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athena_rose922

@athena_rose922@mstdn.social

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

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athena_rose922, to random
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Setting up what will most likely end up happening next week in D&D as the players stumble upon what's really happening in this church.

They've found a nascent God who is trying to come into existence.

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And I asked my roommate what a vial of vampire blood would do if you drank it because I came up with the players finding one on the spot and hadn't actually decided what it does.

I decided with his feedback that if you drink it all at once and drop to 0 HP you become a ghoul, but if you drink it over time you become a vampire spawn.

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The way I see it is if a vampire has enthralled you they might gift this to you and tell you you're their favorite or something (I can't view vampire human relationships as anything but abusive) and so they tell you that you can use this in an emergency but actually it just brings you back as an undead.

I also considered having the blood vial be connected to the overall scheme the bad guy has but I think it's more just a personal thing.

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And the reason he's placed the body the way he has is he wants this God who doesn't quite exist to inhabit her body which he sees as bringing her back.

It won't actually be her because her soul is trapped in Alcio Metus' sword, but he either doesn't know or doesn't care about that.

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One thing I've been playing with is the idea that in Ravenloft the nature of reality is a bit malleable so if enough people believe in this God it will start to exist.

Same thing with Alanik Ray's arch enemy Adam Worth, who is actually a fictional character but since enough people believe he exists he has started appearing in places.

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And the players have expressed an interest in going to the scene of the final battle Ray supposedly had with this guy so I like the idea that he'll be a phantom who occasionally shifts into who was actually there. Mainly Alcio Metus.

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In universe Adam Worth is somebody Arthur Sedgewick came up with to have an overarching villain for the stories he wrote and to take the place of people he didn't want to identify in case they retaliated.

Also a bit of a meta joke as Adam Worth was the real life criminal that James Moriarty was supposedly based on. So if you're keeping track that means my Adam worth is a fictional character based on a fictional character who was based on the real Adam Worth.

athena_rose922, to random
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So I brought shorts to change into after work because my work pants are horrible in this heat. And I felt self-conscious for a minute because I realized I forgot to shave my legs but then I was like "you know what fuck it I'm gonna walk around with Wookie legs and nobody can stop me!"

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I'm begging us, as a society, to stop putting lavender in food

athena_rose922,
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@ElleGray I'm allergic to it so I have to be careful. Never ingested it but I don't think it would be a pleasant experience.

athena_rose922, to random
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Lady at Whole Foods had a petition to put RFK Jr on the ballot. Are you fucking kidding me.

athena_rose922, to random
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The people who are always like "my body knows best" when it comes to health stuff crack me up. Like, my body spontaneously decided that the deodorant I had been using for years was suddenly bad for me so I broke out in hives after using it. My body is fucking stupid.

I feel like a good metaphor is the immune system is like an overly reactive guard dog. Yeah, the dog is going to bark if somebody's trying to break into the house, but it also hates our neighbor Craig for no particular reason.

athena_rose922, to random
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This isn't remotely new but when I send a request to get unsubscribed for email ads for a company I bought something from once and they pull the "we're sad to see you go 😢" I'm just like "Fuck off I didn't want these in the first place."

That always make a point to uncheck the box that says "receive our newsletter and offer emails" but they send it to me anyway.

athena_rose922, to random
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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."

athena_rose922, to random
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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/

athena_rose922, to random
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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.

athena_rose922,
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Which is going to lead to this.

athena_rose922, to random
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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.

athena_rose922, to random
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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)

athena_rose922,
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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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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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