❝ tell me again why you couldn't test these out on the aks? ❞ harry asked as he dodged a jagged iron claw. he kicked at the boubous body of aklla's latest monstrosity hard enough to carry it off of it's taloned feet. it made a sound like grinding steel, hit the far wall with an audible splat, and got right back up again. skittering across the floor and swiping at his ankles once again with it's claw. // @levered ♡'d for a starter .
"why do we even have that lever" is made funnier by the fact there are only 2 levers to begin with (disguised as a pair of tusks on a statue)
i find the implications hilarious:
kronk only had to remember the location of one lever, and couldn't even manage that
but on the other hand, it's easy to get two identical unlabelled levers confused, this one's on yzma tbh
yzma only needed to make one lever to begin with, but she actively chose to turn the second tusk into a functioning trapdoor. she could have just...just not connected the second tusk to anything. it didn't need to have a function
upon reflection, this also answers the question itself: "why do we even HAVE that lever?" it's because yzma herself specifically designed it as a booby trap. "why do we have that lever?" because yzma had it built to keep people out of her secret lair! yzma made the very purposeful choice to put that lever there! and then both she and her inept henchman immediately forgot about her own booby trap! yzma that is YOUR LEVER!!!!!
today I discovered that in bg3 not only can your mage hand get caught doing crimes and be given the chance to talk its way out of it, but if you fail (that -5 penalty to charisma sdfsdf) the guards will take it to a jail cell
I can only imagine what kind of slapstick shenanigans happened trying to wrangle that thing along the way
OK, but can we all just have a moment for The Captain and Havers using each other's names, because that was an absolute stroke of genius in the writing of this scene.
They can't say how they feel. They can't have an open confession. They are being watched by a room full of army officers, they are risking so much by even holding hands while The Captain dies.
Havers stops The Captain short when he's trying to confess. The little "I know". They can't say how they feel, but they both know what they want to say.
But then this happens
Using each other's names.
Not their rank. Not sir. Not even surnames.
Their names.
It's so subtle but it is so incredibly powerful. It's personal. It's intimate. It's a confession without words.