#anyways none of the other players knew who calios was bc they werent in that campaign

[dawnslaughter]

man last night i got to have my first "hey, dm, what the FUCK" moment

so like. magic wasn't a thing, until suddenly one day it *was*. folks started walking around with glowing marks.

ake never had a mark. all she's ever had is a pen.

and her patron - kremlor, ducky, the bard in yellow - he's, it? is less of a entity and more of ...

well. a pen.

and she's spoken to him before! she met the bard in yellow; her brother gifted her with kremlor's words; she's even spoken directly to the pen itself.

so she builds a library and the sweet boy managing their new house is terrified. she tries to enter for the first time and this boy hands her the key, takes her by the arm and sets her aflame. he doesn't want to kill her, this child, but he must.

but he doesn't. she pulls her arm away. she unlocks the door.

and the pen is a person now. and he talks. and he talks.

he tells her that she - that i - can call him calios belmont.

sigil's lover, from a far distant plane. a different universe. a different story. the name of a man that means nothing to ake, for this is simply how her patron chooses to appear. he takes a book with a yellow triangle.

calios, whose name means nothing to ake, but everything to sigil - to me, the player, joey.

ake's patron chose his form because it was most familiar to me.