Barcus has no idea how foreign the communal way of life he grew up with must seem to surface dwellers. It's always seemed silly and a little offensive to him, how strangers comment on the grim unfriendliness of deep gnomes. When you live inside an insular group, you don't get an unbiased view of their behavior.
His family was generous with gifts, within their community. They always looked after their own. Danger was all around him, always, but so were his kin. And now, after his (mis)adventures between the Gate and the Underdark and back again, it's occurred to him that his circle can expand to include people aside from other gnomes.
Perhaps his circle should not expand to include Gortash, technically. There are a lot of reasons not to get too cozy with this man, but if you spend all your time pushing someone away...well, eventually they're going to be out of your reach.
"Yes, I made them." Barcus seems to take this as a given. Why wouldn't he be making things? Why wouldn't he give them away? He can't keep everything his busy little hands crank out. "I use the same kind for my work. I find the pens that are commercially available aren't fine enough, and the ink flow is too variable, and don't get me started on cheap quills. So I designed my own. Try them; if you don't like them for drawing they're still quite good for journaling."
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His family was generous with gifts, within their community. They always looked after their own. Danger was all around him, always, but so were his kin. And now, after his (mis)adventures between the Gate and the Underdark and back again, it's occurred to him that his circle can expand to include people aside from other gnomes.
Perhaps his circle should not expand to include Gortash, technically. There are a lot of reasons not to get too cozy with this man, but if you spend all your time pushing someone away...well, eventually they're going to be out of your reach.
"Yes, I made them." Barcus seems to take this as a given. Why wouldn't he be making things? Why wouldn't he give them away? He can't keep everything his busy little hands crank out. "I use the same kind for my work. I find the pens that are commercially available aren't fine enough, and the ink flow is too variable, and don't get me started on cheap quills. So I designed my own. Try them; if you don't like them for drawing they're still quite good for journaling."