@isamajor @scribeprotra @saemi-the-dreamer @cloudydaysomewhere since you liked that post, come read about my druid with zero social skills!
Context: my Moon druid Ailes du Sud (=Wings of the South) is a Tabaxi who loves birds, wandering, and doing as he pleases. A bit unhinged, very perceptive but as blunt as a barbarian's club.
Act I : Making friends with kids thanks to hags
We are relatively early in the campaign. Our party wandered into a cursed forest (as one does) and at some point we got captured by a hag coven who locked us into cages.
Ailes woke up first, and among many things, he noticed in another cage a little grey-skinned, golden-eyed tiefling girl.
Now, Ailes is a bit of a dick, but he doesn't like seeing ANYONE into cages. So as our group manages to escape, he gets the kid out and makes her flee outside while we fight; we survive, and we take the kid with us as we leave. Ailes bonds with the kid, and while his methods are slightly questionable, he starts mentoring her in survival (climbing trees, etc).
Oh, and tiefling girl suddenly used magical fire at some point. Nothing to worry about I'm sure. All in all, Ailes and the kid have a good relationship.
Act II : meeting the (mafia) Family
After a while, we reach Tiefling Girl's hometown: a wretched hive torn apart by cinflicting gangs, with four Families ruling most of the business.
We find out the girl is closely related to the boss of one of these Families (she's the daughter of the boss's cousin). We bring her home, and Mafia Boss (also a grey-skinned tiefling with golden eyes) is very glad to see her niece again. She provides us with some favors, answers our questions, all in all is pretty grateful.
While we stay here, Ailes comes back to see the kid once or twice, and learns that her mom is on a away mission for the Family (as an assassin), and of course her daughter misses her, especially with the nightmares she's having since the hag incident.
Ailes then promises her to look for her mom and to keep in touch.
...incidentally, right before leaving town, we attacked, robbed and torched down a huge warehouse belonging to a rival Family, and we might have angered several other factions.
We still good with Tiefling Mafia Boss and her niece, though.
Act III : How I Found Your Mother
Fast forward to much later in the campaign.
We have traveled to the neighbouring kingdom and we're currently on our way to another one : we stop by a town to resupply and get intel. As both kingdoms are currently at war, tensions are high, crime is on the rise and guards are plentiful and vigilant.
Ailes wanders in town and amuses himself spotting and following suspicious people, which leads him to a hide-out. On a whim, he comes back with the party's rogue in tow, both as help and back-up.
Turning into a bug, Ailes sneaks into the hide out, only occupied by what the DM describes as "a female tiefling with grey skin and golden eyes, cleaning a rifle."
Ailes.
Freaks.
Out.
There's still a slight chance it might not be the right person though, so Ailes and the rogue decide to pick the lock and confront politely the person.
And here's where things get funny.
Picking the lock : critical failure. A guard gets suspicious, we waste time convincing him we mean no harm, and in the end when we enter, the tiefling is hiding, and we both fail to check AND convince her we're not a threat.
And then she runs away.
And the rogue.
Shoots at her.
"Just to scare her into stopping, not to hurt her!"
It doesn't work.
And that's where we ended the session : chasing after an assassin we tried to befriend in the middle of a city full of tense guards and criminal activity.
Ailes would say "2 out of 3 ! I had worse hunting days !"
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Ever died and had your soul bartered for TWICE, then dropped in your friend's weird cousin who doubles as a Luxon Beacon?
What about just chilling kind of unaware in there until someone casts Telepathic Bond and now hey! You can talk to your friend and her companions (you know one, at least) now but uuuuhhhhh now you're Awake and in a rather plain room...
Anyway now I have TWO PCs in play sometimes, thanks @thisiswhyidonthaveatumblr
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