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Pillory :(

Henry's adventures in Sasau, part one of ??

So I went to Sasau because of Radzig and Henry's weird premonition that this mysterious knight would be there and they were right, of course, the quest log told me so. He asked to meet him after dark by the pond and I decided to trust that he'd actually be there (dubious). Only problem is...

Well, let me start by saying I decided to kill some time and ended up killing a lot more time than I intended.

First off, half built monastery? YES PLEASE

There are models!! And blueprints! [pause for undignified squealing]

Anyway, I'm investigating an accident with a stonemason and also I might've promised some random guy I'd get him some sacred remains to touch, fortunately the first thing got me in to see check out the second thing.

That bowl I took from down there did not give me good luck tho.

By the time I got back from the knacker's it was getting late and all the masons had fucked off for the night so I checked in with Johanka real fast before heading out to my meeting. You know she is very short tempered and snippy but I don't blame her at all, she's getting screwed here. Figured the knight would either be at the pond or not so I stuck around for a bit, cuz I've put a lot of perks into first aid so I am actually super able to help out with a couple of her patients and Johanka keeps yelling at me for not being around.

Aaaaaand then I mouthed off to the custodian and he had me arrested... So I definitely missed my meeting, including the entirety of the next day. Went back to the Inn and he wasn't there anymore so I'll try the pond tonight. I gotta catch up on sleep anyway.

But first I talked to the Master builder's apprentice, Zmola, and he said he's got a meeting tonight too with the scaffolder who found the skull... on the scaffolding, like that isn't fucking where you have a meeting if you're planning on murdering a guy. So of course I said I'd go with him. I'll go to the pond after I make sure Zmola isn't murdered.

This is definitely going in the timeline.

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Henry's adventures in Sasau, part one of ??

So I went to Sasau because of Radzig and Henry's weird premonition that this mysterious knight would be there and they were right, of course, the quest log told me so. He asked to meet him after dark by the pond and I decided to trust that he'd actually be there (dubious). Only problem is...

Well, let me start by saying I decided to kill some time and ended up killing a lot more time than I intended.

First off, half built monastery? YES PLEASE

There are models!! And blueprints! [pause for undignified squealing]

Anyway, I'm investigating an accident with a stonemason and also I might've promised some random guy I'd get him some sacred remains to touch, fortunately the first thing got me in to see check out the second thing.

That bowl I took from down there did not give me good luck tho.

By the time I got back from the knacker's it was getting late and all the masons had fucked off for the night so I checked in with Johanka real fast before heading out to my meeting. You know she is very short tempered and snippy but I don't blame her at all, she's getting screwed here. Figured the knight would either be at the pond or not so I stuck around for a bit, cuz I've put a lot of perks into first aid so I am actually super able to help out with a couple of her patients and Johanka keeps yelling at me for not being around.

Aaaaaand then I mouthed off to the custodian and he had me arrested... So I definitely missed my meeting, including the entirety of the next day. Went back to the Inn and he wasn't there anymore so I'll try the pond tonight. I gotta catch up on sleep anyway.

But first I talked to the Master builder's apprentice, Zmola, and he said he's got a meeting tonight too with the scaffolder who found the skull... on the scaffolding, like that isn't fucking where you have a meeting if you're planning on murdering a guy. So of course I said I'd go with him. I'll go to the pond after I make sure Zmola isn't murdered.

This is definitely going in the timeline.

[truly-sincerely]

the five homoerotic love languages:

- intimate stabbing

- outright obsession

- confused pining

- "no one knows me like you do"

- lifelong promises that always sound suspiciously like wedding vows

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I'd like to believe they were complete PDA menaces in their day

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Okay what the fuck was I talking about?

Actually, look at Al's headlamps. Jesus Christ, dude.

First order of business. Radzig telling Henry that he's more useful than Bernard and Bonard warms the cockles of my heart. Yeah, that's right I am that. I really liked that "life's about overcoming problems to become a better man" talk, and then talking shit about Capon not having any fucking character. Don't worry, the tumblrinas have hinted to me that he's gonna get plenty tribulated. He's gonna have so much character. Or maybe he'll just have me to solve his problems for him :)

D'aaaawww. I'm not sure that I'd figure out that Radzig is Dadzig, cuz you never know if this kind of favoritism is just Main Character Writing or if it actually means something. I like to think I'd suspect something is up tho. None of the other authority figures are nearly this intense about Henry...

Still, "good luck, son" muttered under your breath after he's already walked away probably doesn't mean the more general kind of "son"

Second order of business:

I think I missed something between Merhojed and now. I have no idea why Radzig said to go to Sasau and Henry thinks the mystery knight is staying in Sasau?? Please help.

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Can't decide if Rapport is funnier if ART is going "Oh, look at that, a new skill I learned! I sure hope no one *winkwink* asks me *winkwink* where I learned this really specific skill!! Wow, it would be weird if someone asked me about my new SecUnit knowledge!!! (Iris please ask me about my new SecUnit knowledge)"

Or if it's funnier if it is genuinely trying to keep meeting Murderbot on the downlow and this is as subtle as it (a super intelligent ship that does esponiage) is capable of being after making a new friend.

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It occurred to me that what we used to call "french kissing" when I was young now seems to be exclusively referred to as "kissing, sloppy style" and I think that's great for us. Nature is fucking healing.

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love it when a queer character's identity is the least interesting thing about them. like yes she's trans but that's less plot-relevant than the fact she's a wanted fugitive on 6 different planets

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do you use your irl name on tumblr? ie, either your government name or the name you go as in real life. if you use a different name that's not related to you irl here on tumblr then vote no

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I won the tourney (second try, but first try against black peter). Longsword is good for a quick fight but I still feel naked without a shield.

Anyway, after that I went (almost) straight to Pribyslavitz. Stopped in Uzhitz to buy a skirt and horseshoes for Al. I made poison a while ago so I was able to poison everybody on top of burning the arrows and managed to kill about seven cumans because they kept reinforcing the rear bridge as fast as I was stealth killing them for a bit before they wised up and put multiple guys on it.

He wants his fucking sword.

Regardless, the bottle is officially broken. I didn't find out where my fucking sword is (except my narrative intuition says that that Istvan guy that I met in the prologue when dad was showing off the sword to Radzig has it on account of I got a little cutscene with him after the fight was over)

God, poor Henry. He never threw up on any of the benders I let him go on but that adrenaline comedown is something else. Elli said,"it's good that this kid has such good managers" after Robard and Radzig were like "calm down kid" in the tower.

I'm gonna go see about rebuilding Pribyslavitz cuz I love a little rebuilding side quest, but I don't think I'm gonna include it in the timeline because it's pretty silly. You're not gonna make a fucking teenager a bailiff to a town, not when he's already Radzig's head spy apparently with a side gig pretending to be Lord Capon's page. Plus there's that whole thing where he falls over backwards whenever he remembers that he wants revenge.

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I'm back and I brought show-and-tell

I've been treasure hunting (I LOVE the treasure maps they're so shittily drawn and yet so easy to follow!!) so almost all of my plate gear was found in various pots and chests and a bunch of it is unsellable Warhorse-branded gear. I dug this helmet, cuirass, and chausses out of a grave with two skeletons embracing each other.

I have never had a scruple in my life, in case you were wondering. (this is a lie, I have so many scruples).

I bought Herod's sword from the Rattay swordmaster so I've got a longsword in case I want to use it, but I still prefer Razor and my Skalitz shield that Theresa gave me (even tho the only time I actually get to see it is when I'm praising Mutt).

It's so pretty!!

I said I was going to do the bandit camp raid but I chickened out because I wanted to scout it out at night and I didn't want to risk being in the middle of the camp at midnight and having the game be like "DING IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO FIGHT FOR YOUR BLONDE MORON'S HONOR" so I've been running around.

I traded in Pebbles for Al-Buraq (sorry Pebbles, I love you forever but Al's stats are so much better. I'll see you again some day when KCD2 is on sale).

I'm only in plate for the tourney. For everything else I've been putting together a nice collection of brigandine pieces. Something functional that I can strip down a little for sneaking in (but which isn't too aggressively noisy all together). I'm also putting together a town outfit, but I haven't found a shirt I really like yet. Traders keep calling me a knight when I roll up in my armor and haha, oh no, no I'm just a little guy, thanks tho.

I may or may not be going around Rattay at night lockpicking all the doors not so I can rob anybody but just because I can't pick "very hard" locks on chests yet (even tho I can on doors) and it's really super duper annoying to have to leave a chest in a bandit camp unopened.

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🍻+⚔️

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give your characters exes.

give them a variety of exes. give them relationships that shaped who they are but did not last. give them people they tried very hard to love but it didn't work out. give them situationships that taught them things. give them something deep that was real but could not endure. things that hurt. things that ended amicably. people with whom hot passion cooled to warm affection and became undying friendship.

no more first and only. give me the context of what made them know the next or one after was final and right.

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durgetash doodle dump~

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Well fuck, I was wrong about the tourney date... I beat Sir Bernard with live weapons pretty handily so I bet I can manage Runt now. I think I'll go get thru this bottleneck and do the tourney next time it happens (but I'm still putting it first in the timeline, shhh don't tell the timecops)

In other news, I'm a witcher now

Geraldry of Rivitz or whatever.

I've got a bug where sometimes when I tab out and tab back in the sound stops working.

Which is to say, I have been training all fucking morning with Sir Bernard. I am significantly less terrified of the tournament now. My stats are very good and (unrelated) I'm strong enough to use this ash longbow I found somewhere. Capon's bow is going in the box for sentimental reasons. I have pulled off a few combos. I can reasonably rely on my reflexes for master strikes. I trained mostly on the longsword, cuz it's more strengthy and I needed more strengthiness for bow qualifications, and it's growing on me, but I still feel more safe behind a shield. Also got my ass kicked on the mace a little bit. Less fond. Probably should've started on it sooner so there wasn't such a huge gap in skill between stick and sword.

Think I might do a little archery with my new bow and a live steel training session to finish off the day and then get fucked up on marigold decoctions.

I gotta get my sneak up more. At least stealing that wine for Capon tipped me over to the ability to surprise-shiv people, which is much better than choking them out and then stepping on their heads (yikes), and I can pick very hard locks now.

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It's Widdershins Wednesday! The crowd assembles, and- hey, don't we know those folks?

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