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[lizardtits]

It was a hell of a day.

The ladies had a grand adventure chasing down Oscar and accidentally zombies, and the guys nearly got murdered by an eldritch horror. Again.

So now the dudes have to rest because going to the super-dangerous mines when tired is a terrible idea.

They've got a day or two to kill, so this is for what happens while the guys (mostly Malcer because holy fuck dude) are recovering.

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[thewinemom]

"Not tomorrow. Or the day after that. Or probably the day after that." It's highly unlikely Larold is going anywhere, so why rush? Especially since 42% of the adventuring party is recovering from having a very large number of collective holes distributed amongst their various persons, it would be really stupid to sally forth before those members were properly recovered. "Larold can wait for a few more days until those of us who didn't nearly eat shit are satisfied that those who nearly did are actually properly recovered and not just putting on a manly man show of Big Man McStrongMan."

Because she knows Gorudak.

[inkytalkstoherself]

"Gorudak's the type, isn't he?"

The type to pretend that he's fine when he isn't and insist that they press on. The kind of person who wants to take on everybody else's burdens, even when he doesn't have to or, worse, shouldn't.

"Stubborn to the core," he continues, taking an experimental whack at the ice cream with his spoon to test its thawedness. Still a little too cold. "I guess it could be an admirable quality, in the right contexts, but mostly it's just frustrating."

Like in the context of how Gorudak should've left the goddamn Archive when Malcer told him to.

[thewinemom]

"Mm. Agreed."

What do you know, they can agree on something. It looks like Gorudak is also a safe topic. For the moment, anyway.

"To be fair, though, he's spent his whole life taking on other people's burdens. It can't be easy to just unlearn that in the span of a few months." Even the power of Friendship will likely take a while. But at least Gorudak has it, now. For what it's worth. Hopefully none of them die in Larold's Fungeon so they can all continue to help Gorudak learn that it's okay to lean on other people sometimes, too.

[inkytalkstoherself]

The power of Friendship, which somehow this entire crew has been leveraging to surprising effect. It's as though they've decided that they can just befriend their way to victory, and what they can't befriend, they'll just murder.

Malcer's not entirely certain which side of that scale he's on just yet. He thinks it's the befriend side, but they also call him a bitch a lot?

"Well, hopefully he learns before he gets himself killed."

He's still irked by the way Gorudak went back on his promise. He shouldn't be-- expecting people to keep their promises is for chumps-- but Gorudak is... so earnest. He drips sincerity, like he means every single word that comes out of his stupid mouth.