🔥 gale

[ablazement]

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w0, SATURDAY

[ablazement]

[sometime after the boxes, she can be found looking up at the notice board with all the profiles.]

Still can't find Shadowheart or any of them. Think it might just be the three of us. [...] Liked your answer here, you know.

[the remembering one!]

[alldoomnogloom]

I believe it is simply us as well - considering Shadowheart and the others do not appear on the signage posted. At least, that is what makes the most sense. A shame.

[ he also kind of misses the others by now. ]

Did you? I think if I had been put to the question with some preparation, I might have chosen different. Something useful to put to solid memory. Mordekainen's Thereom for example.

W0 - MONDAY

[alldoomnogloom]

[ well after Karlach has cleared the leeches out of her coffin ... she will find another visitor sitting in there. watching. waiting. ]

[ablazement]

[does tara want to eat a leech (no)

she huffs at her LEECH FINGERS, but when she sees tara, she grins.]

Oh, hey, there you are. I was wondering. You alright? Did they really shove you in a box?

w0, FRIDAY 2

[ablazement]

[okay well let's assume that she has seen the bulletin board, and she is immediately coming to find gale again and, i'm sorry about this, her tail immediately comes up to wrap around his wrist. do not go anywhere.]

What the fuck.

[alldoomnogloom]

[ well it's easy to do because he's standing around somewhere, rubbing the ends of his gloved fingers together and looking at the blue staining there and clearly deep in thought.

enough that he startles a little when the tail comes around his wrist, looking up at her. ]

Oh. Hello, Karlach.

[ honestly he just sounds like normal ol' gale. ]

w0, SATURDAY 2

[ablazement]

[hey bud what's up, she's just curled up in the basement of the mortuary! hanging out, holding a little wooden figure in her hands.]

[alldoomnogloom]

[ what if he falls down the very dark stairs and fucking dies, karlach.

at least she glows, so he can pick his way down here without too much trouble. also tara just without prompting goes to sit herself down in karlach's lap. there there. ]

Hello, Karlach.

w1, MONDAY

[ablazement]

[wake up gale she wants to go pet the sheep

peeks at him. she's in a less shitty mood today, at least.]

[alldoomnogloom]

[ yes yes fine he's getting up. i don't know where he sleeps, I assume he has somehow constructed a sleeping bag situation of velvet blankets on the floor somewhere with enough back support he doesn't fucking die. last night he'd have groggily passed out with his notebook over his face, and is definitely slow to get moving. ]

I'm getting there, I'm getting there ...

w1, WEDNESDAY

[ablazement]

[at some point, karlach snuck away from everything to go curl up somewhere quiet. she's kind of just staring off into the distance, eyes half-closed, expression tight. lips pursed.

her tail flicks in agitation, and after a second - she slams her fist against the wall she's leaning against and hisses:]

Shut up, Wyll!

[don't mind the flicker of fire in her hair. that's fine.]

[alldoomnogloom]

[ okay well!!!! hurrying over!!!! he doesn't want to get in the way of her lashing out, but, he doesn't exactly want to leave her to her own devices either. worriedly coming over to gently put a hand on her back. ]

Karlach, can you hear me?

W1 - FRIDAY

[alldoomnogloom]

[ week one???????????????????? how is this possible.

anyway, hey karlach. ]

Quite the turnout ...

[ablazement]

[hey! she's pissed!

she's a little on fire. sorry! the only reason she's not completely on fire is because she's nerfed]

Fuck.

w1, SUNDAY

[ablazement]

[coming to find him to feed him soup]

How's the scale today?

[alldoomnogloom]

[ he is, in fact, cookin' in the refectory. he's made a fucking enormous mess, because maybe someone is used to having an unseen servant or at least a mage hand to clean up a little and is a bit overwhelmed. ]

Oh, fine, fine-- Did you know Famine can't stand spice? Ridiculous ...

W2 - MONDAY

[alldoomnogloom]

[ hello karlach. it's fuckin' uuuuuuuuh memshare time.

she's seen part of this, surely, but maybe from a slightly different perspective. ]

[ablazement]

[okay, first off - its memshare time but gale will notice she has her fingers again! they are attached and healed, wow!

second of all, she sees this memory and is just, predictably, intensely sad about it.]

... You know she should have never asked that of you in the first place. Fucking Mystra.

[WHATEVER SHE'LL SAY IT HITS HER WITH A HAMMER]

W2 - FRIDAY

[alldoomnogloom]

[ gale, who normally at least managed to look fairly unrattled through these things, looks ... distinctly rattled this time. by the bulletin board, hands behind his back and staring down the posters. ]

... I spoke to Aerith quite a bit about the afterlife.

[ablazement]

I did too.

[she says, and she's not even bothering to hide that she's crying, because she just is. there's no stopping it. her voice is thick and wet and horrible, and when she comes to stand next to gale, her tail wraps loosely around his ankle.]

w3, MONDAY

[ablazement]

[coming to find him in the nerd place for nerds because she knows that's where he'll be, peeking around...]

Gale? Where are you? Whatcha reading?

[alldoomnogloom]

[ good guess he is in fact in the nerd place for nerds. he is reading this. ]

Ah, Karlach. Well, funny you should ask, this actually showed up for me this morning. So, personal reading material as it were.

w3, FRIDAY

[ablazement]

[i'm assigning a couch somewhere in the academy so she can be annoying and sprawl on him. she's just like laying in his lap while he reads or something.

she doesn't seem like wildly upset or anything at least, just kind of crunchy. oh, and her knuckles are wrapped and the bandages are kind of red.]

[alldoomnogloom]

[ yeah she can do that, he will use her as a bookrest. but uh well immediately concerned about her hands. ]

... Your knuckles?

W3 - SATURDAY

[alldoomnogloom]

[ he's around nearby, I doubt they went very far from one another after the trial. he's sort of scoffing and trying to buff out a mark on his BOOK. ]

His head dented it ...

[ablazement]

[yeah no she's annoyingly in his space i'm sorry]

That could have been your face. [the poutiest grouchiest face]

w3, SUNDAY

[ablazement]

[immediately throws him in the swamp

she'll wait for him to come out, arms wrapped around her knees, knees pulled to her chest.]

[alldoomnogloom]

[ he does actually object at all to being thrown in the swamp that's fine with me, but if karlach is carrying him she better wash that nasty blood off of her or it'll burn too.

gale will come crawling out though, gagging a bit. ]

Horrible sensory experience. I don't recommend it.

W4 - MONDAY

[alldoomnogloom]

[ gale is on the boardwalk most of the day, just strolling up and down it, clearly a bit lost in thought.

thoughts you can hear, apparently. And because you did this to me, I'm going to torture you with it now. he is thinking about that weirdly sexy dream about War, but I guess in audio form. doing this while standing there and watching hte ocean and looking very concerned. ]

[ablazement]

[HELP NOT THE SEXY DREAM

she gets a blast of him thinking about the sexy dream and thinks very strongly about leaving, which probably alerts him to her presence, maybe.]

W4 - FRIDAY

[alldoomnogloom]

[ hi well the list of people who have died is extremely distressing but also, he looks about bursting at the seams to talk so before she even can: ]

The power worked. I think?

[ablazement]

[yeah she looks like she's about to like, die. or explode. she looks like she's been crying.

she looks at him, exhausted.]

Yeah? What'd you see?

w6, WEDNESDAY

[ablazement]

[HELLO!!!!!!!!!

that's it that's the starter she's here trying to touch him long enough to hug him]

[alldoomnogloom]

[ hello!!!!!!!!!!! well he is not gonna try and stop her, even if it is pretty chilly actually. ]

How long will you be able to remain?

W6 - MONDAY

[alldoomnogloom]

[ AFTER BEING CURSED. ]

Anywhere you'd like to go in particular?

[ablazement]

[you transported us back in time to week six]

There's so many places here. [god] It doesn't really matter to me, but - we can go look at books if you'd like?

Just want to get in a last little bit of being around with you before everything gets crazy.

w7, FRIDAY

[ablazement]

[we are in the bar and karlach is just sort of anxiously sipping at a drink, tail flicking back and forth.]

Hate that we can't see them anymore.

[alldoomnogloom]

To be fair, we hardly could before because they were having all of their secret meetings in the house.