They've left him alone in his cell.
He can't really be said to be lucid but he has very acute instincts for when there's someone and when he's alone - it's the last of his senses to depart him - and he's alone.
And then suddenly he isn't.
They've left him alone in his cell.
He can't really be said to be lucid but he has very acute instincts for when there's someone and when he's alone - it's the last of his senses to depart him - and he's alone.
And then suddenly he isn't.
You find me aversive and unpleasant to be around, even if you do not consider me blameworthy for this. And not specific to this, but in general, over the last while, and eventually this results in us having a relationship that's based entirely off fulfilling what we respectively regard as duties, which you'll do tirelessly even while not liking me, and I am pretty sure I would once have considered that very bad.
Oh. Uh, hm. I'm not sure where you got that idea, I really don't feel that way? Not mostly. It's... I'm not trying to like you, right now? That doesn't matter for this and you have other things that are more important to be worrying about and there'll be time for it later, it hasn't been something I've been thinking about one way or the other at all. I don't dislike you; you're right that I'd be trying to do right by you as a tribemate even if I did but I don't; I'm avoiding you right now because I don't want to hurt you, not because I don't want to be there.
You're not going to hurt me until the torture starts. I might occasionally splinter a bit in anticipation but I'm working on it.
She sighs. I'm going to keep using my definition of 'harm'? I think it's a good idea to do that even if you don't agree? I'm not going to argue with you about where you are but I am going to keep acting like you're out of Angband and going to stay that way because it is in fact true? Probably that last one. If it's hurting you for me to do that and there's something else I could be doing that wouldn't, I'm open to suggestions.
No, that's fine. I think if I were really out of Angband I'd want - pretty much this, plus some people to fill in all the blanks for me.
Mmhmm. If I find a better way to get you information than what we have so far I'll do it - got you a map of your host's camp today, by the way.
Started working on the pinning paths, it made sense to plan it out in advance. She sends the map, with an imagined overlay of where the paths will be.
Depends on how I do it. I'm not comfortable trying to memorize more than a medium-sized room at a time, but if I'm hopping back and forth it'll only take, mm, half an hour or so each? More for big ones of course.
Yeah. They're looking forward to having you. This won't stop you even if I do it the slow way; you can go before it's all done.
No problem.
We need to figure out how you want that other spell set up, too. The one to stop people from touching you.
What you want the default to be - whether it moves you or them and where to - and then if you want it to do different things in different places, what and where.
It isn't - specific places only, not relative to anything. I can have it send them to a specific spot in each room? That's a little more complicated but not too bad, if I do it at the same time as the paths.
That'd be better - otherwise it's a really serious inconvenience for someone who probably just brushed against me by accident -