#i do love to have Iona compliment him with abandon; occasionally on looks sure but mostly on skills

[invinciblerodent]

I don't typically like to send him off skulking alone, but I'm afraid there is literally no funnier outcome to this quest than to have a sentient printing press yell "YOU'RE NOT EVEN THAT HOT, DUMBASS!" at Astarion specifically.

What'd my boy even do to deserve this treatment

..... besides the Atrocities.

But, he only snuck down there to sabotage the free press for entirely selfish reasons!! And it's already been sabotaged before, so it's technically counter-sabotage, which is, like, practically a good deed, is it not???

(no worries, his sort-of-gf did greet him on the surface with a "you glorious scoundrel, you, you magnificent panther of a man! ❤️" and a big ol' kiss on his sneaky lil face.)