the roof is indeed wet. i am aware
Prompts from Critical Role: Vox Machina Campaign 1, Episode 31: "Gunpowder Plot: Part 1." assorted dialogue from the campaign as I watch through it for the first time, adjust as necessary
"I wasn't--" What did he say? Was Lorene literally that lost in thought that he had no idea what had prompted such a response? He paused for a moment, thinking it over.
"Oh." He realized, suddenly, where he'd gone wrong. He'd been thinking out loud--in Canto Elvish. (Cantonese Chinese, by the standards of people from most Earth-adjacent worlds). And he'd forgotten that in Spirale, people could just understand you, regardless of which language you spoke in. (What was the point of being fluent in four languages if everyone understood him in every single one? It made talking shit a lot more difficult. Or thinking aloud, as was the case now.)
"Right. I was just thinking about...the fire safety angle here, in all honesty. Sorry. It's a thing I do--when you live in a country at war, sometimes your background thought processes are, 'how well would this structure hold up during a siege?' Fire is absolutely a weapon that besieging armies use. So, making the roof wet even when it's structurally unsound or a fire hazard, is absolutely a valid tactic to defend your Keep."