#wishlist: general

[tadbitfooled]

some thoughts on how could someone have met any of my muses prior to the events of the game

Tadpoled Crew

Briza - good luck you probably wouldn't have unless you were around Cormanthor. Briza's mainly been around those forests her entire life, working as a bit of a guard/ranger for her House. Maybe when she was a kid before they were exiled from Menzoberranzan.

Durante - He's from northern Faerun, near the wilds. I might stick him near Neverwinter, but a small village where that's the nearest city. He was in an orphanage run by Ilmatari so if you too were an orphan and need an orphan buddy! But also he worked in the north under an established sculptor who used Durante's abilities as he got older and claimed Durante's work as his own to make works.

Frits - He went to Blackstaff, you could be peers. His family owns a flower shop in Waterdeep, that could be another way. Perhaps on one of his little research adventures he was oft to go on!

Gwenifar - As a cleric of Ilmater, she's often where she's most needed. EG, I have this old wishlist post involving a Gale background meeting possibility, but she's also been to battlefields and other areas of illness. Around Baldur's Gate, she's also helped with fundraising for the Open Hand Temple due to her decent charisma, especially with the city's well off.

Talilah - She's traveled all around Faerun with a base area of around Baldur's Gate with her mother's troupe. She's stolen from corrupt nobles with the troupe like robin hood scenario. She's probably had her own little adventures, she is 136.

Tavinkas - he's a Durge so there's a bit there, but he did travel around Faerun killing people for a time. But he was skilled in disguise self spells, like I mentioned here, so it may be difficult or not. I'll pay you ten imaginary dollars to have him have killed your not as long lived character's parents.

Camp Followers

Anatol - this man wants to play hero so bad. So he's definitely been on some daring dos to do that, but like. Someone babysit him please. He is a dumb golden retriever.

Kyrirthlila - she's 349. She's been doing her Robin Hood troupe for over 200 years. She's had her fair share of adventures and other travels. It's very easy to have people she's met before.

Background/Side

Aella - real easy if you're a Gale. But also she's a bard who travels around with a band to perform so there's some possibility there.

Arakhivaen - he's been doing the Elf Isolation thing for about 130 years so a little more difficult, but if your muse has ties to Evereska or the elven nobility, definitely easier to set up possible prior meetings.

Arzan - make second gen characters. Let's be problem children together.

Chiela - once again a little difficult due to having moved to Evermeet, but there was still around I think...40 or so years she was in BG. But also easy for Astar.ions.

Klaudius - really easy for any dead three followers tbh, since Lovia.tar is Bane's wife and a minor goddess of his realm. But also Klaudius is from a decently well off family of BG (not patriars, but ranked up there) and he does at times will hold the guise of the 'proper society' to do his psychological manipulation tactics.

Perun - once again easy if you're a Gale. But also he works as an (successful) adventurer, so he's traveling Faerun as well when he's not home.

[justashadetalkative]

Spire Teleportation Mishaps

Figured I'd put together a list of some of the more common potential causes as inspiration for future use! It's an easy trope for tossing folk into your setting and having them be Actually Stranded for at least a little while, and can serve as fodder for additional complications besides.

(This is mostly for my own reference, but feel free to DM me if any of these capture your imagination and you want me to put together a starter. ^_^)

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Vector wyrms:

These are creatures that are drawn to the energy of connections between planes and try to eat anything traveling through. The Spire has had one or two infestations over the years.

Most of the folk who can enact interdimensional travel from the Spire can react in time to avoid getting eaten, but this often involves reaching for the metaphysically "closest" destination, and can also involve arriving with quite a bit of speed. (Or, rather, a lack of necessary motion; a failure to completely sync up with the motion of a given planetary body.)

Injuries from the landing are pretty common, and the emergency spellwork during the save itself usually isn’t gentle, either.

This can be just the messed up teleportation, or the wyrm could get pulled through into the new setting as well and everyone would have to deal with a cranky void critter!

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Minor disruptions:

On a less extreme front than the vector wyrms, sometimes Shit Happens and there’s a magic surge, or one of the Spire’s less scrupulous inhabitants decides to mess with folk, or the target destination is protected with a redirection spell, or somebody disrupts the casting at the last moment, etc.

Due to his epilepsy, Diamond builds most of his teleportation spells with a strict pass/fail structure. Either he completely finishes casting the spell and successfully enacts the final instantaneous 'trigger', or he doesn't trigger it and the spell fizzles harmlessly.

But other less cautious mages can be more susceptible to this, and it doesn't protect against active outside redirection and such.

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Plain old mistakes:

If Diamond (or other teleporting party) doesn’t have a pre-made anchor to target, the spell can literally just misfire.

This is pretty rare – otherwise teleportation wouldn't be trusted as a frequent mode of travel! But it does happen.

In Diamond's case, it's more likely if he’s rushed (e.g. fleeing from something), unwell, or burnt out from too much casting.

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Spire connections:

In much the same way that the Spire itself sometimes draws in (seemingly) random people from random worlds, it does sometimes send its inhabitants to places, too.

This one is literally, in-universely narratively convenient. It absolutely tends to involve showing up in some moment when the arrival will help or disrupt something significant.

People being trapped, in danger, or feeling like they’re short on options or don't have a safe place to go are pretty common triggers.

The other direction of “the Spire needs something these people or this world could theoretically provide” happens, too!

On the other end of the intensity spectrum, sometimes literally all that prompts it is dramatic irony

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Banishment:

Cueing off the D&D spell: Some enemy caster (or Clemcy in a bad mood sdlghdf) decides to planeshift someone to get them out of the way.

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Losing a tail:

During certain plot events, Spire casters might be forced to hop through a fairly rapid sequence of teleportations to different realms in an effort to keep someone from tracking directly back to the Spire.

Needless to say it’s a bit draining, and can result in mistakes -- or in the caster simply running out of energy and being forced to rest before they'd intended!

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Malfunctioning equipment:

Some of the Spire’s engineers are a little, uh, reckless. Sometimes folk get caught in the crossfire. :')

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Others to be added as I think of them!

[justassorted]

Targeted prompts

Send in an emoticon for a small interaction! Or just send the prompt itself if you can’t see the icon. ^_^

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🐞— for Mirian to show your muse something she thinks is neat.

😂 — for Mirian to laugh at your muse.

🌈 — for Mirian to try to cheer up your muse.

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🏥 — for Ithadel to treat your muse’s injury/illness.

🙅— for Ithadel to protect your muse from danger or prevent your muse from endangering others. 

🆘 — for Ithadel to come to your muse for help. (Specify practical vs. personal if you have a preferred angst level!)

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🤩 — for Oscar to enthuse about something to your muse.

🤨 — for Oscar to stick his nose into your muse’s business.

🌻 — for Oscar to do something nice for your muse.

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🦂 — for Skitter to attack your muse.

❓— for Skitter to ask your muse to explain something.

💲— for Skitter to work professionally with or for your muse (mercenary in humanoid AU, surgeon in original alien verse).

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See this?

very demure ✅ very mindful ✅

very cutesy ✅ non-violent ✅

Keep this energy guys. Please.

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[prim3dsins]

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[weevmo]

you will be Mine...

[isabelleneville]

♕ @dailytudors​: TUDOR WEEK 2023 ♕

Day Five: Most Used Tudor Related Resource >> My slowly expanding collection of Tudor nonfiction books.

[calkale]

does anyone have any video games suggestions 😭 i need something big that i can put a lot of hours into but nothing is really calling to me at the moment

[bonebabbles]

you should play Dredge

Played! I enjoyed it. I only have 7 hours in it, though.

In fact, my personal buddy is suuuuper into Dredge, it's his favorite game. We played it zealously together during a visit, during which I got absolutely mobbed by like every random monster ever at Gale Cliffs. The squid. The ray. The thing that rots your fish. The actual big mama monster who lives in the cliffs.

He remarked he had NEVER seen such bad luck before lmaoooo

Women want me but the fish do not fear me, sadly. The fish and I are engaged in mutually assured destruction.

[tadbitfooled]

I wrote a post a few weeks ago about ways your muse could've met one of mine before the game BUT I have no idea where it went so we'll make a new, more organized post.

Tadpoled

Briza Jaelre

If you're a surface drow, it would be easier to have met her prior. She's the oldest child of the Jaelre family of her generation and has some good political standing due to that.

Also if your muse has been around the forest of Cormanthor, where the exiled House Jaelre has set up their home, your muse may have run into her while she's been patrolling. Or even have done trade with her house if your muse is from that area.

Also I could see some parties or something happening where it's forging alliances with the surfacers and showing the house Jaelre isn't as cutthroat as the Lolth sworn drow. (But they aren't afraid to get their hands messy.)

Durante Faust

He's been an apprentice to a sculptor since he was a teenager. He easily could've tagged along when his master was doing a commission.

Then there's also the fact he'd also eventually start getting his own commissions, especially because he does have an almost unnatural skill in his work. (It is really life like, and no not due to magic, just talent.)

He is the most likely person your muse could've had a random one night stand with at one point. So there's also fun in that. Or he could have wooed and ran, that is also a possibility.

Frits Farehill

He is 35 and attended Blackstaff; he could easily be someone's former classmate/peer.

I accidentally made him really good as a possibly bg person for Ga.le just because his parents also own a flower shop in Waterdeep and the prior bullet point.

Frits has 11 siblings so maybe your muse may know him through a sibling

Frits does a lot of traveling for his research with his partner, so it's very easy to have crossed paths with him before, even just for a short while.

Gwenifar van Hol

Gwenifar's been around with her duties as a cleric. From dealing with plagues and illnesses to helping tend to people in battle. She's quite adept at her healing and making healing potions and salves, so she's been requested to travel to quite a few places in Faerun.

Beyond that, in recent years, she's helped raise funds for the Open Hand Temple by attending various get togethers of the well-to-do, having gained a bit of charisma as she's gotten older. So she does often interact with Baldur's Gate's elite, as well as tend to those in need in the city.

Talilah Bluethorn

She has traveled all around Faerun, helping her mother steal from the rich and give to the poor. She's also been on a few adventures besides that, so there's some options there.

Your muse, if they're a high elf from Evereska, might even not know her but know her father, who she has a strong resemblance to. Which could be fun.

Also if your muse is rich, maybe she and her fellows stole from them that'd be a great dynamic.

Tavinkas

He's a durge so like. He's traveled around Faerun but to kill people. What if he killed someone your muse cared about. what if.

Also other cultists and that who would work with Bhaalists, that's another way to have met him prior to the game.

Camp Followers

Anatol Byron

Look, this guy has been looking to create a heroic name for himself, being the third son of a noble family. He feels it's his destiny to do something heroic, he's got a good heart but uh. Sometimes not so bright.

Also as being the third son of a noble family, there are options of arranged marriage plots, meeting at revelries, or other type settings.

Kyrirthlila Bluethorn

Like with her daughter, she's been stealing from well-to-do for about 250 years. So that's a way to have met her prior. Also has had her own adventures and that, so that's something to consider too.

Background

Aella Dekarios

You might know her if your muse is from Waterdeep. She's part of a traveling minstrel group and they tour all around Faerun too. She's had her adventure here and there.

Also you're more than welcome to want to be her wife with two kids, I left it vague just in case anyone wants to be Ga.le's in-law.

Arakhivaen Saliriador

One of the harder muses. His mother is on the royal council of Evermeet, and he's a guard in Evereska. But if your muse is a high elf noble, then that would be the easiest way to have met him before, considering there's The Retreat that happened and it's only in recent years high elves are coming back to the mainland.

If you do have an older muse, though, Arakhivaen might have had more to do with interacting with wider Faerun before The Retreat (about 150 ish years ago).

Arzan Ancunin

He's a second gen, so there's no meeting him prior to the game, unless there's some wild time travel set up. But there's still options to pre-establish a relationship for interactions. Considering he's a dhampir looking for a cure for vampirism for his father, something beyond the options available that can do a mass cure. OR you go the ascended route and he's trying to stop his father.

Chiela Ancunin

Another difficult one due to The Retreat, but she was around Baldur's Gate prior to it. Tended to her brother's grave and all that. Not to mention I hc their parents were very much ladder climbing lower noble/upper middle class, so there's something to play with as well.

Obviously wildly easier if your muse is a high elf who can go to Evereska/Evermeet.

Ingeleif Maerklos

Went to Blackstaff, is 36. 100% is an arrogant piece of work.

if your muse is from Waterdeep, they should know the Maerklos family. As a noble, he's probably had his interactions at parties and get togethers. Maybe even arranged marriage discussions before he became a Chosen of Mystra.

As a Chosen of Mystra, he has had to go in search of ways to strengthen the Weave after the events in recent history. So your muse could've met him on a quest.

Klaudius Sarrick

He's a wealthy man leading a double life in Baldur's Gate. He's very used to interacting with high society in balls and that sort of thing.

But also other cultists who would work with a Loviat.an.

Perun Dekarios

He works as adventurer; probably if your muse is an adventurer, could've met him. Also he's very social and very charming, easily could've charmed his way into a well-to-do party (although the Dekarios family is a decently well off clan in my opinion.)

Also left his wife and three kids vague in case anyone wants to be Ga.le's in-law

[botanikos]

Adding to my rp wishlist and/or verses later: AU where Stolas is a Sinner & works in the sex industry with/like Angel. And yes, they are best friends. How did you know?

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✧ The Ardal stars ✧

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[tewwor]

oh .... what a tired fella. who's going to tuck him into bed? or at least get him on a couch before he collapses?

[prim3dsins]

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