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big shot Cricket is real he can hurt you.

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I shall give Cricks some love. And threads. Love and threads.

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I'm rummaging in Crick's playlist for that dash game I've got tagged in and I forgot that 90% are cheesy love songs.

Because that freak looked at a human-sized mantis-person and said "That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my entire life."

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Artfight is in two months and I always have to think back at @dunerover 's attack last year... icb I never posted it here.

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Daphne kisses him on the head and rubs his back as she coos to him in Infernal that everything will be alright!!! (moreinterestingtimes)

       Of  course  Cricket  didn't  understand  a  single  word  Daphne  uttered.      It  sounded,  despite  the  hard  sound  of  her  vocabulary,  soothing.  He  dearly  hoped,  wanted  to  believe,  she  said  something  nice.

Feeling  like  their  furry  camp  companion    —    The  rubs  on  his  back  making  the  Thri-kreen  lean  into  her  further    (  .  .  .  )    like  it  was  some  form  of  magical  manipulation.  He  allowed  himself  to  take  his  glasses  off  just  so  it  wouldn't  collide  with  Daphne's  shoulder  ;  before  he  rested  his  forehead  against  it.

       ❝ I  don't  know  what  you  say,  Daphne.  It  is  very  hard  to  reply  to. ❞     Voice  both  neutral   &   a  tad  helpless.     ❝ You  smell  very  nice  today. ❞

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Okay! Zandi is going to affectionally ruffle his hair into an even wilder mess. Which is almost the same thing! "You're alright, Click."

       Flimsy  antennas  rattle  when  the  tiefling's  palm  rested  on  the  druid's  head.       A  clickering  purr  rumbles  in  his  throat.  Never  having  received  pats,  or  other  forms  of  affection  in  the  wider  sense.  Nice.

   Felt  good.

       ❝  Please  be  kareful.  There  are  some  small  spiders  which  moved  in  recently.  I  don't  want  them  to  get  skared,  yes    ? ❞

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I need you to pet him and tell him everything is going to be okay.

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                                     ✱ 𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 .

                          𝘂𝐧𝐩𝗿𝐨𝐦𝐩𝘁𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝘁𝐞𝗿𝐚𝐜𝘁𝐢𝐨𝐧𝘀 .

 ▌Puck slides a trash bag towards Cricket. It contains the leftovers from his last hunt. ( Hopefully an animal, but most likely not one. Who's to say, really ？) ❝ Couldn't find a use for these parts. Maybe you can. ❞    「 @bloodtwin 」 

         The  sound  of  footsteps  got  picked  up  by  his  antennas       long  before  Puck  closed  up.  Such  was  the  rustling  of  the  bag,  which  came  with  a  potent  scent  of  decay   &   blood. 

       ❝  Smells  like  a  hunt. ❞       Cricket  noted,  turning  his  head  in  subtle  flicks  until  he  zeroed  in  on  the  present.  This  act  has  become  a  regular  thing   —   the  bhaalspawn  finishing  his  bloody  business   &   the  thri-kreen  being  allowed  to  clean  up.

And  he  took  it  for  granted.  A  natural  thing.  Fingers  opened  the  sack,  thorned  growths  between  his  fingers  stuck  for  a  moment.       ❝  Say,  Pukk:  The  vampire  kalled  me  a  janitor  after  he  saw  our  last  food  exchange.  What  is  a  janitor   ?    Is  that  elvish    ? ❞

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I've read Thri-kreen don't sleep and have a hard time understanding their non-thri-kreen companions' need for it, finding it lazy.

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Reminder that @gemshroud got roasted by a mantis.

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look guys look, he is only HALF thri-kreen.... i guess he lives longer, right? RIGHT??

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another one for the bug enthusiasts. bad ending cricks

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woe good ending cricket be upon ye

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       Artemis'  clever  list       made  the  cogs  in  Cricket's  head  work  with  keen  interest.  Perhaps  the  druid  mistook  the  row  of  taunts  as  an  invitation  to  a  game.  Humanoids  did  that  often   —   playing  what-if   &   having  great  fun  with  that.  Oh,  lucky  day.  Cricket  was  included  in  the  assassin's  cultural  rituals   !

       ❝  Oh,  Is  that  is  one  of  these  games.  The  brainstorming  ones   ?   I  suppose  it  is  my  turn.  If  you  were  a  worm,  I  would  envision  you  as  a  very  small  one,  for  your  height  is  factually  speaking  lower  than  the  average  human.  Naming  a  few  :  a  red  worm  or  .  .  .  well,  a  pinworm.  I've  got  told  you  don't  shy  away  of  getting  yourself  dirty.  A  worm  living   &   thriving  in  waste  sounds  like  a  fitting  description  for  you. ❞       

Despite  the  rather  rough  conclusion  of  basically  calling  Entreri  a  'worm  who  lives  in  people's  butts'  ,  he  did  not  sound  mean.  A  lighthearted,  almost  joyous  melody  laced  his  every  word,  actually  proud  of  finding  such  a  fitting  specimen  for  the  grumpy  human.

"I'd like you less if you were a parasite," Entreri said bluntly. "If you were an earthworm you'd be useful as fishing bait. If you were a flatworm, well, I guess you'd be flashier if you were one of those underwater ones, but I'm not underwater." He gave an unexpected chuff of a laugh. "If you were a Purple Worm, maybe I'd respect that."

Since Cricket hadn't reacted much in particular to the initial joke, now Entreri was just going all out. What a bully.

"But the point is, you aren't any of those things. The only thing you are is just what you are right now. No use for hypotheticals."

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@gemshroud 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 ››› [ 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 ]

         The  half  thri-kreen  considered  for  a  couple  of  seconds,        obviously  missing  the  mean  note  which  came  so  easy  whenever  Entreri  faced  the  most  innocent  of  questions.  A  flutter  of  thin  antennas,  Cricket  was  truly  putting  much  thought  into  the  counter  query.

       ❝  Well,  no. ❞     Dry  as  a  desert.  Self-explanatory,  the  druid  can't  expect  every  human  to  know  the  difference  between  bug   &   annelid.  Still,  the  man  dodged  Crickets  question,  which  irritated  him  in  the  slightest.

       ❝  That  is  why  I  wondered.  Would  you  like  me  if  I  was  a  worm   ?   Earthworm  or  .  .  .  flatworm,  pinworm  .  .  . ❞     

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@gemshroud

Passive: Artemis Entreri loses [1D4] height every turn.