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[personal profile] caligulan 2025-05-23 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Gale, this thought exercise should not include something you'd hand over anyway. Where's your bargaining spirit?

40; purely metaphorical of course.
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[personal profile] wizardsplain 2025-05-23 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Astarion. This is not a joking matter.
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[personal profile] caligulan 2025-05-23 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
35 for taking things entirely too seriously.
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[personal profile] wizardsplain 2025-05-23 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
If I had 35 gold on my person, don't you think I would use it to purchase my own trinket rather than squabble with you over an amulet?

-- And, if anything, I'm not taking it seriously enough. With so much at risk, perhaps I should have simply taken it back instead of attempting to negotiate.
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[personal profile] caligulan 2025-05-23 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, take the fun out of everything why don't you?

Fine. You can have your metaphoric locket that I assuredly never stole back at a metaphoric time tonight when there are no eyes on this entirely fictional exchange.
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[personal profile] wizardsplain 2025-05-23 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, Astarion. But I'm afraid I may not be able to wait until tonight. I've done my best to prolong the time that passes between absorbing the artifacts' energy, but the orb's hunger is growing unbearable.
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[personal profile] caligulan 2025-05-23 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
How very convenient for you that the orb is seemingly ungovernable. Ridiculous.

FINE. But I am never--and I will only repeat this once, NEVER--going to suffer the inconvenience again.
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[personal profile] wizardsplain 2025-05-23 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
If I could govern the orb I most certainly would!

But thank you, I suppose, for suffering the unconscionable inconvenience of stopping a mass casualty event -- that would include yourself, I might add.
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[personal profile] caligulan 2025-05-23 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, yes, we're all going to die. As if we don't hear this three times a day.
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[personal profile] wizardsplain 2025-05-23 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I apologize if you find my efforts to avert certain disaster tiresome. I assure you, the last year has not been enjoyable for me. You have no idea the caliber of magical artifacts turned to mundanity to feed the orb.

Surely you, of all people, can understand hunger.
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[personal profile] caligulan 2025-05-24 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
We're comparing urges now, are we? HONESTLY.
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[personal profile] wizardsplain 2025-05-24 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Comparing, no. Finding common ground in our shared experience!
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[personal profile] caligulan 2025-05-24 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
I would say my own don't single handedly affect the entire economy of the Sword Coast, but...even I couldn't keep a straight face doing so.

You're not getting an apology out of me.