So like, I know I'm not on tumblr a ton anymore but...there's been a LOT of you in my notifications with D&D references in your usernames and D&D references in your content and like...y'all know I have a D&D stream right? Like, can I just shamelessly self-promo here real quick?
You can check out this link for information about the stream, where/when to watch it, and who our characters are (as well as a few FAQs). It also has all the necessary links to watch past and upcoming episodes! Come on our adventure with us. š
For those of you following along...Our last episode of our D&D campaign had us receive a letter of introduction from Crown Prince Alberic (aka my kinda-sorta-maybe-definitely love interest????) to deliver to the King of Dwarfhome, and I think itās just such a lovely way to give you the briefest glimpse of who we are as a party, especially from an outside perspective. If you have two minutes, check out this video and meet my most favoritest fictional people...and also, watch us invent fantasy emojis. š
If you want to watch our past episodes in full, you can catch up on YouTube!Ā Our next episode is scheduled for January 10th at about 7PM CST -Ā follow me on Mixer to be notified when we go live! š
Can we just throw the whole modern-ish neighborhood in Windenburg away??? Like UGH, let me make a medieval town in more than one neighborhood that only has 30x20 lots!!!! They could have just COMMITTED š TO š THE š CONCEPT š
A few weeks ago, I shared photos of my D&D character Morgana, a changeling bard, and some important npcs in her life! I edited them to look like portraits, since she compulsively paints/sketches all of her longer-term personas, or other important things to her. She's fascinated by capturing and making an appearance permanent, since that is something that is normally somewhat fleeting and intangible to her.
This week I've started working on her house! This has been a location we've visited in game a few times, as we have been operating in her hometown for a few sessions now. It is a small but luxurious, 1 bedroom, rowhouse-style home.
I'm so pleased with how this build is turning out...The challenge of doing a low-tech build has actually been really fun, and I love finding ways to incorporate all the little details I've mentioned in past sessions! It's also been a really great creative exercise for me to think about what Morgana might want/need in her home, and think about how she spent her time there. It seems silly to say this about a fictional character that *I* created, but I feel so much more connected with her now!
Honestly, this is probably a really accurate representation of what my streams are like. š Enjoy the highlights of my struggle, complete with subtitles!
I launched merch for my Mixer channelĀ this week, and I am so proud and excited of everything. 8 designs for the channel/PastelSpell brand + 4 for our D&D campaign, Sagas of Sohyu. Iāve barely slept lately working on behind the scenes things, but I feel so productive and fulfilled. I love creating content for gaming, and I really enjoyed my time on tumblr, but UGH I just love streaming so much. It fulfills me creatively and justā¦in my heart, which sounds so cheesy but is so true. This is just definitely my medium and I feel like thereās so much potential and Iām just so in love (even if itās a ton of work).Ā
Hereās the link if you wanna shop it, but just sharing whatās been going on lately and what Iām up to. ā„
Just like magic...my EXTRA-SOFT TEES are on āØSALEāØ starting this weekend! š All t-shirts are marked down to $22.50. Plus, get FREE shipping if you buy two or more tees (or have an order of $45+, if tees aren't your thing)! š
The PS 2019 design is limited edition and will only be available this year...so now is the best time to get your hands on it! š¦ Which design is your fave?Ā
I launched merch for my Mixer channelĀ this week, and I am so proud and excited of everything. 8 designs for the channel/PastelSpell brand + 4 for our D&D campaign, Sagas of Sohyu. Iāve barely slept lately working on behind the scenes things, but I feel so productive and fulfilled. I love creating content for gaming, and I really enjoyed my time on tumblr, but UGH I just love streaming so much. It fulfills me creatively and justā¦in my heart, which sounds so cheesy but is so true. This is just definitely my medium and I feel like thereās so much potential and Iām just so in love (even if itās a ton of work).Ā
Hereās the link if you wanna shop it, but just sharing whatās been going on lately and what Iām up to. ā„
Weāve been streaming our newest D&D campaign on my mixer channel. Last night was episode 3, and oh man we did a DEEP dive into my characterās backstory. Basically all my secrets were laid bare and I was SO vulnerable and it really has me feeling a certain way today. Our DM is so talented and my fellow players are wonderful and it was just such an amazing sceneā¦my mind has been running through all the details and possibilities all day. Story info below the cut, if you want to know more (possible TW for abuseā¦.also itās long af).Ā
Weāve been streaming our newest D&D campaign on my mixer channel. Last night was episode 3, and oh man we did a DEEP dive into my characterās backstory. Basically all my secrets were laid bare and I was SO vulnerable and it really has me feeling a certain way today. Our DM is so talented and my fellow players are wonderful and it was just such an amazing scene...my mind has been running through all the details and possibilities all day. Story info below the cut, if you want to know more (possible TW for abuse....also itās long af).Ā
My characterās name is Morgana. In game terms, she is a changeling bard (college of swords). In actuality, she is a courtesan/assassin. The party has had no idea she was a changeling until last night. NO ONE knew she was a changeling until last night, except for the man who raised her - The Owl (left). Heās the biggest crimelord in the country, maybe even the empire. And when he found her as a child, he saw his ticket to the top of the criminal ladder. Heās possessive and abusive and manipulative and generally awful....but he raised Morgana and spared no expense in her upbringing. Materially speaking, she lived an exceptionally pampered life. The Owl developed a reputation for being able to acquire any kind of companion a well-to-do person with the right connections could want. And Morgana played all the parts. He was a father in many ways, and hinted at times that he wanted more, but The Owl is a complicated and secretive man. He never allowed Morgana to create an identity of her own, or have any sense ofĀ āselfā...only the people she was forced to be. She never even had a proper name, he simply called herĀ āLittle Bird.āĀ
Eventually Morgana became unhappy, and started squirreling away bits of the money she made to buy a town house in the city. She was going to tell The Owl she was leaving, when he said he had a job in the city of Shoreditch down the coast. Jobs outside the capital usually meant a lot of money so she accepted...and while there, he framed her for murder. She was arrested as Roselie (akaĀ āThe Golden Rose,ā her most famous persona) and awaiting trial.Ā
While in prison, the night before she was scheduled to be executed (without trial because The Owl had rushed the proceedings), black cloaked figures broke into the prison and broke out a man. Roselie and the party (also prisoners) used the commotion to secure their own escape, and fled to the capital. Roselie, knowing The Owl would soon hear of her escape and being right under his nose, had to pick a new identity. A face and name The Owl would not recognize...and the first she could choose for herself. She became Morgana, and explained to the party that she had magic that could change her appearance.
While in the capital, Morgana was extremely paranoid that she would be found and brought back to The Owl. She told the party nothing of her past, however. Their first night was spent in a seedy tavern...where they met a most unexpected patron - The Crown Prince of Galria, Prince Alberic (right). A notorious playboy with a kind heart, Morgana had met him at many court functions in the past, though never with her current face. And when it was revealed that they knew details about the massacre that happened in Shoreditch, the Prince invited them to the castle the next day. The clerics in the party received a vision in the night from their goddesses that the trouble in Shoreditch (a cult) would soon reach the capital. The party warned Alberic that his city was in danger, helped him go into hiding, and became embroiled in cults and secret societies and ancient relics and all sorts of adventures.Ā
During this time, the party often expressed disappointment with Morgana for not wanting to tell the truth or her less-than-legal approach to most obstacles. Morgana was starting to feel pushed away by the first people she thought might be friends and might like her for the person she was discovering she could be. And so she kept her secrets tighter.Ā
But the tenuous peace she had found would not last...the morning after saving the city from the cultās corruption in the Temple of Cybele, Morgana received a letter at her home, from a messenger who promptly drank poison. The Owl had found her, and threatened to kill her friends if she did not come home to him. She gathered her belongings as quickly as she could, and burned the life she had painstakingly crafted for herself to the ground. Morgana wasnāt sure which family to choose. So she changed her appearance, and used detect thoughts on the party while they discussed her situation, and her secrets. When she discovered the party thought she was dangerous, and possibly a risk to have around (the spell only revealing basic surface thoughts), she left. She sold the fine horse the Prince had gifted her and bought a working horse, and fled the city disguised as a stable hand. Morgana was desperate, and could think of only one solution...and one other person she had endangered. It was a huge risk, but she rode to the Princeās hideout.Ā
Morgana was counting on one thing - that her value to the crown as an informant against The Owl, who had plagued the country for two decades, would be enough to convince the Prince to grant her sanctuary. She hoped that her service to the crown and prince himself during the cultist incursion would also win her some favor...as well as Morgana and Albericās blossoming friendship. From her time at court, she knew Alberic was kind and open-minded...but she was a monster from folktales, and there was no telling how he would react to the truth.Ā
Morgana begged an audience with the Prince, and told him everything. And, for the first time, revealed her true form to a stranger. The Prince, impressed with her honesty, accepted her bargain and swore to keep her secret to the grave...And now two people knew exactly who and what Morgana was. Morgana gifted Alberic one of the few things she had saved from her home - a portrait of Morgana that she had painted the night before. She explained that she had painted every persona she had spent more than a moment as, and that she gave him this to remind him she was entrusting him with not just her life, but WHO she was. A task Alberic promised he took quite seriously. She was surprised to find their friendship had only grown deeper after everything. And she began to wonder if the flirting that had been happening between the two for the last week was maybe not just Albericās playboy ways...
They decided to stay one more night in the hideout, and return to the city in the morning, where Morgana could be hidden safely behind castle walls. However, back in the city, the party was looking for Morgana after she had given them the slip. The Owl caught wind of their search, and ambushed the party in a back alley. The elven monk convinced him that she was Morgana to buy the rest of the party time to escape, but when she was immune to a sleep spell, the ruse was discovered and a fight broke out. The Owl was a formidable opponent and could have easily ended the party right then and there, but he cast plane-shift and left the party wounded in the alley...perhaps as a message? The party knew they were no longer safe in the city, and decided to also make their way to the princeās hideout. Its location was a royal secret and protected with many magics, and they could think of no better place to hide. So they rode there in the night, to tell the prince what was happening with the Owl and that the cult was defeated. They were very surprised to find Morgana there as well. And when they told her of their encounter with The Owl, demanding answers for why he was after her, she was forced to tell her secrets again.Ā
The party decided, after much discussion and heartache, that they were better together. And that while different, they would always have each otherās backs. Alberic assured Morgana that (if she desired) his offer of protection still stood, but also encouraged her to go with the party to Dwarfhome where she would be out of The Owlās reach...at least until The Owl could be defeated once and for all. He would covertly help them prepare for the journey over the next few days, and he and Morgana both expressed an interest in spending more time together before her departure.Ā
So now 8 people know her secrets. Sheās found a family by happenstance...but also a family of her choosing. And sheās discovering that the Prince may have found a home in her heart...though she wonders if she has one in his. And for someone who has many notches in her own belt, she finds herself unusually distraught that she may just become another in his...
Itās a known fact that @peacemaker-ic is a god of Sims CC. His bedding is all I use, but I needed quilts! Thankfully the wonderful @pastel-spells had some beautiful quilts, but I needed bed frame freedom! I saw an opportunity and I took it.
This week, I opened my game for the first time since April. I've been working on a little build challenge put together by @kaylico on Mixer called "Mixer Upper" (isn't that cute?!). I'm not using any CC at the moment which is...whooooo boy....difficult! But I finally got to the point where I could enter my game again and not just feel stressed and overwhelmed and miserable. I think I'll put this house (and the little family I made for it) up for download once it's done. š
I do wish there were more lots and that the magic realm was buildable (I'm very glad they included a more normal town as well though)...but I understand that it's a game pack and more limited in development resources.
I'm really interested in seeing how the magic itself actually functions - I love how fleshed out vampires were, so I have high expectations.
Those lil summonable creatures we saw were super cute! I wonder if its gonna be like magic voidcritters or maybe familiars?!
I'm loving a lot of the B/B objects I've noticed.
I'm hoping there's some less edgy CAS options as well that weren't shown (or maybe I missed). I prefer more of a hipster garden witch vibe over the hot topic-esque look we saw.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with it, and I'm sure the modding community will do awesome things with it too!
Hey guys! As promised, here is some more info on my new streaming adventure!!Ā
I will be streaming on Mixer, which I am SUPER excited about!!! Mixer has a lot of really great interactive features and integrations that have quickly made it my favorite streaming platform...if you havenāt tried it out yet, now is the perfect opportunity!Ā
Additionally, Iāve created a discord that will be centered around my stream community, affectionately known asĀ āThe Coven.ā Like I said in my hiatus post, I wonāt be streaming TS4 at any point in the near future; however, there is a channel for Sims discussion! So those of you coming over from Tumblr will have a place to talk about it - and, if needed, ask me questions about any of my content here on tumblr - even if it isnāt the focus of the community.Ā
My very first stream will be TONIGHT!Ā Weāre probably going to be starting with some Stardew Valley, I think? Weāll see...Definitely something chill, anyways! Iād love it if you stopped by and said hello - here are some relevant links for you!Ā
Follow my Mixer channel to receive notifications when I go live!Ā
Follow me on TwitterĀ for updates to my streaming schedule, announcements, random nerdy stuff, etc.!
Join the Discord to hang out with me and all the familiars, as well as receive news + announcements!
I did a brief technical test stream last night that went pretty well, so hopefully we donāt run into too many issues tonight, but please bear with me if we do!!Ā
Please note that the majority of my streams will be teen-rated or 18+. As such, my discord and twitter will follow a similar rating system. If you are a young person, please moderate yourself accordingly and respect the rules of the channel.
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