[In the face of looming uncertainty. Maybe that's one of many things that draw him to Winter. Maybe it's why he's the glue that holds this ragtag group of strangers together.]
Well, I will be following your lead, since you're the local expert on the matter thus far.
How lucky for us that we got kidnapped by the same group of mindflayers.
[ Is anyone truly lucky to get kidnapped by mindflayers? Probably not, even if it has opened some doors for Astarion specifically, and brought them together to boot. ]
What do you call a group of mindflayers? A shoal? Or is that just squid?
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[In the face of looming uncertainty. Maybe that's one of many things that draw him to Winter. Maybe it's why he's the glue that holds this ragtag group of strangers together.]
Well, I will be following your lead, since you're the local expert on the matter thus far.
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[ All warlocks hold a title in that category to some degree, he won't argue that, but as far as patrons go, Winter is very lucky indeed. ]
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Precisely.
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[Winter keeps it interesting, if nothing else. He can hardly complain about being one of his bad decisions, either. Works out for the both of them.]
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[ Is anyone truly lucky to get kidnapped by mindflayers? Probably not, even if it has opened some doors for Astarion specifically, and brought them together to boot. ]
What do you call a group of mindflayers? A shoal? Or is that just squid?
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[Maybe that madman Volo would know — that or he’d just make something up on the spot.]
But I think we should call them whatever we like. My suggestion: arseholes.
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I'm thinking something dramatic. A misfortune of mindflayers, perhaps? An arsehole of mindflayers sounds deeply unpleasant.
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But doesn't that make it all the more suited!
[-he says, barely holding in a laugh.]