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[unidentifiedspoon]

What is your ideal ending for all your DnD OCs whose campaigns didn’t formally wrap up? (This is lowkey an excuse about Nation in particular, but anybody you wanna talk about also counts!)

ogh my god okay. okay. this is the ask i've been waiting for my whole life. i was born for this. bless you. hell yeah. yes

(sits at computer motionless for 15 minutes with not a thought in my head)

nation is probably the one who like. Needs that happy ending the most y'all they are this close 👌 at any given time. so they are in fact topping three very important charts—needs a happy ending real bad, Deserves a happy ending real bad, and has a really straightforward happy ending lmao. i've dragged their ass out of their original campaign but their good ending looks the same—they settle down with someone who loves them close to their family, they have Many kids when they're ready, and they get to be silly sometimes. they love their huge grey daughter and their huge beautiful wife but also they need like...idk. five years to go to therapy. and learn that it is okay being a vampire, which everyone who loves them has been trying to teach them for years loal

pax and lilyvalley both are so so so dependent on their stories and there's a lot of possible ideals. pax.....idk i can see her on a courier ship. the kind of guy you pay one billion gold to bc she will make Sure your stuff gets where it's going. and she retires bonkers rich and grey haired and ripped with her equally ripped wife and knits sweaters

lilyvalley.......gets a business degree and is good at it

josephine bless her was a curse of strahd baby and i know zero things about curse of strahd so. idk. she finishes her dissertation and becomes the kind of professor who takes all her students on adventuring field trips probably

pasture, tahirah, and trillion never really got to be like. People

tick my beloved kleptomaniac teen. i think she manages to work out some of her issues w her mom and siblings, she actually goes to school for antique appraisal and becomes a crazy ol lady who runs the most kickass infinitely gigantic room of requirement type antique store in all the planes

rig is in my brain in what is technically an AU but who cares. his ex gets killed and he kills his patron and marries his beloved idiot voyage and they adopt their daughters and HE GETS UNPURPLE'D WAHOO

and shoutout to corona for actually Getting the ideal ending: almost everyone they loved had long, connected lives, and her best friend will live forever with her :)))

[lichfucker]

Hello please take this as an excuse to go off about cat mom bc I am Intrigued by Wander now 👀

sldjkfslkdfc thank you for enabling me iz 🥰🥰

wandering eye is a mountain lion tabaxi scout rogue and her stats are terrible but she's SO fast. I made her as my backup character for ingot after the very first session of reforged bc jd had been talking about what a shame it was that none of us were playing rogues lmfao. in like session six or something the party ran into wander while out traveling, and jd played her as an npc, and I've been sitting on the fact that that was me the whole time for the past four years.

wander grew up in an insular tabaxi community in the mountains that devoutly worshipped eyhemet, the g-d of the sun and fate and harmony (a cat lying in the sun is a holy experience). one morning when she was seven years old, the wind blew just right, and she locked eyes with a girl named sunrise over ashen peaks (ash for short, a snow leopard), and they both knew. fate had struck. they were destined for each other. they got married in their late teens, and ash became a cleric.

the continent where reforged takes place has a mountain range splitting it down the middle, and the two nations on either side of the mountains have been at war for the past fifty years, with the entire mountain range being disputed territory or active war zones or otherwise difficult to cross. one day when wander and ash were in their early twenties, a goblin refugee stumbled into town, seeking help to pass through the mountains. wander and ash volunteered-- wander being fast and quiet and knowing the land better than anyone, and ash being strong and protective and having healing magic made them the perfect pair for the job. so they did it. and they kept doing it. they built their lives around smuggling people across the border in both directions.

eventually ash got into a bit of strife with her g-d and they broke their faith. they met suri (one of the campaign's major npcs), a follower of the secret g-d of thieves, the unnamed thirteenth. suri told them she was planning to start a thieves' guild in the capital city and asked them to join, so they did. they found their new home in the city, and their new home in the unnamed thirteenth.

wander and ash kept doing their transport work, constantly traveling. when they were in town, they'd be surrogate moms to all the ruffians joining the guild, but they were usually gone, especially as the war continued. one day they were sneaking a prisoner out of the capital, but he changed his mind about the destination halfway through the trip, which ultimately led to them getting caught. wander was quick enough to break away from the cops, but ash... wasn't. ash was imprisoned in a magical tower designed to make people forget about their loved ones inside. soon enough the details of their existence just fade from your memory.

by the current point in the campaign, they're in their mid-40s and ash has been locked up for about five years. most people by now have forgotten all about ash. but not wander. nobody knows why. maybe it's a gift from the unnamed thirteenth. maybe it's a gift from eyhemet. maybe it's something stranger than that. but wander remembers. she dresses for stealth and concealment, but she always leaves her wedding band visible. she talks in the plural-- always saying "we," "us," and "our" instead of "I," "me," and "my"-- as a constant reminder that there should be someone beside her. she has extremely high dex and charisma but all the rest of her stats are garbage because those are all ash's skills and wander is incomplete without her.

wander has the keen mind feat and burns all written correspondence as soon as she's read it. all written correspondence she sends includes instructions to burn it, too. do not keep traceable evidence of her existence, and do not ever use her name. if anyone asks, her name is sight unseen, and her wife is named mist on the horizon. (for security, she doesn't use anyone else's name, either-- she refers to everyone by coded monikers and nicknames and epithets.) the government made sunrise over ashen peaks a ghost; wandering eye has become a shadow in kind.

basically, wander is an excuse for me to cry every time I listen to skeleton key by dessa.

[northern-passage]

For no particular reason, I wanted to let you know that I absolutely love how you're doing gender in this IF, like oh my g-d. Four trans ROs, all of whom do gender differently, makes my heart absolutely soar. (As an aside, I also really liked how the hunter could choose how religious/observant of faith they are. The phrasing of "any port in a storm, and there always seems to be a fucking storm" was absolutely delightful to me. I already knew my MC wouldn't exactly be pious but does believe to some extent, and I loved the freedom to include that textually!)

thank you Isidore 💖

and that choice about how devout your hunter is (if they are at all) is something that will come back up again. it's a tracked variable 😇 all of the companions also have their own relationship with the gods, which are all hinted at in their Blackwater branches.

[sleepyspoonie]

d&d A team and B team! aka the seekers and hot girl summer

that pretty much sums up the two parties in a nutshell, lmao

[narrativefoiltrope]

What's Alex's favourite outfit to wear while running errands? What's his go-to gas station/corner store purchase? Does he collect any particular trinkets?

thank you iz! <3

YES i love questions about alex's wardrobe omfg. he likes layers and comfort, so he'd wear something like this for running errands:

but with sneakers!

fave corner shop snack: irn bru, salt & vinegar crisps, and whatever gummy snack is on discount

trinkets: he doesn't really collect anything On Purpose, but ends up with a lot of useless shit that friends and hookups have left at his place and never come back for lmao

[beetlebethwrites]

Hey everybody (including weirdo brothers)! What's your favourite place to go when you're celebrating a huge milestone or accomplishment?

Matt easily slips into speaking first, "I know it's pretty obvious of me to say but I love to go into the countryside and do a hike. It's a good way to get out into my favourite places knowing that I don't have anything to think about."

Alex's grin is shit-eating as they meet Matt's eyes without a flinch. "I would just go to a bar. Buy us a round, go home with someone, the usual kind of thing."

"That does sound pretty good," Char agrees, nodding along. "I prefer a smaller pub usually, a few friends and somewhere that does pretty good food. Add in a kebab or a chip butty on the way home after some music and that's a perfect night."

"I would prefer a night at home with maybe a takeaway. Or the cinema?" Eve's voice is quiet as she cuts in before a discussion about the best local bars sparks between Alex and Charlie.

Jordan's eyes light up as they nod along with her, "I love the cinema but when I'm celebrating something really big I usually get my hair done. Ronnie does it for me and it takes a long time, sometimes up to eight hours depending on what she does so that's a big treat."

Bo-yeon hums as everyone's eyes turn to them. "I might treat myself to something I wouldn't usually buy or do for myself. Perhaps a theatre show or a good meal. The kind of thing that you'd enjoy as a gift."

"There's an Italian that I really like just around the way," Ben nods, the sage word of an older brother cutting through your friends, "We've been there for birthdays since we were kids but it still feels special to me even though I know it's not that expensive or good now."

[risualto]

👾 x3 for three songs you wanna talk about!

Thank you for asking!

I'll give you three different characters: Rebecca Joos from Speaker, Montgomery von Calliston Radcliffe from a D&D game, and Rihnkiki Rihnki from FFXIV.

For Rebecca: "How Can I Keep from Singing?" by Enya

While though the tempest loudly roars I hear the truth; it liveth [...] No storm can shake my inmost calm While to that rock I'm clinging Since love is lord of heaven and earth How can I keep from singing?

This song is really important to Rebecca because it represents her general outlook towards life. She's very focused on the ideas of truth and understanding the world rationally, but she's not un-emotional. Her emotions and sensitivity drive her as much as her curiosity, and she wants the world to make sense for the people around her as much as for herself.

For Montgomery: "Miss Me" by Andy Grammer

Punch drunk on a feeling Lost in believing, I was sure [...] I know there will come a time When I look you in the eyes And say I told you so And I promise you this: You're going to miss me

I know I've mentioned this many times before, but this song is just so, so perfect for Montgomery as a character. He very much started his journey desperate to prove himself, purely to be able to spite the people who had hurt him and ignored him. But he ended up becoming someone who he knew they would regret not having supported, and yet he became that person and has set himself on this new journey of growth for the joy of the people who are with him. I'm so proud of him, honestly. He could never have imagined himself being as happy as he is now at the beginning because he had no concept of that sort of self-love, but now he not only has it, he's capable of helping other people to find it in themselves.

For Inky: "After the Fire" by Carole & Tuesday

'Cause after the fire New maps are drawn Nothing to cry for New dreams are born Out of the ruins Flowers will grow People rebuilding Stone by stone

This song is very Inky. She comes into her adventure when the world is in a lot of trouble, and it seems like every time she manages to be part of something that makes things better, the embers of the past catch fire again and again and again and start burning things back down. But she refuses to give up because she sees all of it as growth. She can't solve the world's problems by herself, but she can see a little flower out of place and make sure it blooms, and then that flower might inspire someone else to plant a new garden, and so on. She believes so strongly in the resilience and goodness of people, even when no one else can or will.

[witchofthewild]

I Absolutely wanna know about James being a feral child. And if I can submit a second one: “damn, again?”

James was a feral child Jorah hears the commotion in the courtyard before he sees it. By the time he rushes out into the yard, someone has already restrained his apprentice.

“I’ll kill you, touch me again and I’m going to fucking kill you!” James screams the words, voice breaking. He struggles violently against the two men holding him back, catching one of them in the jaw with a sharp elbow.

Damn, again? “Please I can’t lose you again, I can’t-” Ortega rocks as he cradles Lewis.

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