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I can’t believe Jessamine annihilated a guy she was trying to get to surrender and then inherited the 20 orphan street children who watched her do it.

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Out of context session memes for The Death Kiss Fight Part I. Bonus:

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d&d campaigns are just elaborate meme generators, send tweet

You’re right and you should say it.

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Out of context session memes for The Death Kiss Fight Part I. Bonus:

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Okay, but consider:

this is the pinnacle of roleplaying!! 🦡

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gurdove rubymace, dwarf ranger

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Gurdove asked if this is something Quartz does.

The answer is yes.

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Jess: Pirith, now that we're friends, I've decided to make you my new project

Pi: ....you really don't have to do that

Jess: I know. That's what makes me so nice.

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In case anyone was ever questioning why I like playing halflings so much, it’s so when your party fights a 12-foot-tall big bad, this happens:

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So, the DM has made a playlist for the campaign so far (mostly the important NPCs and such). It can be listened to here, and there’s a low-to-non spoiler-y explanation for the song choices (and who they correspond to) under the cut.

Son of the Morning (Oh, Sleeper) - Asmodeus

If you could see like me you’d see / you haven’t won anything / if you could see like me you’d see / your precious light is fading

This song is about, and from the POV of, Lucifer/Satan as perceived by Christian religions. Seeing how I basically used that concept for my portrayal of Asmodeus, it seemed like a fitting choice.

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Lullaby (Jason Webley) - Primus

Wind-up song for a wind-up boy. Music boxes and music box lullabies also make sense for someone who is among the youngest of the gods, and the only one to have a “father” in Oghma.

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On the Brightside (Never Shout Never) - Bear

I’m only as tall as my heart will let me be / and I’m only as small as the world will make me seem / and when the going gets rough and I feel like I may fall / I’ll look on the bright side / I’m roughly six feet all

Bear is actually taller than that, but as someone who’d felt the need to prove himself one way or another for most of his life (before finding and becoming comfortable in his true calling as a cleric), a song like this seemed appropriate.

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The Bard’s Song [In the Forest] (Blind Guardian) - Matthias

Tomorrow will take us away / far from home / no one will ever know our names / but the bard’s songs will remain

Seems an obvious pick for a bard and adventurer who has mostly flown under the radar when it comes to his own heroics. Matthias prefers it that way, though.

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Death May Die (An Even Scarier Solstice) - Tal

Alhazred said that is not dead which can eternal lie / The Arab said that is not dead for even death may die

Yes, Tal’s patron is divine and not a Great Old One, but a song about the writing of an old tome that drives those who read it to madness makes sense for a guy who gave up an eye and hung himself for the ability to read old tomes that drive those who read them to madness.

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Fall Away (twenty one pilots) - Oathbreaker

I can feel the pull begin / feel my conscience wearing thin / and my skin it will start / to break up and fall apart

No spoilers, but he’s called Oathbreaker and looks so depressed all the time for a good reason.

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GO!!! (Flow) - Quartz

Right here Right now (Burn!) / ぶった斬ってくぜ Get the fire!

Listen to me. It’s very important that you all know Quartz is a Genji main and that’s why his siblings beat him up.

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Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked (Cage the Elephant) - Finnan Thorngage

Ain’t no rest for the wicked / money don’t grow on trees / I’ve got bills to pay, I’ve got mouths to feed / and ain’t nothing in this world for free

A bit self-explanatory for the biggest shithead thief in Faerun.

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The Journey [Nervosa] - Garrett Valokinen

Breaking down the walls that you leave up to keep me from eating the tree of knowledge / suck that fruit and spit the seed / leave behind the sad and spineless

Garrett is probably on the outside the nicest cultist to a death demigod you’ll meet, and on some levels that niceness isn’t just a mask. But you don’t start worshipping Vecna out of nowhere, and for Garrett the motivations are very personal, and definitely worrying.

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Taking Off (clipping.) - Lou

No demons for the damned meaning / If they live in hell / They can't bring it to you, you see? / What's a goon to a goblin?

Some criminals worship various gods and demigods in the same way the drug cartels of our world will invoke La Meurta--everyone from the Raven Queen to Graz’zt to any trickster deity and yes, Vecna. That was how Lou fell into full-blown worship, and as far as she’s concerned it’s worked out for her great.

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Apres Moi (Regina Spektor) - Trista

Be afraid of the lame, you’ll inherit their legs / be afraid of the old, you’ll inherit their soul / be afraid of the cold, you’ll inherit their blood / apres moi de deluge, after me comes the flood

Again: you don’t start worshipping Myrkul out of nowhere. Trista’s motivations are in some ways aligned with those of other characters in this campaign; however, she decided to direct her energies in a considerably not positive or healthy way.

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Our Lady of Sorrows (My Chemical Romance) - Shelby MacLachlan

Stand up fucking tall / don’t let them see your back and take / my fucking hand and never be afraid again

tl;dr Shelby’s Fucking Pissed but unlike other people on this list he’s definitely trying to go about it in a slightly more productive and good-aligned way. But he also does blood magic, so it’s a grey area.

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Long Way Away (clipping.) - Oh Shieldbreaker

But look to the stars / When the sun is long gone (Long way away) / And pray that your children / Do not sing this song

Oh might look stoic, even in his rages, but he’s been hiding a deep pain for a long time. Between him and Shelby, he’s been enslaved longer, been taken further away from his family, and has no idea if he’ll ever find them again. There’s a lot going on there.

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NPC: how much do you know about poisons?

Gurdove: A bit.

Pirith: Yeah, a bit.

Jessamine:

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quartz, riding over on heelys and drinking an ox blood slurpee: what's up fuckers, who wants to help me kill a despot so I can take all his shit

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Things the Runemate party has adopted so far:

A half-orc cleric named Bear

A giant badger

A (young) blue dragon

A goth

Three (or at least 2) cultists of evil-ass gods

A sad fire dude selling magic mushrooms at a portal to Hell the Plane of Fire

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i would like to point out that it has now been three d&d sessions in which pirith didn’t use web

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very reassuring, not at all concerning. @dangerousdnd

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the dm: this shop keeper is mutated and covered in scars and a tiny bit scary

the dm: he's also genuinely sweet and kind and wants you all to be safe

the party: *slams hand on the adopt button*

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in which the Runemates get a frighten

(L to R: Gurdove is mine, Jessamine and Pirith are @justastoryteller and @battlenuggalope’s, respectively! with love to DM @screechthemighty @dangerousdnd)