“Pick Your Battles. Pick… Pick Fewer Battles Than That. Put Some Back. That’s Too Many.”

send 🛑 to clean blood off of my muse after they protected yours.

add + to reverse so receiver is the one cleaning blood off sender.

Another Random Headcanon // @neredoesnotfail

Giving Companion!Nere the Sussur Bark Greatsword is just -chef's kiss- Why? you might you ask. "So, you can't cast more than basic magic again because you're no longer a warlock of the Absolute? Here, take this sword. Use that right and the other person won't be able to use magic either." 😊

Consider it a personal blessing.

[ Please ignore the hireling information in the tags and under the level description. I am on console and modifying a hireling is, thus far, the only way I can recruit him. I desperately need the "recruit any NPC" mod to drop for console. 😂 ]

me [coming to terms with a truth about myself]: hm..................................................... unfortunate

How are you feeling?

I won’t play your psychological games

Headache and Migraines

Requested by anon!

"God, my head hurts."

"There's a vice around my skull."

"It feels like someone's sitting on my face. Not in a fun way."

"It's too bright in here, I need to lay down."

"I feel sick and dizzy, I'm sorry."

"Everything is spinning, I feel like I'm going to throw up."

"You cannot imagine how bad this feels."

"Of course I'm squinting, it's so bright in here."

"It's not just a headache, it's awful."

"Imagine a rope made of ice cubes tightening around your brain."

"It hurts so bad."

"Yes, I'm crying! I'm sorry! It hurts!"

"Can you hold me so I can't see anything?"

"Can you bring me a blanket?"

"I can't stand up, I'm too dizzy..."

"You look really pale, are you sure you're okay?"

"Alright, hey, let me - cover your eyes -"

"I'm going to turn the light on, is that okay..?"

"Lay down here, alright, just - rest."

"I never realised that it felt this bad..."

"This is what happens when you refuse to take care of yourself."

"Whoa, hey - okay - okay, let's get you lying down."

"You can't keep pushing through this."

"You barely look like you can stand."

"You're allowed to take a break, you know..."

Inbox call?

CONCERNING NERE, THE ABOVE, AND THE UNDERDARK // @neredoesnotfail

Unless he has a very good reason to go about in the daytime--responsibilities or someone that he tends to be around who keeps a daytime schedule--Nere will absolutely become a nocturnal being if he stays Above following the events of the game as he decides that he thoroughly hates the sun and the brightness of daytime. Honestly, the sky in general quietly terrifies him the first time he's Above (and, y'know, in his right mind to where he can really pay attention to it). He's used to the "ceiling" of the Underdark, no matter how far up it may go. Being Above and there being just vast amounts of nothingness overhead is kind of a terrifying prospect. He absolutely ended up with some variation of agoraphobia and he was definitely feeling it for a while until he grows more accustomed to it. Even some time after the fact, it still occasionally catches him if he thinks about it. It isn't quite full-blown panic attack levels, but more of a slight tightness to chest and higher awareness sort of thing. [ And if the vast open nothingness of space overhead freaks him out, just imagine his reaction the first time the clouds open up in a total downpour. Drops falling from rocks overhead in the Underdark? Sure. Fine. Water POURING DOWN from the sky? Absolutely horrifying the first time it happened. ] He really never does get fully used to it---the weather, the general brightness, and, specifically, THE SUN---and I think, to some degree or other, he will always miss the Underdark, regardless of the pain and suffering he experienced there. Certainly, he reaches the conclusion that Lolth and the culture he grew up in are Not Great [it takes time, but when the difference of how he is treated is like the night to the day, it happens faster than one might expect, once he decides it's genuine], but the Underdark was and is still where he considers to be home. [ In the case of the self-contained verses and the story I'll never write, I do think that Asha's wonder at the stars makes an impression on him. He likes to hear her talk about the constellations and to tell the stories of them. If there's anything good about the sky, it's the stars, and that is about as far as he'll go. ] Best case scenario? Someone take him to the Arcane Tower and let him make a place for himself there. No bad memories like from Grymforge. Not even close to Menzoberranzan. And it certainly isn't like Lenore will be using it ever again. And he does still want to learn magic, so he would have plenty of space to do so, and, while he learns, the ability to protect against people who already use magic as well. It's really one of the only places in the Underdark that he might feel relatively safe.

❛ you have no power over me. ❜ // @starlyht { sol'rys }

Nere laughs, loud and sudden and sharp. It is neither a kind nor a happy sound, a fact that likely becomes as apparent with the disdainful expression as he regards the other male drow.

"You say that as though I should wish to make such a claim," Nere answers, shaking his head.

"What need have I for a sellsword when I am no doubt just as adept—if not more so—in battle? You far overestimate your importance."

"And yet! perhaps it is Baenre with whom you intended to speak, and wished only my critique on the delivery of such a proclamation. If that is the case, I would recommend having a blade at the ready. You might need it."

... So, if I refollow you, you have my apologies. I didn't mean to unfollow to start. I am just A Disaster.

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