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[tadpoled]

What's the game? [Someone read through all his books and got bored awfully quick.]

[cozen]

[ The response takes some time, just because Bastien is in the middle of a meeting when Tav’s message arrives and waits until he’s somewhere quiet to answer it. ]

Three options. One is called two truths and a lie—we tell each other three things, two true and one false, and take turns guessing which one is the lie. One is would you rather, where we take turns proposing difficult choices, like would you rather never be able to wash your socks or never be able to cut your toenails? And the last is purely a question game—taking turns asking any kind of question at all, and you have to answer without pausing to think and then ask your own question.

[tadpoled]

Hmm. Two truths and a lie, granted I now have six months of memories.

[cozen]

D’accord. You first.

[tadpoled]

First, I once ate a strange mushroom that provoked a memory from my past.

Second, I have only died once.

Third, I fell in love with a wizard named Gale, who did not like me very much at first.

[cozen]

[ Bastien hums, thinks, and ventures a guess— ]

The second one.

[tadpoled]

Correct. I’ve unfortunately lost count of how many times I’ve met my end.

[A silent shrug.]

Your turn?

[cozen]

[ If Tav were the first rifter Bastien had ever met, he might find this too wild to let pass without further questions. —and it is a little wild, for him to have lost count of deaths over the course of only three months. Seems like the kind of thing a man would keep a tally for, even if it were happening once a day.

But only a little. ]

I play the cello, I can imitate any accent, and I can juggle.

[tadpoled]

Please tell me you don’t juggle.

[Someone has some bad memories of a circus and meeting his bloodkin Orin.]

[cozen]

Sorry, my friend. I do juggle. It is the accents I have trouble with.

[tadpoled]

You could have fooled me with the accents. Suppose you could pick up the Baldurian accent with enough time

[cozen]

Baldurian, that is yours? [ Rhetorical. ] With a decade, maybe.

Your turn.

[tadpoled]

Yes. Comes with living in Baldur’s Gate for some time. Or I think. [Someone missed the rhetorical element of that question.]

I speak three languages, I am a half-elf rather than a full elf, and I have slept with a succubus.

[cozen]

There is no such thing as a half elf here,

[ is his guess. ]

[tadpoled]

There are half-elves where I’m from: one parent is an elf, the other is human. I’ve been told I look more like a half-elf due to my features.

However, I only speak two languages: common and elvish.

[cozen]

Do you mean our Trade tongue? Or your own common language?

[tadpoled]

I suppose we are speaking the same language, in a way. I’m speaking Common to you right now. It’s a universal base language of sorts for the Sword Coast, at least.