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.]

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[notathreat]

[Ellie snorts aloud, but the fire goes out of her.]

I know.

I get it, and I get her, I get the way she thinks, and she gets me, in a way that probably nobody else alive could.

And I -- trust her.

[Ellie's voice cracks on the word. Like it still hurts her to do it, but it's true, and it's never not been true, in the weirdest and most fucked up ways.]

If things were different, we would have been friends.

[Not probably. Would have.]

That doesn't mean it's simple.

[illithidnapped]

Obviously not. [Mildness swept up in the word obviously, making it a touch gentler— wrier— than what it could otherwise be. He knows it's not an easy fix.

He's seen enough from both of them to know, now.]

But odds are, it has to start somewhere.

And if that means nipping at both your precious little heels to get some sort of confession out.... [One pause a sort of verbal, silent version of lifting hands.] I'll gladly endure the blowback.

I can spare it, after all. Charming as I am.

[Oh, hey. That counts as a truth!! :0]

[notathreat]

Sap.

[It comes out just as it would any other day, with all the love in the world behind it, but today it comes with a little more.]

I can't stand your shit sometimes. But it means the world to me that you do it anyway.

[illithidnapped]

As if you're any better. [He's teasing, but please know the fact that he's able to get it out at all speaks for itself.]

[notathreat]

I take pride in that.

[Unfortunately she's not WORSE, but she's up there.]

[illithidnapped]

I'll have to remember that the next time you slither in through my open window, bearing gifts.

It does leave me wondering, though: were you always this affectionate at heart....or am I just special?

[notathreat]

I'm good at giving what I get.

[Which means yes, to both. And, soup:]

I haven't had a lot of people to be affectionate with.