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Good evening. I'm working on several player characters and I have a few fairly basic concepts going. What I'm looking for is maybe suggestions/alterations to make them a bit more interesting (although making them overpowered for what they do is always a plus.)
Concept 1: Race Siren/Sirine/Half-Siren Class: Pirate
This one likely would be either homebrew or at least maybe through something like Savage Species. The variation would be the mermaid-ish type of siren. The main abilities for her would be Siren's Song (or similar ability) to charm those that hear it. A bonus to swim, or the ability to change between humanoid and siren would be good too. And with her being a pirate, her song would aid her crew in plundering other ships they may come across.
The other ones I plan on making are: 1. An Elf Arcane caster (think I read of a cleric with Force domain that can use Magic Missle?) into Force Missile Mage (. (Dragon Magazine 328 pg 50) Requirements: 9 ranks each Concentration and Spellcraft, Combat Casting feat, able to cast Magic Missile.

1. A Dwarven Ranger into Deepwarden (Races of Stone pg 105) Requirements: Base Attack 5, 5 ranks each in Climb, Heal, Jump, Knowledge (dungeoneering), Survival, and Endurance feat.
   
2. Human Bard/Rogue/Cleric of Trickery domain into Chameleon (Races of Destiny pg 111) Requirements: Skills - Bluff and Disguise 8, Sense Motive 4, Able Learner feat (All skills cost 1 point, also in Races of Destiny)
   

They're all going to be about 5th level or so and just looking for suggestions on the best way to do these. (Or if there's better base-classes than what I have listed, such as maybe warmage or something in 33/3.5eds and early pathfinder or other compatable systems)
Oh. And sub-races are accepted as well

Basic Information

Name: Diem Patrick Mirecki. Don’t read into his name meaning ‘by the day’, it was chosen before his mother knew the truth about his dad.

• Nicknames: Buzz, but only his Grandpa calls him that.

Age: 16

• Birthday: April 11th.
  
• Zodiac: Aries.
  

Hometown: Galveston, TX, but his mom’s work has them moving every six months or so.

• Nationality: American.

Family

Godly parent: Apollo, the god of…too many things. Poetry, music, art, archery, truth, plague, healing, light, and- of course- the sun. It might sound overwhelming to have a dad that’s the master of everything, but Diem has never felt pressured to live up to any of it, his mom was pretty good at leveling him out.
Mother: Verona Mirecki. While they don’t have the most conventional mothechild relationship, they are incredibly close.

• Occupation: Verona is a Locum Tenens Physician aka a traveling or substitute doctor, hence all the moving she and Diem have done.
• Age: 43.

Grandpa: George “Geo” Mirecki. He’s a cantankerous old man, but he shares the same slick wit as Diem. He’s been dealing living with slow-progressing dementia that keeps him from caring for his grandson while his mom is away.

• Occupation: Long retired family physician, he lives in Brooklyn, NY.
• Ages: 73

Appearance

Faceclaim: Justice Carradine
Features:

• Eyes: Hazel, with more brown and gold hues than green. When he truly smiles his eyes shrink by half and the creases at the corners are sure to become wrinkles before he’s 30.
  
• Hair: A thick, dark brown mess of curls that he spends more time than he’ll readily admit taming and twisting and placing just so.
  
• Build: Diem is tall for his age (5’11”), with a beanpole-esque physique and lean but strong musculature.
  

Voice: Loud and clear, his voice is cheery and warm- the kind you can hear a smile at any time until he’s really down. A quiet Diem is a deeply sad Diem.
Presentation:

• Clothing: He's a real jeans and t-shirt kinda person. Loose-fitting band shirts are his favorites and they're usually covered with some plaid button-down that's never buttoned. Actually, even when it's cold and he's wearing a hoodie, even that is topped with one of his plaid shirts. It's kind of a comfort thing.
• Accessories: His knives, always. Other than that he has a few piercings in the cartilage of his ears, one ring through the lobe of his left ear, and a variety of sunglasses that are either on his face, his head, or hanging from the neck of his shirt. The sunglasses don't actually help recover his eyes any easier from his heliokinesis ability, but he likes to think they do. Plus it's harder to tell what someone's thinking if you can't see their eyes.

Personality

Positive traits: Friendly, good-natured, bold, quick-witted, courageous, passionate, generous, energetic, loyal
Neutral traits: Shameless flirt, forthright, restless, forgetful, loud, observant, rational, pressurized, intelligent
Negative traits: Quick-tempered, indulgent, careless, reckless, selfish, impatient, domineering, defiant, competitive

Godly Information

Claiming: Diem was claimed on his eighth birthday. It involved a poorly timed swing at a piñata, a real goose egg, and a hefty dose of guilt.
Weapon: A pair of double-edged celestial bronze throwing daggers. They are an ongoing project he's been working on (or re-making) at the forge for the last six years. Despite the time spent on them, they don't transform- this is mostly because he’s half certain that if they looked like mundane things, he’d lose them- but he does keep them strapped to his forearms.
Abilities:

• Weapon Mastery: Diem inherited Apollo's knack for marksmanship. His skill for aiming applies to ranged weapons (archery, spears, daggers, etc.), basketball, and- maybe his favorite party trick- tossing food into other people's mouths, and means that when the situation allows for him to focus, he rarely misses.
• Vitakinesis: ...Diem isn't a great healer. Laying hands on someone who has been injured and (badly) singing a hymn to his father- his voice might cause psychic damage- he can heal minor wounds like cuts, punctures, twisted ankles, and deep bruises. But this always leaves him feeling sluggish and weakened, so he tries to use this as little as possible.
• Heliokinesis: Son of the sun god, Diem has the ability to manifest sunlight through his... skin. The brightness of his glow ranges from "nightlight on the way to the bathroom at 2 am" to "don't stare at the sun, you idiot!".

Additional

Themesong
Hobbies: Reading, climbing, eating (is eating a hobby?), bothering people, hiking, exploring the forest, swimming, nail art, skateboarding, doing other people's hair, biking.
Trivia:

• A great pen pal, he regularly writes letters to the friends he’s made across the country.
• Wears reading glasses.
• Loves music, but hates headphones- out loud or nothing
• Ambrosia tastes like watermelon Jolly Ranchers- though once it was grape.
• He has a wicked sweet tooth and can almost always be found with some kind of candy in his pocket.
• He will always take a bet. *He loves to read but hates sitting still, so he can be found walking aimlessly through camp with his nose in a book. He doesn’t have a favorite genre, but his favorite book is House of Leaves- the weird style of writing appeals to his ADHD brain.
• He's a hopeless, but fleeting, romantic- the kind to picture an entire future with every person he's attracted to, only to lose interest shortly after or get drawn in by some other imagined future.

Backstory

Verona Mirecki was not the type to be smitten by a man with a pretty face, she was sensible and focused and a hard worker. That's what she was doing when she met Apollo, or Alex Wiley as he'd introduced himself, she was in the last month of her residency at a busy hospital in Galveston and once she realized the blood on his shirt didn't lead to a wound, she didn't have time for him. He was not deterred, and she eventually fell to his charms.
The pair had a brief affair because neither was really cut out for a long-term relationship. Verona had plans to work for Doctors Without Borders and Apollo had the sun. Guess whose plans changed when a squealing, squirming, perfect Diem was born nine months later?
Now with a son of her own, Verona settled into a free clinic near her parent's house in New York until the baby who had quickly become her world, was old enough to travel with her. The pair were inseparable when they weren't separated by school and work. Their relationship was closer to that of best friends than mother and son, trust was inherent and secrets were non-existent.
So when a package, addressed to her, appeared with nothing but "Alex Wiley" as a return address, Verona opened it with her son and they discovered his new reality, together. Since then, he'd spent as much time as he wanted at Camp Half-Blood, and she had been able to take the positions around the world she'd always dreamed of. Postcards, letters, Iris Messages, and as many visits as possible kept the pair as close as they'd ever been and the freedom to do as they wanted, kept them happy.

Now

Diem had made an appearance in Camp Half-Blood during 10 out of the 12 months over the last eight years; all except for March and April. His mom had always made an effort for them to be together for their birthdays: hers in March, his in April; this year would be their first apart.
Without any prior March experience, calling the current weather situation at camp weird would be... weird. For all he knew, it always snowed heavily the week before April or maybe global warming was creeping up on the gods. Whatever it was, he didn't skip a beat before doing his damndest to enjoy it.
Donning his thickest hoodie and wool plaid, Diem doubled down on his socks and left the Apollo cabin making a beeline for the lake. He wasn't going to swim; he may enjoy getting his heart rate up but didn't have a death wish. No, he dug out an intertube from the snow on the shore and turned back to find the steepest part of half-blood hill. It was the perfect day for sledding.
OOC: He's been here on and off for a while so he's open to prior relationships etc! As far as the Now section goes, feel free to encounter him anywhere along the way: outside his cabin, at the lake, on the way to the hill, after sledding, mid-sledding blah blah blah, just gimme the rp, please. <3

LEAVING YOU OUT TO DIE
I ALWAYS HAD IT IN MIND
NOW THEY WILL SEE I CAN FINALLY DO ANYTHING
THE WORLDS STILL REVOLVING
AND NOW YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWED
AND NOW YOU'LL BE SWALLOWED
TAKE YOUR SOUL LEAVE YOU HALLOW
BY BY!
ITS TIME TO PLAY THE MUSIC
ITS TIME TO VENT SOME SPITE
ITS TIME TO FIGHT THE WORLD
ON THE JUNKIL SHOW TO NIGHT
THE JIG IS UP YOUR FATE IS SEALED
ITS THE END OF THE RIDE
THESE RODS TRY TO DRAG ME DOWN
BUT I'VE GOT FREEDOM IN MY SIGHTS!
LURED YOU TO TAKE THE DEAL
TOOK ALL I SAID AS TRUE
SAID YOU CAN TRUST ME UNLIKE THOSE WHO BETRAYED YOU
NOW YOU KNOW ITS ALL LIES
THOUGH I HATE TO SAY GOOD BY
YOU REALLY HAVE TO DIE TRUSTING ME WHEN I CALLED OUT-
(incomprehensible chaos break)
IN YOUR SOUL THERE IS A LIGHT
THAT COMPELS YOU TO ACT OR FIGHT
THAT KEEPS YOU TRAPED IN A CAGE
WHEN ITS CLOSED THERES NO ESCAPE
MY FLUFFY FRIEND
YOU KNOW IT'LL BE YOUR END
DONT REGRET AND JUST ACCEPT YOUR
FAAAAAATE
WON THE WIRELESS '52
NOW IM TUNING IN ON YOU!
DIDNT STOP YOU COMING THROUGH
YOU
WERE
THE
FIRST
ONE
TAKE THE SECOND SYMPHONY
REWRITE THERE TECHNOLOGY
NOW I SEE..!
I CAN DO ANY
THIIIIIIINNNNG
CAME TO MY SHOP TO SEE
HOW TO DO ANYTHING
THAT POWERS RESERVED FOR ME ME ME
NEXT STEPS TO BECOME FREE
ITS TIME TO SELL YOUR SOUL
ITS TIME TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT
WHEN WILL YOUR LEARN THAT-
THIS
BODY
WILL
NEVER
DIE!!
YA HEAR THE WIND HOULING WITH FREEDOM?
IN THE RADIO STATIC?
IF YOU LISTIN CLOSELY SOMETIMES YOU HEAR A VOICE..
YOU GOTTA WATCH OUT WHEN YOUR FAMOUS
IT GETS REAL CHAOTIC..
HE MADE ME REALIZE THAT I DONT HAVE A CHOICE
(NOW I DO)
AZZY WHY WONT YOU JUST GIVE UP!?
IM DOING THIS FOR US!
ITS NOT LIKE IM GREEN WITH ENVY I JUST NEED YOUR STRENGTH
NO ONE WILL TELL US WHAT TO DO I JUST NEED YOUR TRUST
IM NOT THE BAD GUY YOUR MAKING A MISTAKE!
YOU CANT KEEP BLOCKING FOR VERY LONG
ITS ALMOST BEEN A FULL SONG
I JUST WANT SOME CHAOS, SOME FUN IM NOT BLOODTHISTY
WAIT AZZY YOUR GONNA SET ME FREE!?
MAYBE I WAS REALLY WRONG
TOGETHER WE'LL DO ANYTHIIIIIIINNNNNG!
bonus
ITS TIME TO PLAY THE MUSIC
ITS TIME TO LIGHT THE LIGHTS!
ITS TIME TO GET THINGS STARTED ON JUNKILS SHOW TONIGHT!
WE BATTLED AGAINST THE WORLD AND!
WE GOT TO VENT SOME SPITE!
NOW LETS GET THINGS RESTARTED ON JUNKILS SHOW TONIGHT!
UEEHEEHEE!!! COME ON Ò̶͔N̴͍̈ AZZY!! SNAP THESE CURSED PUPPET RODS ALREADY! "FREE" IS THE WORD OFF THE DAY AFTER ALL A̸̠̒͂L̶͙̿̆L̵̡̻̀!
(asriel snaps the rods and junkil hovers in place for a second, looks down like a cartoon character realizing their walking on air, then looks at the screen)
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“I feel like this is our opportunity now to expand the DC Universe and what we have in The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2, which I think is really cool just as a fan, is we introduce five new superheroes to the world,” Johnson tells us. Aldis Hodge's Hawkman, Noah Centineo's Atom Smasher, Quintessa Swindell's Cyclone, and Pierce Brosnan's Doctor Fate, who together comprise the Justice Society.) “One anti-hero.” (That would be DJ's The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2.)
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“And what an opportunity. The Justice Society pre-dated the Justice League. So opportunity, expand out the universe, in my mind… all these characters interact. That's why you see in The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2, we acknowledge everyone: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Flash, we acknowledge everybody.There are also some Easter eggs in there, too. So that's what I meant by the resetting. Maybe resetting' wasn't a good term. only
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one can claim to be the most powerful superhero. And Johnson, when gently pressed, says it's his indestructible, 5,000-year-old Kahndaqi warrior also known as Teth-Adam, that is the most powerful superhero in any universe, DC, Marvel, or otherwise
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"By the way, it's not hyperbole because we made the movie."And we made him this powerful.
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There's nothing so wrong with “The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2” that it should be avoided, but nothing—besides the appealing presence of Dwayne Johnson—that makes it worth rushing out to see. spectacles that have more or less taken over studio filmmaking, but it accumulates the genre's—and the business's—bad habits into a single two-hour-plus package, and only hints at the format's occasional pleasures. “The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2” feels like a place-filler for a movie that's remaining to be made, but, in its bare and shrugged-off sufficiency, it does one positive thing that, if nothing else, at least accounts for its success: for all the churning action and elaborately jerry-rigged plot, there's little to distract from the movie's pedestal-like display of Johnson, its real-life superhero.
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It's no less numbing to find material meant for children retconned for adults—and, in the process, for most of the naïve delight to be leached out, and for any serious concerns to be shoehorned in and then waved away with dazzle and noise. The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2” offers a moral realm that draws no lines, a personal one of simplistic stakes, a political one that suggests any interpretation, an audiovisual one that rehashes long-familiar tropes and repackages overused devices for a commercial experiment that might as well wear its import as its title. When I was in Paris in 1983, Jerry Lewis—yes, they really did love him there—had a new movie in theaters. You're Crazy, Jerry."The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 " could be retitled 'You're a Superhero, Dwayne'—it's the marketing team's PowerPoint presentation extended to feature length.
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In addition to being Johnson's DC Universe debut, “The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2” is also notable for marking the return of Henry Cavill's Superman. The cameo is likely to set up future showdowns between the two characters, but Hodge was completely unaware of it until he saw the film.
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“They kept that all the way under wraps, and I didn't know until maybe a day or two before the premiere,” he recently said The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 (2022) FULL MOVIE ONLINE
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Is The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 Available On Hulu? Viewers are saying that they want to view the new TV show The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 on Hulu. Unfortunately, this is not possible since Hulu currently does not offer any of the free episodes of this series streaming at this time. the MTV channel, which you get by subscribing to cable or satellite TV services. You will not be able to watch it on Hulu or any other free streaming service.
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Is The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 Streaming on Disney Plus?
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Unfortunately, The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 is not currently available to stream on Disney Plus and it's not expected that the film will release on Disney Plus until late December at the absolute earliest.
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While Disney eventually releases its various studios' films on Disney Plus for subscribers to watch via its streaming platform, most major releases don't arrive on Disney Plus until at least 45-60 days after the film's theatrical release.
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The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 has finally ended the box office blues. It will be a The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 call, but based on the estimates, the year's biggest opener remains Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness with its $187 million start. Nonetheless, Wakanda Forever's $180 million opening is a huge one, being the biggest ever for the month of November (beating the $158 million of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), the second biggest of the year, and the 13th biggest of all time (though it could go up or down a few slots once the actuals come out). It led an overall weekend box office of $208 million, which is the fourth biggest of the year and the biggest by a long shot of the past four months, with no other weekend since July 8 -10 even going above $133 million.
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This isn't the $202 million opening that we saw from Black Panther in February 2018, nor should we expect the amazing legs that were able to get that film to an astonishing $700 million. With that said, expect it to perform strongly throughout the holiday season, likely repeating the five-weekend number-one streak that the first film had, and it shouldn't have any trouble becoming the second-highest-grossing film of the year so far, beating the $411 million cume of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The audience response is strong, with the A CinemaScore falling below the first film's A+ but bouncing back from the B+'s earned by Doctor Strange 2 and Thor: Love and Thunder, which ranked among the worst for the MCU. an improvement over the recent franchise installations, with the aforementioned films coming in at 74% and 64% respectively on Rotten Tomatoes, both at the lower end for Marvel films, while Wakanda Forever's 84% is The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2r to franchise norms, though not meeting the high bar set by the first Black Panther's 96%.
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The sequel opened to $150 million internationally, which Disney reports is 4% ahead of the first film when comparing like for likes at current exchange rates. Overall, the global cume comes to $330 million. Can it become the year's third film to make it past $1 billion worldwide despite China and Russia, which made up around $124 million of the first film's $682 million international box office, being out of play? It may be tough, but it's not impossible. Legging out past $500 million is plausible on the domestic front (that would be a multiplier of at least 2.7), and another $500 million abroad would be a drop of around $58 million from the original after excluding the two MIA markets. It'd be another story if audiences didn't love the film, but the positive reception suggests that Wakanda Forever will outperform the legs on this year's earlier MCU titles (Multiverse of Madness and Love and Thunder had multipliers of 2.2 and 2.3 respectively).
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As for the rest of the box office, there's little to get excited about, with nothing else grossing above $10 million as Hollywood shied away from releasing anything significant not just this weekend but also over the previous two weekends. When Black Panther opened in 2018, there was no counterprogramming that opened the same weekend, but Peter Rabbit and Fifty Shades Freed were in their second weekends and took second and third with $17.5 million and $17.3 million respectively. That weekend had an overall cume of $287 million compared to $208 million this weekend Take away the $22 million gap between the two Black Panther films and there's still a $57 million gap between the two weekends. The difference may not feel that large when a mega blockbuster is propping up the grosses, but the contrast is harsher when the mid-level films are the entire box office as we saw in recent months.
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The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2, which is the biggest grosser of the rough post-summer, pre-Wakanda Forever season, came in second with just $8.6 million. Despite the blockbuster competition that arrived in its fourth weekend, the numbers didn't totally collapse, dropping 53 % for a cume of $151 million. Worldwide it is at $352 million, which isn't a great cume as the grosses start to wind down considering its $200 million budget. Still, it's the biggest of any film since Thor: Love and Thunder, though Wakanda Forever will overtake it any day now.
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The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 came in third place in its fourth weekend, down 29% with $6.1 million, emerging as one of the season's most durable grasses and one of the year's few bright spots when it comes to films for adults. The domestic cume is $56.5 million Fourth place went to Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, which had a negligible drop of 5% for a $3.2 million sixth weekend and $40.8 million cume., in fact )
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, which isn't surprising considering it's the only family film on the market, and it's The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 to grossing four times it's $11.4 million opening. Still, the $72.6 million worldwide cume is soft given the $50 million budget, though a number of international markets have yet to open.
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Finishing up the top five is Smile, which had its biggest weekend drop yet, falling 42% for a $2.3 million seventh weekend. Of course, that's no reason to frown for the horror film, which has a domestic cume of $103 million and a global cume of $ 210 million from a budget of just $20 million.
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The one new specialty title of note comes from a filmmaker we don't typically associate with the specialty box office: Steven Spielberg. The Beard's semi-autobiographical family drama The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 opened in four theaters in New York and Los Angeles to $160k, a $40k average. The film expands to 600 theaters the day before Thanksgiving, and it has the potential to break out in a way that none of the other season's awards contenders have. We're also seeing very solid numbers from The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2, which grossed $1.7 million this weekend for a seventh-place finish, bringing its cume to $5.8 million. Sugar Girls

Other than Elden Ring, not have I found myself this hooked on a game. Even the latest GoW didn’t have me like this, and I consider that one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. The fact that I can get lost with little to no effort in this world full of madness is such a beautiful thing that personally has been so hard to find in a game. Whether it’s the art, environment, customization, story, or simple things such as a small encounter, this game has me by the balls. I hopped on at 12 noon only to find myself taking 2 minor breaks all day at an hour max for each. This wait until June is going to be killer, but I am beyond excited for what this game has to bring in the future. Kudos to Blizzard for absolutely blowing my expectations out of the water for the second weekend in a row. Playing co-op has amazing and to be able to look back on a 12 hour gaming session that felt like minutes is madness. All Hail Lilith!

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No sooner had Najia sat down at a dingy canteen on the scrap facility than her datapad received a call from Yorilos. She hadn't even gotten her coffee yet, and thought that was supremely unfair. "Anyone wanna bet he natters on without stopping to let me interrupt?"
There were no takers, and she propped the datapad up, connecting the call. Yorilos's face appeared, in the cockpit of the ship she had 'liberated' for him. "Excellent!" he exclaimed without preamble. "Now, Protectyon is exorbitantly expensive, but I suppose we will not need an entire unit to conduct your research. It might be our best course of action to approach the CEO of Northriver Company directly. We might be able to buy a small sample from him... If we can find him, that is. It is well known that he occasionally likes to flaunt his enormous wealth. A fellow trader just spotted him taking his most prized possession out for a pleasure cruise. I have sent you the coordinates of his last known location. Start from there."
He terminated the call, and Najia sat back, blinking. "Did he even stop to breathe?" Marta snorted. "That guy apparently sucks wind with his asshole, since he sure as hell didn't take any in through his mouth!"
Najia snorted, laughing and covering her face with her palm. Ace looked at Marta in disbelief for a few moments, as she worked out the idiom, then let out a high-pitched, almost strangled trill, hanging her head. "Y'all know I'm right," Marta hammered the point in. "He is longwinded, yes. And also, unfortunately, an idiot," Ace declared. "Well... Yes, but why in specific, this time?"
"I hope for his sake he is fantastic in the bunk and willing to pursue a career in prostitution, because he is clearly a homeworld-raised true believer in nonsense," Ace spat. "He actually believes 'the invisible hand of the free market' will result in equitable distribution of goods and wealth?!" She let out a shrill trill. "In Avarice and Windfall no less!" Marta snorted. "Yeah... He'd better be planning to be a boy-toy." She rolled her eyes. "Does he really think that the CEO of a monopoly is just going to sell us a tiny sample of what's making him filthy rich so we can take it away, analyze it, synthesize it, and start competing with him?" "Apparently he does," Najia said with an exasperated sigh. "That's kind of... Frightening, actually. Though chasing this fellow down might be something we'll have to do eventually, but for now... We might as well just buy a load."
"Protectyon is not ordinary cargo," Ace pointed out. "I do not know the specifics, but I do know that it requires special cargo-handling equipment. The Rakers know this. They guard the nature of this equipment with some skill. Between that, and that the only market for the stuff is here in Windfall, it is not a substance of any value to a pirate... Presumably, small containers for transporting small quantities are available to those in the know, of course." "Of course... But in this case, I think the best move is to make use of my checking account," Najia said. The waitress arrived with coffee in a cheap metal mug, which Najia took gratefully, as did the rest of her party. They were sitting at a table next to Robin and the party of crew she had brought with them. Najia took a drink of the coffee, and grimaced immediately. "Don't like it, spacer," the waitress asked with a smirk as she handed out the others' drinks. "Took me by surprise. Tidebreak serves it sweet enough to curl eyebrows." No sooner had she said that, than the waitress sat a bottle on the table with a heavy, dense thunk. Najia poured it in, and nodded; it was some kind of yellowish syrup or synthetic honey. "Thank you," she said. "Sure, whatever. Your ship brought a load of food here - and not even like, the stuff the fuckin' Viggs 'let us' have, at extortionate rates. So, there's that, spacer." The waitress turned and hurried away. Ace snorted. "Not very grateful, was she?" She had, apparently, missed where part of the plan had been to have Takio's personal Baku deliver a load of food, which she supposed had transpired while she was asleep.
"These people are... Prickly. I can understand that," Najia said. "Anyway, I'm just going to take the simple route on this one: buy one of the condensate ships, load it with the stuff at market value, and have it fly it to the headquarters... For 'upgrades' of course." She grinned.
Ace trilled softly at that. "Upgrades indeed." She fiddled with the datapad in her hand as Najia and the others started to do likewise, and after a few moments, found what seemed to be a saved-game in progress. It looked like a sketch of a space station, but it struck her as being a puzzle game, and probably an 'indie' one at that, given the godawful user-interface. She quickly worked it out of course, because a pirate's mind is slippery by necessity and a Teladi's mind is primed to calculate a dozen variables at once, and then she could dig into the meat of it. It looked like a space station, but it was one built on an impossible scale; an absolute megalith of a station, an absurd and ridiculous monolith seemingly built to construct the most basic and common of Commonwealth construction materials, but in absolutely absurd quantities. There was a rider on it, too; and that seemed to be the objective of the game, or at least of the current level; adding a mixed population of Terran, Argon, and Teladi workers, and the requisite inputs to feed them all, enough to run the entire station and then some.
The datapad in her hand chirr-uped, and Ace saved and closed the progress she had made in the game, finding that a new report had been filed by the professor they had hired for, frankly, enough money to probably have employed the entire Empyrean Curs. She skimmed the summary - short, consise and to the point - and trilled softly. "Interesting development," she noted. "Your starship professor is making yet more inroads." She looked up at the human magnate. "Apparently he found a project starfighter that someone had been preparing in one of your hangars."
Najia chuckled. "A project starfighter?" She took the datapad. "Paramerion...? Hmph. Looks like someone stripped down a Kallis for speed and narrowness, judging by these stats." "Could be fun," Marta pointed out. "For someone who likes to fly, that is," she added, grinning at Najia and Ace.
Najia chuckled, and then shook her head. "Might even be just the thing for chasing down this Northriver fellow, if we assume he's going to make himself difficult to catch up to. According to the Professor, it's currently a one-off, but they should be able to extrapolate the plans and build more, if desired. Seems that it actually was based on some early, unproduced Kallis prototypes." "I'll have it sent out to the Avarice Necessities supplier," Najia added. "Meanwhile..."
A high-importance alert hit her datapad. She frowned as she read the report; one - then two - then three - of her freighters in Windfall were reporting being harassed by the Vigor syndicate. That was new. She scowled at that, snarling.
"Trouble," Ace asked. Under the table, she curled her tail around Najia's calf, and Najia rubbed her eyes. "Trouble," Ace repeated; no longer an interrogative, but a statement. "The Vigor syndicate have apparently decided to start harassing ships carrying food," she noted, wrathfully. "That you have gone so long without them doing so is the anomaly," Ace pointed out. "They are not shy about that they use force to enforce their monopoly on food in Windfall and Vigor," she added. "And was this not the fight you intended to wage anyway?"
"Yes," Najia hissed angrily. "But the timing is wrong." She rubbed her eyeballs, seething. Her ships were reporting that the Vigor syndicate were being very aggressive; not quite at the point of shooting openly at them - which would go poorly for everyone concerned frankly - but they were harassing them openly, shaking them down for bribes or even demanding they drop cargo, as well as conducting "police" inspections for "contraband" - meaning food and water. "Then what do you plan to do?"
Najia grit her teeth, closing her eyes. She focused on the feeling of Ace's tail squeezing her calf, and seethed, but calmed herself. "Comply... For now. Set up some goodwill by selling them energy cells again." "Again? They're probably angry you cut them off in the first place," Ace noted, and Najia snorted. "Probably." Najia let out an annoyed hiss of breath. "Well, we'll deal with it." She drummed her fingers in annoyance on the bare metal, cafeteria-style table. "The time is not yet. Not yet... Yet." She cracked her knuckles, one-by-one. "First, we need to chase down this Protectyon stuff." She started fiddling on her datapad. "I'll just place the order and have it sent to the HQ. If Boso Ta can't work with that, well... I guess we'll try it Yorilos' way and chase down this Northriver."
"It might be worthwhile to approach him now in any event," Ace suggested. "The Northriver company are, as you might imagine... Well-connected, with the Vigor Syndicate." Najia pursed her lips and frowned, but nodded. She looked around the dingy cafeteria, and sighed, nodding, but sighed again, heavily. "You can't fix everything, Ninja Taco; and what you can fix, you mostly can't fix in a day," Marta said, softly. "Let's just... Let's try Ace's idea."
Najia nodded, with a heavy sigh. She covered her head with her hands for a few moments, and let out a huff. She needed a bit of breathing room, time to think, time to plan. She looked around, and drummed her fingers on the table. "Let's finish our business here, and head for the Necessities station," she said. "We'll give the Raleigh I bought time to make it to the HQ, and the Paramerion time to get here... Then we'll use it, as it's apparently speed incarnate, to chase down Northriver and see what he can tell us about Protectyon, or the Syndicate, or both." She looked around; there were no particular objections raised. Ace snorted softly at her. "I and 'Chipmunk' are laying low; it matters little to me where we do so or what other activities we engage in whilst doing. Besides, I wonder what this station looks like."
Najia grinned at her.
Scant hours later, Ace was in the co-pilot's seat of the Baku as it arrowed in to land, alongside the Radiant Afterglow that had been shadowing them the whole time. The station was a mammoth; Ace had been expecting some kind of small way-station. It had absolutely gargantuan solar arrays pointing at the nearby star; the number of docks and piers was, frankly, grossly excessive, to the point that Ace reckoned it could easily hold the entire ship population of Avarice. There were massive personnel accommodations, and all the things she had seen that made Takio's constructions so awe-inspiring. "The number of docks and piers you have here is mind-boggling," Ace commented as the ship landed on one of the Terran-style disk docks. "It defies description. I cannot imagine why."
Najia smiled weakly at her, leaning out to look out through the expansive flight-deck window. "Quite simply? I wanted there to never, ever, ever be any question about whether or not a ship in need of safe-habor from the Tide could find it here. And yes, we're buying the Protectyon stuff - at quite ridiculous prices - to keep the place safe." She pointed at a massive, triple-pronged module along the station's 'spine.' "The Breakers built that, and the storage for it. They're effectively a 'black box' to us since part of the deal there was that we didn't poke around inside, but the thing keeps working, and we've isolated them from outside comms to ensure that stays the case."
Ace snorted. "I'm surprised you agreed to refrain from reverse-engineering them." "Well, we did. Of course, we lied," Najia said, with a grin. "I don't believe in letting other people keep technological secrets from me. But we're not, you know, cutting our way in or anything... Sometimes, you have to move slow. Besides, nobody would bat an eyelash at me commissioning another Raleigh and stocking it with some Protectyon, right?" "Right," Ace said, chuckling. She glanced up at the station. It was massive. She glanced down at the time-table; the Paramerion would arrive in approximately sixteen hours. "This place is huge. I might have to look around."
Najia smiled at her. "Feel free. You want to come with me to chase down this Northriver character? I think I'm going to give this prototype a test run myself." Ace trilled. "That sounds fun. Sure."
The Avarice Necessities Supplier station was a mammoth. Ace had explored it thoroughly; it had all the amenities one might expect of a space station, which was surprising in Avarice space. Unsurprising to her now, was that the prices were absolutely rock-bottom. Not quite giving the stuff away at cost, but close enough. It was, Ace mused, a good way to make inroads with the Rakers, though she suspected that Takio was doing so out of beneficience as much as anything else. She seemed positively furious that the Syndicate were exerting control over food and water; absolutely furious.
That, Ace realized, was something that set her apart. To her way of thinking, it was only to be expected that the party which had the power to establish a monopoly on such basic necessities should do so, to further increase their power and wealth, exploiting that position to enrich themselves. Takio clearly did not see it that way. It was an affront to her; and she was clearly plotting the Syndicate's downfall over it. Ace mused these musings both before and after she took a nap, in a surprisingly-affordable lodging room she took on the station. The amenities were in fact made in the same style and materials as those Najia had established for herself back on her headquarters station. The shower, in particular, was an absolute luxury to Ace's mind; there was no time- or pressure-limiter, no charge for the water use, and, as with the showers on her ships, featured a slick slatted floor instead of an obvious drain and a bench. All available at such a rate that anyone who landed here could afford to stay without difficulty. Neither were there any other tiers of accommodation available; there were no 'suites' above and beyond what she slept in, nor were there the expected squalorus hostel dormitories she had sometimes been able to avail herself of in her youth - at prices that sometimes exceeded that of the individual suite she enjoyed. The only other forms of room available were doubles and quads for pairings or parties sleeping together, and 'accessibility' rooms for persons with mobility or other issues.
Ace had found this so surprising, in fact, she had chatted up the clerk at the lodging module. Apparently, Takio Enterprises had taken some simple shortcuts in their design process, by not doing the design work themselves; they had simply followed Segaris traveler-accommodation regulations and made use of a common Segaris habitat module design. The prices were set low because the station was, ultimately, self-sufficient save for the reliance on Protectyon, and it was largely viewed as a public service.
The difference between this station and the one they had left hardly any time at all before was striking. The Terran construction techniques Takio used were incredible, of course; but it also spoke to their intents that they were effectively leaving money in the pockets of persons who would pay higher prices for what they were offering and gladly. Of course, she mused, it wasn't entirely utopic. It couldn't be. she had found a tavern and lurked, and certainly she had caught the (metaphorical) scent of black-market trade. The number of employees at the station was enormous, surely there would be those who could be bribed. There was certain, she knew, to be a thriving underbelly in illicit goods or services; though it seemed that there was an effort to minimize this, by the simple expedient of making the most commonly-smuggled goods and most commonly-criminalized services legal, mostly in the Teladi style; Ace saw vending machines which dispensed packets of Space Weed and found a local-net exchange board which purported to connect medically-checked and cleared prostitutes with clients; tangential to that was a heap of information about prostitution - both practical and, she saw with a little digging, historical and philosophical - as well as resources for those looking to get into that trade, beginning with reporting to medical for an examination. There was also a stark warning that pimping, or abusing a prostitute in any way, carried a summary sentence of execution. Ace's eyes shot up at that. She ran a few searches to see what cut Takio Enterprises was taking for this, but couldn't find any over and above presumably the rental price of the lodging rooms involved.
It almost seemed clinical, but, she mused, on the balance, if this environment had been available to her when she was trying to figure out what to do to avert hunger, it certainly would have seemed a far more attractive option. Her primary reason for shying away from prostitution as a career, had been the fear of winding up the property of a pimp. Ace ruminated on this, whilst staring out the window of a tavern, at the star, through the solar panel array, when she got the message that the Paramerion had arrived.
The craft itself looked very much like many of the Terran ships Ace had seen in recent weeks, sitting in the pretty purple trim that Takio had ships meant for herself painted in. It was even sitting in a bay next to a Tsurugi superheavy fighter, which made her take a double-take; clearly they had wasted no time in producing the starfighters!
Ace looked between the two. The Paramerion was short dorsal-to-ventral, as most Terran small craft were, but this one took it to an extreme. It was elongated and somewhat narrow, though it could have, she thought, been narrower still without the side-mounted wings that served no purpose she could discern immediately, save to be wings. "They're for atmospheric flight," Najia explained. "Most Terran S- and M- craft are at least capable of it; most Argon, too, for that matter. Most Teladi... Even the Drill, which the Baku is based on; and of course the Baku itself. Though, admittedly, the flying shoe does rely a lot more on thrusters," Najia said; she was standing by the ramp into the Paramerion, watching Ace's gaze.
Ace trilled softly and nodded, joining Najia in the cockpit. It was roomy enough; the cockpit design seemed to be wholly-copied from the Kallis. That made sense, as they were apparently related designs. She looked around, and tapped on the holographic auxiliary console at the rear of the cockpit, to the side. "Shall I navigate for you?" "Unless you'd rather fly," Najia said, smiling at her. Ace took a moment to think on that, and shook her head. "I'll fly the way back, if all goes smoothly. It's your ship, you should take it. Where is Marta? Is she not coming?"
"She's already in the back. There's what the original designers of these classes euphemistically refer to as a 'bunk-slash-engineering-access' behind us, in front of the power plant. It's so tight I don't think anyone could even masturbate in there, but you can sleep in there... If you're desperate. Personally, I'd just roll out a sleeping mat in the dockpit," Najia said; this got a louder trill from Ace, as Najia took the chair. "Right, I've already done the preflight... Let's see what she can do."
Northriver was, allegedly, in the same sector - Avarice I - and finding him was a minor challenge. Ace operated sensors whilst Najia piloted; the ship seemed to have very desirable piloting characteristics; agile and responsive without being touchy or prone to over-maneuvering. Swift, but not prone to sliding. She looked forward to her own turn at the stick, as they narrowed in on the alleged location of Brantlee Northriver.
Finding him was little challenge - then Ace swore softly. "Is that..." She had another ship on the fighter's sensors, and brought up its details. Sitting a hundred klicks from Astrid, apparently the ship of Northriver, was J.P. Morgan's Knife. Ace hissed softly. "Does he... Really..."
"Does he really expect this guy to give us a sample to reverse engineer?" Najia groaned. "Fine, fuck it. If we don't ask, he will, and Yorilos is about as good at negotiating as someone who goes to a flea market, sees a pair of sun-shades at a stall, talks the proprietor down two credits and walks away feeling like they're John Pierpont Morgan." Ace trilled softly at that. "Is that whom his vessel is named after? Who was this person?" Najia snorted. "We'd have to interrupt the history lesson to run for cover from the Tide," she said with a grin, looking over her shoulder. "Suffice to say he was a human industrialist from a very long time ago, who managed to amass one of the smaller fortunes of his era, but who wielded power and control of money to substantially more effect than the actual wealth he personally had. He formed banks, you see; once, he helped to fend off an impending bank run that would have caused a financial collapse, by assembling a large number of a nation's most powerful bankers in his mansion, and locked them in his library, telling them that they would not be leaving until they had worked out a scheme to avert the crisis."
Ace trilled, watching as the little fighter closed on what she was reading as some kind of yacht. "That sounds like something you might do," she pointed out. Najia snorted, looked back at Ace, and chuckled. "I think I should take that as a compliment. J.P. Morgan was an asshole, like pretty much all of the wealthy and powerful persons of his time and era... Or, any era, to be honest. I... Never expected to find myself wielding clout and power like Morgan's, let alone enough that I probably eclipse him. It's... Kind of overwhelming, to be honest." "And yet, you persevere," Ace retorted. "By any measure, you could take what you've amassed now, retire to a sector of your choosing, build a monumental space station of your own design, and live a life of indolence until the money ran out. A Teladi could take your wealth and live out the rest of her life, even. Yet, you are building warships and lodgings fit for well-off individuals and affordable to the hardscrabble. By Teladi reckoning, Najia, you are insane."
Najia blinked at that, half-snorting. She had cut the travel drive and was approaching the lazily drifting yacht, and took the moment to turn her chair halfway, looking to her side at Ace. "Do you think I'm... Literally mad?" Ace peered at her, and shook her head. "No, I do not. Many Teladi might assume it to be so," she said, with an ambivalent sway of her hips and a shrug. "... I believe that you are acting to a set of principles and convictions that are, however, utterly alien to most Teladi understanding. You seem as if you intend to seize Windfall and Avarice outright. Yet even if you did, you would not squeeze the Rakers on food prices the way the Syndicate does. I do not understand where you are coming from," Ace said, swaying her hips again. "But... I feel I can trust you. And from there, confidence. Heads-up," she added, cautioning Najia. "We are close enough you had best comm them, lest they think you're about to attack."
Swiveling rapidly back to face forward, Najia did just that, signaling the yacht she was approaching of her intent to communicate. Moments later, she recieved a reply. "Yes, what is it you want?" Brantlee Northriver had a grating, abrasive, and smug voice; he was also dressed, she thought, ridiculously, wearing what looked like a desaturated blue jacket trimmed with excessively gaudy, and gaudily excessive amounts of gold, with some kind of absurd half-hood thing cupping the back of his head. It was some long-ago futurist's vision of what a far-flung spacefuture clergyman's robe might look like crossed with a business suit. Najia knew that her own sense of fashion was questionable, but even she immediately recognized the outfit as disgustingly ugly, and radiating both wealth and contempt. Her impression was realized as he continued, "I sure hope you have a good reason for approaching me. I am quite busy, you see?"
Najia mastered the urge to ask if he was busy receiving fellatio from someone under the console he was sitting at, because she could see absolutely no other possible activity he was invested in; she also mastered the urge to just shoot the smug off his face. She instead smiled at him, schooling herself into 'businesswoman' persona even though he made her skin crawl on an imager; and, of course, she would have to try to talk a sample out of it, because she knew that Yorilos was listening in and would certainly swoop in and somehow make things stupider if she didn't. "Mr. Northriver, you may not have had time yet to notice my minor operations; Takio Enterprises is expanding into Avarice. The name of Northriver and its Protectyon is on every set of lips within three jumps as a potent defensive measure against the Tide. I wished to obtain -"
"What, just a sample?" Northriver leaned forward, towards his camera, smirking - no, smugging - at her, adopting the 'Thinker' pose, briefly. "Such a small quantity won't get you far, if you want to protect yourself from the Tide. Can't afford more, eh?" For a moment, Najia toyed with the notion of making an offer to buy Northriver outright, just to wipe the smug off his face, but he continued to smug audibly at her. "Oh, well, since you seem to be new around here, I'll allow it. Once." Brantlee turned to look out his cockpit window at Avarice, which illuminated him brightly. Looking away and up was probably his 'best side;' it was the only posture in which she had yet seen him that looked anything other than 'contemptable.' "To get you hooked. Am I not charitable?" He immediately resumed his contemptuousness, then turned back to face her and made it all the more stark. "I will even cut you a special deal, how about that?" His expression clearly communicated his contempt and belief that he was superior. "Merely twelve and a half thousand credits for the sample you so dearly desire; my first, last, and only offer."
Najia wanted to say something scathing in return, she really did. Or simply to lock her cannons on his admittedly-very-sexy yacht and take the sample at cannon-point. Or to flip him the finger. Instead, she schooled herself to merely raise her eyebrow skeptically; forcing herself to maintain 'The Businesswoman,' who was too refined to rise to the bait. But she also had neither time nor patience to haggle over what was, frankly, a trivial sum to her bank account. Hell, she knew for a fact that Ace could buy the sample and wouldn't lose much sleep over it, just from what Ace had made in the last several days with her. "It seems your proposal can only be agreed to," she said, bringing up the financial transfer function on her console and sending the sum required.
Smugly, Brantlee grinned at her. "Here you go. I hope you leave as a satisfied customer!" Ace quickly tapped a message that appeared on her console. 'He's jettisoned an XS cargo pod.' The Teladi deftly located it for her on sensors, targeting it for her, as Northriver continued, "Oh, and by the way - don't for one second think that you can use this sample to engineer a competing product. It won't work. Northriver products are just too ingenious!" Northriver positively crowed it at her, and once again Najia had to master the urge to lock weapons upon him, but she did, at that moment, privately vow that, by means fair or foul, she was going to gain possession of his yacht if only to spite him. "Run along now," he added, smirking. "I have much more important matters to attend to," he clarified, sanctimoniously smiling, ending the comm channel and turning the yacht away, entering Travel drive.
"Let me bring that pod aboard," Ace muttered, manipulating the tractor controls, and comming the multipurpose space in the back. "Marta, if you would kindly suit up -" "Way ahead of you, Ace," Marta answered her, popping up on-screen already wearing a light pressure suit, in the airlock. "Get it over here and I'll grab it, make sure it doesn't jostle or anything. Mass?" "Considerable, but not more than a large human such as yourself can handle. Volitility is not known, but it cannot hurt to be over-cautious."
Najia smiled to herself as she heard Ace, unprompted, begin collaboration with Marta. A part of her cynical and intellectual side tried to argue that Ace was a pirate, and probably always would be a pirate at heart, but she was quite simply too fond of the reptilian spacer to listen to that part of her anymore; her oldest friend and her newest could be coming together. Then another comm popped up, and she resisted the urge to groan aloud. She let The Businesswoman fade; frankly, Yorilos didn't rate it, and they were (sort of) collaborators on this anyway. To her surprise (and pleasure), when he commed her, he immediately voiced her own opinion, "I wonder if being obnoxious is his deliberate business strategy?" Najia laughed, heartily, slumping back in her command chair and grinning brightly, shrugging. "I don't think so. I think it just comes naturally to the git."
Yorilos looked momentarily nonplussed, presumably by her vernacular, then said, "No matter. It will make it all the more enjoyable when we pull the rug from under the Northriver Company." "We are in absolute agreement about that," Najia said. "I want to wipe the smug grin off his face." She glanced down; her airlock indicator had closed, and she flicked up a view of the inside. Marta was carefully securing a container roughly the size and volume of a ubiquitous 205-liter shipping drum, though it wasn't one. "I've just taken the sample aboard." "You want to take it back to the headquarters yourself? Go ahead," Yorilos said. He cut the channel, and Najia blinked at the suddenness.
"... Well, that was... Abrupt," Najia said, looking back to Ace. "It was. I cannot believe that you paid twelve and a half thousand for the sample." Najia shrugged. "I mean... It's highway robbery, considering that a commercial volume costs just about twice that and is twenty cubic meters in volume whereas that sample is maybe two. On the other hand, you heard him; he wasn't in the mood to negotiate. What should I have done? Shot at him?" "Yes." Ace trilled, then huffed, shaking her head. "No. As cathartic as it would be, your plans are too long-term to have simply taken it from the wretch by force." She shook her head. "I suppose you had little choice," she conceded, "if you are to continue Yorilos' scheme."
"I'm kind of eager to set Boso Ta loose on this stuff myself," Najia said. The revolving door to the back cycled, and Marta walked in, looking flushed with exertion. "Thanks, Marta," she said. "You can thank me by you securing the damn thing in the 'hold,' Marta said, snarkily.
Najia nodded, and swiveled her chair all the way. "Sure. Thank you. Ace, you're up on stick," she said, standing up. "Let's just fly this thing straight home; I bet we can make it before dinnertime with us flying," she said, smiling at Ace. Ace trilled softly. "That sounds like a challenge. Accepted." She slid past Marta and Najia, slaloming between them, and took the stick, keying in a course for the Takio Enterprises headquarters. "We should recall the other ships, yes?" "Yes; good thinking, Ace. Thank you. I'll handle it from the back, after I've secured this barrel."
Ace and Najia made great time returning to the headquarters; they flew close to recklessly, causing Marta to comment that she was glad she was flying with them, for if they got themselves killed flying that way, she wouldn't have to hear about it. They arrived at the headquarters to little fanfare, and Marta peeled off as soon as they arrived, pleading the need to go and look into something she had arranged previously. "Well, shall we talk to Boso Ta?" Ace asked, looking up at Najia. They had gone to Avarice in an overnight journey by-the-numbers, stayed for less than a day, and were now back where they had started. "And hope that this back-and-forth bears some fruit?"
"I would very much like that," Najia agreed. The container had already been sent to the lab, and she squared her shoulders up, heading for the lift with purpose.
The door to the laboratory opened, and Najia's jaw dropped. "How," she said, flatly, quietly, as Ace all-but plowed into her backside. Ace slid around her side, looking into the lab, and let out a chuff of disbelief.
Yorilos was standing beside Boso Ta's tank.
Ace resisted the urge to hiss in surprise, and reached up, patting Najia's back. "I do not know," she confessed. "Perhaps he made use of an anomaly and was quite lucky. Or perhaps he has modified his hauler in ways unimaginable and is an outright daredevil pilot." Najia shook her head, and squared up, entering the lab. The elderly professor was nowhere to be seen, but it was late at night; he was likely in bed. So she went to the interloper, approaching Yorilos. "Yorilos, hi... What are you doing here?" She wasn't even going to ask how. That was his secret and his alone.
"Ah, yes. I really hope we can find a way to make the Protectyon more affordable for everyone in Avarice," he explained, as he peered around the laboratory. That, she thought, didn't exactly explain her question; presumably he intended for her to infer the answer. Somehow. Najia shook her head and smiled, nodding to him. "Alright." She climbed up the stairs, after a glance back at Ace, who had become fascinated by the new addition of a lot of bonsai trees in the laboratory's little greenery display, and greeted Boso Ta with a wave, to which the Boron responded with one of his own. "Hello there! Ah, excellent, the Protectyon sample has been delivered, and we may begin. Thank you kindly!" Boso Ta seemed to examine a computer tablet held in his... Tentacles? Flippers? Manipulators. He made a few deft strokes. "I have added the Protectyon Research to our agenda, and listed the required secondary materials. Feel free to initiate the research at any time convenient to yourself!"
With that abrupt declaration, Boso Ta swam upwards through the hatch in the laboratory tank, presumably to his personal lodging suites. Najia blinked, rocking back on her heels and looked back at Ace, who looked at her with the cocked hips that Najia had intuited was a definite shrug. "You'd think I didn't own the place," Najia muttered to herself, "the way almost everyone just... Is so... Curt with me." "You could put them in their place the way a pirate lord would," Ace suggested. "Or, if having a beating administered is too vulgar for your preferences, do what a capitalist might do and threaten them with penury."
Najia snorted. "Yeah... I think I'd rather just live with being curtly spoken to than be an asshole." "So be it. Your ways do allow for others to become... Familiar with you," Ace said, giving a vibrato trill. "For better, and for worse." She smiled at Najia, and Najia smiled back. Ace was toying with a small bonsai tree, and watched as Najia checked her datapad, then clucked her tongue.
"A lot of things we don't have on-hand," Najia muttered, "mainly because what Boso Ta wants - for this research project, and others - are Commonwealth-base, and we're not. That's not a huge problem, I'll just ask Tsukiko to set up a PO for a useful quantity of said commodities. For now -" The tank was suddenly filled again with Boso Ta. "Assistant, you simply must do something about this irksome vessel!"
A moment of silent passed. Najia pushed down the urge to be catty or snarky at Boso Ta, or outright hostile. She took a deep breath. "A... Vessel? Is irking you?" "Yes yes! Somehow, it is managing to distort the station's sensors, preventing me from witnessing a solar event in the Great Reef Nebula. I suggest you take care of this annoyance before it manages to disrupt even more observations!"
Najia took in a breath to respond, but Boso Ta had already vanished again, with such rapidity that even Yorilos seemed to be watching him dumbstruck. Yorilos also made a cocked-hip gesture, and then walked out. Najia watched him go, and snorted. "If he has even half a brain, he's going to ask Boso Ta what resources he's asking for and then try to get ahead of the purchase orders," Najia noted. "I would." "As would I," Ace agreed. "Would you like me to take care of this... 'Irksome Vessel' for you?"
"Bored?" Najia asked, grinning at Ace. "I wouldn't say that I was bored," Ace said, reaching out and squeezing her hand. Najia squeezed back. "But it seems that Boso Ta will not likely let the matter drop."
"Alright. Let's take care of it." Najia rolled her shoulders. "I can do this admin stuff from a ship as easily as my apartment study." She headed for the lift, neglecting to let go of Ace's hand; Ace likewise kept the hold, accompanying her. They almost ran into Marta coming out of it. She had a big grin on her face, and Najia pursed her lips. "Okay, what have you done," she asked.
"Oh, not much, just had a warship commissioned to keep close-to-hand in case we get in trouble and need some biggish guns fast. She's done, come take a look." Najia looked down at Ace, who trilled loudly at her. "Either you pay her too well, or you trust her entirely, if she has such authority in your name." "Jealous," Marta asked, smirking. "Yes," Ace admitted frankly. "Shall we?"
Najia sighed and laughed. "Fiiiine."
The bridge of T.E.S. Koshirae was the common standard Terran capital module, and very shortly, Najia, Marta and Ace were standing in it, shaking hands with the woman standing at the captain's post, who was wearing a stylish jacket in a decidedly non-Terran style, tights, and comfortable looking sneakers. "I'm sorry," Najia said, with a smile. "I'm afraid you have me at a disadvantage."
"Kevlin, ma'am; Selaia Kevlin. I'm a shipyard specialist." Her accent was distinctly neither anything Solar that Najia recognized, nor Segaris. "I'm surprised you're even aboard yet; we're only about to put her through space trials."
Najia snorted. "Not even the shakedown cruise, huh? You're not from anywhere I've been, are you?" "No ma'am." Selaia looked Asian, with her hair up in a tight bun. "I'm from Argon Prime. I found myself in Grand Exchange as crew on a freighter, saw the amenities on offer on your headquarters station, and jumped ship for a job here."
Najia nodded. "I see..." She grinned. "Are you spying on me?" "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you, ma'am," Selaia responded back, in the age-old joke. Najia laughed in turn.
"Right. Well, stand down for a while," she said. "I appear to have been talked into taking her out personally." "Ma'am!" Selaia stepped aside. "The, err, owner has the bridge!" she called out, fumbling through something approximating military protocol, as Najia stepped up, looking over the console. Najia grinned. "Alright. Nifty little ship. Ace, take the helm," she said. "Take us out."

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I’d like to preface this discussion with an aknowledement that, yes… This is a beta… and Yes… It is level 25… and yes we don’t have access to the class specialization. I understand that this is in no way indicative of Endgame balance.
That being said, I think we can still analyze the current state of the Druid and its design in comparison to other classes (Mostly rogue and sorc) and try to help the devs understand why the class is getting so much flack for its playstyle. I hope to start a discussion about what we think can be done to help improve the FEEL of the class’ base kit.

1. Inappropriate tuning for the playstyle

• As it stands, the class is extremely slow in almost all of its animations with the exception of a select few werewolf skills. Both Sorc and Rogue feel tight, and when I press an ability, the projectile or my character are hitting enemies almost instantly. The downtime between casts on these 2 classes in nearly non-existent in comparison to the druid. To help illustrate this we’ll look at core spells.
• Lets look at a good “problem ability” to help depict the issue the class faces. It’s not infequent that (without legendary) Tornado does 0 damage to your target because of pathing. It also doesn’t help that the ability has a 40 spirit cost meaning you can only cast it twice before having to then cast another 3-5 basic abilities to then recast another two tornadoes. Adding ontop of this that the ability only does 49% damage at rank 5 when it does hit means that our overall DPS using this ability is relatively low in comparison to our other classes’ core abilities. This also isn’t factoring in projectile speed, taking roughly 1-2 seconds to potentially even reach its target from cast.
• Lets compare that with a commonly picked sorc core ability, chain lightning. When you cast chain lightning, it INSTANTLY flys from your character to your target, and then instantly bounces from one target to another with no potential to miss and the ability to rehit the same target multiple times. The ability, at rank 5, deals 59% damage per bounce up to 6 bounces and costs 35 mana (An auto generating resource). The downtime between casts is filled with other more meaningful spells that don’t have to be basic generating spells.
• What can we do to make tornado feel better to press, in the same way that it feels good to press chain lightning? Well, first, we need guarenteed instant damage. If I have to invest nearly half of my spirit (a resouce I have to manually generate) it doesn’t feel good when it does no damage or takes a large amount of time to deal damage. A simple solution to this is to have tornado spawn where my mouse/enemy currently is. This simple change makes the ability FEEL much better to press. (There may be a legendary for this,I’m not sure, however, legendaries shouldn’t exist to make skills usable. They should be usable and feel good at a baseline and be improved fom there.) However, at a 40 spirit cost, it’s not enough to just have the damage guarenteed and instant. It needs to either be meaty or have a reduced cost. It feels terrible to have to cast 3-5 basic spells at a snails crawl pace to be able to cast only 2 tornadoes. In the time it takes me to cast 8 tornadoes, a sorc can cast roughly 12-14 chain lightnings at a higher dmg return per cast, all while being able to cast other spells that aren’t locked to basic abilities. That brings me to my next point.

1. Basic abilities and spirit generation -As a class that has to generate spirit with basic abilities and then dump all of that spirit in roughly 1 or 2 seconds, it HAS to be quick to regenerate and satisfying. -As it stands, i’d say that 75% of the time in combat is spent spamming generators, feet planted, doing next to 0 damage. THIS FEELS BAD -Classes such as rogue and sorc use basic abilities in their downtime between energy/mana dumps and cooldowns for non-resource abilities. They rarely are casting a basic ability more than 2 times in a row (Rogue combo point exception). THIS FEELS GOOD.

• How can we fix this? Well, luckily I think there are a couple solutions here and they are simple numbers games. Either we make basic abilities FEEL GOOD by increasing their cast speed, damage, projectile speed, and target limit. Or we can simply have them generate far more resource. (Preferrably both here). -As it stands the “Heart of the wild” and “Abundance” passives that help with spirit are 100% mandatory with how much core spells cost and STILL the class is plagued with resource management issues. -More time spent spamming basic abilities is less time dealing meaningful damage and leads to boring gameplay that feels sluggish and unimpactful. I hope this is an issue they resolve innately in the class and not try to fix with legendaries.

1. DoTs and Companions

• Wow are these underwhelming. Even with a legendary that turns wolfs into werewolfs and increases their damage by a whopping 160%, they are hitting for roughly 40-60 damage at level 25 with roughly 550 attack power. As soon as you’re able to access the hydra as a sorc at level 12 you’re already doing more damage than that at a much higher rate without an empowering legendary…AT LEVEL 12.
• It’s not even close to compare the summons between Sorc and Druid, the numbers are simply aggregious. Starting at 8% damage for wolfs compared to the hydra’s 30% per fireball at rank 1. It really seems like there are different dev teams playing a different game designing the numbers for these classes. Not to mention that the hydras just FEEL GOOD with the projectile speed and how responsive they are to summon. Compare that to the ai of the wolfs that chase enemies just to stand still and miss an auto attack on an enemy every 2 seconds… It’s really not even in the same ball park. -DoTs… The poison builds simply need to be buffed. If my damage in an ARPG is being dealt over an 8 second period of time, I’d like for it to do something meaningful in the 1-2 seconds the mob is supposed to live for. DoTs are always supposed to be high damage over a long period of time. For some reason the poisons are currently tuned to do less damage over 8 seconds than most other class’ instant abilities. This is fundamentally wrong on so many levels, however has an easy fix. BUFF numbers or make total DoT time less. (Or both, what mob lives for over 8 seconds in an ARPG?)

1. Abilities don’t feel synergistic

• For a caster druid, a majority of the spells they use are supposed to be ranged and also knock targets away. For example, Cylcone Armor, Boulder, and cataclysm. This is fine, however, it’s expcted that you also take spells such as hurricane that require you to be near your target to deal damage. Overall, it just feels like they didn’t develop the base kit with it playing in a way that feels natural for how you would expect it to play. It feels like they just had ideas for abilities and threw them into the kit without thinking about how it feels to play using those specific abilities together.

Conclusion: -Thankfully, the class has a lot of simple changes that it needs in terms of just flat numbers to make the damage actually impactful, however, I’m hesitant about how Blizzard will go about this and I’d like to take this opportunity to really clarify the issue.

• If the class plays slow, IT BETTER HIT HARD… If I have to spend 3-5 seconds to build up resource to spend on 1 or 2 abilities, those abilities better FEEL GOOD. OR we can simply make basic abilities FEEL GOOD/impactful to use by picking up the pace/damage/target cap so that we don’t spend majority of combat spamming them feeling horrible.

Please, Blizzard. Take this constructive criticism and make this beloved class FEEL GOOD to play. It doesn’t have to be “overtuned”… It just has to be viable and play in a way that makes players enjoy their time playing it.
Let me know what y’all think can be done to help the class FEEL GOOD. Much love!
I’d like to preface this discussion with an aknowledement that, yes… This is a beta… and Yes… It is level 25… and yes we don’t have access to the class specialization. I understand that this is in no way indicative of Endgame balance.
That being said, I think we can still analyze the current state of the Druid and its design in comparison to other classes (Mostly rogue and sorc) and try to help the devs understand why the class is getting so much flack for its playstyle. I hope to start a discussion about what we think can be done to help improve the FEEL of the class’ base kit.

1. Inappropriate tuning for the playstyle

• As it stands, the class is extremely slow in almost all of its animations with the exception of a select few werewolf skills. Both Sorc and Rogue feel tight, and when I press an ability, the projectile or my character are hitting enemies almost instantly. The downtime between casts on these 2 classes in nearly non-existent in comparison to the druid. To help illustrate this we’ll look at core spells.
• Lets look at a good “problem ability” to help depict the issue the class faces. It’s not infequent that (without legendary) Tornado does 0 damage to your target because of pathing. It also doesn’t help that the ability has a 40 spirit cost meaning you can only cast it twice before having to then cast another 3-5 basic abilities to then recast another two tornadoes. Adding ontop of this that the ability only does 49% damage at rank 5 when it does hit means that our overall DPS using this ability is relatively low in comparison to our other classes’ core abilities. This also isn’t factoring in projectile speed, taking roughly 1-2 seconds to potentially even reach its target from cast.
• Lets compare that with a commonly picked sorc core ability, chain lightning. When you cast chain lightning, it INSTANTLY flys from your character to your target, and then instantly bounces from one target to another with no potential to miss and the ability to rehit the same target multiple times. The ability, at rank 5, deals 59% damage per bounce up to 6 bounces and costs 35 mana (An auto generating resource). The downtime between casts is filled with other more meaningful spells that don’t have to be basic generating spells.
• What can we do to make tornado feel better to press, in the same way that it feels good to press chain lightning? Well, first, we need guarenteed instant damage. If I have to invest nearly half of my spirit (a resouce I have to manually generate) it doesn’t feel good when it does no damage or takes a large amount of time to deal damage. A simple solution to this is to have tornado spawn where my mouse/enemy currently is. This simple change makes the ability FEEL much better to press. (There may be a legendary for this,I’m not sure, however, legendaries shouldn’t exist to make skills usable. They should be usable and feel good at a baseline and be improved fom there.) However, at a 40 spirit cost, it’s not enough to just have the damage guarenteed and instant. It needs to either be meaty or have a reduced cost. It feels terrible to have to cast 3-5 basic spells at a snails crawl pace to be able to cast only 2 tornadoes. In the time it takes me to cast 8 tornadoes, a sorc can cast roughly 12-14 chain lightnings at a higher dmg return per cast, all while being able to cast other spells that aren’t locked to basic abilities. That brings me to my next point.

1. Basic abilities and spirit generation -As a class that has to generate spirit with basic abilities and then dump all of that spirit in roughly 1 or 2 seconds, it HAS to be quick to regenerate and satisfying. -As it stands, i’d say that 75% of the time in combat is spent spamming generators, feet planted, doing next to 0 damage. THIS FEELS BAD -Classes such as rogue and sorc use basic abilities in their downtime between energy/mana dumps and cooldowns for non-resource abilities. They rarely are casting a basic ability more than 2 times in a row (Rogue combo point exception). THIS FEELS GOOD.

• How can we fix this? Well, luckily I think there are a couple solutions here and they are simple numbers games. Either we make basic abilities FEEL GOOD by increasing their cast speed, damage, projectile speed, and target limit. Or we can simply have them generate far more resource. (Preferrably both here). -As it stands the “Heart of the wild” and “Abundance” passives that help with spirit are 100% mandatory with how much core spells cost and STILL the class is plagued with resource management issues. -More time spent spamming basic abilities is less time dealing meaningful damage and leads to boring gameplay that feels sluggish and unimpactful. I hope this is an issue they resolve innately in the class and not try to fix with legendaries.

1. DoTs and Companions

• Wow are these underwhelming. Even with a legendary that turns wolfs into werewolfs and increases their damage by a whopping 160%, they are hitting for roughly 40-60 damage at level 25 with roughly 550 attack power. As soon as you’re able to access the hydra as a sorc at level 12 you’re already doing more damage than that at a much higher rate without an empowering legendary…AT LEVEL 12.
• It’s not even close to compare the summons between Sorc and Druid, the numbers are simply aggregious. Starting at 8% damage for wolfs compared to the hydra’s 30% per fireball at rank 1. It really seems like there are different dev teams playing a different game designing the numbers for these classes. Not to mention that the hydras just FEEL GOOD with the projectile speed and how responsive they are to summon. Compare that to the ai of the wolfs that chase enemies just to stand still and miss an auto attack on an enemy every 2 seconds… It’s really not even in the same ball park. -DoTs… The poison builds simply need to be buffed. If my damage in an ARPG is being dealt over an 8 second period of time, I’d like for it to do something meaningful in the 1-2 seconds the mob is supposed to live for. DoTs are always supposed to be high damage over a long period of time. For some reason the poisons are currently tuned to do less damage over 8 seconds than most other class’ instant abilities. This is fundamentally wrong on so many levels, however has an easy fix. BUFF numbers or make total DoT time less. (Or both, what mob lives for over 8 seconds in an ARPG?)

1. Abilities don’t feel synergistic

• For a caster druid, a majority of the spells they use are supposed to be ranged and also knock targets away. For example, Cylcone Armor, Boulder, and cataclysm. This is fine, however, it’s expcted that you also take spells such as hurricane that require you to be near your target to deal damage. Overall, it just feels like they didn’t develop the base kit with it playing in a way that feels natural for how you would expect it to play. It feels like they just had ideas for abilities and threw them into the kit without thinking about how it feels to play using those specific abilities together.

Conclusion: -Thankfully, the class has a lot of simple changes that it needs in terms of just flat numbers to make the damage actually impactful, however, I’m hesitant about how Blizzard will go about this and I’d like to take this opportunity to really clarify the issue.

• If the class plays slow, IT BETTER HIT HARD… If I have to spend 3-5 seconds to build up resource to spend on 1 or 2 abilities, those abilities better FEEL GOOD. OR we can simply make basic abilities FEEL GOOD/impactful to use by picking up the pace/damage/target cap so that we don’t spend majority of combat spamming them feeling horrible.

Please, Blizzard. Take this constructive criticism and make this beloved class FEEL GOOD to play. It doesn’t have to be “overtuned”… It just has to be viable and play in a way that makes players enjoy their time playing it.
Let me know what y’all think can be done to help the class FEEL GOOD. Much love!

So I have always been a player at a table but have never been a DM. I have so many great ides for a world and a general story with cool plot twists but don’t really know a good way to organize it into a campaign. Writing is something I have a lot of self-confidence in as creative writing, although particularly for film and television, is what I study but finding a way to get it all into an organized fashion is something that I am not too confident in. Does anybody have any tips on:

 - good software to put everything in - is it better to start small and grow as I go, or plan a lot in the beginning - any npc generators to help me create basic characters - etc. 

Really I’m just looking for good tools that people use as well as a general consensus on a good planning strategy. I’m also hoping this thread gains traction as a way to help any new DMs in the future, because I really feel that D&D is a very helpfull tool if you want to become a writer of any sort. Thanks!

Link: https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/365351/tales-from-the-yawning-portal-group-name-pending Game: D&D 5e Group type: Online (Roll20) Experience: Beginers Welcome Location/Timezone: See the Roll20 game listing in the link above for the time in your distinct timezone, but late nights Wednesday in North America and mornings on Thursday in East Asia/Australia Schedule: Weekly Roles sought: 5 more player Price: $25USD for a 4 hour session via PayPal.
Welcome to the dungeon crawl extravaganza, heroes of the realms! We are just starting our adventure. We will soon dive into "The Sunless Citadel" the first adventure in this series! There is a long journey ahead!
Tales from the Yawning Portal will be a campaign focused around some of the toughest and most dangerous dungeons to be released for Dungeons and Dragons! This campaign will lead you on amazing adventures from level 1 all the way to level 16-20 as you face off against a mighty lich as you seek out their phylacteries!
Time This will be a weekly campaign that will last about a year in total. Sessions will be 4 hours long. Sessions will be held at the time listed in this listing. If you are using a VPN, your time might differ from the actual listing time, so please double check.
Communications Out of game communications will be handled via the Critical Tavern Discord server. In-game communication, voice and video, will be handled via Roll20. Video is optional, but you will need a microphone and an account on Discord to participate.
Payment This game will require payment to the Game Master at a rate of $25 per person per 4 hour session via PayPal. If you feel like supporting the Game Master further, this game allows tipping the Game Master at a rate of your choice. Roll20 is not responsible for any payment transactions and cannot enforce any private arrangements.
Safety Tools This game will use a few safety tools to help make the game a more enjoyable experience fro everyone!
Session zero: Session 0's are used to start the game, opening up with communication, setting expectations, and discussing any safety tools that will be used at the table. Everyone will get a free session zero regardless of when they start.
Lines and Veils: Lines and Veils set the boundaries of the games. Lines are hard limits for content the group doesn't want to participate in, this means that content will not be in game, referenced in game, or alluded to. Veils are soft limits, meaning that when the content arises it might be mentioned, but not described, or it could mean that when the content shows up, it results in a “fade-to-black”.
Open Door: Open-Door is an assurance that anyone in the group can take a break from the game for their own safety and well-being without judgment. This should be made clear to the group.
breaks: For long games or stressful content, having built-in breaks allows the group to stay focused and process content. This time can be used for bio breaks, conversation, or any other necessities. Anyone can take a break at any time, but there will also be a set ten minute break some time during the game so that we can all refresh.
Stars and Wishes: Stars and Wishes are used to reflect and discuss feedback in a positive way. Stars are used for things that participants enjoyed in the game. Wishes are things that participants would like to see in the future. Both players and the GM can express their stars and wishes to make the game better.
Safety tools will be further discussed in session zero and marked on the private game channel in the Discord server so that we can refer to them.
Content Warnings -Character Death -Violence -Language/Cursing -Blood -Drowning
Character Creation Details
We are using D&D 5e rules. Characters will start at the same level as everyone else in the party. We can talk about what level that is in your session zero.
I will be sharing compendiums with players in my game for creating and leveling up your characters. This will include all first party books and a bunch of third party content. Third party content includes some books by Kobold's Press such as Tome of Heroes. If I have a compendium shared with you in game the content is allowed. All Tasha's optional Class features are allowed, and we will be using Tasha's Custom Species rules as well.
Stats are generated either by standard array or by rolling 4d6 and dropping the lowest then assigning the values in the order you choose.
The campaign will run from level 1 to levels 16-20 and will be a mixture of leveling by experience and leveling by milestone.
Player Expectations: -I realize this campaign is designed for both new and experienced players, and will work to make sure everyone at the table has a good time, regardless of skill level. -I realize that life happens, and am able to communicate on a timely basis anything that may come up to cause me to miss a session. I will also be gracious to others in the group if they need to miss a session. -I will stay engaged while we are playing. -I will not be rude or disruptive. -I have a microphone with good sound quality and a stable internet connection. -I will download Discord for out-of-game discussion and communication.
DM Expectations: -I will be on time to games, every session. -I will communicate clearly and in a timely manner any schedule abnormalities or other issues. -I respect all players equally. -I will be thoroughly prepared for each session. -I will be fair in my rulings. -I will provide a high quality collaborative experience which entertains and challenges.
What the DM can bring to the table -Encyclopedic knowledge of this game system's rules. -Tools to help new players and newcomers to Roll20 to get acclimated to the game. -Community and Support: The Critical Tavern community is growing every day. Get connected with others online and make friends through TTRPGs and Discord. -Content Support: Lots of materials for Roll20 VTT and in-depth experience with API and macros. -Macro Support: I can write a macro for your character sheet at your request. -Character Support: I will work with the players to make sure that they have the tools to tell their characters' story. Setting individual goals and creating events to make a one of a kind experience for you. This includes character support outside of games by messaging. -Fast paced TTRPG gaming: Through the use of mods and other tricks I can keep the action going and make it so that you never wait more than a minute for your GM to finish their turn.
About Me My name is Eddie, I'm a pretty experienced GM. I've been playing 5e for 8 years now. Recently I've been branching out into playing other systems, but I keep coming back to 5e. I'm currently running 6 campaigns and weekly one shots. I'm a content creator on Roll20 and a Translator. My second language is Japanese. I've only only started DMing full time recently, but I hope I can give you the experience you are looking for.
DM Style It varies from game to game, but something that is consistant throughout all of my games is player choice and interactions matter. This game is going to focus heavily on the dungeon and the arcane nature of it. There will be a pretty good balance of combat, puzzling, challenge, exploration and approach scenarios for players to dive into as a group and a few extra suprises along the way.
I like to reward variablity in play and creative approach within the rules of the world. I engage players based on their wants and needs and try my best to facilitate their ideas. I want to let you guys do cool things with you characters and help you create your stories however they may play out.
Applications Please, submit your applications in the applications thread in the link at the top of this post.

Howdy folks, I am Gal, and I love Elden Ring. I am a veritable expert on the lore, gameplay, and pretty much everything else about it! I would like to do a literate longterm roleplay taking place throughout the story and into the future! You, the Elden Lord, would embark on adventures, make friends, meet new characters, and make the Lands Between a better place! Of course you won't be limited to canon characters, you may help out and play as all manner of ocs! The Lands Between are big, and there's plenty of people to help! Dm if interested, password is Donut Burger!