#tstsats campaign

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i recently decided we needed a cover for the campaign, which means it finally got an intelligible name. really proud of how this came out. it shows the first scene of the game, Somnus and Lemnos meeting Catalina on the road! Catalina belongs to @hamptoninnfreebreakfast and Lemnos belongs to @michaelburnnham

ID (copied from alt): A comic-style cover showing three people walking down an autumnal path at sunset, towards the viewer. A scratched-up Catalina is in the middle, holding her arms and shivering, looking towards Somnus. Somnus is smiling at her gently as he drapes his cloak around her shoulders. On the other side, Lemnos is smiling as he looks at them out of the corner of his eye.

The title at the top reads: "The Spark, the Scale, and the Storm" with each noun having different fonts to represent the different characters: Script for Catalina, elaborate calligraphy for Lemnos, and a basic serif for Somnus. In the top right corner is a logo resembling a crescent moon and the letters ISG. In the bottom left is the issue number #01, the URL gender binrary is for losers, and a fake barcode.

textless version under the cut

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A Favour from Ademara; in which Somnus forgets to act hostile to the dream druid who's stalking him and now he's in a devil's bargain that parallels his previous delusion about being the Chosen of the Lord of Storms (whoops)

Ademara's dialogue and design by my benevolent DM @iknikblackstonevarrick!!

IDs below (copied from alt text)

1: A comic page with five panels, showing Somnus in a dark room with the Cloak of Elvenkind rendering him partially invisible. He is a built South/East Asian man with shoulder-length brown hair. In the first panel, he swats at a dragonfly buzzing around his head. The text box reads: "Wish these things would leave me alone..."

In the next panel, his attention is still on the dragonfly, but a pair of hands reaches out of the dark, one of which is gripping a knife and positioning it in front of his throat.

In the next panel, his throat has been slashed, with the other mysterious hand holding his forehead in place. He is wide-eyed and slack-jawed as blood sprays all over the panel. The text box reads, "What?"

In the next panel, he has been stabbed again by a different hand, this time through the back of the throat. The hood has been dropped from his cloak and is losing the enchantment, while he reaches for his sword in its scabbard.

In the last panel, he has fallen to the floor, blood pooling under him and eyes rolling back in his head. The colour has begun draining from his face, and a dragonfly is resting on his cheek. The page around the panels gradients from white to black as he goes unconscious.

2: Continuing from the previous page, the first panel is a close-up of Somnus' eye, slightly bruised, half-closed and rolling back. A golden dragonfly rests on his cheek. The next panel is similar to the first, but the colouring of the scene has changed, his eye has widened in shock, and the blood and dragonfly are gone.

The eye panels are set on a background of a stormy sky, which becomes a full-page illustration of Somnus lying in a grassy field with Ademara sitting perpendicular to him. Ademara has her legs crossed and her chin resting in her hands, and is smiling at him. She is a skinny, pale woman with bright red hair and a perpetually dreamy expression.

3: A page with five panels, in which Somnus sits up and talks with Ademara. Somnus touches his neck, where there is no trace of the wound but his previous lightning scar is pale and prominent.

Somnus: What happened?

Ademara: You would know better than me.

Somnus: I really wouldn't-- I didn't see anyone-? We were in there less than a second. I-- Send me back. Please. Bring me up?

When he makes the request, he leans in to Ademara pleadingly, catching her by surprise. Lightning strikes in the background of the final panel.

4: A page with seven panels. Ademara appears thrilled by Somnus' request, her eyes alert for the first time. She hooks a lock of his hair behind his ear and asks, "Can I count on you to do something for me?" He looks uncomfortable, watching her hand.

He turns away from her and says, "I won't hurt anyone," to which Ademara pouts and thinks, "You're no fun," only for him to continue, "...that I care about." She smiles, satisfied.

Taking the back of his head in her hand, she leans in closely to whisper in his ear, "I'll keep that in mind." An even bigger lightning strike throws them into shadow.

The final two panels cut back to the material plane, where Somnus is lying unconscious. Blood has continued pooling under him, but colour is returning to his cheeks and his black eye is gone. The lightning scar visible on his neck is glowing. In the final panel, he explodes into lightning, hair and eyes crackling bright white. The sound of thunder cracking is shown with the word, "KA-THOOM!"

5: Somnus as the Tempest, with his eyes and hair filled with white lightning and electricity crackling around his drawn sword. He is dripping with blood from his neck although the wound is closed, and the lightning scar glows through the blood. There is also blood on his sword, his cloak, and the rim of his shield. He is mid-motion, one foot lifted from the ground and glaring out towards the viewer. The backdrop is dark, and he is surrounded by swirling wind.

6: The same as the previous image, Somnus as the Tempest, with text making it into a comic book cover. The comic is titled "Somnus" and shows the issue number 27. The logo is "ISG" in a crescent moon, and the artist is "gender binary is for losers". The tagline reads, "Return of the Tempest!" and there is also a fake barcode.

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Somnus rescued a nightmare called Delly from the Shadowfell so now I can depict his increasingly intense bond with Ademara through the medium of redrawing 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' (1901) by Frank Dicksee.

ID (copied from alt): A digital drawing of Somnus walking alongside his horse while Ademara rides side-saddle. Ademara is leaning down towards Somnus, smiling, and Somnus is looking up at her captivated as he hangs on to Delly's saddle. They are walking along the edge of a grassy sea-cliff and drenched in pouring rain, while a thunderstorm rages above.

Delly is a large horse (a nightmare) with a black coat and a glowing blue-white mane and tale, resembling fire. She also has tufts of fire at her heels, above her hooves. She has glowing blue eyes, and veins of lightning near her hair roots. Her saddle and bridle are blue and decorated with a silver metal.

Ademara is a thin, pale human woman with very long bright crimson frizzy hair that blows in the wind slightly, framing Somnus' head as she leans down. She is wearing a brown corset and a castleton green cloak and skirt, with a burgundy underskirt. She is holding Delly's reins in one hand, and hanging on to the saddle's horn with the other as she leans over to look Somnus in the face with a smile. She is wearing black lipstick and brown eyeshadow.

Somnus is a built, medium-brown-skinned South/East Asian man with shoulder-length brown wavy hair. He has dark brown eyes, and pale scars resembling lightning bolts snaking up his neck. His armour is ornate black-purple scale mail, but his hands are bare. One hand hangs onto Delly's saddle, while the other extends away from her as if to keep balance. He is looking up at Ademara with his lips slightly parted.

The two subsequent images are close-ups, of Ademara & Somnus, and of Delly's face respectively. /end ID

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let's play "which of our characters do you think has the least complicated relationship to their parents"

Catalina (Jr.) is @hamptoninnfreebreakfast's, Mavis/Lemnos is @michaelburnnham's, Dell/Somnus is mine, and all the parents (plus Juliana) are played by the perfect @iknikblackstonevarrick!

ID (copied from alt)

1: A drawing of Catalina Fuentes del Aiza sending her daughter (Catalina Jr.) to Alejandro Stonewell with Divine Intervention. Catalina Sr. is reaching down from the top of the frame, releasing the baby from her gold-glowing, bloody hands. Her hair is falling down and hiding her eyes. Alejandro is reaching up towards the baby with an expression of concern. Baby Catalina is sleeping, swaddled and still bloody, lowered into Alejandro's arms by divine blue fire that reflects on his face.

2: A drawing of Sylva Fulmine casting Modify Memory on Mavis. Mavis is holding a newborn Juliana close to his chest under his chin, staring blankly forward with wide eyes and a slack mouth, a strand of his hair falling across his face. Sylva is cradling him from behind, one hand supporting his arm holding Juliana, the other casting Modify Memory by extracting a blue line of memory from his temple, wrapped around her finger. She has her eyes closed and brow furrowed, a tear rolling down her cheek, and her chin resting on his shoulder. Juliana is sleeping soundly. The background is staticky, with a rainbow-coloured impact crack spidering out from behind Mavis' head.

3: A drawing of a young Dell being lifted up to reach the lemon tree by his parents. Killian has hold of Dell's waist, smiling broadly as he watches him. Dell is holding onto the back of Killian's neck as he reaches up, smiling slightly, to cup lemon in his palm. Lyra has her hand on Dell's side, as she gestures with her other hand up towards the branches, speaking to him and smiling. Behind them is a bright blue sky, lush fields, and distant mountains. /end ID

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Catalina died recently and i decided it was time for her to get a comic cover like Somnus. (don't worry, she was brought back to life)

ID (copied from alt): A digital drawing of Catalina standing backlit by a raging blue fire in a forest. The first image is the plain illustration, and the second is stylised as a comic cover with the title "Catalina" and tagline "To the other side..."

Catalina stands with her back to the viewer, her face turned so that it can be seen in profile, but her expression is not visible. Her hair is tied in a messy ponytail, and she is wearing a silver breastplate. Blood is running down her face and hands. Behind her, blue fire engulfs a forest, burning up the sides of two trees.

The title of the comic cover is stylised in a Gothic font and seems to be reflecting the blue flames. The logo is “ISG” in a crescent moon, the issue number is 30, and the artist is “gender binary is for losers”. Next to the tagline there is a fake barcode. /end ID

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it's time for a meme dump from my dnd campaign

IDs copied from alt below:

1: A page of doodles. Most prominent is a sketch of Somnus wearing a t-shirt that reads "I'm not the step-dad, I'm just the guy that is homoerotically obsessed with this kid's mom." He is sweating while Juliana lurks behind him, scowling with her eyes glowing red in fury.

On the right of that sketch is a two-panelled meme where the first panel is Catalina saying, "They'd be so lost without me. I'm basically the leader." while Somnus and Lemnos exchange amused looks behind her, Lemnos winking at Somnus. There is an arrow pointing to Catalina with the caption "This tall child is lying to you." The second panel has a caption that says, "two weeks later" and shows Catalina struggling to control Somnus and Lemnos on leashes, as if they are toddlers (Lemnos is trying to run away, and Somnus is collapsed on the ground).

On the far left of the page, there is a doodle of Lemnos saying, "If I had a copper for every time I've been turned to stone, I'd have three copper, which isn't a lot but why the fuck has it happened thrice??"

Along the top of the page are doodles of Elyk the fox and Lillion the cat, captioned with their names.

2: A yellowed wanted poster depicting Catalina. It reads: Wanted: This tall child is lying to you. Contact Neverwinter authorities with information for gold reward.

3: Similar in style to the wanted poster, a sketch depicting Catalina in the Hall of Fame at the Coin Toss. The portrait is in a sketchier style, and the text reads: Hall of Fame. Catalina, Coin Toss Extraordinaire, 7 Uktar 1500.

4: Somnus and Lemnos as the Barbie and Ken mugshot meme. Somnus stands seriously on the left in full armour, holding a placard reading "Somnus, NWPD" while Lemnos stands posed and grinning on the right, holding a placard reading "And Lemnos, NWPD". Somnus is 6'1" and Lemnos is not quite 5'8"

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Somnus is in some kind of awful situationship with a nihilistic nightmare druid who wants him to kill his loved ones and won't let him die. and she's everyone's favourite.

the sketch of them on the right is based on the painting 'Splynutí duší' by Max Švabinský

feat. my concept art for Somnus as a storm herald (with control over his powers, in contrast to Tempest era)

ID (copied from alt text): The first image is a page of sketches showing the nightmare druid and Somnus. In the top left corner is a portrait of the druid from the waist up. She is a thin, pale white woman with long, wavy blood red hair. Most of her face is in shadow, but her pale green eyes are inhumanly reflective. She has black lips and a sleepy smile, and is wearing earth-toned leather traveling clothes with no sleeves. The background is a dark briar-filled forest.

On the right is a sketch of Somnus sitting down with a thousand yard stare, and the druid embracing his head while standing up, with her cheek resting on his crown. She has a serene smile with her eyes closed. Somnus is a dark-skinned Asian person with black eyes, dark chin-length wavy hair, some stubble, and a heavyset build. He is wearing a black doublet undone at the collar, exposing a pale lightning-like scar reaching up his neck. There is blood on his hands and right cheek (viewer's left) which is pressed against the druid's chest. The druid is wearing earth-toned traveling clothes and her red hair cascades down her own back as well as Somnus'.

In the bottom left corner is a doodle of the druid and Somnus in chibi style, both lying on their stomachs with their feet kicked up. The druid has her chin resting in both hands, smiling, while Somnus is holding a book in both hands and frowning. The druid says, "How big that dick," and Somnus replies, "Small leave me alone."

The second image is art of Somnus channeling storm power. His hair and eyes have turned into white crackling lightning, reaching up towards the sky. He is wearing a plain silver breastplate over his black doublet, and his dark blue cape is being whipped up by the wind. He has old bruises and cuts on his face, and is grimacing. The background is dark, his hair and eyes seemingly the only light source.

/end ID