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obsidiancreates · 2 years ago

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You Made Skrimm Give A Shit

Torbek has a lot of dreamless sleep, and a lot of sleep with distressing dreams. His dreams are rarely kind to him.

They do try, though.

Torbek falls asleep after a long day of climbing the Harris Wheel for Mr. Kremy, climbing trees and plucking out people who flew out of the Harris Wheel for Mr. Kremy, moving heavy boxes for Mr. Kremy, and drinking for himself.

He dreams he's sitting around a campfire with Mr. Kremy, Mr. Gideon, Gricko, and Frost. He dreams they're laughing with him. He dreams he's more than an employee to them, and Mr. Kremy hands him a week of wages, and it's perfect.

"Hey, hey!"

Torbek looks down.

A different goblin than Gricko stands at Torbek's feet. His patched-up hat with it's wide brim is unable to conceal the scowl on his face as he looks up at Torbek, arms crossed and little coat gently billowing around him in the dream breeze.

"Hmmm?"

"Torbek, you gotta listen up." The goblin confidently climbs right up Torbek like he's done it a million times, plants his feet firmly on Torbek's shoulders, and grabs the bugbear by his furry cheeks. "Kremy is conning you, got it? He has no intentions of ever paying you, so you're gonna have to steal it from him or find a different job!"

"What? Noooo, Mr. Kremy is the bestttt." Torbek goes to push the goblin off of his face, but... nothing happens. Torbek doesn't question it, as is the nature of dreams.

"He is not! He is a scamming, conning, conniving warlock, just like me! Trust me, I know it when I see it, and he'll never pay you even a copper! I wouldn't!"

"Mr. Kremy promises it'll happen someday."

"It's a lie! He's lying to your face! Come on, I love drinking as much as the next guy, but we need payment of something other than booze! We need coin! Funds! Money!"

"You've tried this a thousand times, Skrimm," a voice calls from somewhere else- Torbek can't turn to look, not with this "Skrimm" holding his face the way he is. "It's never going to sink in."

"Shut it, Felix! It'll get through to him at some point! I mean my gods, aren't you tired of seeing this?! It's worse than watching Marius putz around being noble all the time!"

"Whaaaat? Torbek is very confused."

"Don't mind them, they're a buncha heroic types, set out to do good things on purpose even at their own risk and all that. You and me are built different, buddy, but I'm built way too much like that bastard over there-"

He jerks a black-nailed thumb to point at Kremy, who's just sitting there, vague and blurry.

"-to believe in him like you do. Steal your wages, go get wasted at a nice inn, and get the hell outta dodge. He's so shady that he literally has shadow magic."

"But Mr. Kremy is the smartest, most amazing person Torbek has eeeeever met!"

"Torbek, I'm speaking to you goblinoid to goblinoid, there is no possible way that Kremy will ever consider you more than a naive fool he can take advantage of. The day that Kremy actually decides to try to help you is the day I tell Marius he's right."

"Uhhhh, Torbek doesn't know why that matters."

"It's a whole thing! I know you've gotta have some of my brains in there somewhere!" Skrimm lightly slaps Torbek's cheek a couple times. "There's no possible way you can't see that guy for what he is!"

"Uhhhh..." Torbek's eyes cross as the dream begins to fade into pitch blackness.

Skrimm looks around frantically. "Oh, no, don't you dare wake up now!"

"I told you."

"Shut UP Felix!"

"Bye Mr. Skrimm." Torbek tries to raise an arm to wave, but it just twitches as his consciousness in the real world begins to return.

"No no no, I'm trying to help you for gods' sa-!"

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Marius looks down at Skrimm with a slight smirk. "Felix tells me you try to help Torbek again."

Skrimm keeps his arms crossed, his spiritual form sitting on top of Torbek's head and faced away from the paladin below.

"One could say that, with all of these attempts to talk sense into him, you are... always aiding?"

"Fuck off, pretty boy."

"I knew I'd get through to you."

"If we weren't ghosts I'd hex you right here right now."

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