January - February Test drive

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Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[spacetogrow]

"Useful life lesson," Ilphyl nodded. "Sadly, they also had a good description and a picture."

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[nevercaught]

"Alas, that is a complication. Easily solved with a hat of disguise, of course, but the upfront cost..."

Not to mention the fact that his seemed to have broken upon reaching this plane.

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[spacetogrow]

"And when it's the entire group, and you want to avoid people asking questions like 'why is there an aura of illusion magic around all of you?'" Ilphyl shrugged. "Not that anyone would recognize me here."

Yes, sure, Jarlaxle had identified him as 'potentially dark elf', but the human facial structure might confuse the issue as to who.

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[nevercaught]

"Hats for all?" Jarlaxle suggests wryly. "Ah, perhaps not. But you make a good point—this is not our own plane and we shouldn't expect recognition."

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[spacetogrow]

"Except two people from the same city on the same world happened to arrive here nearly at the same time." Ilphyl sighed, grabbing their braid and examining it. "I wonder if I should just dye my hair again." Dark-skinned humans tended to have dark hair if they weren't old enough to have their hair whiten with age.

Ilphyl doesn't really really want to. They don't actually have an issue with being a dark elf, just the dominant culture of dark elves in Faerun and the idea that even in rebellion, they still are affected by stereotypes about them. Humans didn't have to deal with this shit, even in planes where non-humans existed.

Plus, they like their natural hair color.

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[nevercaught]

"I'd say this is why I shave mine," Jarlaxle says, lazily stretching, "but that wouldn't be quite true."

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[spacetogrow]

"Otherwise, you wouldn't have forgotten about your eyebrows." Ilphyl taps their own brow for emphasis.

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[nevercaught]

Jarlaxle chuckles. "Observant. Yes, well, when I was hardly much older than you, my hair ended up on fire--" Three times in less than a year. "--and there really wasn't much that could be done to salvage things, so I shaved it all off. And then I decided I quite liked the look and kept it that way."

He shrugs. "I suppose it's a rebellion in a way. We males are always pressured to look appealing to the women of our race and the hair is part of that. So why not remove it?"

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[spacetogrow]

Ilphyl wasn't going to explain some of the thoughts they had on their own gender to a dark elf they just met; regardless of how Ilphyl felt, they knew they were a male drow to the society that raised them. "Because it's our hair. Keep it or shave it all off, that's our decision."

They were surprised that they had said that with far more a bite than they normally did when speaking of their life before they came to the surface. Ilphyl was so used to passing off their various issues with drow society as far more light-hearted than they were, because it was easier than dealing with humans' reactions when Ilphyl was serious about it. Which meant they immediately paused to gauge Jarlaxle's reaction. (Sorry, Jarlaxle, you are still Not Entirely Safe to actually be honest towards; Ilphyl just met you.)

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[nevercaught]

Jarlaxle, meanwhile, is smiling at Ilphyl. "Exactly," he says. "That's exactly the point. While I'm no worshipper of Vhaeraun—" Indeed, the mercenary had little inclination to worship any god. "—I do think his followers have a point in their talk of sex equality. Another reason I choose to remain up here."

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[spacetogrow]

"That's not a name I heard often growing up," Ilphyl said cautiously. Mostly because while Vhaeraun was probably the least objectionable of Lolth's children to Her priestesses and Lolth-as-mother couldn't be left out to a society that was literal 'rule by the mothers', Ilphyl's mother had Thoughts on giving her sons ideas above their station.

(Meanwhile, the mun is laughing at the mental image of Ilphyl acting like they are one step from being sacrificed as a heretic after the first more than passing encounter they've had with their people in some time, while Jarlaxle is coming off like he's entirely relaxed and having a grand old time corrupting the youth.)

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[nevercaught]

"Nor I," Jarlaxle says, blithely. "But some of my men are adherents. I thought it prudent to learn something of the faith."

(Jarlaxle is old and has been through an awful lot—not to mention that he's earned the friendship of one of Menzoberranzan's greatest heretics. Nothing Ilphyl can say can disconcert him very badly.)

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[spacetogrow]

"Your men... right, you're a mercenary captain or something?" Ilphyl had to dig up the memory of where they'd heard the name before.

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[nevercaught]

"Mmhm," Jarlaxle says. "Of Bregan D'aerthe."

(The name in the Drow tongue means something along the lines of 'assassins for hire.')

"We've got some bases established on the surface, actually," he adds. "Underground, of course." In both senses of the word.

Re: New Bark Town/Route 29

[spacetogrow]

Ilphyl is getting a sense of how Jarlaxle names things and feeling better about their habit of 'Common words for plants' as names. "Of course. Freelance assassins are generally not something most leaders of cities want in the open." Because they are more than likely to be targeted or be the ones hiring. Granted, assassins working for leaders are often a different matter.

This is why Ilphyl considers the decision of 'I'm just going to live in the wilderness and take my chances with hungry beasts' a surprisingly sensible option that too few people consider.