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baldur's gate 3 starters (part 1)

part 1 / ? .

❝ a less trusting person might think this all sounds very suspicious. ❞ ❝ you say all the right words, but i’m not sure you mean the right things. ❞ ❝ i know somewhere quiet. somewhere intimate. somewhere we can…indulge in each other. ❞ ❝ eugh, don’t be nice to me. it makes me want to be nice back. ❞ ❝ we needn’t be enemies. there’s plenty of those to go around already. ❞ ❝ there’s a steeliness to you, an unwavering tenacity in the face of, to be frank, quite dire odds. ❞ ❝ even the waves of fate can break upon the shores of will. ❞ ❝ i appreciate anyone that opens a conversation with threats of bodily harm. ❞ ❝ oh, you know me - ever the optimist. i’m trying to focus on the positives. ❞ ❝ i’m not easily impressed by people, but you’re stronger than i gave you credit for. ❞ ❝ there’s an air about you. something alien. ❞ ❝ loosen the grip on your pride for one blasted moment, won’t you? ❞ ❝ it’s been a long time since someone stuck their neck out for me like that. ❞ ❝ there’s something odd about this village. people skulk around like they’ve something to hide. ❞ ❝ you know, if you want to spend time with me, you only have to say so. ❞ ❝ i want to know what the world sees when it looks at me. what you see. ❞ ❝ what’s better than a devil you don’t know? a devil you do. ❞ ❝ you must know that you’re…that you’re very special to me. ❞ ❝ the gods are nothing if not vindictive in their vengeance. ❞ ❝ stay with me a while, will you? day will come all too soon. ❞ ❝ here’s my little treat with their cheeks all flushed. ❞ ❝ i am terrified. i will not claim otherwise. ❞ ❝ my apologies. i’m not quite myself yet. i had the strangest dream last night. ❞ ❝ we didn’t die today. tomorrow, perhaps. but not today. ❞ ❝ leader’s need to make tough decisions. we do what we must. ❞ ❝ i think that unknowable powers come with unknowable consequences. ❞ ❝ i’ve had a lifetime’s fill of watching little men puff themselves up with grand titles. ❞ ❝ in these times, all we can trust are the blades in our hands. ❞ ❝ it’s not easy to turn away from one you once loved. ❞ ❝ much has been promised to you, hasn’t it? but what has been taken from you? ❞ ❝ damn it all. i can do nothing right - not a damn thing. ❞ ❝ every instinct i have tells me that nothing’s changed. that i’m still just a means to an end. ❞ ❝ do not speak of a story you only know the half of. ❞ ❝ i dreamt every night that you’d come back to me. that somehow it was all a nightmare dawn would undo. ❞ ❝ when the time comes to strike, you must take it. for there may be only one chance. ❞ ❝ your eyes. there is pain, endless and deep. but also devotion - blazing like the sun. ❞ ❝ you’re adorable even when you’re teasing me. ❞ ❝ i don’t need your help, and i don’t need your pity. ❞ ❝ i’m more than what i was. and i’m not afraid of anything any more. ❞ ❝ i said exactly what i meant: i love you. you should never, never doubt that. ❞ ❝ this is all like some sort of terrible dream. but it’s real, isn’t it? ❞ ❝ there is no redemption. can’t you see? it is too late. ❞ ❝ i don’t know that it was brave. i just know that it was right. ❞ ❝ you took those bastards down like it was nothing. it…was amazing. ❞ ❝ they underestimated me. so they paid the price. ❞ ❝ we fight, we die, and we just hope that when our time comes, there is someone else to take our place. ❞ ❝ unfortunately for me, you’re my friend. rescuing you from mortal peril is my right. ❞ ❝ what did you think i was going to say? 'oh, come here, i'll kiss you better'? ❞ ❝ flowers are so overrated. they're bright, gaudy, and almost never make good poisons. ❞ ❝ i’ve been lied to, my whole life. and i was gullible enough to just believe it. ❞ ❝ you know, i never pictured myself as a hero. never thought i'd be the one they toast for saving so many lives. and now that i'm here…i hate it. ❞ ❝ you know, i feel a connection between us. like we're two souls walking the same path. ❞ ❝ the forgiving sort, are you? you should be careful. plenty would take advantage of that. ❞

❝ it’s as if god made you just to ruin me. ❞ ❝ perish the thought. every word i said was nothing less than true. ❞ ❝ you have a manner of irresistible desperation about you. i like it. ❞ ❝ i got my eye on you. you got the look of a troublemaker. ❞ ❝ i’m starting to think you’re my guardian angel. ❞ ❝ it seems you know me better than i know myself. ❞ ❝ you…you have no idea what you’ve done. ❞ ❝ they say madness and genius are separated by but a hair’s breadth. perhaps the same is true of madness and stupidity. ❞ ❝ oh, it’s you. don’t you get tired of telling people how to live their lives? ❞ ❝ good morning! thank you for not killing me the other night. ❞ ❝ when the time comes to strike, you must take it. for there may be only one chance. ❞ ❝ it is good to savour the moment of victory - but pace bg3 syourself. our fight is just beginning. ❞ ❝ i was too hasty to judge you. i thought you were witless, gutless, unimpressivably bland… ❞ ❝ yours is the first happy face i’ve seen in a good while. ❞ ❝ when hope has been whittled down to the very marrow of despair – that’s when you’ll come knocking on my door. ❞ ❝ thank you, my friend. maybe we’ll meet again, in another life. ❞ ❝ you’ll regret sticking your nose in my business. ❞

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Gotta look hot when you're telling Gortash to fuck off

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I promise i will find you in every universe

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✧✦⭒ HARROW THE NINTH PROMPTS —

a collection of dialogue prompts from tamsyn muir’s harrow the ninth. disclaimer: likely contains spoilers - includes dark content such as cannibalism and necromancy. 

❛Fuck one flesh, one end.❜

❛There’s still time, and you thieve it from me!❜

❛I did not know you in this life, and I will not know you in the next one.❜

❛There is no such thing as forgiveness. There’s only bloody truth, and blessed ignorance.❜

❛I broke into the Locked Tomb.❜

❛Rules are everything here, if we break them, I am certain we are lost.❜

❛Once you turn your back on something, you have no more right to act as though you own it.❜

❛I don’t negotiate with strangers.❜

❛I really think you should consider the idea that you might also be haunted.❜

❛Kill us twice, shame on God.❜

❛I would make you the poem that you already are.❜

❛It takes a great deal of ego to be a psychopomp. Thank you for letting me be yours.❜

❛What a farce … what a grotesque, awful, miserable farce.❜

❛It is dreadful to be shown a monster’s pity.❜

❛Poetry is one of the most beautiful shadows a civilisation can cast across time.❜

❛I could not get drunk on it if I tried. And how I have tried.❜

❛I gave you my whole life and you didn’t even want it.❜

❛You are trying to start a fight with me to get out of the fight I am trying to have with you.❜

❛Your art, not my strength, was the ultimate source of our victory.❜

❛When I am in heaven I will remember your mouth, and when you roast down in hell I think you will remember mine.❜

❛Tonight, I am afraid to die.❜

❛There is no hero left among us … and I say, hooray!❜

❛You are an unfilled hole, but even a hole might be content in its emptiness.❜

❛How I crave your honeyed words.❜

❛You are possessed by an angry spirit, and you are losing the war.❜

❛I am in your debt … but I am not here for your amusement.❜

❛I mastered Death; I wish I’d done the smarter thing and mastered Time.❜

❛You’ve committed resurrection.❜

❛If you’re going to sit around feeling sorry for yourself, you’ve changed.❜

❛Teach me how to count the cost.❜

❛The cold death to anyone who looks at me in pity; the quick death to anyone who looks at me in fear.❜

❛It has been thousands of years since anybody bothered to believe in the River beyond.❜

❛Ask me no questions and I shall tell you no lies.❜

❛You have wrung a great deal of blood from what seems to be a very little stone.❜

❛I have never been murdered before, and I truly don’t intend to start now.❜ 

❛Then what do you propose? Distracting God?❜

❛You are afraid that your life has incurred a debt that your death will not pay.❜

❛If you think that you and I are not more beholden than ever, you are an idiot.❜

❛The water is risen. So is the sun. We will endure.❜

❛Have you worked out who I am?❜

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@thephantomden asked: 7 & 23

7. Did your Tav travel a lot pre-tadpole?

Not really. Corinne is not an adventurer by trade. She travelled on diplomatic trips with the noblewoman she worked for, but that was about it. She hasn't left the sword coast, at any rate. The biggest journey she's made alone to date is the journey from Neverwinter to Baldur's Gate. All of this country road travel is new.

23. Share any hcs/anything you want to say about your Tav’s backstory

A lot of Corinne's childhood was was spent learning poetry with her mother. Her favourite poem is a Faerunian equivalent of The Lady of Shallot, and she recites it when stressed.

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Tav Backstory Ask Game

Is your Tav Baldurian? If yes, did they grow up in Baldur’s Gate? If no, where are they from?

Does your Tav have any siblings? Are they close?

Who was your Tav raised by?

Is your Tav close with whoever raised them?

Is your Tav religious? Were they raised that way?

When did your Tav learn their abilities/skills?

Did your Tav travel a lot pre-tadpole?

Does your Tav have any pets?

What did they do for work/to get by?

Was your Tav in a relationship? How did it end?

Did your Tav know or know of any of the other characters?

Is your Tav a guild member?

Was your Tav well known by others or did they stick to the shadows?

Does your Tav have any childhood friends?

Do they have any sentimental items?

What’s your Tav’s favorite childhood memory?

What’s your Tav’s worst childhood memory?

What did they want to be when they were younger?

Any memories that stick out to you/your Tav about their life pre-tadpole?

Did they know any nobility?

What kind of education did your Tav have?

Does your Tav have any children?

Share any hcs/anything you want to say about your Tav’s backstory

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Mun Vs Muse

Nicked from: @infernaliscor

Tagging: @seldariine @dragonfells @elkenbulwark @apalestar @wildskissed + you

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"Well, if you're going to be like that--" She's about to walk away. There is only so much of Birvor Cragdew that Veraia can stomach. She's sure that he is capable of being perfectly pleasant in the right company. However, it appears he subscribes to a very different definition of the word chaperone that the rest of Faerûn does and, frankly, it makes Veraia's fingertips twitch. And then she hears the door handle, which is when the twitch grows.

"I would find him myself, dear. But I'd rather not spend the better part of this gods-awful evening searching for someone who isn't lost at all. isn't that right, Ehrendil?" They must look a sight to the party guests - Birvor firmly holding the door shut in his finery, and Veraia stood there in her purple velvets, arms crossed in what can only be described as a stalemate. Well, she has beaten worse than Birvor in a battle of wits, and she isn't afraid to do it again. Of course, there have been developments since the last time she went toe-to-toe with him - new ancestral gifts. Oh, that might be an idea...

"He's ready now. Now, there are one of two ways this is going to play out. One. You're going to open the door, and your dear brother is going to go where he pleases without fear of you accosting him. Two. I remove you from this door and your dear brother is going to go where he pleases without fear of you accosting him. Which would you prefer?" Her smile is dangerously sweet. She knows he has no choice in the matter, but it's fun to pretend he does.

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elkenbulwark said: ❛Ask me how I am and I’ll scream.❜

"Believe me. I want to know how you are about as much as I want to be at this inane dinner."

She doesn't care much for Birvor, or the majority of the Cragdews for that matter. But their families are close, and that means that Veraia is expected to attend these events. It isn't all bad - since her social debut, she has found a friend in Ehrendil, whom she has rescued from many a suitor and vice versa. But where there is Ehrendil, Birvor is just around the corner.

"I take it you know where he is. You always do, for some reason. Or are you actually loosening the reigns for once?"

It was not his prerogative to entertain the nobles that traipsed through the home like cattle grazing on all manner of gossip more than they indulged in hors o d'oeuvres. No, his only concern for such affairs was following the very simple instructions stamped across his brow- delicate as they were haughty strokes of elvish glyphs that would glow if activated by the right set of lips. Simple instructions: keep an eye on his brother, though Birvor knew from experience that hands were also expected when corralling said brother away from perceived threats were concerned, followed by fists that might need applying to said threat. As his gaze found the fire harpy's across the way, hazel eyes narrowed at her approach. She was no doubt looking for Ren... though the half-orc knew her as not so much a threat as much as a pest, as she'd proven to be a thorn in his side on many prior visits. And he wasn't about to drop his guard around her again lest he end up magically locked in another gods damned closet-

"I'd be more... inclined at believin' what you're on 'bout, yet here you are. Badgerin' me of all people?" Not that he could give a god's crooked toe what she thought of him- a half-orc hastily dressed in formal attire both black and gold to suite the colors of the family's crest: House Cragdew - the snake that bound to a dagger, wrapped round to become a part of its hilt.

When the roots of why she'd wandered over came to light via her own admission, he gave her a dismissive snort. "Oh yeah- some reason. Some odd bloody reason, that- knowin' what he's up to and all. 'Ev think it's 'cause it's MY JOB TO-??" Fingers drummed impatiently along his arms where he'd crossed them. "And I can't bloody letcha take credit for my work, can I? Bugger off and go find'im yourself, wouldja-"

Just then a loud bang on the door behind which Birvor was resting exploded behind him along with a muffled elvish curse that sounded suspiciously like Ren complaining about how he'd already changed fifteen minutes ago followed by a furious doorknob wriggle.

Birvor's eyes briefly flicked to hers, assessing her reaction before he leaned back a bit more heavily against the door to casually block it from opening. "...he'll be ready inna minute."

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✧✦⭒ GIDEON THE NINTH PROMPTS —

a collection of dialogue prompts from tamsyn muir’s gideon the ninth. disclaimer: likely contains spoilers - includes dark content such as cannibalism and necromancy.

❛One flesh, one end.❜

❛You never open a locked door unless you have permission.❜

❛Are you really saying that nobody’s going to be there but us and some crumbly old hierophants? ❜

❛If you do not find yourself a galaxy, it is not so bad to find yourself a star.❜

❛Ask me how I am and I’ll scream.❜

❛The only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted someone to hold the sword as you fell on it.❜

❛I need you to be trustworthy.❜

❛You ate me and rebuilt me. We can’t go home again.❜

❛Your heart is a party for five thousand nails.❜

❛Please elaborate, because my imagination is better than your description and I am not having a lot of fun here.❜

❛Then we’re all dead, but let’s bring hell first.❜

❛Why was I born so attractive?❜

❛I’m no good at this duty thing. I’m just me. I can’t do this without you.❜

❛The con depends on your shut mouth and your adoption of the minimal requirements.❜

❛What’s with the skulls?❜

❛Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.❜

❛None of you have learned how to die gracefully … I learned over ten thousand years ago.❜ 

❛You agreed to do your duty by the Locked Tomb.❜

❛I see you calling my bluff and I resent it.❜

❛You couldn’t spell obligation if I shoved the letters up your ass.❜

❛I almost wish you’d been mine.❜

❛I find the idea comforting.. that thousands of years after you’re gone.. is when you really live. That your echo is louder than your voice.❜

❛You are our triumph, The best of all of us.❜

❛I am your creature, gloom mistress.❜

❛I’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand.❜

❛I ate you alive, and you have the temerity to tell me that you’re sorry?❜

❛Alas. I have a bad personality and a stupefying deficit of attention.❜

❛A head start is the only advantage one can claim by choice.❜

❛The entire point of me is you. You get that, right?❜

❛Evidence outweighs testimony.❜

❛I have tried to dismantle you! ❜

❛The skeletons aren’t reanimations,  they’re revenants: ghosts inhabiting a physical shell.❜

❛He said to tell you he loved you.❜

❛Stop that. I need you listening, not racking your brain for rare negatives.❜

❛Choices cause all sorts of things to happen. That doesn’t make you responsible.❜

❛I must no longer accept being a stranger to you.❜

❛Death first to vultures and scavengers.❜

❛That soul’s inside you now. If I tried to pull it out, I’d take yours with it and destroy both in the process.❜

❛I am undone without you.❜

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Oh how I cannot wait to be out of assignment hell. Last one is due on the 9th of feb so until then I'm a big ball of stress trying to squeeze words out of my brain.

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SONG CHALLENGE

Share five songs that remind you of your muse

1. Venus Fly Trap by MARINA

2. They Just Keep Moving the Line by Carrie Hope Fletcher

3. Girls by Girl in Red

4. I'm Not Your Hero by Tegan and Sara

5. Burn It Down by Daughter

Nicked from: @infernaliscor

Tagging: @seldariine, @bhaalswn, @stargroved, @elkenbulwark, @burtai, @apalestar, @wildskissed

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At that moment, it didn't matter how long they had been apart. When she saw Sola across the Elfsong Tavern, she was home. She never wanted to experience anything else, because nothing would beat seeing her again after all this time.

I cannot tell you how long I've been waiting to stage this screenshot!

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ANGEL COULBY as GUINEVERE PENDRAGON (Merlin 2008 - 2012)

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MERLIN S01E06 A Remedy to Cure All Ills

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A fiery young maiden, freshly flowered, Lady Laena had inherited the beauty of a true Targaryen from her mother, Rhaenys, and a bold, adventurous spirit from her father, the Sea Snake.

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@solarfreckled said: Race and Inspiration / from here

Race: Where is your muse from? What aspects of their homeland culture, if any, do they retain in their everyday lives?

Kimkaline is from a small deep gnome settlement in the middledark. The main thing she's taken from her homeland is a skill for identifying mushrooms and a healthy fear of the dark. She also sings gnomish lullabies under her breath when she's deeply concentrating on something.

Inspiration: What do you most enjoy about writing your muse? Any particular character traits or arcs that you enjoy playing out?

A really fun thing I've loved incorporating into Kimkaline is the way she'll casually mention sex-related things. She's sex positive and open about it, to the point of allowing the camp to access her collection of raunchy books without question. It's something that just kind of happened without any kind of planning.

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I like seeing you this way...but...I want you to be careful. Of what? Powerful men.

Daisy Head as Genya Safin Shadow and Bone - Season 1, Episode 5 (2021), dir. Mairzee Almas