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<blockquote data-quote="Worldres" data-source="post: 9000253" data-attributes="member: 7029564"><p>Hello again, everyone! It's almost been a year since my last post, oops. We're still going strong; partway through The Grinding Gears of Heaven, and I STILL haven't finished The Last Starry Sky write-up. Oof. In my defense, I got married, finished my PhD courses, and have been studying for my candidacy exam... but I still haven't missed a Zeitgeist Tuesday! Zeitgeist is consistently the bright spot in my week, and I'm having a crisis about it being over soon. I seriously won't know what to do with myself when it ends. </p><p></p><p>However, my players said they will go rogue and start coming into this thread if I don't post something to get myself back into the swing of updates, so, uh. What can I talk about that won't take me a super long time to write? Uh. Um. Hmmm...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">INTERMISSION</span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>[ATTACH=full]282741[/ATTACH]</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Bonds of Forced Faith 2 - Electric Boogaloo: Even the King Can't Figure Out How Risur Still in Business</strong></p><p></p><p>So Gatria's player, GS, decided she wanted to DM The Bonds of Forced Faith as a Halloweenmas Special for her buddies. Now, the difference between my current game group "A", and GS's tabletop group "B", is that GS and I have been playing an ongoing game with "B" for ten years, whereas, while I have been friends with everyone in "A" for just as long, not all of them have actually played in a tabletop game before this.</p><p></p><p>So, GS and I finally got to see what happens when you put close friends who have practice roleplaying together for over a decade in one room and just let them loose on eachother, with no potential for hurt feelings. Gatria asked if I would play Tomas for every bit of the religious extremist he is. As you can probably tell, I love to stir the pot, so agreed.</p><p></p><p>It was an incredible time, far and away the best One Shot I have ever been in.</p><p></p><p>We had enough players for every character in BoFF. Gatria assigned King Lorcan to our friend Alex, who is saintly sweet, and Dame Melissa to his wife, who is delightfully mischievous. Opposites attract? Roland was assigned to someone who has THE most incredible poker face, and Harkover was given to our genre-savvy friend who took one look at his sheet and said "ah, he is a Dragon who made a secret Pact with the King." Amielle's player was given to one of the best RPers I have ever met, and as soon as she hit the stage, she came out swinging with this:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]282732[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Cowboy Amielle Latimer. Amielle Latimer with a full Southern accent, not one slip. GS and I were stunned into speechlessness. My players were privately spectating and asked me if I could retcon everyone in Danor into having a southern accent. I refused.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, Amielle's player, Megan, was super into her. Like, go big or go home invested, just as much as GS was when she played her in my campaign. Megan was <em>so </em>invested that she wrote a 90,000 word novel about Amielle after the game (though it crossed over with our homebrew campaign, so it wasn't canon compliant. Still!). Amielle Latimer has the freaking secret sauce! Everyone who plays her seems to love her. If I ever do Zeitgeist NG+, I'm inviting Megan to play Ameille and turning her loose, like I did in my first game.</p><p></p><p>So, things went fairly normal until the Gang killed the Red Contessa - and then everything went straight to hell.</p><p></p><p>The Contessa messed the King up with a vicious curse, and Amielle made a desperate attempt to save him by IVing her own freaking blood into him to try and neutralize it. Once the Contessa was dead and the hurricane started up, I decided to have Tomas make a break for her scroll, and basically do the whole "Gollum with the One Ring" thing once he got it - he broke into a wide grin and laughed joyously, knowing he was about to be elevated to Cardinal. In my mind, this was just a little celebration before he went and healed the King, but...</p><p></p><p>Melissa and Roland thought that this was so incredibly suspicious that they cornered him and demanded he hand it over to them. Tomas refused, and said that the only person he answered to was Triegenes.</p><p></p><p>Roland got real close, grabbed Tomas by the collar, looked him in the eye, and shouted: "I don't believe in your ****ing God."</p><p></p><p>Then Melissa stole the scroll. Tomas grabbed it and tried to throw Melissa off the mountain. Roland straight-up started wounding to kill Tomas, and told Melissa to help kill him.</p><p></p><p>I will now post some screenshots from "Spectators of Forced Faith," a private chat with my Zeitgeist Group.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]282734[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The King, this entire time, is on death's door. Amielle, literally feeding her own blood into the King through the most desperate emergency medicine you've ever seen, yelled at everyone to keep it together, which got ignored. Hurricane raging this entire time. Harkover, blown across the map, too far away to intervene in either conflict. This left Lorcan no one to give the Crown to except Amielle... who vehemently refused it. The King replied that if she didn't want to be Queen, she better make sure he survives long enough to find someone else.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]282737[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Don't worry, Megan never found out that Amielle is a Ghost in the full game.</span></p><p></p><p>Amielle immediately screamed to everyone that Tomas was under her protection, that Roland and Melissa were going to Stop attacking him, and that Tomas was going to come over here and save the King with his Divine magic RIGHT NOW. Tomas answered that he would, indeed, save the King - but only if Amielle could guarantee that he would make it down the mountain with his scroll. Amielle promised him that if he saved the King's life, she'd accompany him down the mountain herself, and would shoot anyone who tried to stop him.</p><p></p><p>Melissa almost turned and took out Amielle right then and there, but kept her rage together.</p><p></p><p>Tomas turned curse upon himself, but unfortunately, on the last possible turn, I reached 0 HP and died. </p><p></p><p>Amielle responded by silently walking over to Tomas, lifting his body into her arms, and princess-carrying his corpse down the Hill. When Melissa asked what she was doing, Amielle responded: "I made him a promise. He and his scroll get to the bottom the mountain. And I'll shoot anyone who gets in my way." And then she walked off into the sunrise...</p><p></p><p>The King survived for a short while, but because Amielle's attempt at emergency medicine went poorly, he died of complications within one week - long enough to desperately try to coach Melissa into a better Queen. It Did Not Go Well, but that's a story for another day...</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]282735[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Gatria, the DM, is literally just sitting there. Laughing at us. She hasn't said a single thing in over an hour. She just sat back and let it all go.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It was awesome.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]282736[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Even though I had just gotten married months prior, my wife didn't seem to be offended by this statement.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">MORE TREATS</span></strong></p><p></p><p>So my wife has just straight up decided to do an entire painting series for this game, featuring each of the player characters and an NPC. Here's the first three she's completed:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]282739[/ATTACH]</p><p>Hoya and Duplicant!Xambria</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]282740[/ATTACH]</p><p>Cleone and Nathan. When a Deva and a Tiefling have children, we decided that the cursed bloodline and the Devan divinity neutralize eachother, and they come out as a normal human... Surprise!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]282738[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Gatria and her not-so-secret affair with Morgan Cipiano's daughter, Antonia.</span></p><p></p><p>--</p><p></p><p>Finally, one of my players, Steph, who plays Cleone, <a href="https://zeitgeistier.fandom.com/wiki/Special:AllPages" target="_blank">made a wiki for the game that you can find by clicking here</a>! Hopefully other players haven't been creeping on it and getting spoiled. I would say not to read this if you are a player and haven't finished a campaign, but if you are, what are you even doing in here?</p><p></p><p>She's put a lot of love and care into it, and is extremely consistent about posting articles, summaries, and notes as they happen, which is way more than I can say about my write-ups, hah. That said, there's so many microchanges I have made to the narrative that our notes might be impenetrable to outsiders (like, Kvarti is, just, straight up someone else in my game.)... Still, I wanted to highlight her effort!</p><p>Especially this excerpt from my favourite article:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]282733[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I'll try to post The Last Starry Sky by the end of May! See you all again, real soon!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]282731[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Hoya and the Adamantium Giant <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Worldres, post: 9000253, member: 7029564"] Hello again, everyone! It's almost been a year since my last post, oops. We're still going strong; partway through The Grinding Gears of Heaven, and I STILL haven't finished The Last Starry Sky write-up. Oof. In my defense, I got married, finished my PhD courses, and have been studying for my candidacy exam... but I still haven't missed a Zeitgeist Tuesday! Zeitgeist is consistently the bright spot in my week, and I'm having a crisis about it being over soon. I seriously won't know what to do with myself when it ends. However, my players said they will go rogue and start coming into this thread if I don't post something to get myself back into the swing of updates, so, uh. What can I talk about that won't take me a super long time to write? Uh. Um. Hmmm... [SIZE=7][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=7]INTERMISSION[/SIZE] [ATTACH type="full"]282741[/ATTACH] Bonds of Forced Faith 2 - Electric Boogaloo: Even the King Can't Figure Out How Risur Still in Business[/B] So Gatria's player, GS, decided she wanted to DM The Bonds of Forced Faith as a Halloweenmas Special for her buddies. Now, the difference between my current game group "A", and GS's tabletop group "B", is that GS and I have been playing an ongoing game with "B" for ten years, whereas, while I have been friends with everyone in "A" for just as long, not all of them have actually played in a tabletop game before this. So, GS and I finally got to see what happens when you put close friends who have practice roleplaying together for over a decade in one room and just let them loose on eachother, with no potential for hurt feelings. Gatria asked if I would play Tomas for every bit of the religious extremist he is. As you can probably tell, I love to stir the pot, so agreed. It was an incredible time, far and away the best One Shot I have ever been in. We had enough players for every character in BoFF. Gatria assigned King Lorcan to our friend Alex, who is saintly sweet, and Dame Melissa to his wife, who is delightfully mischievous. Opposites attract? Roland was assigned to someone who has THE most incredible poker face, and Harkover was given to our genre-savvy friend who took one look at his sheet and said "ah, he is a Dragon who made a secret Pact with the King." Amielle's player was given to one of the best RPers I have ever met, and as soon as she hit the stage, she came out swinging with this: [ATTACH type="full" width="491px" alt="howdy yall vr 2.png"]282732[/ATTACH] Cowboy Amielle Latimer. Amielle Latimer with a full Southern accent, not one slip. GS and I were stunned into speechlessness. My players were privately spectating and asked me if I could retcon everyone in Danor into having a southern accent. I refused. Anyway, Amielle's player, Megan, was super into her. Like, go big or go home invested, just as much as GS was when she played her in my campaign. Megan was [I]so [/I]invested that she wrote a 90,000 word novel about Amielle after the game (though it crossed over with our homebrew campaign, so it wasn't canon compliant. Still!). Amielle Latimer has the freaking secret sauce! Everyone who plays her seems to love her. If I ever do Zeitgeist NG+, I'm inviting Megan to play Ameille and turning her loose, like I did in my first game. So, things went fairly normal until the Gang killed the Red Contessa - and then everything went straight to hell. The Contessa messed the King up with a vicious curse, and Amielle made a desperate attempt to save him by IVing her own freaking blood into him to try and neutralize it. Once the Contessa was dead and the hurricane started up, I decided to have Tomas make a break for her scroll, and basically do the whole "Gollum with the One Ring" thing once he got it - he broke into a wide grin and laughed joyously, knowing he was about to be elevated to Cardinal. In my mind, this was just a little celebration before he went and healed the King, but... Melissa and Roland thought that this was so incredibly suspicious that they cornered him and demanded he hand it over to them. Tomas refused, and said that the only person he answered to was Triegenes. Roland got real close, grabbed Tomas by the collar, looked him in the eye, and shouted: "I don't believe in your ****ing God." Then Melissa stole the scroll. Tomas grabbed it and tried to throw Melissa off the mountain. Roland straight-up started wounding to kill Tomas, and told Melissa to help kill him. I will now post some screenshots from "Spectators of Forced Faith," a private chat with my Zeitgeist Group. [ATTACH type="full" width="589px" alt="boff1.png"]282734[/ATTACH] The King, this entire time, is on death's door. Amielle, literally feeding her own blood into the King through the most desperate emergency medicine you've ever seen, yelled at everyone to keep it together, which got ignored. Hurricane raging this entire time. Harkover, blown across the map, too far away to intervene in either conflict. This left Lorcan no one to give the Crown to except Amielle... who vehemently refused it. The King replied that if she didn't want to be Queen, she better make sure he survives long enough to find someone else. [ATTACH type="full"]282737[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Don't worry, Megan never found out that Amielle is a Ghost in the full game.[/SIZE] Amielle immediately screamed to everyone that Tomas was under her protection, that Roland and Melissa were going to Stop attacking him, and that Tomas was going to come over here and save the King with his Divine magic RIGHT NOW. Tomas answered that he would, indeed, save the King - but only if Amielle could guarantee that he would make it down the mountain with his scroll. Amielle promised him that if he saved the King's life, she'd accompany him down the mountain herself, and would shoot anyone who tried to stop him. Melissa almost turned and took out Amielle right then and there, but kept her rage together. Tomas turned curse upon himself, but unfortunately, on the last possible turn, I reached 0 HP and died. Amielle responded by silently walking over to Tomas, lifting his body into her arms, and princess-carrying his corpse down the Hill. When Melissa asked what she was doing, Amielle responded: "I made him a promise. He and his scroll get to the bottom the mountain. And I'll shoot anyone who gets in my way." And then she walked off into the sunrise... The King survived for a short while, but because Amielle's attempt at emergency medicine went poorly, he died of complications within one week - long enough to desperately try to coach Melissa into a better Queen. It Did Not Go Well, but that's a story for another day... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot_20230423_215503_Discord.png"]282735[/ATTACH] Meanwhile, Gatria, the DM, is literally just sitting there. Laughing at us. She hasn't said a single thing in over an hour. She just sat back and let it all go. It was awesome. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot_20230423_215319_Discord.png"]282736[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Even though I had just gotten married months prior, my wife didn't seem to be offended by this statement.[/SIZE] [B][SIZE=7]MORE TREATS[/SIZE][/B] So my wife has just straight up decided to do an entire painting series for this game, featuring each of the player characters and an NPC. Here's the first three she's completed: [ATTACH type="full"]282739[/ATTACH] Hoya and Duplicant!Xambria [ATTACH type="full"]282740[/ATTACH] Cleone and Nathan. When a Deva and a Tiefling have children, we decided that the cursed bloodline and the Devan divinity neutralize eachother, and they come out as a normal human... Surprise! [ATTACH type="full"]282738[/ATTACH] [SIZE=4]Gatria and her not-so-secret affair with Morgan Cipiano's daughter, Antonia.[/SIZE] -- Finally, one of my players, Steph, who plays Cleone, [URL='https://zeitgeistier.fandom.com/wiki/Special:AllPages']made a wiki for the game that you can find by clicking here[/URL]! Hopefully other players haven't been creeping on it and getting spoiled. I would say not to read this if you are a player and haven't finished a campaign, but if you are, what are you even doing in here? She's put a lot of love and care into it, and is extremely consistent about posting articles, summaries, and notes as they happen, which is way more than I can say about my write-ups, hah. That said, there's so many microchanges I have made to the narrative that our notes might be impenetrable to outsiders (like, Kvarti is, just, straight up someone else in my game.)... Still, I wanted to highlight her effort! Especially this excerpt from my favourite article: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Delft.png"]282733[/ATTACH] I'll try to post The Last Starry Sky by the end of May! See you all again, real soon! [ATTACH type="full" width="838px" alt="The Adamanteen Giant.png"]282731[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Hoya and the Adamantium Giant :p[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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