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[fireburned]

Have you had enough of vampires yet, Nexus? Really?

Good, because here is yet again Harvestman, carting a brand new bottle of whiskey in one hand and a full carton of smokes in the other, and he had yet another question for you all.

"Alright, let's say you get one chance to do the stupidest thing you could think of, and get away with it consequence

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[berranyrmizzrym]

Pharaun grins slightly. He's done things that most people would certainly consider suicidally stupid - like, say, attempt to feed Quenthel to an aboleth - but at least he still has consequences.

"Slap the Spider Queen in the face."

[fireburned]

His eyebrows went up, but the only thing his voice conveyed was surprise.

"I wouldn't be going around slapping anything called the Spider Queen in the face, consequences or no consequences."

[berranyrmizzrym]

"Oh, trust me, she and her priestesses have caused me enough trouble that it's well worth it." Not the least of which was, you know, getting him killed.

[fireburned]

"People with names that refer to spiders generally come with trouble. And teeth.

So says the harvestman.

[berranyrmizzrym]

"She's my race's patron goddess, and unfortunately she and I have already had our differences. I'll take my chances with her fangs." He grins sardonically. "I seem to recall even spiders can have trouble with wasps."

[fireburned]

The wasp comment made him wince; it brought up too much unpleasant (though only vaguely related) imagery.

"And you'd settle for just slapping her?"

[berranyrmizzrym]

"I know what I'd like to do, but it caused far too much trouble the last time she died."

[fireburned]

"I really miss the time when death wasn't so damn complicated." And a lot of other things, like not being dead himself.

[berranyrmizzrym]

"You mean when you didn't have to deal with how complicated death could be?" Pharaun guesses.

[fireburned]

"Once upon a time, people died, and that was fucking it. You could get religious about it or not give a shit, but once you died, it was over. None of this undead or coming back from the dead bullshit." Harvestman paused, cutting his little rant off.

"Yeah, I'm sick of dealing with how complicated death can be sometimes."

[berranyrmizzrym]

"I'm rather grateful for it, to be honest, but then my world has a physical afterlife to begin with." Several of them, in fact. And that's not counting undead and resurrection spells.

[fireburned]

"If that's the sort of complicated you like, sure. Doesn't seem like it would all work out to me." Though his opinion on afterlifes tended to be as complicated.

[berranyrmizzrym]

"I could probably do without it if it weren't for the fact that that means I would have stayed dead." Not a pleasant concept, at least for him.

[fireburned]

"Hrm."

That... appears to be his entire opinion about it?

Wait. No.

"You've got the better deal, then."

[berranyrmizzrym]

"I suppose so."