Y’all what if the Dark Urge didn’t realize that the Butler only talked to them and they just assumed that he showed up for everyone. Like the Dark Urge just offhandedly mentions
“Oh ya the butler told me to do that”
And everyone at camp is just like, what butler?
“You know the one who shows up and tells me to kill people. He gave me my dope cape. You know the butler”
And everyone is just staring at Durge just horrified as durge realizes this is not a universal experience.
So I completed Curse of Strahd over a year and a half ago. I was just thinking about how my Tav, a white dragonborn named Iudex, can actually be my old D&D character Clatter the Kenku. Clatter was always impulsive and it’d make sense if they died during an adventure because they got cocky. So now it’s canon that Iudex was a Kenku back in their Barovia days. They died around a couple years after killing Strahd because of their own idiocy, got revived through the Reincarnate spell, and a few months later found themselves kidnapped by mindflayers.
Imagine Iudex’s reaction, whose adventuring career peaked at slaying Count Strahd Von Zarovich himself, learned that Astarion is a vampire spawn- how Astarion was mistreated and abused, and how he doesn’t believe anyone could kill Cazador.
Now they gotta face Cazador and Iudex is just completely trying not to name drop Strahd or their old name and party. Like “oh look at this loser. He’s got nothing on that Dread Lord I killed lol”
Anyway, post-Cazador and maybe post-game discussions with the party where Iudex off-handedly comments “If I had a gold for every time I killed a (tyrannical) Vampire Lord and an evil ‘god’ within the same week, I’d have two gold” and Strahd’s name is casually dropped somewhere there. Cue the party absolutely losing their shit. They don’t believe Iudex of course, and Iudex nonchalantly calls up this lich (her Barovia party’s wizard) who has taken up residence in Castle Ravenloft.
Other fun facts about my Tav:
Iudex’s patron is Neferon himself lol- this was before I tweaked their backstory to include the reincarnation bit. But now it’s just funny.
Clatter nearly died several times during her time in Barovia because she had zero brain to mouth filter. They learned from this of course, and is now very careful as Iudex though will still blow up if someone insults them.
Iudex fucked around somewhere and swapped their class from Druid to Warlock because “New body, new me” and made a whole backstory they tell everyone about never being able to wield magic so they made a deal with a powerful devil when in reality they’re just blackmailing Neferon somewhat.
After killing Lae’zel in self-defense (okay, I did attack her but she was threatening me with murder-suicide) and looting her of everything down to Shadowheart’s undies (👀) Astarion can’t even be bothered to look up from his book like
Finished Astarion’s quest. While Cab isn’t romancing him (she’s with Gale), they are BFFs in the “Nobody gets to mess with them except me!” sense. …and, yes, they absolutely did this.
Astarion friendzoned me. So my friend, being the loyal bestie that she is, literally decided to smack him 🤣
I've started a solo playthrough to test to see if I can get him, apparently my approval wasn't high enough, but then again his approval in Act 1 can be a bitch. So bestie and I have decided to reroll, with me making my ranger and romancing Gale.
@redarmygrif You're still awesome for smacking the shit out of Astarion 🤣 You didn't have to!