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Ello! I just played A Dream of Silence and absolutely loved it!!! You did such a good job with it, I just adore the idea and the writing of the 1 Act. I saw that you needed some unigue interactions for a cleric and thought that you might like the idea: if the Touch or Speach are high enough level, maybe cleric can use healing touch or healing word on Astarion? Get him a couple of hps, depending on the trust level? Also, loved annoying Godey, made sure to push him and unlatch the door whenever I could, just to be an ass, lmao. Though it could be fun if it had some consequences in the future!

Allo! Thank you! That is a delight to hear.

That is a beautiful impulse that's a little too powerful for the game. It's important that the player's actions be slight, small things that are none-the-less deeply significant.

I'm also trying to avoid specific spells and abilities, to keep the player's identity ambiguous.

YES. Annoying Godey is an extremely worthwhile occupation! And I absolutely agree--how you engage with Godey will determine parts of how Act 3 goes.

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Hello! I just played a Dream of Silence, and it's such a well executed text game! I thought it was awesome!

You mentioned possibly wanting some assistance with certain class choices in this game, and as someone who often identifies as a barbarian, I'd love to help! I didn't know where else to go to mention it, so I thought I'd throw you an ask 😅. Is there a place to officially submit interest to help with the project?

Yes please. Give me all the barbarian opinions.

I think you already contacted on Discord, but just in case that was another rage-fueled-individual, I've noted down your tumblr username.

I'm going to start running people through Act 2 sometime next month.

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This dream of silence you made is absolutely fantastic I'm blown away

Thank you! It was very fun to make.

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A monster has its teeth in your companions.

It builds nightmares out of their worst memories and drinks their pain.

One of your companions has a particularly bad worst memory.

Play Here

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Art by @cymk8

Character Specific Achievements:

Aldiirn - Dusksong Be a bard. Use music to make first contact. belongs to @mistercrowbar

Andar - Poor Man's Dancing Lights Be an arcane caster. Try to cast magic. belongs to Tatsunara

Ember - Ghosts Need Sleep Explain why you're sometimes absent. belongs to @catsharky

Finch - Get Safe And Cared For Idiot Successfully hug Astarion. belongs to @everchased

Francys - Priorities Ignore everyone else in the campsite. belongs to @ineadhyn

Greygold - Psspsspsspss Be a ranger. Help Astarion calm down after being frightened. belongs to @jeeaark

Nawen - You're Unbreakable Be a rogue. Give your vampire a pep-talk after a particularly difficult day. belongs to @ineed-to-sleep

Ria - Music Box Be a bard. Play the theme. belongs to @ladyofrosefire

Staeve - Don't Forget Me Say something memorable. belongs to @velnna

Temiter - This Is All A Bit Much Abandon the dream using the silver cord. belongs to @not-poignant

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Another link to the game.

#bg3 #astarion #bg3 fanart #baldur's gate 3 #fangame #interactive fiction

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Sex worker/Charity worker Halstarion AU --- More of this AU

#I know that this is a modern au #dealing with serious issues in realistic ways #and I very much want to know what happens next within the confines of the premise #but part of me is just #what if halsin could still turn into a bear? #and he just mauled cazador #tore him apart like one of those enrichment pumpkins tigers get in their enclosures #police can't do anything. that's a wild animal attack #just my private single-supernatural-element-au to this au #this continues to be devastatingly beautiful

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Number of Goblins, ranked

One Goblin - That's just a goblin. He's probably just getting his groceries or something. Leave him alone, you asshole.

Ten Goblins -- That's a fairly normal amount of goblins. There's generally around ten goblins in any given situations. They're just here for aesthetic, so you know it's a fantasy world. Remember to tip them when you leave.

One Hundred Goblins -- Ok this is too many goblins, but this is a reasonable amount of too many goblins. Like, this is maybe an army of goblins or something? My point is that they're probably here for a good reason. Best not to mess with them, they're likely load-bearing in some way.

One Thousand Goblins -- This is probably a goblin town, in which case this is really more a case of One Human, which is a completely different list only available on goblintube. If not, all these goblins are lost. Return them to the goblin town. The orcs are worried.

One Million Goblins -- A million goblins? I'm not sure I've even seen a million things in my life , and now there's a million goblins? That's, like, all the goblins. Why are you at a convention of all the goblins? Are you a goblin? Actually, no, that would make sense. Yeah, that's probably what's going on here. Sorry you had to find out this way.

One Billion Goblins -- Ok, look, at this point you have clearly been sent to a future time where humanity is extinct and goblins have inherited the earth. I can think of no other explanation for a billion goblins. This sadly means that you're the weirdo, and you have to go be a cryptid now. At least you can find a phone and read the goblin creepypastas about you.

One Trillion Goblins -- How? What is happening? This is more goblins then there are birds, and they'll all in your house? How is your house this big? Wait, forget the goblins, how is your house this big? Are the goblins here to guillotine you? Probably! Move out of your stupid mansion and let the goblins have it, you weird rich bird-hoarding freak.

One Quadrillion Goblins -- One quadrillion? I'm only like 80% sure that's even a real number! Luckily, you won't have to deal with a quadrillion goblins for long, because soon they'll collapse together under their gravity, forming a far more manageable single planet-sized goblin. Picard's not gonna be happy about this one!

More Goblins -- Fuck off, you do not have more then a quadrillion goblins. Why are you lying? Are you worried I won't like you if you don't claim to have an implausible number of goblins? Don't worry. Your worth is not dependent on your goblin numbers. Go back to the actual number of goblins secure in the fact I love you, no matter how few goblins you have <3

#this post was a journey #and now I feel loved and affirmed #though I do still want there to be more goblins

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"...You wish to share?"

#fluff in strange places #affection is interrupting paperwork

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"First," said Gale. "Do not kill any thinking creatures in Waterdeep unless you must to protect yourself or you have my express permission."

As Gale spoke, he could feel the weight of his words sinking into the person sitting across from him. It was like casting a spell, but took no effort. Astarion had been staring hollowly into his goblet of blood, but at this he made a faintly interested noise. As if the rule were novel and he was considering the shape of it.

"Second, you will obey me in all things," said Gale. There didn't feel like there was any honest way of softening that. Astarion didn't make any sound at all.

"Third, do not leave the tower without permission." Astarion made another speculative noise, considering this one too. But then his shoulders hunched and his eyes skittered down, as if he didn't want to look at what was about to happen.

"Fourth," Gale said, and paused. He started with some context: "There is a tressym upstairs."

Astarion's head twitched. He looked up at Gale, blinking, startled. He had the air of someone who had been bracing for a blow, and instead had just been handed a balloon animal.

"A what?" he asked.

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Excerpt from The Last Will and Testament of Cazador Szarr, Chapter 4 on AO3

#Astarion #Gale #Astarion/Gale #Bloodweave #BG3 #fanfic #Inheriting People #Power Imbalance #finally actually got to this part

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As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

#my grandfather was jewish and we had a seder at his house every year #he would have liked this #once the context was exhaustively explained to him

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i've been playing a dream of silence over and over again for like an hour LMAO im obsessed!!!!

Thank you! It was a delight and I tried to design it to be very replayable, so I'm glad that's working. <3

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The “oh I could definitely write this fanfic in under 5000 words and it really wouldn’t take me that long” voice in your head is actually the devil speaking

#my devil is named Sigh #and he twines around my shoulders #sneaks sips of my tea #and gushes about how interestingly traumatized all these characters could be

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hi!! i do hope i am not bothering you by coming into your inbox out of the blue!! i am here to thank you for a dream of silence because god, what an utterly experience that was. i am distressed and eating the drywall in the BEST way possible. holds my poor poor beloved boy SO fucking GENTLE. i am going to have to boot up bg3 now and give him a LOT of smooches to assure MYSELF that he's okay. all the highest compliments i can possibly give to you. i am VERY excited and scared for more <3

(and if you happen to still be interviewing people about their characters, i'm game for that!! mine certainly gave me an EXPERIENCE with the scenario your game has dropped them into, and it's really hitting me in the emotions right now. no pressure either way, i just wanted to come on here and give this project the love it deserves <3 )

You are a jewel and the antithesis of bother. My soul lives off of the knowledge I have given other people experiences like that, and the way you've described it is absolutely beautiful. Please enjoy the drywall and comfort the vampire with smooches. These are all objectively correct things.

Oh! Yes please! My soul also lives off of getting to run people's MCs through this scenario. I am currently not allowed to do more serious development on A Dream of Silence because one cannot live on fan fiction alone (blame capitalism) and April is dedicated to a different project. But I'm set to make Act 2 in May and will put you on my list of people to contact when that begins. Delight!

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#i was not expecting #to like the tiny catspaw button as much as i do

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Hey btw, here's a piece of life advice:

If you know what you'd have to do to solve a problem, but you just don't want to do it, your main problem isn't the problem itself. Your problem is figuring out how to get yourself to do the solution.

If your problem is not eating enough vegetables, the problem you should be solving is "how do I make vegetables stop being yucky". If your problem is not getting enough exercise, the problem you should be solving is "how do I make exercise stop sucking ass". You're not supposed to just be doing things that are awful and suck all the time forever, you're supposed to figure out how to make it stop being so awful all the time.

I used to hate wearing sunscreen because it's sticky and slimy and disgusting and it feels bad and it smells bad, so I neglected to wear it even if I needed to. Then I found one that isn't like that, and doesn't smell and feel gross. Problem solved.

There is no correct way to live that's just supposed to suck and feel bad all the time. You're allowed to figure out how to make it not suck so bad.

#I feel like this might be helpful #in my quest to ever get to sleep on time

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my favorite romance trope is like. you dont want to hurt me but i am asking you to hurt me. i need you to stab me. i need you to hit me. i need you to carve this out of me. i need you to cut something off of me. this will hurt both of us in incredible ways. yours are the only hands i trust enough to weild this knife. you do not want to hurt me. i am asking you to hurt me.

#hand the knife to someone you trust

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Amanita put a scroll down on the table. Gale drew it closer, unrolled it, and read it.

It was an itemized list. A long, long list of objects. Some conventionally valuable--treasure, furniture. Some deeply unconventional items, including someone's skull. A truly disquieting amount of equipment clearly intended exclusively for torture. But this was a list associated with vampires, so obviously it was going to be disquieting.

There was a list of places. Estates. Crypts. All in Baldur's Gate. And there was a list of names. Seven people, ordered alphabetically.

"These are your dead associate's possessions?" Gale clarified to make sure he understood what he was looking at.

"More than an associate. He was actually literally my uncle," Amanita said, though she didn't sound terribly happy about that fact, leaning her head against her hand as she watched Gale read. "And yes."

"Is this a will?" Gale asked, turning over the paper. There didn't seem to be any instructions as to dispensation.

Amanita was shaking her head. "No, we never leave wills. We all hope that they will never be necessary. This is just a list. Written up by his chamberlain. Everyone has agreed to let me manage the distribution. It's less bloody than people grabbing what they want. You'll notice some of the items are marked. That's what's been claimed."

Gale did note marks--small initials by the items. Almost all of the torture equipment had been claimed by 'MA'. Two of the people had been claimed.

"Oh Gods," Gale muttered, because it was obvious what Amanita was suggesting.

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Excerpt from The Last Will and Testament of Cazador Szarr, Chapter 1 on AO3

#Astarion #Gale #Astarion/Gale #Bloodweave #BG3 #fanfic #AU - Reluctant Vampire Lord Dekarios #Inheriting People #Angst #Power Imbalance #Trying To Be A Good Person In A Terrible Situation #A Curiously Large Amount of Fluff

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I'm so proud of spawn epilogue Astarion I hope he becomes one of the great heroes of Faerûn I hope he meets Drizzt Do'Urden and kisses him full on the mouth once and never again I hope he's adored and remembered and appreciated for everything he is I hope that his face is depicted perfectly in the many paintings and sketches and sculptures people will make and commission of him to the point that he may never need a mirror again to engage in petty vanity I hope he continues to love and be loved after all he's gone through I hope he has a splendid future I'm not crying you're crying

#yes perfect #and especially all of it