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A shy nerdy girl with a 45 caliber mouth. Paramedic, DMs Guild author and fandom dinosaur. (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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One of the players is now interacting with Alanik Ray's mother (under her assumed name) so I'm interested to see where it goes.

When Chief Constable Osgul was there I did include the detail of her "accidentally" spilling a drink on his shoes and the players rolled high enough insight to realize that was no accident. From her perspective he's responsible for taking away the son she had only just found again then before she could tell him who she actually was.

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About an hour ago, the sky turned blood red over Bavaria, Germany. It's the first time I've ever seen an in my life. It was so bright to be easily visible with the naked eye. An absolutely jawdropping experience. 🖖😳✨

cc @tagesschau @DLR @dlr_next @stim3on

at 22:29 they got a lot brighter, covering half if the sky; even some green visible at the bottom; another 10s exposure
vertical 10s exposure at 22:37
before fading again, they moved westward in front of the moon, here an 10s exposure at 22:46 showing distinct lines shaped by the magnetic field

athena_rose922,
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@ProjectPhysX @tagesschau @DLR @dlr_next @stim3on I misread this and thought it said "skies turned blood red over Barovia" and thought "Yeah that tracks."

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You can make any headline 50% funnier with the addition of "again."

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/good-news/2024/05/09/parrots-escape-roger-williams-park-zoo-touring-cranston-neighborhood/73625078007/

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The players got to meet the drunk "Paladin" today and it was kind of played for a laugh that he's bragging about how he can suss out any undead within 500 ft of him while an actual undead is standing 25 ft away from him and he has no clue and I think they're all assuming that's just cuz he's an idiot and drunk but it's actually supposed to be a huge hint that he's not actually a paladin.

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He was but the combo of getting cut off from Lathander by the mists and the Amber Temple means he no longer isn't and isn't even an Oathbreaker. And he can't even admit that he's actually a warlock now.

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I also managed to have some of the Constables talk about Alanik Ray a bit and mention that they all 100% believe Osgul was complicit in his "death", since a player gave them a bottle of wine and they were willing to give a bit of the scuttlebutt.

It turns out said wine was also a hallucinogen so the officers are gonna have an interesting time when they crack it open after their shift.

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Which is going to lead to this.

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The players got to meet the drunk "Paladin" today and it was kind of played for a laugh that he's bragging about how he can suss out any undead within 500 ft of him while an actual undead is standing 25 ft away from him and he has no clue. I think they're all assuming that's just cuz he's an idiot and drunk but it's actually supposed to be a huge hint that he's not actually a paladin.

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I just had Irik (aka Azalin, sorta) refer to Strahd von Zarovich as a "brooding egomaniac" after previously making fun of the depiction of him on a coin for having a glower and calling him "miserable bastard."

It's well known by my players that I love clowning on Strahd but I'm trying to hint that his dislike is a little more personal. And indeed the fact that Strahd and Azalin hate each other is one of the better established parts of both of their characters.

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I also always get a kick out of "Immortal and extremely powerful beings fighting like children" and find it very funny.

athena_rose922, to ravenloft
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Someone was complaining about Strahd being "retconned" as not being straight and I was like "Are you sure about that? Because the book this is from this came out in 1991."

(Vampire Of The Mists, an otherwise pretty terrible book)

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Also I had memory holed this but apparently this book was written by a woman.

Which is, uh, disturbing, considering I can only describe parts of it as extremely and uncomfortably rape-y is part of why I was pissed off enough to do my own version of Ana.

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Irik is just straight up Midnight from Arknights now. He's in the new PC's introduction and even has the pink hair streaks.

Hilariously I put up an image of Midnight to demonstrate what he looks like to the players and now they are lusting after him.

Which is incredibly funny considering who he actually is/was. I don't know if they would feel the same way if they knew that was actually Azalin. 😆

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My version is basically the result of Azalin tearing himself apart on a subatomic level so TDP would no longer recognize him as "him" and he could finally get out of Darkon. But he also merged with the ghost of his son Irik (who he killed BTW), so he is basically both of them. And is now in the somewhat awkward position of remembering being both the murderer and the victim.

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He basically considers himself a completely separate person from both Azalin and the original Irik, and the mists also recognize him as a different person from those two.

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Chapter 5 is up, and it's mostly exposition. But I got what I think are some nice character moments in here too.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55347070/chapters/141481474

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I'm still tickled I have Rudolph van Richten, of all people, making a sex joke. It's very much supposed to come off as your dad making a dirty joke and everyone being exasperated.

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Thinking about how one of my favorite moments in Star Wars is one that doesn't actually have any dialogue.

In The Phantom Menace when Qui-Gon and Darth Maul are fighting each other and then get cut off by the laser wall between them there's a great bit as the two are waiting for it to open back up. Qui-Gon just sits down to compose himself while Maul is pacing like a caged tiger and takes a swipe at the laser wall with his lightsaber, which doesn't do anything.

It's a great tiny moment.

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And it also tells us more about these two characters than an entire movie's worth of dialogue ever could.

Honestly if Lucas learned how to lean into moments like that I think he would get less shit for his character writing.

I'm also planning to directly steal that moment with Alcio Metus because Marco's backup plan for dealing with her is to trap himself in a force cage with her. But she knows will almost certainly end in his death but it's going to buy the party some time.

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The funny thing about that spell is the first time I encountered it a player used it, and I thought it was broken as shit because there's no save, and you're basically just stuck if you can't teleport.

But it has its uses and that's exactly why Marco would carry it.

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One of the players in my game I am getting up to speed with some text-based RP before they formally join us next week and I was very excited to be able to bring back since they are playing a Shadar-Kai.

Now in the continuity of games I DM, is officially dead for good. And something that The Raven Queen did when he finally died permanently was scoop his ass up and so now he has to serve her for eternity or however long it takes him to atone. Whichever comes first.

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So there is a scene playing out right now where The Raven Queen is talking to this player character, and I am so tempted to have Strahd himself come in bearing tea, not say anything and just leave. And maybe only drop later who he actually was.

I have to admit this detail is almost entirely because the idea of Strahd being the bitch boy to The Raven Queen for eternity is amusing to me.

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Yeah, I'm going to do it. And at some point maybe have this player character run into somebody who gives a description of Strahd that matches the person they saw and see if they put it together.

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This is the description I used for Strahd.

"From a side door, a human-looking man with long dark hair and severe, angular features approaches carrying a tray. He sets it down at the table, glances briefly at Omyn, and then leaves without a word."

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Now I just have to remember to drop in a painting or a coin or something that has a depiction of Strahd on it later on so the player can put together who that actually was.

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I actually hinted at it earlier in the same conversation where The Raven Queen is describing what happened when she was finally able to get to Barovia.

The "other arrangements" are not just Strahd but also Ireena's spirit guardians consisting of her dad, brothers and now Qadira who didn't want to pass on yet so they can keep protecting her.

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