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Abel Melaine

Abel is a male tiefling sorcerer played by Lina.

Older brother to Azriel and Jasper. He left home at age 20 for unclear reasons, went to Skyport and worked as a mercenary for the next ten years. Recently he retired and moved to the Sanctuary of Eldath to recover from an injury.

Appearance notes: Abel has birthmarks on his cheeks and forehead. His ears and horns are pierced with gold rings, and he has gold tattoos up and down his arms. He has bronze scales along the length of his spine. He wears a ring on a chain around his neck, which he never removes.
Amethyst Melaine

Youngest of the Melaine siblings, baby sister to Abel, Gabriel, Azriel, and Jasper, Amethyst is a sixteen-year-old arcane trickster and bard. She's been largely sheltered from the inner workings of her family's crime syndicate -- and, as a result, from the details of its apparent downfall at the hands of Morgan Wyn.

She recently fled to Skyport with Gabriel, but he was captured by the Sanguines. The Graverunners got in contact with her and offered her protection, which she accepted after they obtained a Ring of Invisibility to help her hide -- and with the reassurances of Jasper, who was working with them.
Helena Baron

Helena Baron was the long-time guildmaster of the Skyport Thieves, the Basha family's main competition in the city. She didn't have the connections that the Basha has, but her spry young street-level thieves -- many of them orphaned children she'd taken in over the years -- were often able to run circles around the Basha's people when it came to small-scale operations.

Some years ago, one of her assassins -- a teenager name Anastasia -- managed to infiltrate the Basha's inner circle and took out a few of his cartel heads. In retaliation, he found her Guildhouse and burned it in the middle of the night, decimating her numbers.

After that, the Skyport Thieves went even more underground. Helena held a heavy grudge against Renar for mutilating her best assassin and killing so many of her 'kids', but was never able to muster any form of retaliation.

Finch and Jonn worked for her guild.

She was sold out to the Sanguine Guild by Anastasia, tortured for some time for information on her contacts, and when she refused to give anything up, eventually killed. Jonn, who considered her a substitute mother figure, attempted to save her but was instead compelled by Amren to kill her himself; his memory of the event was then wiped. He spent months trying to find her, and was devastated when his memory was repaired.
Lykaos: Zarya

**Content Warning: Mild anxiety**

**Age: Unknown**

They were scared.

They didn’t know when they were first scared.

It was after they drugged them, after they first dragged
them down to the dark, dank floor that smelled of mildew, mold, and death.

It was…

…they didn’t know.
They couldn’t remember.

But they were scared.

--

No one came close to them.

They didn’t want them to.
They wanted to watch from the safety of the corner as they ate.  There was a strange man, a tall man.  They didn’t know them.  Their eyes met, but then scooched away.  There was another man.  Another man scared like them.  They weren’t alone.

They felt alone.

It was the potions.

They fogged their mind, whispered soothing thoughts, sent
them to comforting sleep, but they never gave them pleasant dreams.

Their dreams were the same.
Haunted, filled with death, with violence. With whispers. (*…disgusting…Alin…*)

The little cleric would come over to check on them, but then
she would leave.

She was the only one who came over until *she* did.

*She* was slender, confident, with pretty eyes.  She was pretty.  Not like Mummy, never like Mummy.

She smiled as she walked over.  She held out a cup. “Want some pudding?”

--

Her name was Zarya.
She brought over that strange, tall man.
He was handsome.  Not like Daddy, never
like Daddy.  His name was Ephraim.  He was nice.

Zarya was the nicest.

She talked with him, she talked most of all, and he liked
that.  They liked to listen to her.  She made them start to feel normal
again.  Less scared.  Less unsure.
More like how they used to be.

Ephraim, too.  Ephraim
didn’t talk as much, but he also didn’t glare at them.

It was nice.

These people were nice.

--

They pressed close to the wall, listening as the footsteps
faded away.  They only moved again when
there were no more sounds.  They were
supposed to be in their room, sleeping, resting.  Drugged.

But the drugs didn’t stop the dreams.

They slunk through the shadows, claws raised to keep from
clicking.  Time was slow to pass them as they
prowled the hall.  It took awhile to find
her room.  Her scent was masked by the
scent of potions, of cleaning fluid, of death.

When they found it, they picked the lock with a pin they
used to pull back their hair, then they entered.

“Zarya?” they whispered.

“Hmmm?” She rolled over, squinting through the dark.  Her pulse jumped, they could hear it.

“Can I stay?”

“You’re a wolf.”

They rounded their shoulders, dropping to all floors.  They crept a little closer. “Please?”

Zarya pulled back the blanket on her bed and moved closer to
the wall. “Don’t shed all over the floor.

They laughed softly.
They liked her.  They crawled onto
the bed and settled down next to her on the bed.  It was awkward, one paw hanging off towards
the floor, but she wrapped her arms around them to hold them.

Then she began to pet them.
Soft, soothing strokes.

Yes, they felt better.

No longer scared.
Jasper Melaine

Cheerful, fearless, and horrifyingly brutal.

Jasper has no sense of self-preservation and will always head directly towards whichever direction seems the most interesting at the time. This has caused some problems, but that's okay. Jasper's good at problems.

Came to Skyport to find pretty girls. So far, she's been disappointed.

## JASPER STRATEGY GUIDE

Right before we enter combat, have Jasper go into a rage.

### WHEN JASPER IS ATTACKED

* Weapon attacks against Jasper get advantage (because she will be using reckless attack).
* Jasper takes half damage against bludgeoning, piercing, slashing damage.
* Jasper has advantage on DEX saving throws.
* Jasper cannot be charmed or frightened while raging.

### JASPER’S TURN

Jasper gets to do the following every turn:

40 feet of movement. Also, please remember that Jasper can fly.

When using Jasper, target the most damaged enemies first. Cut down the enemies who are hurt. Try to target enemies that Raef and Larkin are already attacking so you can get sneak attack damage.

Jasper attacks three times per turn (twice for her action, then once for her bonus action). She gets advantage from reckless attack, extra damage from raging, and extra damage from sneak attack. So every turn, this is what it looks like:

ATTACK ACTION

* Reckless Sneak Attack. 1d20 + 9 to hit. Advantage. Deals 1d12 + 1d6 + 7 damage.
* Reckless attack. 1d20 + 9 to hit. Advantage. Deals 1d12 + 7 damage.

BONUS ACTION (only if in a Frenzied Rage)

* Reckless attack. 1d20 + 9 to hit. Advantage. Deals 1d12 +7 damage.

Jasper also gets a cunning action she can use to dash, disengage, or hide. She does not need to use an action to disengage from opponents; she can use her cunning action instead.
Foxnapped

Having found out that Ombre had recently been kidnapped by Bala, the Runners stormed the frozen manor to get their kitsune back. Along the way they encountered a quiet wizard named Niko, who had accidentally infiltrated Bala's Sanguines and decided to rescue Ombre upon learning of her existence.

The gang successfully liberated Ombre, but her healing staff and spellbook were missing -- later located via scrying with Bala herself, who was not at the manor, and had instead taken up residence in Skyport, filling the power vacuum left by the Basha, the Skyport Thieves, and now Morgan Wyn.

But Ombre was safely returned to the castle, and the gang had made a new loose ally in Niko, who Jasper had immediately adopted, and who became rapid wizard pals with Ombre.
Jen

Quota Foreigner, Mischief Brewer,
Legal Rogue.

Not literally Larkin.

## Testimonials

"HOW CAN YOU BE THAT GOOD WRITING IN NOT EVEN YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE. Rude tbh." - Lina

"JEN. JESUS." - Coyote, in response to Jen stating facts

O\_O - Coyote

"Thanks, Larkin." - Lina, OOC

"You're welcome, Goro?" - Jen, in response to Lina

"you beautiful artistic bitch" - also Lina

"You look like the floor" - girl in fighting class

"goddammit Jen I don't know if I'm supposed to tease you for being Larkin or hit on you by asking if you want me to buy you a ring. how dare you frankly" - Izzy

"Jen if you’re a vampire with sick guns.... honestly that might be in character for you, I’d believe it" - Coyote

"deity among humans, you" - Izzy

"excellent fake ginger" - Coyote

"Jen is a Legal Rogue" - Muse

"Jen go to sleep!" - Everyone, always

## Info

### Characters

* Larkin
* Mahto

### Text Roleplays - Larkin

* Larkin and Goro
* Goro and Larkin
* Goro and Larkin and Mishka
* Larkin and Raef
* Goro and Larkin
* Larkin and Goro: Renar
* Hansel and Larkin: Sail
* Larkin and Hansel: Kheman
* Azriel and Larkin (Knifeplay)
* Larkin and Sugar (Wine Date)
* Larkin and Hansel (History)
* Goro and Larkin (Truth or Dare)
* Larkin and Mishka (Recompense)
* Larkin and Renar (Refuge)
* Larkin and Roddy (Sonny)
* Goro and Larkin (Soup Talk)
* Abel and Larkin (Apple Brandy)
* Larkin, Reuben, and Ripley (Bloodline)
* Goro and Larkin (Mirror)
* Azriel and Larkin (Honest Work)
* Larkin and Sugar (Counterpoint)
* Goro, Hansel, and Larkin (Barfight)
* Gwydion and Larkin (Prowling)
* Larkin and Sugar (Sparring)
* Goro and Larkin (Drunk)

### Text Roleplays - Mahto

* Azriel and Mahto (Travel)
* Ba'ob and Mahto (Good Plans)
* Sami and Mahto

### Vignettes

* Larkin: Visit
* Larkin: Icarian
* Finch: Friendly Turn
* Larkin: Best Served Hot
* Finch: Feeding Birds
* Larkin: Business People
* Larkin: Heading South
* Larkin: A Word In The Right Ear
* Larkin: Patterns
* Kheman: Sailing at Last
* Larkin: Urban Exodus
I Dream of Freddy

The Graverunners left the Sugar Glider anchored off the coast and returned to the city to take care of some things. They discovered Mormiir holding off a hoard of hosts and puppets, and Larkin led the rescue efforts. Mormiir rejoined the group, somewhat reluctantly as he did not get to divebomb the hoard.

Ombre cast Dream to send Goro into Archbishop Frederick's dream to warn him about Diva. Goro told Fred that he was at risk of becoming a primary. Fred assured Goro he would not allow himself to be hosted, and shared his plan to publicly execute Ripley and blame the apocalypse on her, thus taking himself one step closer to having full control of the city. Goro and Frederick could barely contain their disdain for one another during this conversation, stopping just short of openly admitting that they are enemies.

When Goro later described the strange religious imagery he saw in the dream, Roddy recognized it as belonging to Bane. Frederick, being a secret worshiper of Bane, may have it out for Ripley because she knows the truth about him.

The gang went shopping at the Red Gryphon in preparation for their fight with Host Ripley.
Mahto

Need someone to keep your ass from getting kicked? Mahto's your man.

Need someone to guide you through the mountains? Mahto can walk you through blind.

Need someone to give you spiritual advice? Mahto can aid.

Need this someone to stay sober through all of that? Mahto - ehh, maybe not.

## Info

Mahto is a male half-elf monk played by Jen.
Gwydion: Final Letter

**Content Warning: None**

**Day: The night Gwydion's body is retrieved. This letter is found among his clothes. "Jonn" is written on the front. Raef delivers the letter, viewing it as the last thing he could ever do for Gwydion.**

\_\_

My little dove,

        Life should have never gone this
way.  None of this should have
happened.  Deals with Tricksy and Wyn
should have never occurred.  You should
have been nothing but passing fancy:
something to pass the time and amuse myself with.   I
should have used you, and I should have left you.

         Instead I find myself penning a letter to you
to ask you to forget that I ever mentioned Tricksy.  Asking you to forget about the wand.  Asking you to keep yourself safe.  If I had thought I would have asked you that
when we first met, I would have laughed at myself.  You were delightfully handsome, a dark star
in an even darker night, and you were only supposed to be a toy.

          But I found myself waiting for
you.  Waiting for you to tap lightly on
the window like the flighty bird you are, waiting for you to crawl over the
windowsill and into bed with me.  I found
myself dreading any time away from you where I could only hope that you would
make it back to my home.  I began to
realize that maybe, just maybe, you were not another thing for me to pass off
once I was done because I would never be done
Not until one of us was dead and buried.

           Writing this seems strange and it
feels unwarranted.  You may never even
see this; I may be just writing to myself, for myself.   I
suppose that that does not matter.

            If you do read this, all I want you
to know is that you were a wonderful surprise in this dirty little city.  If you do read this, all I want you to know is
that you stole your way into my heart and my mind.  Take care of yourself, little dove.

                                                                              Yours
until death,

   Gwydion

Oh, before I forget, little
dove, you asked to help with my father once.
Just follow the stars and you will find him.

G.

\_\_\_

\*\* At the bottom of the letter, below the "G", is a series of constellations that are twisted to form an arrow pointing to the right.
Finch

Larkin's former partner in crime. He was arrested after the two of them botched a tricky job, and although Larkin took out a heavy loan to pay his bail, he held her accountable for the failure and ran for it.

He's currently working with a new partner: Jonn.

His character sheet is here.

"You get to mean to him and it's hilarious." -- Abby

## Vignettes

* Dead Tissue To Cover The Wounds
* Surrounded, Helpless, Bleeding, Alone; Living, Breathing, Motionless Toy
* Friendly Turn
* Out-Of-Body Bystander
* Feeding Birds
Dread Jones

Captain Dread 'Jonesy' Jones is a tiefling pirate who was the sworn enemy of Mikhail Haeth during his pirating days. She continues to have it out for him, and for Hansel by extension. No one but the two of them know what the origin of their rivalry is.

She's known to engage in the Skyport slave trade, and once kidnapped Sugar. A team from the Graverunners Guild was dispatched to recover her, and they ended up stealing one of Jonesy's pirate ships, killing almost all of the crew in the process. She probably didn't take too kindly to that.

Her flagship is named the Siren.
Lina

Dragon turtle, god emperor, wiki witch.

"I aspire to your level of roleplaying, you magnificent fuck!" -Jen

"I'm never fully prepared for Lina." -Coyote

"my want for a vignette and my want for Lina to sleep and be healthy are constantly at war" -Izzy

"Lina you deserve a positive testimonial for when you are feeling down." -Muse

"Lina you could write a fucking shopping list and I'd be excited about it." -Izzy

"Lina you wild bitch I love you" -Izzy

### Quotes

*[more screaming]* - from the transcript of The Black Minute-Glass
Blood Debt

After many weeks of searching, Hansel finally found a lead on the third remaining Bloodgrut: A settlement where Bloodgrut's remaining followers had gathered. Goro, Hansel, and Raef set out to investigate the settlement.

On the way there, they found themselves being followed, and set a trap-- only to accidentally capture Theo. Goro read his wayward sister the Riot Act while Hansel cut her down. Although Theo initially sulked and continued demanding to come with, she grudgingly agreed to go home once the party promised to tell her bloody adventure stories upon their return. The party escorted her back to the castle and left her to be babysitted by, quote, "everyone."

The party returned to their mission.

Upon reaching the settlement, they discovered that the settlement contains various corpse-golems (Bloodgrut's signature soldiers). The corpse-golems appear badly made. Several orcs and golems appear to have constructed a pit and were fighting some of the golems-- one of which appeared to be an unusually resilent golem made from the corpse of Hansel's dead stepfather, Elijah, which he promptly ignored.

While Hansel and Raef gathered information, Goro rescued a small elf child nicknamed "Stork." Stork explained his parents had been traveling down the road to Skyport to visit his aunt when they were waylaid by orcs; he was captured, and his family was either killed or run off. Seeing no other option, Goro asked Stork to come with them until they could get him somewhere safe.

The party found Bloodgrut's lair. Bloodgrut had clearly descended into madness; he had golems of his sons, his traitorous general Immanuel, and his pregnant human wife, with which he acted out fantasies of a better life. The party attacked Bloodgrut and killed him-- causing the lair to collapse around them.

After the lair began to collapse, all the corpse-golems outside the cave became hostile and attakced the party. The party powered through and escaped without fighting them.

They returned Stork to his aunt in Skyport, then returned home.
Loose Ends

Loose Ends (Day 500)

With Goro's help in the form of a Zone of Truth, Larkin continued to speak with Japhet, the kidnapped paladin. He was still disbelieving of the news that Helm was dead and the Church followed Bane, but after Goro communed with Mask, who confirmed this, Japhet fell into shock and acceptance. He agreed to help the Redbirds and Runners expose and take down the Banites, though he did immediately lose his paladin powers.

Meanwhile, Larkin took Aziz to Azriel's house for recuperation. The two of them got along and Azriel was able to get an excellent read on Aziz, confirming that Aziz is a well-off wizard siphoning warlock powers off of Pride, and that he will be helpful and loyal to Larkin without pushing her about her being Nissa, although he still believes it's the case. According to Aziz, Pride was behind the deaths of Sam's friends Corinne and Ronan, and felt smug rather than remorseful about their deaths while Sam was grieving. He also thinks that Pride didn't follow and help Sam through Sam's turbulent early life specifically so that Sam would be more worn down and desperate when Pride came to him.

Offscreen, Jonn hung out with Japhet as the Redbirds' guard (though he was freed) and somehow talked him into thinking that Mask is pretty cool, actually.

Then, finally, the big day arrived and it was time for the Runners to interview Pride. While Raef peaced out of this situation, Goro, Larkin, Hansel, and Bee met up with Pride, Sam, and Mishka -- in a hot tub, for some reason. Sam was unwilling to go under the Zone of Truth, feeling antsy and skittish about the whole situation, but Goro talked him into it, and Mishka, similarly anxious, also finally agreed.

A few questions in, Goro strongly got the vibe that Pride was somehow lying despite the ZoT. He began to yell about this while Larkin interrogated Pride about Aziz, who Pride was contradicting. Sam became agitated, but Pride kept his cool and attempted to discredit Aziz and justify himself, but Mishka asked Hansel to cast detect magic, which revealed transmutation magic coming off of Pride. Goro turned to Bee, who remembered the existence of the spell Glibness, which allows people to lie through spells like ZoT, at which point Goro completely lost his shit.

Larkin decided that perhaps it was time to get out of the hot tub, and calmly put on her pants.

She and Goro picked up on the fact that Pride was shifting to make a move, gathering Sam closer to him, and a few things happened rapidly -- Mishka lunged for Sam, preparing a counterspell, and Bee stood upright and transformed somewhat, sprouting ethereal, skeletal wings and their eyes glowing and bleeding yellow. However, Pride was able to teleport himself and Sam away -- tugging gently on Mishka, and Mishka acquiescing to being teleported, too.
Lykaos: Monsters

**Content Warning: None**

**Age: Six to Seven**

*‘Sweetie, let me tell you something.’*

*‘Okay, Daddy.’*

*Daddy smiled. ‘There once…’*

They’d listened intently to Daddy’s story.  A tale of monsters, of beasts, of things that crawled and slithered in the dark, danced before their wide, colorless eyes.  Just tales, that's what they told theirself at first, but Daddy's eyes narrowed and his tone took on the one he used when he was telling them something important.

Monsters weren't real.

Couldn't be real.

--

*Crack!*

The long stick (sword) broke against the trunk of the oak tree (the leg of a monstrous beast). He winced. "Damn," he cursed before glancing around the empty courtyard.  He wasn't supposed to curse.  Mummy didn't like it.

He flung his broken weapon aside and looked around for another. Ah-ha!  He scooped up a curved branch with smaller branches hanging from it, dead leaves fluttering to his feet.  Perfect!

"Be prepared!" he shouted and charged the beast that stared at him, scimitar raised in the air.

--

"Fuck! Lia!"

"What?" she snapped angrily, shaking out her left hand.  Damn.  It tingled from the force of their swords striking together.

"Not so fucking hard!"

She glared. "Make up your mind." She either didn't hit hard enough or she hit too hard.  She didn't know what Daddy wanted.

Daddy sighed, pinched the bridge of his nose.  He did that when he was frustrated with her.  It was better than Mummy.  Mummy...Well, Mummy was Mummy.

She sighed. "Sorry, Daddy."

"It's fine.  Just...pay attention.  You can't afford to wear yourself out." Before the monsters were killed.

The words weren't spoken, but she knew.

--

Every inch of him was sore as he sucked in ragged breaths.  After practicing with Daddy he'd gone out to the courtyard where a tiny monster had been hiding.  It had been a terrible monster!  All teeth and claws before he'd tamed it!

Now it lay on his chest, curled up, purring in its sleep.

He'd done a good job taming it.
Escape!

Trapped in the Sanctuary, Jonn struggled against his  chains and managed to kick a boots off and knock over the Antimagic Device planted in his cell, breaking it. When the spellcasters in the adjacent cell felt the field go down, Azriel quicky dimension doored across the hall the Jasper's cell, where he used the lockpicks hidden in her hair to free her. The guard just outside happened to have her Crescent Axe, so he stealthy popped back out and stole it to get it back to her. Then Roddy and Ombre caused a fuss to distract the guard, and Jasper busted out and murdered the guard mercilessly.

The gang sprung Jonn and Joan from the nearby cells, and when another guard came in to check things out, Jonn successfully murdered the shit out of them. Roddy altered into a guard and snuck around, finding Morgan and Vaala in another wing of the Abbey and Theo and Timur being held by Levi himself. He lured several other guards back to his friends, where Jonn and Jasper did several more really good murders. They also interrogated a guy who told then that Amari and the other clerics had been taken through a druid tree portal to some other location by Immanuel, who had delivered a speech about the orcs having a new god -- though he wasn't clear on who that god was.

After Roddy smuggled Morgan and Vaala out inside his Handy Haversack and got all of the adults together, they set out to rescue their kids. Jonn and Roddy broke into an adjacent room while Azriel caused a distraction on the other side of the Abbey by setting fire to just everything, but unfortunately Levi picked Theo up and went to investigate himself. Roddy, still disguised as a guard, ran in to waylay him, and Azriel rallied the others to meet up and pen Levi in. Before they could get there, Levi saw through the trick and has his druid bodyguard blight Roddy.

The rest of the gang charged in, with Jonn defending his brother, and Azriel beelining for Theo and dimension dooring her to safety. Everyone else stayed behind to fight Levi and his druid.

Levi killed Roddy, cracking his head open.

Luckily, Vaala rushed in to revive him, and he thought fast and used healing word to get his unconscious brother back on his feet. The gang piled onto Levi, and Ombre finally took him out with an immolation, reducing him to ash. Timur, who had tried to defend his cousin, was devastated and picked up Levi's weapon belt, but went along with the escape.

Using Roddy's magic paints, the gang made a hole in the Sanctuary wall and fled into the forest, Sending to Azriel to meet up. Theo had panicked, and he'd had to magically put her to sleep to manage her.

Despite the odds, they had managed to get all of their allies and all of their magic items away, and even killed a powerful enemy.

Unfortunately, they still had no idea where Amari was, or what Immanuel was up to.
Movie and Game Nights

Stuff we can do together other than Dungeons and Dragons. This is a list of stuff anyone has suggested or anyone wants to do. Please add to it.

## Series

* Brooklyn 99. I think we're watching this next?? Jen says it's on German Netflix. Maybe she can try streaming it for us on Rabbit.
* Hilda. Very cute netflix cartoon. Urban fantasy-ish? Izzy recommendation.
* Galavant. Musical show about a washed up adventurer trying to rescue a princess. Campy and fun. Izzy recommendation.

## Movies

* Session 9-- psychological horror movie. Muse has talked about maybe wanting to try a horror movie or something, but doesn't want to watch stuff with jump-scares or gross gory sex stuff.
* It Follows-- very tense horror movie.

## Games

* I still wanna build our castle in Minecraft. I got a server (-- Coyote)
	+ Izzy supports this notion.
* Don't Starve Together
* Watch Lina play The Cat Lady.
* Watch Izzy play Amnesia, Soma, or Layers of Fear (all horror).
* Watch Jen play Amnesia.
* Watch Mink play Five Nights at Freddy's? Or Slenderman?
Basil de Rolo

Warmaster Basil de Rolo is the elder brother of Prince Rina de Rolo.

At the the start of the Graverunners campaign, he is twenty-five, and the Warmaster of Skyport.

## Job Duties

As Warmaster, Basil's duties are to protect Skyport from outside threats. However, Skyport is such a large and powerful city-state that his job is largely defunct. Skyport has no official army, but rather a large police force headed by the Church of Helm.

Instead, Basil spends most of his time tutoring his sister and helping her run the city-state.

## Personality

Basil is genuinely kind, warm, and honest. He values honor above all else. He is devoted to his duty.

After the death of his mother, the previous Prince, he spent all of his time learning as much as possible about running Skyport in order to support his sister, the new Prince. He is deeply protective of Prince Rina. Despite the fact he is thirteen years older than her, he takes her authority seriously.

Despite his intelligence, Basil's kind and generous nature makes him easy to deceive.

He is easily excited by the idea of battle and adventure. He enjoys listening to Mikhail Haeth tell outlandish adventure stories.

## Quotes

"Well, you know these old men. Very set in their ways. [...] The poor Bishop. [...] His eyes are clouded by tradition, I fear." -- Basil, concerning Archbishop "Lively Fred" Frederick

## Testimonials

"Good man, strong morals, good at his job, tries to do the right thing. He has no sense of deception, though. He's easy to manipulate. He can't tell when people are lying to him. The Warmaster position is largely defunct. The Warmaster keeps the city safe from threats outside it-- you know, Calimport, if they happened to attack, and the orc tribes outside the city. He's fine where he is, in my opinion, but if you had something else in mind, we could get rid of him. Makes no difference to me." -- Mishka

"Tries to do the right thing and easy to manipulate? He sounds like a dream come true." -- Goro
Mink

## About

Not Raef.

Likes orcs, but still not Raef.

"That is a pretty attractive corpse."

## Testimonials

* "MINK NO" - Everyone, at some point, has said a variation of this. I have no idea why. My ideas are awesome.

## Player Characters

* Raef
* Gwydion

## Side Characters

* Azrael
* Aesar

## Favorite Movies

### Overall

1. Krampus
2. Interview With a Vampire
3. An American Werewolf in London
4. The Hobbit (Peter Jackson)
5. The Labyrinth
6. Silver Bullet
7. Alien
8. Godzilla
9. Predator
10. Cloverfield

### Horror

1. An American Werewolf in London
2. A Haunting in Connecticut
3. Silver Bullet
4. The Shining (Jack Nicholson)
5. The Nightmare on Elm Street

### Sci-Fi

1. Alien
2. Aliens
3. Prometheus
4. Predator
5. Godzilla

### Fantasy

1. The Hobbit
2. Krampus
3. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. The Hobbit II
5. The Hobbit III
Morningstar Keep

Morningstar Keep is an old castle in surprisingly good condition that oversees the town of Glimmerton, which holds the Glimmer Festival each year in honor of the time a meteorite smashed into the hill above their town, which eventually became the pond behind the Keep (Starglow Pond).

Recently, the Runners liberated the castle from bandits and took it over as their own base, largely because of the teleportation circle in the dungeon.
Iron Heart

In the late evening one night, Roddy stumbled drunk into the castle and wrangled Mishka, Larkin, and Raef into helping him settle a bet he'd made with Jonn -- a bet that one of the Sterling-Bell boys could steal an artifact from a rich guy outside town before the other did. Roddy wanted his pals to steal it so he could keep an eye on Jonn himself.

Meanwhile, Jonn asked Luci and Goro to pull the same trick.

Team Roddy went in the estate the back way, breaking in and turning invisible. Team Jonn attempted to talk their way in the front door, posing as clerics chasing down an errant wraith, but the doorman wouldn't let them in. Luci detected that his hat was magical, so Goro snatched it off his head, revealing him to be a construct.

Goro invoked his duplicitous nature, creating illusory doubles of himself, and grabbed Luci to dodge inside while the robot was distracted. They ran into Team Roddy without realizing it, because Team Roddy was still invisible. While Mishka and Larkin kept searching the house, Raef decided to fuck around with Team Jonn, and they were the first to actually find the safe from which powerful magic was emitting. Luci dispelled the abjuration magic on it, Raef unlocked it, and they retrieved a small box from inside.

They then proceeded to play hot potato with it and scramble around being competitive. Ultimately, though, Raef joined the cleric buddies and the gang escaped, with Larkin taking a few parting shots at the robot.

The next morning, Captain Jay Slate of the Glimmerton town guard showed up at the castle, asking for help against a strange man with a small contingent of robots who were terrorizing the town. Hansel and Mishka went to investigate, and with the other Runners in tow, discovered that this was the man they'd all pilfered from, come to reclaim the Iron Heart, which was a dwarven artifact that allowed him to make constructs.

Mishka dominated him, forcing him to send his robots away, and the rest of the Runners descended on him and murdered him with great haste. They decided to sell the Iron Heart. Day saved, I guess?
Coyote Priorities

Things Coyote is working on:

## In-Person Priorities

* Clean house
* Vacuum
* Brush dogs
* Put up laundry
* Visit Mom
* Get up early Monday
* Take Friday off

## Tasks in Progress

* Potential Coyote sessions:
	+ Bloodgrut opening session
	+ Astral plane / inauguration filler session?
	+ Rescue session
	+ Sanctuary session
	+ Horror campaign
* RPs to do:
	+ Finish Gavi/Joan
	+ Finish Jasper/Wyn date
	+ Mishka/Larkin RP
	+ Mishka/Raef-- talk about Serena? Dragontooth gift? Flirting? Lowkey, sweet
	+ Mishka/Hansel waking up RP
	+ Mishka/Hansel memory talk
* **Update chronology.** Chronology is now out of date, those motherfuckers.
	+ Add RPs.
	+ Update Chronology page.

* Potential vignettes:
	+ Amari (Don't Be Violent)-- I might just give up, lol
	+ Threesome smut
	+ Jasper/Wyn smut?
	+ Jasper/Larkin smut?
	+ Vignette about Jasper losing her paladin powers?
Coyote

Amazing, suave, handsome, hilarious, poised, and intelligent. Truly the best dungeon master alive.

## Testimonials

"Everyone loves you. You're brilliant, and you're a very good DM because you think fast and respond gracefully to shit." -- an actual thing Lina said

"HEY WHAT THE FUCK. MY LOVE FOR YOU IS PRIVATE." -- Lina, after reading this page

"Because of you I had dreams about D&D." -- Mink, after the Sixty Seconds Session

"I almost cried when trying to go to sleep." -- Muse, after the Sixty Seconds Session

"My first thought when I heard the recording was *wow, my voice **is** sexy*." -- Coyote, about Coyote

"Coyote, you are full of so much shit." -- Izzy

"Be honest, Coyote. If we made a compilation of us screaming in reaction to your schemes, you'd listen to it for bedtime." -- Jen

"Love that fool but goddamn. Useless in these situations." -- Izzy

"I just want to say, I never thought *God I hope Izzy likes me*, or *God I hope Lina likes me*, because I literally always just assumed you both did. Everyone likes me. I'm fuckin Coyote." -- Coyote

"God, what's it like to be you." -- Izzy

"We love you. We just don't trust you." -- Muse

## NPCs

* Mishka
* Ripley
* Amari
* Diva
Moorland

A city-state some ways north of Skyport. As it isn't a port city, it's had a more difficult time rebounding from the Calamity, and is thus somewhat smaller than its southern neighbor.

The older, poorer part of Moorland was built on a swamp, and consists of houses and streets set on stilts and raised platforms. The richer district has been able to fill the swampland in and build on dry land. The entire city is walled in to help defend from monster attacks, as it doesn't have a strong military to fend them off.

Moorland is ruled by Lord Joseph Kyr, but it is an open secret that the city is really run by Jade Melaine and her husband, Abraham Melaine née Kyr, the lord of the city's younger brother and captain of the chronically underwhelming city guard.

Morgan Wyn claims to have overtaken the city from the Melaines. Jade Melaine remains in 'power' as a figurehead, however.

## The Melaine Family

       Headed by Jade Melaine, a tiefling spellcaster, the Melaines oversee virtually all of the crime in the city and fund their operation largely with the export of violetcaps, a fungus that grows in the swamp and can be processed into a poison, a medicine, or a recreational drug depending on dosage. They also run the Masked Militia, Moorland's only organized defensive force, who are less soldiers and more a shady group of assassins, spies, and trapmasters who both protect Moorland from outside harm and act as the Melaines' enforcers within the city. Gabriel, the second-oldest of the Melaine siblings, commands the Masked Militia.

There are five Melaine children -- Abel, Gabriel, Azriel, Jasper, and Amethyst. Abel and Jasper both left home years ago, under different circumstances. Azriel fled Moorland only a few months ago on his mother's orders, following the incident where his horn was broken and his eye blinded, and more recently Gabriel and Amethyst left the city and sought brief refuge in Skyport. Unfortunately, Gabriel was subsequently abducted by the Sanguines working in Skyport; Wyn appears to still have some use for the Melaine children.

The Melaines are long-time allies of the Bashas.
B-Team Chronology

This is the campaign chronology page for the Bad Luck Boys, AKA "The B-Team."

Please help by improving summaries or organizing things into chronological order.

## Backstories

### Gwydion

* Gwydion: I'm Sorry. Gwydion brings dead things back to life and brings live things back to dead.

### Crime Family

* Azriel: Doing Unto Others. Azriel, Gabriel, and Jasper threaten a butcher. Gabriel escalates. Azriel de-escalates. Jasper protects Azriel.
* Abel: I Gave My Love a Gem. Abel takes on a risky burglary job, with the help (or not) of a strange young bard.

### Ba'ob

* Ba'ob: Alone. Ba'ob meets his wolf for the first time.

## Prelude: The Maraskan Tear (Big Bad: Ourselves)

### Pre-Campaign (Meeting Up). Day 1: July 18.

* TRP: Gwydion and Jonn (Prostitute): Gwydion and Jonn meet for the first time. Jonn admits he murdered his parents. Gwydion pays for a kiss.
* TRP: Azriel and Ba'ob (unnamed): Ba'ob ~~kidnaps Azriel~~ rescues Azriel from bandits.

### Good Fellas (B-Team) Day 75 (October 1)

* TRP: Abel, Azriel, and Jasper (Stream): Day 75 (Oct 1) Abel and Jasper corner Azriel to interrogate him. Jasper is possibly the most disloyal (or loyal) traitor ever. Jasper hits her head in the stream.

### Good Fellas Pt 2 (B-Team) Day 76 (October 2)

* TRP: Azriel and Larkin (Knifeplay): Day 76 (Oct 2). Larkin and Azriel meet for the first time. Larkin threatens Azriel and then kisses him.

### session 3 - Jen DM, wrapping up bad luck arc Day 77 (October 3)

* TRP: Azriel and Mahto (Travel): Mahto and Azriel meet, bond over music and magic, and make plans to travel together in the future
* TRP: Abel, Azriel, and Ba'ob (Jail-time): Azriel and Ba'ob get arrested. Abel bails them out.

## Arc One: Helter-Skelter (Big Bad: ???)

### The Owlbear Incident (Day 84: October 10)

* TRP: Ba'ob and Jasper (Owlbear): Jasper takes Ba'ob aside and tries to understand why he attacked Griffin. Jasper worries she can't keep him out of trouble indefinitely. Ba'ob doesn't see the problem, here.
* TRP: Ba'ob and Ombre (Polymorph) Ombre polymorphs Ba'ob into a wolf for fun.

### Candynight Capers (Day 96: October 22)

* TRP: Abel and Larkin (Apple Brandy) Abel and Larkin meet for the first time. Larkin flirts; Abel pulls back.
* TRP: Azriel and Larkin (Honest Work) (Day 113). Azriel goes looking for a job. Larkin provides one. Flirting ensues.
* TRP: Abel and Gwydion (Gambling) Abel and Gwydion meet. Gwydion flirts. Abel pulls back a second time.
* TRP: Ba'ob and Gwydion (Die)

### Asenka, Unleashed (Day 115: November 10)

* TRP: Ba'ob and Mahto (Good Plans). Ba'ob and Mahto try to get rid of a pidgeons nest that is clogging the chimney. They come up with a really good plan to do that but it turns into a stoned kitchen raid.
Hunter: Little Bit

**HUNTER YOUNG**

Hunter’s back hit the wall and she gave an *oof*, lighting her attacker on fire.

That was the day her father finally threw her out of the house, yelling about how she was a demon child, how she’d killed her mother, tearing her up from the inside with those horns. Hunter screamed back at him. He slammed the door and went to pat her stepmother’s burns with aloe.

They didn’t know where the demon blood had come from. Neither family would own up to it, but there Hunter was, like a fucking changeling, red as the sand and horned and tailed. It wasn’t like it was her fucking fault. Demon child, though, they called her, all of them. Hellion. She’d tried to learn some magic, so she could just … change it. So she wouldn’t have to be a demon, at least not look like one, not get treated as one. No dice, though.

Dice, now. That she was good at. She spent some time cheating at it, sleeping in doorways ‘til she got the money for a room. Then the inn changed owners and her price went up, ‘cause the new one didn’t much care for her, and she couldn’t afford it anymore.

She was fucking tired of this town. Next town over wasn’t much better. The next one was worse.

It was a port town, though -- a little one -- and it got wiped off the fucking map entirely when Dread Jones showed up. Her pirate ship launched cannonballs through every fucking building, her archers landed flaming arrows on all the wooden walls. They wrought unholy destruction on every fucking person in that shithole who’s glared at Hunter and spat at her feet as she walked by, and she crouched by the sewer drain and watched with wide, awed eyed.

They were all tieflings. Every last one of them. And there was Dread herself, leading the charge when they stormed the port, lashing with her scimitar and her tail, tricorn perched atop her ram’s horns, slamming her foot on the cobbles to turn nature itself against the town. She was amazing. She was deadly. Hunter couldn’t stop staring at her.

It was a human, actually, who spotted her. An older woman with a cutlass and a heavy crossbow on her back, sharp eyes behind half-moon glasses. She came over amidst the wreckage and Hunter drew back, expecting -- ah, she wasn’t sure what. No human had ever treated her worth shit. This woman, though, this pirate, she offered down a hand.

“You’re the wrong sort to be in a town around here, lass.”

The old pirate brought her around to Dread Jones and asked what they ought do with her. Jones towered over them both, more in posture than stature, and looked Hunter over, and Hunter gaped at her.

“You know how to sail, little bit?” Jones asked.

“Naw.”

“You wanna learn?”

“Uh-huh.”

Captain Jonesy smiled down at her and ruffled her hair, and that was that.
Bao Ming and Xi Yang

Bao Ming grew up hearing stories about Xi
Yang.

She had been a pirate for nearly twenty years--
longer than he’d been alive. They said pirates murdered her husband when she
was young. They said she got into a spat with the navy, and now she was enemies
with the navy, too. They said her daughter, Jun Li, was a sorcerer who could
control the sea and winds.

Bao Ming listened to all the stories with wide,
eager eyes.

So, really, he should’ve been scared fucking
shitless when Xi Yang captured his ship. But mostly, he was just excited.

Bao Mink hid in the cargo hold until the
fighting was over. Then the pirates discovered him and dragged him out on
deck.

Xi Yang was near fifty, but still as hard and
strong as a young woman. She was short, too, only five feet tall, with sturdy
shoulders and iron-gray hair. Legends said that Xi Yang used to be beautiful,
and Bao Ming could still see it. Her skin was tanned and rough from working in
the hard Shou Leng sun, but she had *lovely* bone structure beneath the
terrifying facial scars.

“Wait!” Bao Ming screamed as the pirates started
to heave him off the side of the ship. “Wait, wait!”

Xi Yang arched her eyebrows and gave him a cold
look, but raised her hand, and the men stopped.

“I’m not with them,” Bao Ming blurted out. “The
navy ship I was on. I was a stowaway. I-- I snuck onto their ship because…
because I thought you’d attack them, and then I’d get to meet you. Please. I
want to work for you.”

She squinted at him. “What are you,
fourteen?”

“Eighteen,” Bao Ming said, which was a
lie.

Xi Yang grunted. “You’re full of shit, kid.” She
bent down to stare at him. “How’d you know I’d attack this ship?”

Bao Ming averted his eyes. He pulled his journal
out of his coat, then flipped it open to a hand-drawn map of the South Calish
Sea. He had cross-marks and lines drawn over it, notes scribbled in the
margins. “You, um. Always sail this route in the summer.” He traced his fingers
over the lines. “I marked down where you hit all your marks. You circle around
in this big twisty pattern to throw people off.”

Xi Yang started to laugh. She clapped him on the
shoulder. “You’re fucking crazy,” she said. She turned. “Sure. You can
stay.”

Bao Ming grinned. He watched her go.

He had a gut feeling they were going to be *best*
*friends.*

[[[Joey the Cat and Prince Snowberry III|NEXT]]]
I See You, You See Me

## Wedding

**God:** Mask

**Officiant:** Goro

**Best Man (Raef):** Hansel

**Best Man (Griffin):** Robin

## Vows

### Raef

"You cannot possess me for I belong to myself, but while we both wish it, I give you that which is mine to give. You cannot command me, for I am a free person, but I shall serve you in those ways you require and the honeycomb will taste sweeter from my hand. I pledge to you that is yours will be the name I cry aloud in the night and the eyes into which I smile in the morning. I pledge to you the first bite of my meat and the first drink from my cup. I pledge to you my living and my dying, each equally in your care. I shall be a shield for your back and you for mine. I shall not slander you, nor you me. I shall honor you above all others, and when we quarrel we shall do so in private and tell no strangers our grievances.

Griffin, I see you and you see me.

This is my marriage vow."

- Older Celtic Vows

### Griffin

"Raef, I thought real long and hard over what to say once we were up here. I mean, I've never even been to a wedding before. I don't -- I don't know how this works, hahah. But I know that ... I never thought I'd love anyone the way I love you, and I never thought anyone would love me the way you do. I think that's enough. I don't know if you're the other half of me -- I don't know -- I don't know a lot. But I think it's enough that you make me the happiest I've ever been when I didn't even know I wasn't happy, and you make me feel safe when I didn't even know I didn't feel safe. I just -- I love you so goddamn much, Raef, and I wanna do anything I can to prove that, and -- and fortify it, and protect it. I wanna marry you, and that's forever. I love you."

- Original Vows

## Reception

(Except Goro went and got himself captured. Rude of him.)

**Food**

- Veal Blanquette (version made with beef or the equivalent)

- Vegetarian Blanquette

- Fresh baked bread

- Pecan pie

- Cheesecake

- Chocolate cheesecake

- Apple pie
Mormiir

Mormiir is a male barbarian mountain dwarf played by Jarl.

## Backstory

I lived my early years happy with the mountain tribesmen, believing I was one of them. You can't really tell the differences between a human child and a young dwarf after all. Well—maybe the red beard I had with 12 should have been a giveaway.

When I hit 20 years I realised that I wasn't one of them. They told me I was found as a small child, maybe 1 year old, by hunters near a cave entrance. I had nothing but a small necklace coverd in runes and a red scarf on me.

In the cavern was a big pillar holding up the ceiling. Sadly the hunters died 10 years ago and no one had a clue where there old hunting grounds where.

I lived for another happy 40 years in that tribe, becoming the chieftain. For a while at least. Because of my terrible leading skills and the fact that warriors who are usually 2.5 m tall don't like being bossed around by a literal dwarf, I decided to leave and search for my family or even clan. I grabbed my axe and backpack and went my way.

As I said, my sense for direction is terrible and soon I was completely lost. In a forest. Why was there a forest in the mountains?

Luckily some trappers showed me the direction to a near by city: "Skyport".

I heard the trappers talk about a guild of treasure hunters. Surely these people come around. Maybe they can help me find my place of birth.

I'm just a bit worried about the "kidnapping and skinning" they mumbled about...