scawwy ✦ karlach cliffgate

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Guess if anyone was equipped to deal with hostiles, it would likely be you...

[ She reminds him of someone so much, suddenly. His heart feels heavy. He wilts like, a millimeter. ]

And how literally might "the Hells" be?

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[a beat, and her tail sneaks over to kind of just gently settle on him somewhere? just briefly, like a cat.]

Extremely. If there's anything I've learned since waking up, you've all got some version of it.

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Sorry maybe he'll make a comment about the Hells in a second but HE DIDN'T REALISE SHE HAD A TAIL AND HE'S VERY TAKEN ABACK. ]

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[HELP

a beat, and she grabs said tail and puts it in her lap, trying to not laugh. don't fucking laugh.]

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Is your... tail...

[ Tries to figure out how he should even address this. He doesn't know what counts as RUDE here!! ]

...Would prehensile be the right word for this?

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[thinks about if she knows what prehensile means]

Do you mean can I move it like, with my brain? Because yes. I've got control over it. Sorry, my bad.

[wizards of the coast says no but they're not the fucking boss of me]

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[ The fingers... ]

More or less, yeah. Guess it technically comes with the connotation of dexterity, but you've got most of what I was asking.

Did you need something?

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[it's from fanart where she called astarion the grinch i just think you need to know this]

No, you just kind of seemed down for a second there, and the tail seemed less weird than me giving you a sidehug, which I guess isn't less weird!

[sweats!!!!]

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[ I'm losing it thank god. Astarion would absolutely do the Jim Carrey Grinch thing where he tries to pull glasses off a table, ends up doing a perfect cloth pull, and then just runs back over there and knocks the entire table over instead in rage. ]

...Oh.

[ Oh. That's... really sweet, actually. ]

Sorry about the reaction. You're being an awfully good sport about it, probably more than what's deserved.

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[HELP you are absolutely spot on]

Nah, it's fine. I'm getting the idea that a bunch of you really aren't used to tieflings. [she genuinely doesn't want to freak anybody out, even though she knows that's kind of inevitable when she's seven feet with demon horns.]

You can't help instinct. I'm not gonna hold it against you.

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[ Well now that she's called it instinct now he wants to be extra-okay with her out of some kind of spite. 'Against who?' Oh, you know. ]

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No, I'm sorry. You do deserve a real apology for it.

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[oh, you know. she looks amused, but:]

Alright, sure. Thanks. [a little grin. and then, teasing:] You going to jump again if it ends up near you?

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[ Hmm. Well, he's committed now so. ]

As long as you're not purposefully trying to scare me with it.

[ She does kind of give off goblin energy. ]

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You? No. You've got enough to be jumpy about.

[this implies that she will be doing it to other people though so he's right.]

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[ That's fair, probably. He's obviously better than he was the first day but he actually is still pretty tense and everything. ]

Hopefully we can find a solution... somehow. There's plenty of wood around. Could make a signal smoke fire.

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[she's a former soldier, she knows what a guy Going Through It looks like, she thinks.]

Something different than the pyre we've got already? [a beat.] There's gotta be a way to clear the fog.

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It would be for the sake of creating visible smoke, rather than warmth.

Though with the looping boundary, I'm not so sure...

Little I can do personally about the fog.

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[ He doesn't even bother asking Karlach if she believes in the Otherworldly, it would probably be the dumbest thing he could do here. ]

I was told recently that fog tends to concentrate where the world meets the otherworldly.

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[nodding along...]

-- Really? [she thinks about that.] I could see it. There's a lot in Avernus that looked like fog but was more like magic gathering.

[a beat.]

Wonder what plane we're on.

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[ Magic the gathering... ]

Depends on how much you believe in the sort, of course, but I'm not that obstinate that I'd try to vehemently deny it at this point. Always keep an open mind and all, but not too open.

The physical and real, hopefully.

Unless you really hate it here.

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[she glances at him with a little grin.]

I've seen magic in action, so that's not in question. [her tail flicks lazily.] I don't hate it here any worse than anywhere else. I wish I was home, but hey.

I just mean it doesn't seem much like Avernus or the Abyss.

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I'm not familiar with the former, but "the Abyss" definitely sounds welcoming.

[ This is definitely sardonic. ]

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I guess... so far, it's better than the last place I was. But the odd calmness is also...

[ Suspicious. Foreboding. Restless. ]

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[snort.]

It's full of demons, so. You're right, totally welcoming. [she's also being wry, here. as for the rest:]

Unsettling! Yeah! The calm before the storm is really not my scene. I need some action.

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[ Now he's wondering how tieflings identify demons. Like a human vs a ghoul, maybe. ]

And I'm guessing your definition of action is using your fists...

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[i just noticed the shitpost in the header help]

Or a really big axe.

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[ LMAO I just added it retroactively. ]

Could do with some extra wood, honestly.

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Hopefully we could find some more tools soon.