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Title: Questionable Plans for Dealing With Angry Spirits
Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3
Characters: Wyll & Gale; background mentions of Shadowheart and Karlach
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: Wyll and Gale muse, rather uncomfortably, about restless ghosts as Shadowheart and Karlach loot some corpses.
Notes: Takes place early Act 1. Gale and Wyll haven't quite revealed their secrets to the rest of the party quite yet. Quick warning for casual dismissal of addiction.
The four finally come to the mark Dammon had marked on their map. It’s a village in shambles and crawling with goblins. Just outside, the gates are fresh corpses, human and teifling alike. It feels uncouth to scour the remains, but Karlach and Shadowheart are already picking through the remains.
Also, cleric desecrating a corpse? Isn’t that something that goes against sacerdotal doctrine for most gods?
Wyll is standing to the side with Gale, watching the two women picking out weapons, gold, and other knickknacks. Both exchange a glance, but both decide to not step in beyond offering prayers to any listening gods to not have some angry ghosts on their tails.
“Guess if we do get ghosts, our cleric can turn them away,” Wyll says, laughing a bit uneasily at his own joke.
Gale joins in a bit halfheartedly. “Well, if there is some ghosts, we may be able to appease them by exacting revenge on the goblins who killed them.”
“Gale, we found a spellscroll for your magic addiction!” Karlach shouts, making Gale go hot in the face.
“It’s not an addiction!”
Wyll elbows him, a grin nearly breaking his face. “Then it’s something you can stop at any time? Might save us a good few coin if you do.”
It’s all Gale can do to keep his posture from curling up into a ball as both Wyll and Karlach chuckle at his annoyance. He has half a mind to explain the difference between an arcane hunger and an arcane addiction, but that would mean he’d have to explain his orb, the deadly consequences of failing to feed the orb, and the whole sordid story behind his folly. It was something he really didn’t want to go into with goblins lurking around.
So instead, he just quietly accepts the scrolls Karlach purloined.
