scawwy ✦ karlach cliffgate

[recession]

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[recession]

[ Sunshine. His fingers twitch slightly over the cigarette at that, but he just shrugs. ]

What can I say, I'm from Rondon... [ Technically not but it's easier to say that, she knows iirc. ] Not so much of a sunshine and rainbows place there anyway.

Literally. It tends to be pretty foggy and rainy there.

[ablazement]

Baldur's Gate isn't much better. In both senses.

[she says, idly.]

It's not mindless, you know. I'm not mindlessly hopeful or anything.

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Thought you were selling me its nice port town offerings last week?

...

I know you're not mindless.

[ablazement]

[a little half smile.]

It's great to me because I missed it for ten years. I know what it's actually like. I know what the world is actually like.

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Well now, that's a surprisingly downer statement from someone like you, so far.

Not that you're not allowed to. Everyone has their days.

But it'd be nice if you never felt like you had to say something like that.

[ablazement]

Is it? I don't mean for it to be. To me it's more that I just... know the world has it's bad parts, but I'm trying anyway.

I --

[and she gets interrupted by her own memory!]

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[



Buddy now I wish I gave you my other mem option after all because lol on some things. But Daan's quiet for a while, letting the smoke curl around the air between them, drifting through the silence that lies waiting heavier. ]

...

Are you sure you didn't want a stick for yourself after all?

[ablazement]

[HELP you can always give me more... i welcome them

a big, slow sigh. she brings a hand up to rub at her face.]

Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure. But thanks.

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Suit yourself.

...

It'd be a nice thing if closure came more easily.

[ablazement]

I thought that'd be it, you know.

[she says, a little listless.]

But you saw. It didn't make me feel better. I still can't go home.

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[ He tilts his head a little bit in her direction. ]

Because of the engine?

[ablazement]

Mmhm.

It's not meant to run outside of the Hells. It's too hot, it'll burn me out.

[a huff.]

Dammon said I only have a couple weeks, and that was - a couple weeks ago.

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... And I thought I had a few more hours left at best, and yet, here we both are.

...

[ He's thinking. And I'm sorry just also staring at her glowing engine I guess, while doing the thinking. ]

[ablazement]

[staring at her chest (non-spicy) is a thing famine mod said once and i laugh thinking about it]

Yeah. I'm holding on. Trying to, anyway. [she rubs at her chest, over where the engine glows.] I guess what I was trying to say before all that is I know what the world is like, and how unfair it gets, but I don't want that to stop me from living.

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[ Yeah it is definitely staring at her chest (non-spicy), in fact he's probably forgotten for a moment that there's boobs there. Very funny party talk line available with Daan where he's like 'Get your mind out of the gutter!'. ]

You arrived here with your proper heart, didn't you?

[ablazement]

[help i love you daan the embodiment of the stop being horny emote]

Yeah. It's in a jar, right now.

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[ Looks at my hand and laughs bleakly

...

Well. ]

I can't make any distinct promises, but if we were both to survive, and regain ourselves in full -- would you want to see if I could replace your heart back in your chest?

[ He maybe ain't know shit-fuck about how the Infernal Engine works or anything, but hell. The devils don't know what Sylvian magic can do either, although neither does Daan. But maybe it's worth a shot, if the alternative is Karlach dying and going to hell. ]

[ablazement]

[it's funny because her objective is she wants to die so she doesn't go to hell

she glances at him with a wry smile.]

Not if it means you're going to lose another limb.

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In the worst case, I'll pray to Sylvian again.

[ He's not a fan, but fuck, She'll probably answer. You can in fact fix any missing limbs by drawing a Sylvian ritual circle, including ones lost via Magna-Medicinal. ]

But I'll only have to do that if you die, which sounds like if it's the other solution either way...

...Regular healing isn't so costly, nothing I wouldn't get over with some rest.

[ He can't just Whisper his way into replacing her heart, but that's where he could combine that with a scalpel and steady hands anyway. ]

[ablazement]

[her tail swishes back and forth.]

You'd have to promise me you wouldn't get hurt doing it. Cross your heart.

[but the way she says it is kind of just like - maybe humoring him? not that she doesn't appreciate it, she just can't get her hopes up. that'd be the killer, in the end, if she thinks there's a solution and it doesn't come to pass.]

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[ Makes a cross, though just for a fun fact, he does it the reverse way by default. Then palm up. ]

And then you won't let me if I say "and hope to die".

[ablazement]

[she does not have catholics so she doesn't notice but that is very funny, help.]

Nope! [cheerfully.] No hope to die. Someone's got to keep on.

... Thanks, though. Really.

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[ I really cannot emphasise enough that anti-Christ is actually literally their default Jesus. All of this is incredibly normal. ]

'Course, you could probably always just use that fancy wish if you ever change your mind...

But it's always nice to have options.

[ablazement]

I've thought about it. But I don't know that I can bring myself to tie my life to someone else.

[glances at him.] You been looking at all? For your partner, I mean.

[recession]

Still stubbornly refusing the concept, though I have humoured a few requests for exchanges. It's always good to have more information and see how it pans out.

Knowing the establishment is automatic though, I'd still exercise due caution.