🔥 aventurine

[ablazement]

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[tactic]

Right... I guess I wouldn't be sleeping inside of a coffin, either.

[ But also. TARA MENTION AGAIN? ]

Right, Tara. Gale's friend. [ Hesitates. ] And Tara is... a person?

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[ablazement]

[ablazement]

She's a cat.

Did he make you think Tara's a person? He really has got to stop doing that.

[tactic]

[ WHA??? A CAT? ]

He didn't even flinch when I asked if Tara was his girlfriend!

[ablazement]

[HELP ME]

Yeah! He does that! He did that to me, once. And then he had to explain to me that she's a very intelligent cat familiar because I was so very bwuh about it.

[tactic]

[ HELP THE BOTH OF THEM ]

It's that worm in his brain.

[ablazement]

[that

catches her off guard, cat shenanigans aside. she splutters.]

What? He told you about that?

[tactic]

Down to the finer details that I almost wish I hadn't heard about.

[ It was a lot. It was an experience. ]

[ablazement]

[an experience is right. another pause...]

Gods. Alright. Well, that's great, wonder how many other people he's told about that little problem.

[tactic]

He's...

[ How to describe Gale. ]

Very forthcoming.

[ablazement]

You don't have to be nice about it, he's a blabbermouth.

[tail flickies.]

What's he told you about me, then, anything?

[tactic]

No, I only realized you were from the same cosmos as him from this conversation.

[ Pause. ]

I imagine that comes as a relief.

[ablazement]

A bit, yeah. Look, I don't mind telling things, I just want to be the one who tells them, you know?

[tactic]

You better be quick and beat him to it.

[ablazement]

Clever. [snort.] I've got to know what to tell, first. Nobody wants to hear my whole sad backstory in one go.

[tactic]

Why don't we start with how you've come to know Gale and Astarion?

[ He's just curious because he's found that not a lot of people in this place arrived with people they've pre-known. He cannot relate. ]

[ablazement]

I met Gale when he was stuck in a rock. I met Astarion when he tried to stab me with a knife. All in the same day, mind.

[this is such a great impression of them you're giving]

[tactic]

... I can't explain it, but none of this is surprising.

[ YOU ARE ALL CHAOS INCARNATE ]

[ablazement]

[HELP baldur's gate is a game]

I met my other two friends on a tentacle ship, the other one tried to kill me because he was hunting me on contract, and the last one was a bear. We're a collection.

[tactic]

Huh. I'm sensing a theme in these meetings.

[ Why are people trying to kill you, Karlach, you're so chill. ]

[ablazement]

[mostly because her life sucks but also because she's seven feet tall and red with horns]

Laying it all out like that really makes it seem worse than it is! [she grins.] Did you know anybody here already?

[tactic]

[ Our big casts... ]

Three others. Though I don't think we're as close as you and your friends.

[ablazement]

Oh, really? Who? [that's so many!!!]

[tactic]

[ Counts off of his fingers like there's so many of them, PLEASE AVENTURINE IT'S THREE. ]

Miss Robin, that Ranger named Boothill, and Caelus.

[ablazement]

[she likes all three of them and it's clear by the look on her face. she is not a terribly difficult person to read.]

Hey-hey, good people. [uwu] But you said you're not as close with them? So what, they're just like, your neighbors?