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Well hello again, it's me Artemis making more bad wonderful choices. I bring you Commander Shepard from the Mass Effect franchise. For those who played the games, he's got the Colonist + Sole Survivor background aka angst central. He's also a vanguard so he tends to favor an SMG and to biotically charge into the enemy (maybe a bit of an adrenaline junkie). He made mostly paragon choices (if you're curious which ones, I detailed them under the history section) with a sprinkling of renegade for flavor.

He's coming to us straight after Priority: Rannoch in ME3, and he just brokered peace between the geth and quarians, which is a big fucking deal, so he's in a considerably better mood than he could have been had he come from later on in the game. Really looking forward to seeing how he gets along with the other spacefaring and captain-y folk -- I'll probably introduce him with the next plot since we're wrapping the IC week up shortly!

Well that didn't take long at all for me to impulsively latch onto character #2. Never believe me when I say "I'm going to wait a bit;" it is a lie.

Artemis again with another CR character (because of course I did), this time from their second campaign, the Mighty Nein. Mollymauk is so very different from Keyleth, so this should be fun to switch back and forth between. Unsurprisingly, he's being brought in just before he (spoiler alert) dies, which means every reset is going to be a verifiable pain in the ass for him. For the unfamiliar, Molly is a Blood Hunter, which is a homebrew class that focuses on sacrificing to preserve the life of others. He can sense undead creatures up to a limited distance, activate his scimitars by drawing up his own blood, and even enact Blood Curses. Given the nature of his fighting style, I'll make sure to mark any potential trigger warnings where I can and won't be at all offended if anyone needs to opt out of all future interactions with him because I completely get he can be a lot.

Molly's literally colorful with a colorful personality to boot. He likes to spin tall tales and lure the coin out of someone's pocket with the promise of a fortune told. And has a healthy appetite when it comes to food, drugs, alcohol, and sex. But what's most curious is how he initially woke up in a makeshift grave with no memory of who he was or how he got there. Instead of trying to figure out his past, he runs from it and wants to pave his own way, so for him Derleth will be a welcome alternative.

To start off with, since he is, you know, still wounded, I'll toss up an open post if anyone wants to help heal him and teach him how to use his phone. Otherwise, I look forward to his first order of business being an absolute menace at the ball. (And if anyone wants to concoct any schemes or wants to volunteer their character for fortunes, come to me, please)

HELLO my name is Artemis and I'm looking so very much forward to bringing you this disaster, Keyleth from the first Critical Role campaign/The Legend of Vox Machina. She's a half-elven druid with about zero social skills (not to mention a very low alcohol tolerance~), so basically this means she can commune with nature, transform herself and other people/creatures into beasts, and other nature-related spells.

Just a bit of quick background, before she joined Vox Machina, she grew up sheltered in a clan of druids called the Air Ashari who are protectors of the Elemental Plane of Air. Her mother was supposed to become the new headmaster of the tribe and left when Keyleth was still just a child, but never returned, and was presumed dead, leaving Keyleth to be the next in line to follow in her mother's footsteps. The canon point where she's drawn from, she has already completed two of the three tests of her Aramente, the only one remaining being the one that her mother failed to complete. So she's got that dread hanging over her head. On top of that, the Fire Ashari were almost entirely wiped out by the dragon that she just helped to defeat (in one of the most badass ways possible) so she's kind of going through it right now.

It looks like she is rooming with Marc Spector (I am so sorry) in the Hanged Man room, which is hilarious since that's the card that represents Vax in the CR Major Arcana set. Considering her current canon point, she's probably going to be pretty exasperated and less trusting than she might normally be, so it may take her a hot second to warm up to new people, but otherwise she is definitely going to be her usual socially disastrous self.

ANYWAY really looking forward to throwing her at everyone and I apologize in advance, she really is going to be such a disaster.

→ Hi! Thanks for joining the game!

→ I think most people are going to wait until closer to the game's official opening (Jan 15th) to post OOC intros. In the meantime, we're partying on discord. The link to the discord is in the player page and welcome message.

→ The IC/OOC event is happening now. (Link in the welcome message or peek at the IC community.) It's friend locked because we're super mysterious and cool like that.

→ It does count toward AC. January is a short month due to the late game start and so if you want your AC prizes, you may wanna get a jump on that.

→ HINT: YOU MIGHT NOT WANNA SPEND YOUR AC UNTIL YOU SEE THE PLOT HAPPENING JANUARY 29TH. Normally AC rewards and where the campus goes won't matter, but there is a little extra something planned you can use AC toward on the Jan 29th plot.

→ Normally I'd give a plot hint for upcoming weeks, but that's gunna be your hint.

→ Let me know if you have questions!