#anyway just finished s1 of owl house and WHAT THE FUCK

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ripoff Merobiba

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A status update on Souls:

It has NOT been abandoned and it will be updated again at some point.  I just can’t honestly say I know when that will be, cause it’s a bit of a mess right now (which is entirely my fault btw).

The long and short of why it’s been a hot minute since there’s been a new chapter for it is, I decided to take a break from working on Souls back in August-September to finish my other fic, Weirdly Magical.  Since the Owl House S1 was ending and RWBY hadn’t really started to come off hiatus yet, it felt like a pretty good time for that.

Anyways, that went well and I intended to start working on Souls again sometime soon after.  That’s when an event I’m calling the Great Steampunk Derailment (entirely for my own amusement) happened.

(*Also known as that time that I got really, really into Steampunk again and legit did consider transitioning Souls into a steampunk fic ten chapters in.  All things considered, though, Souls will not fully become a steampunk fic at this time.)

(cause I have this other steampunk fic I’ve been having a blast with now)

Anyways, the point is Chapter 10′s plot got rearranged a lot while I was mentally debating all this (after already being rearranged once when I decided to expand what was supposed to be a Blake & Weiss reunion scene into its own entire chapter).

The good news is, Chapter 11 and beyond remains relatively unchanged and can go on full steam ahead when I get to them.  The bad news is that they can’t actually do that until I detangle the mess I made of 10, which is going to take a bit more time and focus than I can currently give it bc Life Stuff.

So yeah, I can’t really answer the question of when there’ll be a new chapter with anything other than ‘fuck if I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯,’ but I have every intention of making it happen.

(cause I really, really want to see you guys react to Ironwood making cookies in a microwave)

(you can probably guess the reason, but still, it’s delightful fun)

(altho that scene has been moved to ch11 bc it fit better there, which doesn’t really solve the ‘I made a mess of the next chapter of my fic and need to go sort it out but am also busy with Life Stuff’ thing)

[writing-zepher]

DnD: Chaos Campaign-S1

Here is where it all began, It was my first session ever, so it started out with me only. It wasn’t as chaotic, however, my character is enough to cause disaster without even trying. Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce you the main reason the party suffers so much in the future, Naztae Theifreik. 

Yeah his name is stupid, but I never took this seriously to begin with. I didn’t plan for him to live this long either, but here we are. Anyway, this asshole is a half-elf sorcerer (his source is Wild Magic by the way, the source of all our hardships), who has the background of a Charlatan. 

I would go more into detail about his looks, backstory, personality, but his background and class are all that really matter for what is to come. So, with my sorcerer all set up, I started what I thought was going to be an epic adventure full of traveling and killing monsters with tons of looting along the way.  

I was wrong. Oh god I was wrong. We haven’t won a single battle since we started, but we’ll get to that in due time. For now, we’ll start at the beginning, a simpler, happier time. 

These sessions can be rather long, so I decided to sum this up in bullet points instead of having the mess of paragraphs. So strap in and sit back for the slow incline towards the first drop our roller coaster of chaos:

Naztae went to Pika, a country on a continent full of magic, to serve as a bodyguard to Eros Barnabel. Eros is a bard searching for inspiration. Naztae just wanted money, and the job was easy.

They stop at a tavern and inn. Eros goes to bed early while Naztae scopes for potential victims in the bar.

A dude that won’t shut up is spotted. Even the barmaid is trying to escape. Naztae realizes he is the richest man in the room, so he moseys over in hopes of getting him drunk, taking him to bed, and stealing his stuff. 

During this time, the duke drunkenly rams his elbow into Naztaes sexy face. He loses charisma from the nasty bruise, then Naztae gives up after that. 

The duke won’t shut up about his daughter (she was coming to visit and never showed up) then he went to bed. Naztae sneaked into his room stole 59 coin in from him while he slept. He was never spotted. 

Naztae has terrible dexterity and keeps tripping over a child’s toy. 

Naztae goes back downstairs to steal more. He meets Pierre (douche) and his partner Noir (cool dude). Pierre constantly boasts about his quests while Noir  played darts. Naztae humors him to lower his guard, and realized he is just as chatty as the duke. 

Naztae is challenged to a game of darts. He sucks at dexterity, so he tried to use magic. The barkeep got mad and said magic was banned. He lied about his magic ability and plays legally. He completely missed the target.

Pierre invited Naztae to hunt some owl bears. Naztae said he thinks about it, but really he’s going to ditch him beforehand. He waved them goodbye and finally went to bed.

A clay monster attacks the inn. Apparently this is something common for locals. It attacked an old man. Naztae cast fireball, missed, then watched as Noir came in and killed it.

Pierre (super douche) comes in and sees it is dead and boasts about his “conquest” without giving Noir the credit. Also he took his sweet time coming down in the first place. Naztae is totally ditching him now. 

He woke up the next morning when Pierre knocked on the door. He didn’t bother answering. Pierre said they’ll leave their “lazy” friend behind. Pierre can go fuck himself.

When Pierre fucks off, Naztae leaves and sees the old man that was attacked was sitting with his son. Naztae has sympathy for the old man (as an old librarian took Naztae in as a baby and raised him as his own) and checks on him.

The begged Naztae to take his father to a temple nearby. It’s all the man ever wanted in life, and he needs to do this before he passes away. Naztae agrees, but only the condition of keeping the man inside and away from danger until he is healed (A scoundrel with a heart of gold)

Naztae goes about his business and tries to explore town. There is literally nothing there, but Naztae spots the girl who owned the toys he kept tripping over. 

Eros sat by a tree and tried to father inspiration. Naztae bothered him because he had a job to do and he was bored. Eros wanted to be left alone.

There is a weird church where people burn letters to relatives. Naztae stares at these for a bit, then decided to leave out of boredom.

A mother freaks out because the girl with the toys went missing. Naztae had nothing better to do, so he looked for her.

He followed a trail to a camp full of clay people. Naztae goes invisible and sneaks into he camp. He sees where they put the girl, so he peeks inside and sees they’re actually being good to her. 

Clay people notice tracks in the snow (the mountains have snow btw), and become suspicious. Naztae knows these clay men are weak, so he tosses a fireball.

CRITICAL FAILURE! SURGE TABLE ROLL IS 85!

Suddenly Naztae has two identical copies of himself fall on the ground as a surge of magic forced him to cast “mirror image”. 

Naztae tried to run, but was surrounded instantly (since invisibility doesn’t matter with snow and two copies of yourself following after you).

The clay men take Naztae into one of their tents and offer to show “the truth”. His clay hands reach for his head. There are dumber ways to die, so he agreed and went on a brain journey.

The clay men were made by a wizard, the town is cursed by ghosts, the old man is the source of evil, and they took the girl to protect her from this evil. (Foreshadowing)

The brain journey is over and a clay man takes Naztae to church. They go to the temple the son asked about, and they see to freshly killed clay men on the ground. 

Naztae rolls a perception check for any signs of the killer.

CRITICAL FAILURE! SURGE TABLE ROLL IS 76!

Out of nowhere, Naztae randomly starts glowing. The clay man that served as his guide screams in fear as he temporarily goes blind. 

After a minute of shooshing the clay man, Naztae pretends nothing happened and goes inside the temple. 

The old man is there, and he is praying to a statue. Apparently that is really bad, however Naztae does nothing as old men make him sad and guilty (Again, backstory). 

The old man completes his ritual and HELL BREAKS LOOSE. The old man dies, and Naztae found a letter he left as an offering.

The letter mentioned how he regrets trying stealing the daughter of a wealthy family for ransom money. They kept her in a basement for safekeeping, but she died because of it. They buried her somewhere, but all they feel is guilt as hundreds of people died after a war was started over her disappearance. 

Naztae runs from the temple. There is a blizzard outside.

The path he took is COVERED with ghosts. They’re reliving the war that tore this town apart years ago. Somehow, Naztae makes it through. 

He found the town and took refuge inside a building. A brother and a sister pulled him though a window into a barricaded house. Naztae asks if they have a basement (for a buried body). They have none.

Naztae leaves and goes to the bar across the road. Eros, the mother, and some other person were there. That building had no basement either.

At this point Naztae “gave up” and laid under one of the beer taps with his mouth open. He did this for awhile, then he decided to go back to the other house. Before he leaves, another person decides to do the same thing as Naztae and gets totally shitfaced. 

In the house with the siblings, Naztae asks for a shovel. They both grab one. There was one more house he didn’t search, so it had to be it. They bust out of the house and run to the one next door. 

This house had a basement.

They go down and see the floor is entirely covered with dirt, however one part of the floor is mounded. They all dig until they finally find a body of a little girl. 

Her spirit rises up and she thanks everyone for setting her free.

Curse is over. YAAAAY!

As a way to celebrate, Naztae finished what he started and got hammered during an awesome party( THAT IS A MISTAKE. THAT IS A HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE MISTAKE. NEVER DRINK AND WILD MAGIC. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, EVER!)

And that’s the end of session one. Out of all the others it is the least eventful, but it is actually very important backstory as these surges are a good example of what is to come. Plus, Naztae has this thing about money. He will do anything to get it, as it is part of his Charlatan background. 

However, his behavior and his source of wild magic IS NOT A GOOD MIX. I also have a feeling these characters I met are going to come back in the future, especially since Eros still owes Naztae money (and he will get that money even if the things he has to go through nearly kills him first). 

By the way, the duke’s daughter was actually dead the whole time. If Naztae went with Pierre on his hunt, he would have found her corpse in a camp in the woods. The last part with the dead girl was rushed because it was 4 a.m. by the time we finished our session, but playing for the first time was worth it. 

I hope this first session was an interesting read, If it wasn’t, I promise it will get more interesting. Trust me, the next session Naztae set a prostitute on fire. I don’t know if other people consider that crazy, especially if they are a veteran at DnD. So, out of curiosity, feel free to comment some of the crazy shit that happens in your own sessions. 

I don’t care how unbelievable or how bizarre it may be.Seeing the madness of creativity is honestly the best part about the whole game.