LARP and such

I LARP, play PnP RPGs and other such things. This is just a space to ramble on about the things I like. I started LARPing with Amtgard and have done a handful of other games.

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Heartfelt and Monstrous

Have you ever wanted to play a pen-and-paper RPG version of shows like True Blood, Teen Wolf, and the like?

Then Monster Hearts is right up your alley. And to be honest...I wasn’t sure it would be up mine.

But I was pleasantly surprised.

My own involvement with the kind of supernatural dramas like the aforementioned shows was basically The Dresden Files book series and Supernatural show. So when a friend mentioned they were running a small game to help give people some needed distraction with all that is going on (at least at time of writing this) in the world. I was interested, as the ever entertaining Geek & Sundry did a one shot around Valentine’s Day of this. And it was fun to watch. It made me want to play. I even made some tokens to use as an in-game mechanic called Strings (more on that later).

Even though I couldn’t use the tokens I made as it was an online game done via video chat, we formed our little band of disaster teenagers and got started.

And y’all...

This game. It’s so very, very good.

The mechanics are simple: You choose a “Skin”, which is what kind of Monster you are. There are the expected Vampire and Werewolf. There are others that you might not expect: Fae, Ghoul, Witch, and even what is called the Infernal.

After that, you look at that Skin’s sheet, choose some skills and pick an array of attributes. No rolling, no doing small math homework to figure out how well a character can do anything.

And speaking of attributes: There are only 4. Hot, Cold, Volatile, and Dark. Each one will have a positive or negative number, to which you will add your 2d6 (which means 2 6-sided dice in case of any confusion over the abbreviation). If it’s a 7 through 9, it’s a success but might have not been as good as expected or have some small drawback. Below is a failure, but even that is rewarded as that is how you get most of your experience. And if you get 10 or above, you did real good!

The last bit of clerical work before playing usually involves players getting Strings on each other. What is a String? Think of it as a connection to a PC or NPC that can be manipulated for a few different ends. It can boost a roll, or some skills allow you to spend them for a specific effect.Some skills even gain you strings. They are useful, so feel free to find places to get some and don’t be selfish, let other players get some on you.

It means you’ve probably made some spicy choices, and spicy choices can make great stories.

It’s also about monsters making their way through high school, as well as keeping the general public unaware you are not specifically human. So yeah, get out there and make the poorly thought out decisions that most teens do (or at least on TV they do).

Our little group is only 5 people and the ST (Storyteller). A decently sized group, not small but also not too massive for the ST to keep up with.

We have our short but will fite you Fae, the cheerleader captain and Queen, a meme-lord and (sometimes) jerk Witch, the quiet and oddly gentle Werewolf (which is my character), and our last player has phased out their original Infernal for a kickstarter Skin called the Serpentine.

And it has been amazing.

The game system is easy to figure out and all of us have LARP experience so figuring out how each character acts and personalities was second nature to all of us. Which all mixed together for a wondrous thing.

This game, due to the mix of good players, good ST, good mechanics, has kind of become (at least to me) a personal Critical Role. None of us are famous nor voice actors, but we all care about these garbage fire teenagers and the game itself. They each feel like a character in a TV show rather than just a set of numbers and filled in dots on a sheet of paper.

Now, don’t get me wrong: Games that are almost scantron sheets and require decent algebra skills can still be fun, but in this case the minimal number crunching has lead to more times the characters just bounce of off each other rather than just seeing who has a higher number.

There was a recent session where our ST just kind of sat back and watched us for about an hour. 60 minutes. We were just bouncing off of each other. Back and forth, no prompting, no rolls- NONE! We just got on a roll and kept going.

And it was amazing!

THAT is something that sometimes gets lost in the number-heavy games. 5e D&D is much lighter in numbers but sometimes a player falls back on “Well my [something] is [value] so....”. And that kind of kills any pacing the RP might have had.

And our ST is amazing. She won’t just let us run ham on things, there are boundaries both in content and rules. But she has let us get away with things some skills maybe weren’t explicitly designed for. For example: My own character is a Werewolf. One of the Skin’s skills is called “Heighten Senses”. It allows me to get information in a kind of primal way in regards to a set of specific questions (which are listed on the skill), but I’ve used it to try and find things and we even have a kind of non-mechanical thing that he has an increased sense of hearing and smell all the time.

Which is hilarious as he has to walk passed that one kid in class who seems to think showering is just dousing himself in Axe body spray. And we run with it. He holds his breath as he walks by most of the time, if any one was wondering how he went by without gagging.

Like any game, a great group can make or break the experience. And in this case, it feels like we’ve hit the Critical Role level. We care about these little trash fires and the game itself. We even have a small meta-canon that the game is actually a Netflix show and each session is an episode of the show. We even speculate on how the “fans” of the show would react to things, what kinds of fans would gravitate to which characters, what songs would be used for certain things, all this kind of non-ingame and completely non-mechanical stuff that just brought us so much happiness and hilarity.

I know I’m kind of gushing about this game now, mainly on my own personal experiences with it, but I hope that shows how good this game can be! Check it out if you have the time: The core rules and skins are all free from what I can see, it’s just some of the Kickstarter skins that might not be found easily and all you need are 2 6-sided dice.

So, do you think you could love a monster?

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When you’ve been playing a lot of Bloodborne lately (due to the whole social distancing thing) and might also have a weird idea about a mini/RPG game...

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Small games, small miniatures

There are the big miniatures games that most people have heard of: Warhammer in all it’s variations, Warmachines and Hordes, even things like X-Wing, Star Wars Armada, and Star Wars Legion. And they have their own lines of miniatures to fit the universe and themes of the game.

But what about a game that has no concurrent line of miniatures?

They exist! And are pretty fun. Sometimes called “Miniatures Agnostic” since you can use any miniatures you already have from other games like many of the games mentioned above, but also from like D&D and such. It’s just a rule book with all the stats and scenarios you need to play. All you have to provide are dice and the miniatures you have.

And they have a range of genres. This list is far from all inclusive, just me bringing to the surface some games I know of (my general gaming group tends towards just like Warhammer and D&D/Pathfinder, so I haven’t had a chance to play them sadly).

There are fantasy ones like Frostgrave, Ghost Archipelago, and Rangers of Shadowdeep which are better for the people with a bunch of like D&D minis or just general fantasy miniatures. This is where your dragons and demons and adventurers fit in perfectly since that’s what these games are: romps in various high fantasy worlds for various things along with RPG like mechanics for leveling and getting new abilities and gear. Most of the ones that were mentioned here are a 1v1 event with an AI controlling the monsters. There are possibly ways to do multiplayer, but it’s not specifically built into the rules. What is built in though, is effectively a campaign. Some of the games have actual campaigns to run, others have more of a “match of the week” style where the players just make up their own goals and story to fill in the space connecting scenario to scenario. Which could be more fun than the pre-written ones.

Sci-fi/cyberpunk gets some love too, the one that springs to mind is Reality’s Edge. Players get to basically play Shadowrun with miniatures: Corrupt corporations, drones, cybernetic enhancements, and sticking it to the corrupt corporations. And the hilarious part: while the game intends you to use more sci-fi minis (robots, cyborgs, modern looking average people), you don’t have to. If you have a massive collection of D&D minis, you can use those as stand ins for whatever you need: Need a corporate guard? Use a skeleton. Need a scrappy fighter? Use that rogue mini that has been collecting dust on the shelf. Anything goes so long as the players agree and can remember what is what.

Which is fantastic.

And for the horror or post-apocalyptic/zombie fans, there are games that work there too. Last Days is a zombie game in much the same vein as like The Walking Dead and those kind of zombie survival. And it just had an expansion for weather, thirst, hunger, and such as well as more character types and scenarios. Zona Alfa is a very new game which is closer to games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Metro: Last Light/2033 and that breed of game. I don’t know of any specifically horror ones, which is not surprising since I’m not an expert but they probably exist in some degree. Horror is hard to do in miniatures. I might have to do some more digging in that regards and add some info later.

But for any of these games, even if you print off things almost paper doll style and use them, that will work. The games don’t care.

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Testing the Play

I recently had the chance to participate in a very early playtest of a LARP some friends of mine are putting together. In some ways it was that they had the code for it written, and wanted to make sure it would work as intended.

And as a participant, it felt like it went well. It has some very solid bones and even what other fluff was currently there was good too. It was primarily a combat test, making sure certain skills would work the way they wanted and I think they even found some combinations that they didn’t think of.

And in some of my ruminations, as some one not super into the combat side (the class that resonated the most with me was called Ritemaster), I noticed there was some juicy combinations that are great for story/character moments.

The combination I am thinking of is 2 additions to the Ritemaster class: Bargainer and... well, crud, I forgot the actual name of the thing, but it gives access to a skill called Benediction.

Bargainer allows the Ritemaster to bother accept and give an in-game non-monetary currency to/from other players. Which can’t happen otherwise. Which could mean the difference for a character getting back up in a fight or going to the after-death sequence of events.

Then there is Benediction. Which after a brief basically eulogy, the dead player gets a special phrase they can use when going to the after-death sequence. What exactly that does is yet to be seen. This game is still super early in it’s development.

But....like, think about that interaction.

Another character is effectively dying on the side of a battle. The Ritemaster comes over. Offers a second chance (or third, or fourth, etc) or...to meet this games incarnation of death with effectively support.

That just feels...impactful. Which is awesome.

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Random thing #Q

The Druid has been seen talking to the Bard, about something.

Next time a fight starts outdoors, the Druid leads with: I am a Druid, I speak for the creatures and trees Keep this shit up and I’ll break your fucking knees Then looks at the Bard as if to say “Did I do that right?”

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Zombie Squad

I have a fascination with small squad skirmish games. Partly because the idea of trying to convince friends to invest a not insubstantial amount of funds into something like Warhammer isn’t one I relish... ‘cause we’re all low on funds enough that sometimes eating and paying bills is all we can do but also because some of those games can take a ton of time to set up.

One that has been in my radar before and has resurfaced is one called Last Days, created by Ash Barker of Guerilla Miniatures Gaming. He’s done batreps of it and his squad.

The cliff notes version is there is an unspecified zombie apocalypse and you have your leader and their band of friends/comrades/cronies to survive the fall of humanity. There is squad management, finding resources and base management.

Which are all things I like.

The thing that has really made it resurface for me was an IRL friend created a LARP called BREACH. Which is based on the SCP database of information. In watching all the Last Days batreps on YouTube again (this makes like 4 or 5 times...), my brain starting drawing connecting lines.

And after sending myself the PDF of the rule book I had bought so I could look it over at work, I built a crew.

The general idea of them is similar to an SCP organization or possibly an Umbrella Corporation type group. Security/Private military band that was sent in to stem the flow of undead and try and collect samples for the over arching group to study. For Reasons.

For this I chose to have a group of people that have the “Trained” keyword as that fit best with the idea I was having. Except one. To have some sort of medic I have one with the “Selfless” keyword.

There are 2 things I am having a hard time with, though, none of which are rules or mechanics.

Firstly, is names. I always have a hard time coming up with names for characters. In this case, I’m going with call signs/code names. Out of the 5 members of the squad, I have 2 names. The leader kind of came to mind as this was a person already in the area and reported the happens and the others were sent in as support. As such, he has the designation of Watcher. Another that seemed appropriate is the SWAT classification member who has an ability called Entry Man. Basically, they kick down doors. As such, Breacher became what they are called. Sadly I don’t think there are actual breaching charges nor any sort of explosive that can open a wall, so can’t go all in on that, but still.

The rest.... I have no idea. What I do know is that calling the medic “Doc” or “Mercy” is right out. Those are too over done for my taste. I might poll some people I know who are decent at this kind of thing and get some ideas.

The other thing that I’m running into is that it’s oddly hard to find a miniature that fits what is in my head. Most of the ones I’m finding are either like exact duplicates of modern military, which sort of works, or they are super sci-fi and go a bit too far off the idea I’m going with. Even some SWAT and police miniatures don’t quite fit the look I’m going for.

What is in my head is kind of like Hunk from Resident Evil and some of the characters from Operation Racoon City. Armored but not in power armor, helmets that cover faces, and various military looking weapons.

I’m going to keep digging though, I might be able to find something. Hopefully.

We’ll see.

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Shifting Sands

There is a long running, like over 3 years long, Pathfinder campaign a friend of my has been running. There have been breaks to prevent GM burnout and we are getting back into it.

And I’m pretty excited to getting back to my character there. Not that I dislike the one I’m playing in the current campaign; Tiberious is all sorts of fun.

But...

Saral is, simply because he has been around longer, a little more complex at the moment. His motives are equal parts selfish and altruistic. He wants to get back at the man who betrayed him, who sent him to an insane asylum to rot (this is the Strange Aeons campaign), and is now trying to bring about effectively the end of the world.

So, this black furred Catfolk Rogue sees that he is owed recompense with interest. And he intends to do just that.

But that’s not specifically the person who was initially involved with the Big Bad. The way the campaign works is the GM kind of has “secret” backgrounds that he assigns to each player (and that make sense). For poor Saral sam Ank’harel, it was he worked for the Big Bad. He was not a Good person. And the amnesia that hits all the characters at the very start basically did a brain wipe and allowed for the current Saral to be born.

He is oddly the moral compass of the party. Most of the party is more concerned with their own ends and health, even a “lawman” (A gunslinger in the party who is basically playing a Texas Ranger type of character). He has been the one to leave gold for the downtrodden, has gone off alone to find some one who was effectively surrounded in a barn. He will go into places the others are discussing, partly because he is stupid sneaky, but it’s the right thing to do.

The original him wouldn’t have done that. He probably would have killed some of the party in their sleep by now.

As it is, I’m putting together an in-character letter that would be sent to his mother at the end of the adventure path. And I hope it will be taken well by the other players.

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From some of the blogs I follow, there had been 2 short comics about the young Yharnam girl you talk to before fighting Gascoigne in Bloodborne. And so with my 3D printer, I kind of merged 2 different sources to make this. Didn’t quite get it lined up, which is mildly annoying, but I now know kind of how to do it.

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A Break in the Silence

Mostly because I just decided to post here instead of....one of the other various social type media websites.

Recently bought Dead by Daylight (In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a bit behind on these things)  and I have had fun playing it.

Though I find playing the killers that suit me as a person to be frustrating to play.

And have had more fun playing as a survivor.

I have seen as both killer and survivor people d/c (disconnect) when being put on the hook for the first time. Let alone the second or third time.

Getting hooked sucks, no doubt, but to just d/c because you didn’t get to do ~something~? That’s not fun for anyone. And could possibly make things harder for the other players.

Sure it might not count towards perks some killers have where if you have X survivors dead/hooked then certain things happen, but that also means it doesn’t count towards the hatch spawning.

Which does suck. Because it makes it feel like the person who d/c’d is saying “If I can’t win, no one on my ‘team’ will win”.

Maybe I just don’t have the personality that sees that as the viable option when I’m hooked. I have legit had matches were I spawn in, move towards the nearest generator and... less than a minute later, I’m on a hook. And I just go “Well, either I will be unhooked or I will just queue in for another match”.

But like I said, that’s me. I an not competitive. Like at all. Seeing rankings or general “These people are better than you” doesn’t get me moving. I play to have fun. And fun for me is trying my best to get generators done, healing people as I can, and if I happen to escape, even better.

TL;DR: D/Cing because you loose feels stupid to me. But that’s my opinion *shrug*

Also, thus far Jake Park and Kate Denson have been the main survivors for me.

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Brief Legend of the Five Rings Thought

At least in so far as a mechanic.

In many card games, a unique card is essentially a one of a kind. While in something like Magic: The Gathering, you can play another Legendary (the term used for a “unique” card) after your previous one has left the board, or even play a new one to remove the old one for whatever reason, L5R does something different.

Should you draw multiples of a clan champion, let’s say as they are unique, instead of it kind of being a dead draw so to speak; You can use that duplicate to get more out of your champion.

This comes from another mechanic in L5R. That being where when you spend Fate, the general currency for playing cards, you can opt to add more Fate to a card to keep it around for multiple turns. A duplicate of a unique allows you to add Fate to that character with out spending any more of it. You simple spend an action during play and boom, more fate.

You can combine the two parts and spend more Fate then next action add another Fate to enable a possibly powerful character around for multiple rounds.

I think this is actually really useful and cool as opposed to “Well, I now have another Legendary in my hand....wish it was X”.

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Somethings new!

Recently I had the chance to go to a gaming/LARP convention called DEXCON in Morristown, NJ. It was all sorts of fun.

Of the various things I did, 2 new games were among them: Breach and Incandescent War.

Breach is a horror LARP based on the SCP wiki. The players make up a mobile task force. Not a strike team, this is basically a mobile location with full staff to deal with all sorts of crazy things happening. There are classes and they each do different things which is nice. I chose to be an Arcane Researcher named Arthur Crowley (no relation). We dealt with various SCPs and even some other events that aren’t specifically in the wiki. Due to the convention format, it did feel a little stunted, but there is the possibility of it running full day things in a non-convention format (Not a full weekend, because it’s meant to be a high stress game, so doing 3 days of it would be... exhausting to say the least). Which is exciting. You only have 3 health and all weapons do 1 damage, so yeah, keep an eye out for getting hit. As of right now I don’t know too much about the mechanics on death, but I can figure it will be just as crazy as the source material. Which is awesome.

The other one was fun for different reasons.

Incandescent War uses ASL words (I want to specifically note it’s the words not the grammar, it won’t teach you to 100% sign but it might spark some interest and that is a good thing) to cast spells. The words themselves aren’t spells. You use the words to make a simple sentence to bring about what you want. For example, the first “spell” we learned was “I BURN YOU”. Fairly straight forward idea. There is an extra mechanic here though. Every player has a mana pool of sorts called Will. 30 Will/player actually. And each word costs 3 will to use until such a time as you have mastered it, at which point it costs 1. This one really felt like it wanted to be a full weekend event LARP, which I hope it does. Because I feel like there it will really find it’s feet and do some amazing things because the magic is as complex as the player wants it to be. Want to just burn things and do more around burning things? Sure, go for it! You want to focus on healing and beneficial effects? Do it up! Summoning is a little more of an RP point as it’s hard in any LARP to easily represent a summoned thing, but still, it’s something that could eventually be done!

I really hope to see more of these games not only at future conventions but also on their own. These are both seedlings and will need players attention to really grow into things that will just be amazing. I know my follower base is kind of eclectic and I don’t know where people are, but if you are not super far away from Morristown, NJ keep an eye out for not only DEXCON but also DREAMATION as that is the sibling con to DEXCON. Give these games some love and watch them grow into amazing avenues to tell awesome stories!

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What lurks in the depths...

In watching what GW is doing with things, there is an army coming out that is actually making me pause in getting any Age of Sigmar things until there are units in production for them: The Idoneth Deepkin.

Thus far, I like the lore of them and the reveals of their special rules seems actually kind of neat and does have a nice flow to it.

What I would love would be not only the actual release of the faction but a “Start Collecting” option. Because it’s a little cheaper to have that than getting individual things. Upon release there may or may not be enough in the forces to make it worth while to GW, though. Which is kind of sad.

I’m still looking forward to them. Even if I don’t know too many local people that play AoS :/

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I decided, on a friend and much better painter than me, to get some Leadbelcher paint. And it has done work. My Adeptus Mechanicus minis have been looking so much better with that actual metallic look to them.  As of right now, I am going through the whole army and adding this and some black to round out the color scheme. So now, Archmagos UZEB is completely ready for battle. BASK IN THE GLOW OF THE OMNISSIAH!

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Decided to do something kind of fancy. Because I remembered I have a digital SLR camera, a macro lens, a tripod, photoshop, and a certain level of skill with all of those. This is an Tech-priest Dominus of the Adeptus Mechanicus from the Warhammer 40k universe. More machine than flesh, they command the Adeptus Mechanicus forces with strict logic.

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Ecological “Research”

I have been playing a good deal of Monster Hunter World and have been loving it so far.

What’s even more fun, is that it does take certain aspects of ecology and even biology into account.

For example, there is a clear predator/prey relationship in most of the biomes you end up in. Most of the big monsters you hunt are predators and even then, they are tiered. Some will clash and fight each other over territory, others will whimper and try and run away from another, better predator. Which is cool.

One other thing, and this only shows up as far as I can tell with one “species”. That is the pairing of Rathian and Rathalos monsters. These, from what I understand are the same exact species, but one is the male and one is the female of this particular species. Which I think is kind of awesome.

Allow me to explain why, even though I’m not a biologist.

Rathian is the female variant and is a simple green coloration. You typically run into it in areas that have heavy forestation. Then there is the Rathalos. It’s a bright fire red. And a little bigger. And a little meaner. With patterns on the underside of it’s wings. Which makes biological sense as in many species of creature (mammals, reptiles, birds) the male has the brighter colors and are typically more aggressive. Where as the female has coloration to blend in and while not “demure” in any sense, is not as aggressive.

Which makes the world you play in for this game feel just a little bit more plausible.

I have not fought a Rathalos yet, though I do believe that is on the docket so to speak. I have fought, and slain, a Rathian. And I look forward to going toe-to-talon with the big red Rathalos. That will be a hunt to remember.

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Useless Magic Device

I have a Rogue in a Pathfinder game who is trained in Use Magic Device (UMD) and I started to read over the skill a bit more as it’s not something I have had to deal with a great deal in my gaming career.

And I am now sad.

Especially since we now have a wizard in the group who can make scrolls of invisibility.

This Catfolk Rogue has an INT score of 10. Which is a problem.

Invisibility being a second level spell needs an INT of 12 to caste. In this case I would need to emulate that score. The way to emulate an INT/CHA/WIS score is with a UMD check -15. So for my feline, the math would be (1d20+8)-15. So to get a 12, at least, I would need to roll... *ticks off fingers* a 19? Minimum?...

(19+8)-15...27-15...Yeah, that would be what I would need.

So there is that part of the equation effectively out of the question.

Next comes the actual use of the scroll.

Right, for those who don’t know, this is a 2 step process. Emulate the needed score then actually use the damn thing.

In this case, it would be a UMD check of 20+spell level. So a DC of 22. With a +8 of UMD, I would need to roll a 14 on 1d20.

Should I meet all those state criteria...I could caste invisibility on myself. But if I can’t emulate the needed INT score, I can’t. At all.

Which means that scrolls and the like are all but useless to this rogue.

He’s still sneaky as all get out, level 5 and a +23 to stealth and able to take 10 on stealth checks isn’t bad. But...the extra utility of a nice scroll of like invisibility or dimension door would be nice.

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Colorful names

In a new episode of “I have a hard time falling asleep”, I was thinking about naming of some siblings for a LARP character I have for a game called Bright Story.

6 of them. So 7 kids total.

It’s not as easy as one might thing. Because it wasn’t just random names.

I had a purpose with all the names. As I did choosing my own characters name.

My character’s name is Forest. He is the middle child. 3 older and 3 younger siblings.

Each one is representative of something. Which you normally see in a wheel.

Colors.

Forest represents green and tends to wear that color as much as possible and/or prominently. And when one writes out the typical acronym for the colors of the rainbow, ROYGBIV; green is dead center.

He’s an art teacher, so being calm and collected is a beneficial thing.

So that also leaves all the other colors of the wheel. Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Indigo, and Violet.

Spoiler alert on which one is the same as the color. Because I could not for the life of me think of anything else.

So, the idea was to come up with names that are representative/related to their color.

Red wasn’t super hard, though I had thought of a name and it kept escaping me when I was trying to remember. Their name is Carmen. Being the representative of red in this family is the oldest sibling and is also the most outgoing. Red tends to be the color of passion and all that jazz. And on the downside, this sibling is also impulsive and can be just as quick to anger as they are to be warm and loving. An active member of the family, and loves all forms of dance. Samba, salsa, ballet, ballroom, all of it. Any of it.

Oh, right. Also each sibling has a little bit of an artistic focus.

Anyway, the next sibling was harder. Because orange is not a common color in...well, a lot. It tends to be a color used by grocery stores and places that deal in food as it’s been known to instill a little bit more hunger in people. To be fair, most warm colors do that, but orange is the one that is used for that the most. Less impulsive and a little more level than the elder Carmen, but still has a warm personality. And quite the cook. Even likes watching cooking shows.

Next is Jaune. Which is literally the French word for yellow. Because I couldn’t think of anything else. Definitely the optimist of the group, but also the most consistently sickly of the siblings. As they were not really able to do a lot of physical things, music became their focus. Favoring strings, but woodwinds, brass, all of it. Percussion tends to be what they do the least, as the exertion can be a bit much for them. Still, despite it all, most of the others will reach out to Jaune when in a slump just because of the upbeat nature of their personality.

Going to skip over Forest, ‘cause that’s me. And I can do that.

Beatrix represents blue. The sibling who, if you want something done, go to them. Dependable, loyal, but can be a bit of a downer. Cool and very even tempered. Poetry is their forte. Free form, haiku, iambic pentameter, all of it. They have self published some small pamphlets of poetry, sold at small coffee shops and the like.

Ivan, the name for the indigo sibling. Probably the most pompous and showy of the siblings, even compared to Carmen. Can be seen as cold and aloof, but generally a nice person. Writing, novellas and creative works are where they focus. Most of their works live online on places like Tumblr, ironically.

Violet is the last sibling. The youngest. As such are a little spoiled, as parents and even all the other siblings dote on them a little. Regal and maybe a little cold, still able to make friends. They absolutely love sculpture. Additive, subtractive, even a little bit of welding. Colored clays like Sculpey and the like are their favorites, though.

And that’s it. In writing all this down, I also started to think about what kit, or class, each one was. That will be another time as that will require more thought.