#tavern scene

[hopelessromantic5]

The tavern scene where Merlin is playing the King at dice and using his magic and it’s really fucking hot.

As Merlin looked around at their accumulating audience, he saw more than a few red cloaks.

So the knights had come to see their king brought to his knees, Merlin thought, chuckling to himself.

“What’s so funny?” Arthur questioned boisterously.

“Nothing, sire.” Merlin singsonged with a smirk that he knew would only frustrate Arthur further. Merlin threw only a momentary glance to The Once and Future King who is soon to lose all of his silver challenging the greatest sorcerer to ever walk the earth at dice.

Merlin acted as if he were considering his bet, then stacked two piles of silver coins into the bowl.

Of course, Arthur just slung his about like he had no intention of losing it.

Think again, your royal pratship.

Arthur stepped back, next to Percival and Lancelot, to watch Merlin roll.

“Watch out. Here we go.” Though Merlin thought he saw something akin to doubt behind his King’s startlingly blue eyes.

This made Merlin smile like a fool.

The King is nervous to lose, he thought, at least he isn’t a complete moron.

Merlin schooled his face, and began to tumble the dice around in the cup. The sound almost like hooves on compact earth, or dangling talismans hung by Druids, tinkling together in the wind.

Merlin brought his hand holding the cup, up to his lips blowing air into it and letting just a little of his magic slip out.

“Ten.”

And as he knew they would, they dice rolled a perfect ten.

He laughed as irritation settled onto Arthur’s devilishly handsome face.

The king rounded the table, leaning over so his voice was heard only by Merlin’s ears.

“Enjoy this moment, Merlin. While it lasts.”

Merlin didn’t really hear it, though.

The instant that Arthur moved into his personal space, his servant was lost to the world. Distracted by soft lips twisted into a frown, a jawline chiseled from stone, and eyes too beautiful and kind for their own good.

There must be some magic there, Merlin thought. You can’t have eyes like that by the natural grace of the gods.

But if anyone were to be gifted with such a knee buckling appearance, King Arthur of Camelot was the one to deserve it.

Merlin had never seen him being untoward with any female prospects. Never saw him getting handsy with kitchen staff or lady’s maids. Merlin had never seen Arthur approach anyone in that way.

And, though sometimes he stupidly inappropriately wished it, Merlin had never seen Arthur take anyone back to his chambers.

Never once in the three years Merlin had been working for the spoiled prat of a king. Two of those years, Arthur was still a prince. Yet, he held none of the urges that people often berated when they spoke of the young. None that he gave into, anyway.

Merlin never claimed to know the inner workings on his kings mind, especially not in that area. With each passing season Merlin became more confused and less likely to broach the subject.

Not that he minded.

In fact he didn’t mind, at all.

Because there was the rather unfortunate fact that Merlin had been in love with Arthur Pendragon from the moment he laid eyes on him.

Arthur wasn’t drunk. But he had been drinking. Enough to let lingering doubts disappear into the back of his mind.

He thought about this, as he led the way to his chambers, Merlin following dutifully a few steps behind.

Merlin was completely sober.

Arthur knew because he watched Merlin all night, and the man never touched his cup, not once.

Arthur was determined. He was a King. He was supposed to look fear in the face and laugh.

He didn’t know how to handle fear in the form of the beautiful face of his magical manservant.

Merlin thought everything was normal.

Until the door closed behind him.

Arthur walked to the table, dropped his gloves on the surface, then turned to face Merlin with his arms crossed.

Gods, he was fit.

“Did you enjoy stealing all my money?”

Merlin tutted,

“Come now, sire. We both know that wasn’t anywhere near all your money.”

A chuckle left the Kings lips.

“That is not the point, Merlin.”

“And what is the point, sire?” Merlin was goading him and poking his buttons, unassuming of the bombshell that was about to be dropped in his lap.

Arthur was still smiling, but he narrowed his eyes, which put Merlin on alert. Merlin didn’t know this look. And he knew all of them. Well, almost all of them. He’d never seen this look before.

The King began to approach Merlin, slowly.

It didn’t take very long for him to reach his goal.

“The point, Merlin…” Arthur was very close now. His hopeless manservant was losing his breath, unable to look away from his gorgeous, awe-inspiring face. Merlin was boxed in by Arthur’s muscular arms, inches away from him face.

“…is that you cheated.”

Just like that, all the air was sucked out of the room.

Merlin couldn’t move, or speak, or get oxygen to his brain to make it function.

They stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity.

Merlin watched as Arthur’s smile spread across his face.

He was…smiling?

Oh thank all the gods in all the heavens, he doesn’t hate me!

This is what Merlin’s inner voice was screaming to imaginary skies, until Arthur spoke again.

Merlin zeroed back in on the King’s eyes, and realized that the blue had been swallowed by black.

“You want to know something?” His voice is low and rough, and he was so close. Incredibly, impossibly close.

Merlin was not computing coherent words at the moment so he nodded, eager to know something. Anything. As long as it came from those lips.

Arthur moved in to hover his mouth just above Merlin’s skin. Right below his ear.

Merlin shivered involuntarily at the proximity, and the tease that The King of Camelot turned out to be.

“I’ve known for years, Merlin.”

Merlin might’ve been shocked, if his shock hasn’t been overrun by the way Arthur whispered his name. Like a siren song, begging him to come closer.

“But the way you looked in that tavern,”

Arthur’s breath kept caressing his skin in lapping waves and it was intoxicating. Merlin’s whole body was filled with want. He could feel it tingle in his fingertips and at the very top of his spine. Deep in his gut, where everything pooled to drag him under.

“I knew I had to have you. I can’t wait any longer.”

Arthur drew back, half lidded, smirking all-knowing.

Merlin didn’t know what he looked like but it must be a sight.

“That is, if you’ll have me.”

Merlin swallowed the past the lump in his throat before speaking, or whispering. Even if every part of him thrummed with this feeling, there was always a chance of everything crumbling. Nothing was certain, until it was.

“I am yours.” He hoped his eyes conveyed everything he ever held in, Arthur could always read his eyes.

[tavern-scene]

I'm so sorry y'all I just couldn't figure out anything for the story so I once again

This Blog Was an experiment

Here are my takeaways from this campaign

Again with consistency: it's hard enough for regular DND groups to get together to play and you'd assume this was easier but since I don't see your reactions it's still difficult to have the motivation

Sample size... Both good and bad: a small sample size means that one vote really matters but it also means that there's no as many people enjoying this game which is disappointing but understandable

Story: I failed... I didn't really have a story to tell and we all suffered because of it. So over the next month I will be recruiting you all to help write a text based adventure game that I can then modify for play here on Tumblr

[sleepsheapnumber7638]

guys guess what i created a new blog go chek it out well be playing a chose-your-own adventure RPG with tumber polls

[deepspacenova]

The 5 times Sylus manhandles MC with his tail

+ the 1 time she manhandles Sylus' tail herself 🥹

[tadpole-apocalypse]

Listening to the Inquisiton soundtrack again and imagining what we could have had if Trevor Morris was brought on to do Veilguard’s music instead of Hans Zimmer. It’s not even close, how much better he did.

[robertpallesen]

Damaged Sign, Portland, OR © Robert Pallesen

[anxiety-ridden-paranoia]

🩸🪄

[pendrgnsolos]

gwaine in 3x04

[pheonix518]

I love Aragorn so much because he reminds me a lot of Halt O’Carrick. If you take out all the smiling, he could be Halt.

Look at him! Any time Halt is in a tavern this is exactly what he looks like (minus the pipe)! It’s all he does!

Here’s some other Aragorn gifs I found that look like Halt.

(Ignore the bad quality :/ )

[luck-of-the-drawings]

oh the dread, oh the worry! you love your sister so much and you need to know shes okay. you trust her but you cant trust the world, and more than anything else you cant trust yourself

[lenreli]

Dreamling, before-and-after edition!

For @rooftopwreck! 💕

[eliseliedl]

Divinity Original Sin II 42 / ?

[tavern-scene]

hello everyone and welcome to the second campaign of tavern scene aka TSC2

thank you all for participating

we will be playing DND 5e your character is Dave a first-level druid Dragonborn who is being hunted by a mysterious group... you have very little knowledge of why but you get the sense that it has to do with something that you are not something you've done.

you are in the town of Windrise where every good dnd adventure starts in a dark corner of a musty candle-lit tavern

"Alright," a gruff northern-sounding dwarf says as he comes up to the table "Time to pay your tab dragon"

Here is daves character sheet

AND DONT FORGET TO INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND REBLOG THE FUN

[dent-de-leon]

And what if the animated Nein see Mollymauk for the first time when he’s in the middle of performing his Ice Spinner routine at the carnival. What then—

[hanafubukki]

I got Into Another Wonderland book by @stormgardenscurse

It’s a Twst Isekai AU and I’m having so much fun reading it. If you love your isekai stories and twst, please check out the PDF version here

Estelle’s writing is amazing and I always love reading her works. I fully recommend checking out this series and her masterlist too. 💚💚💚

(The envelops are yume letters I commissioned 💞💞💚💚)

I got these extra goodies from Estelle and I’m screaming ahhhhh they are so cute 💞💞💞 malleus with the pianoooo 💞💞💞 chibi general liliiiaaaaa, and loook at grrrimmmm

Ahhhh I love it so much 💚💚💚✨✨✨

[7roaches]

thought of this while peeing