plague anchorite challenge - 3 may
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0dense3312 words, 22 footnotes, 18 citations, and 13 pages later, I have finished the World's Most Depressing Paper!
Also, we got back to the panta rhei campaign! we spent about six months between meetups :_D with our dragonborn locked in hold person and our warlock an iota away from having to fight one of our npc teammates over an artifact from her patron. But they talked it out today and she can complete her debt! Ethereal plane and an undead naga later, we made it out of the dungeon we spent the last like five sessions in. Telim has had his parochial bubble quite shattered and was just thinking he should make this team-up official, when it turns out that a) they've been gone for a whole week, not the three-ish days they percieved, and b) his republic has declared war in the meantime. He's an Auxiliary who levelled up twice in that dungeon - if the Republic is at war, there's good odds that he's supposed to have already reported in. He's questioned the Republic before, but that was idle talk next to this. As soon as they reach an outpost, he won't have any more reasonable excuses not to be AWOL. There was a hot sec on the wrong side of the ethereal plane where it seemed like he might not make it home at all, and that was a low moment. He does love his city-state! But also he's just really found out that there are bigger issues out there than the politics he had known.
I know it's going to be much more fun to play together if he doesn't report back to the army that barely wanted him in any case, but he has spent a long time with the kool-aid. It would be so easy to slip back into the class he was raised in (that would chew him up and spit him out) (and always know he was a coward for not trying harder to make a difference), rather than desert and see the world as it really is (and hang up his identity as Good Auxiliary of the Republic). I think if he learns some of the things that his teammates haven't been able to tell him yet, he'll have the motivation to stay with them.
Everyone already knows but him, though. I need to step up my rp game and be more inquisitive. He's got more potential than I've been using -I've got work cut out for next session!
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- yanked off of my bib doc because I'm not opening the final thing again, I've stared at it too much today
Also, we got back to the panta rhei campaign! we spent about six months between meetups :_D with our dragonborn locked in hold person and our warlock an iota away from having to fight one of our npc teammates over an artifact from her patron. But they talked it out today and she can complete her debt! Ethereal plane and an undead naga later, we made it out of the dungeon we spent the last like five sessions in. Telim has had his parochial bubble quite shattered and was just thinking he should make this team-up official, when it turns out that a) they've been gone for a whole week, not the three-ish days they percieved, and b) his republic has declared war in the meantime. He's an Auxiliary who levelled up twice in that dungeon - if the Republic is at war, there's good odds that he's supposed to have already reported in. He's questioned the Republic before, but that was idle talk next to this. As soon as they reach an outpost, he won't have any more reasonable excuses not to be AWOL. There was a hot sec on the wrong side of the ethereal plane where it seemed like he might not make it home at all, and that was a low moment. He does love his city-state! But also he's just really found out that there are bigger issues out there than the politics he had known.
I know it's going to be much more fun to play together if he doesn't report back to the army that barely wanted him in any case, but he has spent a long time with the kool-aid. It would be so easy to slip back into the class he was raised in (that would chew him up and spit him out) (and always know he was a coward for not trying harder to make a difference), rather than desert and see the world as it really is (and hang up his identity as Good Auxiliary of the Republic). I think if he learns some of the things that his teammates haven't been able to tell him yet, he'll have the motivation to stay with them.
Everyone already knows but him, though. I need to step up my rp game and be more inquisitive. He's got more potential than I've been using -I've got work cut out for next session!
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