(Another long one, folks. In our campaign, we have something we call a “Daiquiri Night.” It’s used for when too many people can’t be there or in situations where people are too preoccupied to do anything deep and plot-heavy. It’s pretty much a filler episode where we’re free to fuck around with very little consequences and, towards the end, the DM throws in small plot hints so it’s not a complete bust. It’s good for character development and getting the party a little closer.
Last session, we all drank and were expecting such an session. What we got was heavy plot stuff and horrible consequences. Also, so far most of the Daiquiri Nights are run by Ticket Master; being the only god who follows us so closely.)
Ticket Master: (Stopping Hennessy B from killing us and dropping Alabaster back into our party) Alright, so! Who wants to die right now?
Everyone: .....
Ticket Master: No one? Great! Now, who wants to go on a fun-filled adventure?
(We get pulled into a world that is just one giant Carnival. After giving our tickets over to Ticket Master, We all enter and start to go our own separate ways. This is where things become very character plot heavy.)
Koejin: (climbs the Ferris Wheel to see if she can see anyway out)
People on the car she’s standing on: (her parents, who keep screaming about being abandoned and how she let them die.)
DM: You see the parking lot you walked through to get here and then, far beyond that, you see mist. Above you is the portal you came through; it’s still open.
Koejin, nodding: Alright, I’m gonna head back down
Koejin’s parents: (riding on the car she’s standing on top of) You left us! You took another woman as your mother! You can never be forgiven!
Koejin: (jumps down once she’s at ground level) I didn’t abandon you. You died and I was five.
Ticket Master: (pointing at the now faded parents) Yeah! She was five! See? I backed you up.
Koejin gave him a little pat on the shoulder and nearly lost an arm for it. She then heads over to the bar to drink her face off.
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Theodora, on the bumper cars: (Getting blamed for the deaths of her soldiers. She bumps cars with a young, fifteen year old Koejin.)
Young Koejin: Ugh, what are you doing here?
Theodora:...I....
Young Koejin: You should just leave! No one wants you here; you’re ruining everyone’s fun!
Koejin: (In the bar, drinking real alcohol and being served by a bartender that’s not Ticket Master. In other words, having a good time. A Ticket Master portal opens by her head to show her what’s going on by Theodora.).... (Pulls out her bow and arrow and aims for Young Koejin’s head.)
DM: I want you to think about what you’re doing here. You’re about to shoot young you in front of Theodora. (Sidenote: DM also implemented a “sanity meter” for us. Anytime we see something fucked up or extremely jarring, we become a little more insane.)
Koejin’s player: I know. I’m still doing it.
Koejin shoots Young Koejin right in the head and Theodora has to roll a Wisdom saving throw. Luckily, she rolled a 19.
DM: So, Theodora. You don’t see it as young Koejin dying in front of you. You see it for what it is; Koejin apologizing.
Koejin, from inside the bar: I was an asshole. Come drink with me.
(Theodora goes through the portal to join Koejin in the bar.)
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Hennessy, at the balloon shoot: (All the faces look like his team mates, He sits in front of Theodora’s.)
Vincent (Hennessy’s fiance), sits down at the Hennessy head: I bet you I can get mine to pop before you.
Hennessy, immediately suspicious: Alright, what do you wager? (Rolls perception to find out for sure he isn’t Vincent. His suspicions are confirmed.)
Vincent: Well, if you win, you and Vincent live happily ever after and he never has to work again. If I win, you fall out of love with him.
Hennessy: No deal.
Vincent:... Well, how about just the ring then? He can always make you another one.
Hennessy, noticeably more hesitant:...Still no.
(A Ticket Master portal opens to show Vincent slaving away at his work for Mrs. Red. His pain has him in tears but he continues on.)
Fake Vincent: You would really not save him from this pain?
Hennessy: (just starts playing the game and shoots water into Theodora’s mouth. The portal shifts over to the bar.)
Theodora, in the bar: (takes a shot and it shoots right out of her mouth. Her stomach starts to bloat and she starts to spit up water.)
Hennessy: (Immediately stops)
Vincent: (stands up) you know, Hennessy, you can be a catty bitch. (walks away)
Hennessy: (watches him)....and don’t you forget it. (Goes through the portal into the bar.)
Meanwhile, at the bar
Ticket Master, sitting on the bar: (Watching as Theodora keels over) If only there was someone who could destroy that water, you’d be fine! ((Another running gag in the campaign; Alabaster casting Create or Destroy Water more than any other move.))
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Wreybar, over at the Test your Strength
Wreybar: (Picks up the mallet)
(Her father’s head appears on the target as she swings down.)
DM: You still have the chance to stop.
Wreybar’s Player: ... I’m gonna follow through.
DM:...What, really? Shit, didn’t expect that! So, you smash in your father’s head. Blood, bone and grey matter fly everywhere. Then, you’re entire family comes running out cheering and screaming “Wreybar! you killed us! Yay!”
Wreybar: (starts crying) I’m sorry!
DM: As you see everyone praising and cheering you, you notice something weird. There is one person not doing that. It’s your brother.
((I was drinking so this particular convo gets a little foggy. But it ends with someone killing Wreybar’s brother (Almost positive it was Ticket Master) and the DM pulling her aside to discuss something in private. I’m typically the one who keeps track of the story so I hope Wreybar remembers this part well enough. If not, its our DM’s job to remind her anyways.))
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Art, At the Fortune Teller (Koejin’s player: Of course you would go there!)
DM: You step in to see a robotic person who is a very racist stereotype. He’s dark skinned, wearing a turban, talking in a thick accent and saying, in a broken robotic voice “I aM a Raacis-t dePICtion! Wo-ould you like your FoRTune?!”
Art: Uhhhh, wow. This was not at all what I was expecting... Uh, is there a way out of here?
Fortune Teller: A W-ay OuT? Whaat evR do you Me-aaN?
Art:....Nevermind. Can you just... not do this? Turn into someone else.
Fortune Teller: Wh-o would you LYKe?
Art: Literally anyone else would be better.
Fortune Teller: (Turns into Alabaster) Bet-ter?
Art:... Yeah, I can work with this.
Fortune Teller Alabaster: S-oo... WouLD you lYKe your Fooort-une?
Art: Sure. Uh.... what’s my future look like?
Fortune Teller Alabaster: BLEAK!
Art: Sounds about right.
Fortune Teller Alabaster: (Morphs into Hennessy. All robotic jerking is gone.) Now, how about we talk about why you’re a piece of shit?
Art: ...And that sounds like something you’d say to me.
FT Hennessy: And it’s true; you are a piece of shit. My hubby says you abandoned your sister and I’m inclined to believe him over your lyin’ ass.
Art: Okay no. Hennessy’s the smartest one out of all of us. I know for a fact he has enough sense to not follow Vincent blindly and think I actually meant to abandon my sister.
(A Ticket Master portal appeared in the bar near Hennessy. He tunes in just in time to hear Art speak.)
Hennessy: .... (reaches through the portal and smacks the Fake Hennessy in the face. It melts away to reveal Ticket Master underneath.) You’re right, Art. I am the smartest person here. And I’m smart enough to know you have a lot of problems; abandonment is not one of ‘em.
Art: ...Alright. I guess.... you’re not so bad.
Ticket Master: (Hand on his cheek) Hennessy just slapped me.... what an honor! (Hearts appear around him)
Art, noticing this: Okay, that’s not at all concerning.... (Goes through the portal and into the bar with everyone else.)
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Alabaster over by the Carousel (Everyone to the DM: You better not fucking hurt him, I swear to god. ((We are all a part of the Alabaster Protection Squad.)))
Alabaster: (Sees his family near one side, his old friend on another, and Eris (the daughter he recently adopted) on a third. Sidenote: Eris was his old friend’s and General Blue’s daughter. Blue left her to Alabaster, but we ended up killing her long before knowing about Eris.).... (Sits by his family being that he hasn’t seen them in 400 years)
Blue: So, you’re gonna completely ignore my daughter? Maybe I shouldn’t have trusted you with her. Maybe I should just kill her now and put her out of her misery now.
Alabaster: There is no need to resort to....
Blue: (Goes to Eris)
Alabaster: (immediately dives for Eris)
(Ticket Master Portal appears in the bar next to Theodora. She doesn’t see it until Wreybar points it out to her. This turns into a fight for everyone to keep Blue away from Alabaster and Eris, which everyone learned was just a heated water baby.)
Alabaster: (casts blindness on Blue)
Art: (Reaches in for Alabaster)
Alabaster, to Blue: You’re sight will return momentarily. And I promise you, Eris will be well taken care of. There is no need to worry.
DM: Alabaster, Art; you two look at each other and remember the first time you met, back in that pit where Thia saved you. You think about how much you’ve been through together and start to feel a little more at peace. Both of you roll a 20. If it turns out you somehow get the same number, your sanity will be at -20 (The scale goes from -20 to 20. Negatives are more sane.)
(Alabaster and Art rolled an 18 and a 17 respectively. The numbers were so close, the DM gave us both a point for sanity.)
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DM: So, you guys are at the bar, having a grand old time. The bartender, for each of you, looks like you’re ideal sexual partner.
Koejin’s Player: (laugh) does that mean Art’s is just Ticket Master?
Me:..... yeaaahhhhhhh.....
DM, looks at Alabaster’s player knowingly: And what’s Alabaster’s?
Alabaster’s Player: A giraffe with Jeff Goldblum’s head.
Everyone: (laughing)
Me: Can anyone else see that? Cuz Art might be judging his best friend if he can.
DM: Nope, you can only see your own. But you guys are having a good time. Alabaster and Wreybar are understanding they both have a similar history and have been through a lot of the same issues. That starts to bring them closer. Hennessy and Art; you two now understand there is more to one another that you didn’t know before. You feel as though you’re coming to terms with one another. And, Theodora and Koejin. The two of you understand now that the past should be left in the past. There is a lot to work on, but you’re on the right track.
....(Personally, I think this would have been the perfect time for Ticket Master to send us back and let that be the end of the session. We were all closer than before and all that.... but the DM had a different plan.)
DM: The bartender shifts from your ideal partners to Ticket Master... So, he stays the same for Art.
Ticket Master: Well, now that you’re all closer, I’d say this is a time well spent. Now, here’s something you can do for me. (He slides a blank piece of paper in front of everyone.) When you’re ready, all you need to do is sign the bottom. No rush.
Art: (Sees the actual contract and decides to keep it to himself.)
Theodora: (Takes out a cigar that Ticket Master gave her and hands it back to him.) Here, so you’ll have a last smoke (she throws the contract back) when I kill you.
Ticket Master, frowning(A rare occurrence):... you shouldn’t have done that.
Me: Oh shit...
Koejin’s Player: Byyyeee Theodora....
Alabaster’s Player: (covering his mouth) nononono
Ticket Master: (his face opens up to reveal unspeakable horrors. Tentacles move out to grab for Theodora and drive her to complete insanity.)
Wreybar: (Moves in the way to share some of the insanity. Both are now insane, but Theodora is at least able to function.)
Alabaster: (Casts create or destroy water over them. I think the purpose was to get Ticket Master away from them. Don’t remember; was pretty drunk.)
DM: Oh god... shit! No...(Sigh) well, I need to follow my own rules... As the water comes down, you see a giant minotaur come from the ground behind Ticket Master. It’s Shmoogie. Ticket Master stops what he’s doing but, before he can say anything beyond “you don’t-”, Shmoogie grabs him and tears him apart. In Shmoogie’s hand, you see Ticket Master’s face. He’s saying “You have no idea what you’ve done!” Then, Shmoogie crushes it.
Shmoogie: You’ve all done well. We will deal with him now; no need to worry.
Skelly, at Shmoogie’s side: Yeah, we did good!
Theodora: Skelly! How do you know our buddy, Shmoogie?
Skelly: Well, I like sand. And I don’t have any memories, but would really like to have some so.... God of Sand and Memories.
(Shmoogie then disappears back into wherever he came from.)
Koejin: Well, good work team! No more Ticket Master.
Art, who isn’t the happiest about this turn of events:.... but now we’re stuck here.
Koejin: That sounds like a problem for Next week Koejin!
(And this is where we left off. I have conflicted feelings about this situation. Art is.... a little less conflicted than me....)
DM: Oh shit! I almost forgot!... you guys are sitting around, thinking about everything that just happened and, suddenly.... Art dabs.
Art:.... (hating his life and his creator)
Theodora: Art..... you’re so dated.....
(Context: Me and the DM are close. So close that we have a tendency to argue about anything and everything. This doesn’t work when I’m a player in his campaign. Which means, he decided that, inspired by a miniature I just bought, any time I say no to something DND related, Art has to dab. It’s a stupid little thing, but a thing nevertheless.)
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Under the cut I’m gonna put a run down of each of the pictures I’ve put in this post, so have a read if you’re curious! Most of the people who commissioned me aren’t on tumblr but I’ve tagged who I can!
First off is Bayeauxfyrez (pronounced Bay Of Fires) who is my housemate’s goliath fighter character. Bayeauxfyrez hasn’t explained the skulls all over him in game yet but I got the info ooc for this effort; his twelve children all died in a fire and he wears their bones to remember them. He also specified a “body no weaker than Jason Momoa’s” and that he has a bandana around his mouth that has DTF on it.
Next is Rellen, a green dragonborn NPC who owns the shop that sells all the non magical stuff you can buy. He was severely burnt and wounded in a situation that he doesn’t like to discuss.
Next up is Quellen’kenu, the necromancer who is half genie, a homebrew race from my dad’s dnd group. He wears denim overalls and I’m overjoyed by him.
Then we have Lerissa, the half tiefling sorcerer NPC who casts Simulacrum every weekend so that her copy can handle the store front while the og Lerissa makes the potions they sell that need her full time attention. The spell costs $1500, but she makes it back in selling the potions she crafts in that time, plus she likes the look of herself.
Next is Kaimbree Harlow, commissioned by @clickthing who took tiefling stats but is a humanoid unicorn rogue. Her character is super bright and very religious, more so than the cleric, which is good fun in game.
Then there’s my character, Cavendish, the elf bard who plays a didgeridoo and likes to fight with his daggers in combat and uses his spells outside of combat. I love him, he’s a bit of an idiot and shouldn’t be involved in planning conversations but he is!
Second last is Jester from Critical Role’s Mighty Nein campaign. She’s a tiefling cleric under the trickster domain.
And lastly is the program that got me into dnd, it’s The Adventure Zone! It’s Kravitz and Taako being sappy nerds cos they’re in love. They’re a bard grim reaper of indeterminate species, and an elf wizard.
