"...probably we should tell the rest of the party that. So they can make informed decisions."

Oh, so vampires get to keep secrets, but not him? ... that's not a reasonable reaction.

"This is why I told you. Even if pulling my own teeth out would have been more pleasant."

"...we could say there is some risk of dying if they hang around you and not say why."

"No, they do deserve to know the truth."

"We can just say there's a weird curse without having to mention-- the rest of it."

"The risk of explosion is the thing that matters."

"You can explain it during dinner?"

Teeth! Rusty pliers! Preferable! "I'll do my best."

Cayden looks at his face. "...I can explain at dinner?"

"I can do it-- but I wouldn't turn down your support."

Cool. Dinner has got to be ready by now, right?

It's ready! It's something that resembles edible!

Yay, edibility!

He's going to engage in Cross-World Comparative Literature. Anyone seen plays they liked?

Wyll's favourite play was one hosted in a small town, about a tenday's walk south of Baldur's Gate. The church of Lathander wanted to encourage everyone to be creative, a group of young people decided to use the offered resources to put on a play that was the most blasphemous and funniest thing he had ever seen in his life.

Brilliant. He loves it. 

Cayden's favorite blasphemous play was a sex farce about Calistria, Nocticula, Sarenrae, and Desna, and he keeps pausing to have to explain bits of theology in order to explain the plot. 

(It's not that Lathander doesn't have a dramatic love life,  but usually one doesn't say that with his clerics' money.)

Oh. Oh my.

Amazing.

AMAZING.

"Gale has something he wants to talk about," Cayden says.

He haaaaates this.  "I feel like I should inform you that there is a small, but non-negligible chance, that I will explode."

"What?"

"Isn't that the nature of wizards?"

That's not helping, Shadowheart. "I am taking steps to prevent this, and I have plan to minimise the damage if it comes to that, but-- I thought you all should know."

"If people want to split off into a non-exploding-wizard party they can do that."

"We are currently each other's best leads on getting rid of the tadpoles." Also, he has the artefact.