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I was NOT abducted and forced into sex-slavery by elephants.
Posted 10 years ago...but I did get overwhelmed by life. Some good, some bad- you don't want to read the details of my life because most of it's just dull business, work-related stuff.
Haven't logged in since early March, when I (foolishly) thought I could get work done on commissions. That didn't happen. And now tomorrow Cletis and I are getting MARRIED!!! >o< Squee! And then two days later we're going across the country to my summer orchestra job. So there's no way I'll get any drawing done until at least July if not August.
Dammit... that's almost a year since I opened commissions. Again I say: This is why I don't EVER charge money up front!!!! >//o//<
Anyway, the one person I DO owe something to is
redapeguy who won our cocktail contest SO long ago, and his prize is an appearance in my next little goofy comic. That has to take priority.
After that, I can think about the remaining commissions:
dukerocheister We've talked- the sketch is done, I should do your line art so the first phase of your commission can finally be done.
kitler1213 and 
ysegrimus I've still got your refs, know what you want generally- but I respect your right to choose whether or not to continue with these commissions. When I get back at the end of the summer, I'll send you guys a note to gauge your interest in having something done at that point. If you still want a commission, great, if not- I understand!
Wow, I kinda do feel like I was abducted by elephants. Sorry everybody!
-Rowan
Haven't logged in since early March, when I (foolishly) thought I could get work done on commissions. That didn't happen. And now tomorrow Cletis and I are getting MARRIED!!! >o< Squee! And then two days later we're going across the country to my summer orchestra job. So there's no way I'll get any drawing done until at least July if not August.
Dammit... that's almost a year since I opened commissions. Again I say: This is why I don't EVER charge money up front!!!! >//o//<
Anyway, the one person I DO owe something to is
redapeguy who won our cocktail contest SO long ago, and his prize is an appearance in my next little goofy comic. That has to take priority.After that, I can think about the remaining commissions:
dukerocheister We've talked- the sketch is done, I should do your line art so the first phase of your commission can finally be done.
kitler1213 and 
ysegrimus I've still got your refs, know what you want generally- but I respect your right to choose whether or not to continue with these commissions. When I get back at the end of the summer, I'll send you guys a note to gauge your interest in having something done at that point. If you still want a commission, great, if not- I understand!Wow, I kinda do feel like I was abducted by elephants. Sorry everybody!
-Rowan
Commissions, life, and Disgaea 3.
Posted 10 years agoLife and Commission Update:
-Got a new car- had to have it delivered across the country, and the delivery guy scratched it.
-Insurance battle with the delivery guy!
-Minor but inconvenient health problems!
-Registering a damn car in Texas... you ALWAYS need another form you don't currently have, even if you double checked the required documents online first.
-I performed a recital with a chamber group, played a pops concert that was harder than any pops concert has a right to be, performed a classical symphony concert, performed a CONCERTO as the featured soloist with the symphony.
-Concerto publicity: I did a radio interview, four television interviews, and a newspaper interview.
-New students to teach!
-We are completely landscaping our backyard OURSELVES from scratch.
-My grandfather passed away in December, and the family has been having a hard time recovering.
-Cletis is selling his stained glass in a local art-gallery-shop!
-Cletis is selling his stained glass at a local celtic festival!
-We are making our own costumes to attend a Ren Faire with friends soon.
As such... please forgive me for making NO PROGRESS on commissions. For those of you in the queue- now you see why I don't charge money up front! Please be patient as I DO want to draw your pictures! But I understand if you are frustrated with me for how long this is taking.
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I don't have much time for console games (or for ANYTHING) these days, but once in a while I get an hour in the morning to play games. I've been slowly going through the Disgaea series and am really disappointed with number 3.
D1 was pretty great. Fun gameplay, funny characters, a kind of silly yet cool storyline.
D2 was about the same. Gameplay improved a LOT, the humor was funnier, but the characters and story weren't as good.
D3... oh my god, this is terrible!
-Why the hell is this on a PS3? It looks awful.
-The NPC voices are all grating and annoying when they used to be cute and funny.
-The main characters are not funny, not interesting, not charismatic, and act like little children.
-The storyline was also "kid-ified" because now it takes place inside a school in stead of in the grown-up world.
-The clever, reference-heavy, laugh-out-loud humor of previous games was dumbed down to silly voices and people just saying things that don't make sense.
-Elements of gameplay are altered just to make it more complicated to teach your character new abilities. It's not an enhancement to the game to force people to buy spells and abilities the characters used to learn automatically.
-Tower Swing, etc. Cute.
-OMG ORCS. Orcs in D2 were chubby piggish guys that made snorting noises. In D3 they changed the portrait art to make them have scrawny necks and bat-noses, gave them abrasive, shrill voices, and.... racist hispanic names...?
What the hell.... and it still got positive reviews... maybe I haven't gotten far enough into the game to really judge it yet, but so far it's a major let down.
-Got a new car- had to have it delivered across the country, and the delivery guy scratched it.
-Insurance battle with the delivery guy!
-Minor but inconvenient health problems!
-Registering a damn car in Texas... you ALWAYS need another form you don't currently have, even if you double checked the required documents online first.
-I performed a recital with a chamber group, played a pops concert that was harder than any pops concert has a right to be, performed a classical symphony concert, performed a CONCERTO as the featured soloist with the symphony.
-Concerto publicity: I did a radio interview, four television interviews, and a newspaper interview.
-New students to teach!
-We are completely landscaping our backyard OURSELVES from scratch.
-My grandfather passed away in December, and the family has been having a hard time recovering.
-Cletis is selling his stained glass in a local art-gallery-shop!
-Cletis is selling his stained glass at a local celtic festival!
-We are making our own costumes to attend a Ren Faire with friends soon.
As such... please forgive me for making NO PROGRESS on commissions. For those of you in the queue- now you see why I don't charge money up front! Please be patient as I DO want to draw your pictures! But I understand if you are frustrated with me for how long this is taking.
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I don't have much time for console games (or for ANYTHING) these days, but once in a while I get an hour in the morning to play games. I've been slowly going through the Disgaea series and am really disappointed with number 3.
D1 was pretty great. Fun gameplay, funny characters, a kind of silly yet cool storyline.
D2 was about the same. Gameplay improved a LOT, the humor was funnier, but the characters and story weren't as good.
D3... oh my god, this is terrible!
-Why the hell is this on a PS3? It looks awful.
-The NPC voices are all grating and annoying when they used to be cute and funny.
-The main characters are not funny, not interesting, not charismatic, and act like little children.
-The storyline was also "kid-ified" because now it takes place inside a school in stead of in the grown-up world.
-The clever, reference-heavy, laugh-out-loud humor of previous games was dumbed down to silly voices and people just saying things that don't make sense.
-Elements of gameplay are altered just to make it more complicated to teach your character new abilities. It's not an enhancement to the game to force people to buy spells and abilities the characters used to learn automatically.
-Tower Swing, etc. Cute.
-OMG ORCS. Orcs in D2 were chubby piggish guys that made snorting noises. In D3 they changed the portrait art to make them have scrawny necks and bat-noses, gave them abrasive, shrill voices, and.... racist hispanic names...?
What the hell.... and it still got positive reviews... maybe I haven't gotten far enough into the game to really judge it yet, but so far it's a major let down.
Current commission queueueueueue
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Commission Queue - CLOSED.
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 9:35am EST 1/18/2015
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- kitler1213 - Finalizing details to start pose-sketch.
2- ysegrimus
*- dukerocheister - Pose-sketch drawn. (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time)
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
rencat - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Undying_Reverie - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
Commission Queue - CLOSED.
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 9:35am EST 1/18/2015
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
kitler1213 - Finalizing details to start pose-sketch.2-
ysegrimus*-
dukerocheister - Pose-sketch drawn. (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time) 
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
rencat - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Undying_Reverie - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
Commissions
Posted 11 years agoHad some free productive time this morning! ^o^
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Commission Queue - CLOSED.
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 10:49am EST 1/16/2015
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- Undying_Reverie - FINISHED, waiting for payment or final changes.
2- kitler1213
3- ysegrimus
*- dukerocheister - Pose-sketch drawn. (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time)
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
rencat - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
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Commission Queue - CLOSED.
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 10:49am EST 1/16/2015
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
Undying_Reverie - FINISHED, waiting for payment or final changes.2-
kitler12133-
ysegrimus*-
dukerocheister - Pose-sketch drawn. (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time) lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! rencat - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
New Project!
Posted 11 years agoSo, One or two of you already know this...
I have been recording The Arabian Nights as a kind of ridiculous comedy audio podcast thing.
Now I have a brand new account
arabian_nights for the posting of said podcast in episode format.
Here's Episode 001 ready to listen to now. It's totally not serious and just crazy and ridiculous but you get to hear me being an idiot.
Episode 002
Episode 003
Episode 004
Outtakes from Eps 1-4
Enjoy!
-Rowan
I have been recording The Arabian Nights as a kind of ridiculous comedy audio podcast thing.
Now I have a brand new account
arabian_nights for the posting of said podcast in episode format.Here's Episode 001 ready to listen to now. It's totally not serious and just crazy and ridiculous but you get to hear me being an idiot.
Episode 002
Episode 003
Episode 004
Outtakes from Eps 1-4
Enjoy!
-Rowan
Commission Update (still closed)
Posted 11 years agoWorking working yeah fun times! ^o^
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Commission Queue - CLOSED.
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 7:31am EST 12/27/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- Undying_Reverie - Sketch finished; waiting for approval.
2- kitler1213
3- ysegrimus
*- dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time)
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
rencat - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
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Commission Queue - CLOSED.
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 7:31am EST 12/27/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
Undying_Reverie - Sketch finished; waiting for approval.2-
kitler12133-
ysegrimus*-
dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time) lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! rencat - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
Back to work! Commissions CLOSED.
Posted 11 years agoI'm back from the funeral and now I have some free time again! So I'm resuming work. I've had a steady trickle of commission requests, which is great- but after this I'm closing commissions for a while, since there's non-commission work I want to do too.
^o^
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Commission Queue - CLOSED.
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 10:00pm EST 12/24/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- rencat - FINISHED! Waiting on final approval and all the rest ^o^
2- Undying_Reverie
3- kitler1213
4- (in negotiations)
*- dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time)
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
^o^
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Commission Queue - CLOSED.
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 10:00pm EST 12/24/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
rencat - FINISHED! Waiting on final approval and all the rest ^o^2-
Undying_Reverie3-
kitler12134- (in negotiations)
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dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time) lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
Death in the Family
Posted 11 years agoHi everyone- just as soon as my performing schedule cleared up, a member of my family died, and I'm dealing with that right now. Things are slow but I'll get to commissions again soon, I hope.
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Commission Queue
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 8:38am EST 12/15/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- rencat Changing a few elements to the sketch to accommodate requests.
2- Undying_Reverie
3- (in negotiations)
4- (in negotiations)
*- dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time)
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
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Commission Queue
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 8:38am EST 12/15/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
rencat Changing a few elements to the sketch to accommodate requests.2-
Undying_Reverie3- (in negotiations)
4- (in negotiations)
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dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time) lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
Death in the Family
Posted 11 years agoHi everyone- just as soon as my performing schedule cleared up, a member of my family died, and I'm dealing with that right now. Things are slow but I'll get to commissions again soon, I hope.
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Commission Queue
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 8:38am EST 12/15/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- rencat Changing a few elements to the sketch to accommodate requests.
2- Undying_Reverie
3- (in negotiations)
4- (in negotiations)
*- dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time)
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
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Commission Queue
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 8:38am EST 12/15/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
rencat Changing a few elements to the sketch to accommodate requests.2-
Undying_Reverie3- (in negotiations)
4- (in negotiations)
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dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time) lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
Commission update
Posted 11 years agoWOOHOO I can work again!
November was seriously difficult with lots of performances, lots of practicing and rehearsing, traveling to visit my mother for a week, and I did National Novel Writing Month (and FINISHED!!).
Now all I have is the usual music stuff, so I am RESUMING commissions!!
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Commission Queue
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 4:51pm EST 12/1/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- rencat Basic pose-sketch done, with some details- waiting for approval
2- Undying_Reverie
3- (in negotiations)
4- OPEN
*- dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time)
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
November was seriously difficult with lots of performances, lots of practicing and rehearsing, traveling to visit my mother for a week, and I did National Novel Writing Month (and FINISHED!!).
Now all I have is the usual music stuff, so I am RESUMING commissions!!
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Commission Queue
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 4:51pm EST 12/1/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
rencat Basic pose-sketch done, with some details- waiting for approval2-
Undying_Reverie3- (in negotiations)
4- OPEN
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dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time) lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
Commission update
Posted 11 years agoWOOHOO I can work again!
November was seriously difficult with lots of performances, lots of practicing and rehearsing, traveling to visit my mother for a week, and I did National Novel Writing Month (and FINISHED!!).
Now all I have is the usual music stuff, so I am RESUMING commissions!!
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Commission Queue
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 3:44pm EST 12/1/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- rencat Everything is confirmed. SKETCHING - FINALLY! Haha
2- Undying_Reverie
3- (in negotiations)
4- (in negotiations)
*- dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time)
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
November was seriously difficult with lots of performances, lots of practicing and rehearsing, traveling to visit my mother for a week, and I did National Novel Writing Month (and FINISHED!!).
Now all I have is the usual music stuff, so I am RESUMING commissions!!
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Commission Queue
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 3:44pm EST 12/1/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
rencat Everything is confirmed. SKETCHING - FINALLY! Haha2-
Undying_Reverie3- (in negotiations)
4- (in negotiations)
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dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time) lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
Commission updates
Posted 11 years agoLife is relentless isn't it? I am working myself like crazy and just barely getting the things done that keep my job and my life running smoothly. So I am sorry that commissions have become so SLOW! Regardless, here's the current status:
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Commission Queue
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 8:09am EST 11/18/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- rencat Everything is confirmed. Just waiting on me to get started!
2- Undying_Reverie
3- (in negotiations)
4- (in negotiations)
*- dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time)
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
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Commission Queue
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 8:09am EST 11/18/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
rencat Everything is confirmed. Just waiting on me to get started!2-
Undying_Reverie3- (in negotiations)
4- (in negotiations)
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dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time) lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
Commission Queue
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Commission Queue
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Still alive, just had a ton going on. But I'm getting things checked off one by one, and seeing more free time open up again. Woohoo!
I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 5:23am EST 11/4/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- rencat Everything is confirmed. Beginning getting-off-my-ass phase ^o^
2- Undying_Reverie
*- dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time)
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
Commission Queue
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Still alive, just had a ton going on. But I'm getting things checked off one by one, and seeing more free time open up again. Woohoo!
I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 5:23am EST 11/4/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
rencat Everything is confirmed. Beginning getting-off-my-ass phase ^o^2-
Undying_Reverie*-
dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time) lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
Recording the cocktails now!!
Posted 11 years agoNot streaming, but we're recording us drinking all of your suggested cocktails tonight! WOOO
We're also on skype.
-Rowan ^o^
We're also on skype.
-Rowan ^o^
Cocktail Contest- Last call!! (and commission queue)
Posted 11 years agoOK! Last call for cocktail recipes for the contest. We're gonna record ourselves making and drinking the entries, then post the audio file on Halloween. Remember, the winner gets their recipe used in Cletis's next book, AND gets their character used in Rowan's next comic (after commissions are done).
Entries will close TONIGHT (10/28).
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Commission Queue
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 9:04am EST 10/28/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- rencat (Finalizing pose & content with the commissioner)
2- Undying_Reverie
*- dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time)
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
Entries will close TONIGHT (10/28).
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Commission Queue
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 9:04am EST 10/28/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
rencat (Finalizing pose & content with the commissioner)2-
Undying_Reverie*-
dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time) lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
Cocktail Contest (FREE ART) - Commission Queue
Posted 11 years agoDon't forget to submit your favorite cocktail recipe to us in a note- we're gonna try them in "podcast" format, so you can hear us being dorks and getting drunk. Winner gets their recipe used in Cletis's next book AND their character used in Rowan's next comic (after commissions and Tuskbuddies are done). Getting evil ideas right now...
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 8:57am EST 10/26/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- rencat (Will begin work on Tuesday. No time until then!)
2- Undying_Reverie
*- dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time)
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
^o^
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I will try to update this regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 8:57am EST 10/26/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
rencat (Will begin work on Tuesday. No time until then!)2-
Undying_Reverie*-
dukerocheister (Long-term commission, to be paid and completed in stages over time) lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted! makootter - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
^o^
Commission Queue / Updates (CLOSED!)
Posted 11 years agoCheck here for commission status! I try to update regularly, and whenever there's a change in status!
UPDATED 10:17pm EST 10/11/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1- makootter - layout finished, character posed, sketching in greater detail
2- dukerocheister
3- rencat
4- Undying_Reverie
lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!
Cost details are here for future reference!
^o^
UPDATED 10:17pm EST 10/11/2014
CURRENT QUEUE:
1-
makootter - layout finished, character posed, sketching in greater detail2-
dukerocheister3-
rencat4-
Undying_Reverie lavin - FINISHED, paid, sent, posted!Cost details are here for future reference!
^o^
Rowan's Commissions, Quote information, and Queue
Posted 11 years agoI've decided to open up commissions. As they are slowly filling up, I'm going to cap it at 5 slots for now.
FULL PICTURE - Cost $20 per character, for line art. Flats, shading, painting, background, complexity increases the price- it'll get ironed out in negotiations.
ICONS - Cost $10 for line art. Flats $11. Simple highlights/shade $12. Fully painted shading $15. Fully painted background adds $5, most other simple backgrounds are no extra charge.
Contact me via note if you'd like one. Be cool, be communicative- we'll have a good time. I'm easy to work with and eager to please so feel free to ask. ^o^
Want a price-quote on your idea? Have a weird kink you're not sure if I'll want to draw? Don't be afraid to ask! I don't bite; I just snort. ^o^
-Rowan
CURRENT QUEUE (10/5/2014):
1- lavin
2- makootter
3- dukerocheister
4- rencat
5- OPEN!
Simple line art example.
Fuzzy-furry line art example.
One-tone shading example.
Flat color example.
Fully painted (simple/no background) shading example.
Fully painted with painted background etc.
FULL PICTURE - Cost $20 per character, for line art. Flats, shading, painting, background, complexity increases the price- it'll get ironed out in negotiations.
ICONS - Cost $10 for line art. Flats $11. Simple highlights/shade $12. Fully painted shading $15. Fully painted background adds $5, most other simple backgrounds are no extra charge.
Contact me via note if you'd like one. Be cool, be communicative- we'll have a good time. I'm easy to work with and eager to please so feel free to ask. ^o^
Want a price-quote on your idea? Have a weird kink you're not sure if I'll want to draw? Don't be afraid to ask! I don't bite; I just snort. ^o^
-Rowan
CURRENT QUEUE (10/5/2014):
1-
lavin2-
makootter3-
dukerocheister4-
rencat5- OPEN!
Simple line art example.
Fuzzy-furry line art example.
One-tone shading example.
Flat color example.
Fully painted (simple/no background) shading example.
Fully painted with painted background etc.
Halloween Character-Dress-Up Commission
Posted 11 years agoHere's an example of what this is for.
So yeah I thought it would be fun to do another one of those "Budget Costume" drawings where one character dresses up as another, but I don't have anyone in mind, so decided to give it a try as a commission. One slot (for now) $24.00
Here's an example of what this is for.
What you get:
-You choose Cletis or Rowan to dress up as your character,
OR
-You choose your character to dress up as Cletis or Rowan.
(either or, for now- maybe someday I'll have "dress any character as any other character" commissions but not this time).
OR
-Two characters dressed up as Cletis and/or Rowan, or Cletis and Rowan dressed up as your choice of characters. (Two characters will cost $40 - best value! XD)
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You choose if the costume is: classy/cool/polished, or goofy/funny/improvised (this example is the goofy/funny/improvised type)
You choose if the costume is General, Mature, or Adult in content.
You may give suggestions for costume components (e.g. "Use a static duster up your butt as my tail" if it were the example drawing).
You and I will correspond on further ideas for costume elements, pose, etc. to get it looking the way you want.
What you provide:
Reference of the character(s) you want us to use. It can be your character, someone else's character (they have to give you permission), or a famous movie/book/anime character.
Good communication- readily respond to my notes/emails/chats with feedback.
$24.00 via Paypal ($40 for the two-character option)
Questions? Comment or send a note.
Want to buy this commission slot? Send a note.
Just one slot for now. If there's interest I may keep doing this up through Halloween.
-Rowan
So yeah I thought it would be fun to do another one of those "Budget Costume" drawings where one character dresses up as another, but I don't have anyone in mind, so decided to give it a try as a commission. One slot (for now) $24.00
Here's an example of what this is for.
What you get:
-You choose Cletis or Rowan to dress up as your character,
OR
-You choose your character to dress up as Cletis or Rowan.
(either or, for now- maybe someday I'll have "dress any character as any other character" commissions but not this time).
OR
-Two characters dressed up as Cletis and/or Rowan, or Cletis and Rowan dressed up as your choice of characters. (Two characters will cost $40 - best value! XD)
-
You choose if the costume is: classy/cool/polished, or goofy/funny/improvised (this example is the goofy/funny/improvised type)
You choose if the costume is General, Mature, or Adult in content.
You may give suggestions for costume components (e.g. "Use a static duster up your butt as my tail" if it were the example drawing).
You and I will correspond on further ideas for costume elements, pose, etc. to get it looking the way you want.
What you provide:
Reference of the character(s) you want us to use. It can be your character, someone else's character (they have to give you permission), or a famous movie/book/anime character.
Good communication- readily respond to my notes/emails/chats with feedback.
$24.00 via Paypal ($40 for the two-character option)
Questions? Comment or send a note.
Want to buy this commission slot? Send a note.
Just one slot for now. If there's interest I may keep doing this up through Halloween.
-Rowan
Get to know me meme memememememme
Posted 11 years agoHey! This is Rowan. You might know I can't resist a quiz, so here goes! ^o^
Cletis miiiiiight do this later, but he probably won't unless I do it for him.
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= Basics
Name: Rowan
Nickname: Pig, Boar, Gruff
Location: TX (bleh)
Age: 35
Height: 6'3
Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Pets: None :( Might be getting a dog in the next couple of years.
Favorite thing about yourself: Enjoying self-improvement and learning new things, doing old things better.
Worst habit: Disappearing into porn or video games and not getting anything done.
Fun fact: I do proudly wear Gruffydd's beard style IRL. I get a lot of amazing comments from people. (Here's a shot of Gruff- There are lots of pictures of him in the gallery of course.)
= Identity, Sexuality & Personality
Gender identity: Male.
Sexual preference: Homosexual.
Romantic preference: Orc tribe, but with one mate who truly has my heart.
"Kinsey Scale" score: Totally gay- I think that's a 6? Females are strange, alien things, but we coexist.
Relationship status: Cletis!
Myers/Briggs type: Bullshit.
Hogwarts house: Ravenclaw/Slytherin probably, if I were actually there. But it doesn't really apply to who or where I am in this world.
= Routine
"Early Bird" or "Night Owl": Prefer early bird, but have lived as both.
Bath or shower: I like baths, but you always need a shower to get really clean.
First thought in the morning: Fuck, what do I have to do today?
Last thought before falling asleep at night: Mmf... and then he'd start to push inside... and I'd be so... *snore*
= School/Work
Do you work or are you a student: Work.
What do you do well: Teach and perform in a symphony.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years: Performing at a higher level in a better symphony, and NOT teaching.
= Habits (Do you…?)
Drink: Lots.
Smoke: Pot rarely.
Do Drugs: Pot rarely.
Exercise: Mainly my mind and my right arm.
Have a go-to comfort food: Anything savory- pizza, lasagna, fondue, roast, thanksgiving dinner, casserole. Do not give me cake; I don't like cake.
Have a nervous habit: Chewing my lips. (OMG the last person said this, but I totally do it too.)
= What is your favorite…?
Physical quality (in yourself): Fat gut, fat ass, increasingly hairy body.
In others: Large bodies (chub or musc), and a cock bigger than mine (I'm average).
Mental/emotional quality (in yourself): Very quick to process emotions, and extremely persuasive/convincing/charismatic/calculated.
In others: Confidence and true strength.
Food: Does not exist. The only foods I do NOT like are things that are unnecessarily disgusting. Don't try to convince me that tripe/haggis/slices of raw fat/chitterlings/pigs' feet are vital and delicious, because in the world of food, there's always something NOT disgusting that tastes at least as good as your nasty shit. Read to filth, bitch- go eat something that's good.
Drink: Anything but scotch. Seriously- in the world of alcohol there's so much more.
Animal: Pigs! Horses! Donkeys! Elephants! Kittens! -but NOT CATS.
Artist/Band/Group: Richard Strauss will OWN a bitch. Don't even try. And Bjork.
Author/Poet: Cletis and Tolkien.
Actor/Actress: Ian McKellen or Anthony Hopkins, and either Cate Blanchett, Miranda Otto, or Maggie Smith.
Blogger: Don't kid yourself. A blog is not legitimate.
Love,
Rowan
Cletis miiiiiight do this later, but he probably won't unless I do it for him.
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= Basics
Name: Rowan
Nickname: Pig, Boar, Gruff
Location: TX (bleh)
Age: 35
Height: 6'3
Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Pets: None :( Might be getting a dog in the next couple of years.
Favorite thing about yourself: Enjoying self-improvement and learning new things, doing old things better.
Worst habit: Disappearing into porn or video games and not getting anything done.
Fun fact: I do proudly wear Gruffydd's beard style IRL. I get a lot of amazing comments from people. (Here's a shot of Gruff- There are lots of pictures of him in the gallery of course.)
= Identity, Sexuality & Personality
Gender identity: Male.
Sexual preference: Homosexual.
Romantic preference: Orc tribe, but with one mate who truly has my heart.
"Kinsey Scale" score: Totally gay- I think that's a 6? Females are strange, alien things, but we coexist.
Relationship status: Cletis!
Myers/Briggs type: Bullshit.
Hogwarts house: Ravenclaw/Slytherin probably, if I were actually there. But it doesn't really apply to who or where I am in this world.
= Routine
"Early Bird" or "Night Owl": Prefer early bird, but have lived as both.
Bath or shower: I like baths, but you always need a shower to get really clean.
First thought in the morning: Fuck, what do I have to do today?
Last thought before falling asleep at night: Mmf... and then he'd start to push inside... and I'd be so... *snore*
= School/Work
Do you work or are you a student: Work.
What do you do well: Teach and perform in a symphony.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years: Performing at a higher level in a better symphony, and NOT teaching.
= Habits (Do you…?)
Drink: Lots.
Smoke: Pot rarely.
Do Drugs: Pot rarely.
Exercise: Mainly my mind and my right arm.
Have a go-to comfort food: Anything savory- pizza, lasagna, fondue, roast, thanksgiving dinner, casserole. Do not give me cake; I don't like cake.
Have a nervous habit: Chewing my lips. (OMG the last person said this, but I totally do it too.)
= What is your favorite…?
Physical quality (in yourself): Fat gut, fat ass, increasingly hairy body.
In others: Large bodies (chub or musc), and a cock bigger than mine (I'm average).
Mental/emotional quality (in yourself): Very quick to process emotions, and extremely persuasive/convincing/charismatic/calculated.
In others: Confidence and true strength.
Food: Does not exist. The only foods I do NOT like are things that are unnecessarily disgusting. Don't try to convince me that tripe/haggis/slices of raw fat/chitterlings/pigs' feet are vital and delicious, because in the world of food, there's always something NOT disgusting that tastes at least as good as your nasty shit. Read to filth, bitch- go eat something that's good.
Drink: Anything but scotch. Seriously- in the world of alcohol there's so much more.
Animal: Pigs! Horses! Donkeys! Elephants! Kittens! -but NOT CATS.
Artist/Band/Group: Richard Strauss will OWN a bitch. Don't even try. And Bjork.
Author/Poet: Cletis and Tolkien.
Actor/Actress: Ian McKellen or Anthony Hopkins, and either Cate Blanchett, Miranda Otto, or Maggie Smith.
Blogger: Don't kid yourself. A blog is not legitimate.
Love,
Rowan
D&D Season 3 Premiere!
Posted 11 years agoWe had our "Season 2 Finale" back at the end of May, and then took a break for a month or two, before having our "Season 3 Premiere" on Sunday. I'm gonna do two journals for it. Hard to believe we've been playing for two whole years, with some of the original cast still with us!
Read the Season 2 Finale here.
---
-Cast Updates:
Current cast continues.
-Story Updates:
While Weiss stands before his sister dumbfounded, the rest of the party lock horns with Melanie's (Weiss's lost sister) guards- are they really trustworthy? After some tense moments, weapons are lowered and we begin to learn about where we have landed. Judging from their most basic, primitive weapons, and the undeveloped land all around, we realize we must be in the ancient prehistoric past!
...elsewhere, in a dark cave, Duke wakes up as thoughts and memories race through his mind as if drawn to the surface unwillingly and all at once- something slimy is caressing his scalp.... he looks up to see the Mindflayer has been feeding on his knowledge, possibly as an appetizer before consuming his brain!
Duke engaged the Mindflayer in angry exchanges while he tried to struggle free of his bonds. The Mindflayer wasn't having it, though, and pulled a dagger to end his rebellious "pet." Just then arrows streaked in- one nearly struck Duke in the eye, and three thudded into the Mindflayer! A group of gnolls were attacking! The Mindflayer used his abilities to daze the gnolls left and right, but he couldn't subdue all of them, or stop Duke from escaping with their help! The angry orc slammed his fist into the Mindflayer's face so hard he crushed him! The monster fell to the floor... but the gnolls then turned on Duke!
...out in the fields, the rest of the party learned that this area is overrun by terrible insect monsters, and no one is safe on their own. Melanie said her scouts would look for Duke, but they agreed only unwillingly, as the orcs of this time period were at war with them.
The others went with Melanie to find where these people lived- but all of a sudden the ground sank and caved in under us! Everyone was separated in the fall, tumbling down into dark caves below...
-Gruffydd-
The halfling along with Shu, Ark's raven familiar, fell down into pitch blackness. The everburning candle on Gruff's hat was not enough to see very far, so he cast Light on his hat, making it shine like a torch. All around him were mushrooms of different shapes and colors- but all of them nearly as large as the hobbit himself! *drip* *drip* *slither...* Odd noises began to surround Gruff and Shu, but there was no sign of life. Starting to panic, Gruffy backed against a wall.... *drip* *splash* the sounds were getting closer- afraid the light of his hat was drawing them, Gruffydd threw his hat away from himself and stood very still. His hat struck a mushroom- which began to scream! Then another.... then another... until the cave was full of screaming fungi... and some were rushing towards Gruffydd and Shu! Quickly, Gruffydd cast a spell that made the rock under his feet form into a huge inverted cone around him- solid rock walls leaning outwards and providing no way for the mushrooms to climb over and get him... but the squishes, splashes, and slithers were also coming from the roof above....
-Arkanum-
Ark fell into a drier cave. This one was also pitch black, but the kobold was able to see in the darkness. However... so could the four giant ants in the room with him! Smelling him with their antennae, the ants charged in all together and started to bite and tear at the small lizard! Ark used his rogue dexterity to jump and dodge away from the slicing mandibles as best he could, but he did not escape uninjured. He shot his crossbow again and again, focusing on one of the ants until it finally died, but the other three were relentless, and kept biting him again and again... Losing blood and near death, Ark managed to run away from the ants toward an exit- but the ants were faster, and easily followed him! However, in the cramped passage outside, there was only room for one ant at a time to attack! Ark pulled his dagger, and decided to make his last stand there! In spite of gnashing, cutting mandibles, Ark was able to stab and destroy one, then another... but just before the last ant approached, its predecessor got in one hell of a bite. Ark was left gasping and bleeding, barely alive- but he was able to finally destroy his last opponent when it came, and he collapsed, injured but alive.
-Zane-
Zane also could see in the dark when he landed. The cave was very dry, full of dust, and the smell of corroded metal. At first, he thought he was trapped with no way out of his cave! Then he saw a tunnel behind him, but there were also two large insects in the room with him! They instantly approached, but in stead of biting or clawing, they brushed feathery antennae all over his body, searching for something... Suddenly his cloak dropped off- what had happened to the clasp holding it closed? One of the monsters started eating more red dust... it was a rust-monster! They were feeding on the metal he carried! Zane fired off a ray of frost, but in his panic missed his attackers. He tried to protect himself, but his belt buckle dissolved and down fell his pants! Then his money was consumed! Ashamed and angry, the halforc fled, tying his pants around his waist and wearing his cloak like a scarf. But there was no more metal on him, so the rust monsters stayed behind. Zane came to a fork in the tunnel- there was a faint light in a cave to one side (Gruffydd's hat, unbeknownst to Zane!) but sounds of battle and the cries of his friends echoed in the other tunnel! Zane hurried to help.
-Weiss-
The bear fell into total blackness, unable to see anything on his own and with no source of light! But whether or not he could see, enemies were near... he heard something scuttering and splashing toward him! Fortunately the bear could use his other senses better than most of his companions. He smelled someone he knew nearby, and there was a familiar metal clanking sound in the same direction. Weiss ran.
-Michael-
Nearby, in a connected cave, the armored paladin found himself unable to see anything. Fortunately he had his flint and tinderbox, and a candle. This he lit with some trouble... and could see a little of what was around him... but he heard a beast breathing hard and splashing toward him through the darkness!
Weiss could see the candle being lit, but still couldn't see what was after him. He ran for Michael and stopped nearby- but the splashing behind him confirmed he was still being pursued! Weiss spun and struck with his axe- slicing through air... the monster had not yet arrived within range. Then a spray of acid spattered across his pelt, burning into his skin!
Michael joined Weiss and both prepared to fight the monsters- two large Ankhegs were attacking! Though Weiss was dangerously near death and the opponents were very powerful and resistant, the two powerhouses slashed and jabbed with spear and axe.
Drawn by the sounds of fighting, Zane dashed into the room with Michael and Weiss, entering from the opposite side from whence Weiss entered. Unseen by Michael and Weiss, Gnolls at the far end of the room had their weapons drawn! Seeing them but knowing there was a more immediate problem, Zane called out in Gnollish to hold, and not attack his friends- they mean no harm! As Zane reached the fight, Weiss and Michael finished off the Ankhegs.
...far off in the cave with the dead mindflayer, Duke found his belongings and started to make sure everything was there, but the gnolls who had helped him beat the Mindflayer told him he wouldn't be going anywhere soon- the Gnolls were at war with the Orcs, and it would take a lot of convincing to prove he was not one of their enemies.
"But first, Orc... why did you kill your lover?" Apparently, Duke's nudity and close proximity to the monster had given the wrong impression...
-Current Cast
(Cletis) - DM extraordinaire, also plays a cast of NPCs, including Melanie, The Master Mindflayer, the rescue Gnolls, and many more!
Weiss - Polar Bear ranger
Arkanum / Ark - Kobold rogue / sorceror
Dukris / Duke - Orc multi-weapon fighter
Michael - Human paladin, and also Sam - the paladin's loyal follower, a dwarf cleric
Zanethidas / Zane - Half-Orc wizard / battle-mage
(Rowan) : Gruffydd / Gruffy - Halfling wizard / alchemist
-Past veterans (miss you guys!):
hitsugaya1987
nikogor
remnic888
rikki69
sdawg
swampstomper
Read the Season 2 Finale here.
---
-Cast Updates:
Current cast continues.
-Story Updates:
While Weiss stands before his sister dumbfounded, the rest of the party lock horns with Melanie's (Weiss's lost sister) guards- are they really trustworthy? After some tense moments, weapons are lowered and we begin to learn about where we have landed. Judging from their most basic, primitive weapons, and the undeveloped land all around, we realize we must be in the ancient prehistoric past!
...elsewhere, in a dark cave, Duke wakes up as thoughts and memories race through his mind as if drawn to the surface unwillingly and all at once- something slimy is caressing his scalp.... he looks up to see the Mindflayer has been feeding on his knowledge, possibly as an appetizer before consuming his brain!
Duke engaged the Mindflayer in angry exchanges while he tried to struggle free of his bonds. The Mindflayer wasn't having it, though, and pulled a dagger to end his rebellious "pet." Just then arrows streaked in- one nearly struck Duke in the eye, and three thudded into the Mindflayer! A group of gnolls were attacking! The Mindflayer used his abilities to daze the gnolls left and right, but he couldn't subdue all of them, or stop Duke from escaping with their help! The angry orc slammed his fist into the Mindflayer's face so hard he crushed him! The monster fell to the floor... but the gnolls then turned on Duke!
...out in the fields, the rest of the party learned that this area is overrun by terrible insect monsters, and no one is safe on their own. Melanie said her scouts would look for Duke, but they agreed only unwillingly, as the orcs of this time period were at war with them.
The others went with Melanie to find where these people lived- but all of a sudden the ground sank and caved in under us! Everyone was separated in the fall, tumbling down into dark caves below...
-Gruffydd-
The halfling along with Shu, Ark's raven familiar, fell down into pitch blackness. The everburning candle on Gruff's hat was not enough to see very far, so he cast Light on his hat, making it shine like a torch. All around him were mushrooms of different shapes and colors- but all of them nearly as large as the hobbit himself! *drip* *drip* *slither...* Odd noises began to surround Gruff and Shu, but there was no sign of life. Starting to panic, Gruffy backed against a wall.... *drip* *splash* the sounds were getting closer- afraid the light of his hat was drawing them, Gruffydd threw his hat away from himself and stood very still. His hat struck a mushroom- which began to scream! Then another.... then another... until the cave was full of screaming fungi... and some were rushing towards Gruffydd and Shu! Quickly, Gruffydd cast a spell that made the rock under his feet form into a huge inverted cone around him- solid rock walls leaning outwards and providing no way for the mushrooms to climb over and get him... but the squishes, splashes, and slithers were also coming from the roof above....
-Arkanum-
Ark fell into a drier cave. This one was also pitch black, but the kobold was able to see in the darkness. However... so could the four giant ants in the room with him! Smelling him with their antennae, the ants charged in all together and started to bite and tear at the small lizard! Ark used his rogue dexterity to jump and dodge away from the slicing mandibles as best he could, but he did not escape uninjured. He shot his crossbow again and again, focusing on one of the ants until it finally died, but the other three were relentless, and kept biting him again and again... Losing blood and near death, Ark managed to run away from the ants toward an exit- but the ants were faster, and easily followed him! However, in the cramped passage outside, there was only room for one ant at a time to attack! Ark pulled his dagger, and decided to make his last stand there! In spite of gnashing, cutting mandibles, Ark was able to stab and destroy one, then another... but just before the last ant approached, its predecessor got in one hell of a bite. Ark was left gasping and bleeding, barely alive- but he was able to finally destroy his last opponent when it came, and he collapsed, injured but alive.
-Zane-
Zane also could see in the dark when he landed. The cave was very dry, full of dust, and the smell of corroded metal. At first, he thought he was trapped with no way out of his cave! Then he saw a tunnel behind him, but there were also two large insects in the room with him! They instantly approached, but in stead of biting or clawing, they brushed feathery antennae all over his body, searching for something... Suddenly his cloak dropped off- what had happened to the clasp holding it closed? One of the monsters started eating more red dust... it was a rust-monster! They were feeding on the metal he carried! Zane fired off a ray of frost, but in his panic missed his attackers. He tried to protect himself, but his belt buckle dissolved and down fell his pants! Then his money was consumed! Ashamed and angry, the halforc fled, tying his pants around his waist and wearing his cloak like a scarf. But there was no more metal on him, so the rust monsters stayed behind. Zane came to a fork in the tunnel- there was a faint light in a cave to one side (Gruffydd's hat, unbeknownst to Zane!) but sounds of battle and the cries of his friends echoed in the other tunnel! Zane hurried to help.
-Weiss-
The bear fell into total blackness, unable to see anything on his own and with no source of light! But whether or not he could see, enemies were near... he heard something scuttering and splashing toward him! Fortunately the bear could use his other senses better than most of his companions. He smelled someone he knew nearby, and there was a familiar metal clanking sound in the same direction. Weiss ran.
-Michael-
Nearby, in a connected cave, the armored paladin found himself unable to see anything. Fortunately he had his flint and tinderbox, and a candle. This he lit with some trouble... and could see a little of what was around him... but he heard a beast breathing hard and splashing toward him through the darkness!
Weiss could see the candle being lit, but still couldn't see what was after him. He ran for Michael and stopped nearby- but the splashing behind him confirmed he was still being pursued! Weiss spun and struck with his axe- slicing through air... the monster had not yet arrived within range. Then a spray of acid spattered across his pelt, burning into his skin!
Michael joined Weiss and both prepared to fight the monsters- two large Ankhegs were attacking! Though Weiss was dangerously near death and the opponents were very powerful and resistant, the two powerhouses slashed and jabbed with spear and axe.
Drawn by the sounds of fighting, Zane dashed into the room with Michael and Weiss, entering from the opposite side from whence Weiss entered. Unseen by Michael and Weiss, Gnolls at the far end of the room had their weapons drawn! Seeing them but knowing there was a more immediate problem, Zane called out in Gnollish to hold, and not attack his friends- they mean no harm! As Zane reached the fight, Weiss and Michael finished off the Ankhegs.
...far off in the cave with the dead mindflayer, Duke found his belongings and started to make sure everything was there, but the gnolls who had helped him beat the Mindflayer told him he wouldn't be going anywhere soon- the Gnolls were at war with the Orcs, and it would take a lot of convincing to prove he was not one of their enemies.
"But first, Orc... why did you kill your lover?" Apparently, Duke's nudity and close proximity to the monster had given the wrong impression...
-Current Cast
(Cletis) - DM extraordinaire, also plays a cast of NPCs, including Melanie, The Master Mindflayer, the rescue Gnolls, and many more!
Weiss - Polar Bear ranger
Arkanum / Ark - Kobold rogue / sorceror Dukris / Duke - Orc multi-weapon fighter
Michael - Human paladin, and also Sam - the paladin's loyal follower, a dwarf cleric
Zanethidas / Zane - Half-Orc wizard / battle-mage (Rowan) : Gruffydd / Gruffy - Halfling wizard / alchemist-Past veterans (miss you guys!):
hitsugaya1987
nikogor
remnic888
rikki69
sdawg
swampstomper
D&D Season 2 Finale! (late)
Posted 11 years agoWe had our "Season 2 Finale" back at the end of May, and then took a break for a month or two, before having our "Season 3 Premiere" on Sunday. I'm gonna do two journals for it. Hard to believe we've been playing for two whole years, with some of the original cast still with us!
Read the Season 3 Premiere here.
---
-Cast Updates:
Current cast continues,
-Story Updates:
After the fight with the owlbears, the party took stock of their situation- they found the source of the Time Portal, but not how to open it! If the control panel only responds to doppelgangers, then what?
That's when we remembered- when we first arrived in this timeline, there was a preserved letter from Alice telling us how to find her... and included with it was a shriveled up doppelganger hand!
The party went home and did a better job saying goodbye to our friends, making sure we had everything we might need for wherever we end up next... we found the hand, and returned to the control room.
After making sure everyone was ready, we used the hand to activate the portal, which turned out to be right under us! Half the party fell in and the rest jumped in after them.
We found ourselves in a strange place- with metal walls and floors... a humming all around us... and a feeling of motion. (Turned out to be a spaceship, but none of our characters had ever been inside one before.) Suddenly doppelgangers appeared, with beam-weapons! Gruffydd magically spoke their language and told them to stand down if they were allies against the Mindflayers- but they attacked!
The battle raged across the ship (took two sessions!) and involved all kinds of dirty tricks- most notably the doppelgangers hiding and reappearing disguised as party members to confuse us and weaken our morale! Finally they all lay dead... but we didn't have much time left... rifts began to open within the ship, it shook and tilted, spiraling out of control, and the rifts kept getting wider and wider!
One of the gnomes got sucked into a burning time rift- followed by Weiss and Zane!! The ship began coming apart, shaking too violently for most of us to keep standing. The remaining time-gnomes willingly dove into the rift... Michael and Sam got dragged in as it expanded and grew more powerful... only Gruff, Ark, and Duke remained on the ship! Duke was off on his own and didn't know what was happening, and Gruffydd wouldn't leave him. But the ship seemed to be crashing, so Ark grabbed the halfling and dove through the rift - into whatever waited on the other side.
As the spaceship screamed towards the ground, Duke ran around looking for his friends or a way out- he didn't know for sure if they were alive, or if they died, or disappeared into the rifts... Walls started pulling apart, debris flying everywhere! Duke opened a door, and was greeted by one of the Mindflayer Masters! Laughing, it grabbed hold of him and phase-shifted out of existence...
The party (minus Duke and the gnomes) appeared in a large, open field. No signs of civilization were anywhere. As we took stock of our present and absent friends, a group of warriors rode up on horseback, led by a large female bear. Weiss's jaw dropped as she smiled and greeted him, "Hello again, brother!"
...somewhere else, in a dark cave... Duke lay unconscious and stripped naked against a pillar of stone, tied tightly to its surface so that he could not move when he awakened. "Now we are finally alone together, my pet." The Mindflayer laughed and approached as its tentacles reached for Duke's brain...
TO BE CONTINUED
Read the Season 3 Premiere here.
-Current Cast
(Cletis) - DM extraordinaire, also plays a cast of NPCs, including Alice, Melanie (Weiss's lost sister), the Quantum Gnomes, and many more!
Weiss - Polar Bear ranger
Arkanum / Ark - Kobold rogue / sorceror
Dukris / Duke - Orc multi-weapon fighter
Michael - Human paladin, and also Sam - the paladin's loyal follower, a dwarf cleric
Zanethidas / Zane - Half-Orc wizard / battle-mage
(Rowan) : Gruffydd / Gruffy - Halfling wizard / alchemist
-Past veterans (miss you guys!):
hitsugaya1987
nikogor
remnic888
rikki69
sdawg
swampstomper
Read the Season 3 Premiere here.
---
-Cast Updates:
Current cast continues,
-Story Updates:
After the fight with the owlbears, the party took stock of their situation- they found the source of the Time Portal, but not how to open it! If the control panel only responds to doppelgangers, then what?
That's when we remembered- when we first arrived in this timeline, there was a preserved letter from Alice telling us how to find her... and included with it was a shriveled up doppelganger hand!
The party went home and did a better job saying goodbye to our friends, making sure we had everything we might need for wherever we end up next... we found the hand, and returned to the control room.
After making sure everyone was ready, we used the hand to activate the portal, which turned out to be right under us! Half the party fell in and the rest jumped in after them.
We found ourselves in a strange place- with metal walls and floors... a humming all around us... and a feeling of motion. (Turned out to be a spaceship, but none of our characters had ever been inside one before.) Suddenly doppelgangers appeared, with beam-weapons! Gruffydd magically spoke their language and told them to stand down if they were allies against the Mindflayers- but they attacked!
The battle raged across the ship (took two sessions!) and involved all kinds of dirty tricks- most notably the doppelgangers hiding and reappearing disguised as party members to confuse us and weaken our morale! Finally they all lay dead... but we didn't have much time left... rifts began to open within the ship, it shook and tilted, spiraling out of control, and the rifts kept getting wider and wider!
One of the gnomes got sucked into a burning time rift- followed by Weiss and Zane!! The ship began coming apart, shaking too violently for most of us to keep standing. The remaining time-gnomes willingly dove into the rift... Michael and Sam got dragged in as it expanded and grew more powerful... only Gruff, Ark, and Duke remained on the ship! Duke was off on his own and didn't know what was happening, and Gruffydd wouldn't leave him. But the ship seemed to be crashing, so Ark grabbed the halfling and dove through the rift - into whatever waited on the other side.
As the spaceship screamed towards the ground, Duke ran around looking for his friends or a way out- he didn't know for sure if they were alive, or if they died, or disappeared into the rifts... Walls started pulling apart, debris flying everywhere! Duke opened a door, and was greeted by one of the Mindflayer Masters! Laughing, it grabbed hold of him and phase-shifted out of existence...
The party (minus Duke and the gnomes) appeared in a large, open field. No signs of civilization were anywhere. As we took stock of our present and absent friends, a group of warriors rode up on horseback, led by a large female bear. Weiss's jaw dropped as she smiled and greeted him, "Hello again, brother!"
...somewhere else, in a dark cave... Duke lay unconscious and stripped naked against a pillar of stone, tied tightly to its surface so that he could not move when he awakened. "Now we are finally alone together, my pet." The Mindflayer laughed and approached as its tentacles reached for Duke's brain...
TO BE CONTINUED
Read the Season 3 Premiere here.
-Current Cast
(Cletis) - DM extraordinaire, also plays a cast of NPCs, including Alice, Melanie (Weiss's lost sister), the Quantum Gnomes, and many more! Weiss - Polar Bear ranger Arkanum / Ark - Kobold rogue / sorceror Dukris / Duke - Orc multi-weapon fighter Michael - Human paladin, and also Sam - the paladin's loyal follower, a dwarf cleric Zanethidas / Zane - Half-Orc wizard / battle-mage (Rowan) : Gruffydd / Gruffy - Halfling wizard / alchemist-Past veterans (miss you guys!):
hitsugaya1987
nikogor
remnic888
rikki69
sdawg
swampstomper
Look at what Swampstomper did!
Posted 11 years agoSwampstomper (I still think of him as "Gator") drew a very funny, very cute, very hot picture of Blue Pine the Half-orc meeting up again with Gruffydd.
Just go look at it!
This is an amazing surprise from such a sweet guy. Cletis and I both got really happy to see it. Thanks a bunch dude!
-Rowan/Gruffydd (& Cletis)
Just go look at it!
This is an amazing surprise from such a sweet guy. Cletis and I both got really happy to see it. Thanks a bunch dude!
-Rowan/Gruffydd (& Cletis)
D&D Updates! A new friend.
Posted 11 years ago-Cast Updates:
Current cast continues, with the addition of Zanethidas (Zane), a half-orc wizard played by zekesilverwind, who has been waiting to join our game almost since we first started!! Glad to finally have you with us, man!
-Story Updates:
After the fight with the Mindflayers, the party regrouped and made for Dreadful City. There, we discovered that our NPC friends Thiss, Tiburoun, and Silbastian had befriended a wizard and professional masseur named Zane. Silbastian had purchased several adjoining buildings and begun a hospital while we were away, and Zane had been helping with that.
Since we left, not only had the time-rifts opened up throughout the city, but horrible monsters started coming out of them! There were Jellyfish-like monsters that could make themselves immune to physical attacks, and terrible invisible flesh-eating worms- blech!
After a fight with some jellyfish-things, the party was divided. Weiss spent some time in the hospital as he was still injured from the exploding spaceship, and Ark, Michael, and Sam stayed to help while Duke, Zane, and Gruffydd went to check on some gnoll-vagrants who set up camp near one of the rifts.
While this was happening, three little gnomes suddenly appeared in the tavern! Everyone went to meet and question them. They appeared similar in some ways to the monsters we'd been fighting- able to link their minds into one, and to turn strangely hazy-blue and invulnerable.
It turns out the Mindflayers ("The Masters") have been using time-rifts to trap living beings and enslave them or feed on them. The prisoners suffer side effects and gain strange abilities (like the gnomes display) that help them sense the flow of time, and locations of rifts and portals. The gnomes can also sense what's been altered or ruined by tampering with time, and identifying these key points will help us do our job to put things right!
During our discussions with them, we talked about the mindflayer in the world of Duke's memories that we defeated. It seems somehow The Masters had an interest in Duke's tribe- and there's a chance the tribe is not really dead! They may be prisoners, or they may be... livestock... for the mindflayers to feed upon- but there's a chance they're not all dead. Duke is even more anxious to begin our quest.
The gnomes located the point of an entrance-portal through time... but it's a one-way trip... and there's no telling what time-period it reaches! Not knowing what else to do, but knowing every time period is being attacked, the group decided to use the portal and do what we could on the other side. Michael and Ark decided to bring the Green Lady's remains, as Ark had promised her to plant them, and they required Michael's blood to fertilize them, being the Green Lady's father. There's a chance we'll wind up in the wrong time to do this, but they brought the remains just in case!
After asking the gnomes to come with us (they agreed) we travelled through Dreadful City to the location of the portal- a weird building filled with large holding-tanks, like the ones in the Doppelganger lab. We carefully explored the area, and discovered that the holding tanks contained powerful owlbears! All the more reason to proceed carefully-
Suddenly a new rift began to open, right inside the building! Using the gnomes' ability to sense the portal, we ran past it, eager to escape before more monsters emerged. We found a control panel, and hoped it would open the portal for us! Ark searched it for traps and Gruffydd did his best to be cautious as well, but the Doppelganger construction was too clever, and spotted them as foreign organisms, exploding fire over them and releasing the angry owlbears to attack!
The fight was tough, but everyone fought to the best of their abilities. Michael and Sam revealed new holy spells and abilities they had never used, including some quick-cast Paladin spells right in the middle of battle and Sam creating a magical snowstorm for us to hide in.
Duke and Weiss were their usual swirling maelstrom of blades, arrows, and destruction- Ark and Gruffydd used stealth, magic, and fire to aid the party and crush the threats to our safety- and Zane revealed himself to be quite the battle-mage, using a magical freezing quarterstaff and casting at close range.
Finally all of the owlbears lay dead, though other containment-tubes remained closed, hiding their contents... and still no sign of the time-portal or how to open it!
-Current Cast
(Cletis) - DM extraordinaire, also plays a cast of NPCs, including Thiss, Tiburoun, Silbastian, the Quantum Gnomes, and many more!
Weiss - Polar Bear ranger
Arkanum / Ark - Kobold rogue / sorceror
Dukris / Duke - Orc multi-weapon fighter
Michael - Human paladin, and also Sam - the paladin's loyal follower, a dwarf cleric
Zanethidas / Zane - Half-Orc wizard / battle-mage
(Rowan) : Gruffydd / Gruffy - Halfling wizard / alchemist
-Past veterans (miss you guys!):
hitsugaya1987
nikogor
remnic888
rikki69
sdawg
swampstomper
Current cast continues, with the addition of Zanethidas (Zane), a half-orc wizard played by
zekesilverwind, who has been waiting to join our game almost since we first started!! Glad to finally have you with us, man!-Story Updates:
After the fight with the Mindflayers, the party regrouped and made for Dreadful City. There, we discovered that our NPC friends Thiss, Tiburoun, and Silbastian had befriended a wizard and professional masseur named Zane. Silbastian had purchased several adjoining buildings and begun a hospital while we were away, and Zane had been helping with that.
Since we left, not only had the time-rifts opened up throughout the city, but horrible monsters started coming out of them! There were Jellyfish-like monsters that could make themselves immune to physical attacks, and terrible invisible flesh-eating worms- blech!
After a fight with some jellyfish-things, the party was divided. Weiss spent some time in the hospital as he was still injured from the exploding spaceship, and Ark, Michael, and Sam stayed to help while Duke, Zane, and Gruffydd went to check on some gnoll-vagrants who set up camp near one of the rifts.
While this was happening, three little gnomes suddenly appeared in the tavern! Everyone went to meet and question them. They appeared similar in some ways to the monsters we'd been fighting- able to link their minds into one, and to turn strangely hazy-blue and invulnerable.
It turns out the Mindflayers ("The Masters") have been using time-rifts to trap living beings and enslave them or feed on them. The prisoners suffer side effects and gain strange abilities (like the gnomes display) that help them sense the flow of time, and locations of rifts and portals. The gnomes can also sense what's been altered or ruined by tampering with time, and identifying these key points will help us do our job to put things right!
During our discussions with them, we talked about the mindflayer in the world of Duke's memories that we defeated. It seems somehow The Masters had an interest in Duke's tribe- and there's a chance the tribe is not really dead! They may be prisoners, or they may be... livestock... for the mindflayers to feed upon- but there's a chance they're not all dead. Duke is even more anxious to begin our quest.
The gnomes located the point of an entrance-portal through time... but it's a one-way trip... and there's no telling what time-period it reaches! Not knowing what else to do, but knowing every time period is being attacked, the group decided to use the portal and do what we could on the other side. Michael and Ark decided to bring the Green Lady's remains, as Ark had promised her to plant them, and they required Michael's blood to fertilize them, being the Green Lady's father. There's a chance we'll wind up in the wrong time to do this, but they brought the remains just in case!
After asking the gnomes to come with us (they agreed) we travelled through Dreadful City to the location of the portal- a weird building filled with large holding-tanks, like the ones in the Doppelganger lab. We carefully explored the area, and discovered that the holding tanks contained powerful owlbears! All the more reason to proceed carefully-
Suddenly a new rift began to open, right inside the building! Using the gnomes' ability to sense the portal, we ran past it, eager to escape before more monsters emerged. We found a control panel, and hoped it would open the portal for us! Ark searched it for traps and Gruffydd did his best to be cautious as well, but the Doppelganger construction was too clever, and spotted them as foreign organisms, exploding fire over them and releasing the angry owlbears to attack!
The fight was tough, but everyone fought to the best of their abilities. Michael and Sam revealed new holy spells and abilities they had never used, including some quick-cast Paladin spells right in the middle of battle and Sam creating a magical snowstorm for us to hide in.
Duke and Weiss were their usual swirling maelstrom of blades, arrows, and destruction- Ark and Gruffydd used stealth, magic, and fire to aid the party and crush the threats to our safety- and Zane revealed himself to be quite the battle-mage, using a magical freezing quarterstaff and casting at close range.
Finally all of the owlbears lay dead, though other containment-tubes remained closed, hiding their contents... and still no sign of the time-portal or how to open it!
-Current Cast
(Cletis) - DM extraordinaire, also plays a cast of NPCs, including Thiss, Tiburoun, Silbastian, the Quantum Gnomes, and many more! Weiss - Polar Bear ranger Arkanum / Ark - Kobold rogue / sorceror Dukris / Duke - Orc multi-weapon fighter Michael - Human paladin, and also Sam - the paladin's loyal follower, a dwarf cleric Zanethidas / Zane - Half-Orc wizard / battle-mage (Rowan) : Gruffydd / Gruffy - Halfling wizard / alchemist-Past veterans (miss you guys!):
hitsugaya1987
nikogor
remnic888
rikki69
sdawg
swampstomper
D&D Session! Friendship! Goodbyes! Exploding Spaceships!
Posted 11 years agoIt's been several weeks, but we've only had ONE more session since the last one, and it was amazing!
-Cast Updates:
Current cast continues.
-Story Updates:
It's been three weeks since the defeat of Deepfist. The party were automatically forgiven for the specifics of how Deepfist died, in light of the fact that the general had been plaguing the town of Newpost for so long.
With the greatest threat eliminated, the town and the party turned to rebuilding. Duke used his strength to help deliver construction materials to the ravaged Bath-House, once again making the party its heroes. Michael and Sam worked with local paladins to rebuild the temple. Ark worked for Brooder, the head of the Thieves Guild, to recruit new members- and he did so well he was given an official position in the guild as a recruiter. Rather ironic since Ark helped to create the guild a thousand years before! Weiss and Gruffydd made use of their leatherworking skills on a project they had in mind for some time- magical leather harnesses, to assist the party (and of course make them look sexy as well). Apart from working on the project, Weiss also helped with the sick in town, discovering and helping to prevent an epidemic, and Gruffydd used his magic to help repair the outer wall of the city, where a flimsy illusion of a wall of glass had to be used previously.
Then one day when everyone relaxed at the inn, a young lad came running in from the town guard telling the party a suspicious stranger was outside asking for them! We hurried out to meet this person. On the way in, captain Kora mentioned that an elf had been captured- possibly the elf 2nd-in-command whom Gruff had seen when spying on Deepfist before!
At any rate, in we went, and the stranger was none other than Rybann! We hadn't seen him since he flew off into the magical storm with the Green Lady. He had completely renounced his old ways and was trying to rebuild his life as a druid, now calling himself Hyssop.
Hyssop had no intentions of sticking around- he came to deliver items and messages to the party. He returned the armor Ark had lent him, gave back the poison Gruffydd had given him, and then entrusted the group with a wrapped-up bundle and special instructions: the contents had to be fertilized with Michael's blood, and planted in the soil in an ancient age thousands of years before! We suddenly realized- these were the remains of the Green Lady! She had expired using her power to rout Deepfist's army, and now was reduced to a seed. But Michael, her "father," was away helping rebuild and none of us had heard from him in a while to know where to deliver the sad news.
Hyssop left us then, and rode out into the woods on his new wolf-mount. We asked him if he wanted to stay, but he now sought his life as a druid in the wild.
After that, Weiss went to help with the sick in town, and the rest of us went to interview the mysterious elf who was second-in-command to Deepfist... only when we got there, we saw there was a mistake! It was just Rickett, the spy Duke and Weiss had taken down previously!
Ark and Gruffydd hurried to warn Kora that the real second-in-command was still out there! But while we were gone, the sly elf played on Duke's insecurities and fears, insulting and egging him on until Duke was at the point of breaking the elf's neck in his own hands! Duke squeezed harder, enraged at the things the elf was saying..... but he heard the voices of his friends and lovers calling for him to relent- they know Duke is not a monster! He let the elf go, and sank to the floor.
As Ark and Gruffydd warned Kora and tried to figure out what to do next, a rider approached the city, calling for Gruffydd and all the party. Ark climbed a tower to get a better look, while Gruff went outside with Kora to meet the rider. The message was from Silbastian and their other friends in the city- "Danger! Return to Dreadful City!"
Everyone came together with the messenger, a half-elf-half-orc named Hemiola. She had been working with Silbastian, Tiburoun, and the others- but suddenly rifts in time began opening up again in the city- it's happening again!! Adding to that, terrible monsters have appeared and begun killing! Knowing we had not much time, the party decided to leave the next morning. Ark and Weiss went to resolve a challenge and crime committed by Weiss against the judge Holbogarten, Duke and Gruffydd went to recover strength at the bath-house and prepare Gruffydd's spells for the following day, and still there was no sign of Michael and Sam to be told the news!
Gruffydd noticed Duke's distress after his confrontation with the elf. Duke was afraid of his dark thoughts, his desire to kill the wretch, and feared he might really be evil- but his little team-mate calmed his fears. We all have evil within us, but the choice not to act on it makes us good- so the Legacy of Deepfist died when Duke let the elf live.
Ark and Weiss also had a breakthrough- they met with Holbogarten and Mayor Horgon to find the gargoyle had changed a great deal, and no one knew how. He forgave Weiss's challenge, and his crimes, in the greater light of the party's accomplishments and service to the community! Somehow the heartless Gargoyle had come to find a new heart, and wisdom to weigh justice without vengeance or ruthlessness. But- Holbogarten wanted the party gone. The questionable execution of Deepfist, and all the pain and death that had surrounded the events made the party unwelcome in his sight.
The next morning, we headed out for Dreadful City along with Hemiola. We were distressed to be unable to find Michael and Sam, but sent them a message to hurry and join us at home in the City.
We didn't get far- somewhere near the crossroads where Deepfist first attacked us on our way to Newpost, unnatural purple lightning and flames lit up the sky over the city... the flashes and streaks came closer and closer... until a huge machine slammed down into the road right in front of us! And out of the wreckage appeared two Mindflayers, just like the Darkmaster, the one we met inside the world of Duke's mind!
Weiss wrangled the pack-horses and calmed their fears. Duke charged in while Ark, Gruffydd, and Hemiola prepared from a distance. One of the monsters clambered out of the wreckage, but the other one became stuck.
This gave Gruffydd an idea- he carefully aimed a Mud-ball spell near, but behind, the ship, blasting the trapped Mindflayer and stunning him, not to mention making it even harder to get out of the wrecked ship.
Duke dashed in to attack the one that was free, wounding it. Hemiola began to use Bard-music to inspire courage in everyone. Weiss shot the monster, too, and Ark blasted it with his recently more powerful Magic Missile spell, sending two blasts at once that killed it! Everyone cheered! But the other monster was still in the wreckage...
In stead of climbing out, it climbed back in... we waited for it to appear... but it did not...
Suddenly there was a flash and a ring of purple fire appeared, with two figures inside! Within we heard voices... one strange... the other familiar...
ALICE! The little kobold bardess from the beginning of our adventure so long ago! After a thousand years and not knowing what happened when she was captured by the doppelgangers, we heard her shouting to her comrade-another doppelganger!
Just then, Michael rode into the scene! Having received our distressing message about Dreadful City, he had ridden out after us and caught up while we were fighting! Not knowing what ws going on, Michael held out his sword and threatened Hemiola, the strange elf-orc who appeared to be skulking around behind our party making magical music. She cried out that she was an ally, but Michael was not convinced...
Then, Alice's friend the Doppelganger jumped out of the purple fire. Weiss originally joined us after Alice disappeared and did not ever know Alice or the Doppelganger Sibling Gelflek, our uneasy ally. The bear was confused and threatened by this sudden appearance, and dashed in to attack the shapeshifter. Gruffydd cried out for him to stop, and though not in time for him to actually stop, it did distract Weiss and he missed.
Before anything else could be done, we heard a beeping, clicking sound from within the spaceship... those of us who dealt with the awful robot-spiders long ago knew that sound- a self-destruct!
Immediately everyone was yelling and screaming to get away from the craft. Alice and her consort joined us in fleeing. Weiss cast a ranger spell to yell out to the horses and local wildlife to escape, flee! Ark used his Boots of Jumping to pull a pretty amazing move and flipped up into a tree to catch and rescue his Raven-familiar, tumbling down and shielding his pet from harm.
Though we ran as fast as we could, not everyone made it out in time! The explosion was huge- it burned Weiss and Duke, who had been closest and the last to flee, and peppered them with shrapnel! Duke twisted and dove to avoid some of the damage, but Weiss was unable to, and they both were hit hard.
As the party recovered and turned to run back to our fallen friends, Alice and her companion started to flicker and fade from existence- they shouted to the party, asking us what time period we had come to, but our attention was momentarily on helping our wounded friends, and in that instant, Alice and the Doppelganger vanished without a trace...
The game closed with the party divided into two small groups and helping our wounded comrades. How in the world had Alice appeared? What did she want from us? Would we ever see her again if she didn't even know what time period we were stuck in? Who would protect Newpost if Deepfist's 2nd-in-Command was still at large? What was happening in Dreadful City with time rifts opening again? Would we be thrust thousands of years into the past or future again, to have to start over again?! Or would it bring us closer to defeating the Time Beast and ending the struggle?
-Current Cast
(Cletis) - DM extraordinaire, also plays a cast of NPCs, including Brooder, Kora, Rybann/Hyssop, Alice, and many more!
Weiss - Polar Bear ranger
Arkanum / Ark - Kobold rogue / sorceror
Dukris / Duke - Orc multi-weapon fighter
Michael - Human paladin, and also Sam - the paladin's loyal follower, a dwarf
(Rowan) : Gruffydd / Gruffy - Halfling wizard / alchemist
-Past veterans (miss you guys!):
hitsugaya1987
nikogor
remnic888
rikki69
sdawg
swampstomper
-Cast Updates:
Current cast continues.
-Story Updates:
It's been three weeks since the defeat of Deepfist. The party were automatically forgiven for the specifics of how Deepfist died, in light of the fact that the general had been plaguing the town of Newpost for so long.
With the greatest threat eliminated, the town and the party turned to rebuilding. Duke used his strength to help deliver construction materials to the ravaged Bath-House, once again making the party its heroes. Michael and Sam worked with local paladins to rebuild the temple. Ark worked for Brooder, the head of the Thieves Guild, to recruit new members- and he did so well he was given an official position in the guild as a recruiter. Rather ironic since Ark helped to create the guild a thousand years before! Weiss and Gruffydd made use of their leatherworking skills on a project they had in mind for some time- magical leather harnesses, to assist the party (and of course make them look sexy as well). Apart from working on the project, Weiss also helped with the sick in town, discovering and helping to prevent an epidemic, and Gruffydd used his magic to help repair the outer wall of the city, where a flimsy illusion of a wall of glass had to be used previously.
Then one day when everyone relaxed at the inn, a young lad came running in from the town guard telling the party a suspicious stranger was outside asking for them! We hurried out to meet this person. On the way in, captain Kora mentioned that an elf had been captured- possibly the elf 2nd-in-command whom Gruff had seen when spying on Deepfist before!
At any rate, in we went, and the stranger was none other than Rybann! We hadn't seen him since he flew off into the magical storm with the Green Lady. He had completely renounced his old ways and was trying to rebuild his life as a druid, now calling himself Hyssop.
Hyssop had no intentions of sticking around- he came to deliver items and messages to the party. He returned the armor Ark had lent him, gave back the poison Gruffydd had given him, and then entrusted the group with a wrapped-up bundle and special instructions: the contents had to be fertilized with Michael's blood, and planted in the soil in an ancient age thousands of years before! We suddenly realized- these were the remains of the Green Lady! She had expired using her power to rout Deepfist's army, and now was reduced to a seed. But Michael, her "father," was away helping rebuild and none of us had heard from him in a while to know where to deliver the sad news.
Hyssop left us then, and rode out into the woods on his new wolf-mount. We asked him if he wanted to stay, but he now sought his life as a druid in the wild.
After that, Weiss went to help with the sick in town, and the rest of us went to interview the mysterious elf who was second-in-command to Deepfist... only when we got there, we saw there was a mistake! It was just Rickett, the spy Duke and Weiss had taken down previously!
Ark and Gruffydd hurried to warn Kora that the real second-in-command was still out there! But while we were gone, the sly elf played on Duke's insecurities and fears, insulting and egging him on until Duke was at the point of breaking the elf's neck in his own hands! Duke squeezed harder, enraged at the things the elf was saying..... but he heard the voices of his friends and lovers calling for him to relent- they know Duke is not a monster! He let the elf go, and sank to the floor.
As Ark and Gruffydd warned Kora and tried to figure out what to do next, a rider approached the city, calling for Gruffydd and all the party. Ark climbed a tower to get a better look, while Gruff went outside with Kora to meet the rider. The message was from Silbastian and their other friends in the city- "Danger! Return to Dreadful City!"
Everyone came together with the messenger, a half-elf-half-orc named Hemiola. She had been working with Silbastian, Tiburoun, and the others- but suddenly rifts in time began opening up again in the city- it's happening again!! Adding to that, terrible monsters have appeared and begun killing! Knowing we had not much time, the party decided to leave the next morning. Ark and Weiss went to resolve a challenge and crime committed by Weiss against the judge Holbogarten, Duke and Gruffydd went to recover strength at the bath-house and prepare Gruffydd's spells for the following day, and still there was no sign of Michael and Sam to be told the news!
Gruffydd noticed Duke's distress after his confrontation with the elf. Duke was afraid of his dark thoughts, his desire to kill the wretch, and feared he might really be evil- but his little team-mate calmed his fears. We all have evil within us, but the choice not to act on it makes us good- so the Legacy of Deepfist died when Duke let the elf live.
Ark and Weiss also had a breakthrough- they met with Holbogarten and Mayor Horgon to find the gargoyle had changed a great deal, and no one knew how. He forgave Weiss's challenge, and his crimes, in the greater light of the party's accomplishments and service to the community! Somehow the heartless Gargoyle had come to find a new heart, and wisdom to weigh justice without vengeance or ruthlessness. But- Holbogarten wanted the party gone. The questionable execution of Deepfist, and all the pain and death that had surrounded the events made the party unwelcome in his sight.
The next morning, we headed out for Dreadful City along with Hemiola. We were distressed to be unable to find Michael and Sam, but sent them a message to hurry and join us at home in the City.
We didn't get far- somewhere near the crossroads where Deepfist first attacked us on our way to Newpost, unnatural purple lightning and flames lit up the sky over the city... the flashes and streaks came closer and closer... until a huge machine slammed down into the road right in front of us! And out of the wreckage appeared two Mindflayers, just like the Darkmaster, the one we met inside the world of Duke's mind!
Weiss wrangled the pack-horses and calmed their fears. Duke charged in while Ark, Gruffydd, and Hemiola prepared from a distance. One of the monsters clambered out of the wreckage, but the other one became stuck.
This gave Gruffydd an idea- he carefully aimed a Mud-ball spell near, but behind, the ship, blasting the trapped Mindflayer and stunning him, not to mention making it even harder to get out of the wrecked ship.
Duke dashed in to attack the one that was free, wounding it. Hemiola began to use Bard-music to inspire courage in everyone. Weiss shot the monster, too, and Ark blasted it with his recently more powerful Magic Missile spell, sending two blasts at once that killed it! Everyone cheered! But the other monster was still in the wreckage...
In stead of climbing out, it climbed back in... we waited for it to appear... but it did not...
Suddenly there was a flash and a ring of purple fire appeared, with two figures inside! Within we heard voices... one strange... the other familiar...
ALICE! The little kobold bardess from the beginning of our adventure so long ago! After a thousand years and not knowing what happened when she was captured by the doppelgangers, we heard her shouting to her comrade-another doppelganger!
Just then, Michael rode into the scene! Having received our distressing message about Dreadful City, he had ridden out after us and caught up while we were fighting! Not knowing what ws going on, Michael held out his sword and threatened Hemiola, the strange elf-orc who appeared to be skulking around behind our party making magical music. She cried out that she was an ally, but Michael was not convinced...
Then, Alice's friend the Doppelganger jumped out of the purple fire. Weiss originally joined us after Alice disappeared and did not ever know Alice or the Doppelganger Sibling Gelflek, our uneasy ally. The bear was confused and threatened by this sudden appearance, and dashed in to attack the shapeshifter. Gruffydd cried out for him to stop, and though not in time for him to actually stop, it did distract Weiss and he missed.
Before anything else could be done, we heard a beeping, clicking sound from within the spaceship... those of us who dealt with the awful robot-spiders long ago knew that sound- a self-destruct!
Immediately everyone was yelling and screaming to get away from the craft. Alice and her consort joined us in fleeing. Weiss cast a ranger spell to yell out to the horses and local wildlife to escape, flee! Ark used his Boots of Jumping to pull a pretty amazing move and flipped up into a tree to catch and rescue his Raven-familiar, tumbling down and shielding his pet from harm.
Though we ran as fast as we could, not everyone made it out in time! The explosion was huge- it burned Weiss and Duke, who had been closest and the last to flee, and peppered them with shrapnel! Duke twisted and dove to avoid some of the damage, but Weiss was unable to, and they both were hit hard.
As the party recovered and turned to run back to our fallen friends, Alice and her companion started to flicker and fade from existence- they shouted to the party, asking us what time period we had come to, but our attention was momentarily on helping our wounded friends, and in that instant, Alice and the Doppelganger vanished without a trace...
The game closed with the party divided into two small groups and helping our wounded comrades. How in the world had Alice appeared? What did she want from us? Would we ever see her again if she didn't even know what time period we were stuck in? Who would protect Newpost if Deepfist's 2nd-in-Command was still at large? What was happening in Dreadful City with time rifts opening again? Would we be thrust thousands of years into the past or future again, to have to start over again?! Or would it bring us closer to defeating the Time Beast and ending the struggle?
-Current Cast
(Cletis) - DM extraordinaire, also plays a cast of NPCs, including Brooder, Kora, Rybann/Hyssop, Alice, and many more! Weiss - Polar Bear ranger Arkanum / Ark - Kobold rogue / sorceror Dukris / Duke - Orc multi-weapon fighter Michael - Human paladin, and also Sam - the paladin's loyal follower, a dwarf (Rowan) : Gruffydd / Gruffy - Halfling wizard / alchemist-Past veterans (miss you guys!):
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