Oh? Perhaps if they speak common as frequently your type does.
I can assure you, if you spent any time elsewhere... Avernus, for example, you would find that the natural chaos seems to make the two words closer cousins than one would expect.
[ Yes. Yes he would. The same level as he hates litters of kittens etc etc. Too messy. Too chaotic, yikes. ]
Let's think of this as a game, then. For what is it you and your little...cohort do, if not engage in some manner of elaborate shenanigans dabbling in apocalypse? Or the threat of it, at the very least. By nature of whom you are, what you have, and what you must do.
And me, being the type to offer such absolution from these, am merely here to remind you of what it is that I offer.
[ courage and caution. be responsible for your actions and protect those in your care. treat others with fairness. show mercy to your foes, but temper it with wisdom.
his smite bites harder than it did, but not hard enough for this. ]
Offer me no absolution, hellspawn, for I need none that you could give. For as long as I breathe, I will not bow my head low enough to eat from your hand.
Then we find ourselves in accordance. I have promised you the one thing I would be more than happy to give freely, and I would hate more than anything to come up short of our mutual expectations.
[ get smited, idiot ]
I understand your compulsion for order and ceremony, so I will indulge you. If you've something to ask, then ask it.
[ The faster he can tell this freak no, the better tbh ]
[ All these lawful-good types! Nobody ever just deals these days! ]
Ah, and what a kind guest, to indulge my whims.
[ He hates this! Why did it have to be a Paladin? ]
Very well, I shall speak plainly. As you know my need for control, I know of your hatred for my kind -- unfounded hatred, I may add -- and therefore I will limit our time together. For now, of course. I'm afraid we have not even found the intermission in our little play, and there is so much further to go. [ God he doesn't stop, does he? ]
I beg for time. Not even of yours, but that of one of your companions. Could you promise it to me?
[ "Your hatred for devilkind is unfounded" he says, kicking all of the Hells slavery and eternal suffering and mortal lives ruined by Infernal pacts under the rug.
Under any other circumstances, his Wisdom stat would be way too high for this - high enough to know that he can't outfox a devil, and that it won't be worth it to try.
But then he finds the magic word, the pin to stick in his wings. His time - or the time of his companions.
Gods damn it. ]
Then you ask me not to bend my head to your hand.
You ask if I would push one of theirs down instead.
[ They probably both know that isn't about to happen. ]
Certainly not! You presume a great deal. I ask for a conversation, nothing more. They're a scholar of quite some renown, and I would beg for the answers to a few questions.
[ Raphael, ever the "reasonable" one. Or so it's suggested. "Is this so much to ask"? Yes. Yes it is. ]
[ A demon genuinely appealing to a human scholar for anything sounds...... fake as hell. Also what happened to not being asked to do menial chores?? Raph?? Wanting him to do a fetch quest on friend Gale? ]
And even if I were able to promise this on his behalf, we both know that I would trust his time to you last.
[ It only complicates things, for Raphael to approach Godfrey instead, knowing fully that he would not come along easily. Schemes and plots, exactly what he expected.
But that's the crux of this - he expects this sort of thing. He knows devils and their machinations. Gale, meanwhile, thinks he has never met one smarter than himself - that there could be no card Raphael holds that he has not seen, that is not within his reach. It would be he of all of his new companions who would think he could outsmart a devil.
So trust that it kills him to write this: ] So long as it is within my control, you will have my time, or you will have none at all.
[ Gale is the weakest link. He's also the one that Raphael can see the heart of, know the best, for he has his eyes on that price which Raphael hungers for so greatly. The one so carefully kept from him -- perhaps for his own good, or rather for his father's own secured power -- and now on the stones board, and thus something he wants.
Does he think Gale would have more information of it? No. He does not. He thinks that Gale is a child stumbling in the dark, playing with forces far greater and larger than he himself can ever comprehend. The fact that the boy had bungled being a goddess's lover was proof enough of his own foolhardy shortsightedness.
But what he offered was opportunity. Opportunity to dangle his interest in front of Sir Godrey, and watch the Paladin raise his shield and take the blow instead. ]
Your time, is it? Well, perhaps that is not so bad. Could you answer my inquiries, then? I would ask the expert, but perhaps he is fair of constitution and needs shielding.
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You cannot expect me to belive that. After all, isn't that what you mortals do best? Both?
omg hello ✨✨✨
I've not yet met a mortal being who considers them comparable terms. Or one fluent in the Common tongue who does, for that matter.
Perhaps this is a misunderstanding of language.
Hello!! :3c ✨
I can assure you, if you spent any time elsewhere... Avernus, for example, you would find that the natural chaos seems to make the two words closer cousins than one would expect.
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[ honesty. courage. compassion. honour. duty. remember the tenets.
stop dealing in veiled threats. stop giving
this smug prickthe devil what he wants. ]If I could bother you to draw this conversation to its point. I suspect strongly that it presses not against the intricacies of Common diction.
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[ Yes. Yes he would. The same level as he hates litters of kittens etc etc. Too messy. Too chaotic, yikes. ]
Let's think of this as a game, then. For what is it you and your little...cohort do, if not engage in some manner of elaborate shenanigans dabbling in apocalypse? Or the threat of it, at the very least. By nature of whom you are, what you have, and what you must do.
And me, being the type to offer such absolution from these, am merely here to remind you of what it is that I offer.
Lest you forget it.
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[ courage and caution. be responsible for your actions and protect those in your care. treat others with fairness. show mercy to your foes, but temper it with wisdom.
his smite bites harder than it did, but not hard enough for this. ]
Offer me no absolution, hellspawn, for I need none that you could give. For as long as I breathe, I will not bow my head low enough to eat from your hand.
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You insult me, by thinking I would stoop so low as to merely ask you for menial work.
[ Please! Even in text, it's insulted! ]
I would ask better things of you than that.
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[ get smited, idiot ]
I understand your compulsion for order and ceremony, so I will indulge you. If you've something to ask, then ask it.
[ The faster he can tell this freak no, the better tbh ]
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Ah, and what a kind guest, to indulge my whims.
[ He hates this! Why did it have to be a Paladin? ]
Very well, I shall speak plainly. As you know my need for control, I know of your hatred for my kind -- unfounded hatred, I may add -- and therefore I will limit our time together. For now, of course. I'm afraid we have not even found the intermission in our little play, and there is so much further to go. [ God he doesn't stop, does he? ]
I beg for time. Not even of yours, but that of one of your companions. Could you promise it to me?
[ Who? What? he doesn't clarify yet. ]
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Under any other circumstances, his Wisdom stat would be way too high for this - high enough to know that he can't outfox a devil, and that it won't be worth it to try.
But then he finds the magic word, the pin to stick in his wings. His time - or the time of his companions.
Gods damn it. ]
Then you ask me not to bend my head to your hand.
You ask if I would push one of theirs down instead.
[ They probably both know that isn't about to happen. ]
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Certainly not! You presume a great deal. I ask for a conversation, nothing more. They're a scholar of quite some renown, and I would beg for the answers to a few questions.
[ Raphael, ever the "reasonable" one. Or so it's suggested. "Is this so much to ask"? Yes. Yes it is. ]
We could even limit it. Perhaps only an hour?
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[ A demon genuinely appealing to a human scholar for anything sounds...... fake as hell. Also what happened to not being asked to do menial chores?? Raph?? Wanting him to do a fetch quest on friend Gale? ]
And even if I were able to promise this on his behalf, we both know that I would trust his time to you last.
[ It only complicates things, for Raphael to approach Godfrey instead, knowing fully that he would not come along easily. Schemes and plots, exactly what he expected.
But that's the crux of this - he expects this sort of thing. He knows devils and their machinations. Gale, meanwhile, thinks he has never met one smarter than himself - that there could be no card Raphael holds that he has not seen, that is not within his reach. It would be he of all of his new companions who would think he could outsmart a devil.
So trust that it kills him to write this: ] So long as it is within my control, you will have my time, or you will have none at all.
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Does he think Gale would have more information of it? No. He does not. He thinks that Gale is a child stumbling in the dark, playing with forces far greater and larger than he himself can ever comprehend. The fact that the boy had bungled being a goddess's lover was proof enough of his own foolhardy shortsightedness.
But what he offered was opportunity. Opportunity to dangle his interest in front of Sir Godrey, and watch the Paladin raise his shield and take the blow instead. ]
Your time, is it? Well, perhaps that is not so bad. Could you answer my inquiries, then? I would ask the expert, but perhaps he is fair of constitution and needs shielding.
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