Minsc/Banter: Difference between revisions

* '''Minsc''': You might have your cloudy locks to keep the heat off your head, but do not forget that Minsc has Boo! We will be like twins, eh?

* '''Astarion''': We will? Gods - two hundred years and I've never missed seeing my reflection more.

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(In Harborview Park)

* '''Minsc''': Oh, I do not know, Boo. If you buried the nuts here before we were stone, I am thinking they might have gone bad.

* '''Minsc''': Perhaps this is why he has never seen fit to speak to you.

* '''Astarion''': How delightfully vicious. I'm beginning to like the hamster.

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(By the Eastern Docks)

* '''Minsc''': ASTARION! FISH! ASTARION!

* '''Astarion''': It's a sweet thought, but fish just doesn't have the flavour of full-blooded red meat.

* '''Minsc''': No, you do not 'agree', Boo. I told you you have been spending far too much time around the pale one...

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(Ascendant Astarion)

* '''Minsc''': Do not think your twinkly-eyed wiles will work on us, vampire lord.

* '''Minsc''': Do not look into his eyes, Boo! Think not of nesting in his thick and downy mane!

* '''Astarion''': You'll never know unless you try. Just once? Maybe you'll like it.

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(Spawn Astarion)

* '''Minsc''': No, Boo. Astarion is a friend now - he would never bite you.

* '''Gale''': Fear not, Minsc. You have a wizard at your side who positively encourages such curiosity. You'll fit right in.

* '''Minsc''': Obliged, wizard. Should we find our way to a weaponsmith, Minsc will rough you up a little - so that you too can fit in.

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(In the Water Queen's House)

* '''Minsc''': Umberlee - her clerics possess a nasty streak as wide as her oceans.

* '''Minsc''': 'Blasphemy', said the temple priestess. But Minsc says: do not give horns to your statues if you do not wish the visitors to try and make them toot.

* '''Gale''': Yes, that would probably do it.

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(At the [[House of Hope]])

* '''Minsc''': Gale! You will perhaps able to explain where Boo has not - what exactly is the difference between a devil and a demon?

* '''Minsc''': Eh. Just how-to-kill... -ical.

* '''Gale''': Oh. Then for your purposes, they are exactly the same.

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* '''Minsc''': Gale. Minsc worries you might send a fireball up his butt, with all of this stringy hair in your face.

* '''Gale''': Is that why you keep your head shaved? I assumed it was a custom of some sort.

* '''Karlach''': Huh. Really?

* '''Minsc''': And there is always Boo, with the needful nip when anger is slow in coming. This is not how you do it...?

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* '''Minsc''': Karlach - do I see you gazing long at Boo? You wish to have a hamster of your own, I think.

* '''Karlach''': I wouldn't say no. But really I was thinking... how old is he, Minsc?

* '''Karlach''': And he's always looked the exact same? No chance Jaheira's been swapping him out every few years?

* '''Minsc''': Karlach! Minsc and Boo thought better of you, than to be so concerned with looks.

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(Approaching the Guildhall)

* '''Minsc''': Are you familiar with the evil works of Nine-Fingers and her Guild, Karlach?

* (''If Minsc has not agreed to work with Nine-Fingers'')

** '''Minsc''': Minsc means to do no working. When he breaks the guildmaster, it will be for the fun of it alone.

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(In the Undercity Ruins)

* '''Minsc''': A dead and foul place. Only a villain would nest down in these tunnels.

* '''Karlach''': Fair enough, buddy. Home is where the heart is, anyway.

* '''Minsc''': Ah - in that case, home is in my pocket, nestled on soft bed of flesh and fluff.

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(At the Temple of Bhaal)

* '''Karlach''': What a pesthole! Can't wait to clear this place out.

* '''Minsc''': There will be much trading of threats and insults, no doubt. But Minsc will be ready when it is time for boot to meet butt.

* '''Karlach''': You and me both, pal.

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(At the Morphic Pool)

* '''Minsc''': Karlach, this brain we go to bully - Boo has suggested it is large. Wizard-brain large? Boo-brain large?

* '''Shadowheart''': The dark is Shar's domain. You wouldn't have been lonely if you embraced her.

* '''Minsc''': Evil! Never!

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* '''Shadowheart''': Hey Minsc, How do you judge what's evil?

* '''Minsc''': Enough trick questions! Evil is clearly evil.

* '''Shadowheart''': Am I evil? You called my goddess so.

* '''Minsc''': If I decide you are evil, my blade will inform you of the fact.

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* '''Minsc''': Shadowheart. I saw you pluck Boo from the ground, when you thought no one was watching.

* '''Minsc''': It pleases you, to hold him? And you have truly cleansed yourself of Shar?

* '''Minsc''': HMMMMMMMM. Then for one day only, you may carry him in your pocket. So long as it is clean. Padded. Well-aired.

* '''Minsc''': And full of nuts!

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* '''Minsc''': Boo will not permit himself to be held by you any longer, Shadowheart.

* '''Minsc''': He fears you will sacrifice him in some Sharran ritual of dark oils and leather.

* '''Wyll''': A bloody display of murderous power. Bhaal means to stoke fear, make us cower.

* '''Minsc''': All it does is make Minsc wonder if Boo has already eaten this villain's eyes.

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(At Danthelon's Dancing Axe)

* '''Minsc''': Danthelon's Dancing Axe...? Minsc would sooner fight with a sword - even an annoying one, which talks out of turn.

* '''Minsc''': The sword is simpler - only one point, so you know which end the evil goes on! But I suppose a warrior must wield whatever weapon he can.

* '''Minsc''': Sword, axe, boot... Minsc once choked an ogre with its own loincloth. The smell might be the closest I have come to tasting of death myself.

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(At the Wyrmway Puzzle)

* '''Minsc''': A puzzle, is it? Boo is most adept at their solving - no matter where Minsc hides the nuts, Boo is always able to sniff them out!

* '''Gale''': I'm rather a dab hand myself when it comes to a spot of intellectual intrigue...

* '''Minsc''': The nuts are in my pocket, wizard. Please do not go patting at Minsc's person.

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(If Wyll is being romanced)

* '''Minsc''': Minsc has felt Boo's heart is fluttering faster than usual... for our friend the Blade is bethrothed.

* '''Wyll''': Ah, my thanks. Perhaps we might even marry, if fate wills it.

* '''Minsc''': If you cannot find a bear to be the bearer of your ring, Boo would like you to know that he is available.

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(At the Lodge)

* '''Minsc''': Who is this large man of sternness and stone? Boo mislikes his look - as if he is knowing things that Minsc is not.

** '''Wyll''': It's Balduran. Our city's valorant founder {{Blur|- and now, the illithid we carry in that gods-forsaken prism.}}

** '''Minsc''': Ah. Then Minsc and Boo prefer him this way. Better stern than smug.

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(At the Morphic Pool)

* '''Wyll''': Our great adventure nears its climax. If I should fall, I want you all to know it's been an honour to fight beside you.

* '''Halsin''': Perhaps you should study the druidic arts - with wildshape, you could make yourself as diminutive as you please. Smaller than Boo, even.

* '''Minsc''': Oh. OHOHOHO.

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(At Felogyr's Fireworks)

* '''Minsc''': Bah. Boo says the many colours remind him of home, but Minsc has never enjoyed these fireworks.

* '''Minsc''': ...Archdruid. You are as formidable in mind as you are in muscle.

* '''Minsc''': Gather the sparking sticks, Boo! With sword in one hand and these in the other, we need truck with wizards no more!

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(If Halsin has been romanced)

* '''Minsc''': Boo has been speaking to a certain squirrel-friend who frequents our camp, Halsin.

* '''Jaheira''': And hamsters don't have hackles.

* '''Minsc''': Does Jaheira not set your heart at ease, Boo? It is comforting, to know that one so wise can be so wrong.

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(In Bloomridge Park)

* '''Minsc''': All of these statues - could they, too, be heroes all? Frozen in stone until the city has need of them?

* '''Minsc''': Well. Boo would also think you would have noticed when Minsc himself was frozen for over a century.

* '''Jaheira''': ... do you know, I had forgotten just how catty your hamster can be.

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(In The Blushing Mermaid)

* '''Minsc''': Jaheira, Minsc's memory of his last time in this taproom is a little... fuzzy. Did he...?

* '''Minsc''': Oh, praise the Three! Minsc was afraid he had shamed myself. I will, eh, leave a penny at the bar.

* '''Jaheira''': Best leave two. I cracked her with my own, afterward. She was drinking grog - Boo's backside could only have improved it.

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(Entering the Sewers)

* '''Minsc''': AH! The smell of adventure, in the very heart of the city!

* '''Jaheira''': The city's lower intestine, perhaps.

* '''Minsc''': Better yet! What swifter way to strike at evil's butt than to crawl through its innards?

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(In the Guildhall, before meeting [[Nine-Fingers Keene]])

* '''Jaheira''': If Nine-Fingers survived the fray, she will be right back to work in there. We ought to speak to her.