[ can you imagine if i was like he's swinging his sword
anyway no he's not doing that he is resting. the good news is he's healed up a lot! he's also back in his knight clothes, so it's hard to tell the state of him underneath them. however, karlach can see through the open slit in his collar that the skin at his throat is blackened and cracked, and occasionally glows a sort of firey, eerie blue. but he's laying down somewhere, one hand resting on his heart, eyes closed. they open when he hears footsteps, though!! ]
Karlach... [ hi ]
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[ ugh. he reaches up absently and puts his hand, very gingerly, on his shoulder, lightly touching one of the areas under his uniform where he was clawed. stupid sexy raphael ]
At the very end. He was quite a formidable foe. [ ... ] We... saw you there. And Mr. Gale, and - many others. I'm relieved that it was merely illusory, but... it feels as though for you, that wasn't quite the case. [ rondo worries his lower lip, a little, watching her carefully. ]
[ so... yeah. that checks out. ugh, ugh, his heart hurts for karlach, and he reaches out, fingers curling before he sets them on her hand. ]
... I'm sorry that you had to go through that place. [ because man! not fun! ] And I'm glad that we've all returned, at the very least. The hellfiends were fearsome.
Don't apologize to me, Rondo, c'mon. [she says, quietly.] You shouldn't have had to go through our memories like that - get fucked up like this because of them.
... What happened? What did you run into? Just him?
[ nyeh! after all, living the experience is a great provider of empathy. knowing that karlach could have been hurt just as badly doing all of the things they did makes his heart lurch, but he'll drop it after that, gently curling his fingers against hers.
what did they all run into. god. ]
...Well...Miss Hope, at first. She implored that we help her, and find a hammer to free her. We also had to get our own souls back. The latter, Mathis and Lavi handled, while Miss Ashlyn and I went after the hammer. Oh, and, there was a very awful library. I never thought I could dislike libraries!
Yes! There was a library, with a librarian who looked like a centipede. Only, a really large one, and she put a silencing curse on me because I whispered. And then she - well, that's not important.
[ getting eaten is important rondo ]
But that's where we found out where the hammer was. Oh, and I found an axe! So that was helpful.
[ the last bit gets a little bit of a smile. ] If I could have brought it back for you, I would have, but... I think it might have exploded like the knife did.
[ goodbye knife that he did not mean to bring back. ]
I think... the strangest of all was seeing you, and - the others, acting as though they were... listless and lifeless. It was the most jarring seeing you.
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anyway no he's not doing that he is resting. the good news is he's healed up a lot! he's also back in his knight clothes, so it's hard to tell the state of him underneath them. however, karlach can see through the open slit in his collar that the skin at his throat is blackened and cracked, and occasionally glows a sort of firey, eerie blue. but he's laying down somewhere, one hand resting on his heart, eyes closed. they open when he hears footsteps, though!! ]
Karlach... [ hi ]
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she comes to sit next to him, frowning.]
... Hey, holy roller. You look like hell.
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ahah. that phrasing in particular... he laughs, though it's more helpless than anything else. ] Everyone keeps saying that...
Have...you talked with the others yet...?
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[which is probably evident by her expression. bad!!!]
She said you guys saw Hope.
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...She told me to tell you hello. We... we rescued her, in the end.
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So - you fought old Raphael, did you.
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[ ugh. he reaches up absently and puts his hand, very gingerly, on his shoulder, lightly touching one of the areas under his uniform where he was clawed. stupid sexy raphael ]
At the very end. He was quite a formidable foe. [ ... ] We... saw you there. And Mr. Gale, and - many others. I'm relieved that it was merely illusory, but... it feels as though for you, that wasn't quite the case. [ rondo worries his lower lip, a little, watching her carefully. ]
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[she grumbles, tail flicking. silence, for a minute, and then she sighs.]
All of us went. For me, it was me, Gale, Astarion and Shadowheart. Don't know if they'd remember it. Our timelines are off.
Hated it. It's so oppressive there.
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[ so... yeah. that checks out. ugh, ugh, his heart hurts for karlach, and he reaches out, fingers curling before he sets them on her hand. ]
... I'm sorry that you had to go through that place. [ because man! not fun! ] And I'm glad that we've all returned, at the very least. The hellfiends were fearsome.
[ alli, yelling ]
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Don't apologize to me, Rondo, c'mon. [she says, quietly.] You shouldn't have had to go through our memories like that - get fucked up like this because of them.
... What happened? What did you run into? Just him?
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[ nyeh! after all, living the experience is a great provider of empathy. knowing that karlach could have been hurt just as badly doing all of the things they did makes his heart lurch, but he'll drop it after that, gently curling his fingers against hers.
what did they all run into. god. ]
...Well...Miss Hope, at first. She implored that we help her, and find a hammer to free her. We also had to get our own souls back. The latter, Mathis and Lavi handled, while Miss Ashlyn and I went after the hammer. Oh, and, there was a very awful library. I never thought I could dislike libraries!
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Hang on - library? [whuah] I don't remember a library.
[that's because sometimes cyoa runners take things from various parts of your canon for cyoas, karlach]
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[ getting eaten is important rondo ]
But that's where we found out where the hammer was. Oh, and I found an axe! So that was helpful.
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[guess that doesn't matter so much, though.]
... Bit jealous. I'd love to have an axe.
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[ goodbye knife that he did not mean to bring back. ]
I think... the strangest of all was seeing you, and - the others, acting as though they were... listless and lifeless. It was the most jarring seeing you.
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[a joke, even if it's lame. silence, for a moment.]
I wasn't there. [but:] What d'you mean? You saw me?
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[ he shifts, a little - frown deepening further, as he remembers the sight. having to walk past her, walk past cloud and aerith and - all of them. ]
So was Mr. Gale, and... a lot of other people.