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Higher Than Death

(Durge(Jack)/Gortash/Astarion)

The story of Jack Punch, son of Bhaal. A familiar story, except with lost things added back in. All told from a bloody carnie's point of view.

I: Welcome to the Show

Prologue (Posted) 1: True Nature (Posted) 2: The Grand Bizzare (Posted) 3: I Don't Mind It (Posted) 4: Claws and Tutu (Posted) 5: Mindfulness (Posting: 9/17/24) 6: Rats (Outlining) 7: Motherless Child (Brainstorming) 8: Tell Me How I Feel (Brainstorming)

Drabbles

"...I don't feel any different." (Jack (Durge)/Gortash) Gortash Private Memoir Notes, Number 14 (Gortash) What is your Dark Urge's greatest regret? (Jack (Durge) and Professor Besbiq) Five Times They Had Dinner, One Time They Didn't (Durge/Gortash NSFW) The old version of Higher Than Death

vvv Completed vvv (No BG3 Yet)

#fanfic #pinned post #I also have Sherlock stuff #But we don't talk about Sherlock

*Looks out of my cave*

New Gort and Karlach lore dropped.

#Gods #The scrungly racoon man that you are Gortash #bg3 gortash #bg3 karlach #enver gortash #Honestly the whole video is very interesting #Absolutely makes sense that he would of course #Youtube

daemon-in-my-head

Yeah Gortash sucks, yeah he's an absolute dick (to put it mildly), yeah he's had a shit life, yada yada, we all know.

The thing that still gets me is that it was absolutely pointless. His ruin was kickstarted by his parents selling him to a devil who presumably tried to use him for his own plans. He was exploited so others could reach their grand, lofty dreams.

And yet nobody won—neither the Flymms, Raphael, nor Gortash. Nobody's life got better. Nobody became happy. If anything, everyone got worse. It's the pointlessness of all that violence for me. Yes, they had some great moments; the Flymms had the money for a while, Gortash had his beloved puppets for a time and Raphael got so close to the crown. But in the nothing lasted longer than a fleeting moment.

All that suffering and pain, what for? What purpose did it serve in the end?

#yes I have gone quiet #but I still rage #i still shake my fists with scraps of paper clenched in them #we could have had it all #bg3 gortash #bg3 #bg3 raphael

cator99

scratchygoddess

Author Commentary: House of Hope as Trade Hub

((I realize I didn't do this when I said I would, so here I go.))

So! In the last chapter of Higher Than Death, I basically follow the meeting with Raphael as it is presented in the game. Until I don't, and Jack sticks around a bit to meet the Archivist and Haarlep.

The reason why is that House of Hope was meant to be a place you could enter and explore multiple times through out the game.

I'm not ENTIRELY sure when and how you were meant to have access, though I assume it is safe to say that you would be able to go once an act, when Raphael pops up.

Either through Raphael directly, or at the library, you were able to trade soul coins for items from his collection. It's why soul coins currently occupy such a strange, minor role now: they were originally meant to be currency.

It's not entirely sure what the items were either, though it's assumed that the items you could steal at end game would have been part of the shop at some point.

And now, about Haarlep...

You were also able to meet Haarlep multiple times. And more importantly, Haarlep had a whole ass menu of people they could turn in to. That list has been lost to the datamining wipes of old, but I do know that list included Sarevok and Gortash.

Why would Haarlep have Sarevok's body? I have no clue.

WHY would any incubus be restricted to forms they've made "deals" with when they can innately utilize the Shapechanger ability to just become any small or medium sized humanoid? Cause Larian doesn't do research, and/or they cut out that part of the explanation and just had the body trading deal as an interesting tidbit.

But, suffice to say, the cut content includes a House of Hope that you could visit multiple times, a proper soul coin implementation, and an incubus with a proper menu.

Along with. Well. Avernus. An entire Avernus area. And a secondary building that no one really knows what the purpose of it was.

I can't put all of Avernus into the fic; it's already MASSIVE. And I'm not sure if I'm going to include that second mystery building.

But, that was all the inspiration for that chapter of Higher Than Death.

#Higher Than Death #bg3 #Avernus #bg3 Raphael #bg3 Haarlep #bg3 Sarevok #bg3 Gortash #dnd ramblings #bg3 datamine #oc: Jack Punch #bg3 durge

fuckofffanpol

that's... not how it works. you can't guarantee that your work definitely won't squick anyone. what do you think you're saying?

the-bar-sinister

"squick free" someone writes on their wholesome family fic about married characters expecting a baby.

I read it and am extremely squicked.

You do not know what squicks other people. "Squick" is not a category of elements, it is a description of a reaction.

actualaster

Squick is literally a personal thing, you literally cannot know what squicks another person.

Same goes for triggers, by the way. You can't guarantee something is trigger-free because literally anything can be a trigger because the human brain can be weird like that sometimes.

skaars-treasure-trove

No no, actually there's a perfect way to write an absolutely squick free fanfic! Plenty of writers actually do it successfully every day!

Here.

#Blank pages are my squick #just kill me #it would be kinder #<- prev #A god damn fuckin mood

meanbossart

Serious durge question for the BG3 players:

Did your Dark Urge do their own taxes?

Of course, they took their financial duties as a Bhaalist very seriously.

No! They had a butler/sister/uncle-grandfather-halfbrother for that.

What taxes???

What taxes 😉

Voting ended onOct 11, 2024

#Jack has to beat back Scel from doing every damn thing in the temple #Why not give him the damn taxes

thedemonsurfer

Do you commonly call your pet by:

A nickname/short version of their name: Artemis -> Artie

A nicholasname/long version of their name: Mischief -> Master Chief

A cutesy version of their name: Lucy -> Uwucy ("oo-woo-see")

An affectionate word that isn't their name at all: Lil'bit, Sweet Baby, Bean

An insult (but with love): Dummy, Bastard Man, Mr. Butt

I only ever use their actual name

I don't have a pet 8(

Voting ended onOct 14, 2024

Use your own judgement on the line between a nickname and a cutesy version of their name

#I have a few cats #But the ones I do nickname are loving insults #One of “my” cats is 'Aye-Aye lookin' motherfucker'#After having to spend an hour coaxing her out of a car dash #Also cause thats what she looks like #Usually just say 'Aye-Aye'

fassina

Show don’t tell has got to be one of the most misinterpreted pieces of writing advice in existence and has led to so much unnecessarily action led work when really it’s about letting the person reading or watching or playing engage and discover and not just indicating something to them.

You CAN have somebody tell their own story. But why are they saying it? What are they leaving out of the retelling? How are they in themselves as they say it? That’s showing us another layer.

You can have somebody doing the most incredible bit of a fight scene but if that doesn’t feel embodied in what we learn about a character, it will be boring. Show us who they are in how they parry, where they hold weight, whether they are quick to respond or more strategic. Don’t just tell us they are a fighter by putting them in a situation with no meaning behind it.

queercoded-disney-villain

So I bought Inscryption because it reminded me of this video I saw of a guy playing a card game against a robot but I’m several hours in (and loving it!) but this game clearly doesn’t have any robots in it. Does anyone know what I was thinking about?

#inscryption #Love to see posts from people playing it for the first time

marcitlali

You're mutuals with somebody who genuinely wants to murder and cannibalize people and has stated so on multiple occasions. You disgust me.

that part

y-rhywbeth2

I have been staring at this and trying to replicate it to understand how that even looks;

'El was able to covertly watch what he wanted most to see as he went along: how elves walked, so he could imitate them. 'Most seemed to have a lilt and swing, like dancers. Ah, that was it—none strode flat-footed; even the tallest and most hurried of the citizenry danced forward on their toes.'

Insofar as I can tell from walking on my toes/the balls of my feet, elves do that thing cats do where one foot follows directly after the other and the hind foot sets down on the floor in the exact same place the front foot went.

Anyway they're snooty weirdoes who are simultaneously community minded while very independent with pointy ears, have a cultural thing about hunting, a strange gait, a predilection to chaos for entertainment, and cannabis is toxic to them: Elves are non-furry humanoid housecats.

kawareo

Your average meeting of the Dead Three

I think I talked too much about just how grossly they kiss but did not make it clear enough. Right in front of Ketheric's salad, too.

#HOT DAMN #LOOKIT THEM GO #I'm so sorry peepaw #bg3 art #bg3 durge #bg3 gortash #bg3 ketheric #durgetash

ravencharm

75% of writing is convincing yourself that your story is worth it

#GOD that's a mood

wild-magic-oops

The brainworm of the day: overthinking Gortash's body language when he's in command (hands held at the front) vs when he submits command to Durge at the morphic poll (hands held behind his back)

#i think about this constantly #a core fact in my durgetash #they can and do code switch depending on multiple factors #durgetash #bg3 gortash