#seriously the minthara hit was amazing. ‘critical hit’ came up 3 times and I don’t know what that means but apparently it means instadeath

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The goblin camp was SUCH a weird experience for Zebulon.

He:

-rescued Barcus Wroot from the mill, and discovered he can speak gnome but doesn’t know why

-had goblins falling over themselves to not upset him, and obeying after merely a glare. This felt familiar for some reason.

-talked to Minthara, the first drow he encountered since losing his memories, then proceeded to obliterate her in one lucky smite. She was evil but he was curious about her, so it was kind of unsatisfying. Also he stole her camp clothes so now he's going around camp with cleavage for days.

-had Abdirak torture him. It didn’t exactly help, but it was cathartic after the Alfira incident. Shadowheart was into it. Wyll was concerned.

-went to free Liam from Spike by saying he’d take over torturing him. Shadowheart and Lae’zel were united for once in being like ‘yess we’re gonna see some torture’. Wyll was mad. No torture actually happened.

-rescued Halsin, who admits to ‘trouble controlling the beast’.

Made camp in the temple and in the most eventful evening ever:

-found out about Gale’s orb deal. Now someone else has a mysterious and dangerous condition. Immediately took it seriously, yote the nearest artifact at him in a hurry. Gale ate a shirt.

-zeb had a fever. Was unsure if it was tadpole or durge-related. Lae'zel tried to murder him over it. He convinced her not to with the medical knowledge that he somehow has? Was it from killing people?

-went to sleep and dreamboi appeared. Dreamboi is modeled after Gaileth Vess, his dead husband in his TES version's backstory (not sure how he fits in here but he exists). Right now Zeb doesn't know who he is, but he was like 'you are the most gorgeous person I've ever seen, I feel like I already know you, but you want me to use the tadpole so I'm suspicious'.

-had Volo poke around his eye socket, then told him to fuck off when it became apparent he had no idea what he was doing. He was glad Volo left because he was worried about murdering him in his sleep

-Mizora is still not there and Wyll still has no horns. I think Zeb might have scared her off forever by killing Alfira the night she was supposed to appear

Next morning:

-Went with Halsin and they slaughtered the whole place together. Zeb was euphoric about this. It was like his ideal first date- meeting a hot guy who’s super nice and doing a bunch of murdering together that he doesn’t have to feel too bad about. He told Halsin he had a wonderful time killing, and Halsin’s response was 'you sound deranged'. He became a rat and left.

-they camped again before leaving and Lae'zel came onto him. He turned her down because gay with like 4 active crushes. She has a neutral relationship to him. Gale and Wyll, the guys he’s actually into, have a fair relationship and have made no moves.