#Demofre

[pocketbullfinch]

It's 23:10 and i'm here, laying in bed listening to my sleeping partner and building a personality and a backstory for my next dnd character. Will i remember any of this in the morning? Probably not. Will i write any of it down? Don't think so.

But anyway they're nonbinary he/they drow rogue who looks a lot like Howl when he was moving the castle. And he recites poetry (badly, and only in old elvish) and wants to leave the stealing and lies behind.

#i lied... i did write things down just now #drow rogue #another monday campaign #we've almost finished the one demofre is in #don't have a name for this nb boy yet #no-one reads these anyway :p #demofre #dnd 5e #i'm excited!

[pocketbullfinch]

Last Monday we played the last session of the short campaign that Demo was in. 10 sessions, two level-ups, few magical items, two pc deaths (one didn't die, but was teleported back to her family, daughter of a rich and important mage she is, one died as part of a bargain, made a sacrifice to a sea deity, talked her way back and was given three days to make three sacrifices or die properly) and one successful resurrection.

The whole story was supposed to be played in half the time we took. Just had to snoop every corner in a 'fast' dungeon, and spend ages with rp.

Bloody hell the party was (and is) the most chaotic one i've played with. These people can be the most annoying ones (hi blox) and still the funniest and cheeriest as well.

I had a lot of fun, and even if Demofre is fed up with patching up the risktakers, she grew attached to the wild ride they brought her.

Next week we start a new, 1-20 campaign, and if the dm wishes a break we'll revisit Demo and crew's story as one-shots.

#dnd #d&d 5e #demofre #good endings #it's time for #umrae

[pocketbullfinch]

It's official.

My tiefling twilight cleric Demofre is the Mom Friend of the party

She is part of a crime family specialized in antiques and smuggling, and almost became an 'info-collector', fancier and more sophisticated torturer.

Which kinda gives her the guts to stay behind and survive to scrape off whats left of the very chaotic party members and bring them back. Today she shouted from behind a corner 'if you two get cursed, you'll have to wait until tomorrow for removal' while our rogue and fighter went studying a statue. She thinks she's good at her job.

#tiefling #cleric #dnd #5e #d&d 5e #that's who she is #demofre #i feel like a kid again #watching after my siblings #did it hurt? ok is there blood?

[pocketbullfinch]

Spending this late evening writing out some of the backstory for my shadow sorcerer changeling, Rut. 

Normally my backstories are a handful of paragraphs, or aprox one and half pages... this one is already on third page... but then normally the games are not planned to be whole Campaigns going from 1st to 20th lvl... and I may have found the state of mind for writing tonight. Who knows.

#she's so young #Rut #this campaign will be started after we finish one or two of the monday shorts #one of which is supposed to happen next week #it's Demofre's game #I prob should write down what has happened to her during the last 24 hours #she's not totally broken yet #Demofre #sorcerer #changeling #curious to know #if you read this #what kinda backstories do you write for your pcs?

[pocketbullfinch]

Continuation from yesterday evenings character ponderigs, a shadow sorcerer coud be a fun one to play. A bubbly, young changeling, exposed to shadowfell's magics while saving the patrons of her mom's tavern from a weird rift-anomaly opening in the broody corner. A spell gone odd or a just a harmless occurence? Anyway, ever since, she's been both seen as a hero and a freak as no-one normal could've survived without something going wrong in their head.

They don't meet her eyes anymore while placing their orders, afraid of what might look back. 'It's just a matter of time when she will snap and people start disappearing,' they whisper when leaving the tavern.

It is time to leave.

#monday games are fun #having lot of settings and characters but always the same people #dm's mantle is taken by whoever wants #Demofre #Basalt #nb-dude #wonder who she will be #i'm interested to find out #if she lives past 1st and 2nd level that is #yassss 1-20 plans #dnd 5e #changeling #sorcerer #or is it sorceror? #idk

[pocketbullfinch]

We just killed a pc

Monday means a game with Demofre, tiefling cleric whose party is full of reckless people rushing around and making deals. 

In today’s session we were at an auction, where a pirate crew was about to sell an amulet we’re looking for. One of our party was part of the pirates for not that long time, according to her. Our bard has recently joined us, after the players rogue left. We have a few ways to secure the amulet, siding with some richer parties, stealing the amulet, or buying it before the auction for some coin and a tiefling’s horn (not Demo’s) but she doesn’t want to give them the horn. 

The bard gets an idea to talk for a better deal, and asks what the head of pirates wants. He says he’ll give the amulet if we let him drown one of ours. We talk things through, and me being a cleric with revivify and plenty of diamonds, agree that the death would be cheapest option, and the bard is willing to go with it, as long as we make a written, binding agreement. 

So I write down what i think is a waterproof contract. No magic allowed except for 3 named spells, has to be water, the container and the water have to be verified by our party to be normal, there’s a time limit for the act, and our party has to be there supervising and available, and the whole deal can be postponed if someone doesn’t agree on the setup. The contract needs to be understood and confirmed verbally that the participants will adhere to it, under a zone of truth. 

It’s time, the drowning happens, he walks off, the amulet is tossed to us. The revivify doesn’t take hold. It doesn’t work, because the death was a willing sacrifice. Our bards soul has been taken.

#i'm just kicking myself now #should've asked to postpone this to next session so we have time to write a better contract #or just go with any other option #dammit #Demo's going to be broken for a while #she was chastising this player's rogue for not writing contract with a demon earlier #well we did kill the demon #we could've let people buy the amulet and just go after them #we already had an agreement with one of the other parties we'd go with them #heckin' #why didn't she tell us #try to stop us from doing this #dnd #dnd 5e #Demofre #cleric #rogue #bard #tiefling