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daily-sloop-john-b · 7 months ago

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I know we all love to say "fuck mystra" this and/or Gale's Folly (subtitled: How Could You Be Such A Callous Idiot)—but really, Gale and Mystra are primarily REALLY BAD at communicating. The whole issue started when Mystra a) couldn't provide a satisfying answer to Gale's desire for more, b) Gale decided that instead of being vulnerable and working through it, he'd do a Secret Project(TM), c) Gale didn't bother telling Mystra what said project was, and/or she only vaguely warned him off it. And then Gale rolled a nat 1 on his arcana check, and then a second nat 1 for insight b/c the DM was attempting to take mercy on him and was staring at Gale and the book, worrying 4d6 under the table while not breaking eye contact and saying, very slowly, "...are you sure?"

#there are so many problems with their relationship #primarily Gale's lack of literally anyone else besides Tara and his mom that aren't caught up in this thing #and also the power differential #but if we take mystra in act 3 at her word #she would've eventually opened up to gale #he was just too young for him to have more than a taste of what was *really* important to her #(she's a goddess—so ymmv about how important /meaningful sex is to her)#and Gale didn't mean to release the karsite weave in the first place #(NVM he somehow thought mystra *broken* or less of herself)#he was trying to give her back a piece of herself #He just entirely misread the entire situation #for the record #this is not mystra-positive #fuck mystra #and fuck all the other gods #just that if they were in a different genre besides high fantasy mythic adventure story prologue #this could've been a great comedy of errors #bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #mystra #(gosh I hope people still know what 4d6s are for...)

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