#CoC campaign

[eiseryn]

✨🧪HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEI 🧪✨

It's September 17!!! Which means it's the birthday of everyone's (my) favourite pharmaceutical doctor🥺🥺🥺I love her so much 🥺🥺🥺

It's no surprise that she's my current obsession and a lot of my brainrot is based on her orz so ofc I had to do her justice for her birthday! Which is today -- September 17~

Since Sept 17 this year is also Mid Autumn Fest I was hoping to draw her eating some mooncake maybe with Ceres or Vail or Elise 🤔🤔🤔 Let's see if I can squeeze in a sketch tomorrow.

As for how she usually celebrates her birthday? I imagine usually with her friends and Vail XD Maybe this year, they had hotpot and mooncakes 🤣* I imagine her favourite filling might be low sugar red bean or lotus seed. I tried to draw some lotuses in the BG of her birthday art but uhhhh I free handed them so they might not be the best. The flower in her hair is supposed to be a lotus too but I didn't look at a ref before I drew it so it's not accurate LOL SOME FUN FACTS FOR THE UPCOMING CYBERPUNK VIS NOVEL THAT'S DEF GOING TO COME OUT BEFORE 2030 (pls believe and cope with me)

Fun fact 1: The events of the campaign take place right after had a girl's night out with Elise + Ceres 😭

Fun fact 2: In the campaign, her birthday present from Vail is Meng, her ragdoll cat :3

Fun fact 3: The diamond-shaped green gemstone necklace she's often depicted wearing was Ceres' gift to her!

Comparing this year to last year's piece, I'm super proud of my improvement. I tried to keep everything almost the same except her hair is a little longer since it's been a year~ I think the main improvement is me being able to draw hands sometimes now XD (I REALLY TRIED FOR THIS PIECE T_T) Maybe you might notice other improvement I've made? 🥺

Let's also compare last year's Lei bday art (2023) compared to this year's (2024). For some reason last year's art looks really wonky in terms of the face even though I actually drew the sketch on pencil traditionally??? Also ofc there's no hands drawing LOL And the hair is shorter but for some reason there's no green dye? Although in this year's piece note that the green dye migrated cuz she didn't dye her hair so it simply,,, moved down LOL as her hair grew

NOW THAT'S WHAT WE CALL ✨IMPROVEMENT✨

But to blab more about Lei's birthday while we have space 🤔🤔🤔 CONSIDERING THE MODERN AU where Lei + her friends are in university (and med school LOL)... I imagine the first year they threw her a surprise birthday party cuz Gigi is very good at planning parties 💅 But they can't do that every year or she'll expect it!

Lei is half Chinese so that's why it's really cool her bday this year falls on mid autumn fest! It's extra cool cuz she already has some moon motifs with her flower symbolism being moon flower + an unreleased parallel for the witch au/ fantasy au + celestial themed wallpaper i was going to draw... I HAVE TOO MANY OC BRAINWORMS NOT ENUFF SKILL OR TIME

Some brainworms at 2am

smaller party this year and it's a hotpot party!

If it's with her closer family it would be with Gigi + Elise + Ceres + Vail (so a party of 5) + cats

The only reason I might imagine with the Mertalline group (larger group) is so Flash can show up XD BUT ALSO IN THIS AU FLASH IS VAIL'S NEIGHBOUR XD so maybe if they're at Vail's appt he will show up anyways 🤔

I was imagining the party to take place at Ceres + Lei's shared appt BUTTTTTT just for the Flash cameo 🤣🤣🤣 That's going to be the canon

They probably have a dual pot/ divider thing so there's a white broth + spicy broth! I wonder who can handle spice in the group? Def Gigi... maybe Elise? I imagine not Ceres and maybe not even Vail! It's Lei and Flash I wonder of the two if they can handle spice 🤔🤔 I think Lei can, but not super spicy -- just enough to eat spicy food and not die LOL

dessert is mooncakes instead of cakes... DEF MULTIPLE FLAVOURS SO EVERYONE CAN TRY DIFF FLAVOURS -- classics like lotus seed + red bean (low sugar for lei + normal sugar for sweet tooths like vail and gigi) + maybe some unique ones like pineapple or ube or sweet potato?

maybe they do some moonviewing together too 🥺 take a stroll to the local university grass field and enjoy being in each other's presence

I wonder what Lei's friends would give her?

I'm thinking that Ceres would handmake some thing(s) -- maybe an album she worked on for the past year about their fave memories! Maybe a painting of Meng + Cillin, or a keychain?

Elise would likely go with perfume, scented candles, or jewelry like earrings -- something she knows Lei would like or use!

Gigi's gift is her presence in Lei's life (IM JOKING BUT ALSO THIS IS TRUE). She'd probably give Lei a pretty outfit that she'd like Lei to wear + it would fit Lei perfectly -- SHE MIGHT EVEN SEW OR DESIGN IT HERSELF???

Vail's birthday gift for the first year is Meng AS IT IS CANON but for this one I imagine they already have Cillin + Meng so 🤔🤔🤔 maybe this year it's his d- I'm kidding... sorry LOL probably something like earrings actually XD since he's gone shopping with her. He likely recruited the help of Ceres and Elise and Gigi for this tho. Maybe even a fluffy robe or bathcoat... IDK I feel like he's rather practical with gifts and he probably treats her well outside of her birthday / gifts her things anyways so XD

It's really hard to top a cat let's be real here

I kinda want to write a short fanfic... NGHHHHHH if I have time tmr (me doing all these things for tmr 🤡🤡🤡)

[monsterinthemountain]

I really need to make a Pinterest board for bev

[lady-of-lavender]

The sillyest of guys

[haven-of-trash]

Little progress update, I've started doing the table/charts for the items.

Still need to do a few things like-

Enemy health points

Organising the maps

And starting items

Other than that, I'd say we're about 60% or so of the way there, possibly even a bit more

When I finish writing/setting up my call of cthulhu fear and hunger stuff, would it be appreciated if I left a link to the work so others who want to also run something similar can?

I've seen a few people talk about running their own campaign/one shot of F&H in DND. Hopefully this helps those who are planning on doing this.

And since I know tumblr likes polls, have a poll! <3

[banyanas]

is this not what peachyville horror is

[anim-ttrpgs]

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[aqours]

there is nothing more painful than the overwhelming urge to share all your campaign ideas with a friend both to infodump and also because you want critical feedback but also you really want to dm it one day and you want to invite that specific person to the campaign

[bajablastflavoredsaxreed]

ISTG MALEVOLENT IS SPECIFICALLY CATERED TO ME I HEARD HORIG AND I GASPED OUT LOUD

[morbid248]

I think if jon archivist ever met arthur lester and john doe malevolent and found out he was face to face with mr arkham investigator the king in yellow, he would say, "oh, like call of cthulhu?" and watch as arthur and john simply implode

[snakeunderyourboot]

People who listened to a Call of Cthulhu, the one that was a dnd session Harlan made, I NEED YOUR HELP

Please tell me what kind of character Roland Cummings was. Was he a brain in the situations or the brawls? Is he serious or more witty like? I am especially interested if there is any info about his time working with Noel, but I will take anything

Thank you!!

[curent-obsession]

love the intrepid hero’s cast so much i’m finally getting around to starstruck odyssey now that junior year is over. really carries over the “let’s just fuck around” vibe that i love.

[flashhwing]

really wasn't feeling anything about dragon age the last few weeks/months? and suddenly VERY excited for veilguard again. but also i have somehow managed to commit myself to five days in a row of dnd starting on halloween so i guess no guarding veils until fully the next week for me

[awindinthelantern]

Incomplete list of movies and TV shows that would make great inspiration/settings for RPG campaigns, or one-shots (dungeons crawls), for DnD, CoC, or others:

The Mummy (1999)

The Fall (2006)

The Cell (2000)

The Poseidon Adventure (1972) / Poseidon (2006)

Baccano! (2007)

GoSICK (2011)

Ghost Ship (2002)

Fool's Gold (2008)

Blade Runner (1982) / Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Natsume's Book of Friends (2008-2017)

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

Get Smart (2008)

Feel free to reblog with your own additions

[cerealforkart]

Gonna by flying and have some time to draw just just for fun but I have too many ideas

[doedipus]

a large amount of time I've been spending on -untitled undefined scope original fiction project- since the last time I posted about it has been trying to develop the protagonist concept I came up with last summer or whatever into like, a character that would feel real and era appropriate.

it's fun research to do. naturally a lot of the details I assigned to her are things that I already think are cool, so it's been a lot of fun trying to trace her traits back through the relatively recent past, getting reminded of how much things have changed, or where the gaps in my intuition are, and then doing a flurry of reading to get a sense for exactly how someone like her and the people around her could have happened and what her life was probably like leading up to her present day. hopefully this results in some good good verisimilitude.

[eiseryn]

Lei in front of her new clinic* in a drippy outfit. DW about how it's not lab safe as I'm sure she suits up properly when actually working with chemicals. This is her everyday outfit for seeing patients : ) Or when she's on receptionist duty.

It's been a hot minute since I drew a full illustration but I finally have a bit of time to draw again 😭 I survived 😭😭😭

I drew her so cute here 🥺🥺🥺 I did a sketch of her on pencil first so that's why she looks EXTRA good. For some reason my best drawings are ones I do on pencil first... well... usually...

Anyways I hope I get to draw more soon!!! It'll be a bit of a crunch but I need to make a piece of the twins for their birthday in 2 days (CRI) and also while it's still May I want to make a Mermay piece 😭😭😭 or a few pieces... but May is almost over I'm so 😭😭😭 why do I draw so slow CRI

in other news, this Lei will appear as a doctor in the Selenia campaign I'm running soon 👀👀👀 I wonder what my PCs' reactions will be to seeing her (although I've already hinted that she will appear). She will be selling some new interesting pharmaceuticals... surely you would trust the drugs she makes, right? : ) Surely you would trust that smile of hers, right? :3

*As of the events after the campaign, she and Elise run a clinic together. I decided to call it ELC for the first names of Elise, Lei, and Ceres :3 Although, in this AU, Gigi is there too : )

As a bonus here's the notes about her new outfit