#kade roth

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Some of the assets I created for the tavern games Mission: Bring Back the Tavernkeeper and Journey to the Center of the Mind.

WILD things happened in these games. From character deaths to discovering Chloe Tavernkeeper's secret lore, I had immense fun DMing both of these and I'm so proud of my players for their outstanding performances.

Now, for context:

The gargoyle was part of a visual puzzle based on the finger puzzle in Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge. I ran the puzzle in real-time using a pngtuber system to swap out his hand shape.

The terrifying lady with that god awful colour palette is The Producer, the construct that controls Chloe's mind (not always in the best way). She's a combination of the things Chloe fears: Nyx, The Defect, and herself.

The piece with the bridge and the airship wasn't actually done for the game, but I drew it afterward because I was so brainrotted about revealing my new character, Kade, and his connection to Chloe. For more about him, see this post.

Lastly, the robot lady was designed by me and then digitized and rendered BEAUTIFULLY by @the-luckyrabbit and I am forever grateful for the help. She's the 1st AD, and her job in Chloe's mind is to keep things moving smoothly and manage the different parts of her brain.

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Kade Roth Reference

My sweet, charismatic steampunk guy. Where do I even begin with Kade? He's an artificer with a knack for magical firearms and machinery. His lifelong dream was to invent a way to fly, so he eventually built an airship from scratch that could sail the skies.

He began as a character in Chloe the Tavernkeeper's backstory that I created out of necessity. I had begun thinking about why she was so closed off and had a sort of aversion to making new friends, and I decided that she needed someone in her past that she opened up to, only to lose them. At the time, I wasn't sure if that meant they would betray her or if she would literally lose them. Eventually, I landed on the latter.

Kade Roth's story with Chloe was inspired by a real experience I had on the Galactic Starcruiser, that super expensive Star Wars hotel that Disney made a few years ago. I was lucky enough to attend and fell deep into one of the character's storyline: Raithe Kole. He was a scoundrel and recruited me to be his right hand woman for a heist he was pulling on the cruise ship.

That story alone sparked what would become Chloe the Tavernkeeper's backstory with Kade Roth. In brief: they worked at the Nightreach together (thieves organization), became good friends, sort of became more than friends but never really addressed it directly, and then they were sent on a mission together. That mission? Pulling a heist on a zeppelin. Except unlike the heist I pulled on the Halcyon with Raithe, this heist went very very wrong. In the end, Kade didn't make it out alive. Distraught, Chloe ran away from her life at the Nightreach and blocked herself out from the world. It was during this time of grief that she found the means to create The Scarlet Owl Tavern, and thus created the place that we all know and love now.

I created Kade to be a combination of many of my favorite characters and someone that would be the perfect partner for Chloe Tavernkeeper (you know, to make losing him hurt even more). This worked out a little too well, since now I (and many others) adore him so much that I am distraught he's canonically dead. That doesn't stop us from putting him in AUs though!

He did make one canon appearance in Journey to the Center of the Mind, since that took place in Chloe the Tavernkeeper's brain Psychonauts-style. It was the first time I had ever revealed him to my tavern group, and their reactions were worth the year of secrecy I suffered as I developed his character.