#if a ghost comes to her with a (very reasonable) request for vengeance amity is NOT incurring more ghostly wrath by saying No

[cannibalisticskittles]

with baldur's gate 3's full release date looming (two months from now lmao but still so fucking jazzed) i've been thinking about what amity would've been doing moments before being sucked into a giant living mindflayer spaceship

i think no matter what she would've been somewhere in baldur's gate -- which, despite being her home city, isn't actually very typical of her. she's spent maybe 30% of her life in the city proper, with all the traveling along the caravan routes she's done, and that was mostly when she was itty bitty and then tapered off when she got older

but i think that at a certain point, she'd take over as head of the family business from her father, after he finds he doesn't have much time for his experiments and being on the council and running the business, and he's certainly not going to spend less time with his research. i like to think she acquired the former house of the Big Bad they faced down and has been turning it into a hub for the business -- a more formal place for people to go to request services, and all those fancy rooms can be turned into free places to stay for employees who are between assignments, and all sorts of other benefits.

anyway baldur's gate already has official teleportation circles, but you can make your own with the right spell, and she did acquire that on her journeys. but to establish a permanent teleportation circle, you have to cast the spell every day for a full year in the spot you want it. so she's been staying put in baldur's gate while she gets this set up, bc having a way to get people to the hub directly has a lot of benefits.

then there's the question of how dramatic to make it, lmao

the more likely and more mundane explanation for what she's up to just prior to being squidnapped is that she's preparing to set off on another adventure as the teleportation circle has now been established and things at the hub seem set up enough that she can leave it in someone else's hands

the more dramatic answer is that maybe over the course of that year, she got herself caught up in bluebeard-like shenanigans -- just because she has to stay in the city for a year doesn't mean she's all that confined, since the city is big as hell, and she does like to wander. she stumbles across some fallen belonging and bam, now she's haunted by the ghost of someone who was married and then murdered for her money, and she wants amity to get revenge for her which quickly turns into 'marry and then murder that guy so that all of his possessions which used to belong to me and his other victims will be yours and you can give him to our families' which leads to amity getting squidnapped at the altar as she's prepared to do some light murdering

like i said, the more mundane explanation is, uh, less ridiculous lmao. but it's fun to muse.