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Girl drawing things (mainly TTRPG OCs). Posting them here somedays. I'm a fan of all sorts of ttrpg, mainly WoD and CofD. Sometimes Exalted. A fan of Scion: becoming as gods in the making. I speak eng and rus

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I've storytelled a MtAs one shot a few months ago!

The lore went as follows: player's acquaintance from Virtual Adepts got captured by Technocracy. So they went to save him – by letting themselves be captured by Technocracy as well!

Technocracy managed to get quite a collection of guys™ in their Horizon Construct where the game took place, so when security systems went out due to VA helping his potential saviours (or so the players thought), players had to get to their goal, fighting through not only technocrats, but also other captives...

Gwyneth, nocker (CtD)

Of course she didn't remember herself at first and was very weak. Do you know how deadly Technocracy is for changelings? Fae in her survived only thanks to other captives, who had spark of Glamour left in them. Over the course of game Gwyneth remembered herself thanks to players' hijinks and, using her freshly found nocker power, built a whole spaceship to get her, a few other captives and players out of there.

Adamina, former Verbena, then ghoul (MtAs, VtM)

Adamina was a Verbena who accidentally got fed vampire blood, becoming addicted to it. Becoming more and more dependent on vampire who provided her it, she slowly lost her will and freedom and therefore her Avatar. She got rid of her abuser, but not of her addiction; when she got free during the game she immediately went to hunt anyone she could and drink their blood in hopes of it being the one she craves.

Speck, Nosferatu (VtM)

A kind but not nice Nosferatu, who escaped his cell long before security systems going out during the game. He lived in vents every since, unable to get back to Earth. He helped players get around the place, and in turn players saved him from Adamina, who almost chewed his leg off after realising he has what she craves – vitae...

Just some Technocracy guy (MtAs)

Literally just some hurt and scared technocrat. His role in the narrative was to hint at messed up stuff going on further in Horizon Construct...

Jessica, Hermetic (MtAs)... Or not. Irael, Asharu (DtF)

The reason messed up stuff was going on further in Horizon Construct number one. Jessica was a Hermetic with a broken heart and in technocrat captivity. Eventually, she broke down, leaving her own body to find freedom, but letting something sinister get in... Irael, the Fallen who got her body, wanted to destroy pesky humans, and destroy they did, the round hall they inhabited got turned on it's side, like a wheel full of brutal winds and endless falling, with bodies of technocrats everywhere – but only untill faced with Jessica's crush. Irael, feeling some of Jessica's emotions still, was unable to destroy him, and was very pissed about it. That's the state players found them in.

Walter, Hermetic (MtAs)

Jessica's crush, self-centred jerk and a coward who was to scared to admit to himself his feelings towards Jessica. Which led to him treating her with Walter's usual arrogance, convincing Jessica they weren't even friends, let alone something more. Which led to Jessica breaking. Look, I'm absolutely NOT saying Walter owed Jessica his love, but he owed her respect people are supposed to give fellow human beings... Anyways, in terms of magick Walter was pretty powerful, so he managed to subdue Irael a bit and giving players protection against furious Fallen, asking from them to bring him symbols of power to use as foci in his magick. After players stole a gun and a glasses from one of many bodies, Walter managed to seal Irael, only then finally realising that some things are out of his control and that Jessica is never going back.

Herschel, Progenitor (MtAs)

A bastard in charge of this Horizon Construct. He revealed several interesting facts to the players: the fact that the guy they were after was in coma and wasn't the one communicating to them or orchestrating security systems breaking... Technocracy did. And it did so a few times before, trying to study behaviour of it's captives in controlled environment, erasing player's memory after each loop. Only this time this didn't went so well, since Jessica was no longer herself, and old tricks didn't work. Oh, and Herschel also told the players they weren't on Earth anymore. Players' will was unbreakable, though, so they managed to get over initial shock and fight their way through to the last guy...

Eudemo, Virtual Adept (MtAs)

He is the one who started this plot. Players went here to rescue Eudemo, only to find him in comatose state because of Paradox (that's why Technocracy got him in the first place). It took some time and figuring out, but combining their knowledge of Life, Spirit and Correspondence players managed to better his condition. In the end, players, Eudemo and Speck escaped the Horizon Construct on Gwyneth's spaceship. Oh, and Walter escaped too sometime after that. Happy end. Kinda.

Fun fact for heroes who managed to get to this part: captives' clothes are coloured by danger/power rank. Teal is the safest, orange is dangerous, and red is BE REALLY REALLY CAREFUL ABOUT HANDLING THEM. Now you know why they wear what they wear. Yay :D

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My latest game I ran was a solo Changeling the Dreaming one-shot for my boyfriend. Here are portraits of NPCs with fun facts for each one, cause I don't have enough brain capacity to write detailed lore.

Bram, Ananasi (or werespider in simple terms)

• Arachnid, meaning he was born a spider (australian black widow, in particular)

• Now lives mostly in human society as a way to get away from all the cannibalism

• Is scared of birds

Gerda, human

• Einarr's sister (see below), when he disappeared thought he was stolen by fae, turns out, she was right (but there's more)

• DnD fan, invited everyone to her campaign in the end of one-shot

• Almost died in Dreaming, but PC saved her

Orgeto, Daunthain sluagh

• Killed PC in one of his previous lives, when she was still just a sluagh (and an assassin on local sidhe's side)

• Has a Black Shuck chimera still loyal to her, even now

• Has a lot of bad blood with local sidhe (and their troll, by proxy) – I mean, they turned her Daunthain... Got her revenge in the end, lives happily now, don't worry for my girl

Dracoris, troll

• A knight loyal to Leonora, local sidhe

• Dragon-tamer. Trained a dragon for Leonora (see below) to solidify her tyranny with this weapon of mass destruction

• PC stole some bakery from his house lmao

• Got killed by Orgeto in the end

Fainche, pooka

• Raven pooka

• Actually vibes with Coraxes (wereravens) in Tower of London. They realise she's not one of theirs, but are pretty chill about it

• Loves golden trinkets, to dismay of her found family of Coraxes (gold to them is like silver to werewolves)

Eloise, vampire Malkavian

• I played her in my boyfriend's VtM game, after which I decided to confess my feelings to him, so her addition here is a fanservice, honestly

• Knows she's inside a game. Breaks fourth wall about it.

• Fufilled her Malkavian role by appearing in front of PC in the cemetery, talking to his player and leaving some vague prophecy. And trying to bite the PC (she didn't succeed :( )

Biorn, wraith of Malkavian

• French

• Is two steps from becoming a Spectre

• LOVES emotional drama. It was the only reason he sided with bad guys, Dracoris and Leonora to be exact

Leonora, Arcadian sidhe

• Bad guy herself

• Wanted all the power to herself, so made a convoluted plan to kill Einarr, frame Orgeto and rule tyrannically

• Got destroyed when PC, an Unseelie satyr, memed too hard

Einarr, Autumn sidhe

• Gerda's brother and a damsel in distress

• Terrible ruler, but local changelings didn't have another for a long time

• Actually wants to be a rocker, not an aristocrat

• Was incarcerated by Leonora, starting the plot, got saved in the end, yay

Thank you for watching at my art and / or reading this

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Here we have, from left to right:

Henkel, Tzimisce elder, who started as starry-eyed kid protecting humanity and turned into cynical Sabbat bastard, who sees people as mere source of food and fun, over the course of centuries

And Dunya, Tzimisce neonate, who has lived for about 20 years counting her unlife, who still follows path of Humanity, sees people as someone worthy of dignity and protection and has a (mutual) crush on Imbued hunter

And I suddenly understood they can be in the same city due to their backstories 🤡

Henkel would've obliterated Dunya in seconds, if only he hadn't seen a bit of past him in her and didn't decide to show this poor naïve girl the truth™. She can become a great asset if Henkel takes her under his wing, afterall! And a proof that Henkel did make right choice centuries ago, when he betrayed his sire...

...And thus Henkel created a situation with a non-zero chance of Dunya, following anime-protagonist logic, powering up and idealogically obliterating him with her adamant belief in the inherit power and grace of kindness 🤩

Basically, these two violently clash in ideologies and both have the chance to break their opponent, so I'm looking at further developments with interest 😌

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My boyfriend ran a City of Mist oneshot! I didn't draw my PC (by the way, she's the rift of a black dog from British folklore, like Barghest, Black Shuck, etc.), but I did draw an NPC with whom we only interacted in the last half hour of the game. But what a conversation we had! He was solving a crossword puzzle, and both my PC and I were shaking with terror 😌

Meet Arthur, the rift of Cthulhu, boss of the local mafia. We came to him to ask for mercy after we, a bunch of private detectives, had ruined all the mafia's plans while not understanding what exactly they were trying to achieve, before figuring out that our goals align this time 🤩

The dogs in the background have nothing to do with Arthur; it's my character's ability to see how much of a threat a person is... And, as you can imagine, the master gave an absolutely charming description of a monstrous abomination when I tried to check how dangerous Arthur is; such a vivid nightmare that even my adrenaline-junkish girly realized it would be better to be polite and well-mannered, as an exception.

But in the end, we came to an agreement. Arthur even threw in all sorts of perks. In particular, mafia completely bought my girl with a subscription to free steaks at the local restaurant 🤩 (she's a hungry tramp, and she also has the "I'll never bite the hand that feeds me" Identity, so oops...). Now I'm afraid for her future moral development, but oh well 😇

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My boyfriend ran Dark Ages VtM oneshot. And now I have these sketches, dedicated, surprisingly, not to my PC.

You see, it all started when I decided to play Tzimisce. A kind Tzimisce. No, really. There are no catches, my PC, Werner, really is quite a chill guy. Son of an executioner, after his Embrace Werner became a part of (homebrew) Inquisition squad dedicated solely to protecting mortals from supernatural (and consisting of vampires).

And Werner had three ghouls. Each one of them was okay with their new life – Werner had ghouled them while saving their lives, and truly cared for them. In fact, I spent whole game terrified for them. I kid you not, I was more ready for Werner's demise than for any of theirs. You cannot begin to imagine my relief when they had survived the game, even without major injuries, despite everything that went down.

One of ghouls, guy called Henkel, bright and starry-eyed kid, started developing Vicissitude. I truly felt like a proud father. We haven't played it out, but Storyteller and I decided Werner would embrace Henkel sometime after the events of oneshot, with Henkel's agreement to it. An oddly wholesome father-child (not by blood, but by blood) situation between two oddly wholesome Tzimisce. Well, WoD has seen weirder stuff, honestly.

And then my Storyteller, a cruel genius that he is, suggested that in modern nights Henkel would probably align with Sabbat. You know. Childe of a guy who spent most of his unlife protecting mortals from supernatural. Aligning with Sabbat. Throwing everything his sire, his father held dear out of the window. Yay.

It would have broken Werner's heart. Crushed him in ways nothing else could.

Naturally, I ran with that.

So, the sketches depict Henkel in modern nights. Sabbat Henkel thinks lowly of humanity, after centuries of observing their failures and shortcomings. Fan fact, "good old times" remark refers to the fact that Werner is an executioner's son and was taught to carry executions out before his Embrace. I thought it'd be delightful if Werner had to execute his own (once very loved) childe. It's not canon, but I love the angst. Yay.

Here is Werner, btw.

You may notice he has similar hairstyle to young Henkel – that's because Henkel tried to be like Werner once. In more ways than one. Furthermore, Henkel has learned to vicissitude bone claws he has in one of sketches from his sire. They really were close. And now they are on opposite sides. I didn't expect to get so attached to that little guy so much and now I can't stop feels™ 😭

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Lemuel, my Celestial Chorister.

A huge hypocrite, inquisitor wannabe and a bastard few steps away from turning to Technocracy in search of certainty, even if said certainty comes from oppression and destruction of everything that doesn't fit. He has fun narrative parallels with Rezul, who had the opposite character arc and went from NWO to Cult of Ecstasy.

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Fern, my Imbued guy, Martyr creed.

He's an NPC from one of games I've storytelled. He ended up in hands of Tzimisce. You can guess the rest.

I'll never condemn my players for not saving Fern and in fact making everything worse, but man, I still mourn him. Even if I knew what his fate would be the moment I wrote him to be found by players in local Tzimisce' basement, deep inside I still hoped for the best :')

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I've storytelled Scion: becoming as gods oneshot! Some art below :]

Players went into Ariadne's Labyrinth to figure out why one of Labyrinth's denizens got attacked and to prevent further attempts.

It was a very stressful game. I had very little time to prepare, some unfamiliar people at the table, and in the middle of session few more people tried to join in and I tried to speedrun character creation x')

Here are some NPCs. All of them had to be drawn in one day, so it's not the best I could've done, but I'm still proud of myself :]

Ariadne, Mistress of the Labyrinth

Sorley, son of Lugh

Eir, chosen of Baldr

Rento, son of Susanoo-no-Mikoto

Ravia, daughter of Thoth

Corbin, son of Morrigan

Itzia, daughter of Ek Chuah

And now, ❗cw for blood under the cut❗

Yolotli, chosen of Xipe Totec

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Tzimisce x Malkavian. Cody and Eloise, if we go by names.

Some context and close-ups will be under the cut.

At 8th of November I've storytelled a VtM one-shot for a guy, where he played delightfully sadistic Tzimisce. The next week he storytelled a VtM one-shot for me, where I played delightfully messed up Malkavian who knew she was inside a ttrpg session.

Said guy and I are now dating. I'm still not normal about the fact.

So, naturally, our PCs are now dating too. Everyone clap for anarch Tzimisce x Camarilla hound Malkavian, the pairing ever. They are terrible by themselves already, I can only imagine how terrible they'll be together.

Nobody wanted to give Malkavian firearms during second oneshot, and I was ready to go out armless, but then-Storyteller and my not-yet partner decided to have mercy and Eloise got a knife. She cherishes it.

Eloise was among first ttrpg players and a fan of board games by her lore, but since her higher being aka her player (me) didn't know how to shuffle cards, she wasn't actually able to do that. Cody didn't have such problems. He has no lore to suggest he can do this, but no lore to suggest he can't either. And, I mean, he was a surgeon (yeah), surely he has great fine motor skill. Besides, his "higher being" actually knows how this works. So yeah, Cody re-taught Eloise to do this.

This is just a real interaction between me and my partner projected onto these sillies. It was much more unexpected in real life, where we weren't dressed like that, but in context of our PCs it's kinda funny.

They are discussing Fatal ttrpg, but the world isn't ready to know it yet.

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I've storytelled my first VtM one-shot :D

Here are NPCs with some lore™, as usual. Players were Anarchs (as were most NPCs), tasked with figuring out the culprit behind clearly supernatural murder of a human.

Lucas, Tzimisce

Very polite and friendly guy. Also a terrible monster, as Tzimisce do. Murder took place in his domain, so he was the one to ask players to figure it out. He was embraced into Sabbat, but he really hated his sire, so he ran away and chose to live on Anarch territory. One of PCs was his childe.

Agnessa, Lucas' Ghoul

Technically she's a revenant, was gifted to Lucas by his sire. Her life during her time at Sabbat sucked, as it usually does, but Lucas took her with him when he ran away, and just for that Agnessa is forever grateful. They have pretty good relationships with Lucas, which, of course, doesn't make them healthy at all. But everyone is okay with that, at least.

Fern, Imbued

Kid of Martyr Creed who, unfortunately, didn't understand true danger of Kindred, since he became Imbued by befriending one of them in hospital, when said Kindred was trying to get to donor blood and Fern offered his blood instead (since, y'know, donor blood should be there when it's needed, and Fern could share and regenerate a bit of his own).

He was caught sneaking near Lucas' house, thrown into basement and offered to players as a food source. Which led to his very fucked up and unfortunate demise (one of PCs was a Tzimisce, I remind you...). I am still sad about Fern's fate, even if I knew what'd happen to him the moment I wrote him to be tied up in basement :')

Diana and Hunter, regular Hunters

(Their father, another hunter, didn't care about names that much).

They were quickly obliterated by the player coterie, with Diana being turned into grill by Tzimisce and Hunter being blown up and turning into Wraith. A very vengeful one, demanding coterie to finish his sister off properly for the rest of the game. After refusal and mockery from Tzimisce PC he tried to burn everyone down several times, was stopped by Giovanny PC and then finally burned down local car scrapyard.

Simon, Wraith

Poor guy whose murder started this whole mess. He was a ghoul of Giselle (see below), finally managed to get free from her (she wasn't around for a while) only to be murdered the very same night for stupidest reason: local vampire was in a terrible mental state and single irritated phrase from Simon sent their Beast off.

Heather, Gangrel

My former PC, she wasn't that important, but she's a friend with murderer and final encounter happened in her domain. Dog-ghouls belonging to the murderer are now in her care. Also she has a lot of owl-ghouls. She's a professional forester, so don't worry about them.

Arabella, Nosferatu

Another former PC of mine. Childe of local Baron, hates him, so lives in car scrapyard in the outskirts of the city. Guess whose place got burned down after players tried to ask her for directions with Hunter still being enraged about his sister...

Giselle, Toreador Lasombra

Everyone thought she was a Toreador. Everyone was surprised badly when lights started to turn off... Giselle was Simon's domitor, so players first thought she was his murderer – they did have a messy break-up the night Simon got killed, afterall. It didn't help that Lucas said he suspects Giselle outright – he doesn't like Giselle very much out of fear that after she committed diablerie on his sire she is no longer quite herself. Giselle wasn't a murderer, though, and after a fight during which players made a mess out of local ballet school, she let them go, since Toreador PC agreed to become blood-bonded to her.

Blake, Brujah

The murderer. His older sister, Elba, is an agent of Technocracy (how do you like sudden MtAs in my VtM game?) and recently got socially processed for her crimes, so she doesn't remember her brother. Which naturally brings him a lot of grief and turmoil. Which led to him punching Simon after the latter was slightly rude... accidentally killing him. Blake was terrified of what he had done and went to Lucas in desperation, ready to get whatever awaited him for this mess, but Lucas suddenly proposed cover-up with blaming everything on Giselle.

Players figured the crime out either way. Brujah PC had a very sweet heart-to-heart with Blake during which her rage and determination to finish the murderer off changed into desperate desire to find a way for him to live. I, for my part, was sure Blake is done for, since Tzimisce PC really hated how Blake (rightfully) accused Lucas of lying to PCs, but suddenly Tzimisce PC decided to be only slightly cruel about it and simply sealed Blake's mouth shut with words "come back after a few nights and I'll fix you". In the end, Blake got away with pretty good ending for himself, considering the circumstances.

And that's where this messy ramble ends. Thanks for everyone who managed to get here.

Bonus art of one of PCs:

Cody, Tzimisce

Cute amoral creature responsible for most of terrible things that happened to my NPCs 😇

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"Why so scared?"

My designs of Phobos and Deimos for "Scion: becoming as gods" ttrpg

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My MtAs idiots who have troubles expressing emotions

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Wraith the Oblivion

Two frends™ from Grim Legion on the verge of becoming Renegades. A guy with hole in his skull and a guy with hole in his chest. German WW1 soldier and Red Army soldier who died during Russian Civil War. Ernst and Fyodor, if you want some names

I apologise for any historical inaccuracies in designs, I suck at drawing uniforms :')

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When Melanie (my Cult of Ecstasy OC) realised her attraction to Irwin (my ex-NWO agent turned Cult of Ecstasy OC) her first thoughts were loud and desperate pleas for mercy from the universe.

(The universe aka me didn't listen lmao)

Fan fact just in case: "be seeing you" is traditional technocratic way of saying goodbye; Irwin here said it without even realising, he's just so used to it since he was born into Technocracy... Melanie with her personal resentment towards Technocratic Union can only grit her teeth and hate herself more for falling for agent of the Union, even if said agent is no more affiliated with it :')

Poor Melanie. She's going through the Horrors™ with ethics of her love, all while Irwin is idly wondering if the fact that he enjoys Melanie's company more than anyone's company even means anything... The bastard is falling in love too, but his ability to comprehend his own emotions is lacking, to put it mildly.

I love my messed up Ecstatic sillies :]

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Ryan, VtM oc for @dravencroft! Thanks for trusting me with your guy! His design definitely has a lot of elements I rarely draw, so figuring everything out was very interesting. I kinda took artistic liberties with clothing, hopefully I did him justice in the end x')

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Here's @spectrolitha's Mage! I really need to learn more about MtA because it's one of those WoD rulebooks I've never read or interacted with, but it sounds right up my alley... Thank you for trusting me with your Blonde Guy!

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Everyone check out my beautifully drawn Blonde Guy ™! 😳😳😳

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Unknown Armies OCs! Hetty and Hayate, both adepts, exploring Occult Underground together