So during the off season of school a few members of Elemental Doom and a few other guys play a game on the side over skype. The plot is fairly typical of an adventure game. The party is a group of gifted individuals who have been conscripted to recover a magical artifact before a crazed villain and his sinister forced can. Of course the plot does thicken from there.The players have also began to branch out to a game run by Johann's character called Dreadnaught Arcana. Though this game is held as the Gold Standard by which the others are measured against...poorly.
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The Main Team
Sora
A precocious young sorcerer who was caught stealing from the Emperor's Palace. He was forced to join the team in lieu of jail time, and is looking to expand his abilities.
DM "The frescoes seem to show the same picture with slight differences. You the Asylum, first standing proud, then catching fire, blazing down, and then lying in ashes. The frescoes lead you to a grand door. It is locked."
Johann's Player "Alright, I tell everyone to get back, I'm going to burn the door down!"
Sora's Player "Wait, you're going to set the Asylum, that we just saw burn down, on fire?"
Power Glows: He has a violet aura whenever he casts a spell.
Fingore: Johann lost his right index finger to a grenade, and his left ring finger to, of all ironies, a mechanical ring. He eventually got the right one back
Megaton Punch: Thanks to his Glove of Blowtorch, 3d6 to enemy and 1d6 to self once a day (I think.)
Pyro Maniac: If Johann doesn't have his revolver, he has his trusty Alchemist's Fire. He also invented a firespout, which started as an elaborate clock.
A Bard if unknown origin. He was found in the Peregrine Chasm enveloped in shadows, He brandishes a ukulele embosses with these golden letters: W-I-K-S-T-A-R
Something that was released from a mirror deep in the Peregrine Chasm. He wasn't too warmly welcomed into the party, though that might be do his "Sadistic Clown" personality. He seems a bit like Kefka from Final Fantasy VI though this is unintentional.
A Merc hired by the Tyrolion government. He's proven to be quite a tank against Howl and his pack. The extent of his psychic powers have yet to be fully seen.
Old Soldier: Not that old, but Thanatos has been around. He's even had some run-ins with Forgotten Angels before. Though he didn't know what they actually were.
Only One Name: Explained that he grew up on the streets, without knowing his parents.
Typically played straight in the flavor texts though.
The Artifact: Since the game was first designed as a Solo campaign starring Sora there are quite a few NPCs that could qualify for this. The most well known would probably be Latros or Bibidel.
Author Appeal: There is a Sword Archon among the villains.
Spiders seem to recurring foe as well.
Back from the Dead: Bobbie's soul was able to claw her way back into her body
Back-to-Back Badasses: Doffe and Raedarius during the fight against the Faex Fossa Cultists.
Badass Crew: The team itself. Johann, Sora, Bobbie, Doffe, Richardo, Wikstar, Charade, and Emmet have each proven to be quite badass in their own right.
Blind Without 'Em: Sorta, it's not so much a single character and glasses, it's the entire party and Bobbie. The rest of the team really should put a few ranks in spot.
Fr. Emmett "He was moved to a higher security cell after we found him in a stolen guard's uniform attempting to leave the palace. He would have succeeded had he not been carrying your still unconscious body as he did so"
No Name Given: Doffe for the entirety of the Webbed Archive
Noodle Incident: Somehow, despite being landlocked, the Polish-equivalent country sank.
Odd Friendship: How did Johann and Richardo meet up anyway?
One Gender School: The DM, Sora's player, Johann's player, Richardo's player, Gunter's player, Thanatos's player, and Charades's player all graduated from them. This could explain their sense of humor.
In game, Elisa, the daughter of Queen Gertrude attends one.
One-Scene Wonder: Averted with Wikstar who made his reappearance before the storming of Ruchgrat.
You All Meet in an Inn: Averted. The story starts off with a prologue centered around Sora. The other Player Characters had already been formed into a team by the Praechellian Government.
I'd like to find out how they were gathered originally though.
Crimson Expansion
The DM wanted to test run the first session of new game called Court of the Crimson King, so rigged up the usual suspects to test it out. Hilarity Ensues.
Action Girl: The redheaded waitress had a level in barbarian.
Bloodier and Gorier: Strange given that game was supposedly an innocent bar rumble where no one got hurt.
The final count of random body organs found on the floor after the brawl: Two hands, a tongue, Johann's two front teeth, Johann's finger, and some poor man's balls.
Bottomless Pit: The Airy Reach had one. Several skeletons got thrown into it.
Butt Monkey: Johann's player describes Johann as essentially a karma bitch for all his other characters.
Cruel and Unusual Death: A few. The Doctor smashing a table over a mans head, putting him to zero, and then knocking him into the heath, where he slowly burned to death.
Getting Kicked into a bottomless pit should count too.
How about getting your balls cut off and dying off blood loss?
Tongue Trauma: Umbra did this to some poor merchant.
Vocal Dissonance: Compared to his Crestfallen counterpart this Johann has a much raspier voice, a side effect of having his throat slashed a couple of times
All Psionics Campaign
Ellamin Fletcher decided to step into the world of D Ming. Shenanigans Ensues.
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