The Spire in the Rift

26.09., an adult allegedly, pronouns are whatever is funniest for the bit, my art tag is adozensart formerly yanara126 and adozentothedawn

[flintnap]

Links to other relevant profiles of mine

Everything for your reading pleasure (on Tumblr) here!

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Now with a bluesky and Pillowfort as well (although I am barely using them for now).

For the season, here's my artfight!

And here the blog page with a list of my ocs, for your perusing pleasure.^^ Always feel free to ask about any of them please, with game or not.

[flintnap]

The first scheme of future Darth Revan and Darth Malak.

Or: Pov, you're a Jedi creche master and you're realizing that the next decade and a bit is going to be very, very long.

For the record, this does have a story. They are six years old and met and befriended each other like a week ago. They go out to a pond in the temple gardens and Revan very dramatically announces they have to show Alek something and steps up to the pond, only to then get zapped with a force vision and they just fall face first into the water. Alek meanwhile is very concerned and confused because his new friend just went "I need to show you something" and then just keeled over, so he's not sure if that was part of what they wanted to show him (it wasn't, it was frogs. they wanted to show him some cool frogs. And maybe tell him that Vander eats those.), but he does end up, smartly, deciding to pull them out. They're fine, but Revan is forbidden from going near the pond for like a year until the Masters are satisfied they can shield well enough to at least be able to not accidentally drown.

[laelish]

It stayed hypothetical for about two hours. 🙃

[bimmyjimmy]

i’m taking him away

[flintnap]

IT'S TIME FOR THE FIRST SHOT HAHA @herearedragons

Don't turn around Drakona, but don't worry.

[seadwelliz]

the pickest guy in the universe

[laelish]

Early Mandalorian Wars Revan and Malak. Revan's outfit is based loosely off of this one from the comics.

Since Scout actually has their memories, I figured I should go back and flesh out the toxic bestie situation a bit before we reach the Leviathan.

[flintnap]

WAS NO ONE GOING TO TELL ME YOU CAN DO DESCRIPTIONS FOR THE CONNECTIONS ON ARTFIGHT

[redbean-nom]

not formally doing artfight but here's a revan for @flintnap!

[bryndza]

I can't color thighs for shit but whatever

[walkerwing]

[bimmyjimmy]

he is suspicious of my jimmy shaped yarn

[flintnap]

btw, just to illustrate how much my Revan was dancing the line between light side and dark side, i got the light side robes on the star forge, said one mean thing, and then wasn't allowed to wear them for the final fight.

[flintnap]

Tomorrow: artfight. Be very afraid my friends MUHAHAHA

[capn-twitchery]

i almost never mention it but it's crucial to me that grace & twitch are both aroace & whatever the hell they have going on together isn't romantic & never will be

twitch doesn't really have any feelings about being aroace-they just Are! they've never felt the need to be anything else. grace is a lot more conflicted, from being raised in an environment that expected his future to involve marriage & children. he didn't want it, and he felt like there had to be something wrong with him because of it. the future was Terrifying as someone who couldn't follow that path

both of their feelings about it are so important to me and it's even More important to me that they both find happiness & a future in eachother & whatever their relationship is, outside of what they're "supposed" to do & feel (even if it is a goddamn trainwreck at the best of times)

[backpack-mug]

finally posting a beautiful artfight attack from last year by Glass-of-Sunshine <3

HE'S SO AWESOME

[herearedragons]

Rat Heist GM Notes

as promised: here they are!

if you were in the oneshot or read Flint's writeup, you'll notice how badly we went off script almost immediately. that's because I planned for a more stealth/skill check-oriented playstyle and my beautiful players ended up leaning way more towards RP and got the NPCs they were supposed to avoid on their side. which, to be fair, made for a really fun story. I have no complaints.

I'm a little sad we didn't get to do a Grand Foiling of the rival team, but that's ok because we hit one of the other parts I was really excited for: hacking the Correspondence door using (fully improv'd by the players!) Touching Love Stories. I started really struggling to keep focus by the time we got there because I had to make decisions on a Bunch of unexpected things at once, but the players did so good on that that it literally revived me. I caught the vibe of oh okay. this is a story about love and connection, actually (as every story in London is), so the resolution of this is going to hinge on the fact that the party has befriended Sunny and also that none of them but the Commander actually want the honey.

funnily enough, even with the going off script, we still hit most of the player-specific story beats.

also funnily enough, I ended up having the rival group pull the "make the other party believe we'd already entered so they open the door for us" trick on the main party rather than the other way around, the Revolutionary having messed with the door to make it seem as though it had been unlocked once already.

fellow GMs: you are very welcome to use this! this was written with specifically Drakona Lore and my player group in mind, but I'd love to know if anyone ends up taking inspiration or recycling specific parts of this for their own game. please. tell me. together we can create more rat crime.

thank you @viric-dreams @joshbii @backpack-mug @t6fs and @adozentothedawn for playing!!! also shoutout to @capn-twitchery, who had to drop out of the oneshot last minute due to The Sun being absolutely evil, but was a part of All Of This coming together! and THANK YOU to @curiouslavellan for helping me write this thing and also contributing writing for Iffy's bedroom description and letter to Sunny