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Not Enough Alcohol in the World || No || Maybe if I were wasted || Maybe || Eh���Sure || Yes || TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF NOW!

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I love designing new clothes for Dahlia, especially cute dresses! She’s adorable, I love her so much! ❤️

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Dahlia and her weird cat!

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Another drawing of my favorite girl!! It’s hard designing new clothes for her but also fun? I love herrr!

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It’s been a while since I’ve drawn my girl. I’ve been wanting to draw more but just haven’t really felt able to. I’m happy with this one though!

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It’s been a while since I’ve drawn tiefling Dahlia! Here she is! I’m pretty happy with how this turned out! :)

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Another Empahlia drawing, because these two have taken over my life. Under a cut bc it’s a bit more suggestive(?) than I usually draw and I want to be safe. It’s not at all explicit but slightly suggestive but I’m very proud of how this turned out!

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All. The. Time! Dahlia loves romance novels!! They’re her favorite!

How often does your OC read romantic literature?

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Another pic of Dahlia’s gith disguise (Zar’ra)! Now featuring her silver sword! It doesn’t have a name yet but I am planning for her to name it kra��tha var (victory star) at some point! This is related to my RP with the lovely @ardentkurashk!!

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Some Dahlia pics related to RPs I have with @tea-and-magic and @ardentkurashk! This is Dahlia after she’s captured and tortured by Tea’s Helios. She meets Ardent’s Ka’zalii after that and the two of them are besties!! Zalii covers Helios’s brand with cool lightning scars! The gith is Dahlia’s githyanki disguise to join the rebellion to fight against Vlaakith (because fuck Vlaakith)! These RPs have taken over my life I love them so much!!! 🥰

(The Helios RP is still ongoing so if anything else happens to my girl I will add to the drawing!)

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Moved to Discord!

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"I doubt you'll need to be fluent.. but inflections, exclamations, they will be useful. They're more common. And curses, obviously." he paused a moment, "I know you don't like exploring minds, but if you're uncertain about a translation, you are welcome to look for it in mine." He had a feeling she would stubbornly learn as much as possible via less psionic methods, but he wanted to present the option anyway. Better to seek an answer from his head than an unsuspecting ally. Ka'zalii gave her a look of understanding when she mentioned time. "You won't be in the centre of it all immediately. If you choose the amnesia idea, we can use that as an excuse to reintroduce you to the fight slowly. My ghustil can explain the exact symptoms you need to mimic." That was if she hadn't researched it beforehand. He foresaw an instance or two of having to remind her to slow down a bit. It would do no good to burn out before they left.

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Moved to Discord!

Dahlia stopped looking around when she heard her captor speaking. He was talking to another gith, requesting an audience with his queen. She noted the way the other gith sneered at him and wondered about that.

Either that guy is an arsehole to everyone or my captor isn’t very popular with his kin, she thought. At least I know for sure he’s one of Vlaakith’s. But what does she want with me?

She wondered what this gith did with others of her kind he captured. Considering how sadistic he seemed, she was sure she didn’t really want to know. She hoped she wouldn’t find out.

Why am I so important to Vlaakith? Dahlia thought, frustrated. She strained to hear what her captor was saying in a whisper to the other gith but couldn’t make it out. Does she just want to kill me herself? There has to be another reason she wants me alive. I’m sure he’d have killed me if she wanted me dead. And would enjoy it too. She shuddered at the thought.

Dahlia tried moving her hands in their restraints, testing how much motion she had. She was far better with magic while channeling it through her music, but perhaps if she could move her hand enough, she might be able to cast a spell? She didn’t have much hope, but she tried, wriggling her hands as much as she could against the chains.

Should I try to run? Or stick around and hope to get information for the rebellion? she thought. She didn’t want to just sit around waiting for him to take her to Vlaakith, but she also wasn’t sure if she could even get away, especially chained, unarmed, and with psionics suppressed.

Dahlia was also starting to feel a little dizzy from the blood loss, silvery blood still dripping from her throbbing tentacles. She swayed a bit as a wave of light-headedness hit her, but forced herself to remain upright and awake. She tried again to move her hands, biting back a snarl of frustration when it didn’t work.

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“I wonder what it could be,” Dahlia said. “Something worse than a collar? Maybe something that can disable my psionics from a distance?”

Or something worse. Dahlia wondered if the Gondar priests were developing something to use against illithids because of the attack on Baldur’s Gate. She knew that they were skilled enough to make something that would work very well against her kind.

“I wish I knew more about the High House,” Dahlia said. “I’ve only been there once before. Perhaps I should have gone there more often. I was originally going to ask one of the priests there to make my prosthetic legs, but I ended up with an artificer from Waterdeep.” She smiled. “This artificer happens to be an illithid! But I mostly employ it because the priests here have been so busy…”

She would have liked to have used artificers in Baldur’s Gate. Either she had to travel to Waterdeep or Sezessk had to come to Baldur’s Gate whenever she needed work done on her legs. But she also didn’t want to bother the priests when they had so much work to do already. Besides, Sez was well-known for its excellent prosthetics (though most people knew it in its human disguise, Cedric).

“Well, whatever the gith want, I want to make sure they don’t get it,” Dahlia said firmly. “I just hope they haven’t already beaten us to it.”

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"I doubt you'll need to be fluent.. but inflections, exclamations, they will be useful. They're more common. And curses, obviously." he paused a moment, "I know you don't like exploring minds, but if you're uncertain about a translation, you are welcome to look for it in mine." He had a feeling she would stubbornly learn as much as possible via less psionic methods, but he wanted to present the option anyway. Better to seek an answer from his head than an unsuspecting ally. Ka'zalii gave her a look of understanding when she mentioned time. "You won't be in the centre of it all immediately. If you choose the amnesia idea, we can use that as an excuse to reintroduce you to the fight slowly. My ghustil can explain the exact symptoms you need to mimic." That was if she hadn't researched it beforehand. He foresaw an instance or two of having to remind her to slow down a bit. It would do no good to burn out before they left.

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“It is the biggest temple in Baldur’s Gate. There are over a hundred priests and acolytes there. So they are going to be outnumbered. Though…I suppose there are also going to be plenty of them leaving the temple to work on rebuilding,” Dahlia said.

She sensed worry from Ka’zalii as he asked about psionic devices. “I don’t know,” she admitted. “They might, but I’m not sure. Is there something you’re concerned about the gith taking from the temple?”

Perhaps something they could use against Dahlia? Something more effective than a collar? She shuddered at the thought.

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"I doubt you'll need to be fluent.. but inflections, exclamations, they will be useful. They're more common. And curses, obviously." he paused a moment, "I know you don't like exploring minds, but if you're uncertain about a translation, you are welcome to look for it in mine." He had a feeling she would stubbornly learn as much as possible via less psionic methods, but he wanted to present the option anyway. Better to seek an answer from his head than an unsuspecting ally. Ka'zalii gave her a look of understanding when she mentioned time. "You won't be in the centre of it all immediately. If you choose the amnesia idea, we can use that as an excuse to reintroduce you to the fight slowly. My ghustil can explain the exact symptoms you need to mimic." That was if she hadn't researched it beforehand. He foresaw an instance or two of having to remind her to slow down a bit. It would do no good to burn out before they left.

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“It’s a temple of Gond, the biggest temple in Baldur’s Gate,” Dahlia explained. “The temple is essentially a series of workshops. The priests there are inventors and craftsmen. Their skills been in higher demand than usual since the Netherbrain attack, since they’ve been helping rebuild. Really, they could be after anything there.”

Dahlia had only been to the High House once before, and she had been quite impressed by the Gondar priests’ work.

“Perhaps there’s an invention there that they want?” Dahlia suggested. “Or maybe they’re just looking anywhere that looks important to find me? I’m not sure. I suppose we could ask the Gondar priests. They might be able to tell us.”

If the priests didn’t want to talk, she could use her illithid form. She hoped they’d be more cooperative than the merchants.

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"I doubt you'll need to be fluent.. but inflections, exclamations, they will be useful. They're more common. And curses, obviously." he paused a moment, "I know you don't like exploring minds, but if you're uncertain about a translation, you are welcome to look for it in mine." He had a feeling she would stubbornly learn as much as possible via less psionic methods, but he wanted to present the option anyway. Better to seek an answer from his head than an unsuspecting ally. Ka'zalii gave her a look of understanding when she mentioned time. "You won't be in the centre of it all immediately. If you choose the amnesia idea, we can use that as an excuse to reintroduce you to the fight slowly. My ghustil can explain the exact symptoms you need to mimic." That was if she hadn't researched it beforehand. He foresaw an instance or two of having to remind her to slow down a bit. It would do no good to burn out before they left.

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“If they hate hearing music in public, I imagine they’ll hate the sounds of combat even more!” Dahlia agreed. “Honestly, it’s too quiet here! Maybe I’m just used to the noise level of the Lower City, but I don’t like it.”

She wondered what’d happen if they happened to fight the gith in the middle of the streets. She imagined the Watch wouldn’t care that they were trying to rid of the city of them; they’d probably just arrest them. Maybe if she turned back into an illithid she could prevent them from being arrested? She wasn’t sure just how much influence she’d have over the Watch. Hopefully enough to stop them getting into trouble. And if not, she would definitely talk to Ulder Ravenguard. She was sure he would back her up.

“These Upper City people can look down on the Lower City all they like but I prefer the Lower City,” Dahlia added. She smiled. “Honestly, I think a good disturbance is what this place needs!” She was only partially joking.

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"I doubt you'll need to be fluent.. but inflections, exclamations, they will be useful. They're more common. And curses, obviously." he paused a moment, "I know you don't like exploring minds, but if you're uncertain about a translation, you are welcome to look for it in mine." He had a feeling she would stubbornly learn as much as possible via less psionic methods, but he wanted to present the option anyway. Better to seek an answer from his head than an unsuspecting ally. Ka'zalii gave her a look of understanding when she mentioned time. "You won't be in the centre of it all immediately. If you choose the amnesia idea, we can use that as an excuse to reintroduce you to the fight slowly. My ghustil can explain the exact symptoms you need to mimic." That was if she hadn't researched it beforehand. He foresaw an instance or two of having to remind her to slow down a bit. It would do no good to burn out before they left.

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“Oh, my mistake! Of course you’re exquisite!” Dahlia said, only half joking. Ka’zalii really was very pretty, but she was not interested in him like that.

She was pleased he understood her thoughts on music, was glad that he, too, enjoyed it. She was very interested in hearing githyanki music. Perhaps she’d get the chance when she was with the rebellion. The thought of perhaps learning a new instrument or two was exciting.

Dahlia smiled mischievously, then sang:

“Rocky though the road might be, blinding be the sun,

Raise your swords and grab your wands, the battle will be won-“

A nearby guard snapped at her, “Stop that! You are making a disturbance!”

Dahlia stared at the guard, feigning ignorance. “A disturbance?”

She nodded, frowning at her. “Yes, music is not allowed on the streets. If you keep disturbing the peace, you will be escorted out of the Upper City.”

Dahlia shrugged. “That’s a strange rule, but very well. I’ll behave!”

She continued on her way, and couldn’t help but snort with amusement as they let the guard behind.

Dahlia loved to sing. She was very proud of her voice. Sure, she was also proud of her skill with instruments but she loved her singing voice very much.

“I really hope this won’t take too long! If I cannot play music I will go crazy!” she declared dramatically.

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"I doubt you'll need to be fluent.. but inflections, exclamations, they will be useful. They're more common. And curses, obviously." he paused a moment, "I know you don't like exploring minds, but if you're uncertain about a translation, you are welcome to look for it in mine." He had a feeling she would stubbornly learn as much as possible via less psionic methods, but he wanted to present the option anyway. Better to seek an answer from his head than an unsuspecting ally. Ka'zalii gave her a look of understanding when she mentioned time. "You won't be in the centre of it all immediately. If you choose the amnesia idea, we can use that as an excuse to reintroduce you to the fight slowly. My ghustil can explain the exact symptoms you need to mimic." That was if she hadn't researched it beforehand. He foresaw an instance or two of having to remind her to slow down a bit. It would do no good to burn out before they left.