the possibility sauce until he’s directly asked a question. ]
Ah … which one? I assume the offer of your spell?
Do you not think it even slightly deranged to attempt to prod and prise me towards life in a place that will more than likely end up with me even deader than before. Extra dead, War. I could be spending my time putting my affairs in order and coming to peace with a heroic sacrifice in the name of Mystra.
And instead my thoughts are occupied with regret and resentment and what, exactly, that spell could be. I believe from observation it isn’t one of the traditional schools - but instead one of the school of effects, perhaps. a Dimensionalist, maybe? The slippage through space and floatation of objects, the brief stoppages of potentially time such as through the manipulation of a Haste or Slow spell, it would make sense—-
[ hes going full tangent now, pulling out the notebook and flipping through it, sticking the end of the pen in his mouth while he thinks it over. is it weird that he’s wizard-stalking. look he can’t do his special interest right now and needs to redirect the energy somewhere. ]
[ they let him ramble and puzzle over things without interruption because this just feels like a gale way to behave.
are they being stalked??? weirdo behavior, ok. familiar.
they reach out to put two fingers on the top edge of the notebook and push it just a little down. ]
You will know the truth of it once you are ready for the spell. You cannot hope to play with the potentiality of time until you deny it the fatality it has laid onto you.
[ he does (SORRY) flush a little bit when that happens. you don't have his trauma without coming out of it with a thing for teacher okay SORRY ABOUT IT.
letting the notebook be pushed down, giving a impatient huff. ]
What was it they were leveling at me during the candy game-- Ah. Yes. Hardass.
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While I wouldn't disagree it was a risk you all took, it still seems somewhat shocking. You're all certainly taking this with a bit more fortitude than some of us out there.
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Well, it's not the first time I've been accused of being cold. It isn't an outcome I wanted out of Time, least of all for him, but it is one I unfortunately must accept.
I don't have a diamond, and we don't have a cleric.
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[ yeah he'll go around accusing every npc of caring see where that gets him. nowhere probably. ]
But you are correct. No diamond, no cleric, no scroll, no enigmatic skeletal man offering resurrection services for a small cost. You should have picked up Shadowheart instead of me.
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I have concerns about a resurrection offer from a skeletal man, but they can wait. Are you still going to argue with me that all of you were plucked out of time by the random chance of a summoning?
This plane received you, and we will make do with what we have in our own way.
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No, War, I'm making a joke by suggesting with some level of sarcasm you should have clearly engineered to bring the live Cleric instead of the dead Wizard from our party.
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I would have grabbed any skilled live cleric with the utmost certainty if it had been left up to my process. But I did not do the summoning.
[ IT'S A SASSY JOKE, THEY GET IT, BUT THEY ARE OFFENDED BECAUSE gestures, ALL RIGHT!! the stress exasperation of the day is coming out. ]
So now we have a dead arcane bomb wizard, a vain murderous vampire, and a bleeding machine heart tiefling among the other thirty-seven insane, ridiculous people needing to be attended with one less of our collective.
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[ he's realizing he's rambling about someone not here, but listen. he misses them right now. hands up in surrender, though he's still laughing a tiny bit. this is how his stress exasperation comes out, and maybe if anything it's something of a relief to see war kinda stressed. it'd be worse if they weren't. ]
As for our mutual friends, vampire spawn, and really only murderous if he's given nothing to do and no attention, which is an easy problem to fix. And Karlach is the kindest person I've ever met, a decade in the Blood War or no. I imagine we'd be somewhat lost without her.
[ well.]
Anyway, I know you weren't responsible for the summoning or Death's untimely end, I saw those sigils. What a mess.
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an exhale. ]
The church sigil was one of the greatest insults to the arcane I have ever laid eyes on. My skin is still crawling.
[ settles so quick into being mean again. ]
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I'll reiterate that if I'm to be ritually sacrificed, I expect some dignity and attention to detail about it! That only seems fair. Otherwise it's simply a waste of everyone's time.
[ that's fine, he can be bitchy. ]
I heard Erin called you a warlock ...
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[ their shoulders and head make a motion of insulted recoil. ]
Yes, she tried to say I was a practitioner of necromancy and such. The only credit I can give her is that much of ourselves are meant to be a mystery to you all, so she wouldn't have the eye to understand.
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[ god. if he wasn't already certain of wizardry before this is clinching it. ]
Necromancers. Necromancy has its place and like all magic it is how one uses the tools one is given, but - well it all gets rather messy quickly. Anyway I suppose one must have a certain subset of knowledge to recognize the different disciplines, though at least to me it feels rather obvious. One involves years of careful and disciplined study to master a craft that is both flexible and vast, and the other involves being humiliated by a devil and then waving one's hands at random about for two spells a day. [ ... ] Not that Wyll isn't a valuable and cherished member of our party.
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I respect the desire to unravel the knowledge of all arcane tapestry, but I, personally, have a different area of interest than... the macabre school of spellwork.
I will leave all that to Laudna and Pâté.
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he seems a little surprised by the snort and then very charmed. see? not so cold. ]
Quite interesting, her arrangement. Though the details I do know I find a tad worrisome ... [ like he's got any right to talk, mr. netherese bomb. ]
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I don't think you, in particular, get to speak on that.
[ they will just say it... pot, kettle. ]
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[ dorky arm swing happens here. ]
All that aside ... what happens from here? Are we going to expect more bloodshed and violence?
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Take less pride in it.
[ hilarious how quickly they grow serious. ]
I am going to proceed on the assumption the answer to that question is yes. If the cult didn't get what they wanted out of the first summon, whatever that may be, then they will try again.
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[ a bit sarcastically, but also. not. sure that makes sense. ]
I was wondering something, on the particulars.
If one makes a match, and therefore is allowed a wish, and that wish is to be returned to life upon the summation of ... whatever is happening here, would that apply to any death happening during the events unfolding?
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[ yay! ]
If you specify it is the return of life from whence you came, then no. It will only be the return of life there. It does not, however, keep you from having died, of course.
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Say I found the match of my monster, and wished to be returned to life at the moment before I arrived. But then through misadventure, die here to some sloppy ritual or another. The wish has already been made, but is the ink set?
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Your wish is instantaneous. If you die, you will be returned to life at home; however, you will be two months forward and not have any memory of what occurred here.
You may wish to return to life at your immediate time before coming here, but you would need to be alive at the end of this if so.
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[ but he has no way to prove his thoughts one way or the other for now. ]
Perhaps then eliminating the orb entirely. But, I …
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[ they tilt their head. ]
Are you considering my proposal? It's not something you're required to do.
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Ah … which one? I assume the offer of your spell?
Do you not think it even slightly deranged to attempt to prod and prise me towards life in a place that will more than likely end up with me even deader than before. Extra dead, War. I could be spending my time putting my affairs in order and coming to peace with a heroic sacrifice in the name of Mystra.
And instead my thoughts are occupied with regret and resentment and what, exactly, that spell could be. I believe from observation it isn’t one of the traditional schools - but instead one of the school of effects, perhaps. a Dimensionalist, maybe? The slippage through space and floatation of objects, the brief stoppages of potentially time such as through the manipulation of a Haste or Slow spell, it would make sense—-
[ hes going full tangent now, pulling out the notebook and flipping through it, sticking the end of the pen in his mouth while he thinks it over. is it weird that he’s wizard-stalking. look he can’t do his special interest right now and needs to redirect the energy somewhere. ]
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are they being stalked??? weirdo behavior, ok. familiar.
they reach out to put two fingers on the top edge of the notebook and push it just a little down. ]
You will know the truth of it once you are ready for the spell. You cannot hope to play with the potentiality of time until you deny it the fatality it has laid onto you.
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letting the notebook be pushed down, giving a impatient huff. ]
What was it they were leveling at me during the candy game-- Ah. Yes. Hardass.
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