#I don't think even Rook gave me this strong of brainworms this early on.

[six-improbable-things]

The party warlock for our Dungeons of Drakkenheim campaign has completely and utterly turned my boy Carrion's world upside down just in the first session. I didn't really have a plan of how to play him coming into this, but I do know it wasn't this.

First she reacted to his Delirium-corrupted transformation with zero opinion aside from pure curiosity and desire for knowledge, which he wasn't expecting. Then she adorably belatedly remembers to say "I'm sorry for your loss" when he mentions his parents are dead, which is somehow endearing to him.

And then, at the end of the session, she asks him if he's afraid of his shifts, and he says no, he's more afraid of people's reactions to them. She calls him a liar and says that must not be true since he calls himself a monster. He tells her that no one has ever called him anything different, then tells her to go to sleep. He turns away to go to bed and she says his name. He asks her what she wants and she says "Nothing, I was just calling your name. See? I called you something other than a monster." Which sounds sweet, but what she and her player didn't know is that he took the name Carrion after being left for dead and told "soon you'll be nothing but carrion" by the same people who called him a monster in the first place. Luckily for her, he was too frazzled to take it poorly, so he just laughed.

This poor man has no fucking clue how to react to this woman. She has caught him so completely and utterly off-guard that he's actually been honest with her, something he hasn't done in a very long time. (Tbf, he hasn't really talked to anyone in depth in about 5 years.)

I'm going to fucking explode just thinking about their interactions this session.