#bloodmuse

[nknovakwrites]

Hope, Astarion, and Friends on the Road to Baldur's Gate Part Three: I Can't Go Yet, Don't Let Me Die

(This takes place in Act 3, after meeting the Petras and Dalyria in the Rivington flophouse and getting the Elfsong room in the lower city of Baldur's Gate.)

“Here.”

Hope took the scroll that Astarion handed her. “What’s this?” 

“It’s a spell scroll.”

Hope unfurled the scroll to see it was indeed a spell scroll for enchanting an item with daylight. Why?

“You were right,” Astarion added as if reading Hope’s mind. 

“Of course I was,” Hope replied. “What was I right about?”

“The other spawn will warn Cazador we’re here, they might come for me before we get to him so this is just to keep you safe. Keep it on you at all times.”

“Even sleep with it?” Hope asked as a joke.

“Yes,” Astarion responded, very much not joking.

Hope had never seen Astarion this serious about anything.

“Alright, I will.”

The vampire spawn had invaded the camp. Hope was so tired and in such a deep sleep that she wouldn’t have even woken if it wasn’t for Astarion shouting, “get the hells away from me!”

She jumped up and grabbed her short sword and violin, both never far from her. Hope and her allies fought hard but they were at a clear disadvantage! Hope, Astarion, Karlach, and Shadowheart were the only ones in camp, sleeping after being out in Baldur’s Gate since dawn (the others were using the cover of night to scout the steel watch foundry, looking for a way to sneak in the wasn't the guarded front door.) Meanwhile, the spawn were well rested having slept during the day. Hope was especially sloppy; she was tired and scared for Astarion. What should have been hits were all critical misses and she was leaving herself open to attacks from all sides. Shadowheart tried to pull her fearless (if very sleepy) leader into her side so she would be protected by the spirit guardians but before she could, arms wrapped around Hope’s neck.

Astarion, seeing what was happening, tried to run towards her, leaving him open to an opportunity attack from behind. He fell and when he got to his feet again Hope was gone.

The first thing Hope felt was her head pounding. The second thing was something hard and cold under her body, so she wasn’t in bed in camp. She kept her eyes closed as the events of the night swam back into her mind. She was likely in Cazador’s Palace. Okay. That’s okay. Well, not okay. Not at all okay but it could be worse (could it be worse?) Hope forced herself to stay calm and look at the facts. She was alive, as evidenced by her hammering heart and the lack of pain in her neck meant she hadn’t been bitten, but she didn’t know how long she had been in the palace. She hypothesized it couldn’t have been long if her friends had yet to show up and try to save her but it was long enough for them to bound her arms and legs in rope and leave her laying on what Hope could only assume was a marble floor. She had dropped her violin when she was grabbed but she could still feel the spell scroll tucked into her shirt. She-

“I know you’re awake.”

That voice wasn’t familiar and yet Hope knew it was Cazador. He didn’t sound like what she was expecting if she was being honest.

Hope opened her eyes (it was a marble floor) as Hope righted herself so she was kneeling forward rather than laying on her side, made a little more difficult with her bonds, she wondered if Cazador could hear her heartbeat and that’s how he knew she was awake. It was unsettling. Even more unsettling was Cazador himself. This was the first time Hope had laid eyes on him after hearing about him from Astarion. He towered over her, even if Hope hadn’t been on her knees Cazador would still be a head taller than her. His pale skin caused his red eyes to stand out even more. She really hoped he couldn’t hear her heartbeat because if he could he’d know it was hammering, terrified.

“What do you want with me?” Hope asked when she found her voice, trying her best to mask her fear. She stood up against demons and immortals, she could handle a vampire. 

“I didn’t want you. I wanted the boy. My lost son you are traveling with and yet they brought me you. So, I will have to use you as bait.”

Hope shook her head, she should have stopped speaking but she didn’t, “Astarion won’t come to rescue me, not without a plan and the rest of the party right behind him.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes,” Hope said firmly.

“Then, I guess I’ll just have to find someone to replace him for the ritual.”

He grabbed Hope, lifting her by her neck. Enough so she could breathe but just barely. Despite the fear swirling in her gut and the sudden lack of air, Hope felt an idea spark in the back of her mind, a very, very bad idea.

“I thought the last sacrifice had to be a vampire spawn,” Hope croaked out.

“Right, you are, girl.”

“Wait! Don’t!”

Cazador sunk his teeth into Hope’s neck.

Now, Hope had been bitten by Astarion more times than she could count by now, so many times she barely felt it anymore. The first time it hurt a little, but this hurt much more than that!

Luckily, Hope’s blood had recently gone through a change thanks to a woman named Araj Obladra who made Hope’s blood explosive. She barely felt the flames as they spread from her body to Cazador’s but she did feel as he pulled away and the rope which held her was burned off. She jumped away from Cazador’s reach, stopped only to cast daylight on herself, then turned and ran out of the palace.

As Hope bolted down the street, she could feel herself start to become fatigued. Fortunately, the sky was starting to turn pink, the tell-tale sign of dawn. No one should be following her. Still, she fell to her knees in the street. Why was it so hard to breathe all of a sudden? And who had just put their arm on her shoulder?! She grabbed the wrist and looked up to see Astarion. She let out a sigh of relief and felt Astarion pick her up before the world turned black.

Astarion bolted back to the Elfsong with his friends at his side and his Hope in his arms. He didn’t miss the bite marks in her neck. That son of a bitch Cazador bit her, he tried to turn her into one of his spawn! If she turned into a vampire. . . He decided not to think about that, he had to get her to Withers. Astarion was admittedly nervous that Withers wouldn’t be able to do anything for her, if he could cure vampirism you would have thought he would have brought it up before now.

“I cannot cure vampirism,” Withers said, “but Hope isn’t yet a vampire. I can bring her back from the dead, stopping the transformation in its tracks.”

“Then, do it!” Astarion said, losing his patience with every word.

“By doom and dusk I strike thy names from the archives rise,” Withers said, accompanied by some handwaving.

A blue looking magic flowed into Hope’s body turning her stiff and pale body pinker. Within seconds she had taken a deep breath and opened her eyes. She looked up at the companions surrounding her, “hey, guys, did I miss something?”

[radiomogai]

[PT: bloodpageic: a gender related to being a page of blood

bloodknightic: a gender related to being a knight of blood

bloodmageic: a gender related to being a mage of blood

bloodseeric: a gender related to being a seer of blood

bloodsylphic: a gender related to being a sylph of blood

bloodmaidic: a gender related to being a maid of blood

bloodmuseic: a gender related to being a muse of blood

bloodlordic: a gender related to being a lord of blood. End PT]

bloodpageic | bloodknightic bloodmageic | bloodseeric bloodsylphic | bloodmaidic bloodmuseic | bloodlordic

bloodpageic: a gender related to being a page of blood

bloodknightic: a gender related to being a knight of blood

bloodmageic: a gender related to being a mage of blood

bloodseeric: a gender related to being a seer of blood

bloodsylphic: a gender related to being a sylph of blood

bloodmaidic: a gender related to being a maid of blood

bloodmuseic: a gender related to being a muse of blood

bloodlordic: a gender related to being a lord of blood

colors are from the blood aspect and these class gender flags! i’ll be tagging any terms like these as ‘classpectic’.

flag id: eight flags with 4 stripes. the top left flag’s stripes, in order, are very dark brown, brown, red, and very dark red. the top right flag’s stripes, in order, are dark orange, orange, red, and very dark red. the upper middle left flag’s stripes, in order, are very dark yellow, dark yellow, red, and very dark red. the upper middle right flag’s stripes, in order, are dark yellow, yellow, red, and very dark red.

the lower middle left flag’s stripes, in order, are very dark green, faded green, red, and very dark red. the lower middle right flag’s stripes, in order, are dark green, yellow-green, red, and very dark red. the bottom left flag’s stripes, in order, are very dark purple, faded dark purple, red, and very dark red. the bottom right flag’s stripes, in order, are dark purple, purple, red, and very dark red. end id.

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[echovoice17]

So glad to have this on vinyl. My CD of this got really glitchy over the years. A #90s favorite. #nowspinning #chapterhouse #bloodmusic #dedicatedrecords #1993 #musiconvinyl #reissue #2020 #shoegazemusic #shoegaze #indierock #dancemusic #records #recordcollection #echovoice17 #northeastohiovinylclub #vinylcommunity #vinyl #vinylporn #vinyligclub #vinylcollection #neovc #nowspinningonvinyl #onmyturntable #shoegazeblog (at Cleveland, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHjlwuFpYpe/?igshid=1a6rs1ml5rxkv

[thatsmyaestheticbitch]

Your false God. Perturbator - “Sentient”

[archiced]

Negură Bunget ‎- Inarborat Kosmos - Green vinyl (200 ex) #negurabunget #inarboratkosmos #bloodmusic #blackmetal #metalrecords #vinyl #vinyllove #vinyllovers #vinyladdict #musiconvinyl #vinylgeek #vinylporn #vinylclub #vinylcollector #vinylgram #vinylcommunity #vinylrecords #vinylcollective #coloredvinyl #recordcollector #recordplayer #recordoftheday #records #spinninrecords #vinylcollection #vinyljunkie #instavinyl #igvinylclub #nowspinning #coloredvinylclub @coloredvinylclub @coloredvinylrecords @negurabunget @blooodmusic https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzxd4qfCpJ5/?igshid=1vve8zuulozcg

[theartofmany]

Perturbator always delivers great stuff and this is no exception to the rule From Youtube channel BlooodMusic: Perturbator - Sentient (feat. Hayley Stewart) [Music Video - UNCENSORED - "The Uncanny Valley"] This is so good...

[schriz]

Last Night @ Union! @danterminus @facexhugger @streetcleaner82 @_macready_ Last night was Lit! #synthwave #darksynth #la #cyberpunk #danterminus #bloodmusic #deathbydistortiontour (at UNION) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoVud9OBXpU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1shuvooljfsdj

[bandcampfire]

Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments

Lustful Sacraments by PERTURBATOR

[dmardsanddaisies]

✨📚🚀👽 New Books 👽🚀📚✨

[metzger-guitar-experiments]

Received my 2 Perturbator double LPs in time for my 4 day weekend ! Gonna work on some music also ! #perturbator #LP #vinyl #terror404 #dangerousdays #bloodmusic #music #synthwaveart #synthwave80s #synthwave #Retrowave #electronic #electronicmusic https://www.instagram.com/p/CJK4RJunPeG/?igshid=tlhqgwawr5zo

[nknovakwrites]

BG3 Beach Episode

A little Beach Day AU inspired by this post by @lazylittledragon and the fact that where I am living is having a heatwave. This AU takes place in modern times; the crew don't have the parasites but Astarion still has protection from the sun thanks to the sunwalker ring from Hope.

Hope started by making sure she and her boyfriend were lathered up in sunscreen. The sun may not turn him to ash but it would burn his very fair skin easily.

“There,” Hope said as she stood, “now you can go into the water.”

“I think not, darling,” Astarion replied as he stayed sitting on the towel, the beach umbrella casting a shadow on him.

“Don’t you want to go into the water?” Hope asked, lowering herself again. 

“No. I want to sit here under this umbrella. I don’t need the sand getting all over me or the water washing away my protection from the sun.”

“Then why’d you let me put all of this sunblock on you?”

“Well, I’m never going to stay no to your hands all over me,” he flashed his signature fang revealing, seductive grin.

“I should’ve seen that answer coming,” Hope stood. “I’m going into the water. Feel free to join me anytime.”

“I will keep refusing until the end of time,” Astarion called as Hope walked towards the water.

Meanwhile, Karlach was trying to coax Shadowheart into the water as well.

“I can’t swim!” Shadowheart exclaimed, pulling her wrist from Karlach's grasp.

“I can teach you,” Karlach replied.

“I don’t need to learn how to swim either!”

“Come on, don’t the others look like they are having fun?"

“Gale’s not in the water, neither is Wyll.”

Karlach looked over and saw Gale was sitting on his blanket, reading a book and Wyll had joined some people who were playing beach volleyball, at least one of the boys can jump.

“What about Scratch, Hope, and Lae’zel?”

“She’s just. . . standing there.”

Hope was playing fetch with Scratch in the shallow water where the waves wouldn't rise above her shin for Scratch's safety (although he could swim in an emergency.) 

Lae’zel, however, was just standing in knee-deep waves.

Hope walked over to her, annoying Scratch who wanted her to throw his ball.

“Hey, Lae’zel, are you having fun?” Hope asked.

“No.”

“What are you doing?”

“Watching for threats.”

It was a ‘more questions than answers’ answer.

“What kinds of threats?”

“Sharks,” Lae'zel with conviction.

Hope was surprised Lae’zel knew of sharks, being from the astral plane every time Lae’zel met an animal on Faerûn it was an adventure. 

“There are no sharks on the beach. We’re fine.”

“That’s what they said in the documentary I watched.”

“What documentary was that?” Hope asked.

“Jaws.”

“That’s not a documentary.”

“No? But it was based on a true story?”

“Who told you that?” Hope asked, although she already knew the answer. She glanced back at her boyfriend, who was watching her through sunglasses. He smiled and waved as Lae’zel said his name.

“He lied.”

“He lied about danger?”

“He did.”

“Tsk’va!”

“I know. He is a big tsk’va but now you can play fetch with Scratch and I!”

“You mean that game where you throw the ball and the dog runs back and forth.”

“How tedious,” Lae’zel said and it seemed for a minute like she was about to walk away.

Scratch, who was standing a few feet away, started to bark and jump from paw to paw in the water to remind the two women that he was there waiting for the ball to be thrown.

“I would like to partake.”

As Hope handed Lae’zel the ball, Scratch geared up to run!

They ended the day with some delicious hot dogs, courtesy of Shadowheart grilling them on Karlach’s on-fire back while she napped.

[thepianologist]

#openpiano #redpianino #redpianist #redstage #bloodpiano #bloodmusic https://www.instagram.com/p/CI22lsaDFnC/?igshid=14etpw43wxij

[hero-moove]

オンラインショップ https://moove55.com/?pid=154678059 Artist: CHAPTERHOUSE RETRANSLATED BY GLOBAL COMMUNICATION Title: BLOOD MUSIC: PENTAMEROUS METAMORPHOSIS [REMASTERED EDITION] Label: Evolution Records Format: 2LP Cat#: EVOR08 オリジナルテープからのリマスター音源『Pentamerous Metamorphosis』👌 マーク・プリチャードとトム・ミドルトンによる伝説的プロジェクト、グローバル・コミュニケーション。二人は1991年にタッグを組んだ後、92年よりグローバル・コミュニケーションとしての活動を本格化。リンク、E621、リロード、カメレオン、ジェダイ・ナイツといった異なる名義でも作品を発表しているが、94年にリリースされた彼らの唯一のスタジオアルバム『76:14』は、音楽史に残る名盤として広く知られている。 今回自身のレーベル〈Evolution Records〉から再発されることとなった本作『Pentamerous Metamorphosis』には、レコーディング時のダイナミクスをフルで味わってもらうべく、トムとマークの監修の元、オリジナルのDATテープからリマスターされた音源が収録。90年代を代表するシューゲイザー・バンドで当時レーベルメイトでもあったチャプターハウスのアルバム『Blood Music』をまるごとリミックスした1993年リリースの革命的リワーク作品で、『76:14』ほどの知名度はないものの、評論家やコアファンの間では同作と並び称されるほどの評価を得ている。 -Track list- A1. Alpha Phase B1. Beta Phase B2. Delta Phase C1. Gamma Phase D1. Epsilon Phase #moove #mooverecords #recordshop #globalcommunication #bloodmusic #pentamerousmetamorphosis #ambient #techno #remastered #vinyl #lp https://www.instagram.com/p/CGpH6aug4Dk/?igshid=52mlsi2joh47

[thatsmyaestheticbitch]

Perturbator - "Sentient"

[archiced]

Finally I got my package from @blooodmusic : Abigail Williams - Becoming - Limited Edition on Red Blood With Black Splatter vinyl (150 ex) #abigailwilliams #becoming #bloodmusic #blackmetal #metalrecords #vinyl #vinyllove #vinyllovers #vinyladdict #musiconvinyl #vinylgeek #vinylporn #vinylclub #vinylcollector #vinylgram #vinylcommunity #vinylrecords #vinylcollective #coloredvinyl #recordcollector #recordplayer #recordoftheday #records #spinninrecords #vinylcollection #vinyljunkie #instavinyl #igvinylclub #nowspinning #coloredvinylclub @abigailwilliamsofficial https://www.instagram.com/p/CJZEVDNMgPv/?igshid=1lejjsup8himi

[startinfrumskratchstudios]

I had to support the real Inglez team. Stayin’ down for that crown. (via https://open.spotify.com/track/1KAM2Sq8HrNWmYWWSUl6bh?si=1O2Hxi6hT7mTPL9_JNw_8A)