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<blockquote data-quote="Worldres" data-source="post: 8203707" data-attributes="member: 7029564"><p><strong>Session 0: “Explanation of Board Game Rules Peppered with Reassurances That It Will Be Fun.”</strong></p><p></p><p>We design our cast. They are:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]133075[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>Desdemona “Mona” Faellen-Brizside, 30, Kalashtar (homebrew pathfinder race) Skyseer Druid. </strong>The party mom. She cryptically foresaw her own death by exsanguination at the start of the campaign. She knows that her tenure with the RHC will kill her, but feels a strong sense of obligation to both Lanjyr and to the party. In truth, known only to me, she will die losing her mortality as she ascends to Godhood at the end of the campaign.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]133076[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>Cleone Weld, physically 40 but mentally 20, Once-human Deva Technologist Trapper. </strong>A technology specialist recruited from Danor after the tentative peace began. She took this opportunity to run away from encroaching memories of one of her past lives, where she knows she killed many people in cold blood. She considers herself a good person, and is terrified regaining her memories will make her responsible for some atrocity. In truth, known only to me, her previous incarnation was an Obscurati hitman who believed they were fulfilling a necessary evil to save the world.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]133077[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>Fijit “Hoya” Ipsworn, 40 (mentally 20), Gnome Spirit medium Archivist. </strong>An eccentric agent of chaos who wants to go everywhere and do everything. Was inspired to make a mark in the world by a childhood meeting with Tinker Oddcogg, with whom she travelled for nine years (y'know before he picked up the godmind urn). Got a lot of her quirks from him. Regularly changes her name to a random object she encounters, just for fun.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]133078[/ATTACH]</p><p>(<a href="https://twitter.com/coffinspell/status/1357105678884630530?s=20" target="_blank">Original comic</a>)</p><p></p><p><strong>Gatria, 21, Catfolk Martial Scientist Slayer/Rogue. </strong>As an infant, Gatria was stolen by the Cult of the Steel Lord to serve as a child soldier. She was liberated in her teens and given the option to study at a martial university to make something of herself. She left Ber to escape finishing her thesis, and started pick-pocketing in Flint, where she was recruited by Morgan Cipiano. Now a “Friend of The Family”, she is very close with Antonia Cipiano, Morgan’s only daughter (I aged up Morgan into his mid-forties, here). She was brought onto the team as a bodyguard after Family mole in the RHC was assassinated, and Morgan found himself suddenly bleeding RHC informants. She will eventually become head of the Family after her marriage to Antonia and Morgan’s retirement at the end of the game.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]133079[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Party NPC – <strong>Marcel Sterling</strong>, <strong>20, Human</strong> <strong>Docker Bard</strong>. A once-impoverished actor who played the women’s roles in an all-male acting company (a la how Shakespearean plays were originally staged). His coworker was my homebrew insertion of Flint’s Shakespeare equivalent, an infamously radical playwright named Gideon Ambrose. Marcel left the company in the fallout of a police-docker riot, where Marcel sold out some of his docker friends to save Gideon’s life. While most assume Marcel is just another self-obsessed bard, he cares <em>deeply</em> for the common people and took his recruitment in the RHC as an opportunity to redeem himself for his betrayal.</p><p></p><p>Because of past experiences, I know some players in my group are insecure about some party members being rewarded over others, so I'm making the party NPC King, and distributing his responsibilities equally across the party. So, Marcel will eventually be crowned King of Risur (I’m hoping in a last-ditch effort by Aodhan to keep the crown from the Ob), but will be jeered at by the house of nobles as a quasi “child-king”, likely narrowly missing the threshold to overturn his appointment. The party will be responsible for helping him manage his appointment as a group.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Worldres, post: 8203707, member: 7029564"] [B]Session 0: “Explanation of Board Game Rules Peppered with Reassurances That It Will Be Fun.”[/B] We design our cast. They are: [ATTACH type="full" alt="mona.png"]133075[/ATTACH] [B]Desdemona “Mona” Faellen-Brizside, 30, Kalashtar (homebrew pathfinder race) Skyseer Druid. [/B]The party mom. She cryptically foresaw her own death by exsanguination at the start of the campaign. She knows that her tenure with the RHC will kill her, but feels a strong sense of obligation to both Lanjyr and to the party. In truth, known only to me, she will die losing her mortality as she ascends to Godhood at the end of the campaign. [ATTACH type="full" alt="cleone.png"]133076[/ATTACH] [B]Cleone Weld, physically 40 but mentally 20, Once-human Deva Technologist Trapper. [/B]A technology specialist recruited from Danor after the tentative peace began. She took this opportunity to run away from encroaching memories of one of her past lives, where she knows she killed many people in cold blood. She considers herself a good person, and is terrified regaining her memories will make her responsible for some atrocity. In truth, known only to me, her previous incarnation was an Obscurati hitman who believed they were fulfilling a necessary evil to save the world. [ATTACH type="full" alt="hoya.png"]133077[/ATTACH] [B]Fijit “Hoya” Ipsworn, 40 (mentally 20), Gnome Spirit medium Archivist. [/B]An eccentric agent of chaos who wants to go everywhere and do everything. Was inspired to make a mark in the world by a childhood meeting with Tinker Oddcogg, with whom she travelled for nine years (y'know before he picked up the godmind urn). Got a lot of her quirks from him. Regularly changes her name to a random object she encounters, just for fun. [ATTACH type="full" alt="crimes vr 1 unfinished.png"]133078[/ATTACH] ([URL='https://twitter.com/coffinspell/status/1357105678884630530?s=20']Original comic[/URL]) [B]Gatria, 21, Catfolk Martial Scientist Slayer/Rogue. [/B]As an infant, Gatria was stolen by the Cult of the Steel Lord to serve as a child soldier. She was liberated in her teens and given the option to study at a martial university to make something of herself. She left Ber to escape finishing her thesis, and started pick-pocketing in Flint, where she was recruited by Morgan Cipiano. Now a “Friend of The Family”, she is very close with Antonia Cipiano, Morgan’s only daughter (I aged up Morgan into his mid-forties, here). She was brought onto the team as a bodyguard after Family mole in the RHC was assassinated, and Morgan found himself suddenly bleeding RHC informants. She will eventually become head of the Family after her marriage to Antonia and Morgan’s retirement at the end of the game. [ATTACH type="full" alt="marcel.jpg"]133079[/ATTACH] Party NPC – [B]Marcel Sterling[/B], [B]20, Human[/B] [B]Docker Bard[/B]. A once-impoverished actor who played the women’s roles in an all-male acting company (a la how Shakespearean plays were originally staged). His coworker was my homebrew insertion of Flint’s Shakespeare equivalent, an infamously radical playwright named Gideon Ambrose. Marcel left the company in the fallout of a police-docker riot, where Marcel sold out some of his docker friends to save Gideon’s life. While most assume Marcel is just another self-obsessed bard, he cares [I]deeply[/I] for the common people and took his recruitment in the RHC as an opportunity to redeem himself for his betrayal. Because of past experiences, I know some players in my group are insecure about some party members being rewarded over others, so I'm making the party NPC King, and distributing his responsibilities equally across the party. So, Marcel will eventually be crowned King of Risur (I’m hoping in a last-ditch effort by Aodhan to keep the crown from the Ob), but will be jeered at by the house of nobles as a quasi “child-king”, likely narrowly missing the threshold to overturn his appointment. The party will be responsible for helping him manage his appointment as a group. [/QUOTE]
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