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    Yesterday, Linda was on her way to Target to buy a birthday present for her granddaughter.

    Today, Linda is infected with some parasite in the most horrifying environment imaginable. Even worse, she's surrounded by a band of misfits: a magical bearded man who talks too much, an odd little Goth girl with bangs that desperately need a trim, an angry alien lady who won't quit sharpening her sword, a disturbingly pale elf who needs some bronzer, and a heroic young man with one eye.

    This can't be real... can it? Surely she's having a psychotic break.

    Tomorrow, she'll wake up and this will all be some kind of nightmare. She's sure of it.

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    Amidst the chaos she found herself in, her fractured memories and the relentless tadpole burrowed in her mind… one truth had always anchored Shadowheart: her devotion to Shar was her purpose, the very reason she drew breath.
    She had to stick to it, no distractions allowed.
    So why was that naive, exasperating selûnite making her feel so confused?

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    When the party reaches the Shadow Cursed Lands, Astarion starts to notice something off about Lia--more than expected, considering the curse. After a harrowing brush with death, it becomes apparent that Lia's past is not as done with them as they thought.

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    Maria survives the Nautiloid and ignores Shadowheart's advice, interacting with a strange vortex in a stone.

    The Crypt is much too alive for the party's liking and a certain someone's magic isn't performing well.

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    As assistant professor, Tav thrives on her well-structured routine. From teaching Herbology to indulging in Professor Jaheira's eccentric musings and going home to her cozy apartment with Shadowheart, Tav's life is content. Everything takes an unexpected turn when her students start abandoning her classes in favour of a mysterious new professor. Intrigued, Tav embarks on her own investigation, leading her to sit in Professor Dekarios' class, who mistakes Tav for a bright young student. She sparks a connection with the professor, who is torn between his strict policy against dating students and the temptation that could jeopardize his career.

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    Obbryn Lothlyl, a cynical rogue assassin for most of her life, never thought the distinction between legends and heroes was something she would ever be concerned about, nor that it was going to hurt so much. Gale had tried to explain it before; what’s of utmost importance to note is that while both commit heroic deeds of bravery, heroes are alive and legends are dead. She was always more practical than scholar, but she never thought Gale would offer a real lifedeath example, nevertheless that she could feel so desolate for being the one to survive. Mystra might have ordered his sacrificial death and Gale might have complied, but why does Obbryn have to live with any of that?


    Written for Whumptober 2025 days 10, 11, 12, 17, 21, 24, 25 (prompt details in notes because summaries have a character limit 🙃 )

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    There is a traitor in Shar's ranks. A masked bandit parades around the countryside, robbing with impunity with a sacred relic of the Lady of Secrets. Shadowheart, a young cleric of the Lady of Shadows, is desperate to prove herself to her Mother Superior. Yet, as she sets out on the hunt, she is surprised to find the traitor seems to know too much about the cult and Shadowheart, herself. But, with a mind full of holes, is it so surprising that she's forgotten so much?

    Alyss (Tav) is desperate for coin. With debts to pay to the Thieves' Guild and time running short, she'll take anything to free her of her obligations and escape the city. When the Flaming Fist posts a bounty on a strange, mask wearing bandit whose victims never seem to remember being robbed, it seems like the perfect opportunity to finally make the coin she needs to be truly free.

    Before the events of Baldur's Gate 3, two hunters converge on the same target. With a strange new cult growing in the forests north of Candlekeep, the unlikely pair will have to band together to survive. Can they find common ground? Or will the masked cultists claim two more victims on their rise to power in the Sword Coast?

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    After spending 250 years aimlessly wandering in the forests near Baldur's Gate, a wood elf druid named Brockley Rob is picked up by a mind flayer ship, and if anyone's being honest, he has no clue what's going on. His new companions, infected themselves and seeking a cure, realize the odd green man is barely capable of communicating with words---but if his actions are any indication, he knows something they don't. While he influences the others to lead happy, stable lives, Brockley must decide whether to renounce his asceticism and re-enter society with the help of the only friends he's ever had.

    A wholesome playthrough where everyone finishes their vegetables.

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    Determined to escape her past, Tessa Thornheart is trying move on with her life in Baldur's Gate. That is...until she's abducted by a naultiloid and infected with a mind flayer tadpole. After the ship crashes, Tessa makes some new friends, all of them sharing the same goal of getting back to the beloved city. While Tessa tries to figure out a cure for the parasite and bond with her new allies, she unexpectedly finds herself in a love triangle with two of them: a guarded and complex cleric clouded in mystery, and a sweet, gentle tiefling with a malfunctioning engine for a heart.

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    Greyblade is Shar’s paladin of vengeance. Abducted by mind flayers, they met an odd group of companions. The last thing they expected to happen in the Shadowfell, their Lady's domain, was breaking their oath and defying Her for another Sharran.

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    Tav & Astarion fall for an ambush, and Astarion gets help from Gale.

    Day 6: Caught in Net & Late Night Talks

    *Written for Whumptober 2025 and Flufftober 2025

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    Lae'zel and Hestra are invited to Moonhaven's first festival by it's High Priestess but even under the light of the moon, there is a shadow of mischief lurking.

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    I don't want anything to do with magic ever again. I swear to every god who has ever ignored me, magic can rot. Magic can choke. Gale can take all the magic in the world right back to Waterdeep and stuff it somewhere indelicate, because an enchanted door has just demanded I show it a memory of my “first love,” and I am seriously considering letting the cultists have me instead.

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    Jamie, Astarion, Minthara, and Shadowheart are running from Absolutists in an underground tunnel system when a mysterious enchanted door appears (very conveniently) and demands a small price for safe passage: a chance to view one memory from each of them of their first loves. Jamie's ready to get it over with. Minthara is offended. Shadowheart is intrigued—memory is involved, after all. Astarion is... well. Less than pleased, to say the least.

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    [Title from 'All of This Will End' by Indigo De Souza]

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    A series of stories for Tavtober over on the 'Real House Wives of Baldur's Gate 3' tumblr, concerning mostly my non-binary halfling bard Finley. It will probably take their story through the game and a little bit beyond. There will be drama, dragons, love, and possibly a bit of fun wrapped in there somewhere. If you enjoy short stories about crazy happenings then this one is for you (Or not, I'm just having fun).

    (Warning may contain talks of depression and suicide. Will warnings for those chapters)
    (Also first chapter has changed as I didn't like the thing I wrote and I felt like it was more focused on Gale so it's now something else)
    (....Elminster big naturals...._)

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    Two years after the defeat of the Absolute, Rayne (our Tav) is kidnapped by a mysterious man. With the help of returning faces and new ones, Astarion finds his beloved Tav. But the mysterious man seems to have other plans for not just our saviors, but all of Baldur's Gate.

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    Ikarus dies. The party realizes how much they care about him. Ikarus gets revived, and lightly scolded by Astarion for being heroically stupid.

    (title from Ruin by The Amazing Devil)

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    Sabine Darklighter, Tempest Cleric of Shar, is a loyal servant of her Dark Lady. She suspects the Mother Superior has sent her brothers and sisters on an impossible mission. Without permission, she sets out to learn of their fate, especially her friend, Shadowheart. She finds her under very unusual circumstances.

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    Nyrra wakes up in a pod with a tadpole in her head.
    She seeks a cure, finds companions, saves some lives, falls in love.
    She fights.
    She fails.
    She dies.
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    Nyrra wakes up in a pod with a tadpole in her head.
    This time, she vows, she will not fail.

    (A storm sorceress wakes at the start of her journey with all her memories and powers intact. The only problem— she’s the only one who remembers.

    Or— so she thinks.)

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    After a rough battle, a redeemed Dark Urge, named Snow, gets severely concussed but has no potions. Shadowheart and Cardenas (Tav), having no healing left, use a scroll of Sending to fetch for help. Little does Snow know who they called for.

    (Set a few years after the main game.)

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    Vivian Taventus -- "Tav" to the familiar or the foolhardy -- is a difficult mage to categorize. Necromancy, enchantment, and transfiguration all appeal to her alike--anything that allows her to explore the wellspring of personal identity, of what constitutes a 'soul.'

    So naturally, upon entering a Sharran crucible rife with divine magic, Vivian finds herself face-to-face with flawless replicas of herself and her companions--including the woman with whom she has quite recently become intimate--and makes a snap decision.

    Fortune conspires to help her pursue this new line of research to its conclusion--by capturing the Sharran simulacrum of Shadowheart and locking it away until she has the chance to explore, in depth, the question of exactly how detailed of a replica this might be.

    What Vivian did not anticipate is precisely how much Shadowheart might change in the course of the Gauntlet. Nor how she herself might react when the divinely-born replica shows more signs of life than she thought.

    At least all they have left to do is kill General Thorm! After all, there couldn't possibly be any more obstacles after that.

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