#he's for an upcoming ttrpg campaign i'm playing

[dyed-indigo]

idk what it was that possessed me to draw this but whatever it was i had to fucking pry myself away from this drawing repeatedly to force myself to take breaks. what

[violetren]

Blood of the Basilisk Chapter 24

I did not breathe for the entirety of the first paragraph waiting for the teleportation spell to go through.

The second it did though I heaved a big sigh of relief and then laughed a little as I realised half the Grimmani agency was about to have a very stressful day at work thanks to both Kota's entrance and the information she had uncovered.

I'm glad Pyter is staying with Nadani, because given that they are up against a cult I am suspicious of literally everyone that isn't an established ally that Pyter has been chill around. This may have more to do with my ttrpg experiences and expectations of cults than anything the text has promoted. Gharol seems fine. Probably. Just glad Pyter is staying.

It's also probably good for him to be there to help Nadani deal with her shock too. Girl needs some love after being taking a life for the first time.

This Mayor's aide Yenara. I am happily following all of the narrative cues to not like her. I mean come on. Norga barely bit out the scripted pleasantries. Norga might not strike me as a social butterfly but she's a professional, a fixer if not an outright trouble shooter, she knows how to play the game and she doesn't fucking wanna for Yenara. Conclusion, Yenara is a bitch.

Lemme guess. In classic mayor fashion the mayor is worried about his upcoming re-election campaign? Or given how accessible he wanted that gate to be, the mayors office is in on the cult bullshit.

Poor Thilde getting thrown from bullshit city micromanaging bureaucracy to Kota without so much as a biscuit in between.

I swear to the gods I am so fucking close to getting a cork board and red string over this pendulum. What's the connect with the toffee jar lid? Why have they got the same patterns. Does Thilde just know a really cool smith? Do she and Pyter just share an aesthetic taste? How fucking wild would it be if that were true and Molly was just trolling by bringing the pendulum and its designs up to make folks think it was important. It's not generally how stories work, and I wouldn't call that particular kind of subversion Molly's style, but it would be funny in how rabid I would get over it.

My theory is that the keystone portal magic and probably some blood magic type shenanigans are what the cult intend to use to open a gate for their master to return to the world. I mean you have a magical artifact that connects places and a guy in a place he doesn't want to be. Doesn't feel like rocket science even if the magic would probably be complicated as hell trying to get spatial magic to reach somewhere that is probably outside of our reality.

I am very aware that Kota doesn't give a token "she's not my woman" protest at the end of this conversation. Not because she thinks she has any claim to Nadani, but because she knows she has fallen for Nadani and cares as much as the implication that Nadani is hers implies.

[somegurl8]

While I have a bunch of OCs (both the TTRPG and non-TTRPG kind, though I need to flesh my latter characters out more), I would probably say my favorites are the following:

- Marxipha (she/her), my half wood elf beast master ranger. Her deal was that someone kidnapped her childhood friend and killed her mentor/parental figure so she’s trying to figure out what happened. Unfortunately because of the nature of the campaign she was in there was no real chance for me to explore her character much but the thing I wanted her to deal with is her desire to have friends and fear of losing them so she would play mediator, protector, etc to try and keep the group together and also the issue of what’s “right” as she wants to be a good person but also she has helped commit or committed herself many crimes. Resident weapons carrier (she was the only one in the party with a bag of holding and we looted people/places often), conducted a few “therapy circles” for the party, had a blood hawk named Keith, overall just a fun character to play. Unfortunately her campaign is on indefinite hiatus but I kind of want to try and play an older version of her one day in the future to try and give her story a conclusion of sorts.

- Ren Spurling (he/they), my Mundane character in @/beevoid’s Monster of the Week campaign Five Nights Monster and a NPC in my Call of Cthulhu campaign The Flowers Down Home. The basis of his character remains the same in both games, being that he was a former history buff turned actor after his security guard mother who he shared his love of history with died and his family moved away from Utah to be closer to his father’s side of the family for support. In FNM, his mom was one of the many security guards who died at Freddy’s and they moved to Los Angeles but he eventually goes back home to settle his grief and gets wrapped up in the events of that campaign. Meanwhile in TFDH, them and their dad move to Georgia and stayed there until the events of that campaign where they nearly get killed. He is very much a normal dude who in both campaigns got to defend one of their friends from an enemy they were facing in a cool way and also in TFDH has a boyfriend.

- Div Moyo (any) was supposed to be in fairy tale based roleplay I was going to do where we could pick a fairy tale to base our character on and one for them to be inserted into. Inspired by the fairy tales “The Will-o’-the-Wisps Are in Town” and “East of the Sun and West of the Moon,” their thing would have been that they were a writer possessed by a will-o-wisp who then went around turning people to sin. One of those people they turned to sin Div got them to give up their child for money and although she didn’t really want to do anything with said kid she was going to keep them around to keep up appearances. During the day he would look like a normal person but at night he would look more monstrous (an inverse of EotSaWotM), and there was going to be planned conflict between Div and the wisps for control of his body. Unfortunately this roleplay probably won’t happen and as I was making TFDH I wanted to have an investigative journalist character, and upon remembering Div I made him that role. She isn’t supernatural anymore but she’s big into the occult and conspiracy theories and is also willing to throw hands. Love them to death, they’re real fun to play.

- Mallory Lachance (he/him), a [redacted for spoilers] character for @/red-heart-sunglasses' campaign What Lurks In The Night. Unfortunately he's the one I can talk about the least because he's got a big secret and that's connected to why he's my favorite, but he's just a wet cat of a man trying to make his way through life (he needs a hug and therapy so bad it's not even funny-)

- Casi (they/he), my "newest" character for @/gentlemanslime upcoming oneshot/campaign In Charm's Way. Newest is in quotes because I actually had most of their character written out back in 2022 but I'm finally using them now (I enjoy writing out characters even if I can't use them for awhile). They are a changeling college of lore bard who as a child got stuck in the Feywilds for 10 years and learned music with satyrs before returning home and finding out only a few months pasted in the material plane. Feeling too awkward at home now that they were suddenly much older, he opted to set out on the road and become a traveling bard. During that time they joined a bunch of different groups and met a bunch of different people, but they are now returning to the Feywilds once more to try and break this magical curse their boyfriend is under.

Honorable mentions to Sage Greenwood who is Casi's nerdy sweetheart of a boyfriend, the villain of TFDH, and some of my characters for a Vampire: The Masquerade campaign I'm working on that I'm thinking of calling "The City of Night."

Oooooo you want to ask me about my OCs and/or my OC ships so bad