Acquana said:
Aw heck, toss 'em out! The basic idea for this thread is that I'm doing a drawing a day ... so I'm gonna be out of ideas now and again. I dont' mind getting requests, cuz when I got no other ideas, I still wanna be able to draw!
Well, I'll toss a few things out then.
I've been in a planescape campaign for nearly 3 years.(
Storyhour here) It's one of those rare games that you get into where all the PCs are deeply developed characters, the NPCs come across as living beings, the bad guys are truly loathed in and out of character, and the story is expansive. The DM won a 'rat bastard' award for making players cry in one particular scene. In otherwords, that sort of game you wish you could always play. We have far more writers than artists/hobby artists in the group though - so for all the wonderful evocative feel of the game - we've not gotten to get any of it put down visually. I'm going to toss a few ideas out with links to further details on them - mostly because I know I could go on and on and get really annoying if I tried to detail things.
If something sounds interesting, I'll write up the full descriptions for you.
The DM's birthday was on the 19th, so I'll toss up some ideas that i know he'd like to see first... his main 'personality' is Shemeska the Marauder. In fact he's the poster on ENword by the same name. An arcanaloth of far too much ego, and far far far too much power in Sigil. A crimelord and vain little thing.
His direct personal reflection in the game is Vorkannis the Ebon, an arcanaloth of a mysterious background and well - frankly - one of the most hated characters in the game. A wizard of ungodly power, and ambitious to an extreme.
His personal 'toy' in the game is Shylara the Manged. A psychoticly hateful wizardress arcanaloth. (Seeing a theme here? He earned the nickname 'Loth Boy' for a reason.) Her normal mode of dress consists of strategically placed blue ribbons. She has 'issues'.
Those are the characters he almost always begs for pictures of.
A little loving for others may be called for though, so here's a few other things:
The Blind Clockmaker This is a short story describing the event in the game that made the players cry. It made the DM cry when he was writing it up in short story form. We felt vindicated. This has a description of all the major PCs in it - also a description of what has to be *the* most hated NPC in the game: the baernaloth of the Demented, the Blind Clockmaker.
*SPOILER ALERT* If you're following the Storyhour (REL!) and don't want a clue dropped here. Stop Reading. I mean it. Stop.
The most mysterious award has to go the Jester. This character showed up as a nod to the M.R.James short story called Count Magnus. The plot arc featuring him was easily one of the most innately creepy moments of the game. Tall, dark, mysteriously powerful - he also flipped the switch for half of the people at the table. (Yeah, we have a lot of girls that really need social lives including myself.)
He also remained a mystery for most of the members of the part - excepting... Clueless. We woke him up from his long withdrawal from the world and he decided that he wanted to be amused by watching in my mind. Exceedingly creepy, but by the end of it I was his apprentice. Many a Sith Lord joke followed. This was a secret kept from the other player for nearly two years of real life time. It made for a lot of intriguing mysterious events over the course of the game and at least one spectacular cliff hanger for the team when the Jester had to directly interfere once.
This particular short story linked here: The Jester , details the Lady's Jester as he toys with an assassin sent from Mechanus (the Plane of Law). After all, when something far outlives it's lifespan they violate the order of law and life... and the Inevitable comes to correct the problem.
