♥ (01) Is your OC in love? If so, with whom, and for how long?
Our dorky demon is indeed in love uwu
He has been in love with Aderyn for a few years. At first, he just thought she was really pretty and strong, and without knowing why, he really wanted to spend time with her. Then his feelings deepened and he eventually fell in love with her. He's currently so in love with his raven queen that he has trouble hiding it.
♥ (02) Does another OC love your OC? If so, whom, and does your OC know?
Eheheh Silver Jack is really charismatic and charming, so a lot of people developed a crush on him. But the only person who has serious feelings for him is Aderyn, she just doesn't want to admit it and Silver Jack is not aware of it yet.
♥ (08) What is your OC’s dream marriage proposal?
Well, um... Marriage is actually not a thing for demons. They just don't see the point of it. "Why do you think we should do this? I thought our couple was official? Is it not already ???" He would just freak out and honestly, he wouldn't want to marry anyone. Just living with you and being loved is largely enough for him.
(From in-between two Party-Partay [formerly Chode Kickers] sessions as an intro to the city)
As the train drew close to Brindol a voice crackled through enchanted pipes throughout the train: “We will soon be arriving in Bridol, Ladies & Gentlemen, for the annual Celebration of the Sun! This year marks the 500 year anniversary of the Champions of Bahamut driving evil from our land!!” The pipes burst with confetti and pyrotechnics to the delight of the crowd, though some of our heroes were less than impressed.
As the train pulled to a stop at Brindol station Rexx grew uneasy; an unruly crowd of brightly dressed forms filled the station and Rexx instinctively flexed his claws, not used to the kind of things he was seeing. The train let out an angry hiss of steam as it came to a full stop and the doors to the compartment slid open noiselessly. Rexx crashed out of the doors into the crowd, only to be met with delighted peoples who took his paws and danced away with him.
Before long Rexx found himself merrily dancing and singing in the center of a great ring of people under a massive tent. As he tried to find a way to knock down the support pillars a creature of beauty crossed his vision; A majestic bear of a towering 11 feet danced atop a striped ball while men in makeup danced to creepy pipe-music. Unwilling to see such a beautiful shifter-woman in captivity, Rexx grabbed the bear, straddled her like a horse, and rode through the wall of the tent and to freedom. Overcome with feelings of euphoric love like he had never felt before (turns out weed is quite common within the walls of Brindol and the entire circus tent was a massive hot-box), Rexx steered the now gladly-free shifter woman to the biggest church so that they could be connected through ceremony that night.
It was there he encountered Shroomer smoking on the steps, and it is there we shall join our heroes at the start of our next session.
• Stormy’s Dance:
Stormy wandered the train freely, and although the occasionally over-sheltered human would recoil at the sight of her, her winning charm spread joy to each car of the train (excepting the caboose; the party had shoved the Very-High Rexx in there to sleep it off until they reached the city of Brindol). Delighted to learn that the city would be celebrating their arrival (that wasn’t really what they were celebrating, but that’s what Stormy chose to hear), Stormy quickly found a seat at the front of the train closest to the door, shooing away a glaring granny to secure her own seat.
As the doors opened to the marvelous city of Brindol Stormy rejoiced to see a waiting crowd of jolly people gaily singing and dancing, welcoming the train riders to the festival. Quickly forgetting why they came to Brindol (it seemed unimportant?) Stormy dived in to the party with a ferocity normally reserved for battle. The brightly dressed women dance and sang and quickly formed a circle around Stormy, and as the dance broadened and contracted in rhythm Stormy lost herself to the dance and partied through the night.
It was only after awakening in the bed of the city’s regent that Stormy remembered the reason they had come to Brindol. …something about the shield was important. It was hard to recall, but the bronze and supple form of the human under her seemed much more relevant at the time.
When the regent awakes he will (embarrassedly, he is not supposed to “sleep around”) guide Stormy down to the church to meet with the rest of the group.
• Echs’ Meditation:
The idea of a raucous party did not much interest Echs, though the promise of cheap booze and loose ladies softened his scales a modicum. Informed that the city had no proper temple to Bahamut, Echs would have to console himself with a quite space. As the train pulled in to station Echs gracefully slithered out the top of the train through an emergency escape vent and leaped from roof-top to roof-top over the clamor of the city.
Echs could see the coils and scale of the grand party throughout the entire city, and climbed ever higher over rooftops to see more of the city and to escape the sound. Spying a tall spire on the tallest hill, Echs reasoned that if he could not find a temple to his god, then the closer he could get to the heavens the better. Easily scaling the walls of the tower, Echs was soon able to see the entire city below him, spanning out over acres and glowing with festivity.
Concentrating on his holy symbol Echs attuned his mind to the divine, sending his thoughts to Bahamut and centering himself. As Echs moved through the Dragon’s Dance form to align his chakras he felt the brush of the divine utter him a warning; war is coming. As Echs continued his Kata he received a final message; the five-headed dragon god, Tiamat, was coming to destroy the world. This stunning fist of truth tripped the dragonborn off of his feet, ungracefully tumbling down the roof and onto a landing 20 ft below.
Though he fell as a feather Echs still managed to land roughly at the feet of a terrified night watchmen. And this is where we will leave off for Echs to join the party.
• Silver Jack’s Song:
His mind still buzzing with the prophecy given to him by the Shardmind, Jack found himself apprehensive as the train stopped in Brindol. He now knew that he had found his epic, and that he would play a critical role in the fate of the vale itself. The pressure on Jack drove him to seek out the wet bar in his private suite, acquired after a noblewoman (drunk off her corset on elf-wine) gave up her space in exchange for a song (which she fell asleep before Jack could reach the bridge).
Glad to have a festival to take his mind off the fate of the world, Jack calmly walked into the crowded streets, keeping tabs on the rest of the party. Soon enough Jack was swept up in the festivities and found himself among a score of other bards, clearly 1st and 2nd year practitioners, and with a few plucks of his songbow had the crowd eating out of his palm. Jack led the party through the streets, taking a woman in each arm in favor of singing rather than plucking his own strings. It will be up to Jack to decide when he wishes to leave the company of the ladies and return to the group, though the following dawn will reveal that both ladies were not nearly as lovely in the dawn than in the dusk (i.e. he thought their seperate charisma scores were 18, when they were actually 18 only when combined)
• Shroomer’s Garden:
Shroomer, taking no pleasure in the idea of a cacophonic bacchanal politely requested from the engineer for directions to their actual goal the church of Pelor in Brindol. As soon as the train began to slow Shroomer, glaring at the gaily colored crowd, dived from the train’s window before it could stop at the station and made haste for the church, presuming this compatriots would soon follow. Reaching the churchyard just as the last of the sun’s rays crested over the domed cathedral, Shroomer found an odd pocket of serenity in the small garden in the foyer of the church. A young (for an elf) elf woman nervously paced the path of the garden, noticeably wearing a groove into the grass.
Not one to take such a slight against nature laying down, Shroomer lied down and began to load a bowl in his pipe before beckoning the young woman over. She introduced herself as [X], the very woman we had come to this city to see. She gladly sat with Shroomer, though she accepted the pipe with some reticence. After time Shroomer and the Woman realized they were alone in the church and that the party was not likely to make it this way this evening, and so Shroomer and [X] spent the night staying up and talking, a very rewarding experience for both of them.
Shroomer, being in the right place, will not have to go anywhere at the start of the session, and will instead need to wait for the other party members to show up in the following order: Rex (+1), Echs, Stormy, and finally Silver Jack well after dawn.
