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still can't stop thinking about Lillian watching as Ser Percival, stabbed in the gut, bleeds on her favor (worn subtly on his belt) while wearing Lady Josephine's (Lillian's former friend) favor prominently on his arm

#goddddd #truths u gave me such a gift with that resolve token #everyone else cheering as percival wins the tourney and (mostly healed) turns to the king and queen #while lillian silently stares at the bloody favor #hit over the head and dumbfounded by how much she actually cares for him #i feel CRAZY #brighthorne gs #lady lillian

Simultaneously plotting ways to make Lillian’s life worse and also planning out her ball in my head

#she simply will never stop being a menace #god I can’t stop turning Lillian and Ser Percival around in my headddd #Brighthorne gs

mumblingsage

Forgot the word 'distraught,' almost described someone as 'emotionally disheveled.'

hachama

Depending on your intended tone, "emotionally disheveled" might be superior.

#somehow this is good society

darling-icarus

new PCs for our second Good Society game! 😘 i'm soooo excited for more Regency shenanigans and romance

Francis is a decorated Knight-Captain on the brink of reluctant retirement. Lillian (@monsterinthemountain) is a freshly titled heiress excited for her first taste of city society. Phillipa (@cityandking) is picking up the pieces of a five year engagement that was abruptly broken off. i love them all so dearly already.

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#finding fun new ways to cause problems every session ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️#I ADORE them #good society #this art is PERFECT

last time i played good society i played an upright little guy who followed Every Rule and this time i really said "here's Lady Lillian Montgomery -- she's new in town and about to be everyone's problem"

#lady lillian #god i adore playing her so much #LET HER CAUSE A SCANDAL #HOW ELSE WILL SHE LEARN #creating her was violence on the other PCs #good society

sometimes a dnd character possesses me outside a session and i am afraid that i simply will not remember anything come time to do something about it -- so i write multiple paragraphs of everything they should say just to get my head in order -- and cross my fingers that i remember anything at all during the session

#all this to say i just wrote four paragraphs for a convo cleo needs to have with [definitely elodie - maybe max if he is Around]#avira campaign

errorschacha

"Do it scared" is out. "Do it in a fugue so dense as to barely be penetrable by uncertainty" is in.

#somehow this is historical birds core

This session bringing such highlights as:

Cleo convo with Thorne Whitemarsh (undead hunter npc) about why she’s not a full cleric -- Thorne: yeah, it rankles - the faceless mother acolytes want everyone to be the same. Cleo: no, that would have been nice I think, I just couldn’t do it.

Thorne: … maybe I should wait out here — they find me unsettling. Cleo: who is that other dog why are we so similar

Max: you only got the one vial of white hair dye???? what are you gonna do when your roots start growing out? — Cleo, who has not thought about this and simply Will Not be using the three extra vials of black hair dye in her pack: (…buffering)

Cleo finding out that max and elodie AREN’T hooking up (despite all evidence to the contrary) in the same conversation where kol and elodie both finally clock Cleo’s crush on max, and also now Thorne ALSO is flirting with max

Cleo’s crush once again being brought up in the morning — truly the most mortifying experience for someone who simply does Not wish to be perceived

#Cleo who has only ever wanted to fit in and not be perceived since leaving watcher’s eye #Cleo who has only ever been laughed at for having Feelings immediately like SO WHAT’S IT TO YOU #avira campaign #Cleo

Historical Birds/Misadventurers party animal lineup:

Flutter (Cleo's familiar)

Crankle (Elodie's Familiar)

Horsey (Max's steed)

three (3) incredibly chill giant mountain goats (Darnielle, Weezer, Goaty)

one (1) incredibly neurotic giant weasel (Spitfire)

one (1) bernese mountain dog that can do flips (name tbd)

#the dog's name is potentially lola misadventurer #or on the other hand lola rations birds #yes we did acquire five very large animals in one session #the dog can also alert us of danger even while asleep #but the fact that she can do flips is actually why we bought her #i have only had this giant weasel for a single session but if anything happens to him i will kill everyone in this room and then myself #avira campaign

darling-icarus

🕯️ an internal haunting

Our druid/paladin Cleo (@monsterinthemountain) recently dyed her hair white, in part to look a bit less like her cousin Sora, who is back from the dead without his soul. They were as close as siblings when they were children but now the resemblance is unsettling for both of them.

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#aaaaAAAAaaaa how did i miss this #this is so fucking perfect #the framing #the way cleo's white hair becomes the shock of sora's white hair #the frame #the embellishments on the frame #the expressions #i love everything about this #avira campaign #cleo #coleoptera tonic

now that cleo's dyed her hair white i can say that the first time she dyed her hair black, it was when she was left home alone for the first time after leaving watcher's eye (3-ish years in at 12 years old), and it was impulsive and genuinely entirely about being an emo "no one understands me" tween

she looked in the mirror, realized how much she looked like sora, and immediately threw up -- but she'd done it and couldn't undo dying her hair such a dark color -- so she dealt with it and avoided mirrors until her parents returned. jumpscared by their daughter looking like their dead niece (daughter), they had an IMMEDIATE negative reaction, and given how their relationship had already deteriorated, cleo dug her heels in and pretended it was intentional. it wasn't really until finding the Faceless Mother that it started to become something a little comforting -- and even that was coping

dying her hair white was both a response to the weirdness of looking like sora (returned from the dead) (uninterested in interacting with cleo), an impulsive need to look Different in response to the guild hall explosion, and trying to shed a weight that she's been carrying for half her life

#it's also a little weird to lose that connection at this point #but she's fully convinced that sora wants nothing to do with her #except that levryn needed her #also she hasn't looked in the mirror and seen HERSELF since she was 12 #genuinely glad that kol had a negative reaction #she wouldn't have known what to do if someone didn't #avira campaign #cleo #coleoptera tonic

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My very first full party art comm, brought to you by the fabulous Egg Bean Bees!

Commed as a gift for their DM @monsterinthemountain, we somehow managed to keep it all a surprise for many months and I’m so glad we pulled it all off. Special thanks to Oriel @behind-the-sense for indulging my many, many updates at all hours of the day and night and working with me and the party members to bring this all together 💘

My comms, including party comms, are open now!

#AAAAAAAAAA LOOK AT THEMMMMM #i fucking love this so much #i had NO IDEA my players were doing this #they never slipped up ONCE #i ADORE it #this is incredible thank u thank u so much #also kudos for drawing the world's most fucked up steel defender #(affectionate)#ebb

darling-icarus

There are universes where you are happy. This isn't one of them.

The goddess of time told us that reality is unravelling and we may be the only ones who can save it. She also showed us glimpses of other, happier timelines. The fact that those versions of ourselves are ultimately doomed didn't do much to dull the blow 🥲

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#aaaAAAAaaaa #the way this campaign is heartbreaking but still has so much slapstick #the lengths this childhood friend group will go to not to talk to each other #but ALSO #sora holding flutter????#cleo's insect swarm???#kol?????????????????#also the shadowy hands holy shit #really captured the moment incredible #avira campaign

prepping for possible (inevitable?) cleo hair transformation and trying to figure out if it didn't happen this session because cleo's not ready or because I'M not ready

#it's a pretty drastic design change #and i've been thinking about it but hadn't planned on actually prepping for it #but then we were shopping and #it made sense #idk i think it makes sense to wait a bit?#like dying her hair in the first place was never entirely about sora #but it also wasn't NOT about sora #and she's looked like this for half her life #and now it's a little weird #even though it's also just her now #so #at some point...#cleo #avira campaign

really do love when the frame for a one shot pops into my head fully formed at the exact moment someone says "what if we did a one shot"

#it simply will not be happening again #dnd

cleo hid in a hedge maze with flutter to keep herself from going apeshit on everyone gossiping about her and her friends at a party. (apparently surly glaring was not her friends' idea of a good way to handle the situation, and coleoptera "glaring is the ONLY thing that works" tonic had nothing else in her arsenal)

#cleo will take any excuse to take off her glasses #also i realized that there's no way her glasses are pristine #she doesn't have Mending and i Believe wholeheartedly that she keeps having to bend the arms back in place #the glasses chain was as much about needing something to keep her from stepping on her glasses #as it was about helping her remember religious rituals #cleo #avira campaign #my art #dnd

while kol and elodie were doing actual research, cleo vaguely listened in and rolled a nat 20 religion check -- piecing together that there's a VAMPIRE DEVIL LORD hanging around somewhere causing problems

#cleo my disconcerting -1 int druid paladin #only way she's making connections is if it's a nat 20 #or full on conspiracy theory #or both #never get her to try to explain though #she's got VAMPIRE DEVIL LORD and not much else #she tried to explain to a cleric of her god and was like “my friend has notes just trust me”#avira campaign #my art #cleo #coleoptera tonic #sometimes i forget that cleo's full name is beetlejuice and then it smacks me in the face #dnd

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