k so. one of the first big games i played with my current meatspace gaming group was a really excellent post-apocalyptic homebrew game. really excellent. but it was also wild as hell, had a lot of players, and was the dmâs first big game, so it was at times a real exercise in controlled chaos. and my good bro willieâŠmy bro willie was kind of at the brunt of it. both in that he always to this day plays really chaotic characters that canât avoid trouble, and also in that due to that and other misfortunes he died like every other session towards the end. he went through five or six characters by the time the campaign was over. one didnât even last a full session. it was remarkable to witness actually.
but anyway, towards the end, the dm was fairly overwhelmed and dealing with a lot of other characters doing epic-level wasteland nonsense, and kinda threw reading willies backstories to the wayside. which was unfortunate for him, because willie hails from the â3 pages or moreâ school of backstories, and by this time in the campaign was coping with his charactersâ constant deaths by planning backup character well in advance, to the point where they all had intricate, complex connections to each previous character. so when he dies due to circumstances out of his control before the very last few sessions (the first but certainly not last character death he had due to betrayal: willie im still sorry) its not too suprising that he comes back as this brooding edgy darth vader guy with a five page backstory about how he had obtained a horrific nanosuit cyborg body, and the dm approves it, but sure as hell doesnât read the whole thing bc heâs planning the final confrontation at this point.
cut to the middle of the incredibly serious final session, where his character and my character and my characterâs children are fighting for their lives to escape the facility where they are currently caught in the crossfire between a raging, dying artificial intelligence and religiously zealous psychic juggernaut (long story). the dm is giving us a very bleak countdown of how long we have to get out before the whole place collapses but his character just turns to mine with a âdonât worry, just trust meâ and willie smiles, looks up at the dm, and is like, âi activiate my nanite body and turn into a motorcycleâ, which unfortunately was completely street legal with what heâd detailed in his backstory, so thatâs exactly what he fuckin did, as the dm put his head in his hands.
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