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hauntthebodies · 2 years

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ooo are you ok with describing what campaigns you’re in now? or what your characters are??

Sure! I adore them all. To be honest tho I just started playing again, so I’m not too familiar with the groups I’m playing with atm lol putting under a readmore bc this got kinda long

First one is a character I’ve had a long time and have commissions for, but no one would ever let me play him because he’s a very interesting looking tiefling that was inspired by the oni tieflings the artist kbearart created. His name is Maverick (:

Currently playing him in a call of the netherdeep module. He is a tiefling monk, born under the cursed moon or whatever and bc of it he looks, well! Interesting to say the least! He was born to a drow mom, but never knew his father or anything about him, and his mother died fairly young so he became self sufficient pretty young. Due to the fact most people treated him as an ill omen due to his birthday and bc he is like 6’5” man thing with raptor feet, he is bad at interacting with people. He’s motivated mostly by greed and his own survival, and right now he is so angry at the pretty boy drow in the party that is sooooo good at everything. He could have been that, he was supposed to be like that. What the fuck.

Art done by kbearart, bc if I’m making a character inspired by their design I’m going to pay them!!!!

Second one is my Satyr Bard, Canary. I don’t have any paid art of him, but I did use this funky little picrew to get a visual idea for him. He’s a college of lore bard from a fairly noble family. Except he’s the second son, the not so popular son, the disappointment to the family son. So he kinda just, took off to make more of a name for himself and he makes money by traveling and painting pretty things (: he joined a random party and is regretting it immensely. He’s surrounded by straight people and doesn’t know what to do, they keep getting eloped in the middle of the night and teleporting him random places ):

Third is a character I just started getting to play, but their race, class and background was already predetermined. They are a yuan-ti bloodhunter, who was steeped well into the strict militant lifestyle of their culture. They met a girl who was kind to them when they were like 14, and they didn’t understand what that was at first, but then started to see flaws within their peoples way of life and decided to leave when they turned like 18 and graduated yuan-ti military school Basically? They are emotionally stunted bc they’ve never felt concern except for when they met her, and kinda adopted her name as their own when leaving. But hey, they look cool at least. She goes by Corra but I’m already planning on transing their gender throughout the campaign bc lost adults learning who they are is so fun to mess around with. We are only level one but I plan on going order of mutagen I want to be a Witcher. Technically, they are lying about who they are and what they can do, so I’m excited to be like (: no I’m not a snake person my great grandad just fucked a dragon or whatever I’m a half elf dragonic sorcerer ignore the sword-

#ask #anon #maverick is a mess #canary is a bisexual mess and really hates that people keep just teleporting like it’s no big deal #bro ur body is being turned into like particles or what’re #Corra I’m a lil on the fence about Corra but I’m just a bit on the fence at the campaign in general #not if #dungeons and dragons

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captainofthetidesbreath · 2 years

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RIP Roshan, you little funky apparently orcish-drow man. You were great. 😔

Congrats on being one of a handful of Dynasty characters we know are DEAD dead, I guess.

#CR spoilers #Critical Role things #Tales of Exandria spoilers #The Bright Queen spoilers #Wednesday spoilers #CR

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eve-is-obsessed · 2 years

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everything I know about critical role campaign 2 (I have not watched it)

hi! I'm a new Critter who as of now has not watched any of campaign 2 aside from random clips in compilations and shit, but thanks to The Internet and also my friends, I know some things now. so before I start watching c2, here is all the stuff I know about it!!

I realized I knew a lot less about c1 than I thought (post here), but I definitely have more c2 knowledge so let's go

here there be spoilers!!! for the whole campaign!!! are they all CORRECT spoilers? probably not. but I do not know! be careful!

player characters

Jester Lavorre is my beloved and she’s played by Laura Bailey. she’s a blue tiefling cleric who worships a god called the Traveler, who I think is just a dude in a cloak who started a cult. I thought she was like 12 but apparently she’s actually an adult, weird. she does sendings that are very funny, and I mimic her horribly every single day bc her voice fills me w joy. she’s from Nicodranus (do I know what or where that is? nope!) she's rich but had a shitty family, and her mom is apparently the best lay ever? not sure what that's about. also I think her spiritual weapon is some sort of baked good bc she really likes them?

Beauregard Lionett, Marisha's character, is the definition of hot monk shit. she is gay and sexy and buff and represses emotions like no one's business. despite my deep love for her, I actually know very little about her backstory or literally anything she does. I do know the important thing though, which is Lesbian.

Yasha Nydoorin is Ashley's character and she's a fallen aasimar barbarian. I pronounce her last name like the Pokemon Nidoran because I have no clue how it's supposed to be. she wears badass makeup but it also might be tattoos or just her skin patterning? also she has skeletal wings sometimes but then through the Power of Love they heal. and she's very buff. she is in loooove with Beau and very shy and awkward. OH she has a dead wife who someone killed because homophobia or something, and she really likes flowers and doesn't know where her wife is buried so she can't bring her flowers :'(

Mollymauk Last Name Here is a funky purple tiefling, Taliesin's first character. he has cool ass clothing and he is so gay. magic??? he is flamboyant and maybe a fuckboi and then he dies in like episode 20. rip. he's friends with Yasha and I think was in a circus.

Caduceus Clay is Taliesin's second character. he's a pink firbolg and he likes tea and I want him to hug me. he worships... somebody... because he's a cleric and heals people. I think he's aroace confirmed? "help, it's again" is the only scene I've seen with him in it.

Caleb Widogast (?) is Liam's human wizard and his last name sounds like a Pokemon. my roommate is obsessed with this man, which makes sense because he is an angsty gay guy. German, apparently doesn’t eat? I am worried for him. he has a cat named Frumpkin and a boyfriend named Essek eventually. he has fire magic and killed his whole family. rip. OH ALSO he grew up in the Empire and was part of a gay polycule???

Nott the Brave/ Veth is Sam's character, and she's a goblin. I do not know if she's 7 years old or a mother, but it's one of those two. also I think she was a different race originally but got turned into a goblin and also hates goblins and also is an alcoholic. sure.

Keg (is that really her name?) is a guest character. she’s a dwarf? and a lesbian and has the hots for Beau. mood.

Fjord ??? I straight up forgot about this man. he's a green guy played by Travis, maybe a half-orc? and he's a pirate. warlock. does he have a last name??

non player characters

Essek is Caleb’s boyyyyfriend and he’s a purple drow. I think he starts off bad and betrays the party but over time becomes good or something. he can float and is hot!

Zuala I don't think actually shows up but she's Yasha's dead wife. [sobs forever]

Marion Lavorre is Jester's mom and she's a red tiefling who I'm pretty sure is a prostitute?

The Gentleman is apparently Jester's DAD and every time they sent him a message, I thought they were speaking to multiple gentlemen but it turns out it's just one.

Astrid I-don't-know-her-last-name is connected to Caleb somehow. I think she's also a wizard and has tattoos but I know nothing else

plot points

Jester almost gets her hands cut off, but then she persuades the hand-cutter to eat a blueberry cupcake and then casts Modify Memory and avoids getting her hands cut off

Keg and Beau have sex

Jester helps Yasha write a poem for Beau and I have the whole thing memorized

at one point, Fjord, Jester and Yasha got kidnapped but it was because their respective cast members were all gone. I think this is when Keg came in to help the rest of the party find them

clearly I have a very good grasp on the plot of this show /s

that's all folks! vox machina post here :)

#critical role #cr2 #mighty nein

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varianthumanwizard · 3 years

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Critical Role Campaign 3 Character Predictions

I have no way of predicting what happens in these peoples heads, but this is just what I would love to see them try playing:

Laura Bailey- I think that Laura deserves to get to play the Rogue she's always dreamed of, but she's also the type of person who loves some spells, so either a race with some innate spellcasting like an Aasimar or Genasi or a subclass that gives her funky options, like a Soul Knife or an Arcane Trickster

Travis Willingham- Travis is often the secret mastermind behind the teams plans, so it could be fun seeing him play up his intelligence a bit more. I think playing an Artificer or a Bloodhunter would let him scratch that melee itch, while bumping up his Int. Race wise, I just wanna see Travis play something small, so maybe a nice Halfling or a Gnome

Liam O'Brien- I do not care what this man plays so long as it is happy! But in all seriousness, I would love to see Liam play a Charisma heavy character, specifically a Sorcerer or even a Bard, maybe as a Tiefling as a spirtual twin to a wonderful little Trickster cleric.

Sam Riegel- Cleric. Cleric Cleric Cleric Cleric. Not only would it be amazing to see Sam play a high Wisdom character after playing two pretty low wis characters. Additionally, Sam kills with spells and has never really played a divine character so I think that would be neat. In the opposite of Travis, I want Sam to play something big, so maybe a Firbolg, Goliath, or even Minotaur

Marisha Ray- I've been seeing a lot of people throwing around Paladin, and I can see it! Gets melee, a bit of healing, and a lot of damage, as well as being able to do things that no one should be capable of (How do you have a +4 to all saves? Dope Paladin Shit!) To compliment paladin maybe bring in something with inate spellcasting and charisma, so maybe a Triton, Tiefling, or even a Drow!

Ashley Johnson- Yasha has had heart eyes for Beau since day one, but Ashley's been eyeing that Monk class for just as long. I think Ashley really enjoys playing a martial character, but with a monk she'd get to flex those muscles while creating all kinds of shenanigans, especially if she picks Mercy Monk to compliment the melee with osme sick healing. Personally I'd like to see her play a Warforged, kind of the opposite of an Aasimar as it's created completely from mortal invention rather than the power of a god.

Taliesin Jaffe- The man, the myth, the legend, what can't he do! Honestly I've adored every kind of character Taliesin has come up with, but I'd love to see him play another full caster, maybe focusing on more of a blaster role as a Wizard. I think it's be neat for Talesin to play a smaller race like a Dwarf, but a Halfling or Goblin could be just as fun.

Suprise Bonus Character under the cut!

Mica Burton- Okay we have no official rumor that Mica might be joining campaign 3, but I heard someone mention it and I can't get it out of my head. I personally loved her as Reani and I think that if they wanted to expand the table she'd be a great addition. I think she's great in melee but she also appreciates some creativity and magic to throw in, so maybe a Gloomstalker Ranger or a maybe a Wild Magic Barbarian. A Pallid Elf would also be really cool to see if it continues in Exandria, and I'd love to learn more about them from Matt!

#Critical Role #Critical Role Campaign 3 #Laura Bailey #Travis Willingham #liam o'brien #sam riegel #marisha ray #ashley johnson #taliesin jaffe #mica burton #CR

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mariuslepual · 3 years

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today on absolutely no one asked me: my own c3 predictions that I literally made rn on the spot

marisha: female fire genasi sorcerer

listen. listen. she said on multiple occasions she missed spells. let her have all the spells and all the wild shit that comes with them. not sure about subclass. genasi are hot as fuck, particularly the fire ones.

laura: female elf wild magic barbarian

let laura go feral but also random and give her trancing she was so envious of. I know she enjoys monks but I don't think she'd like how little damage they usually do. she loved aeor wild magic. give her wild magic all the time. it's what she deserves.

ashley: male tabaxi monk

I think she'd fit well in a class with no complicated spells and math. just dope monk shit 24/7. throw in a funky race for flavour. also a guy bc why not and idk i feel like she'd pull off a genderbend best of the three ladies.

travis: female dwarf eldritch knight fighter

listen. the ceo of critical role needs a melee class to kick ass paired with a strong, bulky race. he also deserves some dope arcane spark and a chance to show off his tactics and planning. also i might have recently seen that halloween ep in c1 when he dressed up as a slutty barmaid.

taliesin: nonbinary drow warlock

taliesin please give me another character to base my entire gender on. bonus points for they/them pronouns. and come on guys. let him fully embrace the dark side. tbh I'd prefer the fiend over the dark old one just bc of the abilities but I won't complain. or maybe some neat homebrew?

liam: male gnomish druid

ok so I know a cleric is everyone's bet. but listen. this man fell in love with keyleth of the air ashari so it's only fair he finally followed in her footsteps. gnome bc small. let him be little. tiny. also while I love his female characters I don't think he'd commit to an entire campaign of playing a woman. don't worry he'll still be bi and angsty. also I'm thinking some of the newer subclasses, like maybe circle of the stars. also he still could heal and express his love for his friends and turn into animals.

sam: male tiefling cleric

GIVE ME CLERIC SAM OR GIVE ME DEATH also fuck it he'll be the one to milticlass into paladin this time around. tiefling bc why the fuck not. it's sam. also I want another tiefling in the campaign. also like infernal blood plus religious character can make for some interesting secret sam angst plot twist

#critical role

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unbridledartist · 3 years

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The OC list

Not Necessarily in order of my most well loved characters:

Zero!

This boy is my arcane trickster that just wants to be a wizard! He really doesn’t like the rain and his reversible clothes to make thieving easier~

Attien!

Funky elf boy of questionable ethics. As I have said before he is a mage, he practices necromancy to a probably very unhealthy degree. His familiar is a snake called Iris. He has no practical skills unless it is done with magic. Extremely over-dramatic.

Zachary is a Mage trying to not be a mage and failing

He is a character I have created for my fiction Of Blood and Bodies, that takes place in the Dragon Age universe! @livjnoodles drew him for me~ <3

He is a mess and a mage and trying really hard not to get attached to people for a lot of reasons. I am sorry this is super vague. He is scared of horses and spiders though! He also kinda works as a mercenary and odd job doer extraordinaire.

Art by liv!

Story found here

Chi

I have had this character for years, since grade 9, I think, and that would have made me 13-14 and I am 26 turning 27 at the time of making this post, how fun. She has gone threw a lot of changes since then.

Roman Blackwall

MY NERD AND HOW I MET LIV! He loves books, was a half vampire and had a Thrush familiar that could shape change into a deep gnome, named Carrion. Roman was the only true neutral person in the party and it led to some interesting occasions of “why are you doing that?!” because murder hobos.

Bonus @livjnoodles Drawing of him~

Del

My first ever d&d character who will forever hold a special place in my heart. He was a draconic sorcerer~

I do not have any art of him, i never really drew him...

Corlin Tyrell

I love my little lord boy! He is a teenage mess though soooo fun times. He is for a game of thrones game that I tentatively play right now because of Anxiety. Liv drew him for me though~ <3

Art again by liv~

Gabriel Rossi

My dude is for a story that was written back in my first year off college because I was stressed AF and needed an outlet. He is for the KHR story and i am proud to say I am re-writing this story ^.^ Story found here

Also Zachary but not the Mage

This guy is for a game called Cosmic Patrol XD gosh it's fun to play. Very loose, very silly. He is a tech guru and made a super computer at 8 and a ship engine to go with it!

Larp Characters because these count:

Coal AKA Birds

This was a character that I played in larp called Dystopia Rising for a while before it became too expensive to go. He was my big soft boy that could eat people and did in fact eat eyeballs on more than one occasion. Also organized tea times while at games with him it was fun.

Doctor Maxwell

Also for Dystopia Rising, I was finding Birds to be to warm *his costume required full skin coverage* So I started to play this strapping man. He is technically a sentient undead. >.> but also a MD doctor!

I have also had characters for Vampire the Masquerade and Werewolf the Apocalypse! I do not remember their names…

The old but maybe i should go back to:

Jessie

Back in the day I watched naruto…. She exists and needs a new name and stuff because let's be honest this is weeb trash. I do however still like her character design.

Other OC’s that exist but I have no real attachment to anymore:

Grimselit

A golem that is also a mime

Immeral

My former drow bard. He was a cause of a lot of anxiety so I stopped playing him. Not a fun time. Though in the time that I did play him I did learn a lot about Fake It Till You Make It. Though Immeral as a character is horrible.

No art for him

Sanya Alexieve

A pathfinder monk that i can’t even remember what he was for. He was a snake man of some kind

nadda no art

Imal

A ifrit fire dancer! He was fun to play and had a really cool tattoo

#ALL THE OC'S #OCs #oc #oc's #art #here they are #I have more i am sure #i just forget they exist #d&d #pathfinder #larp #dystopia rising #Naruto #KHR #katekyo hitman reborn #Reborn #game of thrones #dragon age

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purralyth · 4 years

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How have things been going with Chariot and crew? Maybe I missed some things, but it feels like it's been awhile since I last heard of their shenanigans! Has the gf been helping out? Any crisises? (In the world around them or emotional?) What is the DEALIO I am ready to hear it!

haHAHAHA i’ll be honest i don’t talk much about their emotional/world crises because they are happening All the time. our dm wants to see us suffer. but let’s have a small summary shall we, i’m actually going to put this one under a read more bc we’ve done That Much

so first things first, the gang got shunted into the feywild, i talked about that much. that’s where we picked up our lovely little tiefling monk Fuarthas (Silence, back then) from his awful hag grandmother rosie, found chariot’s masked mom, and then got taunted by a fey demigod in his Hell Maze and he proposed to fuarthas and now they’re engaged because he’s a warlock now it’s fun shit. anyway. we get back to toril with the crew (and chariot’s masked mom’s ship, lovingly dubbed Eri’s Chariot after her daughter and her dead boytoy, that we thought we might have to leave behind) and we find out that in the MAYBE month-long period we’ve been in the feywilds, 2.5 years have gone by on toril. meteors have fallen from the sky, which is now a permanent blood red, people are chanting at these meteors embedded in the city like possessed cultists who attack anyone that threatens to take them out, and the worms coming out of the meteors are like kind of sort of turning people undead?? it’s messed up. Cool Stuff. but chariot’s aunt mom Serenity and uncle dad Patience opened up an orphanage so that’s cool

So we got some magic tattoos in some downtime (Chariot got 2, one on the back of her neck that lets her understand Undercommon, and another on her chest that gives her a free use of Mage Armour per day) and met up with some new NPCs, one of which is traveling with us now as our cleric-fighter and is dating(??) our big tiddy big heart half-orc barbarian Lockjaw, and left our aasimar monk’s kickass wife behind to run her tavern bc she’s expecting. we go to look at some funky stuff going down in the town cemetary. first thing we do is go see erran, our moon elf friend we took into the feywild and hates us now for it, and he takes us into this portal and shows us this weird temple thing his supervisor or something had just discovered. there’s these murals on the walls of meteors striking the earth, and a flood, and some figures sailing on a ship through the sky, and then 7(?) figures, that like kind of seem like Us but not quite on par, so fun stuff, and these two HUGE statues in the main chamber. somebody presses a button and this fantasy Alexa bitch floats down from the ceiling and is like oh shit presences detected. and starts listing these titles, like Sufferer, and Guardian, and Exceptional, and then locks onto jia and is like ABERRATION DETECTED FUCK THOSE SHITS and tries to kill her so she has to run. basically without making this too long we find out that we (chariot, frazier, lockjaw, fuarthas, and frazier’s daughter) are descendants of some ancient heroes that saved the world once, and we grave rob just a little and get some cool magic items, and there’s this prophecy that we’ll stop the apocalypse or something?????? shit’s wack. we go back out to see jia and chariot’s trying real hard to cover for her but she’s like well i cant rly hide it anymore. hey guys i have an illithid tadpole In my brain and it didn’t develop so now i’m also part of a separate prophecy that i’ll wipe out all the illithid. but look at this i can float but chariot and i did some research and the only way to not have it be a problem anymore is to destroy my skull and then resurrect me. so that’s a lot of fun!!!!!

still in that cemetary, we find a trail of meteor worms. follow them into a secret passage that leads to the lair of Sunshine, masked mom’s dead assistant that chariot one-shot, but it turns out she’s a necromancer! she kicks our asses to unconsciousness even after chariot polymorphed into a t-rex and sells us to Neogi in the underdark, which if you don’t know what they are, google them, they’re fucked up spider giraffe eels that are evil incarnate and basically were slave trading us & psychically torturing Jia the whole way!! which made chariot throw cantrip after cantrip at them to try to hurt them so they just mind-control enslaved her over and over so that’s fucked her up good :)

we get sold to some drow after a week. beefy boys were sent to work manual labour til they die, and the rest of us were set to be sacrificed to Lolth, so we go haha we have to get out of here asap. chariot disguise selfs into a drow guard (a man bc i was very stupid) and gets caught 2 seconds out the door by a cleric of lolth, who sets up some mix between a dick appointment and an ass kicking for later bc chariot didn’t like. idk acknowledge her. fuck drow. she and fuarthas (who she was pretending to transport) skedaddle into a side chamber and a drow guard captain comes in. she goes to beat up fuarthas so chariot attacks her and a wild magic pops off and they fall mutually head over heels in love and lust with each other, which is MESSY. chariot convinces her to help round the gang up, but everywhere they look everyone’s gone missing (frazier and lockjaw got into a fight down at the manual labour camp and jia turned into a fish and shrieked so she’s gone) so chariot ends up wined and dined and tries desperately not to let this drow captain Do Her and does not take a long rest bc she has to stay awake and make sure this woman doesn’t wake up and see she’s not actually Erran the Drow Guard. but when everyone wakes up a shadow dragon is attacking this drow camp. cool. yes. awesome. fantastic. hell breaks loose, chariot and zarra (the drow captain) find frazier and jia in a stairwell, zarra kisses chariot goodbye and runs off to do stuff after a hefty persuasion check, jia gets Understandably Angry, we run like hell to find our magic items they bought with us and get the hell out of dodge With Lockjaw’s new orc army he’s recruited and the drow dude we found that’s a part of Frazier’s old order. shadow dragon finds us, holy shit she’s frazier’s adopted mom, she offers us a ride back while chariot very desperately tries to tell jia she doesn’t know what’s going on and why zarra kissed her and why she feels like this (she didn’t know it was a charm !!) and generally feeling Very Shitty. we get to frazier’s old monastery and the charm wears off, chariot and jia have a very long talk and chariot breaks a couple times, chariot steals a bottle of wine to try and feel better, she gets in shit for it and frazier takes the fall, he gets whipped as a punishment which just breaks chariot even more, she puts herself on house arrest for a full week, jia finally starts talking to her again 3 days into that, they do some drugs, chariot makes a deal with shadow dragon mama to split the cost of a teleportation circle and the gang blows up at her but she’s like nah it’s cool. at this point she is using her +9 deception to pretend she didn’t just break for a whole week and nothing happened and she’s totally good now guys dont even worry about it.

side tangent from All That, we go to deal with a giant problem for the monastery and there’s corpses strung up with the symbols on chariot’s palm all over. lots of combat yadda yadda, trap one giant in a room and ask her questions through the door, get some cool insight on chariot’s magics that she still has no idea how it works. turns out there’s a third queen of the feywilds, the queen of night and magic if i remember correctly, and she was shunned for her beauty and her and all of her subjects were made to be ugly and misshapen or some messed up stuff. chariots like oh fuck we were just there and no one said shit about a queen that apparently everyone hates that she has the symbols for on her Hands and honestly on her cape as well half the time. but ok cool that’s some new info sweet.

jia’s still guilting chariot for kissing zarra (even though it was a CHEEK KISS and she didn’t do it) because chariot’s been feeling awful that jia got into a romantic relationship (WITH FRAZIER’S DAUGHTER WHO JOINED JIA’S CULT, FUNNY ENOUGH) on her like 10 month leave bc she assumed she’d never get to see chariot again, but that’s a whole can of worms. lots of emotional fuckage though, chariot feels even worse that that happened bc jia hadn’t even been charmed, etc etc etc. but she’s never gonna say any of it bc she’s terrified jia will leave a second time and bringing any of that up might be what triggers it So!

we get told the neogi are selling slaves to jia’s old god, Ool’zakgothool the Aboleth who has been the Big Bad since like session 3-5, so we need to go stop that shit so we can go take down this aboleth and get frazier’s daughter back. but first we have literally no money bc we got sold and had all our shit stolen so we have to sell the like 700lbs of elven armour and weaponry we stole from a navy outpost place thing in the feywild. so we get to solve a little murder mystery in a gnome town so that’s fun. go back to the monastery, pick up some stuff, get some cool magic items made by our new artificer friend Jokk who’s part of the same prophecy we are, and head out again to fuck up these neogi. but on the way jia suddenly sprints ahead and gets like hug tackled by 5 kids who she apparently raised in her cult, and we get lead back to the marketplace where we plan on staking out the neogi and following back to their camp, but uh oh there’s 100 cultists here who swarm us and there’s some midsommar shit and we just fight the neogi right then and there and that’s basically where we’re picking up now. they enslaved lockjaw who oneshot chariot bc she’s a weak little bitch so jia kicked him in the ribs it was fun. and now we’re holding the elf that threatened to cut chariot’s tail off from our Neogi Cage Days hostage to tell us where the shiny gold head hauncho went bc he dimension doored out while chariot was paralyzed and couldn’t counterspell and we want him Dead. to be continued

#akitheshinigamia #ask #chariot #THANK YOU #WE'VE DONE SO MUCH THIS ISN'T EVEN THE HALF OF SHIT #I'M SURE I MISSED A COUPLE THINGS

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peachiree-archive · 5 years

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Art piece for a friend!

He plays in a game I dm on saturdays and this funky little man is his character. A Drow Sorcerer follower of Jehundi god of Death.

#drow #sorcerer #5e #HakenArt

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orangememesicle · 5 years

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zebenaya and harris

Behold my children

Full Name: Zebenaya Arkenrret

Gender and Sexuality: cis lesbian

Pronouns: she/her

Ethnicity/Species: Drow

Birthplace and Birthdate: Underdark, sometime in the winter

Guilty Pleasures: kitschy tourist shops, her newfound home decorating hobby

Phobias: having her mind manipulated, narrow caves, running out of food

What They Would Be Famous For: Holding the best parties

What They Would Get Arrested For: drunk and disorderly conduct, doing something weird while on a bender worthy of a florida man headline

OC You Ship Them With: Jokingly with @thehomosexualistagenda‘s tiefling rogue

OC Most Likely To Murder Them: her mother

Favorite Movie/Book Genre: adventure

Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: love at first sight

Talents and/or Powers: She’s a paladin of Lolth, and has the typical 5e paladin spells as well as some illusion spells my DM homebrewed for her.

Why Someone Might Love Them: She’s playful, cheerful, energetic, sociable, and very driven when she wants to be. She’s dedicated to living life to the fullest because she knows she’s lucky to be alive, and she tries to push past the ingrained cynicism she grew up with and find ways to be optimistic and hopeful. She’s deeply loyal to her friends, and in general a pretty nice person trying to put her life back together after trauma.

Why Someone Might Hate Them: She’s A Lot. She’s impulsive, doesn’t think anything through, and is an absolute pest to the other party members. Her moral system, while strong, is wonky as hell, and she’s only now learning to look at others as real people rather than just toys for her to play with. She believes that everyone’s just a product of circumstance, and doesn’t get why certain things (betrayal, some kinds of murder) are wrong if you have a good reason for them. Sometimes falls into old patterns of manipulation.

How They Change: She’s starting to open up to her fellow party members and move forward. Developing strong friendships. Planning on her to become less afraid of her past and more adapted to the world around her.

Why You Love Them: I’ve played her since I was seventeen, and it’s been really fun to develop her over the years. I created her as something of an answer to edgelord-y “evil race” tropes, but she ended up turning into the most complex character I’ve ever created. I’m never bored when I’m playing her, and she lets my more extroverted impulsive side out. She’s my sketchy ray of sunshine and I love her.

Full Name: Harris

Gender and Sexuality: cis gay man

Pronouns: he/him

Ethnicity/Species: human

Birthplace and Birthdate: January 27 1913

Guilty Pleasures: eating competitions, parkour (or the fantasy world equivalent of it)

Phobias: drowning, hurricanes/tropical storms, losing control of his atmos (magic taken from the atmosphere of the planet)

What They Would Be Famous For: Inventing his world’s first radio

What They Would Get Arrested For: accidentally setting someone’s house on fire during one of his dumb experiments

OC You Ship Them With: I’m planning on giving him a monster boyfriend somewhere down the line. (Working on that OC)

OC Most Likely To Murder Them: His adopted sister Nicola, accidentally, while challenging him to something dumb like a cliff jumping competition. Any character daring him to do anything dangerous, really.

Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Space operas

Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: trite, overdramatic “please don’t leave me!” death scenes with big “NO”’s in them.

Talents and/or Powers: His atmos. He draws his power from the atmosphere and weather, and can channel that into creating magical energy that he usually uses to power his funky, pointless little inventions but occasionally uses for fighting.

Why Someone Might Love Them: pragmatic and smart as hell. He takes absolutely no shit from anyone, and will use that ability to defend people he loves who have less of a backbone. He’s the friend you go to when you need someone to tell you to get your shit together, the kind of person who’ll yell at you to take a shower and get off your ass and do something with your life. Serious to an almost comical degree, even when he’s doing something ridiculous like shove an entire hot dog in his mouth as once. He aggressively cares about people, even though he pretends he doesn’t, and will do anything to protect his sister.

Why Someone Might Hate Them: He’s just… so insecure, and on so many layers of irony it can be kind of obnoxious for the people around him. He has a pessimistic streak a mile wide, and that can push him into missing important opportunities.

How They Change: I’m planning on him becoming more open about who he is as a person, and learning to actually like things and care about people without pretending he’s so unaffected. I plan on him becoming less afraid of his powers and less afraid of himself, and have him become less uptight and more confident in himself.

Why You Love Them: New son! I love how he’s the “straight man” of a comedic duo who’s actually goofy and quirky as hell, his loyalty towards Nicola, and his intensity and strong personality.

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BLAST TO THE PAST: Reviewing the UK Top 40 from 27th May, 1981

I’mma try something different.

Top 10

So, steady at the top spot is the classic “Stand and Deliver” by Adam and the Ants, the first of the six consecutive non-moving songs. Yep, that’s right, the top ten was just as stagnant in 1981 as it is in 2018. Joy.

“You Drive Me Crazy” by Shakin’ Stevens is not shaking up at all, still at the runner-up spot from last week.

Now here’s something interesting: Starsound. They were a Dutch cover band who had extreme success covering pop songs in little disco melodies, one of which, “Stars on 45” is at number-three here.

At number-four, we have “Chequered Love” by Kim Wilde.

At number-five, we have “Ossie’s Dream (Spurs are on the Way to Wembley)” by Chas & Dave and... the Tottenham-Hotspur 1981 FA Cup finals squad. Football fever was really alive in the 80s, huh?

We also have “Swords of a Thousand Men” by Tenpole Tudor staying in the sixth spot.

Jumping up 16 spots, however, is number-seven, Smokey Robinson’s “Being with You”.

That pulled off REO Speedwagon’s “Keep on Loving You” from its prior space as it ventures down to number-eight.

Also up back into the top 10 is “I Want to be Free” by Toyah, up four spaces to number-nine.

And finally, we have “Bette Davis Eyes” by Kim Carnes, still at number-ten.

Climbers

We do have a few big climbers this week, with “How ‘bout Us” by Champaign leaping 17 spaces up to #11, as well as “Don’t Let it Pass You By” / “Don’t Slow Down” by UB40 going up 19 spots to #17, with “Ain’t No Stopping” by Enigma up 15 spots to #18. “Chariots of Fire” by Vangelis is up nine spots to #25, also, but we do have quite a few fallers as well.

Fallers

“Grey Day” by Madness is down seven spots to #15, as is “When He Shines” by Sheena Easton to #19. “Chi Mai (Theme from Life and Times of David Lloyd George)” has landed 11 spaces down to #20, while “Al No Corrida (I-No-Ko-Ree-Da)” by Quincy Jones is down eight to #22, “Making Your Mind Up” by Bucks Fizz is down 10 to #26, the Killers Live EP by Thin Lizzy is down eight to #27, “Only Crying” by Keith Marshall is down 12 to #29, “Drowing” / “All Out to Get You” by the Beat is down six to #31, “Is Vic There?” by Department S is down seven to #33, “Can’t Get Enough of You” by Eddy Grant is down 11 to #35, “Can You Feel It” by the Jacksons is down 12 to #39 and “Good Thing Going (We’ve Got a Good Thing Going)” by Sugar Minott is down 11 to #40.

Dropouts

Okay, so, obviously, we have limited info on these charts. We don’t know all of the songs that dropped out, however we do have some of them. These include “Attention to Me” by the Nolans from #20, “Bermuda Triangle” by Barry Manilow from #30, “Is that Love” by Squeeze from #40, “Muscle Bound” / “Glow” by Spandau Ballet from #22, “Pocket Calculator” by Kraftwerk from #39, “Don’t Break My Heart Again” by Whitesnake from #31 and “Night Games” by Graham Bonnet from #33. The reason for this absolute massacre in the fallers and dropouts has an easy culprit: the avalanche of new (and maybe returning – again, we don’t know) entries to the top 40, which we will start to review right now.

NEW ARRIVALS (and/or returning entries)

#34 – “Just the Two of Us” – Grover Washington, Jr.

Yep, you read that right – this is the absolute classic “Just the Two of Us”, the intimate funky jazz track that will have much more of a legacy than its Will Smith remake. Just listen to that iconic lead-in piano melody and that delightful strumming of the guitar, providing a perfect backdrop for Washington’s deeper falsetto croon, definitely a lot more stable than a lot of his competitors at the time. Then that beautiful, borderline iconic hook comes in, with that strong bassline and at the final chorus, a choir and some damn impressive cowbell – seriously, can these be used more often? Before the song ends, we have a fantastic climax with choir vocals and a steadily increasing speed pattern in the drums all being the assistance to a grand saxophone solo. The best thing about this track is that despite how sensual it may sound, it is not about sex at all. It is instead about true love, and how there’s no point in being sad or crying. Nothing will come out of it in the end, and if you persevere, you could make anything work. “Just the two of us, we can make it if we try.” I’d say I recommend this, but you’ve heard this.

#32 – “Spellbound” – Siouxsie and the Banshees

A lot of the songs in this new series will be ones I’ve never actually heard before, or have only passively heard once or twice, so it’s nice that I get to hear artists I’ve always heard about but never really sat down and listened to, one of which would be Siouxsie and the Banshees, female-lead post-punk group formed in the late 70s. Now, I love my classic alternative rock, so you’d imagine I’d be all over this, right?

Yes, yes, I am. What, did you think that was a fake out? I love this guitar riff, especially when it’s surrounded by the haunting synths and a... tambourine from the sounds of it, before Siouxsie starts to sing excellently in the intro, prior to a sudden kick to a more upbeat track, with some great strumming and a steady, albeit blocky, drum beat that Siouxsie rides on excellently. Not to mention how catchy and surprisingly rushed the whole thing is, with its abrupt ending. Did it deserve to get the Banshees’ guitarist into Mojo’s 100 greatest guitarists of all time list, like it did? Hell, yes, the guitar work is absolutely fantastic here. Great track, that will probably be in rotation for me for a long time. You could say I’m spellbound by how I’ve been missing out on them... yeah, sorry.

#30 – “Let’s Jump the Broomstick” – Coast to Coast

So, “Let’s Jump the Broomstick” has been performed by many people, and I don’t care for any of the others here. Will British group act Coast to Coast finally show me how well-written this song is and how elegantly-composed... nah, let’s quit the act. I can’t take any song with “broomstick” in the title seriously, in all honesty, and I don’t think anybody else did, because the damn thing’s impossible to find on Spotify. Hence, I had to resort to YouTube, and yeah, this was not worth the effort it needed to find it. It has a solid guitar riff – mostly because it’s a cover – and everyone performs decently except that singer with no range at all, which wouldn’t be needed if he was so obviously trying to impress us. This is a clumsy effort at retreading their last hit, with was also a classic cover. This is just kind of nondescript, actually. Skip it.

#28 – “More than in Love” – Kate Robbins and Beyond

This is a magically smooth song. With its subtle acoustic guitar strumming, gentle synth melodies and grand horn arrangements that make a lovestruck ballad seem so much more full of life than it has any right to be, you can tell that this isn’t just another soppy and soft 80s cheese-fest like the later years in the decade would offer. Nope, with the choir backing up Kate Robbins’ wide range and A-game delivery as well as just perfectly-fitting vocals overall, this is funnily enough effortless in how much more effort it puts in than other pop ballads. Just listen to the synth tones in the bridge while the choir sings your hearts out. It’s a damn good ballad that I did not expect, especially since I don’t know how this Beyond guy is. Is that the choir? If so, that’s a pretty uneven duet, since Robbins runs away with this majestic track.

#24 – “One Day in Your Life” – Michael Jackson

Now, I like soul. I like ballads. I like MJ, he’s one of the greatest period... but, man, this is dreary and boring. Wow, that sure is a Latin-inflected guitar melody and some pretty nice notes being played, with an incredibly uninteresting string-synth – nobody’s being fooled here – backing up Michael here on the weaksauce hook. His performance is okay, but is ridden with problems I have with young Michael, including over-singing and simply not having much natural charisma. I’m pretty sad that this is the first time I talk about the King of Pop on here, saying that his song sucks, but it sure does, so I’m sorry, MJ, but your song’s bad – albeit mostly because of the production. Oh, and it’s also way too long for that matter. This would be nowhere near as bad if chopped in half.

#23 – “Will You?” – Hazel O’Connor

Who? What? Where? When? Why?

Those were the questions I started and ended the song asking, because I’m still unsure if this is monotonous or one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. Those horns and the steady drum beat support the guitar to make a smooth new wave beat with an urban tinge, while O’Connor sings about spilling tea – “oh, silly me”. Apart from questionable lyrics, this is just kind of a bore for all of the five minutes it goes on for, even if it does develop with some interesting instrumentation and hell, experimentation. If this was two minutes, I’d argue it’s a masterpiece, but with an already repetitive hook and beat, it just can’t hold its own. The worst thing is that there’s a perfect place for it to finish at 2:36, but it starts back up again for some ungodly reason. Just... go away, I like the solo but come on, let the song end. We don’t need it to be this long, and I’m surprised that at its length it didn’t flop entirely, but apparently this got a ton of radio play somehow, with all its quirks and lack of normal construction. This may grow on me, but for now, this is a bit of a sleeper that never hits.

#13 – “All Those Years Ago” – George Harrison

This bassline and guitar melody in the intro isn’t really regarded as an iconic moment in music history, but it definitely should be. Those few notes pack a whole lot of punch, especially when packed by that oddly menacing synth, before George Harrison comes in and uses those elements to make a damn catchy song somewhat reminiscent of an 80s take on Beatles psychedelia, with smooth vocals, a keyboard solo and some beautiful choir backing. It experiments quite a lot with off-beat pitch-shifted vocals as well as guitar licks coming out of bloody nowhere, but it makes a great pop tune throughout all of the chaos, perfectly constructing it into a LEGO tower that will never fall – a timeless achievement that will hopefully be recognised as a solo Beatles highlight at some point, because this is one of my personal favourites. Yes, of course, it’s recommended, it’s a classic.

Conclusion

So, Worst of the Week is easy – that goes to “One Day in Your Life” by Micheal Jackson, with Dishonourable Mention for “Let’s Jump the Broomstick” by Coast to Coast. Best of the Week is definitely more difficult though, however I think “All Those Years Ago” by George Harrison pips everything else at the post, with a tied Honourable Mention going to “Spellbound” and “Just the Two of Us”. I have no clue what will happen next time, so Reviewing the Charts tomorrow, I hope. See ya!

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