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It’s Thursday, which is not our regular update day. But I’m avoiding working on my book so you get an early update. Enjoy!
Session 3: Mine Your Own Business
Summary
The team goes into the mines, Vladorz alone and the rest of the team together. Minerva and Danuin work together to retrieve some kind of dragon soul or something while Tesiver and Vladorz stall Holly. Vladorz telefrags Holly with Wint (the drill vehicle) but loses our entire crew in the space between dimensions. The party returns to the Dig Site and explains everything, gaining our first fellowship with a community!
Danuin's Journal, Entry Three:
“Sometimes it is when we least intend it that we do the most harm.”
It is important that I remind myself that injury does not require intent, lest I excuse Vladorz. It does not matter that he wished only to handle Mistress Conifer. It was a noble goal but it does not mean he is not responsible for also losing our crew.
But I finally managed to find some time for Minerva, time for her to mourn, to begin healing. Perhaps one day I’ll feel I’ve earned the same, but not now.
Now we have been delayed, I’ll not leave our crew in some state of limbo so that we can chase Tea. Even if the majority of our party did want to set out immediately, we have no leads.
But I know how to get one.
Selynth… would you be charmed, amused, by my caring about these Flightless Ones?
[later]
I won’t always have a journal entry for Danuin alongside the video update but hey, two for two!
There’s some extra bonus content that I promised I’d add and I’ll try to have that up on Real Update Day. I’ll probably just stealth it into this post so nobody notices.
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Vladorz's Observations - Session 3
I will never really fully understand the desire these creatures have for alcohol. What possesses them to seek out poisons to put inside themselves? The amount of drinking the feathered one is doing should concern me, but I’m certain the hangover will be enough of a lesson. Hopefully.
The other two seem to be in a sour mood as well, and it seems like they’re blaming me for it. Certainly, I did neglect to calibrate the warp drive properly before I used it, but they should know that accidents happen. The math doesn’t always work as well as I want it to, but I can’t dictate the rules of physics in this world, now can I?
I try and try to demonstrate that what we are doing is for the greater good, and that we can’t save everyone. The loss of Tym and the students is unfortunate, but I daresay it did not deserve such vitriol from the rest of my party.
I suppose this means I’ll have to fiddle with the warp drive and bring them back. And I bet they’ll complain if I don’t bring them back all in one piece.
Actually, bringing them back as a single mass would be easier to do… And they would still be alive, technically…
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I’M SLOWLY CATCHING UP dang internet I’m stuck with is a right pain
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Quick, like her post!
Anyway, it turns out I can also shit post.
(We already knew this.)
And here’s some fan art I drew, I am not a good artist:
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Session 3, or: Fefnir Realized Strength of a Hundred is a Very Good Move She Should Be Using More Often, Really
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The halflings are probably better off in whatever dimension they got lost in, lets be honest. It gets them away from the player characters and their war with the overlord which will probably tear the dimension to shreds.
The halflings got torn into the dimension we created in our Millennials Are Killing game.
May they rest in peace.
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I take it back, thats far worse then the warzone of the current Overlord vs. the world.
NEW SEGMENT: NPC SPOTLIGHT
Every one in awhile I’ll be posting in this thread about an NPC in the game that is important to our characters backstories. Today I’ll be posting about Danuin’s primary backstory character because nobody else has told me about their backstory characters yet.
Please remember that Vladorz can lie and I cannot ensure the authenticity of any of their background characters.
Selynth the Archivist:
Selynth is an Arakkoa of the Airglow tribe, a tribe known for its academics and intellectuals. A brilliant mage and skilled mediator Selynth works for the Skychief Lagan as a minor magistrate. Her position of influence has afforded her an opulent abode that she despises. She takes on lower caste Arakkoa as “servants” to afford them some status in society. She is generally regarded well by the Arakkoa.
Danuin and Selynth grew up together and were childhood friends which grew into a one-sided crush on Danuin’s side. Selynth is notable for finding a way to tint glass steel metallic hues. When she married, Danuin was one of the people who Selynth deigned to give her away (as in Arakkoa society it is not a role assured to ones parents but to individuals who are precious to those getting wed.) Which was a moment of both pain and pride for Danuin.
Selynth married a member of the Aurene tribe, the tribe behind the glassmaking and known for its artisans, named Osk and, despite the abusive nature of her marriage to him, Selynth did want her children. (Danuin made the choice to destroy her eggs without consulting her and that hurt Selynth greatly.) It would be a lie to pretend that Danuin’s romantic feelings (her crush now a full blown infatuation) for Selynth did not play in to her decision. Seeing this problematic dismissal of her agency from her beloved friend the nature of Selynth’s relationship with Danuin changed. Though to what extent, Danuin does not know as she was almost immediately banished.
Selynth still cares for Danuin and desires to know if she is alive and safe, but their old bonds of friendship may never recover from Danuin’s brash actions. The truth is it is the fact that she so deeply wronged Selynth that Danuin is trying to atone for, and why she continues to enforce the Arakkoa’s judgment on herself.
Selynth is straight, and a romantic relationship between the pair could never have happened. But Danuin’s affections are not something she can easily control.
It’s another Thursday update but please don’t get used to it this is not the norm. Regardless, here’s this weeks session.
Session 4: Lasers and Feelings
Summary
We travel to the dragon town of Scalehollow, befriend the mayor, break into an ancient dragon ruin, avoid lasers, defeat Holly, earthquake the town and kill a bunch of people, and also the halfling crew and dragon forewoman got dumped into Skybalm.
Bonus Audio: This is almost nine minutes of us trying to fix our sound issues. I think we sorted it this time!
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I lost control of this session almost immediately because I did not plan at all. Enjoy!
Vladorz's Observations - Session 4
Apparently, I have not been given any sort of trust by the rest of the group. Despite going through such difficulties to bring back our crew (which they wouldn’t understand, considering the quantum mechanics at play), they had the nerve to still be upset at me! I brought them back safe, whole, and alive! It was Danuin’s fault they came back somewhere else, but they point fingers at Vladorz! Honestly, I’m not sure they are as observant as they could be.
Danuin’s behavior is beginning to trouble me somewhat, but it seems like now is not the time to confront her about it. Certainly not after the disaster at Scalehollow. Well, I only say ‘disaster’ as that is what everyone else is calling it. I thought it went rather well: we managed to embarrass the small one named after a tree again, and I got to keep her hat! Shame about the earthquake, but was it really necessary to delay our departure to help out? If we had a schedule, I would remind the medium giant about it, but I don’t have one yet.
I suppose I’ll have to learn how time is kept in this reality first, if I am to make a schedule to point to when we need to keep to it.
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Its beginning to seem like one of the doomsday plans the overlord set in motion was the party working against him.
A question i have to ask is, Holly’s hat the same in higher dimensions?
A good question, but no. Can this hat exist in higher dimensions? No, but the essence of the hat can. The conceptual elements that make up the hat can be worn in 7 different ways in the 5th dimension, for example.
Vladorz, of course, is a trendsetter, and is trying to get the 8th way going. It is unlikely anyone will appreciate his efforts, but he does it for the sake of high art.
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This is a real rough one. I worry for Danuin if things don’t start turning around soon. The mood whiplash from finally succeeding at defeating the Overlord only to destroy yet another community because of her foolishness, more deaths staining her hands, more guilt for her conscience, has left Danuin with only doubts and heartache, no answers.
for self harm. (Sorry)
Danuin's Journal
“Pain and failure, if you can rise above it, are some of life’s greatest teachers.”
I thought we finally turned it around. But I should have known. I can never create, only destroy. How many times have we come to a place only to leave death and ruin in our wake. We are no better than Tea. Communities will have every right to fear us as they do him and it’s all my fault.
I thought I was someone different, a savior. But I am not. I showed you who I was when I shattered your eggs, Selynth. Now these dragons, the ones that survived, have seen me too.
I can’t, I can’t even look at myself. I did this. Their deaths are my fault. There is… nothing. No justice for this. Only more guilt.
How many more will pay for my failures?
You want to know what happened to my wings, Vladorz? I cut them.
I cut my wings, but I feel nothing. I keep cutting, I see the blood, I feel nothing.
Not better. Not worse. Not punished.
How can I keep going knowing all the harm I’ve done and will continue to do…
I keep cutting.
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In this session, we learn that derailing is a lot more fun in MonsterHearts than it is in Fellowship! Whoops!
Tesiver's Journal Session 4
I am of mixed feelings.
I should start with the good things. I managed to best the witch! I was mainly a distraction, but I was still instrumental in defeating her at the mines! Today, I was less important, but that’s fine.
Unfortunately, we’ve failed to save even more people. I did not mourn for the dragon capital, but this is different. We promised them that we wouldn’t endanger them, and several of them died because of us.
. . . Somedays, I feel like I’m not cut out to be a giant. Everyone else has a community they’ve adopted, like Wendy and her archeaologists. But I only ever had Tyrram. A giant is supposed to be a protector; no problem is too great to solve, or too small to address. But I’ve left a trail of destruction in my wake.
Maybe I’m being too hard on myself though. I’m sure everyone had issues when they first adopted communities. I’m just late to the game is all.
I’ll start with my group here. From here on in, they’re my protectorate. Yes, even Vladorz. Surely I can take care of three people. If anything happens to them, it-
The writing stops suddenly. There are inkblots that skew in one direction, as if Tesiver dropped the pen and book while running.
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I can just hear the alarm klaxons in the drill going off, at the end there.
