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swarmkeepers · 2 years
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Hqppy sleepover saturday sola! First off, I would love to hear how your farmers market haul went. :) Second, what do you think you're looking forward to the most when it comes to returning to ehas: the hollow lands? I've missed hearing about your blorbos!
hqppy (or as i typoed it earlier, hapoy 😔) sleepover saturday :D farmer's market was super fun! love a little walk and some good foot
oh man i'm the most excited for sum to really be a character outside my own head! i have written out a lot about them and i have interactions with the party and the plot that i think could be really fun, but i always end up changing my characters personalities a lot once the character sheet hits the table and they start interacting with other people. i can't wait to see what happens once they are actually like. a person who wakes up and gets off the magitech operating table where it woke up a second ago because i'm certain it's going to be fun to play them no matter who they grow to be!
more specifically though: i am really looking forward to seeing how characters react to the sword of arcanum literally searing itself into metal as the first thing sum's ever done. arlowe gave it the entrance of all time and i for one want to see the payoff
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metamagic-adept · 2 years
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For the space asks, Uranus, Aries, Taurus, Pisces, Supergiant!
Uranus- What would you say is your greatest achievement?
past versions of myself would probably have picked something work/academic related but honestly? adopting my cat. i gave her a home and she has made my life so much better (hopefully she feels the same)
Aries- What is something you enjoy doing?
escape rooms! i did my fifth one with some friends yesterday. puzzles are one of my favorite things ever and being stuck in a room full of them is a dream. my favorite theme/setting was a titanic one i did with my family a couple years ago
Taurus- What makes you feel comfortable?
warmth, soft yellow light, open windows, a glass with ice water in it, kitty purrs
Supergiant- What’s something you like about yourself?
i like that I am better than average at identifying plants and animals! i worked at a floral/garden counter for a while and can name lots of different flowers. my friend and i went to a tree identification ranger talk in high school and i like being able to pick out different evergreen trees on walks. and I'm getting better at birds! there's something very satisfying about being able to name the things i love in nature.
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Hi I'm here asking about your dnd character
yaaaaaaaay
so! Melody is a kenku, level 9 swarmkeeper ranger, and she is best birb.
we start with heavy Weird Girl vibes (read: this bird is autistic). grew up in a small village near a forest that has a tendency to dump you in the Feywild if you get too lost. melody loved to wander, hang out with the sheep her family cared for, look at bugs, stuff like that.
she doesn't really mimic to speak, she much prefers to write her thoughts out or use non-language mimicry to get her point across, and the range of what she does mimic verbally is mostly short phrases she's heard recently or frequently, and tends to purely be for practical reasons like speed or needing her hands for something else.
so... one day, of course, she gets too lost and winds up in the Feywild. meets a very nice fairy named Rosalie who shows her the way back home.
and Melody comes back.
and Melody comes back.
and now Melody is in love with Rosalie, Rosalie can't leave and Melody can't stay, she needs to wander. she comes and goes as she pleases.
and one day, when she goes, she sees something that breaks her. her village, destroyed by a necromancer, looking for her because this bird is actually a very important bird, one of seven people whose continued reincarnation keeps apocalypse 2: electric boogaloo from happening.
but she doesn't know that yet, she just knows her family's gone because people are looking for her, presumably to kill or trap her, and... what else is there to do but run? she's been running, traveling ever since.
she got annoyed at the little inconsistencies in everyone's maps, so she decided to make her own. she got annoyed at the destruction around her, the way nature's been changed in some very unnatural ways, so she made it a mission to fix what she can and keep the rest from getting worse. she's a bit of a perfectionist.
years pass, she's too traumatized to go back and visit Rosalie, so instead she grows powerful, bonds with some nature spirits that take the form of bees living in a jar on her belt, and one night her camp is discovered by a strange family who call themselves the Guardians of Phandalin. She travels with them, as they're headed the same way and there's safety in numbers, and... well, soon enough she's part of the family too.
my beloved dm @f0xf0ce has a bunch of posts that relate to her here.
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staggeringsmite · 2 years
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Psssssst hi arlowe. First off, amazing campaign you're running, it's been super entertaining to hear about and so id love to pick your brain a little bit if you're cool with that. I've been dying to ask, what are the ashari like in ehas? It's been mentioned that thi and aierdyn left the earth ashari to go on an aramente, but not what that dangerous mission is, so I don't even know if that's something the rest of the party knows yet or not.? Also, what the heck is a secha consort? 👀👀👀
hi jen!! thank you for keeping up w our silly little (emotional, potentially lethal, "shrimp cruelty" menaceful) overall rollercoaster of a campaign thus far <33
AND FOR THE LORE QUESTIONS!!! for reference in terms of ashari and calamity lore, the bones of what one might know from a certain ttrpg show and dm are there but i've chopped it all up and done what i want to with the concepts and history of Oyoia because some of it was bad and boring and i don't like it and also i wanted to <3 who's gonna stop me <3
i promise the tangent i'm about to go on is relevant. mostly. this got long <3
knowledge of extraplanar cosmology is only culturally understood through myth -- the plane that oyoia is on has been shunted out of the great wheel alongside the four elemental planes -- basically no connection to other planes such as the feywild, somewhat accessible travel to the different planes of elemental chaos at the locations the ashari tend to which are spread across the world
the earth ashari and the blooming scar/scar of life which they tend are located on the continent of ehas where the campaign thus far primarily takes place. ehas was decimated by a long civil war in recent history, leaving two significant areas of the map practically uninhabitable to humanoids due to caustic and reckless magic use (which feeds into the culturally low magic/disdain and fear of magic present in the social aspect of the campaign) -- these being: the frigid bog (which is still highly dangerous but passable through as the party has successfully done, if you kind of know what you're doing) and the wastemarsh
the earth ashari and the blooming scar are located pretty centrally in the area that is now the wastemarsh. the wastemarsh is, think magically radioactive. during the war with the sundering of this area, many earth ashari were displaced, fleeing to other areass of ehas, oyoia, or through the scar of life into the plane of elemental earth, and many more died. the scar itself sustained damage enough to where the majority of the earth ashari's resources have gone into keeping it barely a flicker and have not had access through to the other side since the war ended (it has been. a long time. enough for thi and aierdyn to grow up with their parents having grown up in these conditions, possibly their grandparents too. which is why they've set out to do something about it). the other resources go towards survival. the rest of ehas in the modern day is under the general impression that the wastemarsh is uninhabited, the earth ashari are not a household name and are held within memory to very few, those who know of them likely assuming they have scattered, the blooming scar lost with them. hence the disconnect from the rest of ehas.
cateri is the current keeper of life, arriving home from her aramente to be leader to a decimated land and a scared people, to take over the scar just as it was dying out due to the war of the hollow lands. she is one of the oldest living people likely in the world, as she has not chosen another to undertake the aramente and attempt to be her successor since. in fact, few people of the younger generation even really know what the aramente is, as there is also little connection to the other ashari settlements.
"but wait? isn't aierdyn on the aramente??" well, you see. aierdyn doesn't Really know what the aramente is, and cateri certainly didn't choose her to go on it, but she knows that it's important and involves uhhh, talking to the other ashari, who haven't helped them, which they're mad about, and also that things desperately need to change, that none of them know how much longer they can really sustain themselves like this. so aierdyn got up and told thi "i'm going on the aramente" and thi was like "okay, i'm coming with you" and neither of them really know what that means. they just know it means their home is counting on them to bring back something that will help.
"why haven't the other ashari helped???" that is a mystery yet unknown to my players, so alas i must keep my mouth closed :))
basically, aierdyn doesn't know a lot about the aramente, thi doesn't either but knows a little more (thinks that aierdyn was chosen by cateri, even though she wasn't), and the rest of the party don't know yet that that's what thi and aierdyn are doing! angry knows that they're "out here to try and help their home" -- basically when this comes out it's difficult for the rest of the party to truly grasp the significance of the aramente, but it'll either be like 1) you know this is really important to them or on a high enough history check 2) you know that historically this is a really important undertaking, but you don't really know what it is about. fun soup of being on this journey but not actually knowing what to do there surely this won't have consequences!! [i know, and the players meta wise somewhat know that the aramente involves selecting the next leader for a particular ashari, by traveling the world, gaining wisdom and skills, and eventually undertaking trials at all the other ashari tribes for approval -- it's a process that in its long history is very understandable and respectable if one turns back on and it's not at all frowned upon to be selected for it, get out there and realize that you don't think you are cut out for the responsibility, in fact that's the most responsible thing that you can do BUT!! no one but me knows what it's really like and about anymore in the modern time of the campaign since no one from the earth ashari has undertaken it since cateri teehee >:) ]
as for the secha consort, modern day ehas has rebuilt itself into six large city-states, with no overarching governance between them, and villages/towns coming and going in quick succession everywhere else. and then there's the secha consort! it's a community not large or respected enough to be considered a city-state by the other six, but with a prominent enough collective identity, population, and footprint to exist in a sort of in between, well-established but not well-connected within ehas itself, territory. while the rest of ehas in general is more concerned with survival and sustainability through wealth for themselves with the war at their grandparent's backs: the secha consort is a collection of people concerned with history, the arts, and cultural preservation after experiencing the loss of much of it. it began during the war with a network of people collecting their family's letters, of wartime accounts, other letters, drawings, photos, paintings, and generally anything of historical or artistic value at great fire risk, trying to keep these safe -- with the survivors of this network coming together in the aftermath to sort through the pieces.
it's disjointed, not truly governed (doesn't want to be), and still trying to find its place in the world. among its primary establishments there is a grand library and expanding art museum, a monestary, a few magical research facilities, and many interfaith temples. people of a likeminded nature flocked and built up the community around it--leaders of the library/monasteries/temples come together when they need to but overall focus on their own jobs instead of trying to form a "proper" government. while the secha consort does not have good relations with any city-state of ehas, they do have international connections and are one of the only groups that know of the earth ashari. they don't have the resources or stability to send people into the wastemarsh to help but have been the point of contact for any earth ashari who have left the wastemarsh in recent history based on the path most people travel and also being known for it after a little while. so, while thi and aierdyn don't know much about the world beyond the wastemarsh, going to the secha consort for help starting the aramente was one of the only concrete parts of their plan (and then they did a ton of illegal magic, but mx. iseda the head librarian didn't mind but had to keep up appearances so gave them a slap on the wrist "community service" asking for their help in searching for one of their important employees who went missing w the promise to in return reach out to the other ashari about their travels for the aramente and oops that's how they wound up in the frigid bog w gunmetal group and party convergence happened).
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ivadeshin · 4 years
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Hey so I just binge read Five Soda Maximum and its sequel over the course of a night and can I just say it's?? Really fucking good like holy shit??? I'm a sucker for m9 modern aus and this absolutely scratched that itch, the characterizations were all spot on and I need to leave a longer comment on ao3 later but for now i needed to tell you immediately how much i enjoyed it
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thanks friend, I do my best to make those feels pack a punch
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almguav · 4 years
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Hey, i know thjngs are rough right now, but can I just say how much I appreciate you, pen and taytei keeping everyone's spirits up with your collbs. They look amazing.
thank you ;w; 💖im sure we’ve said this already, but we drew those as our own ways of coping and im happy to hear it’s helping other people too during this time rn
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sailormoonsub · 7 years
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Hey, so this may be a weird question you'll never get asked again, but do you or any of your followers know where i could look to rewatch the Dic english dub of sailor moon??? The episodes all used to be on youtube when i was younger and first watching it but they're long gone now and ive been having trouble finding them again and reeaally hope they're not lost to time.
Aw man, they must be around the internet somewhere! I need to check them out someday too! Do any of my followers have a link?
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thebibliosphere · 7 years
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Okay, but mom. Unless someone's asked this already- what's in the folder labeled @god why?
Unless they’ve asked in a comment, you are the first.
“@ god why” is my folder of misbegot ideas that I don’t know what to do with, either overwhelming sadness, sickening fluff or more commonly the kink prompts people send me and I have to spend a while in contemplation about what kind of person I am that some people (*looks into the camera*) feel comfortable asking me for vore :p
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swarmkeepers · 2 years
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Star, Mercury, Pegasus and Pisces for the space asks! :D
Star- already answered!
Mercury- already answered!
Pegasus- What’s your favorite music genre
indie pop punk <3
Pisces- Describe someone you love without saying their name.
effortlessly welcoming, effort-fully creative!
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Patron saint of gay poly communism 💖 (tbh you probs share that domain with most of your partners)
gay
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