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explorerspack · 2 years

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really delighted by how i spent two and a half sessions with absolutely no idea what arcis’s character voice was and then meg was like “here’s a zombie rat-man who speaks common even though that’s unheard of and here’s a secret door with a magic symbol” and oh BOY was i suddenly able to actually roleplay,

#cha:arcis #c:megadungeon #and that's (my) wizards!#buying lantern oil and talking to a fancy knight guy and hanging out with my party? i got nothing #there's an unexplained mystery???? oh BOY can i talk in character!!!!#i Love when i get to play a character who is unapologetically curious i Love it....#sparrow had a bit of this going on but she was At War so she couldn't lean into it as hard #some of this gets shoved into beck but she's an npc #but arcis sure is curious pleading emoji #she's so frustrated that we couldn't figure out how to open the door...#she sure does want to Know why things are the way they are and what mysteries are being hidden!!! that's her whole deal!!!#i think it's Good when there's 'knowledge as power but also knowledge for its own sake'#and i maintain that i don't really build characters around core conflicts but i sure build them around core tensions #in this case arcis's paranoia and desire to safeguard her own knowledge and mind versus how much she wants MORE knowledge #and how much she's willing to risk to get it! running right down into the basement even though the wererat killed her familiar #the very premise of going into the weeping city at all #leaving the note with her own 'name' on it #the way that when we get back into capital there'll have to be Decisions about who we're going to tell #other people might know things about the wererat! but also if the knowledge is only ours it might be valuable!#and other people might seek to exploit it before we can and if we send people down to that basement they might find the DOOR!#man oh man oh man everyone manifest that i don't get killed by the gray lady i Really like being a Wizard....#i've been working on a unified theory if i make it through tonight everybody's gonna hear me out!

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