let's see

donprisciotte i wanna finish the balcony chat for reals but i understand if it's been 500 years and that's too long

creatorofathousanduniver... also did not mean to leave you hanging with filbo or ange, you will get tags shortly

generally going through and tagging things that I want to actuallt wrap up... i should tag people here after I tag them there

yeah that makes sense

i am really excited for the memshare tho! i know exactly what to do for raistlin

at some point i really need someone to ask him if his sister's single

raistlin: [takes 5d10 psychic damage]

If you wanna wrap it up I'm down. 🙌

No need to apologize!

donprisciotte: if you like! I enjoyed their back and forth a lot, price is fun

cr you have to work for tastes better

kadath: he's used to that, actually....

creatorofathousanduniver... got next tag for filbo

sry abt ur life, raist

he's sorry too

i...well, "need" is strong, but i ran out of steam on the books before i got to kit and i really do want to at least meet her

It is, at least, very funny to read those parts while clowning on Tanis

i got as far as starkist tuna or whatever her name is falling for sturm doucheblade after 5 seconds and then everything was on fire

also it turns out that the only way to make other members of sturm's order look bad next to him is to make them actual sociopaths

so that was something

yeah i remember.... i have been yearning for your liveblogs but I also completely understand being unable to go further

these books are not a place of honor, nothing of value is here, etc

well, it is the weekend

sfghjk

bluecitrine saturday > holly hi I'm still alive

kadath: im not gonna stop you if you feel the need. is what i meant to type, but plurk farted

creatorofathousanduniver... tagged ange too now

anyway im mostly excited for raistlin's memshare because i made a list of memories raistlin most deeplty does not want seen and i'm gonna rng it

donprisciotte oh jeez you're jennifer too. um, tag?

okay that's done, clean inboxes, my guilt is alleviated

now i return to dishonored 2 for at least three hours

Yep. I'm Price, Jen, Mio and Henry.

i will try to remember! gosh, i can get so confused in games where everyone plays one character, dwrp is like. exponential

grips raistlin's memshare

definitely his mom's death is gonna be one of the memories the other will be rng

because it's the memory that will a) be most awful to have other people just See and the memory that will convince everyone in this game who views it that He Is Baby

fucking..... plurk emotes.......

" It's actually easy for him to go on, if it all remains purely neutral." congratulations donprisciotte you've uncovered saturday's secret strategy for getting along with people

simply do not judge. don't just act like you're not judging literally don't judge

YAY SURFACE RELATIONSHIPS bc Price's too broken to function when he allows himself to be a human being instead of an all knowing machine

try kerrigan's life hack of only knowing people so garbage that she ends up judging basically everyone in the game favorably [fingerguns]

surface relationships for now

yes that was a threat

I'm listening

i just think their initial CR was promising tbh

idk what your long-term goals are, but it would be interesting because saturday IS one of those meddling helper types, she just has a lot of patience about it. and you say he doesn't respond well to overt "you're broken let me fix you" or "have you tried Just Being Good" which - isn't actually her style

she tries to meet people where they are, which would be interesting to put up against his 500 layers of self-defense, masking, and DARVO

she's very intrigued by the difference between the person she's interacted with and the stories she's heard - like she thought in the thread, he's either very good or someone else is very wrong.

That could be interesting. Honestly his main problem is that he needs to channel his energy properly. He likes to be useful and do acts of service but if he can't express his anger and be mischievous his progress inevitably crumbles.

and if he expresses anger or is mischevious, there's a small group of people who will absolutely flip and take it as the worst possible sign, and a larger group of people who are pretty neutral on him but will probably follow the leader. a difficult social position!

He needs something that crosses all the boxes to make him maintain a certain mental stability that isn't hundreds of war crimes stacked on top of each other, but that's easier said than done lol

if saturday had access to all this information she'd probably say that what he actually needs is patience

Saturday and Elle should talk abt Price bc she's coming to very similar conclusions as Elle has

yes, you want the good brain chemicals, but you gotta be able to wait for the most opportune moment to acquire the brain chemicals because otherwise everything backlashes right to hell

Man followed the Director like a PUPPY, taking bad treatment, overworking himself, ending up doing things he didn't sign up for, and not feeling any emotion for 10+ years. During war. They were extremely stressful circumstances and yet he thrived

the good chemicals are even more good when you know You've Gotten Away With It

so the guy has a weird brain that needs certain accomodations and maybe some gentle treatment, in the sense of helping to channel the weird productively and destructively

Strangely enough he hasn't realized that he is way more free and less in danger in comparison but uh. He got a little too attached to his job

and yes also he's done war crimes but man, that's so many people in the crew right now, what people are actually mad about is that he's not sorry about it and that is a lot to ask of a dude who just doesn't share your moral priors

you can't just have one intense conversation with someone, pick the right dialogue option and behold! they have seen the light!

Yeah that's basically it. He's cooperative but lbr even before the drama with Dan in the river people didn't let him help even if he apologized to Loken and tried to be nice to everyone

first you need to know them well enough to pick the correct dialogue option, for one, and you cannot get to know someone if you're coming at it from a perspective of "I'm going to Fix This Person"

yeah elle & Saturday should team up bc elle's basically like "hmmm maybe we should treat him like a person and give him safety and he won't feel like he needs to lash out"

you can't ask someone to take on the weight of guilt and remorse when they don't actually have the structures to do so without breaking, because you're asking them to override their self-preservation

June_bug: exactly

Literally all we canonically know abt Price is that 1. during the project his antisocial ass is like a child in a candy shop 2. nobody ever seems to give a shit about him.

And I made my own mental movie about it lmaooo

since I've never seen rvb and dont actually intend to, I cannot judge the accuracy of your take

but the characters I've been presented with is interesting and I want to be part of his arc

He's always curious and, inexpressiveness aside, WAY too excited about shit. The agents are his little dollies and he likes making them argue.

but I do think "just be normal about it" is a strategy re: price management that at least has the novelty of never having been tried before

bluecitrine I'M NOW THINKING OF THE FAMILY GOOGLE DEFINITION DIALOGUE THAT WAS SO FUNNY I SURPRISE MYSELF SOMETIMES

donprisciotte: so it sounds like the big issue is that he doesn't have the "these are real people who matter" switch in the right position, possibly because he was taught that he himself doesn't matter

therefore why does anyone else? that

s right they fucking don't

tricky but not unsolvable you just really gotta be patient and slow

Tbh I'm excited to see Saturday's approach, because it will start from Price's comfort zone. Dan is the only one he's allowed himself to be emotional with (and Bunny but that was 'self defense') so going back to his default actually helps him more than any kind of friendship or intimacy.

saturday did actually work with fucked up kids in her life before All This, and was herself a fucked up kid

so the idea of asking for intimacy in the first damn conversation or feeling in any way entitled to being treated nicely or differently just because she wasn't an asshole a few times.... it is to laugh

I need to throw Remy at her again. Or more.

And at Raistlin.

Price has a huge impact on the plot but he has VERY little screentime. He's mostly seen with the Director (big mean boss yells at everyone, abandons Price with the aftermath of his bullshit and lets him end up in prison while he runs away) and with agents who fear him a bit and act like underlings, plus people that actively threaten to kill him so no friends

yeah no wonder everything's fucked

dude doesn't have basic human tools

And he dies without no one even noticing that he was gone. So that's why I tend to go for the 'nobody cares abt this bitch' route bc...Well, that's peak being alone, people not even noticing you're gone

wow i guess saturday is going to have a really uncomfortable conversation with Carolina then

it will be interesting

at least saturday's no strange to pissing off half the party because she's got a bug up her ass about someone deserving a fair shake against all presented evidence

to be fair, CT also doesn't think no one should try to help price, she just... wants people to understand what they're getting into and also keep him faaaaar away from her

Carolina's joining the WL gang?

both of carolina's wishes are things saturday can check a box on

this is going to be difficult and thankless with every chance of failure: understood. keep price tf away from people who he's hurt and have no interest in reconciliation: understood

CT/Connecticut rather than carolina : P but yeah that's p much it. with a side of 'please make sure to brace yourself for possible manipulation he is very good at it, he will use Anything'

that's been all her conversations w/ others abt him so far, context + warnings

lmao saturday did go in knowing that which is why she was careful wwith what she said and how she said it

bluecitrine CT waking up in the middle of night and seeing Price tucking in her sheets WHEN?

look she would actually stab him in that situation do Not wake her lmao

girl keeps a knife under her pillow

But he wowwes you

but yeah CT was the one who exposed price/the director's crimes in canon, even if she didn't get to follow up on it personally, so she knows alllll the things and is now the only freelancer stuck around him so she's just like happy to spread info to those who need it whilst staying Away herself

do not agitate the knife freelancer!!

MAN I still think it would be absolutely hilarious if he casually mentioned something FUCKED UP that PFL did that didn't appear in the records and CT is like: ????!?!!!!

ah good, many data points

The Grey vs Gray incident has Price written ALL OVER IT

saturday vs price for who can model the other person's psychology fastest and most accurately

tbf i'd have to assume that was in their sim trooper records lmao, but yeah w/ PFL it can always get worse

CT's memory isn't photographic but this shit's been ingrained in her head by ~trauma~

elle's already got a head start on her Price model, but she's willing to share : P

soon... once there's a castle to do TL's on

there is!

wildestlogs | HOME SWEET HOME

cause honestly the current stuff, raistlin is sitting in the back being very annoyed and keeping his mouth shut, and saturday is just, cursing and cursing

sdfghjkl i missed it!!!!

surfaces like a crocodile just eyes showing