video 🧙 npc: Merlin

[isleofnpcs]

Good day, Otherworlders. Merlin here and I decided to do an AMA because I'm currently stuck indoors, sick with this magical flu. You don't want me to go around sneezing on people, so I have to stay at home.

[He looks amused.]

... though you should have seen the donkey ears I accidentally and temporarily grew on Arthur!

[But anyway, onto the actual business, right?]

So, all questions are fair game, but I reserve the right to not answer if I feel like it. Ask me what has been burning in your mind.


Oh and happy anniversary to those who arrived around a year ago!


[ OOC NOTE: Merlin will reply to new top-level comments posted before the November 15th in order to maintain feasibility for mod replies. Threads posted 11 / 16 or later will not be responded to. Any threads started before that time may be continued after that, but may be cut short due to this being an AMA-style post. Unlike Arthur last month, Merlin is more likely to answer to troll-y posts with trolls of his own, but those may be even more short-lived. ]

Comments

[irritated]

1. almost to 2 mil followers. not near you or anything but i won't hold it against you~
2. a fan account someone made for me and my bf is doing pretty well. almost to 100k followers
3. my posts get at least 20k likes.
4. becoming bigger in the party planning scene.
5. good for both of our reps.

[He's just being honest. Which like, yeah, Merlin doesn't have to care about his reputation? But if he looks engaged with the audience he has then that's sure to boost his likes up as well.]

[isleofnpcs]

Sold. Check your notifs.

[Ping, you have a new follower.]

[irritated]

[Yes.]

thanks. been a fan.

oh but for a real question: is there a way to command my familiar or is this just some free will thing?

[isleofnpcs]

Don't let your familiar hear you're trying to overwrite their free will. Ouch.

You can always try bribing them, but no. Familiars don't view you as their masters after all.

However they shouldn't be trying to cause you harm or too much trouble. You are bonded, after all.

[irritated]

she doesn't care. she just laughs whenever i tell her things.

she's just really annoying. but if she is destroying my sketchbooks then can i say that's too much trouble and return her? i know that she brought me here but she's pretty useless as far as familiars go.

[isleofnpcs]

If you "returned" her you would be send outside Avalon and frozen back in time until another familiar makes a contract with you - if you're lucky enough.

I would try to find a solution to live in semi-harmony.

[irritated]

got any tips then?

[isleofnpcs]

Try having someone else's familiar talk with yours, perhaps?

[irritated]

not the worst advice. better than telling me to just ask yoshiha.

[Looking at you, King Arthur. Couldn't give him good advice or a melon.]