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[thelaughingstag]

In honor of 50+ followers I shall humbly introduce my own wip despite all of my braincells telling me, as a barkeep, I should let others have the spotlight (but we haven't had a ton of submissions so if you want a doodle, go on and submit!) Link for celebration event post

Similar to @talesfromaurea I am recounting the story of a 5 year Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Called the Sagas of Stawold, the campaign starts with small fetch quests and soon grows into apocalyptic threats, fights with Gods, and travel throughout the multiverse.

The main reason I wanted to tell the story is because my lovely little Sadie "Blaze" McRimmik is pretty much the center of it all. She's a halfing bard of lore who plays the dulcimer and also dances with fire. Fire becomes an integral part of her character and represents her volatile, spicy personality.

One of the most special things about Sadie is that she was one of the original cast of characters and is the only character who stayed throughout the campaign. All other players either left or switched characters at least once. But Sadie was even too stubborn to die. Following the official conclusion of the tabletop game, I still continued message RP with my DM so up until October 2020 the story was continuing. We are on an extended hiatus currently but I'm making up for it by telling my story here on Tumblr! I'll link a few posts that I think are good at the bottom. I hadn't actually written a story for fun in years so the posts start off not great but get progressively better. Seeing the progression over just a month is really cool for me.

I'm not really good at summarizing such a long story sooo... here is my doodle description of Miss Sadie!

She is technically only 3'1" tall but she's a curvy 50 pounds. In this setting, halflings have the proportions of normal people just miniature. Sadie also does not have big feet and she wears shoes (she's a lightfoot halfling, the stout halflings have large feet). Over all, her appearance is bright and her smile can light up a room. She is almost always finding something to laugh at, her round face and beautiful brown round eyes so expressive. She has a cute little nose that turns up just slightly and lovely full lips. Despite being very cute, she is also beautiful and elegant, just not the "typical" elegant people think (like high cheekbones or thin faces not that there's anything wrong with those I just used this to make me proud of my round face!). Her hair is very bushy and curly kind of like the description of Hermione's. It comes down to about mid back. All in all she is quite the middle-aged beauty and she knows it!

This is Sadie being a child and basically outlines the party dynamics relatively well (post 11)

Here's a link to how Sadie died the first time. There's some graphic descriptions of burns (post 21)

Here's some interesting character interactions post Sadie's death (post 24)

Honestly I think this is my favorite post I have written where they are trying to get Sadie resurrected (post 26)

This is some K'lai'a'la fluff and girl time (post 29)

This is close second for my favorite post (post 30). I did a lot in this post and I'm very proud of it. Especially compared to post 1.

WIP Intro/Navigation post

[thelaughingstag]

Hi everyone my pen name is Ava Everstone (@avaeverstone ) and I mostly write original fiction. I have been writing for a long time but have struggled with writer's block off and on. A little over a year ago I started my current WIP, Heroic and posting it here on Tumblr. You might have even seen a few of my chapters on here already.

Heroic is about a woman named Cleo who is also a superhero named Soar. After a serious incident while superheroing Cleo decides to give up on her dream of being a superhero. However life has a different plan for her. She meets a strangely dressed swords woman named The Sword of Justice who offers to train her and help her become a great hero. Cleo agrees but quickly realizes that it is going to be much harder than she thought. To add to that the Sword of Justice wants Cleo to work with her other student who so happens to be the city's most notorious villain named Dusk. However upon meeting Dusk, Cleo sees he is nothing like the media makes him out to be. He's annoying, talkative and overall just a goofy jokester. You can read the first couple of chapters of Heroic here. Unfortunately chapter 6 isn't in there yet but I hope to add it soon.

I would like to receive a doodle of Dusk so I'm going to add character descriptions under the cut so I don't jam up your blog.

As she stretched her eyes drifted over to him. He was definitely Dusk. The mask she had assumed was a bandana was actually a dark face scarf that Dusk was notoriously for having. He also had the tell-tale wing like extensions to his sleeves and extremely black hair. But what really sold Cleo on the fact that he was actually Dusk was his dark chestnut eyes. They were so dark it seemed like if you stared at them too long you would never return from the darkness. They gave Cleo an eerie feeling. Dusk began to look in her direction so Cleo quickly looked away. Her eyes nevertheless drifted back towards him. This time however Dusk caught her looking. He rapidly waved at her. Cleo, again, quickly looked away.

She noticed how he seemed to have shed his dark aura but darker facial features remained. His hair was still jet black and his eyes a dark chestnut. Cleo scolded herself for not recognizing Dusk just from his eyes.

Later that evening a dark figure emerged from the shadows. A man dressed in all black. His attire was very odd with a robe that hanged down like the wings of a bat. Beneath the robe was a tunic strapped tight by a thick black belt. Under the tunic he wore black pants and snug black boots that match his belt. His hair was as black as a starless night, medium length and messily strewn over his head. Most of his facial features were covered by a black face scarf but his chestnut eyes pierced out from his face.

And here are some pictures of the general idea of him.