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Fjord does the math in a blink. They are not gonna make it, not like this at least. The freaking necromancer has been throwing death rays or something out of his damn finger tips, and there’s goddamn zombies everywhere, and then the bunch of evil idiots following the necromancer and getting into the fray. It’s all too much for them, they shouldn’t have taken this job.

They are all gonna die unless they turn this thing around. Jester went down twice already, and he spent both his potions on bringing her back up. He shields her with his both as she recovers, pushing zombies back with the falchion and struggling to dodge the necrotic spells that are flying around the cave. One hits Molly and sends him down immediately, and it’s up to Beau to keep the living death in line. Caleb’s fire helps, but he’s also busy hiding behind a bunch of rocks trying to keep himself alive. Nott is... somewhere, he hopes, sneaking around to get a it in. If this necromantic asshole doesn’t kill them all first. 

Oh, shit, would they come back as zombies if he does?

“Fuckin’ dammit,” he hisses as he sends his spell towards him. 

Hold person, because he remembers how freaking useless it made him back at the manticore’s liar, and because he needs to stop this fucker if his friends are going to have a chance at surviving. One more necrotic spell from him, and they might be fucked.

these two, i swear.

I just realized this could be the only time in the campaign that molly’s revealed something some non-bullshit personal info without being coerced and it was to BEAUREGARD

and there are so many possibilities for what beau’s answer was I have no idea which direction to think in but they’re all messing me up

In general, I feel like gaining a higher level of recognition is probably not the best idea with this group. Perhaps just people knowing their name is good, but when they start doing incredibly public things, like this tournament, the chances of their physical appearances becoming more common knowledge rises, and that means the chances of undesirable people being able to recognize them, either by sight or description, goes up considerably.

We've got Jester, who is on the run from powerful people in Nicodranis who want her dead; Molly, who has know memory of who he used to be and could possibly have untold amount of enemies; Nott, flippin' goblin; and Yasha, who comes from what's considered the "enemy" empire.

Also, Caleb has expressed wanting to keep a low profile, so it definitely seems he has people he's running from that he would not want finding him (there's been theories that he's a military deserter, or that he accidentally killed someone and is wanted for murder). There's also been mention of Nott specifically being on the run from people. Even Beau potentially has problems in this area. She said she had a criminal background, which I think could mean a couple of things: (1) she had a rebellious youth stage where she got involved in criminal activity to piss off her parents or (2) her family is involved in crime. Either wait, that would open up the potential of there being people she would want to not know where she is (whether she realizes it or not). And honestly, even just being the rebellious daughter of a rich guy could cause some problems when it comes to the visibility of the group.

As for Fjord, we know so little of his background, so who the hell knows.

So yeah, things like the tournament might be good for getting their name out their and getting jobs and such, but these are things that are going to raise awareness of their physical appearance, which is something many people in the group should be concerned about.

As for Yasha specifically, if the things that made that guy recognize her as being Xhorhasian were more well known in the area, people would have recognized her as such and she would have probably received some negative reactions as a result. The empire might not have officially been at war with Xhorhas until now, but there's obviously been a long history of conflict and hostility. If her markings were something even remotely well known, I'd think that someone that they've come across either with some level or power or knowledge of such levels of power would have said something.

The war being officially declared could lead to an increase in propaganda where more specific features and aspects o Xhorhasian appearance and culture are identified. But there's also the chance that the level of propaganda would remain where it is, if it's already happening because of the continued conflict.

Some kind of internment might be something Matt crafts as a way to explain another Yasha disappearance when Ashley has to go back to NY (if? I saw some speculation that Blindspot might not get another season, but I don't really pay attention to ratings and such, at least for shows I don't watch, so I have no idea).

were you named after star trek planet?

No, actually, my dad found the name in a terrible Western novel he was reading when my mom was pregnant.  I was named for a fictional Mexican Old West sex worker.

the kicker: i am 100% sure taliesin knew that they are supposed to run into someone that knew him in that tavern, the whole time matt was describing the place he was tense like "is that my cue?". but as for who and what the hell with the tabaxi's reaction? i think he knows as much as his character which is absolutely nothing.

i don't think Molly has amnesia, actually. there are other types of memory

problems, like related with dissociation and trauma processing.he'd have a

general recollection but be sketchy on details, esp. the bad ones. asking Matt

whether they passed thru Trostenwald before would be due to the fact he was then

still recovering from whatever trauma made him silent when he arrived at

the circus. the other one, not recalling what he knew abt. the fiend imho is

due to time. what little i read abt. blood hunters mentions rigorous training.

but molly seems inexperienced, he's low level, he act pretty shaken up by all

the fighting. i don't think he was a "practicing" blood hunter until now. i think

he was initiated as a youth. possibly a child, possibly unwilling. then

something happened, and he was separated/escaped/was abandoned by his

order. also, all joking surrounding the incident aside, the drug deal last time

and the absinthe now kinda indicate a pattern of self-medicating. i think that

whatever went down with molly, he’s not all that well recovered from it. and

that, both the problem and the “solution” would result in gaps in memory. but

none of it amounts to amnesia.                                               

(Sorry for the weird formatting on this!! Tumblr was suddenly being glitchy with replies.)

Now this makes infinitely more sense to me with what (admittedly little) we know about Molly than a complete memory wipe. Because exactly, he doesn’t know specifics, but he does know when to ask detail questions. Plus the fact that he was nonverbal when arriving at the circus speaks more to a mental or emotional trauma. And yeah, the drug deal as an isolated incident was relatively humorous in an ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ kind of way, but that in conjunction with the fact that it doesn’t seem to be the first time he’s sought out drugs, in conjunction with his ‘quiet nervous breakdown’ over some sketchy fantasy absinthe does not indicate a healthy person or mind.

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