#amore bellridge

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We're finally back!

So after mediating between the rest of the assailants and their (still alive) client, they're able to sort out that some missing family members the group were looking for didn't actually get kidnapped, but joined their client's service voluntarily. It was uncomfortable and awkward for everyone to come to terms with the fact that the people the group had set a house on fire for had actually not wanted to return home, and Amoré decides that she's too exhausted to pay much attention to these delicate domestic matters.

She takes a seat on a charred chair and nods off for a while, eventually coming to surrounded by Sylphi, Kaa (the tiefling she pawned Sylphi off on earlier), and a purple dragon born girl. Sylphi cheerily introduces the girl as Ko Kiri, a former arsonist in the group of assailants they had just been fighting. Amoré is baffled, though Sylphi is quick to explain Ko Kiri was only involved because she needed the money, and tries to get Amoré to join their sharing circle.

Amoré is reluctant to share anything with anyone, though Sylphi is able to get her to reluctantly admit that her favorite color is gold, which leads to a drawn out argument between her and Ko Kiri about gold's status as a color. Amoré suddenly realizes how young this girl is, though Ko Kiri insists she is an adult by dragon born standards.

Eventually, Sylphi tries to broach the subject of Amoré's fainting spell earlier. While Amoré feels a cold bit of dread in her as Sylphi continues to ask questions, she cannot remember anything specific about what happened past the window breaking in the study. Both Sylphi and Kaa insist that it happened, but Amoré finds herself digging her heels in the more they try to convince her.

Diana eventually breaks up the argument when she returns from dealing with the city guard and Kaa volunteers to see them back to their inn safely. A carriage is called for them and to Amoré's astonishment, Sylphi declares that they're taking Ko Kiri with them despite Amoré's concerns about just taking a known arsonist with them, no questions asked.

She is ultimately outvoted, and it is an awkward and mostly silent ride back to the inn. But Kaa sees them off, and Ko Kiri ends up staying the night in their room, though Amoré makes sure Sylphi know that if they wake up to a room on fire she's blaming her.

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Hey hey hey…it’s three years later and all I can say is,

The more things change, the more they stay the same✨

lol happy Art Fight babe! I hope you’re having fun 💕

As always, Diana : @wolfy1298

Can’t find anyone willing to be your plus one for the ball? Simply bribe drag your dragon bodyguard to be your date instead

But seriously, these two are the definition of “‘babe’ but platonically” and I love them

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I miss these idiots 💕 have some nonsense because this meme was made for them

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I’m finally diving head in on putting together a character scrapbook out of my campaign notes for Dúo Rong.

Even though it’s a project that I’d started way back in late 2020 when I first got my cricut, I haven’t been seriously keeping up with the project in the way I had intended.

But! I’ve officially broken down the campaign into arcs to make the task more manageable, while also giving myself time to go back & draw little moments that I never got around to. And while I have to resize certain images to fit the 5 x 8 format, I find myself having to add on to a few of them. Which is…interesting 😅 mixing my old & new art styles.

I think I’ll only repost the ones that have large changes to them, but first I’m working my way through the essentials (a fullbody ref & all her character sheet/world info).

But! I can’t wait to share more about this campaign because it is so near & dear to me, & while it’s been really funny sharing them with next to no context, I really can’t shut up about all the subtle nuances these idiots have going for them & their relationships with each other 🤣

Anyways! My prints for Season 1 : Arc 1 arrive in the next few days & I can’t wait to see this come together!

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After realizing most guests at the ball seem to be glancing up at the second floor balcony, Amoré grabs Sylphi and begins to guide them up towards their client, who disappears behind a large set of ornate doors. They're intercepted by a red tiefling escort who was chatting up Diana earlier, and tries to keep them away from the doors. Amoré takes the opportunity to foist Sylphi onto him once she realizes he's charmed by her naivete and leads her back downstairs to dance.

Amoré rolls the only Nat 20 on stealth she's ever managed (technically a 19 with her -1) and is able to sneak into a meeting room with the masked lady and their client. The masked lady introduces herself as Madame Blue, representing The Blue Duke, here to negotiate terms to use their client's escorts as an informant network. The meeting is interrupted by the man who hired them, inquiring if any of them had seen Amoré. They confirm they haven't, and he returns to the party, locking the doors behind him.

Madam Blue then immediately finds Amoré hiding among the plants in the room, making sure to make direct eye contact with her before returning to business with their client.

Before Amoré can reflect on how screwed she is, Madame Blue decides to cut the meeting short, threatening their client with swift retaliation should he reject the Duke's proposal. He's saved from having to answer by three masked assailants breaking through the window behind his desk. Amore realizes the jig is up and abandons the whole hiding thing and casts a spell to blind their attackers, but not before one of them gets a good stab in their client's arm.

Realizing that she is in a three (possibly four) on one battle in a locked room, she's possessed by a fear that quickly settles into an eerie cold calm. She is able to get their client behind her and freeze one assailant to the desk.

The fight is a haze of freezing, electrocuting, and melting people crawling through the broken window. As she cuts the lines of another two trying to swing into the room, she catches sight of a purple blur out of the corner of her eye. Distantly, she registers Diana crumpled on the floor holding her face, and that Madam Blue is nowhere to be seen.

She passes by Diana, though it does not occur to her to check on her, and instead goes for the last living assailant that's been frozen to the floor halfway to the door. She grabs him by the face and dispassionately Poison Sprays him to death before heading towards the now unlocked door.

Stepping out into the hallway, it takes her a moment to realize a fire burning on the floor below. Diana steps up next to her, grabbing her arm, and Amoré's last coherent thoughts are that her arms and face red and irritated.

Oh...Diana's weird eczema is acting up again...

As always, Diana @wolfy1298

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"NO. I DID NOT JUST ORDER A MEDIUM RARE BURGER IN A FANTASY DENNY'S"

-Amore in dawning horror

Today’s session was... interesting

Nothing like making War plans at a fantasy Denny’s ✨

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Nothing really lights a fire under my ass than starting a new season in the campaign & realizing how many pictures I have in the WIP folder that now have outdated outfits 🫠

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So Diana accepts a bodyguard job on behalf of the party, with the slight chance that they can catch the people who set fire to Agatha’s forest. After borrowing some dresses from Agatha’s massive wardrobe, they pull up to a good sized mansion to find out that their job for the night is guarding this Monopoly ass looking guy who seems to be running some shady business under the guise of a ball.

While splitting up to see what they can find out about the deal being made, they end up on different floors of the mansion. Being the only one who has seen the faces of the two others they’re looking for, Diana is the one who notices Amoré bumping shoulders with the Lady in Blue she chased through Agatha’s forest. Amoré just notices she’s the only masked person at this event, as well as the fact that her ears are a little…mutilated.

The Lady in Blue disappears up to the second floor while they swap information Diana picked from the courtesans & Amoré eavesdropped from their client at the foot of the stairs before Diana heads back up to follow her.

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Ok so, I have an insane amount of GoT brainrot for someone who has spent the last decade actively avoiding this whole franchise. But I have listened to enough video essays that I may as well have read & watched the whole thing.

I have no idea when in the timeline this would take place or how they would even manage to fucking meet with where I placed them, but this is my fun little AU that I've put just a little too much time into. Everything lined up just a little too well based on our character backstories, & it was kinda fun to put them in a more serious setting/art style.

Diana would be an apprentice at the House of Black & White in Braavos training to be a Faceless Man. (I still find it so funny that the best place to drop her agnostic ass was in a religious death cult) The one place where being partially blind would have her at an advantage.

Amoré would be a Hightower in Oldtown, at the center of politics between The Faith of the Seven & the Citadel most likely secretly having weird dablings in ancient magic.

Sylphi as a Crannogman in The Neck, blessed with Greensight.

I will absolutely have to draw our good Bluestone Bois because I'd definitely place them in Dorne. I am both excited & dreading my attempt to draw the Water Gardens 🫠

As always, Diana : @wolfy1298

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The first batch of pictures for Amoré's character journal are here! Also I have been so super sick that I've literally had nothing to do but to work on this for like almost 2 weeks so...

The cover to cover tour officially starts here. All I can say about the front & back is that I lament my lack of experience with my Cricut when I made these decals. I only had 2 "fun" colors to work with at the time & I was still getting comfortable drawing in Procreate, so my silhouette art leaves a lot to be desired compared to some stuff I've made recently. I also found it's incredibly easy to burn this leather book.

But she's volume one, everything with her is a learning experience, & I realized as much as it helps to have a mini heat press for tight corners & small spaces, the cloth barrier they suggest you use between the vinyl & the iron tends to make things harder to press on this scale. So instead I gotta quickly tap straight on the transfer film & hope I don't burn anything around it :(´◦ω◦｀):ﾟﾟ

So at the risk of thoroughly exposing my inner theater kid, Amoré set the precedent with how I went forward creating campaign characters. I started off collecting 5 songs to make a mini story arc (almost like a show choir set list 🙃) that helps me figure out an outline for the kind of story I wanna give them.

Somehow Amoré ended up with a truly horrendous blend of rock & theatre. Absolutely incredibe. No wonder she's always such a dramatic bitch.

It was a lot easier to go in & add little decals around these lyrics. I'm definitely cursed with the Too Much™ gene, but I enjoy the little pops of color they give ✨ plus it justifies me hoarding all these vinyl scraps printing stuff this small lol.

Stat sheet!

In all honesty, as my first character I had no fucking clue what I was doing when I placed these & if I could go back & change one thing I'd probably swap her Intelligence & her Wisdom. She’s definitely more people smart than book smart.

But everything else is...very accurate. She has all the upper body strength of a chicken nugget. Plus on top of the (already) negative I traded disadvantage on everything DEX for magic crystal shoes that can be periodically harvested. Just a way for her to carry around the family fortune without actually having to return to the vault✨

For something that started so average, her CON became a monster & always comes in clutch for her alcohol tolerance. I've played variations of her across a few different one shots & I always manage to roll well for anything alcohol related. The dice do respect a bit 🤣

Spells on the other hand, I floundered with a lot at first because we’re not a combat heavy game, but then I found Chaos Bolt & that was that. It’s essentially Amoré in spell form & I’ve had a ton of fun with it over the years. Also Mage Armor cuz my girl is SO DISTRESSINGLY SQUISHY.

Cantrips were more or less a bit of a toss up. Message was fun for the sheer idea of her using it to talk shit during social events without being caught. But aside from Light serving fun backstory purposes the other 3 are kinda just what looked fun ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ unless you count the idea that she would absolutely delight in zapping handshakes.

From there, I wanted to extend the world map made by our wonderful DM @cappierong into a full scroll. Ya know, for the aesthetic ✨

Our campaign started in Civania, where Amoré's main Estate is. I just wanted a quick mock up to reference, so I edited a preexisting picture I found that checked all the boxes (large, on a plateau, accessible only by bridge) and then absolutely smothered it in flowers.

But anyways... This is primarily where Diana & Amoré grew up together in their decade of backstory ✨

There was probably waaaay to much back & forth trying to keep the continuity between stuff I've already drawn & this big reference. But I think it turned out pretty ok? Not like if I make a mistake anyone will really know lol.

Scaling was also another big issue I had, & I moments where I thought something was too big I just kinda handwaved it away like "ehhhhh she's from a stupid rich family." But now I have a NEED to draw baby Diana & Amoré around like, the statue gardens or something cuz I feel like certain parts of this place are definitely ominous 👀 especially for children...

And lastly we have the back cover & the High Noble political relationship map! I normally have this closer to the front but for layout purposes it'll be here. I kinda feel like I need to do more for the decoration of it but I can’t think of anything else to add at the moment.

Sam if u read that no you didn't.

But now! Other than a family portrait that I've always wanted to draw, I think I'm ready to move onto the art for Season 1 : Arc 2. It's a pretty hefty amount of art in comparison to others, so I gotta get busy. Especially since I think I'm gonna have to draw a few comics *sobs*

If you made it this far, thanks so much for reading! I'm always excited to talk out our little idiots so thanks for indulging me ❀(*´▽`*)❀

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*clears throat* *pulls out pitch pipe* why do I only wanna draw you when you CRY

I can’t believe I’ve never completed a full picture of Amoré & Agatha, since she’s another NPC I tend to yoink for AUs a lot.

Anyways, this is the first addition to the character scrapbook that I never got around to drawing when it happened in session.

Amoré has a really complicated relationship with her (great 10x??) Aunt. She didn’t even know she existed until her parents sent her off to get some magic items appraised by a reclusive relation that lives in the woods.

Within half a day of being there, she got hit with the knowledge that this woman now has full guardianship duties over her. Despite the fact that Amoré had only seen her parents as a convenient but minor annoyance for many years, it still completely blindsided her that they could make this decision at all. And without her finding out until she was already out of the Estate.

This woman she barely knows somehow holds all the authority to strip her of her family name & status. She declares that Amoré has failed to perform well on a task she set for her, bringing into question her worthiness as the next heir to the Bellridge Legacy. She suspects that Amoré has lost her connection to her Angelic Guide, & is forcing her to face the reality of it.

Also…she stole two highly trained Bellridge staff & gave her Sylphi as collateral, which Amoré did not hesitate to make it known she found it to be “not a fair trade.”

After their first night in Agatha’s home, Amoré’s old nightmares begin to resurface after a few months of deceptive peace. And now she is torn between shoving away this woman who pokes mercilessly at her most tender wounds, & leaning on her as a source of support as the only person who could probably guide her through her broken Guide connection.

Too bad Amoré is allergic to asking for help ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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It’s wild thinking about how we’ve been playing this campaign for over 3 years but this is the first time we’re cosplaying our characters. But honestly I can’t express how happy getting to be Amoré for a night made me.

And we may not have had Diana this time but we did find Ziteng!

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When you sneak into a speak easy to find out who hired a bunch of mercenaries to set fire to your Aunt’s(?) enchanted forest…but you end up getting distracted by an arm wrestling match.

Amoré volunteered Diana to compete against the current champion for shits & giggles. But Diana declined & was subsequently mocked by the current reigning champion, prompting Sylphi to jump in to defend her honor. Yeah, Sylphi was spat on for her efforts…

So naturally she became the next challenger & summoned her Bear Totem to absolutely decimate the guy. She was then able to convince Diana to a few friendly matchs afterwards, which Amoré took full advantage of by opening up a betting pool since they both got enhanced strength from the Spirit Totem. She made a lot of money that afternoon.

Oh and they picked up a bodyguard job. But more on that later…

We made it to Arc 2 guys!

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Just a funny moment from one of our previous sessions.

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Some absolute nonsense happened in last night's session. I'm so glad we have our boy back 🤣

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Happy MerMay✨🪸🐚

This is now officially how I keep track of how many years this campaign has been going lol

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