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    Amazing what a vacation can do for your creative juices!

    Here's an update, guys.

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    Lips were hot against each other. Fingers trailed down bodies, almost as if their owners were certain that their time together grew short. Bare skin was pressed against scales. Temperature was rising for one, moist heat building deep within until it was in such a concentration that it had to be expelled.

    Release for both happened at the same time. Instinctively, the two bodies pressed up against each other, chemicals running through their veins making them yearn for closeness. Both breathed heavily. Both needed to wait for a few minutes until they could think properly again.

    Vaarsuvius looked up, arms wrapped firmly around Redcloak’s neck, and kissed the goblin softly before letting a slightly sweaty forehead rest against fogged green scales.

    Redcloak closed his eye, keeping the delicate elf pressed against him, lightly playing his claws across pale skin while being careful not to cut it.

    The elf shivered gently and drew the blanket tighter around them, looking up and trying to make eye contact. “Redcloak?”

    The goblin dipped his head, keeping his eye closed.

    “Are you well?”

    Redcloak opened his eye and looked down at Vaarsuvius, gaze clouded with thought. “Why do you ask?”

    “I am able to read you better than you think, Redcloak. You have been troubled for the past few days.”

    Redcloak looked at the wall and ran a hand through the elf’s hair. “You know me well.”

    “I like to think that that is a prerequisite for having physical relations with me,” Vaarsuvius said dryly, running thin fingers over the goblin’s scales. “You are upset. I would like to know why.”

    “Why do you care about it?”

    Vaarsuvius scowled.

    “It doesn’t matter.” Redcloak kept his eye on the wall, placing his hands lightly on the small of the elf’s back.

    “Redcloak…”

    “There are some things in my head that I doubt you’ll ever want to know about.” Redcloak looked down, expression difficult to decipher. “Let it go.”

    “I do not wish to simply ‘let it go,’ Redcloak. There is something wrong.”

    The goblin stared hard at the elf. Vaarsuvius didn’t waver.

    Redcloak leaned down and brushed his lips against the elf’s softly. “You confuse me, Vaarsuvius. I’ve never liked being confused.”

    “I am not fond of it either.” Vaarsuvius kissed back, trying to feel out what may be the source of the goblin’s distance. “I seem to remember that you were the one who told me to not concern myself with confusion.”

    “I was.” Redcloak pulled away, still staring at the elf’s face hard, and slowly, he raised his hand and lightly touched a pale cheek. “Do you care about the dangers of this?”

    Vaarsuvius’s head cocked slightly, a slight frown coming over a pale face. “It wouldn’t matter if I did, Redcloak. We are involved in this and I don’t think I could stop even if I wanted to.”

    Redcloak was quiet.

    “Redcloak, what is wrong?”

    He cocked his head, still staring, and his touch on the elf’s face became firmer. “I don’t want to hurt you.”

    Vaarsuvius’s confusion was written all over a pale face, but the elf hesitantly touched the goblin’s hand instead of drawing away, knowing Redcloak well enough to realize that something had prompted this and it hadn’t come out of the blue. “You don’t have to yet.”

    “I don’t. But I will.”

    “I suggest facing that when you must.” Vaarsuvius gave another soft kiss. “Good night.”

    “Good night, Vaarsuvius.”

    The elf had a feeling that it would be Redcloak who would have the trouble sleeping that night. Vaarsuvius rested a pale face against the goblin’s neck, offering what comfort that could be given, and slipped into a trance.

    ---

    Jirix stared dumbly out over the city, listening and yet not believing what his subordinate was saying.

    “…Come again?”

    The hobgoblin soldier only repeated himself patiently. “Sir, the illusion spells have crumbled. The Resistance is cutting through the castle’s southern defenses. The slaves have overthrown the hobgoblin slavers and stolen their weaponry and are fighting at our western defenses. The elven party is overcoming our northern defenses. The adventurer party has split apart and started annihilating our eastern defenses. They’re making a path to the castle. We think that they mean to get the prisoners. The enemy is outnumbered and outgunned, but we are out-leveled. They won’t be able to take back the castle, but they will be able to infiltrate it and take out a lot of troops.”

    “By the Dark One… go and organize the troops until the Supreme Leader gets there! I need to tell him!”

    ---

    “What?!”

    “We need to act now, sir!”

    Redcloak and Tsukiko both exchanged glances while Jirix wrung his hands nervously and Xykon leaned against the wall thoughtfully.

    “Tsukiko, try to cover the south-west. There are only big groups working through that territory, so you don’t have a big chance of running into a PC or a high-level NPC. You should be able to hold it up.” Redcloak was already thinking up any tactics that could possibly be used, gold eye clouded in deep thought.

    “I’m on it.” Tsukiko was gone immediately.

    “Jirix, get our best mages and clerics to start pooling all their power in stopping the adventurer’s party and the elves. They’re the biggest threat. I’ll go and—”

    “Not so fast, Reddy. I need you to do something.”

    Redcloak and Jirix looked up in confusion when Xykon straightened, starting to rummage in his robe. “I’m sure I put it in here somewhere… ah!”

    He pulled out a dagger and tossed it towards Redcloak. The goblin flinched back but caught it out of the air.

    “I was hoping that your hand would get skewered. Oh well.”

    Redcloak frowned darkly, making a quick gesture with his hand. “Jirix, go do what I said and tell everyone that I’ll be there in a moment. I apparently need to deal with something else first.”

    Jirix nodded and zipped from the room.

    Redcloak looked down at the dagger, frowning at the silver handle with skulls carved in. “Xykon, what’s this about? We need to deal with this!”

    “The adventurers are only here for your ‘source of information’ and your bitch, and I happen to be spiteful, so I want to make sure they don’t get what they want.” Xykon waved his hand. “I want those prisoners gutted like Christmas turkeys. Now.”

    “Excuse me?” Redcloak looked up, heart beginning to race, eye wide.

    “Do I need to spell it out for you? Kill the paladin and the elf. Like, real kill. No sissy not-recovering-any-body type of kill, because we all know that the heroes always survive those things. And bind their souls somewhere. Don’t want them being revived.”

    “Sir, I—!”

    “Did I stutter, Reddy?”

    Redcloak stared, his mouth opened slightly.

    “We wouldn’t want a certain death to be worth nothing, do we?”

    Xykon might as well had drawn the knife on Redcloak himself. The goblin flinched back, eye closing and head bowing as though he had been struck.

    “Remember where your loyalty lies, bitch.”

    Redcloak stared up at Xykon, expression frozen in a combination of pain and surprise, showing far more than the goblin wanted. “…”

    “Nice that we understand each other. Gut the little corksuckers. And no handing off the dirty work to soldiers—that’d take the fun out of it.”

    Xykon smirked and floated up into the air. “Now I need to go blast some PCs.” He flew out of the window with a loud crackling coming from his phalanges, concentrations of dark energy growing there.

    Redcloak looked down and stared at the dagger.

    The scientist and the person within stared with him.

    He had killed his brother for this. Right-Eye. Right-Eye was dead. His baby brother. He had killed his baby brother for Xykon’s sake. If he didn’t kill Vaarsuvius, wasn’t that somehow an insult to Right-Eye’s memory? Why was an elf he was sleeping with somehow more important than his little brother? If he had killed his brother, then Vaarsuvius shouldn’t be a problem. And besides, the elf could provide information for the adventurers. It was only logical to kill it, the scientist said.

    He shouldn’t call Vaarsuvius an ‘it’! He knew what gender the elf was! Vaarsuvius deserved respect at the very least, the person insisted. He cared about Vaarsuvius. There wasn’t a serious reason to kill his lover. He didn’t need to. Xykon was just being sadistic.

    His lover? Had he become so soft and sentimental? Had he fallen so low as to use such a mushy term of endearment? No elf deserved to live when his baby brother died.

    Just because he had killed one person he loved for Xykon’s sake didn’t mean he needed to kill another!

    Love? Love Vaarsuvius? Love an elf? That was such a silly idea that it made the scientist gag.

    Xykon was making him do this for his own satisfaction. What right did Redcloak have to extinguish that beautiful fire that burned so brightly in Vaarsuvius?

    Right-Eye had died. Vaarsuvius should too.

    Not necessarily! He had learned from Right-Eye, hadn’t he? Vaarsuvius didn’t need to die!

    Right-Eye was dead.

    Vaarsuvius wasn’t.

    Did the death of one make him obligated to kill the other?

    Redcloak tightened his grip on the dagger and walked towards the staircase.


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    Heheh...Hoo boy.

    One thing: I really don't see Xykon as someone to punctuate a statement like that with "bitch". It really doesn't seem like him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CoffeeIncluded View Post
    Heheh...Hoo boy.

    One thing: I really don't see Xykon as someone to punctuate a statement like that with "bitch". It really doesn't seem like him.
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    NOOOOOOO! Cliffhanger! How could you!


    Really, really good writing. You did great showing Redcloak's dilemma.

    I am SO looking forward to the next chapter... Xykon's encounter with the PCs sounds like it would be worth showing. And he's right, in a way - Vaarsuvius IS a dangerous source of information for the Order. Probably if they so much as get into the same room V will immediately try to tell them what happened to the phylactery and what they should do. Hoo boy.
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    Welcome Shortgeek to the crack-pairing thread! Good first story told from an interesting angle, look forward to reading more from you!

    @CoffeeIncluded: Xykon's a cutter! *gasp*

    @Water-Smurf: *fans self* Steamy... Cliffhanger? Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Another brilliant update. I especially liked the debate R has with himself.
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    Ah. Well, I don't have SoD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CoffeeIncluded View Post
    Ah. Well, I don't have SoD.
    Me neither, but even without it, I think Xykon WOULD be the type to do it.

    Why not, it's not like he has any morals.
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    I dunno, it just seems like...Him, but not him. I really can't explain it better than that.

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    Man, I get back from a Scout weekend camp and there are two new chapters of Redcloak x V! Two! As well as a Beatles-themed OotS!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CoffeeIncluded View Post
    I dunno, it just seems like...Him, but not him. I really can't explain it better than that.
    Probably because it's part of his "Serious Evil" mode, when he drops the facade of being amusing and charming and just shows who's Evil with a capital E around here. So yeah, it's not him because that side of his is only shown very rarely, but it's him because he DOES show it.
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    I actually hope Redcloak actually kills V, for the sake of tragedy and because I love seeing the elf suffer, but I frankly doubt he'll do it. I'll be quite pleased if he does though.

    The beginning was a little too explicit (well, only the mention of "release" really) for my own taste but that's just me being me. I'm not surprised by Xykon's ultimatum; I expected it, and the cliffhanger too. It's just in character (though one could argue him actually allowing Redcloak to let the elf live to be out of character after losing his philactery).
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    I feel obliged to do this:

    First, how to deal with multi-gender-changed characters:
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    1x genderchanged = opposite sex
    2x genderchanged = same sex, crossdressed as opposite sex
    3x genderchanged = opposite sex, crossdressed as same (original) sex
    4x genderchanged = confused
    5x genderchanged = brain splodes


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    First, roll to determine which plot device tables to use:

    1. plot device table one (original)
    2. plot device table two (squick)


    Squick table:
    1. Roll again for characters table 1 to 4 and use said character's bones as a plot device
    2. Malfunctioning belt of gender change - for all your half/half and other hermaphrodite characters
    3. Endowment modifier - more than what it says on the package
    4. Someone likes experimenting with objects that don't belong in certain places
    5. Roll again on character table 1-4; spiritual possession by that character
    6. Separated at birth
    7. Reptilian endowment modifier - someone is a reptile with definitely mammallian attributes
    8. Weapon(s) as penile (or boobastic if female) avatars
    9. A swimming pool is involved
    10. They're family, but not blood-related
    11. Paradoxal relationship - one character is the child of another character despite them being the same age
    12. That time of the month (use male version if required)
    13. Childhood friend
    14. Someone is charmed (as in 'mind-control')
    15. Someone is soul-spliced
    16. Mini-me - Someone is a child
    17. Dismembering love - see Belkar and Buggy Lou for an example
    18. Roll again in the original plot device table and in this table
    19. Roll again twice in this table
    20. Roll again twice in both tables


    Buggy Lou needs to be added to the character tables.

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    I was going to attempt, but after reading that fic, I wouldn't touch it with a standard-issue ten-foot-pole.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Water-Smurf View Post
    I couldn't help it. I had to leave you hanging.
    Totally unnecessary: you know we're always yearning for more no matter how you end the chapter.

    Glad to see you're finding time to write; I just can't motivate myself to do anything creative at the moment.
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    Haley x Sabine x Xykon with Kidnapping.
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    I can picture Sabine kidnapping Haley for naughty purposes while Xykon watches through his crystal screen out of boredom.

    Quote Originally Posted by Zanaril View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Discord View Post
    While I'm motivated but with a 404: inspiration not found problem.
    That's what the pairing generator is for.
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    My mistake; writing inspiration. I have known I wanted to write Miko x Vaarsuvius (or, possibly, V x Haley) for ages.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Discord View Post
    My mistake; writing inspiration. I have known I wanted to write Miko x Vaarsuvius (or, possibly, V x Haley) for ages.
    VxHaley shouldn't be too hard. How about... the first time they met, and Haley tries to find out what gender V is?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zanaril View Post
    VxHaley shouldn't be too hard. How about... the first time they met, and Haley tries to find out what gender V is?
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    V x Haley's been done, ya know.


    Oh, another interesting pairing for someone to try.


    Nale x V with True Love.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BatRobin View Post
    V x Haley's been done, ya know.


    Oh, another interesting pairing for someone to try.


    Nale x V with True Love.
    Just because it's been done doesn't mean people can do their own twisted versions of it.

    By the way, I dare you to do that pair.
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    By the way, I dare you to do that pair.
    I second this.

    DO IT!
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    Nale x Nale with True Love is much more in character. Though, V electrocuted him and there's the slight chance it's among Sabine's little kinks in bed...

    Quote Originally Posted by Zanaril View Post
    VxHaley shouldn't be too hard. How about... the first time they met, and Haley tries to find out what gender V is?
    Myeeeessss.

    Of course, the first time they met was probably Haley breaking into V's house.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silverraptor View Post
    Just because it's been done doesn't mean people can do their own twisted versions of it.

    By the way, I dare you to do that pair.
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    I second this.

    DO IT!
    I third this!

    DO IT! I just had an acid and brain bleach shower. BRING IT ON!!!

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    I third this!

    DO IT! I just had an acid and brain bleach shower. BRING IT ON!!!
    That's... uh... not going to be enough.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silverraptor View Post
    That's... uh... not going to be enough.
    You would have throught you people would have been desensitized to this stuff by now.

    But no, one little bit of squick and out comes the bleach again...

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    It's like alcohol, except it burns the mind instead of the throat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CoffeeIncluded View Post
    It's like alcohol, except it burns the mind instead of the throat.
    I'd rather have the alcohol, thanks.
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    I'd rather have the alcohol, thanks.
    I can see why.
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    Here's an update, guys.

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    Lips were hot against each other. Fingers trailed down bodies, almost as if their owners were certain that their time together grew short. Bare skin was pressed against scales. Temperature was rising for one, moist heat building deep within until it was in such a concentration that it had to be expelled.

    Release for both happened at the same time. Instinctively, the two bodies pressed up against each other, chemicals running through their veins making them yearn for closeness. Both breathed heavily. Both needed to wait for a few minutes until they could think properly again.

    Vaarsuvius looked up, arms wrapped firmly around Redcloak’s neck, and kissed the goblin softly before letting a slightly sweaty forehead rest against fogged green scales.

    Redcloak closed his eye, keeping the delicate elf pressed against him, lightly playing his claws across pale skin while being careful not to cut it.

    The elf shivered gently and drew the blanket tighter around them, looking up and trying to make eye contact. “Redcloak?”

    The goblin dipped his head, keeping his eye closed.

    “Are you well?”

    Redcloak opened his eye and looked down at Vaarsuvius, gaze clouded with thought. “Why do you ask?”

    “I am able to read you better than you think, Redcloak. You have been troubled for the past few days.”

    Redcloak looked at the wall and ran a hand through the elf’s hair. “You know me well.”

    “I like to think that that is a prerequisite for having physical relations with me,” Vaarsuvius said dryly, running thin fingers over the goblin’s scales. “You are upset. I would like to know why.”

    “Why do you care about it?”

    Vaarsuvius scowled.

    “It doesn’t matter.” Redcloak kept his eye on the wall, placing his hands lightly on the small of the elf’s back.

    “Redcloak…”

    “There are some things in my head that I doubt you’ll ever want to know about.” Redcloak looked down, expression difficult to decipher. “Let it go.”

    “I do not wish to simply ‘let it go,’ Redcloak. There is something wrong.”

    The goblin stared hard at the elf. Vaarsuvius didn’t waver.

    Redcloak leaned down and brushed his lips against the elf’s softly. “You confuse me, Vaarsuvius. I’ve never liked being confused.”

    “I am not fond of it either.” Vaarsuvius kissed back, trying to feel out what may be the source of the goblin’s distance. “I seem to remember that you were the one who told me to not concern myself with confusion.”

    “I was.” Redcloak pulled away, still staring at the elf’s face hard, and slowly, he raised his hand and lightly touched a pale cheek. “Do you care about the dangers of this?”

    Vaarsuvius’s head cocked slightly, a slight frown coming over a pale face. “It wouldn’t matter if I did, Redcloak. We are involved in this and I don’t think I could stop even if I wanted to.”

    Redcloak was quiet.

    “Redcloak, what is wrong?”

    He cocked his head, still staring, and his touch on the elf’s face became firmer. “I don’t want to hurt you.”

    Vaarsuvius’s confusion was written all over a pale face, but the elf hesitantly touched the goblin’s hand instead of drawing away, knowing Redcloak well enough to realize that something had prompted this and it hadn’t come out of the blue. “You don’t have to yet.”

    “I don’t. But I will.”

    “I suggest facing that when you must.” Vaarsuvius gave another soft kiss. “Good night.”

    “Good night, Vaarsuvius.”

    The elf had a feeling that it would be Redcloak who would have the trouble sleeping that night. Vaarsuvius rested a pale face against the goblin’s neck, offering what comfort that could be given, and slipped into a trance.

    ---

    Jirix stared dumbly out over the city, listening and yet not believing what his subordinate was saying.

    “…Come again?”

    The hobgoblin soldier only repeated himself patiently. “Sir, the illusion spells have crumbled. The Resistance is cutting through the castle’s southern defenses. The slaves have overthrown the hobgoblin slavers and stolen their weaponry and are fighting at our western defenses. The elven party is overcoming our northern defenses. The adventurer party has split apart and started annihilating our eastern defenses. They’re making a path to the castle. We think that they mean to get the prisoners. The enemy is outnumbered and outgunned, but we are out-leveled. They won’t be able to take back the castle, but they will be able to infiltrate it and take out a lot of troops.”

    “By the Dark One… go and organize the troops until the Supreme Leader gets there! I need to tell him!”

    ---

    “What?!”

    “We need to act now, sir!”

    Redcloak and Tsukiko both exchanged glances while Jirix wrung his hands nervously and Xykon leaned against the wall thoughtfully.

    “Tsukiko, try to cover the south-west. There are only big groups working through that territory, so you don’t have a big chance of running into a PC or a high-level NPC. You should be able to hold it up.” Redcloak was already thinking up any tactics that could possibly be used, gold eye clouded in deep thought.

    “I’m on it.” Tsukiko was gone immediately.

    “Jirix, get our best mages and clerics to start pooling all their power in stopping the adventurer’s party and the elves. They’re the biggest threat. I’ll go and—”

    “Not so fast, Reddy. I need you to do something.”

    Redcloak and Jirix looked up in confusion when Xykon straightened, starting to rummage in his robe. “I’m sure I put it in here somewhere… ah!”

    He pulled out a dagger and tossed it towards Redcloak. The goblin flinched back but caught it out of the air.

    “I was hoping that your hand would get skewered. Oh well.”

    Redcloak frowned darkly, making a quick gesture with his hand. “Jirix, go do what I said and tell everyone that I’ll be there in a moment. I apparently need to deal with something else first.”

    Jirix nodded and zipped from the room.

    Redcloak looked down at the dagger, frowning at the silver handle with skulls carved in. “Xykon, what’s this about? We need to deal with this!”

    “The adventurers are only here for your ‘source of information’ and your bitch, and I happen to be spiteful, so I want to make sure they don’t get what they want.” Xykon waved his hand. “I want those prisoners gutted like Christmas turkeys. Now.”

    “Excuse me?” Redcloak looked up, heart beginning to race, eye wide.

    “Do I need to spell it out for you? Kill the paladin and the elf. Like, real kill. No sissy not-recovering-any-body type of kill, because we all know that the heroes always survive those things. And bind their souls somewhere. Don’t want them being revived.”

    “Sir, I—!”

    “Did I stutter, Reddy?”

    Redcloak stared, his mouth opened slightly.

    “We wouldn’t want a certain death to be worth nothing, do we?”

    Xykon might as well had drawn the knife on Redcloak himself. The goblin flinched back, eye closing and head bowing as though he had been struck.

    “Remember where your loyalty lies, bitch.”

    Redcloak stared up at Xykon, expression frozen in a combination of pain and surprise, showing far more than the goblin wanted. “…”

    “Nice that we understand each other. Gut the little corksuckers. And no handing off the dirty work to soldiers—that’d take the fun out of it.”

    Xykon smirked and floated up into the air. “Now I need to go blast some PCs.” He flew out of the window with a loud crackling coming from his phalanges, concentrations of dark energy growing there.

    Redcloak looked down and stared at the dagger.

    The scientist and the person within stared with him.

    He had killed his brother for this. Right-Eye. Right-Eye was dead. His baby brother. He had killed his baby brother for Xykon’s sake. If he didn’t kill Vaarsuvius, wasn’t that somehow an insult to Right-Eye’s memory? Why was an elf he was sleeping with somehow more important than his little brother? If he had killed his brother, then Vaarsuvius shouldn’t be a problem. And besides, the elf could provide information for the adventurers. It was only logical to kill it, the scientist said.

    He shouldn’t call Vaarsuvius an ‘it’! He knew what gender the elf was! Vaarsuvius deserved respect at the very least, the person insisted. He cared about Vaarsuvius. There wasn’t a serious reason to kill his lover. He didn’t need to. Xykon was just being sadistic.

    His lover? Had he become so soft and sentimental? Had he fallen so low as to use such a mushy term of endearment? No elf deserved to live when his baby brother died.

    Just because he had killed one person he loved for Xykon’s sake didn’t mean he needed to kill another!

    Love? Love Vaarsuvius? Love an elf? That was such a silly idea that it made the scientist gag.

    Xykon was making him do this for his own satisfaction. What right did Redcloak have to extinguish that beautiful fire that burned so brightly in Vaarsuvius?

    Right-Eye had died. Vaarsuvius should too.

    Not necessarily! He had learned from Right-Eye, hadn’t he? Vaarsuvius didn’t need to die!

    Right-Eye was dead.

    Vaarsuvius wasn’t.

    Did the death of one make him obligated to kill the other?

    Redcloak tightened his grip on the dagger and walked towards the staircase.


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