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He should have fallen on his sword. That would have been the sensible thing to do.
Punched his ticket for Elysium right away, no waiting around.
He thought they'd only kill him.
Why did he think that? How stupid was he? Why in the world did he think that?
And now instead of his next great adventure he's flubbed a save against dominate person.
Togomor is realizing that he'll need to invest his spells and sails in Bluff enhancements just to get by down here.
That's... honestly a lot of fun!
Finally, a worthy opponent.
Field Marshall, I want your opinion on how many magnificent mansions we must needs commission, and where I should order the entrances placed.
The people of Korvosa, bereaved, reduced to the extremest misery and poverty, many without even a fork or washcloth to their name, suffering together in close cramped quarters, who slept or couldn't sleep last night on unworked stone, at least now have food.
There's a lot you can suffer through, if you have the hard evidence of your own eyes and nose telling you that you won't starve.
The atmosphere as Korvosa queues is almost jubilant, and at a taste of the mage's magnificent fare, people cry with relief and good cheer.
Togomor has 18,000 square feet of mansion up for rent, which adds something between a fourth and a third again to the Vault's total floorspace.
Short-term lease; only thirty hours.
Ileosa had more to say but can at least read a room. She'll wait until she has a meal or a win to package it with.
What she'd give for a goblet and a spoon to tap against it.
I'll get their attention for you.
Besides, if Reebs got to give a speech I want to give one too.
Reebs got to give a speech because he'd just cast a divination spell and we wanted to know what was going on.
Not because we're amenable to religious weirdos speechifying in full generality.
I respect that. I think Cayden Cailean respects that too.
However, consider the following:
If I've got your attention:
I'm speaking to you today as the Megapope of Cayden Cailean's church in Varisia, and as a representative - a representative example of the sort of company that guy keeps.
I asked Cayden by augury whether I should assume he stands with us against the darkness, and He said "weal." I had to look that one up in a dictionary, folks, but I'll spare you the effort; it's good news.
I then called on Him to condemn the actions of Team Shadow and call for an immediate ceasefire.
He didn't say anything, because I only prepped one augury, but I'm sure he would have if he could have.
In a fight like this, for what the world should look like, where everything is up in the air, I'd rather have Cayden Cailean on my side than any other god.
He's waay stronger than Milani or Asmodeus or whoever. Do either of them give the Strength domain? No? Didn't think so.
Don't get me wrong, I love half the gods as people, and respect the shit out of 'em.
But ex-mortals make the best gods. No shade on Erastil, who's awesome, but it's true.
Most of the gods were never mortal, and most of the ones who were barely count. Nethys was already a god-king before he cast his epic spell, Iomedae already had her church, Irori was some kind of ascetic, and all of them have some whacky philosophy that they'd like you better if you subscribed to.
More in common with the pantheon they joined than they ever had with us peons.
Now those gods are duking it out. Some of them are trying to feed us all to undead horrors, and to that we say: "please don't." Others are trying to stop them. Our team.
But do you think Asmodeus is doing that out of the kindness of his heart? Of course not. If he's helping us it's because it helps him, and who knows if that helps us in the end.
Powerful people, with their own visions, find it easy to lose track of the little guy. They have the power to get their way, so they figure, why not do it? Why not do it and feel good doing it?
But we have a seat at the table.
Cayden Cailean, local boy made big, god of people eating good food, drinking good drink, god of standing up for the little guy and of playing board games with friends.
With him in our corner, I can believe that things might turn out okay.
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