Oh, you mean your spirit? [i mean listen she doesn't even really have the context to know why it's such a big deal although it doesn't sound great and does explain why he's insane.]
Listen, I'm not about to start gossiping over it. Considering it seems any of us can have our feelings twisted at any time, it would be a foolish precedent to set at the least. And bad manners.
[she's being slightly facetious but mainly just trying to assure him she won't tell people his business, especially business she only found out about because of a curse.]
Famously a thing people who have it under control say.
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Here. I'll commiserate.
I'm infected by a mindflayer parasite. Or, well, I was. [worms do not see the light of heaven?] Typically, once infected, after about a day or so, the thing devours your brain and transforms into a mindflayer, part of a hive mind, and whoever you were before the transformation is lost. We... have been lucky enough to be able to last weeks. But if most people knew, they'd consider me already dead and put me down, and I can't truly say they'd be wrong to think so.
[ sorry a little shell-shocked about worm brain. it's just kinda gross. at least justice isn't eating his brain (only metaphorically). ]
So, I take it the end product of this is becoming a horrible lumpy monster that attacks friend and foe indiscriminately and leaves a path of grief and destruction in its wake?
[ this is not actually said judgmentally beyond the just. normal tone of judgment in his voice. natural cadence. ]
Ew is right. You're not the one who had a worm inserted through your eye.
[it's disgusting but dont be a baby about it.]
Yes, precisely. Most of the time. I hope it won't happen to me. We have something that's stopping it from happening, but it's only a temporary solution.
Then we're more alike than you'd probably want. I was a willing host, and Justice is a spirit, not a demon, which changes things - it's ... it's different. But possession has a marked ending, a great deal of the time. All of the violence and destruction the Chantry warns about. Some mages hide it for years.
There are a group of people who have found some way to control the parasites for their own ends. If we find out how they're doing it, perhaps it will allow us to either control or destroy ours. We've tracked down one of the ones responsible for it. He may already be dead at my comrades' hands.
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Look, it's not as if anyone enjoys blood magic man ... ipulat ... ion ...
[ trailing off. as he remembers what he just told her. ]
... You remember everything?
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Oh, you mean your spirit? [i mean listen she doesn't even really have the context to know why it's such a big deal although it doesn't sound great and does explain why he's insane.]
Listen, I'm not about to start gossiping over it. Considering it seems any of us can have our feelings twisted at any time, it would be a foolish precedent to set at the least. And bad manners.
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[ its not really a matter of MANNERS but he gets she doesn't have context. so maybe it's better it stays that way. ]
It's under control. I have it under control.
[ famously a thing that people who DEFINITELY have things under control say. ]
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Famously a thing people who have it under control say.
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Here. I'll commiserate.
I'm infected by a mindflayer parasite. Or, well, I was. [worms do not see the light of heaven?] Typically, once infected, after about a day or so, the thing devours your brain and transforms into a mindflayer, part of a hive mind, and whoever you were before the transformation is lost. We... have been lucky enough to be able to last weeks. But if most people knew, they'd consider me already dead and put me down, and I can't truly say they'd be wrong to think so.
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[ sorry a little shell-shocked about worm brain. it's just kinda gross. at least justice isn't eating his brain (only metaphorically). ]
So, I take it the end product of this is becoming a horrible lumpy monster that attacks friend and foe indiscriminately and leaves a path of grief and destruction in its wake?
[ this is not actually said judgmentally beyond the just. normal tone of judgment in his voice. natural cadence. ]
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[it's disgusting but dont be a baby about it.]
Yes, precisely. Most of the time. I hope it won't happen to me. We have something that's stopping it from happening, but it's only a temporary solution.
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Then we're more alike than you'd probably want. I was a willing host, and Justice is a spirit, not a demon, which changes things - it's ... it's different. But possession has a marked ending, a great deal of the time. All of the violence and destruction the Chantry warns about. Some mages hide it for years.
... What will you do?
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You said it went through your eye. Couldn't you just ... [ hand motion like. scoopin'. ] A bit primitive, sure, but if it works.
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[ honestly. terrifying to imagine. ]
So this ... parasite, it can control you?
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But... before I died, I hadn't given up. So I don't know why I would now.