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@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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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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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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We watched the finale of Star Wars: The Bad Batch and it's so fucking good.

What did make me laugh is Tarkin makes a brief appearance (not gonna count that as a spoiler because it's without context) and it just reminds me of an exchange in the Thrawn novel were Thrawn intimidates an entire group of pirates by talking about his "close personal friend" Tarkin and after they cave his friend asks him if the Moff is really like that and Thrawn casually replies "I have no idea, never met the man."

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For the second time in as many days I just had an NPC reach over, grab the steering wheel and say "LMAO" at my plans for them.

And now we're doing the writing equivalent of donuts in the parking lot.

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Bull. Shit.

Even the criminals are trying to spin everything as AI now.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/01/metro/apple-store-crash-faulty-ai-car-equipment/

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Is "AI did it" going to become the 21st century version of the Twinkie defense?

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TL;DR if you run into a pay wall is this guy ran his vehicle into the front of the Apple store that's next door to the Barnes & Noble where I used to work and killed someone.

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Oh my God. So I thought I had a digital EMS rounds meeting today at 9am and spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out what the issue was on my computer and then only after I pinged our supervisor did I realize the date is actually May 30th not the 1st.

He hasn't responded yet so hopefully he just writes me off as an idiot and ignores it.

At least I didn't bring it up in the (same time every day) daily meeting. In which case the entire department would have seen what an idiot I am.

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At least I didn't bring it up in the (same time every day) daily meeting. In which case the entire department would have seen what an idiot I am.

To be clear I am laughing uproariously at this but it's also a nightmare social anxiety situation.

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And in my case I'm sitting here looking at my bottle of buspar and saying "Wow this stuff works great! I'm barely even mortified!"

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Grabbing lunch, about to shove a tuna melt into my mouth, and across the diner I hear "There’s only two genders" from a pair of old men at the counter.

sigh I was having a nice time...

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Sadly as far as improvised weapons go, best I can do is a ketchup bottle and not even one of the glass ones. It's plastic so it won't even shatter on one of their heads in a satisfying manner.

(For legal reasons this is a joke, the sentiment very much is not)

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It's also colder in here than I expected and the one thing I actually had was my EMT jacket which not only gives my employer but also my last name.

So things would probably go poorly for me if I went up and started accosting these two guys while wearing part of my official uniform.

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It's so fun writing certain characters because I might have an idea of what they're like but as soon as I actually start writing them they turn out to be different.

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And oh shit, it just happened again.

Thinking about Alan's background I know what his father was like (complete asshole) but nothing about his mother, because Alan himself doesn't remember anything about her.

But I have already written her. She's Elisa Bertoni, the proprietor of The Cosmopolis Club, a high-class gathering place for the city's elite. But her real name is Sonia Delcroix, and shew as forced to fake her death to escape from Aldar Ray.

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It seems faking your death runs in the family, and Sonia meant to take Alan with her but at the last minute wasn't able to, much to her eternal regret. But when she met her son many years later when he came to Martira Bay she meant to tell him who she really was but missed her chance again, and now believes him to be dead after the reports came out.

Ooh this is juicy.

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