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A lot to catch up

Ok... so I started here, then forgot... and now I m here again. So let’s catch up ! So, the PJs that already got drop in the prison met each other. So Bambi, the pilot and the Cat girl aknowledged each other presence, wich is a good start. Our crazy scientist should come next in-game day. SO ! They talked to each other after their introduction to little shark boy, because this little guy is the introduction to all the others PNJs in their prison section (they’re not a lot, but useful, I ll come to them later) Then was time to introduce them to the prison schedule ! With a meal :D A great opportunity to make them meet (or at least see from afar) the PNJs from their section. So, we have : -Ping : a nice one. He got cursed and got half of his body (an arm, a leg, half the face and so on) turned into a kinda gross insectoid thingy. That give him extra “hands”, asymetrical teeths for exemple. And, like I said, a very nice gentelman (he needs friends tho, like, real bad.) He’s in jail for murder... but I swear he’s nice ! -Shark boy : actual name Liao, he’s a young boy that lived in the street with other childs. His mom was spirit-linked and gave her pretty nice fishy attributes, her son got shark teeths, so I guess it’s fair :D. The kid is nice too, kinda dumb and needs to learn about boundaries, but else he’s quite sweet. The cat girl seems to like him a bit. He’s here because he bit someone’s arm outside AND inside of the prison... yeah he can be a brat.

-Antiquarian : (not sure of the traduction :/), one of the few that stays behing a curtain inside his cells, never going out of it. Only Yi (the cat girl) “met” him yet. Without spoiling too much, his “benediction” made him a very beast looking look, but also gave him telepathic powers ( with a bit of persuasion). Also a strange power that make him a walking deus-ex machina :D. He’s here because he terrified his neighboorood and also cause he kinda wants to...

-Lizard : nobody talked to him yet, and honestly it’s normal : my description of him were not very friendly, the pet of one player fear him by his mere presence. So yeah, NOT. FRIENDLY. But might come helpful. And strangely he’s only here cause he fought with peoples too much. Not much more to say. -The gardener : with the Antiquarian, a PNJ that can help a lot. His benediction made him very tall and extended his hair in a big mess. He can also make grow plants excessevely fast, so his whole cell look like a garden. Oh, and he also talk veeeeery slooooowly (cause why not ? :3). Again, only Yi met him, she did talk to him because of the Antiquarian (he asked her to.) and he gave her an apple (with a twist :3). He’s here for multiple murders. WOW ! That’s long only to presents PNJs... anyway. While the meal, Yi talked more with Sharkboy, and the pilot (surprisingly) did go talk to ping (insect man). The meal pass and the owner of the prison came to announce the schedule of the place. And after that they got back to their cells.

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The handsome guard : Ok so, as i said it’s my first time as a DM. And as such, i discovered some subtilities. Here : a random pnj can randomly become important.

Context : it was the introduction of each player, all freshly getting to the prison one at a time. I make them start in the same part of the jail : the one containing semi-spirits in-mates (they re not a lot). And I just wanted to show that semi-spirit individuals are treated differently from other.

To do so I used : A grumpy young bureaucrat, that is honestly an asshole A young semi-spirit boy with shark teeth (he’s an in-mate) And ... a guard. Just a random guard.

I gave him a name to humanize him then just realise I didn’t make him act neutral/toxic enough towards the first player... the only one that is not spirit related... so half of the purpose of this character is failed.

The introductions continue, and I tweak my plans a little to just make him a nice guard... but then one of my player ask me if he’s handsome (I think we’re all know where this is going). Since I had NOTHING  ready about my boy, I just threw a d20... got a 15, so not handsome disney-prince-level but DEFINITELY nice looking. By luck, the player didn’t flirt with him yet.

I just found funny how just a simple pnj can become relevant from just a mistake from me and the horny level action of one player.

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The crime of the party : So, yeah. Since it’s in jail, each player had to think about a possible reason and I spiced it up with some DM magic. But it goes : Cat girl : conspiracy and suspected of terrorism Best girl : conspiracy, arson, terrorism, sabotage, propaganda This guy : non-authorized travel into the spirit realm, theft with aggravation, escape attempt and a lot more related to spirit (again, he’s the reason for the existence of some law) And then, there is bambi. Bambi : fruit stealing. That is hilarious. (In fact she also stole shining object like the good damn crow she is)

Fun fact : you migh have guess that Bambi has the « kleptomania  » trait.

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The party :

We’re all friends, one of them being our former Dm for the last 3 years and another 2 rooki DM (but they still better than me), the last being a forever player.

For this homebrew, I made possible everything, such as bending , rare element of bending (like combustion bending or void bending) and give them freedom about spirits related ability or lore.

Spoiler : i have one bender in the party… and only because she wanted a little bit of heal.

So no we have (with surnames) :

Cat girl : she helped a cat-like spirit in the street. Young student in history and basically a communist

Bambi : heavy spirit related lore with a tragic backstory. Basically took water bending for fun but somehow made something weirdly fonctional, so she’s basically a very slow power house. Also, only one who took healing. Also she has a spirit pet/adoptive brother

Best girl : about to carry my whole scenario because she’s the only one who can read a letter without dying like a dumbass. Also she’s a pilot so you can see how useful she will be. Also a communist

This guy : He wanted a pretty basic lore, but it implied so much institution that now it’s a chaotic funny mess. I literally created pnj to create new laws to trap this fucker in jail because what he was doing wasn’t illegal (yet) but just so fucking dangerous and potentially humanly horrible (in avatar) that nobody just tried before him. Basically frankeinstein without the monster and with spirits. Got a lot of curses. Wanted by half of the continent because of his work. Might fuck my scenario if I m not careful : he has a gun

Also, on the four players, 3 of them need glasses (one don’t even has glasses) and the last one has only one eye, so I m totally gonna troll them about it.

Be ready to follow the story of a history student cat girl, a spirit edgy Bambi, a socialist and a criminal

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The scenario :

I basically made a lot of scenarios , resume into little few-sentences text each so my players could choose (because we’re between friends and it’s fun)

I had really cool in those. One where there were strange crime in republic city, another where the earth kingdom loosed an heir. Heck, even created a whole island to make drama on it with corrupted politicians. Anyway : everything to use my months of world building work and thought.

What did the players choose ?

The break out of jail scenario.

The one where all the players gonna be in prison and not gonna go anywhere else before a long time.

Yeah, the players teased me about it, and even tho it wasn’t my favorite Scenario, I didn’t care that much because it’s still fun.

ANYWAY, 1 minutes after their choice I asked them to threw dices :) . They didn’t know why, I didn’t told them. So they passed the next 10 minutes to try to guess the heck I was doing (keep in mind they didn’t even made their character yet at this point). One guessed well but I didn’t say much about it.

It was just the secondary scenarios that will play on the background, spice the plot. Still funny to see them confuse about it.

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Now to start : the setting.

I love avatar , but something I love in it are the spirits and the spirit realm

So I took all the lore of avatar, and started to mess up the time line after the canon of ATLA, so LOK would be relatively very different, and make my player start very much at the start of this new version of LOK

So , yeah, I made Aang do a new spiritual portal at republic city (the one at the end of LOK) and basically modified a good part of republic city to live with spirits (with of course peoples angry about it)

I also modified a good part of earth kingdom history, so that the queen actually start to reign much sooner and she’s actually intelligent and a big threat is this universe. I also mainly did that to keep a strong Daï-Li and to keep dramas with the queen and the new air benders (since they also come much sooner due to Aang and the portal)

And that’s globally it, kept most of the places, made the consequences from my changes. Didn’t need to touch the poles or the fire nation.

Just, developed a freaking bunch of spirits and their places in this new time line.

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So yeah, I wanted to start a journal about my first Experience as a DM.

To explain, I love dnd (homebrew mostly), and a few years ago I wanted to start one in the avatar the last air bender/the legend of korra universebecause why the fuck not

And if you re wondering, yes I laughed when they annonces the official thing

So , the project kinda die (quick I know) but a few month ago I work on it again and here it is, my four player and me as a dm

I have no clue what I m doing.