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[mind_overmatter]

Make that one ale, one water.

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ffffffffff this guy

[wildnobility]

"'Course you can do what you want! That's the beauty of it," Alastair agrees, speaking with a different sort of animation: unlike a determined passion, this is now more akin to excitement. "But here's the thing, yeah? You're, you're lookin' at this mountain," he begins, setting one elbow on the bartop and holding his hands out as if grasping the imagery in his mind, "an' you're lookin' at it from the south. It's a nice mountain, y'know, plains and all that. Not a lot of forestry. There's a valley down at the base with a path that leads 'round it, but you're standing here in the south going, 'it's a mountain, I can see it, I know what it is.' What more d'you need t' know?"

The barmaid lingers up to their side and Alastair pauses long enough to hurriedly wave out a polite no with his floating, story-telling hands. "But take that path, not knowing where it leads except you know it heads north. Once you're 'round the mountain you turn, an' you see a complete mountain range behind it--" at this point, Alastair's hands are sweeping over the air between them, "--tall, grand snow-capped peaks. An' since it's taken you all day to trek north, now it's twilight and in the sky, you see the Goddess Lights streaking 'cross the night, because lets just say you happen to be visiting during the Eleint season."

All this to support alcohol consumption? Well... "What I'm trying to get at is, sometimes, it doesn't hurt t' change your perspective. You might see something grandiose, an'..." At long last, Alastair's upper limbs flop down, hands hanging across his thighs, as he shrugs his shoulders. "Sometimes, it's nothing special, at worst, unimpressive. But I've learned that vantage and perspective are incredibly important. You learn a lot by changing 'em."