#oc: Devleik

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I finally made a new portrait for my son (:

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I need a quick break before I get back to art and D&D prep, and I've been considering animating some of my D&D PC's voice lines, so here's my dirty little guy.

Context: Devleik is a reborn (originally drow) and swarmkeeper ranger, who came back to life the first day of the campaign. For a while at the beginning he couldn't speak Common, and still prefers to speak in Old Common, his native language/the equivalent to Latin in our game. Most NPCs can't speak it, so he doesn't tend to talk much. It's for the best, people tend to ask uncomfortable questions if they pay too much attention to him. His voice is pretty scratchy, and after a few hours of playing, is usually broken up by my coughing.

Andrel is a bard we met at the beginning of the campaign and he's shown up a couple times after.

Friendly Introduction:

Ah, Andrel! My friend! I've been wondering when I'll next see you again, please, tell me the roads have been treating you well!

Neutral Intro:

Oh? Can I help you? The goal is to direct their attention away from himself, ideally making them focus on one of the human party members.

Hostile Intro/Combat Initiated/Threatened:

Get away from me! or Stand back! Followed by Dev drawing his weapons, and, if it's safe for him to do so, showing off his spider swarm as warning. It normally doesn't go well.

Combat Victory:

Good... Is everyone else alright? No one else dead yet?

Critical Fail/Miss, Near Incapacitated/Dying:

Oh dear... That's... unfortunate... Breathing becomes more labored, the result of an instinct from his old life, not because he needs to breath anymore.

Support Ally:

Hold on, just keep talking. This will only take a moment. You'll be okay soon enough. or Hold on, we don't need another dead man walking around just yet. For some reason, our undead, actively rotting ranger is our healer.

Flee:

We should go. Now. We'll meet back up at the camp.

Received Gift:

Are you sure? Oh, thank you, my friend! I am in your debt, may life treat you well.

Lost an Item:

My friends? Do we still have the [item]? Which cart did we leave it on again? Do we still have that cart with us? Where is it, I need something from it.

Received Flirt/Unsolicited Flirt:

Excuse me? You must be mistaken...

Disliking Activity:

I'm not getting wet. I don't care. I don't dry out easy, this will only make the problem worse. I'm not explaining this one.

Waking Up:

If it's sunny: Well, that's unfortunate. If it's overcast: Oh! Decent weather, for once. If it's raining: Well, I suppose it could be worse. We should do our best to stay dry though. Dev still has sunlight sensitivity, despite being a reborn. And his mummification hasn't held up to water well.

Middle of Day:

You know, I think we could go without the sun for a bit. Like, I don't think it would kill us.

Bored/Idle (playing with his swarm):

Hey, check out this spider! Does it have too many legs to you too?

Preparing to Rest:

The stars are nice tonight...

idk what to tag this as but here's a silly thing i made

fill in the blank oc voice lines game! i did these in the perspective of the oc (so like friendly means oc friendly to someone else) but its freeform so yea!

Fill in what your OC would say/do in these situations!

Friendly Introduction:

Neutral Intro:

Hostile Intro:

Combat Initiated:

Combat Victory:

Attack:

Critical Fail/Miss:

Critical Hit:

Nat20ed against a BBEG:

Support Ally:

Flee:

Combat Defeat:

Near Incapacitated:

Received Reward:

Received Gift:

Lost an Item:

Received Flirt:

Received Unsolicited Flirt:

Sees Favorite (object/subject):

Sees Disliked (object/subject):

Enjoying Activity:

Disliking Activity:

Waking Up:

Middle of Day:

Bored/Idle:

Preparing to Rest:

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I'm working on some new stuff with Devleik, and I needed a quick break from the Curse of Strahd art, so here's Dev's inventory. (:

Might I offer you a commission in these trying times?

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Check out my new guy (:

He crawled out of his grave right at the start of the D&D campaign he's in, and I love him. (:

Fun facts about him:

He is full of nothing but spiders. No thoughts, no memories, only spiders.

I haven't taken much damage as him yet, but I'm not sure if he bleeds. The DM has mentioned that using hit dice will probably look like him sewing himself back together.

He's just a little raisin, my little thousand year old, mummified, religious sacrifice.

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*finally posts for the first time in ages*

It's my bug son again (:

Anyway check out my instagram I'm a bit more active there.

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So Dev's D&D campaign is going well(?). We have a conspiracy board now at least.

There's bits of context under the cut, at least that what I can provide for now.

The Web (:

Shiv: One of the four party members, a human rogue/grave robber. They joined the campaign after failing to break into a tomb in the mountains, brought to the group by an old man with horse and magic sword. They have no memory of what was inside the tomb.

Zird (spelling varies): Goblin artificer, looking to find magical items and create his own.

Menna Alloy: Our human fighter, not mentioned on here yet. The most functional member of the group.

Old Man: Author of the diary entries on a parchment texture. Gave the party a magic sword that may have used to belong to a saint. He's dead now (killed by the Black Knight mentioned on the other side of the web), but we have his horse still, and it may be magical. The guy might have been immortal?

Jester: Evil necromancer raising an army from the dead. Stole some of Dev's hair at one point. OOC, I think we're being scried on. The Black Knight seems to serve him.

Seleck-Mor (spelling varies): God of undeath, among other things. Gave necromancers their power. Worship of him is not looked upon kindly, to say the least.

Devleik might have been raised from the dead intentionally? Or his original soul died angry. The party doesn't have enough information on undead yet.

And a list of questions to ask the local librarian NPC when we next play, for my own notes:

Can Revenants return from the dead without a necromancer's influence?

What kind of punishment (if that's the correct term) did Seleck-Mor and the other gods face, post-Calamaties?

Did St. Gerriand's sword go by any other names? Oathguard, perhaps?

Is immortality possible? Has it ever been possible?

Who was Emperor Malachor? Pretend I've been living under a rock.

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About Me:

Hi! (:

My name is Vincent or Haley, but I also answer to pretty much any variation on my username; I am me, I don't care what my name is to you, as long as it's not offensive. (:

My pronouns are he/him, and unlike my name, I do actually kinda care about those.

This is primarily an art blog, but I play a lot of D&D and really love Curse of Strahd, so a lot of what I make and reblog revolves around those interests. And bugs. Lots of bugs.

As long as you're not making money off my work, please feel free to use my D&D art in your games! I just want to hear what happens in them.

I've also got an Instagram! My username there is @/terrifiedspider! I've got a Kofi as well, and offer commissions!

Fun(?) facts about me:

Strahd? That's my old man, that's my babygirl, I love him, I want to make his life worse, I want him to get worse, I want him dead, I want him to get therapy.

I used to have a fear of spiders and centipedes, but decided that was stupid so I pulled an uno reverse on myself and got super into them.

Jack Seward apologist

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I relate an uncomfortable amount with Victor Frankenstein and I haven't even gotten to the point in the book where the Creature is animated yet.

Furry in denial.

Basil's confession to Dorian is one of the most romantic things I've ever read and I will never forgive Dorian for his response.

Still emotional about a moth I held in elementary school.

Important Tags:

#cw: XXX, used for any sensitive content, typically blood. I like drawing blood and scar tissue.

#spider chatter, for anything that isn't my art, be it reblogs, D&D stuff, or elder scrolls headcanons

#oc: XXX, my oc tags, usually my D&D characters, but also some Elder Scrolls and Fallout stuff. I most commonly post art of Devleik, my reborn ranger PC from a friend's homebrew campaign.

#Calamity Campaign, for the previously mentioned campaign. Its set in a gritty, low magic fantasy world, which takes heavy inspiration from medieval Europe, to the point of having a realistic economy based off the setting.

#art envy, art I reblog from others (:

#caught in the web, the asks I send other people, and posts I get tagged in

#spider's dming tag, for my DM notes, usually for Curse of Strahd, but sometimes other stuff. I currently am running a Ravenloft campaign and Underdark one, but I love planning these things, so I'm working on my second run of CoS, and fleshing out Lamordia for a campaign of its own.

#spider posting, originally just for spiders, but now also covering any member of Arthropoda I may post or reblog stuff about.

#promo tag, self explanatory, recently I've been sharing a lot of the advertising posts for Memento Mori, a CoS fanzine I'm contributing to (:

Songs I like, no explanation as to why:

Werewolf's Eyes - Birch Book

I had gay sex with god (it could have gone better) - Juno Lev

I Love You Like An Alcoholic - the Taxpayers

Dearest Sarah - Goodnight, Texas

Not Dead Yet - Lord Huron

Goodnight Demonslayer - Aurelio Voltaire

Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America - The 1975

The Lovecats - The Cure

Tales of Goapan - Dabo

Bloody! Bloody! - Junie & TheHutFriends