#cant wait to see where it goes tbh. most of the party hasnt played dnd before or hasnt in a long while

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i've acquired one encouragement (thank you @fleshy-reblogs)

ok so her name is menura and she's a human artificer. since it's kind of a silly campaign i didn't go too hard on her backstory; she has a guild artisan background and her thing is that her parents are both master locksmiths and wanted to raise her in the family business, and she was really gifted, but she used her talent for Evil and mostly just stole shit. eventually her parents got fed up, cut her off and kicked her out, with the instructions to make an honest living or never come back, so she decided to try her hand at adventuring.

i wanted her to be an artificer because our campaign concept is that there's a rift in reality that's allowing a sci-fi, futuristic world to leak into the usual medieval fantasy dnd world we start in. i'm hoping as the story progresses she can learn about the insane future weapons and tech and use them. plus i haven't played an artificer before so yknow, broadening my horizons and such.

unfortunately she is also the most unlucky character i have ever had the misfortune to create. our first session we have a classic "party meets in a tavern" and our 'bard' badly fails at singing a nice song, which makes everyone in the bar mad at him. menura is just hanging out nearby and watching it go down but like three people start beefing with HER for NO REASON. only because another member of our party caused a ruckus outside did she escape without a fight.

shortly after we're going into the fields outside town to check on the local wizard, whose tower has been diagonal and whom nobody has heard from for a week or so. menura opens the door and peeks in to make sure he's not dead, and from behind a kitchen table, he THROWS LIGHTNING AT HER and barely misses. he's on guard because a missile from the rift knocked over his tower despite his enchantments.

the rest of the first session passes without major issue. shortly into our second session though, we find a small structure that came from the rift and investigate. however theres goblins Also investigating and for some goddamn reason our 'bard' uses color spray and overrolls SO HARD that he turns one of the goblins to RED MIST.

immediately we get scared bc theres still like seven goblins and we are all level 2 (and our gnome is Incapacitated due to drinking, amd 2 of our other players couldnt make it). then i think: hey, menura can speak goblin, maybe she can diffuse the situation!

reader. i rolled a 1.

one of the goblins immediately jumps for a stab, but she dodges and lands a hit while their back is turned. another goblin attacks and fucking one taps her and she goes down.

our 'bard' manages to handle the rest of the fight all by himself and at one point uses thunder wave, causing menura's poor carcass to be launched into several more goblins and knock them over. she gets revived once the rest of the goblins retreat but it's not a great way to start a campaign huh.

one long rest later and our wizard is cooking some breakfast on a mysterious box he got from the structure. the main issue here being that it's steadily getting hotter and hotter and the wizard can't stop it (it's a bomb he was cooking breakfast on a BOMB).

a big crack forms in one of the sides and everyone dives behind trees. dm has us roll for how lucky we get (a worrying sentence to jear from a dm in any situation).

reader. i rolled a 3.

thankfully, this time, menura was Not onehit, but she failed to get her arm behind the tree and it was straight in the blast.

there was no visible damage, but she can feel something deeper than her skin, deeper even than her bones, taking hold. we try cure wounds and it works at first, but as the spell finishes, not only does the feeling return but it starts spreading up her arm with her pulse. weird little spots start appearing on the back of her hand too.

and then we had to end session because it was 7 pm!! so she's probably irradiated or something now :(

i dont have any art of her on hand but i will make a shitty little drawing in a moment so you can put a face to the suffering

would anyone like to hear about my dnd character.