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Oh my, it's today!

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Thank you to all amazing persons who filled the final form! The final number of works will change depending on some latecomers, but we should be around 20!

Durgetash Week Day 6 - Reunion

Stricken with grief by their absence Gortash convinced himself that even the immortal Oc could be killed. So, when they appear at his coronation alive and mostly well he is delighted. No memory? No problem, he knows they’ll return to his side eventually.

And if he can redo introductions to rewrite history, bend the truth - he’d always planned to confess to Oc, break past their obliviousness, so why not insinuate their relationship was more intimate? It was meant to be.

Durgetash Week Day 7 - Knife Play

“Now, if I were a real Bhaalist I’d be saying something like, oh what was it, ‘Bhaal awaits thee’... er…” “--’Bhaal awaits thee, Bhaal embraces thee, none escape Bhaal’. Yes, I’m aware!” Gortash scolds, “You idiot fool, what have you done-” “Clever boy!” Oc continues heedless of his fruitless efforts to stem the haemorrhaging wound.

Durgetash Week Day 1 - First Impressions

The instinctive shock of fear forces him still, hand seizing up over the candle’s wick with the still-lit match; slowly, he turns to look behind him. Lounging atop his side cabinet by the door was a stranger, face hidden in the dark. Hunched from its perch, he is unable to distinguish true size or shape. Only its stillness.

Gortash’s first meeting with the Bhaalist leader is not as he’d carefully planned - for one, they show up two months late and scare the life out of him.

First impressions are mutually superficial: Gortash sees a childish brute and Oc sees the basic mob archetype - arrogance with no ingenuity to back it up. Both are pleasantly surprised to discover more depth in future meetings.

Durge + Orin ask game

1.When did your Durge and Orin meet? What was their relationship like initially? Did their feelings towards each other change over time?

Answered in prev ask.

2. How did Orin go about taking your Durge down? Did she need to trick them? Was Durge blindsided, or did they see her betrayal coming?

Orin's betrayal was a surprise to Quinn, who frankly underestimated her. They always saw her as a creepy stepford child who truly just needed some theatrical outlet. Not the most perceptive in relationships, they failed to see Orin's complex turning into affirmative action.

The head was a deliberate target - Quinn's healing makes them unkillable… but a brain injury? With the knife still in it? That's what prevents their recovery.

Quinn's dealings with Bhaal's children parallel. Their one encounter with Durge - the original - is in a dark alley where it gives a strange honour to its ritualistic killings. It starts as a level fight, and Durge dies for it. Orin unknowingly learns the lesson by taking Quinn by surprise.

23. How does Durge react to Orin kidnapping their companion? Do they agree to her demands to kill Gortash, or go after her first instead? Why?

Wow wasn't expecting any asks, thanks! Durge + Orin ask game My 'Durge' is perhaps non-traditional - Quinn's a pre-existing Oc who killed the true Dark Urge pre-game, and has essentially cuckolded their place in the narrative by accident.

1. When did your Durge and Orin meet? What was their relationship like initially? Did their feelings towards each other change over time?

They meet when Quinn is first 'inducted' as Chosen. She's offput at first - she's desperate for approval from Bhaal, spent her whole life working for it and then here comes this unorthodox stranger who is not only 'fellow Bhaalspawn' but essentially her new boss? Quinn views her as an unsettling child, much like the cliché horror films. Thinks Orin desperately a hobby murder and corpse rearrangement and is rather invested to find it for her. Orin's never quite sure how to feel and bounces between seeking Quinn's approval (+Bhaal's by proxy) or rebellious defiance

To Orin, Bhaal and the temple is everything. To Quinn, the worlds are so much bigger.

Desperate for approval, and for a time Quinn's leader status extends that role to them. It doesn't last forever.

11. What was Orin and your Durge’s biggest point of contention before the tadpole lobotomy?