ooc icebreaker/au workshop?

[alliegiance]

OOC STUFF

ok fellas, here's the situation:

- you've been trapped in the shitty valley of barovia by a megalomaniac vampire who is obsessed with one of his subjects (read more here or honestly just ask me if you want more info)
- the megalomaniac likes to play with his food
- so do the powers that be here
- the gods cannot help you
- your gods can't even contact you
- you're not getting out any time soon (the mists are poisonous and will kill you)
- (maybe) you have a modern character that you now have to establish a full dnd/fantasy au for
- what does your character do in this situation

use this post to give people a jumping off point for that, and also to get to know each other/plot stuff maybe

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ALLY

[alliegiance]

[alliegiance]

welcome, foolish mortals

im ally, ill be your overseer in and out of game. not only is this sandbox mine, i also get to play your prison warden, strahd von zarovich. he's a horrible monster in a nice suit with a smooth tongue.

i guess for the moment he's our npc so others i can bring in include ezmerelda d'avenir and ireena kolyana. potentially others bc ive been running this module for like 2+ years and theyre all my favourite but for now those are the guaranteed ones i could rope into this horrible mess

[gwilym]

but that's not all

i also have sir godfrey gwilym here, widower, do-gooder extraordinaire, and stepdad of the year every year

he's a funny one because if i feel like it, he technically is already an au of a cos npc, that being the godfrey gwilym in the 5e module. once i actually make some icons i can probably flip him from tav to npc

as tav, he's a big ol paladin of lathander who is dedicated to his devotion oath, the people around him, and doing the best he can even when it's difficult. he is a widower, having lost his husband some years ago, and is trying to raise his late husband's daughter by himself.

in cos, he's a big ol revenant paladin of the order of the silver dragon, which is dedicated theologically to serving the morninglord. he has retained his humanity by clutching on to the scraps of what made him human, that being his faith, his love for his husband and charges, and his dedication to doing the right thing. he was married to another knight of the order and they all died tragically when they came to war against strahd, only to be revived by the hellscape of barovia as immortal revenants bound to his death. his husband is bitter and angry and sees it as his purpose to keep strahd alive and suffering as long as possible, and so refuses to move the knights against him. sir godfrey goes against this to try and restore the order's honour and to grant rest to his comrades and husband.

they both have a cheeky lore connection to ravenloft through their great great great great grandpappy, alek gwilym, former commander of strahd's armies. also his close confidant and closest friend, so loyal that he would have probably helped him kill his brother if asked.

[netherese]

This is not the shadowy adventure we planned on going on, Tavfrey.

[gwilym]

going from act 2 to this shit is gonna leave him terminally depressed tbh

[netherese]

Him and Gale both, this is going to be Rough, which is, of course, the ideal from a writing perspective.

We're going to buy out the Wizard of Wines.

[gwilym]

calling an emergency party meeting

(godfrey wants to hold hands with his loved ones)

[netherese]

They all stand in a circle holding hands for like thirty seconds before someone goes "is this it? Is this the meeting?"

[ryugyo]

Who rehydrated my guncle

[gwilym]

whats with this sassy lost child

[ryugyo]

I'M 42

[gwilym]

now now, child

have a soup and a nice hug

[ryugyo]

.........what kind of soup

[gwilym]

yk it occurs to me that they're probably going to be trucking rations in so the eating will at least be decent for awhile

a nice thick poultry stew maybe