one of my fav things in the qsmp so far are the cultural differences in MINECRAFT. like I thought roier was just being funny when yelling about slime breaking his windows but apparently it's a BIG BIG rule in hispanic series to not break blocks of other people's houses/open doors and the english ccs just go Fuck It We Ball.
Dick does not know what he expected trying to sneak a snack from the kitchen before the Thanksgiving dinner.
Maybe Alfred smacking his hand way with a spoon, maybe Jason singing out for tune, maybe his newest brother Danny would help him steal some stuffing.
Not..
“DICK THE DOOR! CLOSE THE DOOR!!”
“HOW THE FUCK?! IT’S A TOFU TURKEY! THERE IS NO BIRD TO BEGIN WITH!!”
“Master Jason! I will allow that slip up for this one occasion! That being said, if could watch your tongue it would be greatly appreciated!”
“Sorry Alfie! Bu-hurk!”
Dick watched at the door as the turkey elbow slammed Jason into a cupboard. The tofu turkey threw a spoon of mash potato as Danny tried to drag little wing out of the line of fire.
He closed the door when he noted Alfred was loading up the shotgun.
SO this! is about this specific entry in Burchard's Diary--
The Diary of John Burchard, trans. A. H. Mathew
--and the APERITIO ORIS rite (the mouth thing they keep talking about), but it's also a little about Ascanio's friction with the Vatican and the della Rovere-Ascanio rivalry
Politics and Dynasty: Underaged Cardinals in the Catholic Church, Jennifer Mara DeSilva
Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, David Chambers
Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini
looking at timelines and thinking about the CONSTANT near misses where Durge and Karlach almost met while involved with/working for Gortash. the overlap is there!! but Karlach doesn't recognize Durge when they meet in game, so they must not have ever met
Karlach was Gortash's bodyguard, it would have made sense for him to bring her to meetings with a Bhaalspawn--when would he be in more danger than that? That he didn't means that either he trusted Durge not to kill him, or worried instead that Durge would kill Karlach if they met. Which, yeah, if her temperament pre-Avernus is anything like in-game then that meeting would have extraordinarily poorly! Faced with a very real threat she would have stood her ground to protect her boss and friend, still, and there is no way Durge could let that slide--there is no way she could have won that fight. Gortash liked her too much, or did not want to replace her yet, or had already put the wheels in motion on the infernal engines front and knew she would make an excellent candidate for a test, when the time came. Cuz he sold her anyway, didn't he?
so I'm emo about that but ALSO the slapstick hijink potential of Gortash running interference so that neither of them ever encounter one another is UNPARALLELED.