CRYSTAL | MISS ME, DARLINGS?

[illithidnapped]

FORM: sending crystals, during the truth event, you know what to do
SENDER: your favorite rogue, Astarion xoxo
RECIPIENT: as always, everyone
NOTES: if you drank Truth Soup, cough up your feelings; if you didn't drink the soup, make it worse for everyone, I dare you

[Someone's bored tonight. And it's been over a year since the last time he felt restlessness stirring him into needling action— particularly when he's noticed a couple of blurted-out confessions running high and harsh in the air. He could sleuth around. Sniff about for any signs of volatile tampering (or ask if this is just the next phase of whatever sleepless affliction's still nipping at everyone's collective heels)....

But this is so much more fun.

Anyway— ahem, and all that:]

Name one thing you like about someone else in Riftwatch. Anything. Anything at all.

Bonus points if you feel like getting weird with it.

[And don't think he's generous enough to actually start this game himself: that, you're all going to have to do on your own.

Or maybe just ask nicely.]

Comments

[cozen]

You would never.

Fortunately, I have money. [ A decent amount, since he liquidated his Val Royeaux assets, but— ] That is the second best benefit of living in this hideous, claustrophobic fortress. If your friends are very charming, you can afford to spend a month’s rent entertaining them.

[ ONE month’s rent. The other several years’ worth of rent is in the bank and not coming out. ]

[bouchonne]

[ Oh. ]

What's the first best benefit?

[cozen]

Having access to you in the middle of the night.

[ The sap, it drips. ]

Third best is the library.

[bouchonne]

[ A gasp of delight. ]

I beat the library?

[cozen]

The library and the money.

[ He’s a nerd, but he’s also a nerd who murdered people for coin, so like. ]

[bouchonne]

[ Ahhh. ]

You make Kirkwall bearable.

[illithidnapped]

[His scoff is feather light.]

Gods.

[cozen]

[ —right, Astarion is also here. Bastien cuts himself off midway through the first syllable of his flirty response to By to instead say, sheepishly, ]

So you will come out with us, non? Since we can afford to treat you right.

[illithidnapped]

I will.

[Ah, but:]

We will.