"Ah, was he a wizard or some sort? A magic-user?" Skull had been a fool to leave, in Sorenson's opinion. He'd have snapped up that opportunity and learned all he could.
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky
I'm loving how much this conversation is revealing the differences between Sorenson and Skull! It's such a cool reversal of what you'd expect from a quick glance at their character descriptions. I'm just obsessed with how differently the two of them feel in this conversation.
I also re-discovered some juicy Skull lore that I forgot while looking on Bickerstaff's wiki page, so I'm definitely going to be including that in this conversation now. >>
"More like a mad scientist," I said, voice quiet and tone mostly neutral. I tried not to think about Bickerstaff too much, but that was one way to describe him. "He was a doctor that got too obsessed with death. It ended up being his downfall."
"He sounds very much like a necromancer," he mused. "But where does science factor in?"
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky
"He just happened to be a doctor," I said. In retrospect, there was no science to what Bickerstaff had done. The only science had been the manipulation, maybe, but that had always been more of an art. Bickerstaff just cobbled together bits of the occult in the hopes that they would work, and tried them out on his unwilling followers to make sure they really did work.
I paused.
"A necromancer might have been a better way to describe him," I admitted.
"Fascinating. A proper louse, I'm sure. Necromancy is nothing to play with."
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky
I breathed out a quiet breath. That was one way to describe him, that was for sure.
"I used to think he was the greatest thing the world had ever created," I said, not quite sure why I was admitting this much to Sorenson. I tried not to think about the person I had been when serving as his assistant. "It took me too long to see him as the monster he really was."
"Mm, I think a lot of victims start out that way. Admiring their masters or parents or whatnot, realizing they've been taken advantage of or neglected." He trailed off. His own children probably thought of him as filth now. Maybe they thought they were victims.
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky
"On the master or parent front?" I asked. Something told me he wasn't speaking from experience when it came to being the one subjected to that kind of treatment. He had been too quick to idolize Bickerstaff when I first mentioned him. Someone who had been through something similar to what I had, I thought, would have probably been more wary.
He glanced at Skull, narrowing his eyes. "What's it to you, lad? It was a comment, nothing more."
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky
He nodded slowly. "Mm, well, you certainly don't know much about me, do you? Maybe I'd like to keep it that way?"
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky
The episode was essentially about the two characters in the campaign bonding. They had to get through this one hallway by revealing truths about themselves at the prompting of a NPC. After that, one person had to verbally guide the other person through a maze they could see. They also had to do this little thing with manners, but I don't think that really applies here. >> The last thing they had to do was fight a dream demon that took on the forms of their worst fears (for one character, it was an evil version of himself, and the other it was his dad telling him he could never live up to expectations).
That dream demon might be a fun finale to this maze! I can also see the lying challenge being really good for these two, since they're both not being entirely open with each other right now.
If we do go the "telling truths" route, it would be fun to have the next post or two suddenly segue into that--seeing that our boys are having a conversation about not knowing each other.
(I like the telling truth challenge and the maze challenge a lot! K say go for it.)
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky
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