#mod dagger

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Abdirak, if you’re out there: let it be known that you were always one of the most intriguing among devotees. Of course… there’s many ways my name has been used throughout the realms, but for once I felt someone truly understood it.

For what it’s worth, consider me positively proud.

— Loviatar.

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[baldurs-kinfessions]

i want to talk about. uh. scents. this is very specific and very random.

gale smelt like lavender and saltwater and old books. also his clothes smelt weirdly Clean considering we spent most of our time in the fundamental wild.

halsin smelt like fresh earth and if you know that smell when it's just started raining after it hasn't for a while? i think it's called petrichor but he smelt like that too.

shadowheart generally smelt nice. i could never specify what. herbs maybe?

karlach smelt like charcoal and usually the lingering scent of whatever had been cooking recently. she liked to hang around gale when he was cooking.

lae'zel smelt like blood. not fresh blood, granted. but blood. heh. might have been because blood is very difficult to get out of fabric when you have nothing proper to clean with.

wyll smelt good. like bergamot. i know that that was my scent, but he shared it and it was Very Nice

tav smelt like the sea, for some odd reason.

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[baldurs-kinfessions]

I do find it remarkable just how lacking my timeline proved to be in terms of vampiric study, education, and the like. Much like our current world, many believed that we simply punctured the artery (or vein, in some case) and used typical suction to feed. In actuality it was more complex, but it wasn't like it mattered to people at all.

No, all they cared about was how horrific it was to feel canines slip into your flesh. After everything was said and done, finding willing prey was often so difficult that even though it was fulfilling, in the instinctual way that's so terribly difficult to describe, I didn't bite any human beyond the stupid "Wizard of Waterdeep," which was, admittedly, only to satisfy my curiosity. It was also the most disgusting thing I'd ever tasted, mind you. Of course, I'd gotten close. There were, as there often tends to be, a few folk that were, well... interested, in the idea. But only the idea. When they'd lay their heads back and bare their delicious throats to me, they'd squirm and they'd shake and I'd know it wasn't what they wanted. And so I'd open the door for an exit, and exited they did. No matter how pretty one may have been, back then, you were still seen as something to fear. A monster.

Their loss, I suppose.

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[baldurs-kinfessions]

Current August Ask Game(s):

1.) Two truths and a lie - Aug 1st – 22nd

Send in three things about yourself or your canon, where 2 are fact and 1 is a lie. This will then be turned into a poll for folk to then try and guess which is the lie! Each poll will last a week. Please refrain from voting in your own poll!

Ask game Rules & Tags below:

A new post will be created and pinned for every new ask game! Or, if it’s during the same month, it may be added to the original post and reblogged.

Each ask game will last between 1–3 weeks, depending on popularity and ongoing games.

Confessions that adhere to the game will be tagged #ask game.

Ask game replies might still be posted after the game is over – I (mod dagger) will come back to this in the future 😓

These are subject to change as needed or if I receive feedback.

As always, if you have ideas for more ask games, do feel free to suggest them!

[baldurs-kinfessions]

my current roman empire is

Gale: You never felt the call of the divine, Astarion?

Astarion: Oh, I tried them all. No one answered.

Did I ignore his prayers because he hated undead? Did he not know many Seldarine? Did I refuse because I didn’t want to intervene? Did xxxxxxxx talk me out of it? I can’t help but feel terribly terribly guilty.

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[baldurs-kinfessions]

i've been remembering some very short and particularly mundane things with this durge i remember, but the silliest one so far is that we were, ah, canoodling, and, in trying to get more comfortable, we... got our horns stuck.

probably one of my more embarrassing moments as one would think, being the age that i was, i would've already learned how to navigate this sort of thing. even at 50+ one is not immune to the phenomenon that is having a new crush and not knowing how to act

#tavkin, #ockin

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no one really considers how your balance is affected when you lose your tail. which is to say, i think i? lost mine?? (<- jokingly drew myself with a stubby tail and felt a strong sense of loss)

#tavkin, #ockin

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[baldurs-kinfessions]

I feel the need to share this; I, an Astarion kin, am highly tempted to take an introductory archery class. I remember being pretty damn handy with a bow (I didn't like crossbows, weirdly enough, they just felt weird) and on the one hand, it'd be cool to regain that skill. On the other, I know modern bows in this world don't really resemble the ones I was familiar with in a few key design elements. But on the other, other hand, I can always work up to being able to learn new styles on my own and just get my own classical bow later. Bringing back old skills is simultaneously fun and infuriating lmao. I used to be able to shoot down fancy chandeliers people had, for unknown reasons (probably to save coin), strung up with rope. Now I'll have to learn how to actually hold a bow again. Ah well, such is the cycle of existence.

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