on my critical role bullshit now
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iniquiticitycaleb Wishes shit back to how it was but.... sorry kiddo
iniquiticity
okay so
there is a book series called animorphs which you will occasionally see on my blog
and in book #1 the characters becomse the main characters becuase they wander through and abandoned construction site and meet an alien
and these "AU" books were written and one was "what is the group went the safe way, never went into the site and continued life as normal humans?"
iniquiticity
but becuase warping reality is nominally impossible, this fake reality starts to break down and all the characters get this niggling feeling, growing and growing, that things are wrong, until like the fundamental tentats of reality stop working and like people are walking through concrete and eventually like, things return to how "real life" is
the reason i bring this up is ... what if caleb wished he never went to soltryce and he was returned to his farmer life
Wished*
duckbunny
and it didn't come right?
iniquiticity
well
for a while things are good, him and astrid and their family but
he can't shake the feeling this is wrong.
when he does cantrips he has this flash of ... something else. this is not enough. he is more he can be mORE.
he dreams of fire and goblins (???!!) and a giant girl with black wings and a blue tiefling and ..
and then one day the circus comes to town and
he knows
that tiefling with the card and the bouncer they are so FAMILIAR from wher ehe's never seen a tiefling in his life the tiefling is called MOLLYMAUK and the bouncer is called YASHA
iniquiticity
asks astrid if she has ever seen any of these people and she's like, no dear, are you okay? you look rattled.
duckbunny
they're tuned in as well, right?
this man who should be scruffy, who should smell of smoke
iniquiticity
yes
the tarot reader looks at him
comes right up to him
"now i know this is going to sound crazy so you'll forgive a circus man, crazy all of us, but... have we met?"
no
yes
but that's impossible
but ... he knows .. THIS MAN
iniquiticity
"mollymauk tealeaf at your service," the tiefling says, and offers a hand, and he shakes it
"caleb," he says, and then yanks his hand back like it's signed. that's now his name, why did he say that?
duckbunny
that's never been his name
iniquiticity
"brenn," he says, " don't know -- ha -- why i said caleb ... don't know any calebs ... "
mollymauk frowns. "no. i'm pretty sure caleb is your name."
iniquiticity
astrid frowns. "i'm certain it is not, mr. tealeaf."
duckbunny
this person, Molly doesn't feel is familiar. or - safe.
iniquiticity
no. mollymauk looks at her with guarded eyes. (not in the dreams mollymauk has. with yasha and the girl in blue robes and the half-orc with the sword they pray together about)
iniquiticity
"read your cards?" he says, and brenn - he shouldn't but -- he does
the first card -- it's him, it's brenn - holding the hand of a tiny goblin with flowers in her hair
iniquiticity
the second card -- it's him, it's brenn, standing behind a half-orc surrounded by dark magic
duckbunny
Molly looks shaken
iniquiticity
the third card -- it's him, it's brenn, and and some blue horned itiefling is giving him what must be a piece of candy
iniquiticity
the fourth card -- it's him, it's brenn -- and it's mollymauk -- they're sitting at an inn table with food in front of them and it's real -- this HAPPENED this SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED this NEVER happened this is iMPOSSIBLE
duckbunny
Molly clears his throat
"they don't usually do this"
iniquiticity
he pulls out another card, hand shaking
it's brenn and he's wearing a rattled expression and with a hand around his shoulders is a tall dark-skinned woman in blue robes
"is this a funny game, to play tricks on farmers?" he hisses
(the woman is called BEAUREGARD)
duckbunny
Molly: no, this isn't funny at all
iniquiticity
molly: i swear to all the gods this is ... not what i planned
duckbunny
you see a lot of funny things in the circus. downright peculiar. but someone who paints themselves into the cards? that's not even slightly amusing.
iniquiticity
brenn knocks the cards out of his and and they scatter
every one of them is BRENN
duckbunny
Molly gives that Molly grin
you know, I'd really like my cards back to normal when you're done
iniquiticity
brenn with a burning building behind him brenn being shouted at by a horrible man brenn being stabbed by a merrow brenn in a swamp
iniquiticity
"you know what, why don't you just keep them and i'll get a new set."
duckbunny
brenn: I don't want these! Why would I want this? Why would I do this?? This is not me!
iniquiticity
"they're obviously meant for you i'm afraid. you know how you're ine very one of them."
"this is not me! this is some doppelganger!"
duckbunny
Molly: I'll be honest with you, this whole act is mostly a sham. You pull a few cards, you tell people what they want to hear. This is way above my pay grade.
iniquiticity
brenn is going to get the circus kicked out of town now
duckbunny
Molly is immediately in trouble
yasha is immediately protective
iniquiticity
yasha is "well what did caleb say"
duckbunny
Molly collects up the cards and hands them to her
iniquiticity
and molly's like "um. well. something funky is going on. i don't like it. i only like funky things when i cause them and they help me. and this is ... not those things."
yasha looks at them
iniquiticity
it's yasha and the orc fighting
duckbunny
yasha: Huh
iniquiticity
it's yasha inspiring the farmer to hug the woman in blue
it's yasha stabbing a fish person
it's yasha talking about a flower with the blue tiefling
duckbunny
it's yasha crying
iniquiticity
yasha gives them back
walks away
molly is like "Come on."
(to the cards. Not to Yasha. Obviously.)
iniquiticity
"Okay, what've you got for me then?"
pulls the first card
it's mollymauk reading cards in a far city
it's mollymaulk being stabbed by a troll
duckbunny
it's a fresh grave
iniquiticity
he pulls the next one
it's a fresh grave
duckbunny
Molly: now you're just being rude
iniquiticity
he pulls the next one
it's a fresh grave
iniquiticity
he pulls the next one
it's a fresh grave
duckbunny
he is shook
iniquiticity
he is Extremely Shook
iniquiticity
Attempting to keep cool, visibly rattled. "You are not being very cool right now."
duckbunny
he shuffles the deck. cuts, shuffles, cuts.
iniquiticity
deep breath one
deep breath two
deep breath three
pulls the first card
iniquiticity
it's all of them in a tavern
big sigh of relief
"I'm going to quit when I'm ahead."
duckbunny
it's the back of his own head, reading cards for one of the others
his head is very recognisable even if he wasn't wearing his coat, which he is
the other tiefling looks totally absorbed in whatever line he's spinning
yasha watching, eyebrow raised
iniquiticity
he knows her name
her name is jester.
duckbunny
Caleb exhausted and filthy and his name is Caleb
iniquiticity
the man with the wife is clean shaven and has strong shoulders and confidence and power and this man --
this man is ratty and cowed but --
they are the same man and his name is caleb.
iniquiticity
he is going to get very drunk now. that is how you solve problems after all.
duckbunny
there's a lot of shouting outside
iniquiticity
he puts the card sin his pocket and he is going to go outside even though he *knows* it is going to be trouble.
duckbunny
trouble is enlivening
iniquiticity
he hopes (???) Caleb (??) is involved
duckbunny
these people have very strong accents in common
but the circus people mostly don't speak any zemnian
duckbunny
it's not helping
iniquiticity
he's also not drunk which is unfortunate
duckbunny
he will get hammered later
iniquiticity
oh yes
duckbunny
right now he needs to saunter up to the argument between Caleb and his wife and Bo and the circus leader and start lying his face off about ill-advised tricks, so terribly sorry, a harmless prank, etc
iniquiticity
well some of it is true
the cards HAVE never done that before
he definitely did not mean it
duckbunny
he's just trying to not get them kicked out of town before they can sell any tickets
iniquiticity
exactly
iniquiticity
he has a good life you circus man! stop trying to ruin it with your nonsense!
he's just trying to lead a good life where he is happy!
he just wants to be left alone.
duckbunny
Molly: my sincerest apologies, I don't know what came over me.
iniquiticity
Brenn going home and fuming.
duckbunny
Astrid tells him to forget about it, the tiefling was just trying to spook him
iniquiticity
I know, love
duckbunny
she's correct. he just can't.
iniquiticity
Very funny circus tricks.
duckbunny
he was doing illusion magic on the cards. must have been.
duckbunny
Brenn has read about that.
duckbunny
he dreams of dancing with the blue girl
the tiefling
she calls him Caleb
iniquiticity
Wakes up in a start.
Astrid sleeping next to him
He has to know more. What mollymauk knows about him. About Caleb.
iniquiticity
Goes to the circus in the middle of night with his light blobs.
iniquiticity
Mollymauk comes out of his tent and becons him in. Yasha is sitting there too.
"Tell me who you are," Brenn says. "What you know about me. I don't know you. But I do know you. And I know you too. Yasha. When you're realy angry giant skeletal wings come out of your back."
Brenn took in the tiefling and the giant woman in the light of his globes. He should have been frightenined by the woman - by the greatsword or the passive expression on her face or the painting or the rippling biceps. She made him feel safe, though. In dreams she had stood in front of him a hundred times against a thousand enemies.
Impossible dreams. It could not be her. It could not be him. He had this life, this wonderful life, this easy and peaceful life on the farm with Astrid. It was a good life, too. Often he had woken up and wanted all of this to go on exactly how it was, forever. They would have children that he would love and his parents would take care of them sometimes.
And yet the woman -- Yasha, his brain supplied -- was familiar and comforting despite everything. And yet this gaudy tiefling who he dreamt of was here. Here! This insane creature that he had dreamed off. That drew his own blood and puled poison from wounds and had --
-- died. Mollymauk had died in a dream. Yasha had wept.
He would not wish that on anyone, even these people, even what they did to his life. He hoped they had a good life in the circus, at last. Despite everything he hoped things went well for them and they too had what one could call a family.
"That's true," Yasha said, in a quiet voice, about her skeletal wings, "Sometimes. And you like fire, and you hate it, too."
Brenn closed his eyes. The dream about his burning house was familiar one. The dream about him burning enemies. The dream about the burning troll, which had killed Beauregard and then she had been restored.
"What do you know, Mollymauk?" Brenn asked.
Mollymauk stared at the desk of cards, and then at him, and then at Yasha. He flipped them expertly again and pulled a card. On it was Mollymauk, and with him was Jester the blue tiefling, and they were selling something grotsque in an herb shop.
"Gods know what I know," Mollymauk said, "We went too - where was it? Trostenwald, maybe? That was right after he wouldn't let that horrible frog thing join us. It was a fine show, good coin. After that I started having dreams, really realistic ones, about people I didn't know. Really vivid ones, too. Not normal dreams."
Brenn nodded.
"There was me, and Fjord, a half-orc.."
"With his sword, the one with the ocean water."
"And Jester, a tiefling who worshiped a banned god no one had ever heard of, and Beau, an idiot who.... who meant realy well even though she wasn't the best at a lot of things..."
"But she could really punch people in the face," Yasha added, admiringly.
"And Yasha, who..." He looked at her and smiled, and she did not quite smile back, "Who collected flowers and cut things."
"And me," Brenn said, "Only in the dream everyone calls me Caleb, and I am....."
"Really tired," Mollymauk said, "And stiff. Like you've got something you can't shake off."
"And I'm friends with a...." He must have known the disgust that came over his face. "... A goblin woman who is an alcoholic."
Mollymauk laughed. "Nott. Yeah. And we got on adventures together, all over. And we've all got troubles but we are there for each other, and maybe we don't trust each other but we're a good team."
Brenn withheld about the death and the weeping. These people looked happy. He was happy.
"Mollymauk," Brenn said, looking at his hands, "What do you think it means? Do we have a destiny?"
"Well, I guess the only way to find out is to find the four we're missing, right?"
Brenn stood. He stared at Mollymauk and Yasha. These people were -- unusual. In all of Blumenthal there was one half-elf and two dwarves and a dragonborn. There were no winged-spouting monster-women and certainly no tieflings and definitely *definitely* not any goblins. It seemed impossible to imagine little old him going on these advenutures with such a group.
"I would never be friends with a goblin," he said.
"It's your dream-self," Mollymauk said, and shrugged, "I don't know. Maybe it doesn't mean anything." He flipped another card. It was them again, the whole group, and they were hiding in an absolutely grotesque cave that might have been a sewer over an armored corpse and a weird-shaped grey rock. "But I can tell you over my dead body, Brenn, or Caleb, I did not do that to my cards, and if someone did theey're way more impressive than any of my parlor tricks."
Brenn reached for the next card. Mollymauk didn't stop him. He flipped the card over and on it Caleb had eight arrows sticking out of him a field and they were surrounded by dingy figures.
"Not the best luck on that one," Mollymauk said.
"Suppose not," Brenn replied.
"Well, we can get right on going if we've made you uncomfortable," Mollymauk said, "Circus does that to people. I get it, we're a real bunch."
"No, this is your job. I am not going to let this...." he gestured to the card, "Nonsense make me stop another man's hard work."
iniquiticity
okay so
there is a book series called animorphs which you will occasionally see on my blog
and in book #1 the characters becomse the main characters becuase they wander through and abandoned construction site and meet an alien
and these "AU" books were written and one was "what is the group went the safe way, never went into the site and continued life as normal humans?"
iniquiticity
but becuase warping reality is nominally impossible, this fake reality starts to break down and all the characters get this niggling feeling, growing and growing, that things are wrong, until like the fundamental tentats of reality stop working and like people are walking through concrete and eventually like, things return to how "real life" is
the reason i bring this up is ... what if caleb wished he never went to soltryce and he was returned to his farmer life
Wished*
duckbunny
and it didn't come right?
iniquiticity
well
for a while things are good, him and astrid and their family but
he can't shake the feeling this is wrong.
when he does cantrips he has this flash of ... something else. this is not enough. he is more he can be mORE.
he dreams of fire and goblins (???!!) and a giant girl with black wings and a blue tiefling and ..
and then one day the circus comes to town and
he knows
that tiefling with the card and the bouncer they are so FAMILIAR from wher ehe's never seen a tiefling in his life the tiefling is called MOLLYMAUK and the bouncer is called YASHA
iniquiticity
asks astrid if she has ever seen any of these people and she's like, no dear, are you okay? you look rattled.
duckbunny
they're tuned in as well, right?
this man who should be scruffy, who should smell of smoke
iniquiticity
yes
the tarot reader looks at him
comes right up to him
"now i know this is going to sound crazy so you'll forgive a circus man, crazy all of us, but... have we met?"
no
yes
but that's impossible
but ... he knows .. THIS MAN
iniquiticity
"mollymauk tealeaf at your service," the tiefling says, and offers a hand, and he shakes it
"caleb," he says, and then yanks his hand back like it's signed. that's now his name, why did he say that?
duckbunny
that's never been his name
iniquiticity
"brenn," he says, " don't know -- ha -- why i said caleb ... don't know any calebs ... "
mollymauk frowns. "no. i'm pretty sure caleb is your name."
iniquiticity
astrid frowns. "i'm certain it is not, mr. tealeaf."
duckbunny
this person, Molly doesn't feel is familiar. or - safe.
iniquiticity
no. mollymauk looks at her with guarded eyes. (not in the dreams mollymauk has. with yasha and the girl in blue robes and the half-orc with the sword they pray together about)
iniquiticity
"read your cards?" he says, and brenn - he shouldn't but -- he does
the first card -- it's him, it's brenn - holding the hand of a tiny goblin with flowers in her hair
iniquiticity
the second card -- it's him, it's brenn, standing behind a half-orc surrounded by dark magic
duckbunny
Molly looks shaken
iniquiticity
the third card -- it's him, it's brenn, and and some blue horned itiefling is giving him what must be a piece of candy
iniquiticity
the fourth card -- it's him, it's brenn -- and it's mollymauk -- they're sitting at an inn table with food in front of them and it's real -- this HAPPENED this SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED this NEVER happened this is iMPOSSIBLE
duckbunny
Molly clears his throat
"they don't usually do this"
iniquiticity
he pulls out another card, hand shaking
it's brenn and he's wearing a rattled expression and with a hand around his shoulders is a tall dark-skinned woman in blue robes
"is this a funny game, to play tricks on farmers?" he hisses
(the woman is called BEAUREGARD)
duckbunny
Molly: no, this isn't funny at all
iniquiticity
molly: i swear to all the gods this is ... not what i planned
duckbunny
you see a lot of funny things in the circus. downright peculiar. but someone who paints themselves into the cards? that's not even slightly amusing.
iniquiticity
brenn knocks the cards out of his and and they scatter
every one of them is BRENN
duckbunny
Molly gives that Molly grin
you know, I'd really like my cards back to normal when you're done
iniquiticity
brenn with a burning building behind him brenn being shouted at by a horrible man brenn being stabbed by a merrow brenn in a swamp
iniquiticity
"you know what, why don't you just keep them and i'll get a new set."
duckbunny
brenn: I don't want these! Why would I want this? Why would I do this?? This is not me!
iniquiticity
"they're obviously meant for you i'm afraid. you know how you're ine very one of them."
"this is not me! this is some doppelganger!"
duckbunny
Molly: I'll be honest with you, this whole act is mostly a sham. You pull a few cards, you tell people what they want to hear. This is way above my pay grade.
iniquiticity
brenn is going to get the circus kicked out of town now
duckbunny
Molly is immediately in trouble
yasha is immediately protective
iniquiticity
yasha is "well what did caleb say"
duckbunny
Molly collects up the cards and hands them to her
iniquiticity
and molly's like "um. well. something funky is going on. i don't like it. i only like funky things when i cause them and they help me. and this is ... not those things."
yasha looks at them
iniquiticity
it's yasha and the orc fighting
duckbunny
yasha: Huh
iniquiticity
it's yasha inspiring the farmer to hug the woman in blue
it's yasha stabbing a fish person
it's yasha talking about a flower with the blue tiefling
duckbunny
it's yasha crying
iniquiticity
yasha gives them back
walks away
molly is like "Come on."
(to the cards. Not to Yasha. Obviously.)
iniquiticity
"Okay, what've you got for me then?"
pulls the first card
it's mollymauk reading cards in a far city
it's mollymaulk being stabbed by a troll
duckbunny
it's a fresh grave
iniquiticity
he pulls the next one
it's a fresh grave
duckbunny
Molly: now you're just being rude
iniquiticity
he pulls the next one
it's a fresh grave
iniquiticity
he pulls the next one
it's a fresh grave
duckbunny
he is shook
iniquiticity
he is Extremely Shook
iniquiticity
Attempting to keep cool, visibly rattled. "You are not being very cool right now."
duckbunny
he shuffles the deck. cuts, shuffles, cuts.
iniquiticity
deep breath one
deep breath two
deep breath three
pulls the first card
iniquiticity
it's all of them in a tavern
big sigh of relief
"I'm going to quit when I'm ahead."
duckbunny
it's the back of his own head, reading cards for one of the others
his head is very recognisable even if he wasn't wearing his coat, which he is
the other tiefling looks totally absorbed in whatever line he's spinning
yasha watching, eyebrow raised
iniquiticity
he knows her name
her name is jester.
duckbunny
Caleb exhausted and filthy and his name is Caleb
iniquiticity
the man with the wife is clean shaven and has strong shoulders and confidence and power and this man --
this man is ratty and cowed but --
they are the same man and his name is caleb.
iniquiticity
he is going to get very drunk now. that is how you solve problems after all.
duckbunny
there's a lot of shouting outside
iniquiticity
he puts the card sin his pocket and he is going to go outside even though he *knows* it is going to be trouble.
duckbunny
trouble is enlivening
iniquiticity
he hopes (???) Caleb (??) is involved
duckbunny
these people have very strong accents in common
but the circus people mostly don't speak any zemnian
duckbunny
it's not helping
iniquiticity
he's also not drunk which is unfortunate
duckbunny
he will get hammered later
iniquiticity
oh yes
duckbunny
right now he needs to saunter up to the argument between Caleb and his wife and Bo and the circus leader and start lying his face off about ill-advised tricks, so terribly sorry, a harmless prank, etc
iniquiticity
well some of it is true
the cards HAVE never done that before
he definitely did not mean it
duckbunny
he's just trying to not get them kicked out of town before they can sell any tickets
iniquiticity
exactly
iniquiticity
he has a good life you circus man! stop trying to ruin it with your nonsense!
he's just trying to lead a good life where he is happy!
he just wants to be left alone.
duckbunny
Molly: my sincerest apologies, I don't know what came over me.
iniquiticity
Brenn going home and fuming.
duckbunny
Astrid tells him to forget about it, the tiefling was just trying to spook him
iniquiticity
I know, love
duckbunny
she's correct. he just can't.
iniquiticity
Very funny circus tricks.
duckbunny
he was doing illusion magic on the cards. must have been.
duckbunny
Brenn has read about that.
duckbunny
he dreams of dancing with the blue girl
the tiefling
she calls him Caleb
iniquiticity
Wakes up in a start.
Astrid sleeping next to him
He has to know more. What mollymauk knows about him. About Caleb.
iniquiticity
Goes to the circus in the middle of night with his light blobs.
iniquiticity
Mollymauk comes out of his tent and becons him in. Yasha is sitting there too.
"Tell me who you are," Brenn says. "What you know about me. I don't know you. But I do know you. And I know you too. Yasha. When you're realy angry giant skeletal wings come out of your back."
Brenn took in the tiefling and the giant woman in the light of his globes. He should have been frightenined by the woman - by the greatsword or the passive expression on her face or the painting or the rippling biceps. She made him feel safe, though. In dreams she had stood in front of him a hundred times against a thousand enemies.
Impossible dreams. It could not be her. It could not be him. He had this life, this wonderful life, this easy and peaceful life on the farm with Astrid. It was a good life, too. Often he had woken up and wanted all of this to go on exactly how it was, forever. They would have children that he would love and his parents would take care of them sometimes.
And yet the woman -- Yasha, his brain supplied -- was familiar and comforting despite everything. And yet this gaudy tiefling who he dreamt of was here. Here! This insane creature that he had dreamed off. That drew his own blood and puled poison from wounds and had --
-- died. Mollymauk had died in a dream. Yasha had wept.
He would not wish that on anyone, even these people, even what they did to his life. He hoped they had a good life in the circus, at last. Despite everything he hoped things went well for them and they too had what one could call a family.
"That's true," Yasha said, in a quiet voice, about her skeletal wings, "Sometimes. And you like fire, and you hate it, too."
Brenn closed his eyes. The dream about his burning house was familiar one. The dream about him burning enemies. The dream about the burning troll, which had killed Beauregard and then she had been restored.
"What do you know, Mollymauk?" Brenn asked.
Mollymauk stared at the desk of cards, and then at him, and then at Yasha. He flipped them expertly again and pulled a card. On it was Mollymauk, and with him was Jester the blue tiefling, and they were selling something grotsque in an herb shop.
"Gods know what I know," Mollymauk said, "We went too - where was it? Trostenwald, maybe? That was right after he wouldn't let that horrible frog thing join us. It was a fine show, good coin. After that I started having dreams, really realistic ones, about people I didn't know. Really vivid ones, too. Not normal dreams."
Brenn nodded.
"There was me, and Fjord, a half-orc.."
"With his sword, the one with the ocean water."
"And Jester, a tiefling who worshiped a banned god no one had ever heard of, and Beau, an idiot who.... who meant realy well even though she wasn't the best at a lot of things..."
"But she could really punch people in the face," Yasha added, admiringly.
"And Yasha, who..." He looked at her and smiled, and she did not quite smile back, "Who collected flowers and cut things."
"And me," Brenn said, "Only in the dream everyone calls me Caleb, and I am....."
"Really tired," Mollymauk said, "And stiff. Like you've got something you can't shake off."
"And I'm friends with a...." He must have known the disgust that came over his face. "... A goblin woman who is an alcoholic."
Mollymauk laughed. "Nott. Yeah. And we got on adventures together, all over. And we've all got troubles but we are there for each other, and maybe we don't trust each other but we're a good team."
Brenn withheld about the death and the weeping. These people looked happy. He was happy.
"Mollymauk," Brenn said, looking at his hands, "What do you think it means? Do we have a destiny?"
"Well, I guess the only way to find out is to find the four we're missing, right?"
Brenn stood. He stared at Mollymauk and Yasha. These people were -- unusual. In all of Blumenthal there was one half-elf and two dwarves and a dragonborn. There were no winged-spouting monster-women and certainly no tieflings and definitely *definitely* not any goblins. It seemed impossible to imagine little old him going on these advenutures with such a group.
"I would never be friends with a goblin," he said.
"It's your dream-self," Mollymauk said, and shrugged, "I don't know. Maybe it doesn't mean anything." He flipped another card. It was them again, the whole group, and they were hiding in an absolutely grotesque cave that might have been a sewer over an armored corpse and a weird-shaped grey rock. "But I can tell you over my dead body, Brenn, or Caleb, I did not do that to my cards, and if someone did theey're way more impressive than any of my parlor tricks."
Brenn reached for the next card. Mollymauk didn't stop him. He flipped the card over and on it Caleb had eight arrows sticking out of him a field and they were surrounded by dingy figures.
"Not the best luck on that one," Mollymauk said.
"Suppose not," Brenn replied.
"Well, we can get right on going if we've made you uncomfortable," Mollymauk said, "Circus does that to people. I get it, we're a real bunch."
"No, this is your job. I am not going to let this...." he gestured to the card, "Nonsense make me stop another man's hard work."