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icharchivist · 2 months
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them showing the stats of vintage weapons collected by players only to hit with Gilsa like
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being so high it goes past the actual limits
while OnoYuu is smiling.
OnoYuu is the Gilsa Georg of Granblue though, just because he collected like 40 Gilsa.
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he's an outlier. but maybe he should count still.
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nictanova · 7 months
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Corsair Princess Gilsae
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sumerianlanguage · 1 year
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I don't know if you've done something like this already, but what would the word be for "precious" or "personal treasure"? What about "one hoped for"?
Hello! I’ve answered some related questions before (see the links below), but here’s what I’ve got.
For “precious”, I would use kiang “beloved”, written 𒆠𒉘 in cuneiform.
A great word for “treasure” is gilsa 𒄃𒊓, which literally means “parched wheat”, as in something that lasts a long time, and thus “long-lasting treasure”. Another word is dubshen 𒁾𒊿 “treasure chest”.
“Hope” is a topic without a perfect match in Sumerian. Ningsa 𒃻𒁲 can mean “goal”, as in “thing (to be) arrived at”. You may also want a word like aash 𒀉𒀾 “wish, desire, thing required, something desired or needed”.
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pleinsdemuses · 1 year
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𝑾𝑰𝑺𝑯𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑻 𝑺𝑯𝑰𝑷𝑺 👀
Frank Castle x Karen Page
Frank Castle x Natasha Romanoff
Joel Miller x Maggie Rhee Smith
Joel Miller x Alicia Clark
Grant Ward x Daisy Johnson
Marc Spector x Lara Croft (a Moon Knight x Tomb raider crossover omg)
Marc Spector x Katherine Pierce
Brock Rumlow x Sinthea (ofc ofc my fav toxic couple)
Brock Rumlow x Sharon Carter
Bucky Barnes x Brock Rumlow
Bucky Barnes x Dominika Egorova
John Wick x Dominika Egorova
John Wick x Natasha Romanoff (just imagine these two meeting on a mission)
Leo Barnes x Sidney Prescott (where he is her bodyguard in Scream 👀)
Dr Chris Beck x Ellen Ripley (in an Alien verse)
Shane Walsh x Judith Grimes
Aleksander Morozova x Mary Stuart
Aleksander Morozova x Morgana Pendragon
Aleksander Morozova x Yennefer of Vengerberg
Geralt of rivia x Daenerys Targaryen
Loki x Lady Sif
Loki x Yennefer of Vengerberg
Loki x Morgana Pendragon
Dean Winchester x Katherine Pierce
Dean Winchester x Rebekah Mikaelson
Billy Russo x Harley Quinn
Ragnar Lothbrok x Lagertha
Rollo x Gilsa
Jamie Fraser x Claire Beauchamp
Rick Grimes x Claire Redfield
Leon Kennedy x Claire Redfield
Yennefer of vengerberg x Stephen Strange
Darcy Lewis x Stephen Strange
Jane & Loki
Katniss Everdeen x Oliver Queen
Yennefer of vengerberg x Daemon Targaryen
Most wanted | Muse list.
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hedgiwithapen · 4 months
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Leverage + Books of Bayern
hitter, hacker, grifter, thief.... Enna, Conrad, Isi, Razo. Isi never reclaimed her name, (maybe Selia's war plan is delayed, maybe they didn't learn about the war until it was too late) but the Forest Workers are done with the injustices in Bayern. Time to scam some royals, get a whole lot of money and get revenge in the process. Feat: Gilsa the maker, Tatto the inside man, and Finn as the honest, fresh face who trusts them despite his better judgement.
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samsdaimods · 2 years
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The Carta Cut - DF Gambeson PJs For Frosty - Added Tinting by Margerard
This is a conversion of Gilsa's "The Carta Cut" female dwarf gambeson. You'll find here the original texture converted to Frosty, as well as versions that allow tinting and patterns, and some bonus tint changes.
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3d10fire-damage · 2 years
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in which we officially become the breakfast club (or at least, when i say we did)
Once the whole party was gathered for breakfast, Corrin posed a question. “What is pegging?” Slim, flustered, offered a vague explanation involving equipment, then left the room. Calypso, after dying of laughter on the ground, explained more frankly what pegging is. Mortified, Corrin ran out of the room as well.
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Fea went outside to talk to Lin, who happened to be jogging by. They had a conversation about Fea’s aversion to radiant damage, and Lin offered to apply radiance to Fea in order to “get her used to the sensation.” Sure, Jan
Inside, Calypso joined Corrin in their shared quarters to pack for the trip. After some teasing and more Birdemic, Calypso assured Corrin it was no big deal.
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Fea came back in and told Calypso that there was an open invitation for her to meet up with Lin before setting out on the road 👀👀👀 so Calypso fuckin barrel rolled outta there for a good time. Pegging happened but mark my words Caly Will top next time
Back on the road again, Fea passed out the rest of the dolls, claiming the one that made them is choosing to remain anonymous. Calypso also mentioned the tiefling from Blood Smear that Kattie hated, and how the party should beat his ass if they ever find him.
Norsom again! Some jokes about Slim and Cas were exchanged, but the group headed up to the nearby lake to inquire about their quest with the head fisherman.
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Corrin claimed that it was actually illegal for him to get into the water or try to swim. Because he’s too small, or something.
While uncomfortably discussing what boat they should take to investigate the water, Calypso crouched down by the shore and dipped her hand into the water. Suddenly she was engulfed in water as a very big water elemental whelmed her completely. Fuck around and find out, the character.
Calypso kept roll really shitty strength saves during this encounter, but luckily Fea pulled her out of the soup, and stuck close with her most of the time.
Corrin Clutchhammer limited the elemental’s mobility by hitting it with Ray of Frost over and over, as well as trying to keep his friends safe with Sanctuary.
Slim maintained his distance, remembering his horrible experience with water elementals back in Gilsa. He did heal Calypso back up at least once though.
And naturally, Kattie brought out the Shatters. But also, she utilized Thunderwave to push the elemental into her Cloud of Daggers. Clever.
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At one point the DM redirected an attack from Fea to Calypso, to knock her out a second time, simply because of the following GIF. I could not be mad at her for doing this. It was too funny.
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Then when I rolled an 18 on Calypso’s death save, she was like “that’s not good.”
Fea stood between Calypso and the water elemental protectively, but Calypso immediately got up and ran back up to the enemy to keep punching it. Girl’s a monk, she doesn’t have range!
Once the beast was defeated, Corrin hurried over to hit Calypso with a Cure Wounds. Slim flopped onto the ground and stared at the sky, coming down from the water panic.
Kattie was given the party’s gold reward for completing the job, as well as a bottle of moonshine, which she did not recognize. Calypso took a swig of it before the group moved on.
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The party settled into the tavern, except Slim who visited Cas 👀 But they didn’t hook up, they just talked. Slim asked if it ever gets easier, dealing with heavy, dark things in life-- if they ever go away and stop weighing on a person. 🥺
Corrin challenged Calypso to some rollies. They went three rounds, with Corrin winning two out of three. Fea advised against this, for both of them, but being dumb kids, they ignored her.
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Fea and Calypso had a heart to heart while on the road, initiated by Calypso asking if Fea would be mad at her if she stayed in the FG. Fea found out some more about Calypso’s upbringing, and assured Calypso that the rest of the group does genuinely want her around and aren’t just tolerating her. Calypso also tried to talk Fea out of her idea to get smacked with Lin’s paladin magic, to mixed success.
Entering Arepal, certain members of the group basked in the familiar heat. Kattie was kinda sweatin’ it though (seems to be a running theme with Bree’s characters).
Slim told the group they’d could try and eat all the food his sister Maria gave to them, but not to hurt themselves. He insisted that she would find some other way to coddle Fea, since she doesn’t eat.
As they approached Slim’s home, two young boys came running up, calling “Uncle Slim, Uncle Slim!” It was two of his nephews 🥺 Calypso laughed at how they all talk funny up here.
Everyone was introduced to Maria. She gave the group a tour while Slim started working in the kitchen. She also referred to Slim as “la princessa.”
Everyone was given chores to help with in the following days. Corrin took up cleaning, Kattie and Fea took up various animal chores, and Calypso was assigned chicken duty, because she asked about any jobs that involved her hitting or being hit. >;)
Calypso mentioned Slim dressing up for David, which Intrigued Maria. Afterward she went outside for DOG TIME
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Fea and Kattie discussed horses (Fea assumes animals will hate her because she’s dead) and then met Dave himself, who took them on a ride. They discussed Slim a bit, Fea commenting that Slim seems kinda haunted, but doesn’t talk much about it.
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Corrin and Slim discussed looking over Slim’s blueprints and picking out Calypso’s gun later in the day. One of Slim’s nephews would be coming too.
Everyone gathered for dinner, and Slim got just a tad flustered at Dave’s appearance. Everyone else was like 👀👀👀
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Corrin fell for Luciana, another member of the family, and then he insisted on switching seats with Calypso to sit next to her at the table. Calypso agreed, because she would be closer to Maria. Fea was sticking close by, as she does.
can’t wait to embarrass cowboy dad next time
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wildwechselmagazin · 1 year
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snowzapped · 3 years
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Commissioned work for Emily from a couple months ago. ^__^
I liked how this turned out then. But now, it seems desaturated for some reason. Like it needs more vibrant reds or something. Maybe my eye for color has improved? Or maybe I’m just tired. I only slept 2hrs in 2 days. XD
commission info / patreon / Buy Me a Coffee☕
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icharchivist · 8 months
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I know we already got Sieten't as fantasy unit from the And You event, but wouldn't it be so funny and tragic if we got evil, Vane-less Lancelot as well? We know Onoyuuki would be so thrilled
please OnoYuu is still begging for it i'm sure.
i mean evil Lancelot is born from OnoYuu wanting, originally, "a Dark Lancelot unit to use with his Gisla grid*, one where he is consumed by darkness, probably because he lost Vane, and for which Vane is his only Light, and it's why losing him plunges him into darkness".
I'm sure he was thrilled to be able to play it in an event, i'm sure he was so so damn happy to see his vision finally realized on the screen.
But OnoYuu actual wish is Lancelot getting consumed by darkness because he lost Vane, and Vane coming back to be his light and bringing him back to the right side.
We've ONLY offered him what he wanted HALFWAY, plotwise.
so i say, give him a Fantasy unit where you actually explore this scenario!! it'd be worth it!!
(also like, i know that because of that many fans have been wanting a Light!Vane alt and have been really gunning on his Grand to be Light, since unlike Lancelot or Percival he's not thematically linked to an element that hard. If they go through with a Dark!Lancelot/Light!Vane alt, they could make them echo one another it'd be so nice).
*AND ALSO OnoYuu wanted it for GAMEPLAY REASONS because he's a massive player and also a Dark Lord. He adores playing Dark. This man has a full grid made of Gisla. do you know how insane that is.
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Dark Lancelot in an event is fine, but it is NOT helping OnoYuu's dream to use Dark Lancelot in his Gilsa team.
THEREFORE.
DARK LANCELOT ALT SHOULD BE A THING. make it a Fantasy unit really diving into how hard losing Vane was for him. Have him say something sappy as "Vane was my one and only light" so you can finally make OnoYuu happy since he's been saying that for years. Maybe end the FE with Vane showing up to him like a ghost to try to stir him back to the light. (saying that since Vane has an affinity with ghosts in his FEs).
*punches a table* i will not rest until OnoYuu get his dreams realized
of course only because i want him happy and not just because i think he has the Biggest Brained Take Of All Time That Would Also Make ME Super Happy What Do You Mean--
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wow!! cursed!! thank you @broken----butterfly for submitting this and making my day just a little bit worse (i’m kidding this is great)
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sumerianlanguage · 2 years
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Hello,
There’s a quote in Indiana Jones:
“fortune and glory”
how would that be translated in cuneiform?
Thank you!
Hello! Here the “fortune” in question could mean “good fortune”, but I think the best match in this context is gilsa 𒄃𒊓, a word meaning “parched wheat” which lasted a long time, and thus came to mean “long-lasting or eternal treasure(s)”. “Glory, fame, praise” is ara 𒌒, so “fortune and glory” could be gilsa ara 𒄃𒊓𒌒 or gilsa u ara 𒄃𒊓𒅇𒌒.
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lesilla · 4 years
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The shoes you want to be in to get it right from the first days of the New Year: the sparkling and wonderful GILDA. 
https://lesil.la/gilda
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Adventure: The River Rises at Wardenrock Bridge
“Fit as a Bridge” 
- Common folk saying indicating that something is proper, forsightful, sturdy, wise, or just plain useful to the common good
Setup:  For generations, the bridge at Warden rock has been a vital artery of communication and commerce, leading from the kingdom’s heartland to the lowland farming settlements. Built as an answer to the often temperamental river Volta, the bridge provides an elevated and reliable year-round route for travelers to cross a waterway that often floods, slips its banks, or decides to run shallow, making it fundamentally untrustworthy for barges and other river traffic. 
Recently however disputes between the garrison assigned to protect the bridge and royal tax collectors have forced traffic to a standstill, leading to conflicts between merchants, locals, and foreigners that have sometimes escalated to blows.  It seems a petty issue, but as the only crossing for miles and miles, a single problem compounding over time can result in a wait-time of days, perhaps weeks for some groups, a snarl the party will have to work hard to try to avoid. 
Adventure Hooks:
The confusion at Wardenrock bridge can provide an excellent backdrop for the party’s first adventure, scattered throughout the crowd and needing to get to the other side for myriad reasons, they’re drawn together by a quirk of fate and sent traveling down the road together. By some byzantine, generation old royal ordinance, priority across the bridge is granted to groups traveling with fifteen or more individuals, a statute intended to hurry along noble delegations and merchant caravans. As a merchant who happens to be traveling with a group of (15 minus however many the party are), the halfling Gilsa Fairbairn is pulling her hair out looking for ways to get to market before her cargo spoils. Acting desperately, she decides to send her agents out looking for people to recruit as “added security”, fluffing her numbers in the hopes of getting past the checkpoint.  Surprisingly the gambit works, and the party get to move on towards their destination while spending a few days getting to know one another along the road. Obviously something will happen along the route which will get the party entangled in yet further adventures, but that’s just what happens when you travel with strangers. 
Unseasonal rainfall has swelled the river, allowing a number of barges and skiffs to make their way up the river and park nearby Warden rock, offering  the waylaid a chance to cross the river or take people up/down stream. Tasked with carrying an important message to a town across the bridge, the party may use one of these boats but may face unexpected challenges such as a) hopping the river on a raft means hopping the tollbooth,  so the party needs to either arrange things with an overworked official, get on one of the boats sneakily, or risk getting shot at by the garrison b) offering to shave a day or three off their tirp, the bargeman the party find to escort them up the river turns out to be in league with bandits, who expect to rob travelers looking to avoid the road. 
More than a few of those traveling downriver to make a crossing in the  lowland swamps have ran afoul of that region’s apex predator: a hydra by the name of “The Crones”. Named for their rotten yellow teeth,  scraggly allege filled manes, and the way the heads bicker among eachother, local legend says this beast was born from the wrathful spirits of a group of sisters who hated eachother so much they sabotaged any hope the others had for happiness, bodies tossed one by one into the swamp as their feud escalated to accident then outright murder. Regardless of the creature’s supernatural origin, the lord of Wardenrock has deemed the beast too much of a threat to let live, and has posted a mighty bounty upon its death, which the party can claim by delivering the beast’s poisonous heart (The lord is smart enough to not ask for skulls  as proof from a beast that grows new heads like weeds).  
Further Adventures: 
Hanrik Zhalimar, Lord of Wardenrock, was an adventurer in his youth and understands what can be accomplished when skillful people are given the right incentive to tackle difficult problems. Having won himself a noble seat for his acts of valor and daring ( and his many gifts bestowed upon the crown), Hanrik settled down to raise his gaggle of children. Weighed down by age, feudal responsibilities, and the grandkids that insist on climbing him like a tree, Lord Zhalimar seeks a group of champions he can direct and cultivate into a set of trusted agents. If the party are willing to reign in their more chaotic impulses and raise themselves to Hanrik’s expectations, their monster hunt may be the first of many tasks they undertake for their new patron. 
Warden rock gets its name from a fable, in which a local folkhero encounters a cave-dwelling brute called  “Warden of the Volga” who extorted travelers along the then placid river and kept their treasures in a hidden vault. Frustratingly, no one can agree on which promontory on either side of the river was the real Warden rock, consternating storytellers and treasure hunters alike. If the party wants to discover the real secret, perhaps they should ask Hadria, Lord Zhalimar’s youngest daughter and castle steward. Though a woman of nearly thirty winters with children of her own now, she spent her childhood exploring the caves surrounding the keep, and is perhaps willing to share her experience if the party help her with a bit of child-wrangling now and again.  
Lord Zhalimar’s quarrel with the crown is somehow both simple and intractable, a squabble over tolls, dues, and feudal rights that somehow has Henrik’s men and the Queen’s butting heads at every opportunity.  To simplify a lot of old-timey legalese: because the bridge at Wardenrock is of royal importance for the movement of trade and armies, the queen is responsible for its upkeep, which gives her the right to collect tolls from those who travel across the bridge. Despite a recent increase in those tolls, the bridge is overdue for maintenance by three years, and while it’s not going to collapse into the Volta river anytime soon, the untreated wear and tear of seasons only compounds over time. Stubborn as the goat that serves as his sigil, Lord Zhalimar is not going to pay for those repairs if he doesn’t have to, both out of principle and because the undertaking would take a significantly larger portion out of his own coffers than it would out of the queen’s. Once the party has earned his approval and cultivated a reputation has heroes, he’ll send them to the capital to petition the crown about the bridge’s status, their famed deeds adding weight to their cause. 
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thenewleeland · 6 years
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God in Warfare. Or: Don’t use religion to cover your own mistakes
Statement: This post is not meant to criticize religion itself, merely to show that in some situations, it would be better to do something yourself (or in this case: would have been better if one would have done something) instead of relying on or invocating higher powers.
Chancellorsville, May 2, 5:00 pm
After receiving reports from the picket line of the 41st New York - his own old regiment - Col. Leopold von Gilsa, commanding a brigade in the Eleventh Corps of the Union Army, races to find corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard to inform him once more that enemy troops are preparing to crush his line.
von Gilsa: General, I must have reinforcements!
Howard: With the help of God, you have to keep hold this position!
von Gilsa: The Devil! Of what use is God’s help--I must have soldiers!
von Gilsas brigade was routed minutes later.
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3d10fire-damage · 5 months
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a stupid, fun episode
The party took a few months off from adventuring. In that time, each member kept busy in other ways. Valor set about doing research on the cracked dragon (who she's started calling Crackle) and met up with Beldyr to shoot her shot try and gather information on that subject, without much luck. She requested aid from the Infernal Champion to construct a dragon sanctuary, and she later went to Celestia to spend time with her brother, Honor. He, with his pull as the new Elyseum treasurer, managed to get her into a position of leadership-- namely, the rank of general (more on this later). Avi, thanks to a recommendation from Aladar (as requested by the Infernal Champion), was invited to be a guest speaker at the Aegis Institute, and managed to charm his way into further work with the Institute. He began to aid in the study of ley lines running through Cordias, and also studied herbal Viagra medicine.
Kattie, after securing assistance and resources from Billie to help with the development of Dusk City, went on a vacation with Eve to Harmonce. The Rising Tide had evolved into a political party of sorts, and progress had been made to liberate and empower the common people of Harmonce. Prison City was now a tourist attraction, the Earth District now had mandatory days off, etc. Plus, Teagan had set aside a big bag of gold for Kattie's partial ownership of the Oasis. Fea kept busy with her cafe job, as well as taking up small solo-able jobs for the guild, which earned her a good (if a little mysterious) reputation (old people especially liked her). Meanwhile, her visions grew more frequent and potent.
Calypso went to the Infernal Champion the very next day after returning from Calamity and had their contract dissolved (Kleptso is back). According to Billie, the Celestial Champion was missing, and Calypso suggested the cracked dragon had gotten to them. 😔 Afterward, Calypso and Fea visited Vorkrieg Monastery, where they enjoyed the hot springs and Calypso fought (and lost to) Andraya. Calypso also stole a collection plate from the monastery and gifted it to Egg as a dinner plate. Calypso also met up with Corrin in Gilsa for some sparring-as-therapy, and assisted with construction in Dusk City. Finally she and Fea went to Celestia to speak with Gabriel about possibly getting Fea into a living body (as suggested by Billie) but found that Gabriel was cooped up in the palace trying to handle things in the absence of his champion.
Slim had his baby in the month of Desteroth, in his cozy little home in Norsum. He named the half-minotaur Lorenzo, and the baby boy was very adorable. The Breakfast Club tended to end up at the home when not occupied elsewhere, happy to see Slim, Teresa, Egg, and the new baby of course.
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Eventually, duty called once again. Each member of the Breakfast Club (even Slim) received a letter from Thedda requesting that they meet up at their Guild City cabin. Through happenstance, Calypso and Fea were already at the cabin and thus were the ones to greet Slim when he arrived in the morning. They gave him a giant hug, during which Calypso failed to lift Slim and so Fea lifted them both. Slim said that he had decided to rejoin the group for adventuring, and had passed his kids over to Maria while he was gone. He started to say he had left Egg behind as well, citing the need for some distance between the two of them, but then Egg noodled out of Slim's pocket-- he was back too! 🥚🐁💕
Avi Sent a message to Calypso, saying he was a little too tied up at Aegis Institute to go along for this new ride (something about a black hole at his desk). Once she was off the phone, Calypso asked if Egg had brought along his fancy new dinner plate. Alas, he had not; he could not have stowed away with it (cue some grumbling from Slim). Fea admonished Calypso for stealing, but the tiefling argued it was like stealing from her own house. After a gripe about the Infernal Champion, Calypso backed down from calling them a sucker. To quote Fea: "I've been working on her."
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Next, Valor showed up. When Calypso opened the door for her, she was dressed in very fancy golden armor, and her hair was done up in braids and bangs (something something god's favorite princess). Calypso joked that Valor was pregnant now, as Slim had been, but Valor explained her new title of general over in Celestia. At some point during their break from adventuring, Gabriel had vacated his position of leadership over Celestia-- namely, when one of his brothers, Aphaeleon, had suddenly showed up after being gone(?) for hundreds of years, and challenged his rule (Aphaeleon being royal #16, and Gabriel #17). 👀 As general, Valor's responsibilities revolved mostly around dispatching the militant force of angels. (Also Calypso confused "coffers" and "coffin" and wondered what dead people needed money for.) Throughout this talk of Celestia, Fea looked a little dazed.
When Kattie returned to the cabin, she explained Dusk City to Slim-- how it could be a home base for the group, as well as a new place for the rats and mice of Barnesville to settle. Soon enough, Thedda knocked on the door and sat down with the party to discuss their newest job. She brought in a rather slapdash folder of documents, which she passed out to everyone (one of these documents was her grocery list, oops). Apparently Anna, who had been acting as Thedda's secretary, had gone on vacation recently, so Thedda was kind of in the weeds when it came to organizing things. There was some silly banter about hiring a new one in the meantime-- Calypso mentioned looking for a "desk lady" while they were out.
The group's assistance had been requested by someone in Altair named Inez. Lately, nationalism and vanity have been becoming increasingly common and notable among the citizens of Celestia-- to such a degree in Altair that the city was beginning to suffer. Cart crashes were becoming more common, important tasks were being neglected, etc. The party were to go to Celestia and investigate this problem-- as Calypso put it, to nibshit. She had to define this term for the others. The group agreed to do this thing, sans Avi, who would be staying in Aegis, and Slim took Calypso along to do some shopping before they set out.
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Now, Kattie possessed the ability to teleport the group directly to Altair, since they had been there before on an earlier mission. And that would've been good for Slim, who wasn't jazzed about taking a boat across the water to Celestia. But due to Reasons(TM), the group decided to teleport to Kreb Port, then Holly's Dock, then Altair, so they could ask around for pertinent info.
At a not-very-busy Kreb Port, the group located a nice half-orc dock worker and asked him about the current state of Celestia. According to him, the people of Celestia don't come through the port nearly as much as they used to, and the ones that do have developed a large ego. They'll complain about Ibera's air or the sunlight. This has been the case for about a month or so. Afterward, Kattie teleported everyone across the water to Holly's Dock.
At the dock, Fea flagged down another worker and asked where the ship he was loading stuff onto was going, if not to Ibera. The dock worker explained that it was agricultural goods headed for the Acheron Retrieval Port; there was a new tariff there on Celestia's exports, Acheron being the primary buyer of those exports since not a lot of crops can be grown in Acheron. The dock worker also talked up Celestia as the best place in Cordias due to it being blessed by the goddess of light.
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Valor was noticed by some of the guards, who recognized her as the general (they called her Madam General) and offered her and her group a ride to their destination. She declined the offer, as the group was planning on staying the night in port so that Kattie could teleport them directly to Altair the next day. With that in mind, Calypso and Slim set about their plan to gather further information about the state of Celestia: to get really drunk and interview people at the local tavern. People are more candid with their words when they're a little tipsy, after all. Yes, it was crucial that Slim and Calypso also be drunk for this. Entirely crucial.
After knocking back some choice shots, Calypso approached a tabaxi woman with wings, and Slim leaned against her with a journal to write down what they learned. Calypso opened the discussion by asking the woman if she'd be interested in being a desk lady for the Heroes' Guild, but eventually they did get to talking about Celestia. The woman didn't have much insight, seeing as she would be getting paid regardless of who was in charge-- she offered her services of the night to Calypso, but Calypso declined. Calypso referred the tabaxi to Valor across the room, telling her that if she talked about dragons she'd have a guaranteed sale. The tabaxi went over and shot her shot to Valor while Slim and Calypso looked on.
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Calypso and Slim next approached an big orc guy, but he was mainly interested in Slim and made some comment about his ass. Slim excused himself from the Nibshit Squad to spend some quality time with the orc, while Calypso was mildly flabbergasted that men barely even talk before hooking up, apparently. Fea joined Calypso for further questioning then, and Calypso told Fea to lead the way. Fea followed her special eyesight to the brightest glow of life in the room, which was an invisible fairy. Calypso was rather confused until the fairy revealed herself, appearing very nervous.
Fea spoke gently to the fairy and covered for Calypso's drunken/flirty tomfoolery. The fairy agreed to talk more candidly behind a closed door, so the party set about securing their rooms for the night. Slim returned after about an hour looking... refreshed (heeee's back, ladies and gents). The fairy, called Lila, came into Fea and Calypso's room by crawling under the door. Fea left to get the others, and instructed Calypso not to scare Lila while she was gone. When Fea came back in with the rest of the party, Calypso was offering Lila a cigarette while the fairy cowered behind a pillow. Slim took the cig instead.
Lila explained that she had been in Celestia for a while, helping with growing crops (Calypso made an unfortunate comparison to bees) but recently things had changed, and people had begun to resent her presence and would even try to capture her in nets. That's why she was staying invisible-- she was avoiding being kidnapped. But she still would hang around in places like the tavern because otherwise she would get lonely. Kattie at this point was already willing to kill and die for Lila.
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Fea offered to bring Lila along with the party to keep her safe while they got to the bottom of Celestia's change of heart, and she agreed. Calypso pointed out that Egg would be able to act as a like-sized bodyguard for Lila, and there was further passive aggressive banter between Egg and Slim until Calypso scooped Egg up into her jacket. The idea of equipping Lila with a knife stolen from the tavern downstairs was floated, but she declined. Calypso instead offered to steal a knife for Fea to make up for accidentally(?) flirting with Lila earlier.
Lila asked how Fea was able to see her while she was invisible, and Fea said that she has Special Eyes. In assuring Lila that she would be safe with the group, Calypso mentioned that together with Fea, who sees whatever Calypso doesn't, they can see everything. "'Cause like, one plus nine is like......... ten." Lila ultimately agreed to ride with Kattie after warning the bard that if her wings got tired from hovering around she might hide in Kattie's hood or something. Kattie, naturally, had no objections.
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Afterward, Kattie and Slim returned to their shared room and Kattie made a fun request: for Slim to smack her. He smacked her, which brought out Lynn, so she could then get caught up on the most recent events, so as not to have another "are we underwater? :3" moment. Smart.
it's good to be back 🤠
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