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kaldurcalm · 3 minutes
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No wait. That's too many emotions. Put some back.
CAL AND LIA 😭😭😭😭😭😭
I let Rolan die because I just went to Moonrise and freed everyone and I'm not sure if I want to live with my decisions or go back.
This hurts a lot, actually. Almost as badly as actually doing something wrong.
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kaldurcalm · 8 minutes
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i wish i could purr so my friends know im still happy even if m not saying anything
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kaldurcalm · 9 minutes
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I CAN'T LIVE WITH THIS I GOTTA GO BACK
I let Rolan die because I just went to Moonrise and freed everyone and I'm not sure if I want to live with my decisions or go back.
This hurts a lot, actually. Almost as badly as actually doing something wrong.
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kaldurcalm · 13 minutes
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I let Rolan die because I just went to Moonrise and freed everyone and I'm not sure if I want to live with my decisions or go back.
This hurts a lot, actually. Almost as badly as actually doing something wrong.
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All I ever wanted to be was a knight, to serve. So far, I hate it.
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kaldurcalm · 48 minutes
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basil being "stuck" compilation. he will bark until you free him. (box in the first pic is empty and in fact extremely moveable)
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S01E04 ///// S01E08
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kaldurcalm · 1 hour
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Made a whole ass piece of Astarion + my tav but I didn't like how the whole thing turned out 🫠 so I'm cropping and sharing the only part of it I'm happy with
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kaldurcalm · 2 hours
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Consider me successfully wooed by you holding a knife against my throat.
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kaldurcalm · 2 hours
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John Hancock introduction is crazy.
Show up in town. Guy insults Nick. Hancock appears out of thin air and tells guy to shut the fuck up. Said guy does not shut the fuck up and also says ‘hey I’m gonna take your job’. Hancock stabs guy to death in broad daylight in the middle of the street. Hancock Turns to me, not missing a beat and says “hi I’m the mayor also I think of myself to be very sexy and ladies love me’ and then just leaves. Sir what the actual fuck
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kaldurcalm · 2 hours
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They’ve released not just digitized works of art, but also a great many art history texts and art books in general. Just this week, they announced an expansion of access to their digital archive, in that they’ve made nearly 88,000 images free to download on their Open Content database under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). That means “you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.”
88,000 new free images just dropped, to use however you like.
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kaldurcalm · 2 hours
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reblog for sample size !!
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kaldurcalm · 2 hours
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The current state of pop girlies is so funny like
Ariana Grande: getting dragged for homewrecking with the guy who played SpongeBob in the SpongeBob musical
Taylor Swift: dropping her worst album in years about how deeply obsessed she is with Matty Healy
Billie Eilish, for some reason:
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kaldurcalm · 2 hours
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So apparently there's actually Durge-specific narration for taking the Blood of Lathander without the crest (and thus triggering all the defense mechanisms).
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Narrator: An ornate mace hovers before you, suspended in a shaft of brilliant light. A fist-sized piece of amber flecked with crimson is set in the handle, emitting a radiance all its own. [HISTORY - FAILED] This mace certainly has a very unusual design.
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Reach into the light and take the mace.
Narrator: The glow around the mace sparkles with beautiful disaster. You recall all the measures meant to keep you from reaching this place. The brutal aches in your body yearn to take it, though you sense it will spell misfortune.
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Rakha HAS the crest and could take the mace safely if she wished, but I actually kind of really like this for her regardless.
We've already established pretty thoroughly that one of Rakha's greatest strengths is extrapolation. She was initially very curious about hearing about this special "blood" that the monastery kept locked away - because the Dark Urge in her always craves blood - but she is definitely easily able to make the leap that this is what those notes were talking about instead.
She also fully understands all the messages we've read indicating that anyone trying to take the mace without permission will trigger defenses that will flatten the place.
She also suddenly has a whole creche full of githyanki who hate her.
The connections seem pretty obvious, really. Take the mace, flatten the monastery, eliminate the angry gith.
(That it will be a triumph of chaos and death and deeply sate the beast in her brain is, of course, a side benefit. She would like to think that's not what's driving this decision... but she would be lying.)
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Claim the mace and delight in its danger.
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(LOL. Nobody liked that!)
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The mace comes free with a sharp jerk from its moorings; she watches the dim snap through the Weave as it releases its hold on the artifact. The mace's handle feels oddly warm in her grip.
"What are you doing?!" she hears Wyll call from behind her - but it's muffled.
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With rhythmic thunks, a piece of machinery switches on from somewhere underneath her. A forcefield sizzles into being, cutting her off from the others.
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Powerful beams of light erupt from pillars around the room. The low thunks settle into a pulsing hum of energy. Rakha can feel the magic at work surging along her skin and through her blood.
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A central beam of that pale light lances out through a portal at the end of the room - connecting into the dormant weapon Rakha saw on the monastery's roof.
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Rakha can hear a new low whine added to the sudden cacophony as the weapon begins to realign itself, its mouth pointed downward into the stone of the monastery itself.
Narrator: Everything is in motion. All within these walls are doomed to destruction unless you act.
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Hehehehe whoops. :D I literally didn't plan for Rakha to do this until this moment but it's kind of perfect. Simultaneously logical and batshit crazy which is basically Rakha's tagline.
We have four turns to figure out what to do here and get the fuck out. I gather from the state of play and a quick glance at Google that we can either destroy the pillars, disabling the weapon, or we can shoot out the power source for the forcefield, which is under the platform, and then make a run for it out the portal. (Rakha could also misty step or dimension door out of the forcefield but she doesn't have access to either of those.)
In the spirit of wanting Rakha to successfully continue her reign of chaos, we will have Wyll eldritch blast the power source for the forcefield and run.
This uh. Didn't work out so well the first time. Everyone got crushed because we need to get them not only out the portal but off the monastery building entirely before it explodes, and I lost a turn figuring out how to get Rakha out of the forcefield.
Second try!
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Safe! Nope apparently this isn't far enough either. WTF.
[googles] OK apparently there's a different pathway out the front of the monastery that we should be taking instead?
Third try!
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This time I managed to get Lae'zel and Wyll out and Rakha and Shadowheart got flattened.
I actually kind of like this as an end state, because Lae'zel is PISSED about the whole situation and and shouts about it as soon as the game is in a state to allow the cutscene. So it ends up reading like she dragged Rakha and Shadowheart's fried corpses back to camp, had Withers revive them, and then SCREAMED at them as soon as they woke up:
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"TSK'VA! GITH M'ZATH'AK!" she bellows as Rakha blinks at her blearily, the resurrection magic slowly bleeding off her body. "Girtar'rac ne toruun! 'One theft consumes all'. Protocol four-hundred-two! Our greed reduced Creche Y'llek to rubble. Vlaakith, absolve my sin or skewer my heart! In each you might make me worthy!"
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Rakha stares at her, utterly baffled by this anger, still dizzy from the resurrection and having trouble settling back into her body. "The creche has turned against us," she says bluntly. "Why should I care about them?"
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"I care!" Lae'zel snarls. Rakha can hear the surge of pain under the words, the confused blend of loyalty and anger and despair. "Just because the zaith'isk failed, because Vlaakith has marked us, makes this no less of a tragedy. I do not expect you to mourn - but I will not tolerate your rejoicing either." She spits on the ground next to Rakha's feet. "Shka'keth. Next time, think twice before getting grabby with powerful relics in mysterious places."
She stalks off. Rakha looks after her with bewilderment. She is too confused even to feel the beast urge's satisfaction at all the death they have caused. She had thought, on some level, that Lae'zel too would see it as a killing with purpose. Lae'zel, after all, was betrayed by those people, by her entire race.
"I am not rejoicing," she mutters, though Lae'zel is now out of hearing range. "It was necessary."
"Was it?" Withers asks placidly at her side.
Rakha glares at him. "Do not test me, skeleton," she mutters. "I will yet find a way to end you as well."
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kaldurcalm · 2 hours
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not enough people are into shadowheart/nocturne and it makes me feel insane. like what do you MEAN shadowheart used to beat up people who deadnamed nocturne. what do you MEAN shadowheart would frequently have her memories wiped, but nocturne could get her to remember nocturne in a matter of HOURS if not minutes, and would write on her diary about how happy it'd make her to see the expression on shadowheart's face when she remembered? what do you MEAN that if you give shadowheart the noblestalk, a mushroom so rare and potent there is only ONE of them in the entire game, she doesn't remember her parents or the day with the wolves or the mother superior's name but just nocturne? what do you MEAN nocturne was the one who did shadowheart's hair, and she kept at it until her arms were sore, and even without remembering that at all shadowheart still kept the same canonically hard to redo hairstyle? did shadowheart even like night orchids before their hideout, or did they become her favorite flowers because they were there? were they even actually her favorite flowers, or did she just mix up her attachment to nocturne with attachment to the flowers after forgetting her? hello? hello? can anybody hear me????
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kaldurcalm · 2 hours
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damn, his lips look so smoochable
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kaldurcalm · 2 hours
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*can be niece/nephew through sibling or cousin
**parents and siblings
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