laurentide.bsky.social
Shy arctic fox who likes nerd stuff.
She/Her | ΘΔ | Enby | DemiPan | Neurospicy | Greymuzzle
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I guess I'm fortunate that there's a lot of variety available here. Some of the grocery stores have a "make your own 6-pack" deal, so I would grab a single bottle of 6 different beers to try. I picked a lot of bad ones at first but eventually learned what to avoid. (Hops. I hate hoppy beers.)
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I thought I hated beer but it turns out I just hate the popular stuff. Major brands are gross, the hip trendy IPA's are like drinking battery acid, and I'm not into sours, but I will happily drink German-style beers, red ales, Scotch ales, and many stouts. (Though maybe not a whole pint of it!)
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I only have actual art of the middle headmate, an arctic fox named Nouki who is simultaneously both femboy and trans girl.
Need to get art for myself someday but it would basically just look like an older, shorter-eared Nouki who discovered femme clothing and estrogen.
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Oh, I just realized why these people are so convinced that doctors are just telling people they're trans so they'll buy expensive procedures. (When the reality is that gender-affirming care for trans people is often heavily gatekept.)
Every accusation by them is a confession.
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Voting is choosing your battlefield.
A lot of people let themselves be convinced that having the high ground means fighting with our backs to the cliff edge.
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I actually prefer the downloadable simulator at Taiganet.com which allows you to add your own music and channel logo, and can even have different playlists for each season (or any other date ranges you prefer). They even got the original narrator to rerecord his lines for it!
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My first UC series was 0083 and I was so confused. Saw some newer shows, still confused, eventually decided to go back to the start for some much needed context. First 0079 movie felt like a highlight reel so I started over with the original series. Same thing. Turns out Gundam is just Like That.
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I have similar feelings. And the cruelty of this nightmare's scenario, its undeniable plausibility, is a big reason why I want to become a creature in the first place. How could anyone look upon the works of an inhumane humanity and not be filled with a desire to disavow all kinship with it?
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Sorcerers do this, but they only ever learn 15 spells so you can only afford to choose the most versatile ones OH WAIT THAT'S THE SAME PROBLEM
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They WHAT
But playing as a character who is as fat as me and still looks cute was like 80% of the reason I bought it!
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Which is why it's especially hilarious that her next piece of loot turns out to be a damaged android warlock that follows her around like she's his mommy.
The fallout from Leska's bad parenting will form the basis of the entire 2nd (ongoing) campaign, but that's a story for another time.
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Her only goal is to live out a bunch of stories like the myths and legends she grew up reading, so that someday she can use them (and her hoard of treasure) to impress the villagers and shame them for trying to hold her back.
She is an immature brat and an absolute C/N chaos gremlin.
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Leska, at 50, is just barely an adult of her species. She is also naturally impulsive, very obviously has a WIS lower than her INT, has no connection to this world she finds herself in, and is compelled by the wanderlust of spending all 50 of those years cooped up in the same small village.
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Maybe I'll post more threads about this adventure. It might be a little disjointed, though, as I don't remember some parts very well or exactly what order or which campaign they happened in.
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Good, because I just posted a bunch more of it!
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Doesn't matter; got loot.
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A few more minutes later, the staff magically rematerializes above a sobbing Leska and lands on her head. She starts screaming again. The screaming stops when she realizes the staff and her precious orb are back in her possession.
The DM informs me that I may have fucked up everything forever.
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The orb clicks into place and the staff rockets out of Leska's grasp, shooting high into the air where it suddenly stops, and then vanishes in a burst of magical light.
The DM puts his head into his hands.
Leska starts screaming and doesn't stop.
Moments later, there is an earthquake.
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Magic cave crystal?
(nothing happens)
Mysterious meteoric obsidian shards swiped from the mansion?
(nothing happens)
My precious orb that was my first treasure ever that will be with me always as a reminder of the start of my amazing journey into adven-OHFUCK
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On the way back, an excited Leska is examining her new magic staff. It's made of some kind of metal, and the head appears to have been intended to have some kind of object socketed into it. She proceeds to shove her entire inventory into the hole like it's a Sierra point'n'click puzzle.
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A now very angry boss yells that this isn't over, then runs away. The party emerges from the mine, finding themselves alone. Paladin calls for Leska but there's no reply. Bard makes a rude comment. Bard feels something heavy bonk him on the head. Get in the wagon, you little shit, we're going home.
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The boss chases after Leska. The party chases after the boss. Leska opens the pouch of ball bearings she bought in town and dumps it out behind her as she passes through a doorway. Hijinks ensue. Leska gazes longingly at the box of dynamite by the entrance but knows there isn't enough time.
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Leska grabs the staff and starts trying to wrestle it away. She may be weak, but she does have teeth and claws and one of them eventually snags something painful. The boss screams and lets go. Leska casts Invisibility. Everyone hears scared/delighted fox noises receding into the distance.
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Leska's spells just bounce right off of him; the weird metal staff strapped to his back seems to repel magic. She switches to a crossbow. He engages her in melee. The paladin saves her by tackling the guy and knocking him over, then yells for Leska to get back. She pounces instead.
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The injured bodyguard and his boss are at the bottom, near another strange machine. The boss refuses most of our questions, but does let slip that this machine is the seal trapping the evil creature and he intends to release it. We have no choice but to fight him.
Damn, he's tough.
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But not until we give her one of the crystals we took. We can keep the others if we do what we promised.
Further down we find a massive chamber, filled with a forest of giant mechanical arms reaching out of the ground. These are parts of "Relics", ancient machines of lost technology.
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Fortunately, the monster turns out to be a yokai that is trying to protect her territory (and the magic crystals she eats) from invaders. It seems she has some kind of deal with the miners, but these new guys are messing everything up. We say we're here to mess the new guys up and she lets us go.
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Shortly after, we are attacked by some giant worm monster in a particularly large cavern. Leska attempts the old "Minor Image a rock to hide inside while casting Firebolt" trick and immediately learns that the monster eats rocks to heal. She does not try this again.
We get our asses kicked.
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The mine leads to a massive cave. We find some magic crystals in the walls, which Leska attempts to dig out using a pickaxe she grabbed on the way down. The party has to help her because she is but a smol bean and STR is her dump stat. We end up gathering three of these crystals.
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Searching the room, we find some notes about a great calamity in the ancient past when some giant evil creature fell from the sky and obliterated most of a continent. It was eventually sealed away at the bottom of the massive crater it left, and there's a map to a mine near there. We check it out.
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We also find a couple of important-looking dudes upstairs, but one quickly grabs whatever he's working on and runs off while the bigger one, a bodyguard, attacks us. We barely manage to wear him down, at which point he jumps out the window. He's already bought enough time for his master to escape.
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There's little else to find in the town proper, but there's a spooky mansion on a hill because of course there is. Inside we find more undead creatures, a pair of doll-like twin girls that are constantly dancing and singing in an unknown language, and a bunch of weird cult shit.
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We get there and find the place overrun with undead mutant dog creatures that the Druid insists have "super rabies". We also find some weird stone statue sitting in a small crater at the center of town. The way the DM describes it sounds suspiciously like a stargate, but Leska doesn't know that.
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A few minutes later the woman is shoving Leska, the paladin, an annoying alcoholic bard, and a socially anxious elf druid out the door to start their adventure before they end up accidentally wrecking the place. We're to investigate rumors that something fell from the sky in the next town over.
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So, after being randomly teleported and spending a few months wandering around this strange new land, Leska is grabbing some food at a tavern when she overhears a strange woman offering an obvious quest hook to some himbo dragonborn paladin. Sensing adventure, she introduces herself.
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Side note: When I played the demo for Critter Cove and couldn't find an option for arctic fox ears, I decided to play as Leska instead. While the arms still look a bit funky, this is a lot closer to her intended appearance. Especially that mischievous face.
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Then I shall continue to provide!
So this is Leska, or as close as I could get in Heroforge. (The hands are too big and I can't get a good facial expression.) She's about 5' tall from pawpad to eartip and full of gremlin energy.
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In her first session she wrestled a magic staff away from a powerful wizard (with her -1 STR lol), discovered that her magic orb socketed into it, and inadvertently released the ancient seal on the eldritch demigod that the wizard was trying to free. Oops.
(I have more stories if you want.)
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D&D version's backstory is she ran away from her tribe's village after being told that girls aren't allowed to go on adventures. While exploring some old ruins nearby she found a pretty glass orb (rolled on trinket table) but when she took it she was teleported to a strange land and gained magic.