08-21-2022, 13:01:39 PM
Please, gloaters are beloved, you should know. In every story, every play that I can think of, save one, if it includes an egotistical gloating stage magician, the egotistical stage magician is the best character. Quite besides that, I do think you should keep track of how often I'm right... After all, maybe that will break through the bizarre anti-intellectual streak I seem to have run into in this place. Especially with Mordecai. He seems to think less of me because I went to college. Strange, yes?
Anyway, I did not gloat. I merely stated a fact. That I did, in fact, tell you so about the lockpick and how it was largely tangential to everything we are doing. To state a fact that I am not sure you fully registered is not gloating, it is merely making you more informed so that you can make better future decisions. In this case, better decisions like listening to me the first time, yes? Contrary to what Mordecai seems to think, I didn't get a doctorate in applied arcana by extracting "life experience" whatever that is. I assume it's a lie he made up in order to feel self-important. After all, I gauged the guards better than he did, I negotiated with them instead of killing them and got us better results than he could have, I didn't lose a fang that could have been useful. I spotted the thread that made the guards mention that the king kind-of-sort-of-probably assassinated some people in this village and burned the place down to cover it up.
But no, we should definitely keep this anti-intellectual nutjob who nearly turned us criminal and attempted to murder guards over nothing. The one who's been nothing but helpful, if admittedly a bit on-edge from shepherding those who make bad decisions and then defend those same decisions? No, that one's the one who ought to be thrown under the metaphorical cart.
There's a pause as Avanyiss pokes around at the rubble.
Oh, and definitely take that rock with the grid on it, if it's not too heavy. I don't know if it's a game board or a special important thing or if it's even relevant, but if we end up having to go home with little achieved, it'll look great on my lawn. Or presumably someone else's, I assume at least some of you have a house to go to and a place to put a decorative rock.
Anyway, I did not gloat. I merely stated a fact. That I did, in fact, tell you so about the lockpick and how it was largely tangential to everything we are doing. To state a fact that I am not sure you fully registered is not gloating, it is merely making you more informed so that you can make better future decisions. In this case, better decisions like listening to me the first time, yes? Contrary to what Mordecai seems to think, I didn't get a doctorate in applied arcana by extracting "life experience" whatever that is. I assume it's a lie he made up in order to feel self-important. After all, I gauged the guards better than he did, I negotiated with them instead of killing them and got us better results than he could have, I didn't lose a fang that could have been useful. I spotted the thread that made the guards mention that the king kind-of-sort-of-probably assassinated some people in this village and burned the place down to cover it up.
But no, we should definitely keep this anti-intellectual nutjob who nearly turned us criminal and attempted to murder guards over nothing. The one who's been nothing but helpful, if admittedly a bit on-edge from shepherding those who make bad decisions and then defend those same decisions? No, that one's the one who ought to be thrown under the metaphorical cart.
There's a pause as Avanyiss pokes around at the rubble.
Oh, and definitely take that rock with the grid on it, if it's not too heavy. I don't know if it's a game board or a special important thing or if it's even relevant, but if we end up having to go home with little achieved, it'll look great on my lawn. Or presumably someone else's, I assume at least some of you have a house to go to and a place to put a decorative rock.
I am the They who says it!